11th Annual Alumni Chapter Ritual Meeting - White Rose Ceremony
About this Event
Our annual Alumni Ritual Meeting - the Flagship event for San Francisco Alumni Chapter. We'll meet At Founder Bell at 4pm for a White Rose, then Migrate to Ft Mason for the meeting. Text or call if you have any questions: 415-699-1519
Please join us for our 11th Sigma Chi Alumni Annual Ritual Meeting on Saturday, October 28, 2023.
We’ll meet at 4 pm in San Francisco in the Presidio at Founder Bell’s Monument for a White Rose Ceremony. (directions at bottom)
From there, we’ll migrate to Fort Mason where we will have the actual ritual meeting. This is always a very special moment for those who have not been to a meeting in years or decades. Don’t worry if you can’t recall all the secret phrases and handshakes - we’ll get you in.
Feel free to join for just the first part or the second part if preferred. We should be done by 8:30 PM, but feel free to leave early if needed.
Please wear your badge if it’s handy. We don’t have a formal dress code, but the officers will be business casual.
We are very much looking forward to seeing you.
In Hoc Signo Vinces
Directions:
4PM: White Rose Ceremony - Presidio National Cemetery
It’s in the middle circle - just look for the many cars that will be present. It is easy to find and you can text/call my phone number below if you need help.
Google Maps link: https://maps.app.goo.gl/9CGrtktKDDVLmBHL9
About this Location/Venue
Founder Thomas Cowan Bell Monument (The Presidio)
- Street
- 1 Lincoln Boulevard
- City
- San Francisco
- State
- California 94129
The Thomas Cowan Bell Memorial Monument was dedicated in 1933, at the Presidio in San Francisco, and honors the Founder who is remembered for demonstrating qualities of learning and powers of wisdom, particularly throughout his long and successful career in education.
Bell instilled an atmosphere of friendship in the Fraternity and had, according to Founder Runkle, an expression on his face that made one instinctively reach for his hand.
His home at Oxford was with an aunt. Out of this circumstance grew the first chapter house of Sigma Chi, as other early members of the Alpha Chapter lived either there or nearby, and ate at her well-stocked table.
Founder Runkle once wrote this of Bell: He was very studious, and stood well up toward the head of his class. With him, as with the rest of us, the Fraternity was a Holy of Holies.
After a career in education, culminating in several college presidencies, Bell retired to Oakland, Calif., where he renewed his ties with the Fraternity through the Alpha Beta Chapter, California–Berkeley, and its alumni.
Bell joined the three other surviving Founders—Caldwell, Cooper and Runkle—in 1905 at Sigma Chi's Semi-Centennial Celebration in Oxford, Ohio, and in 1915 participated in the Grand Chapter at Berkeley.
Founder Thomas Cowan Bell entered the Chapter Eternal February 3, 1919, at age 86, the day after attending an Initiation at the Alpha Beta Chapter.
visiting the bell memorial monument
If you have questions concerning the Bell Memorial Monument, or you need information on visiting the site, please contact the site’s warden, Donald P. Copeland, Jr. at (415) 699-1519, or by using the contact form on this website: https://sanfranciscoalumni.sigmachi.org/contact
