The Sisters of Sigma Tau Iota

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This is a picture of the some of the sisters of the current Sigma Tau Iota and the Kappa Pledge Class (there are about 25 to 30 alumni/inactive sisters that are not pictured). ΣTI, also better known at James Madison University as FLOC/For the Love Of Colorguard, is a service club dedicated to raising money for the James Madison University Marching Royal Dukes, Nuance Winterguard, and other surrounding high school color guards and winter guards.

FLOC is a club-like sorority, complete with families, bigs and littles, and traditions, and is growing more every year. The only reason our sorority is still club-like status is because JMU only recognizes national fraternities and sororities. Membership is open to anyone, even band members (we have 2 woodwind players who used to be in color guard in high school), and even people who have never done guard (we have 1 person pledging this semester who has never done color guard). It is not required to be in FLOC if you are in the JMU Color guard, out of our 44 member color guard this fall, about 12 pledges are actually in the guard, and 5 aren’t in the guard, just people who appreciate color guard! There is a whole pledging process along with an initiation into the sister hood at the end of each semester. We do various fundraising each year including car washes, bake sales, Avon fundraisers, and much more. We do most of our fundraising at the JMU Parade of Champions Marching Band Competition every October, this past year we raised our goal of $1,000 at our booth. We also try to do fundraising during winter guard season at competitions in Atlantic Indoor Association. Every spring we have a FLOC Color guard Spin Clinic which is open to anyone, students, instructors, etc and the sisters all organize and choreograph for it. FLOC is a very dynamic group and many sisters spin at different winterguards, such as Nuance Winterguard, First Flight Winterguard, Reynolda Independent, and Impact Independent.

FLOC was founded on October 27, 2005 and became an official club April 4, 2006. It was founded by Cat Nightengale, Tara Lowrie, Suzanne Gendreau, Laura Gooding, Molly Hoffman, Sara Drauszewski, Misha Drauszewski, and Erin Johnson. Our motto is “Service Through Interaction”.

ΣTI at JMU is willing to help any school wanting to start up their own chapter. We can send you our constitution and guidelines and everything to help you get started. If you’re the LEAST bit interested, please contact Mason Lemocks at DMLemocks@gmail.com.

A few of the FLOC sisters watching one of the classes at the FLOC 2010 Colorguard Clinic