OUR MISSION
- FOSTER the Post-Collegiate Life-Long Bonds and Values of Sigma Chi among our alumni brothers.
- DEMONSTRATE, ENCOURAGE, & SUPPORT Sigma Chi Values, as well as Leadership, Scholarship, Decorum, and Stability at our nearest
undergraduate (active) chapter, Zeta Omicron Chapter (ZO) at Northern Arizona University (NAU).
- DEVELOP & MAINTAIN Long-Term Positive Relationships with the City of City of Flagstaff, the Community, NAU, and fellow Greek alumni/alumnae organizations, and be stewards of our legacy.
- HELP FORGE THE VISION & FUTURE for a Positive, Productive, and Rewarding NAU-Greek-Experience to ensure that future Greek alumni/alumnae engage with and support their fraternities/sororities, their chapters, and their Alma Mater.
- DESCRIPTION: All recognized Sigma Chi alumni chapters are duly chartered by the Executive Committee of the Sigma Chi International Fraternity (the General Fraternity) and are geographically named, as approved by the Executive Committee, for their city, county, or region. Names may not copy an undergraduate chapter or a college/university which hosts an undergraduate chapter. Even though alumni chapters are separate entities from undergraduate chapters and alumni advising teams (which report through the Grand Praetor), they are charged by the General Fraternity to "assist their nearest undergraduate chapter(s)." They rally volunteers to serve as undergraduate chapter advisors, house corporation board members, scholarship fund trustees, fundraisers, involved alumni with their alma mater, etc.
- MEMBERSHIP: All Sigma Chi alumni, of good standing, from all colleges and universities residing in that area, and beyond, and of nearby undergraduate chapter(s), wherever they reside. (Sig Alumni Resources)
"A GREAT CARTOON TRIBUTE TO FRATERNITY LIFE: The Chicago Tribune-New York Syndicate estimated that at least ten million newspaper readers saw this remarkable tribute to Greek-letter life, "A Heart to Heart Talk of the Old Grad to His Undergraduate Fraternity Brothers," by the late John T. McCutcheon PURDUE 1889 which appeared originally in the Chicago Sunday Tribune of February 3, 1935. "The Old Grad" is recognized as L. A. Downs PURDUE 1894, late president of the Illinois Central Railroad, and the living room as Delta Delta's at Purdue. Also note the oil portrait of George Ade PURDUE 1887 [Past Grand Consul & author of THE SIGMA CHI CREED] and the insignia above the fireplace. Brother McCutcheon, then dean of American cartoonists [and George Ade's college roommate], got the inspiration for the cartoon as he listened to Brother Downs preside as toastmaster at a Five-Province undergraduate convention in Chicago on December 15, 1934. It has been reprinted in scores of college and fraternity publications which have hailed it as an outstanding and lasting tribute to Greek-letter loyalties. A reproduction of the cartoon in its original size hangs in many Sigma Chi chapter houses." (Source: The Norman Shield, 1969 edition) (Note: Shown is Brother Ade's original oil portrait which hangs on-campus at Purdue University, Indiana).
Click here for an interesting Arizona Sig history link: A Jan. 21, 1933 self-sketch of Brother McCutcheon visiting the Double F Ranch near Dragoon, Arizona in Cochise County.