Phi Sigma Alpha
| Fi Sigma Alfa | |
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| ΦΣΑ | |
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| Founded | October 22, 1928 University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus |
| Type | Social |
| Scope | International Puerto Rico United States Mexico
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| Motto | Caballeros Ante Todo |
| Maxim | Omne Rarum Carum |
| Colors |
Azure Gules Or |
| Flag |  |
| Publication | Anuario Sigma |
| Philanthropy | Fundación Sigma |
| Headquarters |
Calle Méjico, Esquina Chile Hato Rey Puerto Rico |
| Homepage | www |
 You may listen to the "Farola" and "Brindis Sigma" with an introduction by José Miguel Agrelot here.
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Fi Sigma Alfa commonly known as La Sigma, is a Puerto Rican fraternity established originally as the Sigma Delta Alpha Fraternity (Sociedad de Amigos) on October 22, 1928 at the University of Puerto Rico by 12 students and a professor. Fi Sigma Alfa can trace its roots back to 1898 to the Union Hispano Americana, as well as to the first ever Greek letter Hispanic-oriented fraternity, Sigma Iota, established in 1912. By 1998 there were over 4,376 members.
Fi Sigma Alfa traces its origins to a number of organizations including Phi Lamba Alpha. Phi Lambda Alpha fraternity was founded at the University of California, Berkeley in 1919. The fraternity was a merger of three societies; the Unión Hispano Americana at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York founded in 1898, the first Latin-American student society in the USA; Pi Delta Phi Fraternity at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)]] founded in 1916; and Phi Lambda Alpha Fraternity founded in 1919 at the University of California, Berkeley. A group of Latin American students organized the Union Hispano Americana (UHΑ) as a cultural and intellectual secret society based on the ideology of Pan-Americanism.
After ΦΛA was organized, other societies joined it: the "Club Latino-Americano" founded in 1919 at Colorado School of Mines; the "Federación Latino-Americana" founded in 1926 at Columbia University which joined in 1928; the "Club Hispania" founded in 1929 of Cornell University which joined in 1931; the "Club Hispano-Americano" founded in 1921 of Tri-State College in Angola, Indiana which joined in 1929 and the Alfa Tenoxtitlan Militant chapter founded in 1929 made up of members of the old ΦΛA in Mexico City, Mexico.
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