ΣΛΑ Quick Facts

Founding Location:

Texas Woman’s University

Foundation:

Community Service and Academic Excellence

Motto:

Latinas Helping Others

Flower:

Red Rose

Mascot:

Bald Eagle

Greek Letters:

ΣΛΑ

Colors:

Burgundy, Forest Green, Gold

Founding Mothers

Sigma Lambda Alpha Sorority, Inc. is a service sorority founded in the summer of 1992 by Angeles Gonzalez. Angeles read an article in Hispanic magazine about a national Hispanic sorority called Sigma Lambda Upsilon/Señoritas Latinas Unidas at the University of Pennsylvania and wrote to the sorority for more information. She began to inquire about proper procedures for establishing a sorority on campus through the Office of Student Development. She began recruiting ten girls to be the “founding mothers”. However, Sigma Lambda Upsilon of Pennsylvania decided against starting a chapter in Texas, because of the distance between the two states. As a result, Angeles decided to begin a new sorority to be called Sigma Lambda Alpha Sorority/Señoritas Latinas en Accion. From there, they discussed what the organization’s goals would be and elected officers. The Founding Mothers and first officers for the sorority were as follows:

PRESIDENT

Angeles Gonzalez

VICE PRESIDENT

Aliza Gonazlez

SECRETARY

Cristina Garza

TREASURER

Andrea Quinones

SOCIAL CHAIRWOMEN

Brenda Sotelo

HISTORIAN

Alicia Padilla

ACTIVE MEMBER

Maria Lozano

These ladies worked throughout the Fall semester of 1992 in order to establish their sorority and induct the first class. The first pledge class was inducted in the Spring of 1993. Thus, the sisterhood of Sigma Lambda Alpha Sorority, Inc. was established at Texas Women’s University in Denton, Texas.