Founders
Who is Elizabeth Gorham Hoag
This is signed during the new member ceremony and is retained by the vice president of communication until the new member is initiated or until the new member period is lapsed or broken, at which time the card is destroyed.
What is the new member card?
This song is sung as new members are escorted into the new member ceremony?
What is “O Spirit of Our League”?
Finish the verse of this formal meeting song – “The wind sweeps down from northern caves, with a wild sweet minor strain.”
What is “The happy lark pours out his notes, like a shower of summer rain”?
These are Sigma Kappa’s two colors representing “T” and “P”.
What is Lavender (P) and Maroon (T)?
She was the first woman to attend Colby College?
Who is Mary CaffreyLow Carver?
This is the response to verbal roll call during formal meeting. It is also known as our open motto.
What is “One heart, One way”?
This song is sung at the beginning of formal chapter meetings.
What is “Mystic Bond”?
Finish the verse of this song from initiation– "Like to her who we adore for her pure and holy mind mind."
What is "How we love her noble though gazing back through ages dim"?
These are the officers of the Sorority as revealed in the ceremony of Initiation.
Who are “MC”, “SC”, and “LS”? (The correct answer will be the actual words these abbreviations represent.)
She was the first Sigma Kappa to get married.
Who is Frances Elliott Mann Hall?
This is the first meeting after initiation when new initiates become acquainted with Sigma Kappa lore, customs, and traditions.
What is Model Meeting?
This song is sung as new members are escorted into the ceremony of Initiation.
What is “Tell Me, Tell Me O Ye Sigmas”? (Initiation Ode II)
Finish this line from the Prayer – “We pray Thee, Father, make us wise to know the right and give us the strength to perform it, that…”
•What is “..we may be faithful to our trust”?
This is the National Password.
What is _ _ _ _ _? (The password must never be written. It can given by word of moth only.)
This founder helped her niece found the Xi Chapter of Sigma Kappa at the University of Kansas.
Who is Ida Mabel Fuller Pierce?
This ceremony was adopted by the 1978 national convention as part of the official Sorority Ritual. The ceremony emphasizes the importance of the third part of Sigma Kappa membership.
What is Order of the Triangle?
This is the last song sung during the Order of the Triangle ceremony?
What is “Pass it On”?
•Finish the verse of this song sung during Initiation – “What doth keep us all united, with a tender mystic tie?”
•What is “To whom have we true faith plighted, her to serve until we die? Sigma Kappa, Sigma Kappa, Sigma Kappa we reply”?
These were often seen in her hair and is Sigma Kappa’s official jewel.
What is the pearl?
This founder wrote much of our initiation ceremony.
Who is Louise Helen Coburn?
In this ceremony, members first learn the significance of our colors and that maroon represents “T” and lavender represents “P.”
What is Initiation?
The first portion of this includes five notes that correspond to the question, “Are you a Sigma?” The five notes in the second portion correspond to the National Password.
What is the “Call and Reply”?
Finish the line from the Prayer- "We beseech thee Father, to shoe us thy mercy"
What is "that we may follow in the steps fo thy blessed son"?
In the cut, the wheel represents this.
What is the Wheel of __________ ___________?