About the Chi Chapter of Sigma Tau Gamma
3031 West Michigan Ave.
Kalamazoo, MI 49006
A few short years after the founding of “Western State Normal School” in 1903, a group of individuals started a Literary Society. By the 1930’s, the group had morphed and shared more interests beyond literature, deciding to become a fraternity. In 1940, Sigma Tau Gamma became the first fraternity at, then named, “Western Michigan College of Education.” The group prospered until the 1970’s when it was disbanded due to low recruitment numbers due to the Vietnam War.
In 2015, a group of bright, determined, and like-minded individuals set out to re-establish Sigma Tau Gamma Fraternity. Their courage to start a new chapter speaks volumes about who they were, and we’re honored to follow in their footsteps. Those noblemen's efforts were rewarded in 2017, when the Chi Chapter of Sig Tau received their charter at WMU, for the first time since the 1970s.
Our Fraternity represents a group of diverse people who always strive for the highest level of excellence, as our founders intended. Shared goals and interests in areas of service, academics, and building solid relationships hold our chapter together and define who we are.
Our Creed
I believe that the true spirit of Fraternalism is a personal devotion to one’s ideals. It has its roots in definite, tangible things. It springs out of a love of God and worth of one’s fellow man. It grows into qualities of mind and soul. It is not the attitude toward a few selected ends, but rather the abiding spirit in which all things are done, all difficulties met, all successes received, all obstacles overcome.
I believe that the true spirit of Fraternalism is a breath that breathes itself into the life and being of those who live it, becoming an unconscious part of them, ruling and molding their thoughts and acts. We may call it the right attitude towards life, towards the world, towards right and wrong, towards the beautiful and good, towards duty and faith in God.
I believe that the true spirit of Fraternalism is a thing that grows. It is first associated almost exclusively with a narrow circle of fellow students, but it broadens with a widening understanding until it takes in all the important relationships of life. It enters the domain of private life as thoroughly as in public life. It teaches the fulfillment of obligations to school, state, and church.
I believe that Sigma Tau Gamma endeavors to bind men together in a fraternal brotherhood based upon these eternal and immutable truths, which are set forth in the Principles and in the Code of Conduct of our Fraternity.
In this belief, I will endeavor to make my college and my own chapter of Sigma Tau Gamma more honored and respected by all men and will endeavor to conduct myself so that I will ever bring credit and honor to our Fraternity.
Edward H. McCune
Founder and Past President