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Sigma Alpha Epsilon (ΣΑΕ) is America's largest social fraternity with more than 280,000 initiated members. Founded in 1856, SAE (as it is nicknamed) is the largest Social Fraternity in the World. SAE currently has 12,000 undergraduates at more than 210 chapters in 48 states. It was the first fraternity to establish a national headquarters (Levere Memorial Temple, 1929), a national Leadership School (1935), a national Men's health Issues Committee (1980), and a career-development program tailored for the community ("The Leading Edge" in 1990).

Currently, the Fraternity offers a comprehensive member-education program called The True Gentleman Initiative. The Fraternity communicates through The Record, a quarterly publication that has been published continuously since 1880. New members receive a copy of The Phoenix, the manual of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, for educational development.

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History

The fraternity of Sigma Alpha Epsilon was founded on March 9, 1856 at University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, AL. It is the only surviving antebellum Southern fraternity in existence. It was founded by Noble Leslie DeVotie, Nathan Elams Cockrell, John Barratt Rudulph, John Webb Kerr, Samuel Marion Dennis, Wade H. Foster, Abner Edwin Patton, and Thomas Chappell Cook. DeVotie devised the rituals and grip of SAE.

Wade Foster served under Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest during the Civil War. 6 of the 8 founders served for the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Of the two other founders, Nathan Elams Cockrell, died on his plantation in 1859, 2 years before the outbreak of the Civil War. N.L. DeVotie is recorded as the first casualty from Alabama of the civil war. While boarding a troopship he fell off the gangplank and drowned.

The True Gentleman

The True Gentleman is the man whose conduct proceeds from good will and an acute sense of propriety, and whose self-control is equal to all emergencies; who does not make the poor man conscious of his poverty, the obscure man of his obscurity, or any man of his inferiority or deformity; who is himself humbled if necessity compels him to humble another; who does not flatter wealth, cringe before power, or boast of his own possessions or achievements; who speaks with frankness but always with sincerity and sympathy; whose deed follows his word; who thinks of the rights and feelings of others, rather than his own; and who appears well in any company, a man with whom honor is sacred and virtue safe.

- John Walter Wayland

The Record

The fraternity communicates through "The Record" magazine. It is published quarterly and has been continuously since 1880. This publication has become popular in social groups throughout the country. One issue of The Record, the fall annual report, is provided free of charge to all active members and alumni at a circulation of 180,000. The other three issues are provided for active members and current donors to the Sigma Alpha Epsilon Foundation at a circulation of approximately 30,000.

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