Sigma Chi Reveals Winners of the 2015 Significant Sig Award
The Fraternity has selected 46 recipients for its Significant Sig Award, which recognizes members who have achieved high levels of professional success. Members of the 2015 class may chose to receive their honor at the June 27, 2015, Significant Sig Awards Banquet at the 80th Grand Chapter in San Diego, or at a local ceremony. […]
Sigma Chi Launches New Membership Network Website
In 2007, the Fraternity launched its membership network at sigmachi.com. The website offered members the ability to create accounts through which they could update their contact information; view a directory of the Fraternity’s members; create a personalized email address; and access member-only resources such as the chapter system and new member education system. On Feb. […]
2015 Order of Constantine Sigs Announced
In recent weeks, Sigma Chi International Fraternity Headquarters announced the names of the 18 brothers in the 2015 class of inductees into the Order of Constantine, recognizing those Sigs who have committed 20 or more years of exemplary service to the Fraternity. “When [68th Grand Consul] Mike Greenberg, ILLINOIS WESLEYAN 1982, told me that I […]
Local Sig Looks Forward to Grand Chapter
At the June 25 to 27 Grand Chapter conference in San Diego, attendees will have the opportunity to explore the city’s food, culture and attractions. Anthony Bernal, PACIFIC 2003, president of the San Diego alumni chapter, says that he couldn’t be more excited for his fellow Sigs to see the area for themselves. “San Diego […]
New Grand Praetor Rep to the Executive Committee Named
The Executive Committee added its newest member on Feb. 7 with the appointment of Order of Constantine Sig P.J. Stephens, WASHINGTON (ST. LOUIS) 1971, as its new Grand Praetor representative. Stephens replaces outgoing representative and Order of Constantine Sig Dan Mathewson, PUGET SOUND 1986, who resigned to take on a role as director of accountability […]
Nominees Needed for Chapter Publication Awards
Each year, the Fraternity presents the undergraduate chapter that produces the most outstanding newsletter with the Charles G. Ross Active Chapter Publications Program Award, and recognizes its most outstanding alumni chapter publication with the James E. Montgomery Alumni Chapter Publications Award. The winner of each award is chosen among the newsletters that are mailed to […]
International Balfour Award Applications Requested
Sigma Chi International Fraternity Headquarters is soliciting applications for the 2015 International Balfour Award, which is presented to the Fraternity’s most outstanding graduating senior at each summer’s Balfour Leadership Training Workshop. Applications are due April 15. Each spring, every Sigma Chi chapter selects its most outstanding graduating senior for the Chapter Balfour Award; from these, […]
International Fraternity Adds Two Chapters
The Fraternity added 48 members to its rolls with the Feb. 14 installation of the chapter at DePaul University in Chicago, and expects to initiate 38 others into Sigma Chi when it installs the University of North Carolina-Charlotte chapter on March 28. “For me and a lot of others in the chapter, the Initiation ceremony […]
Risk Management Foundation Announces Internship
The Risk Management Foundation (RMF) will select one summer intern for an undergraduate brother studying the fields of risk management, life safety, and insurance. Starting in June and continuing through early August, the RMF intern will learn first-hand about the organization’s risk management education and insurance programs, while focusing on special projects such as industry […]
Peter Stephens
Peter Stephens, WASHINGTON (ST. LOUIS) 1971, was initiated into Sigma Chi on Sep. 30, 1967. As an undergraduate, he served his chapter as its Recruitment Chairman and then as Pro Consul for three terms. He was active in student government and during the height of anti-war riots on campus was named one of the university’s first student trustees. After a career in the hotel industry spanning twenty years which took him to Australia, Hong Kong and New York with Hilton International and to Chicago and Zurich with Swissotel, a joint venture of Swissair and Nestle, he became a consultant to top luxury hotels such as Four Seasons, Mandarin Oriental and Ritz-Carlton in identifying senior and executive level management talent, and resettled in central Florida in 1991. In 2012, he founded Arkadia Strategic, a company based in Hong Kong which advises governments on tourism development issues. He serves as its president and CEO. Stephens became involved with the Orlando, Florida, alumni chapter of Sigma Chi at the time of the 2003 Grand Chapter held in Orlando. He nearly doubled the size of the chapter as its membership chairman and went on to serve two terms as vice president and later one as president. Beginning in 2003, Stephens co-chaired the ”Orlando Scramble for Kids” charity golf tournament and has helped to raise $160,000 for the Children’s Miracle Network, which was the Fraternity’s recommended philanthropy at that time. In 2009, Stephens was elected Grand Praetor of the Central Florida province. Stephens currently serves as chairman of the Fraternity’s committee on governmental affairs, which is lobbying members of Congress for passage of the Collegiate Housing and Infrastructure Act (CHIA). The proposed legislation would allow the tax deductibility of contributions to fraternities and sororities for the construction of residences on college campuses, which the current IRS code does not permit. Stephens previously served as chairman of the Fraternity’s awards committee. He is now one of the representative from the Praetorial College to the Executive Committee. He has facilitated numerous province conferences, has served on the Pro Consul faculty at Balfour LTW starting in 2010, and has served as a panelist on three membership reviews. Stephens has been a Life Loyal Sigma Chi since 1971 and was inducted into the Order of Constantine in 2012.
Alumni to Receive the Fraternity’s Highest Honor for Volunteers
Eighteen alumni recently received an invitation for membership into Sigma Chi International Fraternity’s Order of Constantine for their commitment and volunteer service to the organization. Induction into this select group is considered to be the highest honor Sigma Chi can bestow upon one of its members. Order of Constantine members have volunteered for the […]
Executive Committee Seeks New Undergraduate Reps
This summer, Sigma Chi’s undergraduate delegates to the 2015 Grand Chapter will select two of their own to serve as representatives to the Executive Committee (EC) during the 2015 to 2016 school year. To be eligible for the position, a candidate must be a member in good standing who has collected letters of support from […]
Announcing the 2015 Thomas Cowan Bell Chapters
The Sigma Chi Foundation has recognized 68 undergraduate chapters as Thomas Cowan Bell chapters for the duration of the 2015 to 2016 school year. Through the Foundation’s Bell Chapter Challenge program, alumni of each undergraduate chapter can make unrestricted gifts to the Foundation in the chapter’s name. These gifts allow the chapter’s brothers to participate […]
Alumni Annual Reports Due Feb. 17
Alumni chapter, association and club officers are required to submit their annual reports to Sigma Chi International Fraternity Headquarters no later than Feb. 17. Only those chapters that have submitted a completed report by the deadline will remain in good standing with the General Fraternity, which includes the retention of all attendant honors and privileges […]
Ballots for Ritual Changes Sent
In late January, International Fraternity Headquarters mailed ballots and materials outlining proposed changes to the Ritual, to each undergraduate chapter. In order for its vote to count, a chapter must postmark its ballot no later than March 17. Because of the secretive nature of the Ritual, we will not describe the proposed changes in this […]
