Alpha Sigma Phi
| Alpha Sigma Phi Fraternity | |
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| ΑΣΦ | |
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| Founded | December 6, 1845 Yale University |
| Type | Social |
| Scope | United States |
| Motto |
Causa Latet Vis Est Notissima "The cause is hidden, the results well-known" |
| Colors | Cardinal and Stone |
| Symbol | Phoenix |
| Flower | Cardinal rose and yellow tea rose |
| Chapters | 115 active, 26 provisional chapters, 6 interest groups, 147 total groups |
| Headquarters |
710 Adams Street Carmel, Indiana USA |
| Homepage | alphasigmaphi.org |
Causa Latet Vis Est Notissima
Alpha Sigma Phi Fraternity and Foundation (ΑΣΦ, commonly abbreviated to Alpha Sig) is a fraternity with 115 active chapters, 26 provisional chapters, and 6 interest groups. Founded at Yale in 1845, it is the 10th oldest fraternity in the United States.
The fraternity practices many traditions. Its Latin motto is Causa Latet Vis Est Notissima ("The cause is hidden, the results well-known"). The fraternity's official symbol is the phoenix, as the phoenix rises from the ashes of its old body, signifying the re-founding of the fraternity in the early 1900s. Due to active expansion efforts, Alpha Sigma Phi continues to offer services and opportunities to over 6,000 undergraduate students and 70,000 living alumni.
Alpha Sigma Phi was founded by three men at Yale College in 1845 as a secret sophomore society composed of many of the school's poets, athletes, and scholars. Upon rising through the ranks of the school, members shared membership with Alpha Sigma Phi in their Sophomore year, one of three fraternities in their Junior year and Skull and Bones or Scroll and Key in their Senior year.
The founders of Alpha Sigma Phi were:
Louis Manigault was the son of Charles I. Manigault, a wealthy rice planter from South Carolina who traced his ancestry to a Huguenot refugee who fled from Louis XIV's persecution and came to America in 1691. He served in the American Civil War as assistant to the Confederate Surgeon General. Moreover, he was a prominent plantation and slave owner in South Carolina.
Stephen Ormsby Rhea was the son of John Rhea, an important cotton planter of Louisiana who helped open the disputed territory of West Florida and made it a part of the US and the state of Louisiana.
Horace Spangler Weiser, of York, Pennsylvania, was a descendant of Conrad Weiser, also a refugee from Europe who became famous in the French and Indian War, representing several provisional chapters in treaty negotiations with Native Americans.
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