1. Sigma Alpha Epsilon was founded on March 9, 1856 at the University of Alabama

2.  John Barratt Rudolph  John Webb Kerr  Samuel Marion Dennis  Wade Hampton Foster  Abner Edwin Patton  Thomas Chapel Cook  Noble Leslie Devotie  Nathan Elams Cockrell

3. 1. Alabama Mu 2. Tennessee Nu 3. UNC XI 4. Georgia Pi 5. Tennessee Eta 6. Virginia Kappa 7. Virginia Omicron

4.  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

5.  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

6.  There are over 300,000 alumni in sigma alpha epsilon some ranging from  Phil Jackson  David Spade  Nick Lacey  William McKinley  Jay Dickey

7.  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

8.  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

9.  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