About Sigma Beta
Our office is located in the Ohio University School of Music (Glidden Hall). We hold weekly chapter meetings on Sunday evenings in the School of Music. We currently have 16 active members.
The Sigma Beta Chapter is part of the Sigma B Province and Region VII.
About Sigma Alpha Iota
Sigma Alpha Iota is an organization which promotes interaction among those who share a commitment to music. Members of SAI are active in all areas of campus music and campus life, working closely with faculty, administration, campus and community groups, music professionals and patrons. In addition to personal encouragement and support, members may receive scholarships, loans and awards in many areas and at all levels of music-related study. Sigma Alpha Iota has long been recognized as a leader in the field of music and provides a lifetime of fraternity contact.
SAI History
Sigma Alpha Iota was founded on June 12, 1903 at the University School of Music in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The founders were seven upperclassmen and graduate students: Elizabeth Campbell, Frances Caspari, Minnie Davis Sherrill, Leila Farlin Laughlin, Nora Crane Hunt, Georgina Potta, and Mary Storrs Andersen. SAI became a professional fraternity after it was brought to Northwestern University
Sigma Alpha Iota Symphony
- To study and practice the goodness of life, the beauty of art, the meaning of music.
- To sing the song of sincerity and universal peace.
- To speak the words that build, that bless and comfort.
- To play the harpstrings of loving kindness, tolerance, appreciation, and genuine gratitude.
- To strive for the joy of simplicity, for the noble, to be faithful over a few things.
- To listen, to be still and know the harmony from within.
- To falter never in seeking loving service, wisdom, and understanding.
- In a word, to be loyal to Sigma Alpha Iota and her teachings; to find joy, hope, inspiration; to remember that "every good gift and every perfect gift is from above" and "whatsoever ye do, do it heartily as to the Lord, and not unto men."
- And again to practice.
- This is to be our Symphony.
SAI Chorale
By Margaret Blackburn, Alpha Mu
- Daughters of a great and singing nation,
- Let your voices rise in dedication,
- Music tells unspoken noble creeds;
- Music beautifies the simplest deeds;
- Sing we now to Sigma Alpha Iota.
- Sing the greatness of the soul and spirit,
- Sing the joy of peace and friendship's merit,
- Music is a kind and truthful speech;
- In a language out of mere word's reach,
- Sing we now to Sigma Alpha Iota.