Everything about Tau Gamma Sigma totally explained
Tau Gamma Sigma also known as the
Triskelion Grand Sorority, is a sorority founded at the premier state run and owned educational institution in the Philippines, the
University of the Philippines on
January 17,
1969. An affiliated sorority of the
Tau Gamma Phi, also known as the
Triskelion Grand Fraternity. It is considered as one of the most dynamic sororities in the
Philippines today.
History
Confusion Behind the Date
The
Tau Gamma Sigma -
Triskelion Grand Sorority was originally founded on the 17th day of January in the year 1969 at the
University of the Philippines, by a group of 10 Triskelion Lady Founders. Although known to the majority of the members that the Tau Gamma Sigma was founded on
January 18,
1971 and was recognized by former Miss Philippines Sister Onelia Jose of the
University of Santo Tomas on
April 16,
1971. This historical background is an error and is now discredited due to facts and evidences that the
Tau Gamma Sigma National Interim Committee and all
Metro Manila Regional Councils have lately discovered through extensive research, investigations and interviews done to pioneering sisters of the sorority that the original founding history of the Tau Gamma Sigma can be traced back to
1969 at the
University of the Philippines, Diliman campus, in
Quezon City,
Metro Manila Philippines.
Triskelion Grand Sorority - Birth of the Lady Triskelions
The formation of the organization was born out of necessity, because during those times the fraternity wasn't even a year old and just in it's infant stage of existence in the campus, and their main focus is on recruiting male students and setting a foothold in the university, so they're not yet kin to the idea of having a
Co-ed society, but since a lot of female students are friends and hanging around, supporting and attending social functions and gatherings with the
Triskelion brothers that they quickly learned that having female members can be beneficial to the
Fraternity especially in the recruitment of male members. So they decided to gather all their female friends and classmates to form an all female
organization that will be their partner in pushing for their school and community service programs of pursuing their goal of educational excellence.
The Greek Connection
The Sorority was formed by adapting the letters Tau "
Т", Gamma "
Γ" and Sigma "
Σ" from the
Greek alphabet, which stands for
Triskelion Grand Sorority, they're now officially the sister organization of the
Triskelion Grand Fraternity, the
Tau Gamma Phi, and henceforth shall be called and known as
The Lady Triskelions, and the rest is history.
Most of the founding members of U.P. Tau Gamma Sigma also belonged to the U.P. Political Science Club along with the Founding Fathers and Founders Batch of the Tau Gamma Phi.
And so on
January 17,
1969, "
The Lady Triskelions" were born with notable members such as the Honorable Associate Justice of the
Philippine Court of Appeals,
Associate Judge Rosmari Carandang, the Ambassadress of the Philippines to
Switzerland and
Norway,
Ambassador Victoria Bataclan, the
Commissioner of the
Commission on Elections, Cmsr.
Luzviminda Tanchangco, the
Bureau of Internal Revenue (Philippines) Deputy Commissioner, Cmsr.
Lucita "Babes" Rodriguez.
Triskelion Lady Founders
The U.P. Sedarum Saudara - A New Sisterhood
The name
Sedarum Saudara from the
Indonesian language of
Bahasa, in English meaning "Altogether, Friends" or "Altogether Brothers and Sisters". From 1973 to 1974 the camaraderie between the brother and sister Triskelions changed from warm to almost cold. Cordial relations were maintained all throughout the administrations of Grand Triskelion Florencio "Florence" Atanacio and Grand Lady Triskelion Suzette Badon (1973-1974). When the late Valentino "Allen" Hernandez assumed the GT post in 1974, it was evident that the rest of the Triskelion brotherhood wanted to start fresh and organize a new breed of U.P. coeds. Friends, relatives, classmates and acquaintances were invited to an acquaintance ball at the Blue Ridge mansion of Triskelion Benjamin "Benjie" Rodriguez ('71) in October, 1974. The plans for the new organization were introduced to the lady guests and around 21 or so agreed to attend a planned weekend Leadership Seminar and Retreat at another location in Quezon City. In November 1974, the original Founders Batch of the new ladies auxillary sorority was formed. Their first task was to research and decide upon a name by which they'll be called, draft and ratify a constitution and elect officers among themselves. They also have to conceptualize and finish a group project within one year of their being members. To be unique among the countless women-based societies in the U.P. campus, the new sisterhood has to have a unique name based on the Filipino's Malay heritage. And that's how the name
"Sedarum Saudara" was chosen by the group. Each female member was called by the title
"Saudari" (the male counterpart is coincidentally "Saudara"). The first leader of the group was
Jennifer "Jenny" Dumo Alvarez as "Supreme Saudari" with
Juliana "Julie" Torres as the "Prime Saudari". Other Saudaris were elected to the positions of Secretary, Treasurer and other vital duties. Sedarum Saudara quickly became one of the most popular among sororities in UP. Composed of the "beauty and brains" of the UP Diliman campus' female students during those times. Some of which will go on and become the future shakers and movers of
Philippine society, such as the incumbent Mayor of
Marikina City, Honorable
Mayor Marides Fernando, and the "Ranillo Sisters", the pretty
Lilibeth Ranillo and
movie and
television actress, director and producer
Suzette Ranillo aka Nadia Veloso, siblings of Philippine movie
actors Mat Ranillo III and
Triskelion Dandin Ranillo.
In
1975, the U.P. Sedarum Saudara
(UPSS) produced and launched
"Hala, Bira!", a concert which featured Asian Funk artist Andre Wilson and his band "Transit", singer Joy Salinas and a dance troupe performing at the "Ati-Atihan " festival. The show was a success.
The Saudaris continued to recruit until most members graduated and then sometime in December, 1981, Saudari
Chloe Ceniza was the only
UPSS member to accept the invitation by the
U.P. Tau Gamma Phi to join the
revival of the U.P.
Tau Gamma Sigma,
Chartered Batch and so
Saudari Ceniza,likewise, became a
Lady Triskelion.
The alumni Saudaris recently had a mini reunion last April in Manila with the first and second Supreme Saudaris in attendance (Jenny Alvarez-Bernardo and Julie Torres-Salazar), together with Marikina City Mayor Hon. Ma. Lourdes Carlos-Fernando. Third Supreme Saudari Annalisa Charisse Franco Gonzalez-Tootel was already home in Australia at the time of the meeting. Those present agreed to organize a grand
Saudari Reunion in January or February, 2009 to be hosted by
Mayor Marides Fernando in Marikina. One at a time, members from all batches are being located and contacted. This is indeed an event to behold almost 35 years after the founding of a unique and dynamic organization.
The Martial Law Years
The Raid
Martial Law was declared on
September 21,
1972 by the late dictator
President Ferdinand E. Marcos under Proclamation No. 1081. The Sorority with it's affiliation to the protest fraternity the Tau Gamma Phi being a subversive group and a staunch critic of the Marcos administration, together with other fraternities and organizations in UP, became the target of military harassments and illegal detentions, believing that these student organizations posed a threat to the order and stability of the Marcos regime. Ostensibly due to leftist leanings, the office that Tau Gamma Phi Fraternity and Tau Gamma Sigma Sorority shared inside UP campus was raided under an
Arrest-Search and Seizure Order signed by then
Secretary of Defense and one of the "
Architects of Martial Law",
Juan Ponce Enrile which resulted in the confiscation of several subversive materials and documents, fortunately though, no one was at the office at the time of the raid so they narrowly escaped being locked up in a military stockade camp.
The Junior Lady Triskelions
Struggling from the effects of Martial Law which suspended all fraternal and organizational activity within the collegiate levels and the arrests of all militant students, the
Fraternity and
Sorority decided to stay low to avoid being tagged as a subversive group working for the
Communists out to destabilize the government, although a lot of it's members went underground and took up arms to join the
New People's Army, the armed
paramilitary group of the
Communist Party of the Philippines, in the mountains and jungles. These developments temporarily freezed the recruitment of new members, and without fresh bloods to replace the old ones, these resulted in the dwindling down of membership population, due to graduating members or just simply dropping out of school.
Bro.
Atty. Ramoncito “Monching" Ocampo, who was the
Secretary-General of the Fraternity and Sorority during that time, had an idea and took the initiative and decided to tap the younger generations in the High School sector. This gave birth to the "
Junior Tau Gamma Phi" or better known as the "
Junior Triskelion", founded at
San Beda College -
High School in
1975. The rationale behind this is, to be able to solve the recruitment problems in the collegiate levels why not recruit in the secondary education level? Since these High School students will eventually graduate and attend college in the future then they won't have any more problems recruiting them since they're already Triskelions. The idea is simple and effective and the problem is solved.
Although at first, because San Beda College - High School is an all male, non-coed school, that only male members of the Tau Gamma Phi are being recruited, but soon enough the popularity of the Fraternity and the effectivity of the program quickly spread across the University belt area and other colleges, universities and high schools nationwide, that already female High School students are also willing to join the Sorority and saw the beginnings of the "
Junior Lady Triskelions".
Triskelion Youth Movement
Notable Alumni
Hon. Rosmari D. Carandang (UP) - Associate Justice, Philippine Court of Appeals
H.E. Victoria S. Bataclan (UP) - Philippine Ambassador
, stationed at the Philippine Embassy in Oslo, Norway
Hon. Marides Fernando (UPSS) - Mayor, City of Marikina, Metro Manila
Hon. Aurora Villamayor (TYM) - Mayor, Township of Angono, Province of Rizal
Hon. Luzviminda Tangchangco (UP) - Commissioner, Commission on Elections
Hon. Lucita "Babes" G. Rodriguez (UP) - Deputy Commissioner, Bureau of Internal Revenue
Suzette Ranillo (UPSS) - Movie and TV Actress, Producer, Director
Frenchy Dy (EAC) - Singer, Entertainer, TV personality
Affiliated Groups
Tau Gamma Phi (ΤΓΦ ) — Also known as the Triskelion Grand Fraternity, is the affiliated fraternity of the Tau Gamma Sigma Sorority.
Triskelion Alumni Organization (T.A.O.) - The umbrella organization of all Triskelion alumnus worlwide.
Triskelion Order of Law (T.O.L.) — Triskelion Alumni members who are in the judiciary and paralegal profession.
Triskelion Order of Medicine (T.O.M.) — Triskelion Alumni members who are in the medical profession.
Triskelion Order of Business (T.O.B.) — Triskelion Alumni members who are in the corporate world of business and those who owns their own entrepreneural ventures.
Triskelion Information Technology Organization (T.I.T.O.) — Triskelion Alumni members who are in the Computers and Information Technology profession.
Triskelion Law Enforcers Group (Tri-LEG) — Triskelion Alumni members who are in the Police, Military and Armed Forces profession.
Bagong Tao Movement (B.T.M.) - A duly accredited political party list organization of the Tau Gamma Phi Fraternity and Tau Gamma Sigma Sorority.
Reference
Some statements are quoted from the program of the Tau Gamma Sigma - First General Assembly, dated Sept. 28, 2002 held at the University Hotel (formerly PCED), University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines.
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