Lambda Boulé Voter Registration Drive
Voter Registration Drive
OSU Wexner Healthy Community Center September 28, 2024
10:00am to 2:00pm
1600 E. Long Street, Columbus, Ohio 43203
‘If you have recently turned 18 years old, you are now able to register to vote in Ohio’.
‘If you are already registered to vote in Ohio and have recently moved or changed addresses, you must update your voter registration information with the Franklin County Board of Elections’.
‘If this describes you, on Saturday, September 28, 2024, from 10 am to 2pm, The Lambda Boule of Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity is hosting a Voter Registration and Education Drive at the OSU Wexner Healthy Community
Center, 1600 E. Long Street Columbus, Ohio 43203 near the corner of Woodland Avenue.
Urban One will be there on September 28 th broadcasting live from 11 am to 1 pm. Come join us for fun, prizes and important voter education information’.
‘The deadline for registering to vote in Ohio is October 7, 2024, and early voting in Ohio starts on October 8, 2024’. This is one of the most important elections of our time, and if you don’t vote, you don’t count! See you on
Saturday, 9/28/24’.
OSU Wexner Healthy Community Center September 28, 2024
10:00am to 2:00pm
1600 E. Long Street, Columbus, Ohio 43203
‘If you have recently turned 18 years old, you are now able to register to vote in Ohio’.
‘If you are already registered to vote in Ohio and have recently moved or changed addresses, you must update your voter registration information with the Franklin County Board of Elections’.
‘If this describes you, on Saturday, September 28, 2024, from 10 am to 2pm, The Lambda Boule of Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity is hosting a Voter Registration and Education Drive at the OSU Wexner Healthy Community
Center, 1600 E. Long Street Columbus, Ohio 43203 near the corner of Woodland Avenue.
Urban One will be there on September 28 th broadcasting live from 11 am to 1 pm. Come join us for fun, prizes and important voter education information’.
‘The deadline for registering to vote in Ohio is October 7, 2024, and early voting in Ohio starts on October 8, 2024’. This is one of the most important elections of our time, and if you don’t vote, you don’t count! See you on
Saturday, 9/28/24’.
Lambda Boulé Centennial Celebration A Momentous Affair and Fundraiser
Lambda Boulé of Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity
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Lambda Boulé Centennial Celebration
Thanks to all of those who joined us on September 14th to celebrate 100 Years of Service to the Columbus Community. It was a momentous occasion for all. We've heard from many of our more than 400 guests that the sharing our history and impact on the Central Ohio and Columbus community was outstanding! The inspirational and motivating message presenting to Columbus from keynote speaker Dr. Michael Eric Dyson was timely and well received. We cannot thank him enough for helping end the program on such a high note! Donations in support of the Lambda Boulé Centennial Gala Fundraiser If you would like to support our social action programs in Columbus for our Black Youth that you heard and experienced at our Gala, please free to donate to our Foundation. Scan the QR Code to the left. This will take you to our Lambda Boule Foundation web page on the Columbus Foundation website. Please proceed by selecting the amount shown or entering a custom amount and clicking on the "donate" button. Thank you in advance for your donations! |
Join us in registering to vote!
Lambda Boulé - Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity
Columbus, Ohio
In the Spring of 1921, an insurance executive from Atlanta by the name of Truman K. Gibson arrived in Columbus, Ohio, and set about preparing a list of select men to form a local branch of an organization known as the Boulé. Gibson, an Archon of Kappa Boulé in Atlanta, found no lack of interest among the qualified men of Columbus, and on June 21, 1921, Lambda Boulé, the first Boulé in Ohio, was set apart with charter members representing the fields of business, dentistry, social work, and medicine. Lambda assisted in establishing Sigma Boulé in Dayton, Ohio (1924) and Tau Boulé in Cleveland, Ohio (1925).
Our primary aim is to fund and support Black and Minority youth within the Columbus community through our Social Action Programs, which are specifically designed to assist disadvantaged and low-income students. These programs encompass a range of initiatives, including college scholarships, elementary mentoring, social justice advocacy, support for youth musicians, and more.
As of June 21, 2021, we quietly celebrated our 100th anniversary during the pandemic. Due to health-related matters, we selected not to host our centennial celebration over the past several years. Now it is time to celebrate more than 3 years later, but none to late.
Our primary aim is to fund and support Black and Minority youth within the Columbus community through our Social Action Programs, which are specifically designed to assist disadvantaged and low-income students. These programs encompass a range of initiatives, including college scholarships, elementary mentoring, social justice advocacy, support for youth musicians, and more.
As of June 21, 2021, we quietly celebrated our 100th anniversary during the pandemic. Due to health-related matters, we selected not to host our centennial celebration over the past several years. Now it is time to celebrate more than 3 years later, but none to late.
Lambda Boulé Members
2022 Lambda Boulé of Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity in Columbus, Ohio
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2021 Lambda Boulé of Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity in Columbus, Ohio
History of Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity
(the Grand Boulé)
Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity, also known as the Boulé, is the first Greek-letter fraternity to be founded by African American men. Significantly, unlike the other African American Greek -letter organizations, its members already have received college and professional degrees at the time of their induction. The fraternity's insignia is the Sphinx.
From the beginning, Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity was a learned society, a social fraternity and an advancement organization, albeit a quiet one. As well, the fraternity believed absolutely in the equality of standing of its members and insisted that anyone who was eligible for membership was eligible and qualified for leadership. The founders were so certain of this fact that the fraternity selected its officers by lot, a custom that continued for the most senior officer until 1970.
The founders' devotion to equality and mutual respect stemmed in large measure from the devotion to democratic traditions that they traced to ancient Greece and to the traditions of leadership that existed there among free men. Central to this idea was the Boulé: the Council of Chiefs, or the leading noblemen of the society. Individual members of the Boulé were known as Archons. Thus Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity became the Boulé and individual members were designated as Archons. As the fraternity evolved and the spouses of members became an integral part of the organization as a family group, it adopted the Greek term Archousa (pl. Archousai) to distinguish Archons' wives.
To learn more about the Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity, visit our link at http://www.sigmapiphi.org/home/
From the beginning, Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity was a learned society, a social fraternity and an advancement organization, albeit a quiet one. As well, the fraternity believed absolutely in the equality of standing of its members and insisted that anyone who was eligible for membership was eligible and qualified for leadership. The founders were so certain of this fact that the fraternity selected its officers by lot, a custom that continued for the most senior officer until 1970.
The founders' devotion to equality and mutual respect stemmed in large measure from the devotion to democratic traditions that they traced to ancient Greece and to the traditions of leadership that existed there among free men. Central to this idea was the Boulé: the Council of Chiefs, or the leading noblemen of the society. Individual members of the Boulé were known as Archons. Thus Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity became the Boulé and individual members were designated as Archons. As the fraternity evolved and the spouses of members became an integral part of the organization as a family group, it adopted the Greek term Archousa (pl. Archousai) to distinguish Archons' wives.
To learn more about the Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity, visit our link at http://www.sigmapiphi.org/home/
