Defunct North American Collegiate Sororities - Kappa Sigma Tau

Kappa Sigma Tau

Kappa Sigma Tau existed at Northwestern University prior to World War I. It collapsed during the war years. In 1919, the group reorganized as "Campus Club" but could not compete with the Y.W.C.A. In April 1922, the group became the Kahniga fraternity. There were 22 founders. The name was soon changed to Kappa Sigma Tau.

Baird's (1930) gives the roll as follows:

1922 Alpha Northwestern

1924 Beta Illinois

1927 Gamma Mississippi

1928 Delta Lake Forest College

There was a national council meeting at a convention. The journal was The Gold and White. The badge was "a gold crescent with a row of ten pearls on the left side and one pearl at the point on the right. Gold letters Kappa Sigma Tau are placed vertically on a raised onyx crescent in the center of the badge" (Baird's 1930, p. 602). The colors were gold and white. The flower was the yellow rose.

The coat-of-arms was "on a fess between three mullets in chief and a lamp in bend a pair of balances. Crest is a crescent" (Butterfield, p. 46).

The Lake Forest chapter affiliated with Alpha Xi Delta in 1932. The other three dissolved.