Phi Chapter History
Former Western Michigan Student, Trisha Wells, attended the 1995 United States Hispanic Leadership Conference where she attained informative literature about Sigma Lambda Gamma National Sorority. Miss Wells was interested in establishing a chapter at WMU and proceeded to send a letter requesting more information.  Mid-winter semester of 1996 Miss Wells was experiencing personal problems which did not allow her to take on the initiative of organizing a group of initiative women. The procedural information was then passed on to Maria Isabel Garza, an active member of the Hispanic Student Organization.

In winter of 1996, Miss Garza proposed the idea of becoming a Sigma Lambda Gamma chapter and introduced the sorority's five founding principals of Moral and Ethics, Cultural Awareness, Academics, Social Interaction and Community Service to the women of the Hispanic Student Orgainizaiton.  The original interested women, named Maria Isabel Garza, Olga Lupe Munguia, Imelda Reyes-Phetteplace, Michele Beckman, Cynthia-Marie Nicholson, Soluna Martinez, Michelle Martin de Figueroa, Eliamar Reyna, and Stella Morado as advisor, exemplified a particular responsiveness to the national sorority's ideals. During the fall semester of 1996 the women had completed the requirements to apply for colony status and in October they became a colony of Sigma Lambda Gamma.

Through hard work and determination the colony of Sigma Lambda Gamma Sorority at Western Michigan University became the eleventh sorority to participate with NPC on campus.  After six months of working diligently to fulfill the requirements for establishing a chapter. The colony of Sigma Lambda Gamma Sorority at Western Michigan University was recognized on April 6, 1997 as the Phi Chapter of Sigma Lambda Gamma National Sorority.