October 17: Phi Beta Sigma Casino Royale Charity Ball 8pm-11pm @ the North Pavilion
October 18-October 23: Sigma Week(Check Out the Week's Events on Our Calendar)
November 5-7: Blue White Weekend (Check Out the Week's Events on Our Calendar)
Frat
History
Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity,
Inc. was founded at Howard University (Alpha Chapter) in Washington D.C.
on January 9, 1914 by three young black male students; Honorable A.
Langston Taylor, Honorable Leonard F. Morse, and Honorable Charles I.
Brown. They wanted to organize a Greek-Letter fraternity that would
truly exemplify the high ideals of brotherhood, scholarship, and
service.
From its inception, the founders conceived Phi Beta Sigma as a
mechanism to deliver services to the general community. Rather than
gaining skills to be utilized exclusively for themselves and their
immediate families, the founders of Phi Beta Sigma held the deep
conviction that they should return their newly acquired skills to the
communities from which they had come. This deep conviction was mirrored
in the fraternity motto, "Culture for Service and Service for Humanity."
Today, more than three-quarters of a century later, Phi Beta
Sigma Fraternity, Inc. has blossomed into an international organization
of leaders, embracing some 105,000 dedicated brothers in all walks of
life, in more than 700 chapters across Africa, the United States,
Europe, and the Caribbean. No longer a single entity, the fraternity has
now established the Phi Beta Sigma Educational Foundation, Inc. and the
Phi Beta Sigma Federal Credit Union (to build financial equity within
our target communities). Through our three National Programs: Bigger and
Better Business, Education, and Social Action, Phi Beta Sigma strives
for and demands the highest personal development for our people. We
pride ourselves in having a unique link with our AFRICAN culture in that
Phi Beta Sigma is a fraternity based on African Heritage. Ours was the
first BLACK Greek Letter Organization to establish chapters in Africa,
and we are often called the fraternity of African Presidents, Princes,
and Kings. Through knowledge of self and self help, we feel, that we can
return to the cultural greatness that we once possessed.
Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc., founded in 1920 with the
assistance of Phi Beta Sigma, is the sister organization. No other
fraternity and sorority is constitutionally bound as Sigma and Zeta. We
both enjoy and foster a mutually supportive relationship.
