Order extras to show your pride at campus events, community fairs and volunteer service opportunities. Choose heavy cotton canvas or vinyl styles for permanent display or an annual celebration.įraternity banners and sorority flags are inexpensive ways to promote your chapter at indoor and outdoor events. We have horizontal fraternity house flags, complete with flagpole sleeves, and vertical sorority banners. If you need a fraternity flag in a hurry, just ask for our speedy "rush" delivery services. Shop by fraternity or sorority to see our ready-made banners to hang in hallways or outside your chapter headquarters. Enjoy bargain prices on our customizable sorority and fraternity letter flags. Or, choose your frat's colors when you custom-order our Greek frat house flags or fraternity banners. With our easy-to-order, compact sorority script wooden sign, you can simply choose your sorority's name to have it displayed on your sign. Let them know who's in attendance at your next outdoor Greek life event with our four-color customizable outside-friendly vinyl banner in sizes up to 3 feet by 9 feet. Its purpose is to keep chapters informed about Sigma news and accomplishments.Whether you're looking for a traditional fraternity crest house flag or a design-your-own sorority banner, we have the Greek lettered signs you want for your house or dorm room. The Aurora, the official quarterly publication of Sigma Gamma Rho, was first printed in 1930. It is bestowed at each national convention upon the most outstanding Sigma of the year for achievement on a national scope. The coat of arms consists of the lamp of learning, the quill, the serpent of the medical staff, two stars, the skull and cross-swords, and the fasces (bundle of sticks).Īmong the awards given by Sigma Gamma Rho, the most coveted is the Blanche Edwards Award. There are ten pearls on the edge of the book and two rubies.
The foundation of the whole pin is a torch. The sorority colors are royal blue and gold. The sorority mascot is the french toy poodle. The sorority flower is the yellow tea rose. In keeping with the ideals of Sigma Gamma Rho, the sorority has supported the following organizations: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, National Council of Negro Women, National Pan Hellenic Council, Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, National Urban League, March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation, National Mental Health Association, United Negro College Fund, Martin Luther King Center for Non-Violent Social Change, Black Women's Agenda and American Association of University Women. Fannie O'Bannon, the second grand basileus, designed the sorority coat of arms. Members of the Delta chapter in Louisville, Kentucky wrote the words of the sorority hymn which has since been set to music by Zenobia Laws Bailey of Chicago. The slogan, "Greater Service, Greater Progress," was written by Bertha Black Rhoda, a past grand basileus. The first grand basileus, Mary Lou Little, wrote the sorority pledge.
The second was held in Louisville, Kentucky at which time Fannie O'Bannon became the grand basileus. Unlike other fraternities, it too helps to achieve academic enhancement. The first call for a national boule (convention) was held in Indianapolis, December 27-29, 1925. Today, Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority is one of the popular names that most of the college going students are aware of. The first three years were devoted to organizing. The group became an incorporated national collegiate sorority on December 30, 1929, when a charter was granted to Alpha chapter at Butler University. The charter members are the founders of Sigma Gamma Rho. was organized on Novemin Indianapolis, Indiana by Mary Lou Allison Little and six teachers: Dorothy Hanley Whiteside, Vivian White Marbury, Nannie Mae Gahn Johnson, Hattie Mae Dulin Redford, Bessie M.
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