Alpha Gamma Sigma History
Since 1972
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The 1973 revision was a good constitution, but it provided for a grouping of chapters into "areas" of five to ten schools. Although this structure looked great on paper, it soon proved to be unworkable. The inability to do everything as the constitution said it should be done was a source of guilt feelings on the part of the older advisors and outright confusion on the part of new ones. No one on the Advisory Board objected when it was moved to form a constitution revision committee made up of advisors. The framers of the 1973 revision had long since gone elsewhere, and the student members of 198384 did not know about the newest revision until they were asked to approve it. This they did at the State Convention at Asilomar in 1984.
Although the society had been functioning under a "constitution" since 1925, and although the revisions of 1950 and 1973 were both called "constitutions," the Advisory Board committee appointed to draw up the 1984 revision decided that "the Constitution" was really the 1940 Articles of Incorporation. The document under revision should more properly be called the "Bylaws of Alpha Gamma Sigma, Incorporated." As late as 1987, some of the older members of the Advisory Board were still referring to the "Bylaws" as the Constitution .
The 1984 Bylaws of Alpha Gamma Sigma. Inc. were designed to provide a feasible structure for the efficient functioning of the organization. Each chapter has its own set of bylaws that coordinate with those of the state organization in terms of name, purpose, and membership eligibility regulations.
