Collection: Alpha Sigma Alpha
Alpha Sigma Alpha was founded at Longwood University formerly known as State Female Normal School 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.” This document was signed by Virginia Boyd Noell, Juliette Hundley Gilliam, Calva Watson Wootton, Louise Cox Carper, and Mary Williamson Hundley.
Alpha Sigma Alpha upholds all values and standards set by its 5 founders. The State Female Normal School, now Longwood University, in Farmville, VA, was the first institution of higher learning in Virginia to admit women for collegiate study. Naturally, it attracted superior students, many of them daughters of college professors already familiar with the fraternity idea.
