At the convention, agreement could not be reached over the ideals of the fraternity. Delegates from the United States, Cuba and the Puerto Rico zones were present. ULA held its last Convention on January 7–8, 1938. ΦΙΑ - Phi Iota Alpha in the United States.A "Zone Directive" was created and a constitution was drafted, since there was no central body to control the fraternity.īy 1937, the ULA had several well-established and functional zones including: But the decision was made and thus the Phi Sigma Alpha Zone of the Union Latino Americana came to be. It was not an easy task since many of the Sigma Delta Alpha members did not want the change or to alter their history. Under the conditions stated above, a movement came about to unite Sigma Delta Alpha with the Alpha Boriquen Militant Chapter of Phi Iota Alpha.
The Puerto Rican zone came to be when the Alpha Boriquen Militant Chapter was founded in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on March 4, 1934, by former members of Phi Iota Alpha. Phi Sigma Alpha had its first reorganization with the merger between the Alpha Boriquen Militant chapter of Phi Iota Alpha and Sigma Delta Alpha of the University of Puerto Rico in 1934. You may listen to the "Farola" and "Brindis Sigma" with an introduction by José Miguel Agrelot here. In 1929, the Beta Chapter at the Colegio de Mayagüez ( University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez) was established thus the original chapter came to be known as Alpha. Every activity sponsored by the school administration was consulted with the Sigma Delta Alpha chapter president at the university in Río Piedras. Its membership included four of the most important student leadership positions at the university: the Yearbook editor, the senior class president, the Athletic Society president, and the ROTC Battalion Commander. įor many years, Sigma Delta Alpha enjoyed a certain amount of notoriety not enjoyed by other student organizations at the university. By December 5, 1928, they established their Chapter House where they began celebrating their meetings. Originally the name Kappa Delta Alpha was considered but it was quickly changed to Sigma Delta Alpha. Juliá, Gilberto del Valle and Gilberto Alemar. Sánchez, Adalberto Carrasquillo, Diego Guerrero Noble, Samuel L. Amadeo (professor of law), Juan Figueroa, Fernando Jiménez, Hugo D. Sigma Delta Alpha fraternity was established by 12 students and a professor on October 22, 1928, at the University of Puerto Rico at the Glorieta Fabián. Sigma founders and two of the first members to join In 1932, Phi Iota Alpha reorganized and formed the Union Latino Americana (ULA) as its overall governing body, dividing their member fraternities in Latin America into zones according to the country they represented. Sigma Iota and Phi Lambda Alpha joined and became Phi Iota Alpha in 1931. As a result of this, Sigma Iota became the first international Latin American-based fraternity. Between 19, Sigma Iota expanded rapidly in the United States, South America, and Europe. Sigma Iota fraternity was founded in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on March 2, 1912, previously known as the Sociedad Hispano Americana, which was founded in the University of Louisiana in 1904. Īfter ΦΛΑ was organized, other societies joined it: the "Club Latino-Americano", founded in 1919 at Colorado School of Mines the "Federación Latino-Americana", founded in 1926 at Columbia University and which joined in 1928 the "Club Hispania" of Cornell University, founded in 1929, and which joined in 1931 the "Club Hispano-Americano" of Tri-State College in Angola, Indiana, founded in 1921, and which joined in 1929, and the Alfa Tenoxtitlan Militant chapter (founded in 1929) whose members had come from the former ΦΛΑ society in Mexico City, Mexico. This last one was the first Latin-American student society formed in the USA A group of Latin American students organized the Unión Hispano Americana (UHA) as a cultural and intellectual secret society based on the ideology of Pan-Americanism. The fraternity was the result of a merger of three societies: Pi Delta Phi Fraternity at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), founded in 1916 Phi Lambda Alpha Fraternity, founded in 1919 at the University of California, Berkeley and the Unión Hispano Americana, founded in 1898, at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York. Phi Lambda Alpha fraternity was founded at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1919. Phi Sigma Alpha traces its origins to a number of organizations including Phi Lambda Alpha.
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