Sigma Alpha Epsilon was founded on March 9, 1856 at the University of Alabama
John Barratt Rudolph John Webb Kerr Samuel Marion Dennis Wade Hampton Foster Abner Edwin Patton Thomas Chapel Cook Noble Leslie Devotie Nathan Elams Cockrell
1. Alabama Mu 2. Tennessee Nu 3. UNC XI 4. Georgia Pi 5. Tennessee Eta 6. Virginia Kappa 7. Virginia Omicron
Erected December 28, 1930 The interior holds artifacts from the original chapters The address of the temple is 1856 Sheridan road which is the same year the fraternity was started in 1856
Phi Alpha is a secret word that only the brothers of Sigma Alpha Epsilon know It was once put on Jay Lenos Late night top 10 best kept secrets in the world There is also a secret gesture that brothers can give one another as a sign of respect
There are over 300,000 alumni in sigma alpha epsilon some ranging from Phil Jackson David Spade Nick Lacey William McKinley Jay Dickey
Magazine that has been published for the fraternity since 1880 It is published 3 times a year Describes great things chapters did for the community and their neighbors. About 30,000 are printed each cycle
221 Chapters 17 Colonies 12,000 Active Brothers 2,000 Pledges Average Chapter Size 40 Average Nat’l GPA 3.1 Initiated Over 293,000 Brothers Almost 190,000 Living Alumni
The True Gentleman is the man whose conduct proceeds from good will and an acute sense of propriety, and whose self-control is equal to all emergencies; who does not make the poor man conscious of his poverty, the obscure man of his obscurity, or any man of his inferiority or deformity; who is himself humbled if necessity compels him to humble another; who does not flatter wealth, cringe before power, or boast of his own possessions or achievements; who speaks with frankness but always with sincerity and sympathy; whose deed follows his word; who thinks of the rights and feelings of others, rather than his own; and who appears well in any company, a man with whom honor is sacred and virtue safe. -John Walter Wayland Virginia 1899