Tri Sigma is focused on advancement and success and we offer valuable leadership and personal development experiences throughout the lifetime of a member. Many of our efforts revolve around our commitment to “Sigma Serves Children,” as chapters engage in a variety of efforts for the betterment of children around the world. Even more, Tri Sigma’s philanthropy supports hospital play therapy programs for children.
As a dedicated, caring Sorority, we aim to serve those in need. Tri Sigma believes in outreach within our communities. As we enter into a state of being Sisters, we become a Sisterhood. Tri Sigma friendships are built around our core values of faith, hope, love, wisdom and power. We find friends within the bonds of Tri Sigma and we regard these friends as sisters. Reaching out to others who joined them on the journey, together, they established a sisterhood called Sigma Sigma Sigma.
These women shared a special bond as friends who regarded each other as sisters. Tri-Sigma has met many challenges of serving children and continue to meet the commitment to serve children. Money obtained to support Sigma Sigma Sigma play therapy projects solely come from donations from collegiate and alumnae chapters and memorials made by chapters and individuals.In 1898, stepping out on a path from Farmville, Virginia, eight young women away from home and family, found each other and began their journey in friendship. The leadership displayed by these women and the women to follow in their footsteps allowed for the Robbie Page Memorial to prosper and succeed. The first three chairmen of the Memorial were Norma Caton Kitchen, Zeta, Evelyn Bone Bennett, Kappa, and our own Omicron alumni, Lucille Amesse Morrison.
Now, more than ever, we can appreciate what support from such an organization means." They focused on the emotional needs of hospitalized children. They focused on a need that could not be computed into an x and y formula. The Plaque given said "A national sorority accepted a challenge of dealing with an issue that did not command national attention. National Recognition of the sorority's accomplishments for children in health care settings through the memorial was given in 1980. The Robbie Page Memorial is present in two main locations, The North Carolina Memorial Hospital, Chapel Hill and Children's Medical Center of Dallas Texas. The programming funded by this memorial started with the Salk Vaccine Trials and now is fully dedicated to Play Therapy for hospitalized children. The Robbie Page Memorial has grown in dollars and deeds through the years. A few weeks after his death, the fund was launced and able to contribute to the research. Tri-Sigma has been loyally dedicated to this fund while plans were being formulated from the very early days. Robbie was very interested in helping others and his untimely death prompted his parents to establish this fund for polio research. Robbie was the son of Robertson and Mary Hastings Holloway, a former president of Tri-Sigma, who passed away from bulbar polio in Children's Hospital located in Boston. The Robbie Page Memorial was launched in 1951 in memory of Robbie Page. Philanthropy Sigma Serves Children : Robbie Page Memorial
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