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Convention 2007
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National Convention June 22-25. Please make plans to join your Sigma Sisters in Nashville, TN, at this fabulous event which is being held at the Sheraton Music City Hotel. Convention highlights include Sigma information, opportunities to discuss Tri Sigma business, officer training, songs galore, the Sigma shop, the triennial Foundation Walk and other special giving programs, and the chance to make new friends across the country and renew wonderful relationships with sisters that you may have known a lifetime. Make plans now to attend.
National Convention
Conventions in America are time-honored customs. Just as our forefathers met to deliberate the common good, so have members of SSS assembled periodically to examine their chosen paths and cut new roads for the future. Early in our history, following democratic procedures, our leaders called Conventions.
Records of these early meetings have been preserved in the Sorority Archives at Walton House. Conventions have also been reported in detail in The Triangle since 1905. The accounts offer just a flavor of each event.
Appropriately, the first general convention met in Farmville, the founding place. From 1902-1909, annual conventions were held; from 1911-1913, biennial; since 1936 triennial conventions have been scheduled.
Then, as now, serious work characterized the business meetings. Always, however, there was generous allotment of time for pure fun and enjoyment of wholesome pleasurers. The climax of each convention is the final banquet. There, all challenges of the previous sessions having been resolved, national officers, delegates, collegians, alumnae, and guests in their best attire assemble at handsomely decorated tables. At each setting is an appropriate convention momento, a gift for each. Feasting, toasting, and distributing honors carry the Sigmas toward the midnight hours. Always reluctant to end the magic of the evening, all know tomorrow ends the time of togetherness.
Tri Sigma has, from the first, consciously attempted to bring individual chapters, through their representatives, into close touch with the work of national officers. Through careful management, the national treasury has been able to generously supplement expenses of the chapter delegates.
Consistently, Tri Sigma has chosen capable women as national leaders. Victories within and without the organization are due in large measure to the Sigma Sisters who have demonstrated faith both in themselves and each other.
From:A Century of Sisterhood, 1898-2001
National Convention June 22-25. Please make plans to join your Sigma Sisters in Nashville, TN, at this fabulous event which is being held at the Sheraton Music City Hotel. Convention highlights include Sigma information, opportunities to discuss Tri Sigma business, officer training, songs galore, the Sigma shop, the triennial Foundation Walk and other special giving programs, and the chance to make new friends across the country and renew wonderful relationships with sisters that you may have known a lifetime. Make plans now to attend.
 | SPECIAL NEWS: Sigma's own Carrie Underwood will speak at the 2007 National
Convention in Nashville on Monday, June 25th. Sigma Sigma Sigma and the Sigma Sigma Sigma Foundation are delighted to announce that Carrie Underwood will speak at this year's Convention. You won't want to miss seeing her! Click HERE to view Carrie's bio. |
National Convention
Conventions in America are time-honored customs. Just as our forefathers met to deliberate the common good, so have members of SSS assembled periodically to examine their chosen paths and cut new roads for the future. Early in our history, following democratic procedures, our leaders called Conventions.
Records of these early meetings have been preserved in the Sorority Archives at Walton House. Conventions have also been reported in detail in The Triangle since 1905. The accounts offer just a flavor of each event.
Appropriately, the first general convention met in Farmville, the founding place. From 1902-1909, annual conventions were held; from 1911-1913, biennial; since 1936 triennial conventions have been scheduled.
Then, as now, serious work characterized the business meetings. Always, however, there was generous allotment of time for pure fun and enjoyment of wholesome pleasurers. The climax of each convention is the final banquet. There, all challenges of the previous sessions having been resolved, national officers, delegates, collegians, alumnae, and guests in their best attire assemble at handsomely decorated tables. At each setting is an appropriate convention momento, a gift for each. Feasting, toasting, and distributing honors carry the Sigmas toward the midnight hours. Always reluctant to end the magic of the evening, all know tomorrow ends the time of togetherness.
Tri Sigma has, from the first, consciously attempted to bring individual chapters, through their representatives, into close touch with the work of national officers. Through careful management, the national treasury has been able to generously supplement expenses of the chapter delegates.
Consistently, Tri Sigma has chosen capable women as national leaders. Victories within and without the organization are due in large measure to the Sigma Sisters who have demonstrated faith both in themselves and each other.
From:A Century of Sisterhood, 1898-2001