Chapter History

Our Beginnings

Sigma Nu's Kappa Gamma chapter was chartered May 23, 1982. However, our history goes back much further than that. In 1957, a group of 12 men started an organization with the intentions of serving Cal Poly Pomona's campus. This group is known to us as the 12-pack, Don Buzz Sawyer, King Hallet, Bob Cushman, Richard Hardy, King Hallett, Bill Jacobson, Walt McLaughlin, Chuck Robinson, Larry Stalions, Dorr Standford, Dave Tillmanns, George Williams and the late Mr. Jim Bastody. Their organization was known as the Poly Service Club, Pi Sigma Chi (PSC) for short. Pi Sigma Chi thrived for many years on campus as a local fraternity, contributing many things to Cal Poly, including community services, sponsoring of school activities, and holding fundraisers. However, their most lasting impression can be seen on Colt Hill in the form of Cal Poly CP, which was built by Pi Sigma Chi in 1959. To this day the CP is painted every week by a different Greek organization with their own colors. A certain pride fills our hearts when it is our turn to remind Cal Poly who built the CP and paint it in the colors or Black White and Gold, the colors of Pi Sigma Chi's reincarnation, Sigma Nu.

GOING NATIONAL

It wasn't until the early 80s that the brothers of Pi Sigma Chi began to think of going national. Some Pi Sigs did not like the idea of changing fraternity, but in Greek life, going national is inevitable. So Pi Sigma Chi started looking into various fraternities that were not in existence at Cal Poly Pomona, as well as fraternities that would fit the ideals of Pi Sigma Chi. So, in 1981, the choice was made: Pi Sigma Chi would become a colony of Sigma Nu Fraternity, as a little brother chapter to Sigma Nu's USC chapter. The omega pledge class of Pi Sigma Chi would be the last to be initiated as PSC. And on May 23, 1982, Kappa Gamma was granted a charter from Sigma Nu National Fraternity. Its first six initiates are known as the Six-pack, Juan Lopez, Brian Sweet, Brian Rheinhardt, Mark Oschman, Wilson, and Robert Foppiano. Since then Sigma Nu has initiated over 300 brothers, and has had a strong presence at Cal Poly Pomona, being on of the few fraternities with a House in Pomona, staying competitive in intramural sports, and winning the annual Greek Week competition 12 out of the last 18 years with wining streaks of up to five years in a row.

OUR LEGACY

Although we are no longer Pi Sigma Chi, much of our tradition stems from their existence. When we became Sigma Nu, we did not loose our past as Pi Sigma Chi, we kept it as the first chapter in the book of Kappa Gamma. This Book continues to grow each year with new brothers to pass on Sigma Nu traditions as well as those of our predecessors, Pi Sigma Chi. Our founders can rest assured that Sigma Nu Kappa Gamma Chapter #210 still holds the ideals that they envisioned true to their hearts, and will continue the tradition of excellence that they started.