Graham, Frostburg State – United States Navy Presidential Medal of Honor and Purple Heart recipient Libby, Truman State – Inventor of Pringle Potato ChipsĬaptain James A. Byler, Central Missouri – Inventor of Black Light Glen Hocker, Truman State – Founder of Dairy Queen International John (Jack) Link, UW – Stout – Founder of Jack Link’s Jerky Thus, Sig Tau began on a warm summer morning in a rooming house at 101 Ming Street, a few blocks from a school dedicated as much as they were to the pursuit of the American dream.įounders of Sigma Tau Gamma Fraternity (In the order each gentleman signed the original petition to charter on June 28, 1920) The Founders of Sigma Tau Gamma were hopeful. This time, they found it through the enlightenment of a liberal arts education. They were determined to continue the bonds of brotherhood they created in the trenches of WWI. They were veterans who had met death face to face and fully realized the essence of a life worth living, manifesting itself in caring for their fellow man. This was not a group of starry-eyed children. It was in the summer of 1920 when Emmett Ellis, their leader, was 29. While they were overseas, our Founders’ school had become a four-year college. The war ended, and after serving in the occupational force, they headed home by steamship. Near the end of 1918, after 18 months of battle, the armistice came. Today, we could call them Corpsmen and Emergency Medical Technicians. Together, they joined what was then called an Ambulance Company.
Almost uniformly, they were as well qualified academically as students at the private and land grant colleges but simply lacked the financial resources necessary for enrollment at those schools.
These two-year, post-high school programs qualified them to teach and administer public schools. In an era when fewer than half of the nation’s young people advance beyond the eighth grade and fewer graduated from high school, these children of farmers, craftsmen, and shopkeepers in the sparsely populated rural counties of western Missouri were pursuing educational degrees. As volunteers, our Founding Fathers would leave their Midwestern school and follow him into the War to End All Wars. (Black Jack) Pershing, a native son of their state of Missouri, was selected by President Woodrow Wilson to command the American Expeditionary Force. In bravely heading to fight in World War I, our Founders embarked on a journey that would take them off of domestic soil and back to the old country in a battle unlike any from their generation could have imagined. Sigma Tau Gamma’s Founders’ grandparents were veterans of the Civil War.
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