About Alpha Sigma Alpha
OUR MISSION
Alpha Sigma Alpha promotes high ideals and standards for its members throughout their lives by emphasizing balance among our four aims of intellectual, physical, social and spiritual development. Alpha Sigma Alpha provides opportunities through:
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Sisterhood — forming strong bonds of unconditional friendship based on common values and experiences;
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Heritage — expressed through creed, ritual and history; and
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Leadership and Service — enhanced by chapter, campus and community involvement.
OUR VISION
The vision of Alpha Sigma Alpha is to cultivate values and ideals in women who are known for their character and concern for others. Alpha Sigma Alpha inspires women to lead, to serve and most of all to make a difference.
OUR PURPOSE
The purpose of Alpha Sigma Alpha is to foster close friendships between members and to develop women of poise and purpose.
OUR MOTTO
"Aspire, Seek, Attain"
A BRIEF HISTORY
Alpha Sigma Alpha was founded on November 15, 1901 at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia. The organizing charter states, "the purpose of the association shall be to cultivate friendship among its members, and in every way to create pure and elevating sentiments, to perform such deeds and to mould such opinions as will tend to elevate and ennoble womanhood in the world." This charter was signed by its 5 founders: Virginia Boyd Noell, Juliette Hundley Gilliam, Louise Cox Carper, Calva Watson Wootton, and Mary Williamson Hundley.