Sigma Phi Epsilon - University of Nevada Reno - Reno, NV
N 39° 32.056 W 119° 49.290
11S E 257510 N 4379870
Sigma Phi Epsilon is a Fraternity at the University of Nevada Reno in eno, Nevada.
Waymark Code: WMDZFH
Location: Nevada, United States
Date Posted: 03/13/2012
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The Nevada Alpha chapter was originally chartered on March 10, 1962 but, due to small membership and minimal interest from the student body, lost that charter in 1963. However, the chapter didn’t die. It lay dormant for 35 years until it was re-chartered on April 12, 1997 and is now considered by many to be one of the strongest SigEp chapters in its Northern Nevada and California district with over 100 brothers and an ever-growing Alumni Board, many of which are prominent citizens in the Reno/Sparks area as well as across the West.
Sigma Phi Epsilon History
Carter Ashton Jenkens, the 18-year-old son of a minister, had been a student at Rutgers University, New Jersey, where he joined Chi Phi Fraternity. When he transferred to Richmond College in the Fall of 1900, he sought companions to take the place of the Chi Phi brothers he had left behind. He found five men who had already been drawn into a bond of friendship and urged them to join him in applying for a charter of Chi Phi at Richmond College. The request for a charter was forwarded to Chi Phi only to meet with refusal. Chi Phi felt that Richmond College was too small for the establishment of a Chi Phi chapter.
Wanting to maintain their fellowship, Carter Ashton Jenkens, Benjamin Gaw, William Carter, William Wallace, Thomas Wright, and William Phillips decided to form their own local fraternity based on the Founding Principles of Virtue, Dilligence and Brotherly Love. That Fraternity would become Sigma Phi Epsilon.
Today, the Fraternity has grown to more than 277,000 lifetime members, including 14,000 undergraduates on 260 campuses in the United States. SigEp is currently the largest fraternity in terms of undergraduate enrollment.
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