Sigma Sigma Sigma was founded on April 20, 1898, at the State Female Normal School in Farmville, Virginia. Today the institution is Longwood University. Tri Sigma’s founders are Lucy Wright, Margaret Batten, Elizabeth Watkins, Louise Davis, Martha Trent Featherston, Lelia Scott, Isabella Merrick, and Sallie Michie.
Tri Sigma was a member of the Association of Education Sororities (AES). It became a member of the National Panhellenic Conference along with the other AES groups after World War II.
From its beginnings, the violet has been Tri Sigma’s flower. This poem appeared in an early Triangle.
“The violet has always been and we hope shall always be the flower of Sigma Sigma Sigma,” according to the Years Remembered of Sigma Sigma Sigma. Violet tributes can be purchased from the Tri Sigma Foundation and are a wonderful way to honor Tri Sigma friends.
