study guide Flashcards
National Founding date?
o March 9th, 1856
2) Local Founding date?
o January 19th, 1985
3) Name of fraternity before SAE at the University of La Verne?
o HODs-Eta Omega Delta
4) Address to the Levere Memorial Temple?
o 1856 Sheridan Rd., Evanston, Illinois 60201
5) Phone number to the Hazing Hotline?
1-800-NOT-HAZE
6) Who is the Phoenix dedicated to?
o Joseph W. Walt
7) Who are the 8 founding fathers?
o Samuel Marion Dennis o Wade H. Foster o Abner Edwin Patton o Thomas Chappell Cook o Noble Leslie Devotie o Nathan Elams Cockrell o John Webb Kerr o John Barratt Rudolph
8) What are the first 8 chapters and where were they located?
o Alabama Mu o Tennessee Nu o North Carolina Xi o Georgia Pi o Tennessee Eta o Virginia Kappa o Virginia Omricon o Kentucky Iota
9) What was the name of the river where the founding fathers thought up SAE?
o Black Warrior River
10) Name 3 authors of The Phoenix?
o Joseph W. Walt
o John O. Moseley
o G. Robert Hamrdla
11) What are they 6 helpful hints?
o Never say “frat.” o Alumnus, alumni. Alumna and alumnae. o Brothers not brethren. o Introductions o initiation, not activation. o SAE’s, Sig Alphs or Es.
12) Who is the Trio of Light? And why are they special?
o John O. Moseley- Leadership School
o Alfred K. Nippert-Completed the Levere Memorial Temple
o Lauren Foreman-Helped Sigma Alpha Epsilon get through the Great Depression.
13) When was the ground breaking of the Levere Memorial temple?
o June 22nd, 1929
14) What is in the cornerstone of the Levere Memorial Temple?
o Time Capsule
15) What 2 gifts do you receive at pinning?
o Building Blocks and Pledge Pin
16) What are the 12 “things I would do again if I were a pledge?”
1) Get acquainted quickly with brothers who are higher up in position, wiser, and command genuine respect and admiration
2) Go out of my way to speak with friends and acquaintances of my hometown
3) Discard high school habits, paraphernalia and the thought processes not valid for college life.
4) At my own volition read and study the history of my Fraternity
5) Do and overdo every chapter task assigned to me
6) Show hospitality to guests
7) Attend every meeting
8) Learn to meet and know my professors on a man-to-man basis
9) Withhold premature judgments on my fellow pledges but search for every grain of gold in their characters and personalities
10) Write to my parents at least once a week.
11) Discharge all financial, social, and other obligations incumbent on me as a member of the Fraternity
12) Go to church regularly
17) Who was the True gentleman written by? What year?
o John Walter Wayland (Virginia 1899)
18) What other institute uses the True Gentleman?
o Navy Institute in Annapolis
19) What was the name of the newspaper that the True Gentlemen was submitted to? And why was it submitted to this newspaper?
o Baltimore Sun-they were looking for the best definition of the True Gentlemen (could only be one sentence). John Walter Wayland submitted it to the Baltimore Sun and won the contest.
20) What are the names of the three Brothers of SAE (paths on Minerva’s Highway)? Describe each?
o Brother Hero: Never quits under fire, the brother we all strive to be, always looking to improve the Fraternity
o Brother Zero: Assumes that the badge guarantees all, hides behind the badge, good for filling numbers, first one to show up at a party, never at events
o Brother Nero: Selfish, always thinking about himself, strictly out for #1, fiddled while Rome burned to the ground
21) What is the story of the Phoenix?
o The Phoenix, which means “bright-colored”, is a large bird sacred to the sun god “Ra”. The Phoenix lives in Arabia (land of the sun) and is worshipped especially in Heliopolis. There is only one Phoenix that lives at a time, they live for 500 years and are only male. Its nest is made of twigs from spice trees and myrrh. The nest is engulfed in its flame and the Phoenix is engulfed in its own flame and a new Phoenix is born. The cycle begins again.
22) What does “phoenix” mean in Greek?
o Bright-colored.
23) What are the colors of SAE?
o Royal Purple and Old gold.
24) What are the mascots?
o The Lions and the Pheonix
25) What is the Flower?
o Violet
26) What is the symbol?
o Fleur-de-lis
27) Who is the goddess and what is she a goddess of?
o Minerva: Poetry, Medicine, Wisdom, Commerce, Weaving, Crafts, Magic, Music, War
28) When was the first SAE constitution adopted?
o March 15th, 1856 (2nd meeting)
29) In what year did the Fraternity’s national convention separate the laws from the Ritual? Why?
o 1891
o The laws were a quasi-public document and the Ritual was secret.
30) What year was the Crest adopted by? Who was it designed by?
o 1896. Proposed in 1894. William Leslie French.
