{"id":47,"date":"2013-05-11T03:56:46","date_gmt":"2013-05-11T03:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sigmaclubalumni.com\/underconstruction\/?page_id=47"},"modified":"2013-05-11T03:56:46","modified_gmt":"2013-05-11T03:56:46","slug":"sigma-club","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/sigmaclubalumni.com\/underconstruction\/","title":{"rendered":"SIGMA Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SIGMA Club Alumni Association<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sigmaclubalumni.com\/web_images\/sigma_crest.jpg\" width=\"207\" height=\"146\" \/><br \/>\nThe early history of the\u00a0SIGMA Club Alumni Association harkens back to meetings at Brother Bob Rollin&#8217;s apartment complex club house in\u00a0Birmingham, AL, in the early 1970s.\u00a0 At some point Brother Bruce Higdon embraced an idea that was\u00a0critical in shaping the Annual Blue Water Bay Reunion, or\u00a0Higdon Open for those who\u00a0were orginally around when the first group of\u00a0SIGMAS began meeting each year to remember old times and to play golf and renew the bonds of brotherhood that we all\u00a0continue to share.\u00a0 Although the Higdon Open started out as a golf outing it has now grown into much\u00a0more than just an occasion to\u00a0meet and kick around old memories.\u00a0\u00a0The Blue Water Bay Sailing Club was added to the festivities in May of 1999\u00a0when\u00a0Skipper Rick Bryant and a few nautical types\u00a0rented a sail boat and hit the open waters to share the same type of brotherhood that the golfers had been renewing each year.\u00a0 This year the registered group of SIGMA Brothers at the event numbered around 40 souls and the expectation of another fabulous BWB Reunion was well under way.<br \/>\nThe spirit of brotherhood that we all shared when we attended Alabama College, now the University of Montevallo, is alive and well!\u00a0 If you have not taken the opportunity to come to one of these annual affairs I highly recommend you make the effort.\u00a0 You will not want to ever miss one again once you have rekindled old memories and long lasting brotherhood which is even stronger today than when we were actives on campus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SIGMA Club Alumni Association The early history of the\u00a0SIGMA Club Alumni Association harkens back to meetings at Brother Bob Rollin&#8217;s apartment complex club house in\u00a0Birmingham, AL, in the early 1970s.\u00a0 At some point Brother Bruce Higdon embraced an idea that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sigmaclubalumni.com\/underconstruction\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-47","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sigmaclubalumni.com\/underconstruction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sigmaclubalumni.com\/underconstruction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sigmaclubalumni.com\/underconstruction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sigmaclubalumni.com\/underconstruction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sigmaclubalumni.com\/underconstruction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/sigmaclubalumni.com\/underconstruction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1707,"href":"http:\/\/sigmaclubalumni.com\/underconstruction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47\/revisions\/1707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sigmaclubalumni.com\/underconstruction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}