Pi Kappa Sigma - Insignia

Insignia

The first badge was a shield design with "thirteen turquoise set in laurel leaves surrounding Pi Kappa Sigma" (Seaton p. 3).

At the first convention, a new badge was designed. The younger Pi Kaps wanted "one with a more definite shield patterns and something symbolic of secrecy". The sisters claimed that since other sororities had pins symbolizing secrets, so should the Pi Kappa Sigmas (Seaton, p. 419).

The second badge was a "modified triangular shield with a narrow gold bevel surrounding a field of black enamel. At the top is a small diamond surrounded by thirteen points of gold. Across the center of the field are the Greek letters Pi Kappa Sigma in gold, and beneath them a Greek lamp in gold" (Seaton, p. 420).

The pledge pin was a "triangle slightly modified; upper part is of turquoise- blue enamel with the letters Pi Kappa Sigma in gold" (Seaton, p. 420)

The coat-of-arms was authorized by the Grand Chapter in 1927 and is described as a "qaurtered shield shaped like the pin. Upper dexter quarter is a Greek lamp; in the lower sinister quarter, a give point star with a Phi at is center; at the point of interest, overlapping the quarters is an open book. The crest is an effulgent star of thirteen points reasting upon a wreath. Beneath the shield are two crossed lauren branches; below them is a scroll with Pi Kappa Sigma in Greek letters" (Seaton, p. 420).