HISTORY OF CHAPTER

For information on the National Sorority, please feel free to visit the Sigma Kappa Homepage. Nationally, there are 108 collegiate chapters in 35 states, with 140 alumnae chapters in 40 states and overseas. Overall, Sigma Kappa has over 130,000 members.

With a focus on Alzheimer's Disease research and programs directed at improving the lives of older citizens (Gerentology), earth conservation, as well as giving clothing and toys to the Maine Sea Coast Missionary Society (our very first philanthropy project), both collegiate and alumnae chapters can find many projects to keep them busy in philanthropic endeavors.

THE HISTORY & PURPOSE
OF THE ALUMNAE CHAPTER

Our Chapter's first beginnings were in 1923 when three recent Sigma Kappa Graduates of Miami University (Oxford, OH) got together to talk about what was happening in their lives. In those early years, the group was called the Miami Valley Club of Sigma Kappa.

It was in 1948 that we officially became the Dayton Sigma Kappa Alumnae Chapter. We are a very diverse group made up of women from ages 21 to 87. We have 20 different college chapters represented in our membership.

We have had many successful money making projects to raise money for philanthropy projects to benefit needy elderly people who live in nursing homes. Our most recent beneficiaries are the ladies who live at the Dayton Widow's Home, an institution started shortly after the Civil War as a place for War Veteran's Widows to live, who had nowhere else to go.

We are also concerned with the welfare of the college chapter at the University of Dayton. We try to help them with their college chapter's wants & needs, and to spend time with them and help them with their leadership responsibilities for all the requirements that are expected of them by the National Sorority.

We participate in the Dayton Panhellenic Association and it's money making projects to award Scholarships to needy college sorority members from the Miami Valley area. If you would like to know more about the National Panhellenic Council, please visit their Homepage.
Locally, we have an annual meeting with the Dayton Alpha Sigma Alpha Alumnae, who we have found to share our high ideals and our interest in fostering sorority life for future generations of women.

Our main purpose is to be a social organization committed to promoting the ideals of life-long friendship, intellectual and spiritual fulfillment and service for the greater good.

THE NATIONAL SORORITY WAS FOUNDED BY
THESE FIVE WOMEN AT COLBY COLLEGE
WATERVILLE, MAINE ON NOV. 9, 1874.

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