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- Posted by Frank Roach
At our November meeting we elected the following officers to serve in 2025:
Frank Roach - President Larry Pileggi - VP Doug Dafler - Secretary
Jim Stroh - Treasurer Dale Gordon - Asst. Treasurer
We also approved changes to our Bylaws and announced the following events for December"
Lowcountry Boil at Toomer's Bluffton Seafood House on December 12
Wreaths Over America at Beaufort National Cemetery on December 15
Please go to the Events section to register you and your sweetheart for each of these great events.
- Posted by Frank Roach
At our October 14 meeting, your Executive Committee took the following actions:
1. Approved the Nominating Committee's Report recommending the following slate of officers for 2025: President - Frank Roach, Vice-President - Larry Pileggi, Secretary - Doug Dafler, Treasurer - Jim Stroh, Asst. Treasurer - Dale Gordon. Election will take place at our November 11 lunch meeting at Frankie Bones - Hilton Head. Only dues paying members in attendance will be permitted to vote.
2. Approved only in person voting by dues paying members at our November meeting on proposed Bylaws changes.
3. Decided to schedule another Sips & Bites event at Michael Anthony's in February and move the Burnt Church Distillery event to April.
4. Agreed to explore other options for our December event due to the increased price of the Oyster Roast at Hudson's. Toomer's Bluffton Seafood Restaurant and Bluffton Oyster Company will be considered for both an Oyster Roast or Lowcountry Boil. We hope to have a decision in time for our November meeting.
5.Decided to again participate in the "Wreaths Over America" event on December 14 at the Beaufort National Cemetery followed by a lunch at a local restaurant.
6. Decided to maintain the current lunch meeting format focused on brotherhood building for 2025 with the stipulation that a speaker from Sigma Chi Headquarters or the Foundation would be welcomed.
7. Decided to maintain dues at $25/annually to be presented as a "double or nothing" proposition. Details will be discussed at our November meeting.
PLEASE MAKE EVERY EFFORT TO ATTEND OUR IMPORTANT MEETING AT NOON ON NOVEMBER 11 AT FRANKIE BONES - HILTON HEAD. REGISTER UNDER THE EVENTS TAB.
- Posted by Frank Roach
The following information was shared on a recent Alumni Leaders Town Hall Zoom call:
1. With 263,000+ living alumni, Sigma Chi is the largest fraternity.
2. There are now 125 alumni groups.
3. The fall pledge class was the largest since 2016.
4. Headquarters is working on establishing a chapter at the United States Military Academy at West Point; if successful this would be the first fraternity at the USMA.
- Posted by Guy Catania
"The Magazine of Sigma Chi" recently published a photo of our alumni chapter brothers who gathered to lay Christmas wreathes at the graves of fallen US military verterans interned at Beaufort National Cemetery in Beaufort, SC. Shown is the magazine photograph, as copied from the magazine by one of our members.
- Posted by Frank Roach
Welcome to our new website developed by the Alumni Engagement team at our national office. Now there is one place to find out about and register for all chapter activities. No more remembering to reply to emails; just click a button and you are confirmed. You may also quickly pay and get a receipt by selecting the STRIPE option. In the member area, you can find the names and contact information for all dues paying members --- if you have paid dues. We are excited about this new development for our Chapter. Thanks to Andrew Crossan and Leo Fackler for making it happen and to Brother Guy Catania for agreeing to keep the site up to date.
- Posted by Sigma Chi
In honor of Centennial Brother Gene Luntey (center) on his 100th Birthday. Pictured at his home with current & past alumni chapter officers.
Read more: In honor of Centennial Brother Gene Luntey (center) on his 100th Birthday.
- Posted by Sigma Chi
The establishment of Sigma Chi was a protest against artificiality and false pretense, a plea for personal independence, for congeniality and genuine friendship as the only natural basis of associations in a collegiate brotherhood. The Founders’ unfortunate experience in Delta Kappa Epsilon, which they saw as a group focused on conformity for political gain, stirred their hearts and their spirit. They found it a necessity to allow and accept differences in points of views and opinions, realizing that doing so brought opportunities and pleasures. This “spirit” became documented as The Spirit of Sigma Chi, although the creation date and author is unknown.