Alpha Gamma Sigma History
In 1940
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In 194O, Alpha Gamma Sigma became incorporated under California law. The Articles of Incorporation give the official name of the society as:
The purposes of the organization are stated in the Articles of Incorporation as follows:
To promote, recognize, encourage, and foster scholarship and educational attainments among students of the junior colleges of the State of California; To recognize students attaining high scholastic records; To make students more conscious of the advantages of high scholarship; To bring together students attaining high scholastic records for their mutual benefit.
From the copy of the Spring Convention program printed in the 1941 edition of The Torchbearer of Alpha Gamma Sigma, it is clear that student members were present and active at the 1941 Convention at Reedley Junior College. World War II seems to have halted such student participation, for the minutes of the Advisory Board meeting at the State Convention of 1954 state that "this is the first state Alpha Gamma Sigma Convention since the war in which students were invited to participate.
