Alpha Sigma Alpha is a woman’s organization which promotes high ideals and standards to its members, and emphasizes its four aims: intellectual, physical, spiritual, and social. The open motto of Alpha Sigma Alpha is aspire, seek, attain. This motto is a standard which every woman tries to forth as chapter members and individuals.

Alpha Sigma Alpha was founded in 1901 in Farmville, Virginia on November 15th. The State Female Normal School, now Longwood University, in Farmville, Va. Was the first institution of higher education in Virginia to accept women for collegiate study. Naturally, it attracted superior students, many of whom were daughters of college professors.

Among the students in the fall of 1901 were five women who were five best friends. Attractive, vivacious, and intelligent, these five friends organized a new sorority on November 15, 1901.

As stated in the charter, “The purpose of the association shall be to cultivate friendship among its members, and in every way to create pure and elevating sentiments, to perform such deeds and to mould such opinions as will tend to elevate and ennoble womanhood in the world.” Signatures to this document include those of Alpha Sigma Alpha’s five founders: Virginia Boyd Noell, Juliette Hundley Gilliam, Calva Watson Wootton, Louise Cox Carper, and Mary Williamson Hundley.

Since the founding in 1901, Alpha Sigma Alpha has achieved many awards of excellence among its members and the chapter. For more than a 100 years, Alpha Sigma Alpha have created strong leaders and have encouraged every member to strive for high ideals that will be carried on throughout each one of their lives.

You are a member of a strong sorority,
one that ranks with the best in the country.
Live it.  Talk it.  Dream it.  Work for it!
In no other way can you so effectively
convince others of its beauty,
its greatness and its power."
--The Phoenix, 1916

About Our Chapters

• We have 76 collegiate chapters and growing - they can be found at an array of institutions. These collegiate chapters make up over 3,700 members.

• We also have 68 alumnae chapters all across the country that provide an opportunity for members to stay involved and reconnect with members. Alumnae chapters also have meetings where leadership opportunities are available and they participate in philanthropic events. Alumnae chapters provide our members with lifelong opportunities well beyond the college experience.