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Sigma Alpha Epsilon (ΣΑΕ) is a North American Greek-letter social college fraternity. It was founded at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, on March 9, 1856. [2] Of all existing national social fraternities, Sigma Alpha Epsilon is the only one founded in the Antebellum South. [3]
Pi Kappa Phi (ΠΚΦ), commonly known as Pi Kapp(s), is an American Greek Letter secret and social fraternity.It was founded by Andrew Alexander Kroeg Jr., Lawrence Harry Mixson, and Simon Fogarty Jr. on December 10, 1904 at the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina.
The Greek alphabet has been used to write the Greek language since the late 9th or early 8th century BC. [2] [3] It was derived from the earlier Phoenician alphabet, [4] and is the earliest known alphabetic script to have developed distinct letters for vowels as well as consonants. [5]
The first black Greek letter organization among historically black colleges was Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated, as it was established early in November 1907. [23] The charter at the University of Toronto also made Alpha Phi Alpha the first international intercollegiate black Greek letter organization.
The fraternity was founded on October 4, 1968, by students from the University of the Philippines Diliman. [2] Initially known as the "Order of the U.P. Triskelions", the organization later on changed its name to the "Order of the Grand Triskelions", then later "Triskelions Grand Fraternity" which was then changed into the Greek letter name Tau Gamma Phi, in line with other student fraternities.
Alpha Sigma Phi was founded by three men at Yale College in 1845 as a secret sophomore society composed of many of the school's poets, athletes, and scholars. [6] Upon rising through the ranks of the school, members shared membership with Alpha Sigma Phi in their sophomore year, one of three fraternities in their junior year and Skull and Bones or Scroll and Key in their senior year.
Vice President Kamala Harris arrives to speak to the 70th Boule of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., at the Orange County Convention Center, on Thursday, July 14, 2022.
The principles of Virtue, Diligence, and Brotherly Love, were chosen as "The Three Cardinal Principles". The fraternity's badge is a golden heart surmounted by a black enameled heart-shaped shield. Upon the shield are inscribed, in gold, the Greek letters of the fraternity, ΣΦΕ, and below these letters, a skull and crossbones.