The Zeta Eta Chapter of The Sigma Chi Fraternity

Zeta Eta Alums' Save Girls Life in New Mexico

2010-08-05T13:08:00.000-07:00

Please read this article about Colby Estes & Jeremy Connor (unnamed brother in law), both Alumni of Zeta Eta. We are all very proud of you brothers, it makes us all proud to be Sigma Chi's!
http://heraldbanner.com/local/x1936221181/Local-firefighter-rescues-teen-girl

The Constantine Post

2010-08-05T12:21:00.000-07:00

We now have an official newsletter that we will be mailing to Alumni and friends of Zeta Eta to help keep up with all the activites the chapter is involved in. If you would like to be added to the emailing list please email me at consul.zetaeta@gmail.com. There will be four issues every year; one for the summer, fall, winter and spring.

Letter from the Sweetheart of Zeta Eta

2010-08-05T12:17:00.000-07:00

This is a page from "The Constantine Post"; a letter from our new sweetheart, Cailtin Mason.

Thoughts from Sigma Chi

2008-04-18T07:24:00.000-07:00

Rogers’ Profile For Success

–From Rogers’ Rules For Success by Henry C. Rogers and published by St. Martins/Marek

As I look at the successful people I have known or observed and then look back at my own career over a period of many years, I ask myself if there are any common denominators that we all share. When I think through the answers to the question “Why me?” or “Why them?”, I find that there are certain acquired characteristics that are essential components of a candidate for success. They are:

Self-Esteem • Energy • Drive • Will • Self-Control

Not everyone is in possession of these essential character traits, nor does everyone have a sufficiently strong desire to acquire them. You don’t have to be born with them; very few of us are. Those who enjoy them worked hard to attain them. But is clear that those who have self-esteem, energy, drive, will, and self-control are more successful than those who don’t.

Self-Esteem

Self-esteem is all important in this profile for success, and I will have more to say about it later. For now, remember that too many of us spend unnecessary time worrying about the attributes we don’t have. We’re not good-looking. We don't have an M.B.A. from Harvard. We’re a member of a minority group. We live on the wrong side of the tracks. We don’t look good in clothes. Forget about flaws – for now, at least. Instead, concentrate on your good points. Don’t tell me you don't have any. You do. It is time for you to begin to build your ego. You will need it in order to handle what’s in store for you.

Energy

I have put energy near the top of my list, for so much in your psychorelations program stems from it. Energy, as it pertains to your success, has little to do with the physical. Unless you are among the unfortunate few who are anemic or who have some other strength-draining disease, each of you has sufficient physical energy to be successful. I describe energy as an emotional attribute. It is the desire to get up at six in the morning instead of at eight, because you want to get an early jump on your competitors. It is the desire to make fifty phone calls during the day, instead of twenty-five, because you want to get the job done. It is what prompts you to call a Saturday or Sunday morning meeting with your associates because work is fun, and success is fun. Do you feel that you lack the energy required to become successful? If so, the most likely explanation is that you regard your present work as drudgery. Take stock of yourself. If you find it easy to play eighteen or thirty-six holes of golf over the weekend but difficult to get through an eight-hour day at the office, itshould be obvious that you regard your job as an exhausting, unpleasant struggle. In contrast, when you are putting for a birdie on the eighteenth green, after four hours of walking, a surge of adrenaline goes racing through your system. You don’t acquire energy for success just by going to a health club or jogging six miles every morning. It has been proven that a regular exercise program is essential to good health. It is good health plus a positive mental attitude about your job that will give you the energy required for a successful career. Once you determine to become a more successful person, and once you regard your new campaign for success as an adventure – a glorious adventure – and as fun, not drudgery, you will find yourself working with just as much energy as you have when you’re putting for that birdie.

Drive

Drive is a first cousin of energy. Someone inside of you is urging you on. “Move a little faster,” he is saying, “accomplish a little more.” “You can do better.” “You’re smarter than that guy down the hall. You can get a raise before he does.” That little fellow is pushing you, shoving you, forcing you to climb higher and higher up the mountain. And something interesting is happening to you. You don’t mind being pushed at all. You are beginning to acquire a drive that you never had before, and you seem to have the energy to sustain it.

Will

While all this is happening, you are also beginning to acquire the will to be successful. You are more ambitious. You want success more than you ever have before. It’s no longer a struggle for you to get up at six in the morning instead of eight. You find yourself more aware, more alert. You see opportunities for achievement that you never noticed before. You no longer avoid responsibilities. You are looking for new ones. You walk into your office with your head held high, your stomach pulled in, and your shoulders thrown back. You are beginning to look like a West Point cadet (or a Sigma Chi pledge!). Your newly acquired will is beginning to reveal itself.

Self-Control

The last item on my list is self-control. I’m sure you can find successful people who lack it, but they are in the minority. An overwhelming percentage of people who are recognized as successful enjoy masterful self-control. A successful person breeds confidence in those around him. He assumes responsibility, and people feel comfortable when they give it to him. It is difficult to have confidence in a person who breaks into violent temper tantrums, who is rude and ill-mannered, who thoughtlessly makes cruel and cutting remarks to his colleagues, who goes off on drunken binges, and smokes cigars in crowded elevators. It is difficult to equate people like this with the word success. The truly successful person is in control.

Thoughts from Sigma Chi

2008-04-15T09:53:00.000-07:00

The Member Who Never Came Back

It amuses me now to think that the organization spends so much time looking for new members when I was there all along. Do you remember me?? After earning activation, I am the one who was asked to join. I paid my dues and then I was asked to be a loyal and faithful member. I am the one who came to every meeting, but nobody paid any attention to me. I tried several times to be friendly, but everyone seemed to have their friends to talk and sit with. I sat down among some unfamiliar faces several times, but they didn’t pay much attention to me. I hoped somebody would ask me to join one of the committees or to somehow participate and contribute but no one did. Finally, because of illness, I missed a meeting. At the next meeting, no one asked me where I had been. I guess it didn’t matter much whether I was there or not. On the next meeting date I decided to stay at home and watch a television program. When I attended the next meeting, no one asked me where I was the time before. You might say that I’m a good person, a good worker, and I love my community. You know who else I am?? I am the member who never came back...The “Mystery Sig.” I hope you agree that we should all try harder and greet each member, old and new, and make him feel wanted and needed in our club.

Wild Game Dinner & Skeet Shoot - Saturday, April 19, 2008

2008-04-04T08:41:00.000-07:00

2008-03-19T12:18:00.000-07:00

Tri-Province Workshop (College Station)

2008-02-25T08:30:00.000-08:00

We went down this past weekend to College Station for Tri-Province workshop which Zeta Eta returns as Flag Football Tournament Champions. After the discussion groups and breakout sessions, we took part into another Flag Football tournament, which Zeta Eta won. We are Back-to-Back Tri-Province Flag Football Champions. For each championship, we are awarded about $1000.00 for a purpose set aside by the alumni responsible for the donation of the award. We are excited about the win, and will go out next year in hopes to win a third in a row.

What is Sigma Chi

2008-02-15T16:24:00.000-08:00

Sigma Chi is a brotherhood with roots in the collegiate experience that engenders a lifelong commitment to strive to achieve true friendship, equal justice and the fulfillment of learning as part of our overall responsibilities to the broader communities in which we live.We achieve these ideals through the practice of character qualities embodied in our Ritual, and continuously reaffirm our purpose through the observance of Sigma Chi’s Governing Laws and through adherence to the decisions of our legislative assemblies, which empower and direct our leadership. In addition to its 217 undergraduate chapters and 145 alumni chapters, Sigma Chi is comprised of four operational entities: the Sigma Chi Fraternity, the Sigma Chi Foundation, the Risk Management Foundation and Constantine Capital Inc.

Zeta Eta History

2008-02-15T09:25:00.000-08:00

SIGMA CHI - Mission

The Mission of the Sigma Chi Fraternity is the productive development of our fraternal order.

ZETA ETA - A brief History

We were orignally known as Alpha Chi Alpha: Our chapters founders knew that to make our brotherhood last we needed to be on a larger scale. Since some were already Sigs, they chose to affiliate with The Sigma Chi Fraternity. The Zeta Eta Chapter was founded in November 22-23, 1963, by a group of athletes from West Halls.

SIGMA CHI - A few facts

Total living membership is approximately 200,000. By membership since our Founding, Sigma Chi is the second largest social fraternity with over 233,500 initiated members.We have more than 36,500 living Life Loyal Sigs. We are undertaking aggressive programs toincrease this number by 1,000 this fiscal year. Total number of chapters in Sigma Chi is 221 (with 9 of these located in Canada). By number of chapters, Sigma Chi is third, behind Tau Kappa Epsilon with 271 and Sigma Phi Epsilon with 238. The operations of our Fraternity and Foundation are headquartered in Evanston, Illinois at 1714 Hinman Avenue. Everyone is always welcome to stop by to visit the Headquarters Offices including the Millis Library and Museum, which houses and displays Sigma Chi's many historical treasures. Initiated members are also welcome to tour the Ritual Room.

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The Founding of Sigma Chi

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Disagreement
In the fall of 1854 a disagreement arose within the Kappa chapter of Delta Kappa Epsilon (DKE) at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. This chapter consisted of 12 men. Six of them, led by Whitelaw Reid, supported one of the members for Poet in the Erodelphian Literary Society. Four of the other six members, James Parks Caldwell, Isaac M. Jordan, Benjamin Piatt Runkle and Franklin Howard Scobey, refused to vote for the brother because they knew him to lack poetic abilities. The man they did favor for that office was not a Deke. Thomas Cowan Bell and Daniel William Cooper were not members of Erodelphian, but their relation to the disagreement was unqualified endorsement of the four. Thus, they became six.The chapter of 12 was evenly divided in a difference of opinion that ordinarily would have been decided one way or the other and immediately forgotten. But both sides considered it a matter of principle, and could not reach a compromise. During the ensuing months, the groups disagreed so much that their friendship grew distant.
A Schism at Dinner
Chapter meetings, or attempted chapter meetings, occurred for months with the breach constantly widening. In February 1855, at an Oxford restaurant, a dramatic dinner meeting between the dissenting groups set the stage for Sigma Chi's founding. Bell, Caldwell, Cooper, Jordan, Runkle and Scobey hosted the event, hoping to mend ways with the other six. They were on hand early, awaiting developments with anticipation. Of the meeting, Founder Benjamin Piatt Runkle said, “With the kindest of intentions, we determined to give a dinner in their honor. I remember that the feast was prepared at the village restaurant, the guests invited, and on the appointed night we gathered and waited for the guests. They did not come for a long time, and then only Mr. Reid and with a stranger. He took into his confidence Minor Millikin (an alumnus of the fraternity from nearby Hamilton, Ohio) and the two decided on strenuous proceedings.”
Minor Millikin Steps Up
Millikin lost no time. “My name is Minor Millikin,” he said. “I live in Hamilton. I am a man of few words.” He then passed judgment on all of the matters in dispute. Since he had heard only one side of the story, his verdict was against Runkle, Scobey and the others who had originally opposed election of the DKE as the Poet in the literary society. Millikin found them guilty.Next, Millikin unfolded a plan he and Reid had concocted by which “justice” could be satisfied with the formal expulsion of the leaders in the rebellion (undoubtedly Runkle and Scobey), after which the others, having been properly chastised, could remain in the chapter.At this dramatic moment Runkle stepped forward, pulled off his DKE pin, tossed it upon the table and said to Millikin, “I didn't join this Fraternity to be anyone's tool. And that, sir, is my answer!” Runkle stalked out of the room, and his five colleagues followed.
Six Against Six
The final meeting of the 12 active members of Delta Kappa Epsilon was held in Reid's room in the “Old Southeast” building several days later. After a strenuous effort, led by Reid, for the expulsion of the six, with six against six on all vital issues, the meeting broke up in considerable disorder.A rather prolonged correspondence ensued with the Delta Kappa Epsilon parent chapter at Yale, resulting in the April 1855 expulsion of Bell, Caldwell, Cooper, Jordan, Runkle and Scobey. It was at this time they began making plans to found their own fraternity.

Sigma Chi's Purpose

2008-02-08T09:57:00.000-08:00

The purpose of this fraternity is to cultivate and maintain the high ideals of friendship, justice and learning upon which Sigma Chi was founded.