![]() ![]() Shaw Martin suggested ASA contact a local sorority at Miami, Ohio, which was then installed as an ASA chapter. By that year, only four of the 13 chapters established since the sorority's founding were left, and by the next, only one active chapter existed, the original Alpha chapter. Alpha Sigma Alpha first contacted (Sarah) Ida Shaw Martin – founder and former national president of Delta Delta Delta and author of the Sorority Handbook – for assistance in 1912. Soon after, Alpha Sigma Alpha's chapters began to struggle with membership and function. In 1911, Alpha Sigma Alpha became a professional sorority within the field of education. In 1908, the magazine's name was changed to the Aegis of Alpha Sigma Alpha. This first publication was first printed in 1906. During the convention, the first National Council was elected and the sorority created its magazine, to be published three times a year. ![]() Despite the anti-sorority attitude, Alpha Sigma Alpha's first six chapters held its first National Convention at the Hotel Richmond in Richmond, VA over the 1905 Thanksgiving weekend. Each sorority in the "Farmville Four" is also a member of the National Panhellenic Conference, which governs the 26 national social sororities.Īlpha Sigma Alpha expanded quickly, installing 13 chapters in its first decade, and then began having issues due to the anti-sorority sentiment of the time, causing one of the chapters to be disbanded only months after its instatement. A clock tower at the university campus with a clock face representing each sorority is dedicated to the four. This chartering began the organization's legal existence, the first of many steps toward expanding the sorority and making Alpha Sigma Alpha a national sorority.Īlpha Sigma Alpha is one of the "Farmville Four" sororities founded at the university, which includes Kappa Delta, Sigma Sigma Sigma, and Zeta Tau Alpha. On February 13, 1903, Alpha Sigma Alpha was chartered in the Circuit Court of Prince Edward County, VA, by Judge George Jefferson Hundley, the father of one of the founding members. The first membership badge of the Sorority was a shield topped with a jewel set crown, with the Greek letters ΑΣΑ inscribed in gold on a black background. The first colors were crimson and silver, the flower was the white carnation, and the jewel was the emerald. In the year after the charter was signed the founders announced the Sorority's first hymn, Blest Be the Tie that Binds, and first open motto, "to one another ever faithful". The charter stated "The purpose of the association shall be to cultivate friendship among its members, and in every way to create pure and elevating sentiments, to perform such deeds and to mold such opinions as will tend to elevate and ennoble womanhood in the world." On November 15, 1901, Alpha Sigma Alpha was named and chartered. Mary Williamson-Hundley (Mary Williamson).Calva Hamlet Watson-Wootton (Calva Watson).Juliette Jefferson Hundley-Gilliam (Juliette Hundley).Virginia Lee Boyd-Noell (Virginia Boyd).However, rather than accepting bids that would separate the group, they decided to form their own sorority. ![]() In the fall of 1901, at Longwood University, five young women, all friends, decided to rush the local women's fraternities on campus. It is currently partnered with philanthropic organizations Special Olympics and Girls on the Run. ![]() There are currently over 175 chapters of Alpha Sigma Alpha nationwide with more than 120,000 members. Once a sorority exclusively for teacher's/educational colleges, Alpha Sigma Alpha became a full member of the National Panhellenic Conference in 1951, and, as a social sorority, now admits members without limits based on major. Alpha Sigma Alpha ( ΑΣΑ) is a United States National Panhellenic sorority founded on November 15, 1901, at the Virginia State Female Normal School (later known as Longwood College and now known as Longwood University) in Farmville, Virginia. ![]()
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