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The Kappa Sigma fraternity has an illustrious six hundred year history, starting as a secret society of brothers in Bologna, Italy and becoming the most preferred colligate fraternity in the world, with over 250,000 initiated members.
In Italy:
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| Photo: The Bascilica di San Petronio in Bologna, Italy. |
In the year 1400, renowned scholar Manuel Chrysoloras and his students formed a society of brothers in Bologna, Italy in order to protect themselves from the tyrannical governor of the city Baldassarre Cossa, who was widely known for extorting and robbing students. Although the group was initially united under the guise of protection, they also devised certain signs, words, and symbols to create a ritual that would unite them as a true brotherhood.
In America:
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| Photo: The new Kappa Sigma International Headquarters was opened in June 2007. |
The Order of Kappa Sigma spread to America on December 10, 1869 where five University of Virginia students met at 46 East Lawn to draft the constitution of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity in America. These “five friends and brothers”—William Grigsby McCormick, George Miles Arnold, John Covert Boyd, Edmund Law Rogers, and Frank Courtney Nicodemus—laid the foundation for what would become one of the most successful college fraternities in North America. The Kappa Sigma fraternity boasts chapters and colonies on 241 college campuses and is the most rapidly growing fraternity in the United States.
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