From collection Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company Collection
Kappa Sigma, University of Maine, Orono, Maine B27
Image of the Kappa Sigma fraternity house at 4 munson Road, Orono, Maine on a flat site landscaped with evergreens and a circular drive. The Colonial Revival building, featuring a projecting central entrance bay with a Palladian window, is stylistically typical of fraternity residences built in the early to mid- 20th century. Chapter Room: Hannibal Hamlin Chapter Designation: Psi Nickname: Kappa Sig National Founding Date: December 10th, 1869 Local Founding Date: January 1st, 1886 Colors: Scarlet, White and Emerald Green Flower: Lily of the Valley https://umaine.edu/studentinvolvement/greek-life/fraternity-life/fraternity-chapters/kappa-sigma/ The Psi Chapter of Kappa Sigma was founded in 1886 at the University of Maine. The fraternity was organized until 1884 when the local KKF Society was formed. In 1886 this society was granted a chapter by Kappa Sigma. Psi chapter of Kappa Sigma met in a hall until the completion of its new house in 1895. This was the first fraternity house erected at the Univedrsity of Maine, Orono. The University financed the construction of the house and made an agreement by which Ka ppa Sigma could purchase the building later. In 1926 the present house was built on the site of the old one, was razed by fire in 1925. It was in the first house that Lincoln Colcord and Adelbert Sprague, two Kappa Sigmas, wrote the "Stein Song," the college anthem. https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1047&context=univ_publications
