Sigma Alpha Epsilon — Mass Gamma
Welcome to the website of the True Gentlemen of SAE Massachusetts Gamma Chapter, founded in 1893 at Harvard College.
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A fond Phi Alpha to our dear brother Anthony Dedousis, who successfully conquered the Boston Marathon with a remarkable time of 4 hours, 59 minutes. Go Doos!
Philanthropy
2011-2012
ΣAE Mass Gamma traveled with AEPi and Delta Gamma to Cradles to Crayons, a non-profit that accepts donations of school supplies, toys and clothes from individuals, groups, and companies and redistributes them in individually prepares shopping bags to those in need of specific items. Brothers enjoyed spending time with other Greeks on campus learning how the organization works and sorting clothing as it came into the Cradles to Crayons warehouse so that it could be prepared for redistribution.
On October 21st, brothers joined in a national effort to wear a bald cap all day, with the goal of raising awareness for cancer. We enjoyed seeing the reactions of our friends and professors, as well as the matching caps of the sisters of Kappa Alpha Theta.
Brothers were proud to help out not only community members, but also a brother in need, when Emmett Kistler '11 asked the chapter to help him and the South Boston Community Health Center raise money to help South Boston families afford turkeys for their Thanksgiving dinners. The South Boston Community Health Center Food Pantry provides food for roughly two hundred households in and around South Boston per month. The food pantry is funded by the Health Center and receives food from the Greater Boston Food Bank on a weekly basis. Each year the SBCHC food pantry provides turkeys to families in the days leading up to Thanksgiving. Without them, some families would not be able to afford the traditional mainstay of the holiday. Unfortunately, increasing food insecurity throughout Boston led to a high demand of turkeys, and the Greater Boston Food Bank could only provide enough turkeys for roughly one third of the families in need. ΣAE was able to narrow the gap at the last minute, and raised over a hundred dollars in a few days a week before Thanksgiving. The chapter was proud to help out an alumnus and give back to its community.
2010-2011
ΣAE Mass Gamma assisted the staff at the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter as part of our continuous efforts to build a better community. We cleaned facilities and provided food at this event.
2009-2010
On April 24, 2010, the brothers of ΣAE Mass Gamma took on their greatest challenge as a fraternity yet. They cleaned the Charles River. That's right, thirty young men woke up at 9 AM on a Saturday to do community service. We approached one of the dirtiest rivers in the Northeastern United States as true gentlemen; not one of us even flinched. April 26th is Earth Day, and Mass Gamma like many other organizations in Massachusetts went out and cleaned the Charles. In fact, 105 community groups helped out at 57 different areas along the river. 20 tons of garbage were removed, and Mass Gamma certainly did its part, accumulating almost fifteen bags of garbage on our own.
2008-2009
On Saturday, November 3, Brothers Patrick Mulvaney '10 and Steve Johnston '09 lead a group of five pledges to Boston University to participate in the fourth annual Anchor Splash philanthropy event. The event is run by the school's Delta Gamma sorority in order to benefit their national philanthropic organization, Service for Sight. Our chapter's $100 contribution for participating will benefit their work with those who are partially or entirely blind. Anchor Splash is an afternoon of water-related relays and competitions that take place in the FitRec indoor pool at BU. Our squad of pledges competed against other Greek organizations from BU and MIT. Every team was assigned two members of Delta Gamma who served as the team's coaches throughout the afternoon and who, along with Patrick and Steve, cheered on our team. This opportunity gave the pledges the chance to bond as a pledge class and appreciate the value of giving back to others through philanthropy.
2007-2008
On Satuday, April 28th, we held the first joint philanthropy event with a sorority in recent memory. The brothers of Mass Gamma met 25 ADPis from BU in Harvard Square at 9:30 am for a quick breakfast of donuts and bagels before walking about one and a quarter miles to Union Square in Somerville where we joined the Union Square Main Streets community organization in their annual Clean Up Day event. Our team of volunteers divided into groups and picked up trash, raked, and planted flowers all over the neighborhood, including in some of its parks. After our volunteer work, the Union Square Main Streets organization hosted a barbeque for all the volunteers to unwind from the day's work. That night, we threw a celebratory "Risky Business" themed mixer with ADPi to cap off a day of philanthropy and fun that everyone thought was a great success. We hope to plan more of these joint philanthropy events with sororities in the coming year!
Mass Gamma once again participated in the American Cancer Society's Boston All University Relay for Life that was held at Harvard's Gordon Track on April 20-21. The event also constituted Mass Gamma's involvement in Sigma Alpha Epsilon's True Gentlemen Days of Service weekend, a national weekend of service throughout the realm. The chapter not only met it's goal of recruiting 30 brothers and pledges to participate on our two teams, we also exceeded our fundraising goal by raising $4305, shattering last year's total of just over $3600. Our total placed us as the second top fundraising Greek organization in all of Boston and the second top fundraising Harvard organization. Mass Gamma was also fifth overall among over 100 teams participating from all across Boston, an improvement from our eighth place finish last year. Congratulations to all of the brothers for their hard work in raising money for this good and noble cause!
On Saturday, April 14th, a team of brothers from Massachusetts Gamma attended the Harvard Delta Gamma Anchor Bowl, a trivia-style fundraiser for their charity organization Service for Sight. The team of True Gentlemen competed in the Quincy JCR for four rounds of trivia and nearly emerged victorious from the battle of knowledge, answering questions ranging from pop culture to current events to sports.
On April 7th, the brothers of Massachusetts Gamma hosted our Second Annual Paddy Murphy party. As was the case with our Second Annual Christmas in Dixie party, we anticipated a large turnout based on last year's event, so we hoped to capitalize on the large number of students in attendance by collecting voluntary donations at the door for our Relay for Life teams' efforts to raise money for the American Cancer Society. Once again, our charity event was a success! We raised $215 that we were able to donate to the American Cancer Society, and in the process, we helped to spread the word about the American Cancer Society and its Relay for Life event that was taking place two weeks later at Harvard. Well done, brothers!