Alpha Sigma Alpha Beginning
Alpha Sigma Alpha was the first sorority to be founded in the 20th Century
When: November 15th, 1901
Where: Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia
Founding Members: Louise Cox Carper, Juliette Hundley Gilliam, Mary Williamson Hundley, Virginia boyd Noell, and Calva Watson Wootton
The State Female Normal School, now Longwood University, in Farmville was the first institution of higher learning in Virginia to admit women for collegiate study. Naturally, it attracted superior students, many of them daughters of college professors already familiar with the fraternity idea.
Among the students in the fall term of 1901 were five women who had become very good friends. Attractive, vivacious, and intelligent, they had been recruited and bid by the existing sororities on their campus. However, if they accepted these bids, it would mean that the five would not be sorority sisters.
On November 15, 1901, a new sorority was organized and named Alpha Sigma Alpha. As stated in the charter, "The purpose of the association shall be to cultivate friendships among its members, and in every way to create pure and elevating sentiments, to perform such deeds and to mold such opinions as will tend to elevate and ennoble womanhood in the world." , fastforward 112 years of promoting sisterhood, integrity,heritage, and service The Alpha Sigma Alpha sorority has grown to over 150 collegiate and alumnae chapters that are home to over 100,000 collegiate members.
When: November 15th, 1901
Where: Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia
Founding Members: Louise Cox Carper, Juliette Hundley Gilliam, Mary Williamson Hundley, Virginia boyd Noell, and Calva Watson Wootton
The State Female Normal School, now Longwood University, in Farmville was the first institution of higher learning in Virginia to admit women for collegiate study. Naturally, it attracted superior students, many of them daughters of college professors already familiar with the fraternity idea.
Among the students in the fall term of 1901 were five women who had become very good friends. Attractive, vivacious, and intelligent, they had been recruited and bid by the existing sororities on their campus. However, if they accepted these bids, it would mean that the five would not be sorority sisters.
On November 15, 1901, a new sorority was organized and named Alpha Sigma Alpha. As stated in the charter, "The purpose of the association shall be to cultivate friendships among its members, and in every way to create pure and elevating sentiments, to perform such deeds and to mold such opinions as will tend to elevate and ennoble womanhood in the world." , fastforward 112 years of promoting sisterhood, integrity,heritage, and service The Alpha Sigma Alpha sorority has grown to over 150 collegiate and alumnae chapters that are home to over 100,000 collegiate members.