Origin
"To Samuel willard and Henry Wing, the idea first occurred of founding a society which would live while their Alma Mater sat in proud eminence.Accordingly, on Saturday June,24th,1843,the first regular meeting of the Sigma PI society was held in room 32,old college building." Thus was born the first permanent literary society at Illinois college.
Sigma Pi literary society was nameless until Barbour Lewis suggested the appropriateness of keeping "union and Progress" and Samuel Willard selected the corresponding Greek Words,Sustasis kai Prokape along with Henry wing's suggestion that Sigma Pi adopt the Hebrew sentence from the history of Creation,in Genesis "let there be light".
The fourteen founders of Sigma PI are:
- Samuel Willard
- Thomas K. Beecher
- Charles H. Tillson
- William E. Catlin
- William Ireland
- Newton Bateman
- Henry Wing
- Henry M. Lyons
- Barbour Lewis
- George W. Harlan
- William C. Goudy
- John B. Shaw
- Joseph L. Thayer (Died August 25, 1843)
- John Tillson
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