Alpha Sigma Phi history

MANIGAULT GRAVE SITE Magnolia Cemetery in Charleston, South Carolina is the oldest public cemetery in Charleston, founded in 1849 on the banks of the Cooper River and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Weiser died suddenly of an apoplectic stroke at the age of 48 on July 19, 1875 and is buried in a family plot in Decorah.

Eta Chapter History The Eos Club was organized in 1907.

The petition of the Eos Club for a Charter was approved in May 1908, and the Chapter was installed as Eta Chapter of Alpha Sigma Phi on June 25, 1908.

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The Rhea burial plot was disturbed or relocated to accommodate fatalities of a fever epidemic in the late nineteenth century, and its precise location was lost by 1920 and has not been relocated.

Delta of Phi Pi Phi: In 1923 Iota Phi Theta was chartered as Delta of Phi Pi Phi.

Sigma of Alpha Kappa Pi: Kappa Zeta Rho was formed as the Pyramid Club by Marion Lindee and R. R. Goff in May 1926.

In February 1927, the group rented a house at 406 Green Street, which accommodated sixteen of the seventeen members, and later acquired a house at 509 E. Chalmers Street, and finally moved to 401 Green Street.

The Great Depression in the early 1930's created much hardship, and chapters began to close, including Alpha Chapter at Yale.

The local fraternities were installed on May 29-30, 1931 as the Sigma Chapter of Alpha Kappa Pi.

In May 1934 the Alpha Kappa Pi chapter moved to 1109 S. Fourth Street.

In 1935-36, Eta Chapter initiated several members of the Illinois chapter of a National Fraternity which had disintegrated during the depression.

James A. Niewiara, Eta ‘ 87, was the Alpha Sigma Phi Scholar of the Year in 1989.