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Ideals of Sigma Lambda Sigma Service Sorority
SERVICE
To serve is our purpose, for we are a service sorority. But what is to serve?
Webster describes service as "the rendering of assistance or aid; helpful activity
for the advantage or welfare of others." Actually, performing our services breathes
life into these dictionary definitions and brings the wonderful satisfaction of knowing
that we have helped to fulfill a need.
To service is our responsibility, for we are unique in being a service sorority.
We have a great deal to give, but we must give it wisely, that we may find a
genuine need for our services and thus accomplish the most amount of good.
And to service is our greatest privilege. Giving cannot impoverish us, neither
can withholding it enrich us. Rather, our service projects enlarge our experience
and expand our capacity to give.
We unite in bonds of sisterhood and love to give our services to the university
and the community.
"Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it."--Ghandi
LEADERSHIP
It is our purpose to develop leadership within the sorority and thus be effective
in our services and in the meaning of our sisterhood. We chose Sigma Lambda Sigma
because we wish to be of service. The sisters of Sigma Lambda Sigma chose us to
lead because they felt that we had the ability to lead in the activities of the sorority.
Our responsibility is to use our individual responsibilities in leading the sorority
to grow and develop its services and its meanings.
Sigma Lambda Sigma will come to stand for whatever we collectively express.
It is our privilege to lead Sigma Lambda Sigma in her growth. Each can lead, in
her own way, contributing her enthusiasm, her ideas, and her talents as no one else
can. Each of us is needed and in giving of ourselves, everyone will benefit.
We are united in bonds of sisterhood and understanding to provide leadership to the
sorority, the campus, and the community.
"Leadership is action not position."
SISTERHOOD
It is our purpose to be a sisterhood. We are not club nor an organization but a
union of individuals with distinct personalities based upon the love of sisters.
In this way, we need never lose our individuality. Each can express the ideals of
Sigma Lambda Sigma in her special way, and the group can greatly benefit from the variety
in ideas and points of view.
It is our responsibility to maintain the spirit of sisterhood which we possess. Our loyalty
to Sigma Lambda Sigma is expressed in services to the university and community and in individual
leadership. Our love for each of our sisters is shown with patient understanding and in giving of
ourselves.
It is our privilege to be sisters, not in blood, but in common purposes, in experience, in a spirit of giving,
in confidence and love and in the traditions of our sorority.
We are united in the bonds of service and leadership to constitute the sisterhood
of Sigma Lambda Sigma.
"When two men in an organization agree, one of them is unnecessary."
