SIGMA PHI

The 'Sigma Phi Society', founded on 4 March, 1827 on the campus of Union College as a part of the Union Triad in Schenectady, New York is the second oldest Greek social fraternal organization in the United States.^[1]The Sigma Phi Society was the first Greek organization to establish a second chapter at another college, thus making it the first National Greek Organization.^[2] Its Union College chapter has been in continual operation since its founding, making it the oldest fraternity chapter in the U.S. Little is known about the Sigma Phi Society, as it began and remains a secret society.

Contents

Chapters of The Sigma Phi Society

Founders

Notable alumni

External links

References

Chapters of The Sigma Phi Society

★ Union College

★ Hamilton College

★ Hobart and William Smith

★ University of Vermont

★ University of Michigan

★ Cornell University

★ University of Wisconsin-Madison

★ University of California, Berkeley

★ University of Virginia

★ New York University

★ Lehigh University

★ Williams College

Founders

★ 'Charles Thorne Cromwell'

★ 'Thomas Fielders Bowie'

★ 'John Thomas Bowie'

★ 'Thomas Sydenham Witherspoon'

Notable alumni

★ Sen. Elihu Root - U.S. Secretary of War and U.S. Secretary of State in the administration of Theodore Roosevelt. Root was a Nobel Peace Prize Winner, and U.S. Senator.^[3]

★ Earl Warren - Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, Governor of California, member of the Bohemian Grove.

★ James Schoolcraft Sherman - Vice President under William Howard Taft.

★ Arthur C. Nielsen Jr., son of Arthur C. Nielsen creator of Nielsen Ratings (both were Sigma Phi members).

★ Henry Rathbone, major in the U.S. army during the Civil War and present in Lincoln's booth at Ford's Theatre; was stabbed tackling John Wilkes Booth.^[4]

★ Hon. Ken Dryden - NHL Hall of Fame Goaltender and Canadian Member of Parliament.

★ Rep. Hastings Keith - United States Congressman from Massachusetts.

★ Rep. John Cochrane - United States Congressman, Attorney General of New York, and Brigadier General in the Civil War.

★ Philip Will, Jr, co-founder of architecture firm Perkins+Will and President of the American Institute of Architects.

External links

★ Official Site

References

1. http://sigmaphi.org
2. http://www.alphaofnewyork.org
3. Jessup, Philip C., Elihu Root. Vol. I, 1845-1909; Vol. II, 1905-1937. New York, Dodd, Mead, 1938.
4. http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln