Fraternity HistorySigma Alpha Iota was founded on June 12, 1903 at the University School of Music, Ann Arbor, Michigan. On this date, prior to their graduating commencement ceremony, "The Seven" founders met and "solemnly pledged themselves to help each other with sisterly affection, to stand for the highest musical scholarship, for nobility and uprightness of character and for the maintenance of friendly and unselfish relations among women in the musical profession." Elizabeth Campell, Frances Caspari, Minnie Davis Sherrill, Leila H. Farlin, Nora Crane Hunt, Georgina Potts, and Mary Storrs Andersen launched Sigma Alpha Iota, International Music Fraternity, and it began the following semester in the fall of 1903.
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Purposes of Sigma Alpha Iota
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Theta Beta History
In the fall of 1990, eight young women, students at Jacksonville State University established an organization known as Professional Women in Music (PWIM). The women in this organization contacted Sigma Alpha Iota, and were granted a chapter at JSU. On April 17, 1993, fifteen women became the Theta Beta Chapter of Sigma Alpha Iota.