A group of young men dedicated to changing not only there communities but the world around them through their good deeds and character.
Founded: March 9, 1856; University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa
Mission Statement: The mission of Sigma Alpha Epsilon is to promote the highest standards of friendship, scholarship, and service for our members based upon the ideals set forth by our Founders and as specifically enunciated in our creed.
Membership: The Fraternity resides on college and university campuses, as a guest of the host institution. The current structure includes more than 8,200 undergraduates at more than 225 chapters in 47 states and Canada. Alumni are active in more than 75 alumni associations.
Governance Structure: The organization is governed through a five-person executive board (Supreme Council) that is elected at biennial conventions. An executive director (Eminent Supreme Recorder) supervises a staff of approximately 28 at the Fraternity Service Center in Evanston, Illinois, and eight regional directors. The United States and Canada are divided into 29 regions (provinces) overseen by regional volunteers called province archons. Each chapter is required to have an active chapter adviser.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon Foundation: The SAE Foundation was established in 1927 to create programs that promote the highest ideals of academic and personal development. The existing programs include named scholarships, a student-loan program and the international Leadership School that has produced more than 38,000 graduates. The SAE Foundation awards $69,000 in scholarships annually in support of its mission.
Prominent Alumni: William McKinley, Elliot Ness, David Spade, Phil Jackson, Dennis Erickson, William Faulkner, Joe Foss, Bob Ballard, General Richard Myers, Ernie Harwell, Tony Boselli, Bo Schembechler, Nick Lachey, Fred Savage, Pete Carroll, Mack Brown
Fast Facts: SAE is North America’s largest social fraternity with more than 280,000 initiated members. Fraternal symbols include the lion, the phoenix, Minerva, and the fleur-de-lis. Sigma Alpha Epsilon was the first fraternity to establish a national headquarters (1929), a national Leadership School (1935), a national Men’s Health Issues Committee (1980), and a career-development program entitled the Leading Edge (1990). Currently, the Fraternity offers a comprehensive member-education program called The True Gentleman Initiative. The Fraternity communicates through The Record magazine, a quarterly publication that has been published continuously since 1880. New members receive a copy of The Phoenix pledge manual for educational development.
Our Creed: 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
Founded: March 9, 1856; University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa
Mission Statement: The mission of Sigma Alpha Epsilon is to promote the highest standards of friendship, scholarship, and service for our members based upon the ideals set forth by our Founders and as specifically enunciated in our creed.
Membership: The Fraternity resides on college and university campuses, as a guest of the host institution. The current structure includes more than 8,200 undergraduates at more than 225 chapters in 47 states and Canada. Alumni are active in more than 75 alumni associations.
Governance Structure: The organization is governed through a five-person executive board (Supreme Council) that is elected at biennial conventions. An executive director (Eminent Supreme Recorder) supervises a staff of approximately 28 at the Fraternity Service Center in Evanston, Illinois, and eight regional directors. The United States and Canada are divided into 29 regions (provinces) overseen by regional volunteers called province archons. Each chapter is required to have an active chapter adviser.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon Foundation: The SAE Foundation was established in 1927 to create programs that promote the highest ideals of academic and personal development. The existing programs include named scholarships, a student-loan program and the international Leadership School that has produced more than 38,000 graduates. The SAE Foundation awards $69,000 in scholarships annually in support of its mission.
Prominent Alumni: William McKinley, Elliot Ness, David Spade, Phil Jackson, Dennis Erickson, William Faulkner, Joe Foss, Bob Ballard, General Richard Myers, Ernie Harwell, Tony Boselli, Bo Schembechler, Nick Lachey, Fred Savage, Pete Carroll, Mack Brown
Fast Facts: SAE is North America’s largest social fraternity with more than 280,000 initiated members. Fraternal symbols include the lion, the phoenix, Minerva, and the fleur-de-lis. Sigma Alpha Epsilon was the first fraternity to establish a national headquarters (1929), a national Leadership School (1935), a national Men’s Health Issues Committee (1980), and a career-development program entitled the Leading Edge (1990). Currently, the Fraternity offers a comprehensive member-education program called The True Gentleman Initiative. The Fraternity communicates through The Record magazine, a quarterly publication that has been published continuously since 1880. New members receive a copy of The Phoenix pledge manual for educational development.
Our Creed: 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
by bento box January 31, 2008
The largest national Fraternity with over 280,000 initiated members. Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) was founded at the university of Alabama in Tuscaloosa Alabama in 1856. Since then it has grown into one of the best known and active fraternities on many college campuses throughout America and Canada
The brothers of Sigma Alpha Epsilon at Embry-Riddle are pretty cool.
Yea I think im going to rush at the beginning of next semester.
Yea I think im going to rush at the beginning of next semester.
by Hero1856 January 29, 2008
SAE is North America’s largest social fraternity with more than 280,000 initiated members. Fraternal symbols include the lion, the phoenix, Minerva, and the fleur-de-lis. Sigma Alpha Epsilon was the first fraternity to establish a national headquarters (1929), a national Leadership School (1935), a national Men’s Health Issues Committee (1980), and a career-development program entitled the Leading Edge (1990). Currently, the Fraternity offers a comprehensive member-education program called The True Gentleman Initiative. The Fraternity communicates through The Record magazine, a quarterly publication that has been published continuously since 1880. New members receive a copy of The Phoenix pledge manual for educational development.
SAE is a brotherhood of not only class, values, courtesy and integrity, but also one in which the lives of others are respected. Chapters pride themselves in the common courtesy and genuine care for their guests by walking them home. What other fraternity does this?
SAE is a brotherhood of not only class, values, courtesy and integrity, but also one in which the lives of others are respected. Chapters pride themselves in the common courtesy and genuine care for their guests by walking them home. What other fraternity does this?
Ladies: We're going to get going now, thanks for the great party boys!
SAE: Does anyone need a ride home? We can walk you as well!
Ladies: Sure! No other fraternity on campus has ever offered, thanks Sigma Alpha Epsilon.
..we rock.
SAE: Does anyone need a ride home? We can walk you as well!
Ladies: Sure! No other fraternity on campus has ever offered, thanks Sigma Alpha Epsilon.
..we rock.
by Phi Alpha February 01, 2008
A fraternity that is very diverse.
by DankfromSJ January 31, 2008
A group of men who band together for an everlasting bond of brotherhood. Based on high ideals and the True Gentleman. Started in 1856 and one of the longest running fraternities, and it is the very first started in the deep south, at the University of Alabama. Known also for thier respect towards Women and others.
Wow, that guy is really a gentleman towards the ladies.
Yeah, I hear he is a part of Sigma Alpha Epsilon.
Yeah, I hear he is a part of Sigma Alpha Epsilon.
by Country Joe January 25, 2008
a fraternity with A bunch of Douchebags who think they are the shit. They are loud and obnoxious and probably the least academic of all fraterities.
person 1: Man that guy is such a D-bag.
person 2: Well he is a Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE)
person 1: oh, it figures
person 2: Well he is a Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE)
person 1: oh, it figures
by SAE'sareD-bags April 05, 2006
sigma alpha epsilon is a group of people in a greek organizaation that was founded in 1856
one of the coolest groups ofdudes
boys clubs.. what?!
most diverse
one of the coolest groups ofdudes
boys clubs.. what?!
most diverse
by tuyshort February 01, 2008