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nuie til Swndqgr Magazine Scctiow Virginia led at Old Raleigh ut Preceded It niverslty Karl of Massachu-nology Arthur in cosmic ray llcr author: former United lire Charles iy nt of General Robertson Howard James Benjamin Sclater and William Alexander who met in Room 31 West Range for the organizing Three of the founders had attended Virginia Military Institute together and all had served in the Confederate army together The first pledge was Augustus Washington Knox After him has come a line of distinguished Americans of whom might be mentioned: Congressmen Harold 8 Tolley New York Rainey Alabama William Salmon Tennessee John fter tlie found-ins ton College Lee University nt of Kappa came first term of esident of the James Ward Scott William Stanhope Me-legan the fra-Chl but Imme-lame to Kappa wion with an-chapters were Military Insti-College 1870: 1173: Virginia 1877 Bethel oanoke College ssed the found-of Virginia of a society the i throughout lers were Fred-or Julian Ed-Valter Tazewell Fislibome A Willis Robertson Virginia Kent United States consul general: Edward Swinney President American Bankers Association: James Ambler judge Supreme Court of Maryland Robert A Stewart author Lawrence Gould geologist and explorer and John Lloyd Newcomb president University of Virginia The founding date of the Sigma Nu fraternity in Virginia has been officially set at January 1 1869 at Virginia Military Institute but this oranch of the Greek family grew out of a secret society known as the Legion of Honor which had been in existence at the university for about a year prior to that date The Sigma Walter Hinee Page Library at Randolph-Macon College Flood Jr Virginia Charles Walter Mason chief Justice Supreme Court Of Oklahoma Edward Hudgins Court of Appeals Virginia: William Lee Cazort lieutenant-governor of Arkansas Albert Officer lieutenant-governor of Tennessee: Walter Jessup former president of Iowa University: James Ephraim Goons dent lows Wesleyan College: Earl Arnold dean Vanderbilt Law School HE last of these societies came out Of Virginia during the hectic war days of 1917 It was the Square and Compass Society organized at Washington and Lee University for Master Masons attending the school The founders were: Edgar Grossman Thomas Farrar Carl A Foss Lacy Shirey George Holbrook Fred Davis Ellis Bristow Malcolm McCrae and Bucy Trigg The organization was a successor to the Masonic Club which had been organized back in 1897 Chapters of the Square and Compass were organized in 57 schools following the appearance of the mother at Washington and Lee Those are the brief stories behind that great colony of Virginia Greeks who will take over the new armies of freshmen descending upon Virginia colleges at midterm stories which prove that not only have the college Greeks come to Virginia to mingle mix with and convert the citizens there but that 18 great families have come out of Virginia to spread their memberships and Influence all over the world or Snakes as they are called because of the serpent on the fraternity badge were drawn together around James Hopkins a founding father The other fathers were: Greenfield Quarles and James Riley men who helped inculcate in the new organisation ideals of gentlemanly conduct so that the society came to be composed of some of the finest blood of Virginia and the South Prominent Sigma arc: Harry Chase president of New York University Frank Aydelotte president of Swarth-more College and secretary to the Rhodes Trustees in America Chance 1C SneUing chancellor Georgia University System Major-General Stephen Fuqua 8 Army Major-General Robert Allen 8 Army Senators Walter George Georgia Frederick Steiwer Oregon and Roscoe 6 Patterson Missouri Zane Grey author and Robert Harshe artist end director Chicago Art Institute At the end of 1869 on December 19 William Grigsby McCormick George Miles Arnold Edmund Law Rogers Jr Frank Courtney Nicodemus and John Covert Boyd gathered at the University of Virginia where they were students to organize Kappa Sigma fraternity of friendship and scholarship The first 20 years of the life were under the able guidance of A Jackson an early member Around this one man Kappa Sigma prospered and today the frat celebrates A Jackson Day it established chapters In Virginia at the following schools: Washington and Lee 1873 Virginia Military Institute 1874 Virginia Polytechnic Institute 1874 Bethel Academy I860 Cumberland College 1880 Episcopal High School 1880 Richmond College 1898 Prominent members of this society are: Senators William Gibbs McAdoo California and Warren Austin Vermont: Rear-Admiral Cary Grayson 8 Navy General Samuel Mc-Roberts banker George Peery Governor of Virginia: Henry Stevens Jr past national commander of the American Legion Christian Gauss dean Princeton University Edwin Hubble director Mt Wilson Observatory and Lowell Thomas author Prior to 1900 there was the old Saturday Night Club at Richmond College but In November of 1901 this group became the first chapter of Bigma Phi Epsilon Hie founding fathers of this first 8 lodge were Ciuter Ashton Jenkins Benjamin Donald Gaw William Hugh Carter William Andrew Wallace Thomas Temple Wright and William Lazell Phillips Later spread over Virginia and the nation Chapters were established In the Old Dominion State as follows: Virginia College of Medicine 1902 Roanoke College 1903 College of William and Mary 1904 Washington and Lee 1906 Ran-doIph-Macon 1908 University of Virginia 1907 and Virginia Military Institute 1908 As this sixth social frat to come from the bounds of Virginia spread in membership and influence began to acquire outstanding men among whom can be listed: Senators Lawrence Gowte Phillips Colorado Harry Flood Byrd Virginia Congressmen Albert Johnson Washington: Oliver toy Pennsylvania Joel.