28th Conclave • Aug 30-Sept 2, 1963 • Mackinac Island, MI

The twenty-eighth Conclave was held August 30 - September 2, 1963, at the Grand Hotel on Michigan’s Mackinac Island. Legislation established a national leadership school, in which over three hundred SigEps would take part in the first one the following year. In a Conclave discussion on hazing, Grand President Bedford Black warned offending chapters to mend their ways or leave. “One of the most damaging enemies to the fraternity system, is the chapter which tolerates the moronic, ignorant, unimaginative, ridiculous, often hazardous course of pre-initiation activities involving hazing.” His feelings would be echoed by future Grand President Archie Yeatts at the 50th Conclave in 2007.