17 Facts About Sigma Chi

Sigma Chi was founded in 1855 by Benjamin Piatt Runkle, Thomas Cowan Bell, William Lewis Lockwood, Isaac M Jordan, Daniel William Cooper, Franklin Howard Scobey, and James Parks Caldwell as the result of a disagreement over who would be elected Poet in the Erodelphian Literary Society of Miami University in Ohio.

Sigma Chi was supported by five of his brothers, but four others supported another man who was not a member of the fraternity.

Much of Sigma Chi's heraldry was inspired by the legendary story of the Emperor Constantine from the Battle of Milvian Bridge against Maxentius.

Sigma Chi began planning a Confederate Army chapter of Sigma Chi with this information.

Sigma Chi required each applicant for admission to sign a pledge "not to join or belong to any so-called Greek society or other college secret society" while attending the school.

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Sigma Chi ruled, however, that the faculty had no right to deny Hawley from his classes based on the fraternity issue.

Sigma Chi Foundation was created on November 9, 1939, when the Sigma Chi Endowment Foundation was incorporated in Colorado.

Badge of Sigma Chi is a white cross with white and black enamel.

Crest of Sigma Chi is a blue Norman Shield with a white cross in its center.

Sigma Chi presides over the Executive Committee and the Grand Chapter.

Sigma Chi Foundation is a charitable and educational tax-exempt organization, separate and independent from the Fraternity, whose express purpose is to serve as an educational funding resource for the undergraduate and graduate student members of the Sigma Chi Fraternity.

The most money raised by any Sigma Chi chapter was the Iota Psi chapter at Rutgers University in the fall of 2016.

Sigma Chi gives out two undergraduate awards, The Peterson Significant Chapter Award, which is given to chapters who show a strong performance in all areas of chapter operations, and The International Balfour Award, which is given each year to one graduating senior who excels in four criteria; scholarship, character, Fraternity service and campus leadership.

Judy Garland was a Sigma Chi Sweetheart from the Ohio State University chapter and Faye Dunaway was a Sigma Chi Sweetheart from The University of Florida chapter.

Magazine of Sigma Chi is the official quarterly publication for undergraduate and alumni brothers of the Sigma Chi Fraternity.

Sigma Chi has alumni who are notable in many different industries and fields.

In politics Sigma Chi has had 24 U S Representatives, 11 U S Senators, 8 United States Governors, 5 Lieutenant governors, and 1 United States President through the honorary membership of Grover Cleveland to the University of Michigan chapter.