It’s Founders’ Day, Sorors! Paws up, Fairly Poodles! We have now been lit all RHOVEMBER representing Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc., however why wouldn’t the baddest, the best, and the prettiest present up with a vibe that personifies these information?
Right now, November 12, 2026, Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority Integrated celebrates 104 years of GREATER SERVICE, GREATER PROGRESS. A complete century plus 4 years of ladies exhibiting up with objective, making room for each other, and giving the world one thing GREATER. Royal blue and gold look good on us, Soror, however the work appears even higher.
Final yr, I celebrated my first Founders’ Day after being inducted on July 5, 2025, in New Orleans. I wrote about discovering my tribe and the ladies whose contributions to tradition and neighborhood made me proud to name them Sorors. This yr, I need to flip that very same love towards the younger ladies carrying our sisterhood ahead.
As a result of whereas Auntie loves a superb stroll, that ain’t my ministry. I’m the fly Soror who can flawlessly execute a glance curated for a Sigma girl. You recognize, the auntie in all of the paraphernalia hyping my younger Sorors up with the loudest, proudest EEEEEE—YIP! The stroll is a younger Soror’s sport. They’ve the knees, rhythm, and inventive juices to execute a stroll and a imply Sigma Lean.
Now, earlier than I am going any additional, I need to honor the ladies who made it doable for us to proudly put on our stunning royal blue and gold letters.
Our seven founders—Mary Lou Allison Gardner Little, Dorothy Hanley Whiteside, Vivian Irene White Marbury, Nannie Mae Gahn Johnson, Hattie Mae Annette Dulin Redford, Bessie Mae Downey Rhoades Martin, and Cubena McClure—had been educators whose imaginative and prescient took root at Butler College in Indianapolis in 1922. They created a sisterhood to assist Black ladies educators and uplift their communities via training. Sigma Gamma Rho is the one Divine 9 sorority based at a predominantly white establishment.
And whereas the world is speaking about Black ladies in management, these seven ladies dare not be omitted from that dialog. They constructed amid segregation and the rising energy of the Ku Klux Klan. In 1923, one yr after our founding, Indiana Klan chief D. C. Stephenson purchased a home lower than half a block from Butler’s campus library. The hate surrounding their neighborhood was actual, and nonetheless, our founders created one thing GREATER.
We can’t know each concern they carried, however their braveness jogs my memory that generally you need to do it afraid. You will need to do it drained. You will need to do it unsure. You will need to do it within the face of adversity. As a result of the probabilities for the ladies coming behind you’re value preventing for. In an period when racist violence may price Black individuals their lives, constructing alternatives for different Black ladies was a unprecedented act of management. That legacy deserves to be honored via the ladies persevering with the work.
There are numerous issues I can say about Sigma ladies and about being a Sigma Girl. Nevertheless, I need to take this time to have a good time youthful Sorors and undergraduate chapters who’re working the yard, serving their communities, and creating change that offers these letters which means everywhere in the world. It’s giving fairly and purposeful.
So, within the spirit of giving our youthful Sorors their flowers, listed below are 22 spotlights on undergraduate chapters, campus standouts, and younger Sorors representing Sigma Gamma Rho the RHOyal manner. From latest awards to a significant return to campus, these are accomplishments value celebrating.
1.Alpha Chapter — Butler College
We should start the place GREATER started. The Almighty Alpha Chapter represents Sigma Gamma Rho at our founding establishment in Indianapolis. Its 2026–27 president, Edyn Curry, names educational achievement, neighborhood service, and sisterhood as priorities for the yr. Butler will not be an HBCU, however its place in our story is without end. That is dwelling.
2.Zeta Psi Chapter — Albany State College
You needed to know my RAMily was getting some love! The OH SO FLY Sorors of Zeta Psi has an award-winning historical past at Albany State. In 2018, the chapter earned Group of the 12 months, Highest GPA Sorority, and Most Philanthropic Group honors on the college’s Greek Picture Awards. Scholarship and repair with that blue-and-gold connection? That undoubtedly make me happy with the Sorors at my HBCU.
3.Epsilon Eta Chapter — Spelman School
Distinctive by title, with a legacy value celebrating. Chartered on January 2, 1979, Epsilon Eta described its mission in a 2022 centennial function as bettering lives via scholarship, sisterhood, and repair whereas being a supply of sunshine for Spelman sisters. Black ladies investing in Black ladies, that may be a stunning place for GREATER to develop.
4.Beta Chi Chapter — Alabama State College
Hornet Nation paws up! Alabama State’s Beta Chi Chapter brings objective to the yard via neighborhood service, together with a January 2025 Black Maternity Well being Discussion board. Creating house for conversations about Black maternal well being is the sort of work that makes “Larger Service, Larger Progress” greater than a slogan. Sorors exhibiting up for the well-being of Black ladies? We like to see it.
5.Alpha Epsilon Chapter — Florida A&M College
The Alluring Alpha Epsilon Chapter is making room for scholarship on the calendar. Its Fall 2026 “Research With a Poodle” collection invitations college students to deliver their books, laptops, and examine buddies and get centered collectively. Sure, Soror, give us the look however deliver these notes, too. The founders had been educators, and that is an task value understanding.
6.Alpha Phi Chapter — Howard College
Alpha Phi brings a longstanding Sigma presence to the Mecca. The chapter was among the many unique chapters of Sigma Gamma Rho’s Northeastern Area when it was organized in 1939. Howard’s Spring 2023 e-newsletter additionally documented members volunteering at meals kitchens, amassing canned items, and offering items via the Bison Infants initiative. Historical past and hands-on service belong in the identical dialog and the Howard sorors are speaking that speak.
7.Gamma Chapter — North Carolina A&T State College
Aggie pleasure meets Sigma pleasure! Chartered in March 1951, the Glamorous Gamma Chapter reaches its 75-year milestone in 2026. Its chapter historical past facilities service to the Greensboro neighborhood alongside sisterhood, scholarship, and management. Seventy-five years of a Sigma presence at A&T is a legacy value celebrating loudly. Paws up, Aggie Sorors!
8.Beta Tau Chapter — Morgan State College
Baltimore, STAND UP! Morgan State’s Beta Tau Chapter introduces itself as “Breathtakingly ThoRHOugh,” and child, that title comes with expectations and these Sorors meet them. Its September 2025 informational invited college students to study in regards to the chapter’s mission, values, and alternatives to grow to be a part of the sisterhood. Constructing the subsequent era begins with serving to younger ladies perceive what these letters signify.
9.Alpha Upsilon Chapter — Fisk College
Fisk’s Alpha Upsilon Chapter traces its constitution to December 15, 1945, giving these Sorors greater than eight many years of chapter historical past to honor. The chapter is a part of the Nashville Upsilon Sigma alumnae chapter’s undergraduate household, connecting collegiate sisterhood with assist throughout generations. There’s something stunning about younger Sorors (the nieces) rising with seasoned Sorors (the aunties) watering them.
10.Alpha Beta Chapter — Tennessee State College
Alpha Beta’s place in Tennessee State historical past runs deep. The college’s archives protect a 1939-chapter {photograph} and establish Mrs. Martha Brown as its adviser. That picture presents a glimpse of Sigma ladies constructing sisterhood on the establishment then often called Tennessee A&I School. Earlier than immediately’s campus photographs and stroll movies, there have been Sorors creating the historical past we now get to have a good time.
11.Alpha Tau Chapter — Jackson State College
THEE Jackson State Sorors have historical past on their facet. Established at JSU in 1941, Alpha Tau marks 85 years since its founding. The chapter’s membership web page emphasizes neighborhood service and describes becoming a member of as a lifetime dedication. That’s the sort of power these letters deserve: an understanding that turning into a Sigma girl comes with work, duty, and room to develop.
12.Le’Daviah Terry
Soror Terry is the Worldwide Second Grand Anti-Basileus of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority inc. She has grown from Rhoer to worldwide management. Her journey via the sorority is giving legacy in movement! A Spring 2025 provoke of Winthrop College’s Lambda Kappa Chapter. Her platform facilities undergraduate voices, visibility, and repair, and she or he has inspired college students to pursue faculty via the sorority’s #WhyApply marketing campaign. A younger Soror serving to form the sisterhood whereas opening doorways for others? That’s GREATER, and Auntie is right here for it.
13.B. Garrett
Fairly is straightforward and in Soror Garrett’s case, a given. Objective is the task and our good sis passes with flying colours EVERYTIME. A Sigma girl understands that representing these letters means exhibiting up with one thing to supply and a willingness to serve. Royal blue and gold make a press release. The work provides it which means.
14.Selena Kainde
Larger Service, Larger Progress begins with a easy query: Who can I assist? Typically the reply appears like mentoring a younger lady, supporting a sister, or assembly a necessity no one else seen. Each act of service issues.
15.Ky’Laiah Denise
Our founders gave us a strong basis, and each era has one thing to construct. There’s room in Sigma for recent concepts, daring management, and younger ladies able to put their items to work. Come via, Soror!
16.Nylahzim
Sigma ladies lean into life in method that’s stunning and good. Ours perceive that sisterhood lives within the check-ins, the encouragement, and the love that reveals up lengthy after the images have been posted.
17.__Gigi3muchhh
Seven educators set this sisterhood in movement, so scholarship will all the time belong within the dialog. Learn the guide. Ask the query. Earn the diploma. Then use what you already know to assist anyone else develop. That’s the manner GREATER ladies present up and present out.
18.Iam.julieedenise
Fairly Poodles. Fairly diamonds, regardless of the track mentioned. A Sigma girl can deliver the look and lead the assembly. She will be able to have a good time her femininity whereas standing firmly in her convictions. There’s room for magnificence, brilliance, and a little bit boldness on this royal blue and gold.
19.Keturahadaya
Service requires us to concentrate to reply the questions. Who wants assist? Whose voice is lacking? The place can we make a distinction? Larger Progress grows after we take heed to our communities and comply with via with motion.
20.Staceymariiie
Younger Sorors, like Soror Stacey deserve room to guide, create, and contribute. RIGHT NOW! Their concepts matter. Their voices matter. Their imaginative and prescient might help form what comes subsequent. Sigma Gamma Rho passes the microphone round as a result of we would like ALL our Sorors to be heard.
21.Lailahsimonee_
Our letters join generations of ladies with totally different tales and a shared dedication. The knowledge of a seasoned Soror and the power of a youthful Soror can curate stunning issues. There’s all the time one thing to show and one thing to study.
22. Religion.brianna_
The baddest! The best! The prettiest! And will our dedication to service be simply as loud as our EEEEEE—YIP. Rejoice the sisterhood, honor the founders, and preserve giving the subsequent era one thing GREATER to hold ahead.
So yeah, Glad Founders’ Day Sorors! There isn’t a girl higher than a Sigma girl, RHOmember that. You’re the baddest, the best and the prettiest within the land! Right here’s to 104 years of GREATER SERVICE, GREATER PROGRESS and to wanting good whereas doing the work.
Our founders gave us the imaginative and prescient. Generations of Sorors have provided that imaginative and prescient legs. And hear, the younger Poodles are placing a little bit further lean within the legacy.
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