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Alpha Chi Sigma
Summary
Alpha Chi Sigma (ΑΧΣ) is a professional fraternity specializing in the fields of the chemical sciences. It has both collegiate and professional chapters throughout the United States consisting of both men and women and numbering more than 78,000 members. The fraternity aims to bring together students and professionals pursuing a wide variety of chemistry-related careers.
The Alpha Chi Sigma fraternity was organized at the University of Wisconsin–Madison by a group of undergraduates who were fellow students in chemistry at that time. Later documents set the date of founding as December 11, 1902. The original founders were:
Raymond Tracy Conger
Harold Everett Eggers
Joseph Gerard Holty
Alfred Emil Kundert
Joseph Howard Mathews
Edward Gustav Mattke
Bart Eldred McCormick
Frank Joseph Petura
James Chisholm Silverthorn
The blazon for the coat of arms is: Azure on a bend Or between a wyvern in base and 3 molets 1 and 2 in chief argent symbols of Silver Mercury Copper Gold Iron Tin Lead sable above a wreath of or and azure the symbol of The Elixir of Life sable mantling of or and azure motto Alpha Chi Sigma.
The seven symbols that stretch the length of the coat of arms are the "seven metals of the Ancients": gold, silver, iron, mercury, tin, copper, and lead. These symbols correspond to planets, gods, and days of the week.
The Three Objects of Alpha Chi Sigma:
To bind its members with a tie of true and lasting friendship.
To strive for the advancement of chemistry both as a science and as a profession.
To aid its members by every honorable means in the attainment of their ambitions as chemists throughout their mortal lives.
The Five Obligations of a Member:
That a member will remember the Objects of the Fraternity and endeavor always to further them.
That a member will pay promptly all financial obligations.
That a member will so act so as never to be a reproach to Alpha Chi Sigma.
That a member will cheerfully fulfill any assigned fraternal tasks.
That a member will maintain as satisfactory a scholastic record as possible.
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