New Member Education

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New Member Education

• Sigma Pi Fraternity
• Xi Colony
• Spring 2004
• Will Wortman

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Week Three

• Review Information from Section Two
• Quiz Two
• Presentations and Information
• Section Three Lecture

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Section Two Review

• The Individual Member
• Five Benefits of Membership
• Ten Obligations of a Pledge
• Some Famous Alumni

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Quiz Two Bonus Questions

• Who is our Second Counselor and what are his main
  duties?
• Who is the Third Counselor and what are his main
  duties?
• To gain from a Fraternity, what must be given to
  it?

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Presentations Information

• Convocation
• Sigma Pi University
• Mid-Year Leadership Conference
• Chapter Awards
• Fourth Counselor

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Sigma Pi University

• All brothers of Sigma Pi can attend
• Gives brothers a chance to meet other brothers
  from other Chapters
• Located in Nashville, TN, which is held in late
  July or early August
• See me or www.SigmaPi.org for more information

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Mid Year Leadership Conference

• Designed for Chapter Sages and Third Counselors
• Weekend of Activities
• In St. Louis, held every year, first part of
  February
• See me or www.SigmaPi.org for more information

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Grand Chapter Awards

• Grand Sages Award for the top chapters in each
  group
• Grand Council Award goes to the top fifteen
  chapters of Sigma Pi each biennium
• Grand Chapter Award given to the top
  twenty-five chapters
• Most Improved Chapter Award
• Membership Recruitment Award for most pledges
  and initiates in a year
• Membership Recruitment Increase Award for
  largest percentage increase in total pledges from
  one year to the next

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Grand Chapter Awards

• Chapter Scholarship Award highest overall
  chapter GPA
• Efficiency Award timely submission of reports
  and fees to the Executive Office
• Beyer-Fryburg Award given for perfect chapter
  efficiency each year
• Community Service Award

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Grand Chapter Awards

• Lewis Foley Newsletter Award goes to chapter
  with best alumni newsletter
• Fitzpatrick/Reston Award goes to the chapter
  that makes the most noteworthy contributions to
  the Emerald during the academic year.

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Section Three History of Sigma Pi

• Miss Charlotte N. Mallotte inspired our Founders
  on January 26, 1897
• Original name of the Fraternity was Tau Phi Delta
• Was founded on February 26, 1897 at Vincennes
  University in Vincennes, IN
• Founding Fathers
• William Raper Kennedy
• Rolin Rosco James
• George Martin Patterson
• James Thompson Kingsbury

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The Beginning The Motto

• The first two initiates were the brothers Samuel
  and Maurice Bayard
• Their mother, Mrs. Joseph L. Bayard, inspired our
  Motto
• It was from the book, A Death in the Desert by
  Robert Browning

Progress, a mans distinctive mark alone. Not
Gods, and not the beasts God is, they are Man
partly is and wholly hopes to be.
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Trying Times

• The Spanish-American War in 1898 almost ended the
  Fraternity but Rolin Rosco James is credited with
  saving it
• Three other events that threatened Sigma Pi
• World War I
• World War II
• The Great Depression

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From Tau Phi Delta to Sigma Pi

• Robert George Patterson student at Ohio State
  who convinced Tau Phi Delta to change their name
  to Sigma Pi
• He lied about being a member of Sigma Pi to many
  people to facilitate the name change
• Tau Phi Delta became Sigma Pi on February 11,
  1907 in the Niblack-Weems home in Vincennes, IN

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Early Expansion

• First chapter is called the Alpha Chapter
• The first national Congress was held in
  Vincennes, IN from May 6-8, 1908
• The Sphinx Club at the University of Illinois was
  founded by Byron R. Lewis and became the Phi
  Chapter, the second chapter
• The third chapter, the Gamma Chapter, was
  established at Ohio State University

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Development of Initiatory Rites

• The Cryptic Arts was the initiatory rite used
  to install the Phi and Gamma Chapters
• The English Chivalric Ritual was the
  Fraternitys second initiatory rite
• Today, The Golden Quest is used to initiate a
  Chapter into the Fraternity

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Other Significant Information

• First Grand Sage Francis L. Lisman
• Current Grand Sage John Kitch
• First Convocation May 1909 in Columbus, Ohio
  (Gamma Chapter)
• First Emerald was issued on July 15, 1911
• Sigma Pi became a member of NIC in 1910
• Sigma Pi absorbed Delta-Kappa in 1964
• Sigma Pi became an international fraternity in
  1984 by the induction of the Zeta-Iota Chapter at
  Western Ontario
• Became Sigma Pi Fraternity, International

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The Fireside Song

• Set to the tune of O Tannenbaum
• Adopted by the 1968 Convocation delegates as the
  official song of Sigma Pi
• Can be found on the last page of the I Believe
  Manual

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Summary Closing

• The History of Sigma Pi
• The Beginning The Motto
• Trying Times
• From Tau Phi Delta to Sigma Pi
• Early Expansion
• Initiatory Rites
• Other Information
• Fire Side Song