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Sigma Alpha Epsilon (ΣΑΕ) is America's largest social fraternity with more than 280,000 initiated members. Founded in 1856, SAE (as it is nicknamed) is the largest Social Fraternity in the World. SAE currently has 12,000 undergraduates at more than 210 chapters in 48 states. It was the first fraternity to establish a national headquarters (Levere Memorial Temple, 1929), a national Leadership School (1935), a national Men's health Issues Committee (1980), and a career-development program tailored for the community ("The Leading Edge" in 1990).

Currently, the Fraternity offers a comprehensive member-education program called The True Gentleman Initiative. The Fraternity communicates through The Record, a quarterly publication that has been published continuously since 1880. New members receive a copy of The Phoenix, the manual of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, for educational development.

History

The fraternity of Sigma Alpha Epsilon was founded on March 9, 1856 at University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, AL. It is the only surviving antebellum Southern fraternity in existence. It was founded by Noble Leslie DeVotie, Nathan Elams Cockrell, John Barratt Rudulph, John Webb Kerr, Samuel Marion Dennis, Wade H. Foster, Abner Edwin Patton, and Thomas Chappell Cook. DeVotie devised the rituals and grip of SAE.

Wade Foster served under Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest during the Civil War. 6 of the 8 founders served for the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Of the two other founders, Nathan Elams Cockrell, died on his plantation in 1859, 2 years before the outbreak of the Civil War. N.L. DeVotie is recorded as the first casualty from Alabama of the civil war. While boarding a troopship he fell off the gangplank and drowned.

The True Gentleman

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

The Record

The fraternity communicates through "The Record" magazine. It is published quarterly and has been continuously since 1880. This publication has become popular in social groups throughout the country. One issue of The Record, the fall annual report, is provided free of charge to all active members and alumni at a circulation of 180,000. The other three issues are provided for active members and current donors to the Sigma Alpha Epsilon Foundation at a circulation of approximately 30,000.

Famous alumni

External links

  • http://www.sae.net/ - Official site
  • http://www.thetgi.net/ - The True Gentleman Initiative
  • http://incircle.sae.net/ - Gentlemen's Circle
  • http://www.truegentleman.com/ - Villanova University (Pennsylvania Eta-Gamma)
  • http://uhavax.hartford.edu/sae/home.htm - University of Hartford (Connecticut Lambda)
  • http://www.saeilpo.com/ - Northwestern University (Illinois Psi-Omega)
  • http://www.saelongbeach.com/ - California State University, Long Beach (California Lambda)
  • http://www.TexasChi.com - University of Texas at Dallas (Texas Chi)
  • http://www.saemido.org/ - Central Michigan University (Michigan Delta-Omega)
  • http://www.yalesae.com/ - Yale University (Connecticut Omega)
  • http://www.rushsae.com/ - East Tennessee State University (Tennessee Alpha)
  • http://www.coloradosae.org/ - University of Colorado (Colorado Chi)
  • http://www.saetnbeta.com/ - Middle Tennessee State University (Tennessee Beta)
  • http://www.sae.uconn.edu/ - University of Connecticut (Connecticut Beta)
  • http://www.millikin.edu/sae/ - Millikin University (Illinois Delta)
  • http://www.sae.org.vt.edu - Virginia Tech (Virginia Zeta)
  • http://www.udsae.com/ - University of Delaware (Delaware Alpha)
  • http://www.ucdsae.com/ - University of California, Davis California Kappa)
  • http://www.csupomona.edu/~sae/ - Cal Poly Pomona(California Alpha-Beta)
  • http://www.ucsae.com - University of Cincinnati (Ohio Epsilon)
  • http://www.crimsonsae.com/ - Harvard University (Massachusetts Gamma)
  • http://www.usd.edu/sae/ - University of South Dakota (South Dakota Sigma)
  • http://www.saeluc.com - Loyola University Chicago (Illinois Alpha-Omega)
  • http://greeks.wustl.edu/~sae/ - Washington University in St. Louis (Missouri Beta)
  • http://www.saerit.org/ - Rochester Institute of Technology (New York Tau-Gamma)
  • http://www.saepaphi.org/ - Carnegie Mellon University (Pennsylvania Phi)
  • http://www.ksalpha.org/ - University of Kansas (Kansas Alpha)
  • http://www.nyepsilon.com/ - RPI (New York Epsilon)
  • http://www.jhu.edu/~sae/ - Johns Hopkins University (Maryland Phi)
  • http://saeasection.com/ - Kettering University (Michigan Epsilon - A Section)
  • http://www.saebsection.com/ - Kettering University (Michigan Epsilon - B Section)
  • http://www.crimsonsae.com/ - Harvard College (Massachusetts Gamma)
  • http://www.saepurdue.com/ - Purdue University (Indiana Beta)
  • http://www.kybeta.com/ - Western Kentucky University (Kentucky Beta)
  • http://www.saemiami.com/ - University of Miami (Florida Alpha)
  • http://www.LouisianaChi.com/ - Nicholls State University (Louisiana Chi)
  • http://www.saefloridarho.com/ - Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (Florida Rho)
  • http://www.uoflsae.com/ - University of Louisville (Kentucky Sigma)
  • http://www.saedepauw.com/ - DePauw University
  • http://www.students.emory.edu/sae - Emory University
  • http://www.iowachisae.org/ - Univeristy of Northern Iowa
  • http://www.bradley.edu/campusorg/sae/ - Bradley University (Illinois Epsilon)
  • http://www.flgamma.com/ - Florida Southern College (Florida Gamma)
  • http://www.smusae.org/ - Southern Methodist University (Texas Delta)
  • http://www.mdsigma.com/ - Salisbury University (Maryland Sigma)
  • http://www.sae-depaul.com/ - DePaul University (Illinois Delta Pi)
  • http://www.umkcsae.com/ - University of Missouri - Kansas City (Missouri Kappa-Chi)
  • http://www.saendsu.com/ - North Dakota State University - (ND Beta)
  • http://www.saemido.org/ - Central Michigan University - (MI Delta- Omega)
  • http://www.sae-cornell.org/ - Cornell University - (NY Alpha)
  • http://www.saemg.com/ - Michigan State University - (Michigan Gamma)

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