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1874 - Sigma Kappa Sorority was founded November 9, 1874 by a group of five women at Colby College in Waterville, Maine: Mary Caffrey Low, Elizabeth Gorham Hoag, Ida Fuller, Frances Mann and Louise Helen Coburn. Colby College was the first college in New England to admit women on an equal basis with men studnets. in 1871, Mary Caffrey Low was the first woman admitted to the college. Two years later, four more women were admitted to college and the five women decided to form a literary and social society, Sigma Kappa Sorority. They were told by the college administration that they needed to presenta constitution and bylaws with a petition requesting to form Sigma Kappa Sorority. They began hard work during that year with an eager glow of enthusiasm. Their purpose at the outset was that the sorority should become what it is now, a national organization of college women. On November 9, 1874, the five young women received a letter from the faculty approving their petition. Thus this date has since been considered our Founder's Day. |
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