Fun Facts

TRI SIGMA TRIVIA

• Sigma Sigma Sigma was founded in 1898 at Longwood College in Farmville, VA.
  
   
• Sigma Sigma Sigma was the first sorority in Alaska.
  
   
• Sigma Sigma Sigma is the first sorority with an international chapter.
  
   
• Sigma Sigma Sigma is the only sorority with a hearing impaired chapter.
   

FAMOUS SIGMAS

• Carrie Underwood, winner of American Idol 2005!!!!
  
   
• Linda Denham created the Care Bears.
  
   
• Billie Letts wrote the book "Where the Heart Is".
  
   
• Suzie from the ABC show The Bachelor! (Dearborn, Michigan)
  
  
• Gladys Morelock is the superintendent of the US Mint.
  
   
• Jennifer Blackburn Dunn is a member of the US House of Representatives-Washington.

GREEK STATISTICS

• 3/4 of the US Congress
  
   

• All but 3 US Presidents belong to a Fraternity
  
• 85% of Supreme Court Justices
   
• 43 out of 50 of North America's largest companies are headed by Fraternity men and Sorority women
   
• 7 out of 10 people listed on the Who's Who are Greek
   
• 85% of Fortune 500 executives belong to a Fraternity or Sorority
   
• Statistics show that Fraternity and Sorority members have a higher rate of graduation from college than do their non-member Counterparts
   
• 63% of US Cabinet members since 1900 belong to a Fraternity or Sorority
   
• 68% of doctors and 72% of lawyers, nationally belong to a Fraternity or Sorority
  
   
• ATHLETES:
  Wilt Chamberlain, John Elway, Lou Gehrig, Orel Hershiser, Jack Nicklaus, Gayle Sayers, Payne Stewart, Curtis Strange, Matt Suhey
  
   
• ENTERTAINERS:
  Kirstie Alley, Candice Bergen, Jimmy Buffet, Dixie Carter, Bill Cosby, Kevin Costner, James Dean, Bob Dylan, Harrison Ford, Kathie Lee Gifford, Amy Grant, David Letterman, Paul Newman, Sarah Jessica Parker, Brad Pitt, Elvis Presley, Robert Redford, Burt Reynolds, John Wayne
  
   
• POLITICIANS:
  George Bush, Jesse Jackson, Nancy Kassebaum, Martin Luther King Jr., Maurine Neuberger, Ronald Reagan, Harry S. Truman
  
   
• OTHERS:
  Barbara Bush, Robert Frost, Lee Iococca, Linda Byrd Johnson, Joan Lunden, Debora Norville, Georgia O'Keefe, George Patton, Jane Pauley, Marilyn Quayle

  ARE ALL GREEK!