Good of the Order Blog

Happy Hanukkah! The brothers of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity wish a Happy Hanukkah to all of our Jewish brothers as well as their friends and families. May your night be bright. We wish you and yours a happy, healthy and safe holiday season! AEKDB from all of the...

On this Founders' Day, we celebrate our 146th year as a brotherhood. On December 10th 1869, the Five Friends and Brothers gathered to draft a constitution and they founded the Kappa Sigma Fraternity in North America. At the time 46 East Lawn on the University of...

William Grigsby McCormick was born in Chicago on June 3, 1851. After a preparatory education at the old University of Chicago, he moved to Baltimore in 1865. He enrolled at the University of Virginia in October, 1868, returning again in the year of the founding, 1869....

George Miles Arnold was born August 27, 1851 in Troy, New York. He entered the University of Virginia in 1869, his chief studies being Latin, French, and mathematics. His facility for languages led his friends to call him "the little Spaniard." George Miles Arnold was...

John Covert Boyd was born December 24, 1850, near Bradford Springs, Sumter County, South Carolina. After preparing for college at private schools in Charleston, South Carolina, Boyd spent two years at the University of Virginia from 1869 to 1871. Boyd began his...

Edmund Law Rogers was born July 1, 1850 in Baltimore, Maryland. He prepared for college at the James Kinnier Academy in Baltimore, where Founder Frank Courtney Nicodemus was one of his classmates. As with Arnold, Rogers entered the University of Virginia as a freshman...

Frank Courtney Nicodemus, a lifelong resident of Baltimore, was born January 8, 1853. Before entering the University of Virginia, he was a student at Kinner Academy and a friend of Rogers. Nicodemus left the University of Virginia in the spring of 1870 to join his...