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Castle On The Hill
1937 The Ranger Annual
Northwestern State Teachers' College

Sigma Sigma Sigma

On April 20, 1898, eight students at the Virginia State Normal School located at Framville, Virginia, inspired by their knowledge of the benefits derived by their brothers and freiends from memberships in various national fraternities then active in nearby Southern universities, and anxious to further a spirit of sistehood and to establish a standard of high ideals among tehemselves, banded together to form Alpha Chapter of Sigma Sigma Sigma. This little band soon felt the desire to share its new found sisterhood with girls in other schools and so moved to establish chapters in various institutions in the South.

During this explansion, no particular attention had been paid to the class of school which the sorority entered; more stress had been laid upon the type of young women being considered for memberships, consequently, by 1907, Sigma Sigma Sigma was confronted with the necessity of establishing uniformity among her chapters, some of which were in universities, some in normal schools, and others in secondary schools. The Sorority at the Convention of 1911, voted to limit the chapter roll to Teachers Colleges of first rank. Thus Sigma Sigma Sigma became the pioneer in the field of Teachers' Colleges, the first to be strictly a national education sorority.

Since that convention the sorority has limited itself strictly to the education field and has grown from a small Southern society to a national education sorority with a membership of some five thousand in thirty-two active chapters and as many alumnae groups, and with members living in every state in the Union and in many foreign countries.

Xi Chapter of Sigma Sigma Sigma was organized and installed at Northwestern State Teachers College, Alva, Oklahoma, December 1, 1915. it has stood for the same ideals that the other 31 chapters in various Teachers' Colleges in the United STates stand for. Its many chaptes bear witness that the sorority is a success in its field.

Members:

• Estella Rackley
• Edith Higginbotham
• Cletis Duran
• Pauline Mrogan
• Bernice Keck
• Elsie Fay Peters
• Helene Fuller
• Corine Roe
• Lucille Hansen
• Evelyn Chaffee
• Doris Huddle
• Eva Mae Rogers
  

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