Interesting FACTS That Some May Not Know About Your Organization

[rhoyaltempest]

Originally Posted by nonchalant

It may not have been as clear as you needed it to be, but I brought up SGRho being the first BGLO for women educators. Also, the NPHC was not created until after their founding as well as after the amending of the constitution. Therefore, contacting the NPHC would be null and void.



Yes and no. Yes because you state that they didn't need any type of approval(which I feel that's hard to believe). No because I wasn't referring to anything pertaining to the NPHC(due to it being founded after the sorority was founded). Alpha Kappa Alpha had to get approval from the officers of Howard University as well as Delta Sigma Theta(which was all before the founding of the NPHC). However, since certain people feel that I'm throwing the thread off track, my topic can be dropped. Based on what has been posted, it seems that it doesn't matter if there was an existing organization on campus with similar interests, but it depends on the approval from the officers of the university.

Back to your regulary scheduled program.

To clear up any questions, any such rules or approvals specific to collegiate sororities and fraternities at the time that Sigma Gamma Rho was founded in 1922 would not apply to her since she was not collegiate until 1929 when the Alpha chapter was established at Butler University in Indiana. Until then Sigma Gamma Rho was a professional sorority in the city of Indianapolis in Indiana. Also, while our constitution was amended in 1925 to allow women pursuing various degrees (not just education) to seek membership, we did then and continue today, to support programs and initiatives which focus on educating the youth and our communities.

[ladygreek]

Originally Posted by rhoyaltempest

To clear up any questions, any such rules or approvals specific to collegiate sororities and fraternities at the time that Sigma Gamma Rho was founded in 1922 would not apply to her since she was not collegiate until 1929 when the Alpha chapter was established at Butler University in Indiana. Until then Sigma Gamma Rho was a professional sorority in the city of Indianapolis in Indiana. Also, while our constitution was amended in 1925 to allow women pursuing various degrees (not just education) to seek membership, we did then and continue today, to support programs and initiatives which focus on educating the youth and our communities.

Now that is an interesting tidbit--the fact that your first collegiate chapter was not charted until seven years after your founding. The opposite of the rest of us who were founded by collegiates.

[rhoyaltempest]

Originally Posted by ladygreek

Now that is an interesting tidbit--the fact that your first collegiate chapter was not charted until seven years after your founding. The opposite of the rest of us who were founded by collegiates.

Sigma Gamma Rho did not receive its charter for the Alpha chapter at Butler U. until 1929, but we were founded by collegiate women. All of the founders were undergrads at Butler U., were graduates of Normal schools (2 yr. teachers' schools) in Indiana, and were teaching in Indiana at the time that Sigma Gamma Rho was founded.

[ladygreek]

Originally Posted by rhoyaltempest

Sigma Gamma Rho did not receive its charter for the Alpha chapter at Butler U. until 1929, but we were founded by collegiate women. All of the founders were undergrads at Butler U., were graduates of Normal schools (2 yr. teachers' schools) in Indiana, and were teaching in Indiana at the time that Sigma Gamma Rho was founded.

That's awesome!

[SnuKnight172]

Brigadier General Paul Tibbits (Sigma Nu) was the pilot of the Enola Gay (Named after his mother) who flew the plane that dropped the A-Bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. Tibbits would have also been the pilot of the plane to drop the thrid A-Bomb had Japan not surrendered. At the time of the surrender the A-Bomb was on its way from Utah to California to be shipped to the South Pacific.

[nwu43]

Originally Posted by SnuKnight172

Brigadier General Paul Tibbits (Sigma Nu) was the pilot of the Enola Gay (Named after his mother) who flew the plane that dropped the A-Bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. Tibbits would have also been the pilot of the plane to drop the thrid A-Bomb had Japan not surrendered. At the time of the surrender the A-Bomb was on its way from Utah to California to be shipped to the South Pacific.

wow! that crazy

[1908Revelations]

Originally Posted by rhoyaltempest

Sigma Gamma Rho did not receive its charter for the Alpha chapter at Butler U. until 1929, but we were founded by collegiate women. All of the founders were undergrads at Butler U., were graduates of Normal schools (2 yr. teachers' schools) in Indiana, and were teaching in Indiana at the time that Sigma Gamma Rho was founded.

Very interesting!!

[mulattogyrl]

Originally Posted by rhoyaltempest

Sigma Gamma Rho did not receive its charter for the Alpha chapter at Butler U. until 1929, but we were founded by collegiate women. All of the founders were undergrads at Butler U., were graduates of Normal schools (2 yr. teachers' schools) in Indiana, and were teaching in Indiana at the time that Sigma Gamma Rho was founded.

This is really interesting. Thanks for sharing this.

[rhoyaltempest]

Originally Posted by ladygreek

Now that is an interesting tidbit--the fact that your first collegiate chapter was not charted until seven years after your founding. The opposite of the rest of us who were founded by collegiates.

Well, not exactly but here is another interesting tidbit(s) to add to the story, but I had to look it up first to be sure. From 1922 to 1929, Sigma Gamma Rho established city chapters throughout Indiana and beyond. The original vision of the founders was to create city chapters for the cities' teachers and aspiring teachers. News of the new sorority spread like wildfire in Indiana and before long women on college campuses were inquiring about membership; including those outside of the teaching profession. Sigma Gamma Rho also did establish a few collegiate chapters before 1929 but not enough to be considered a collegiate sorority overall. It wasn't until December 30, 1929 that she received the charter at Butler U. and became a national collegiate sorority. Until that time the first city chapter of Indianapolis in Indiana was known as the Alpha chapter, but in 1929 the chapter at Butler U. became the Alpha chapter and the city chapter of Indianapolis was renamed Alpha Sigma, the sorority's first grad chapter. To this day, Alpha Sigma continues to advise the Alpha chapter at Butler U. The other city chapters were also renamed and converted into grad chapters and Sigma Gamma Rho became busy thereafter establishing new undergrad chapters. Once a certain amount of collegiate chapters were established (and I'm not sure what the requirement was), Sigma Gamma Rho officially joined the NPHC.