Alpha Sigma Alpha

Alpha Sigma Alpha was founded on November 15, 1901 at the Virginia State Female Normal School (now known as Longwood University) in Farmville, Virginia. A tradition of diverse membership began with the first chapter of Alpha Sigma Alpha. The founders were Louis Cox Carper, Juliette Hundley Gilliam, Mary Williamson Hundley, Virginia Boyd Noell, and Calva Watson Wooten. Together these five women formed a beautiful sisterhood of love and service that Alpha sisters have enjoyed and will continue to enjoy far into the future. Our founders, five individuals of various backgrounds with a variety of interests, were successful in keeping their identities while developing a close sisterhood. The purpose of the association is to cultivate the relationship among members. Alpha Sigma Alpha promotes high ideal and standards for its members throughout their lives by emphasizing balance among four aims of intellectual, physical, social and spiritual development.