Jim Skaggs

I served on the Oklahoma Mu House Corporation Board with Jim for over seven years. We averaged seven to eight meetings a year, and Jim and I normally car-pooled from north Oklahoma City to Stillwater for the meetings.

I can tell you that Jim's love for our fraternity knows no bounds. He is always thinking about the next decade and the decade after that and how we can keep SAE strong for generations to come.

We all know about how much time he has donated to the fraternity. But in addition to that, Jim can connect with active chapter members and with alumni from many different eras and backgrounds.  Jim will make a great addition to the Supreme Council.

You would have to go back to 1856 and the founding years of our fraternity to find brothers who have given more of their life to Sigma Alpha Epsilon than brother Jim Skaggs.  Jim is a friend, mentor, and part of the foundation of Oklahoma Mu.  He cares deeply about the fraternity and brothers across the realm.  He loves Oklahoma Mu, but I have witnessed him help countless provinces and other chapters over the years.  The fraternity needs more men like Jim, that care deeply and will do what is best for SAE above their own personal goals and agendas.  I whole heartedly support Jim and endorse him for this position and would be happy to speak to anyone that needs further validation. As a brother who served under Jim as an undergrad and has stayed friends far into my alumni years, I can tell you Jim is the right man for this role, and will not let the Fraternity down. 

In 2018, at an SAE dinner sponsored by Brother Jim Skaggs and his wife Sally, I found that I had been seated next to Brother and General Will Grimsley. During dinner Brother Grimsley posed the question, “What adjective describes the perfect Brother?” The answer?   DEPENDABLE.

In the more than thirty years that I have worked almost daily with Brother Skaggs on matters that concern our chapter at Oklahoma State, Province Sigma, the University, or Sigma Alpha Epsilon nationally, no one has been or continues to be more dependable. Nearly every day he has initiated a discussion to advance our fraternity. Almost weekly he has traveled to visit the chapter in Stillwater, or to talk to administrators at the University, or traveled thousands of miles over the enormous Province Sigma as Province Archon. Moreover, he is the guy you can count on to make the House Corporation meetings, find a time to help organize a Founders’ Day, support an initiation, or drive the distance, however far, to the wedding of a young brother or to the funeral of a brother we have loved and lost. Jim Skaggs always makes an effort.  The result of these efforts and experiences—what those of us around here at Oklahoma Mu call “majoring in fraternity and minoring in business”—is that Jim is current in almost all aspects of the fraternity.

Very few of us ever have the chance or make the effort to prepare for a position on the Supreme Council. As the speed of change in education and fraternity continues to increase, we need to choose the man best prepared to meet the challenges that will come from these changes. With this future in mind, I enthusiastically endorse Brother Jim Skaggs for the position of Supreme Council.

On the corporation board Jim helped guide Oklahoma Mu and shape men to embody the true gentleman. Jim was a mentor to hundreds of men guiding them through their education, fraternal endeavors, and professional aspirations. He has hands-on chapter experience that is needed at the national level.