in education, Bell retired to Oakland, California and renewed his connection to the Sigma Chi fraternity. He did this through the Alpha Beta chapter at the University of California at Berkeley. Bell attended Sigma Chi's semi-centennial celebration in Oxford Ohio in 1905, along the three other surviving founders: James Parks Caldwell, Daniel William Cooper, and Benjamin Piatt Runkle. Bell is now the namesake of the Thomas Cowan Bell Scholastic Foundation, located in San Jose, California, which awards college scholarships to both members of the Sigma Chi Fraternity and students of San Jose State University. The foundation is funded almost exclusively by Sigma Chi's alumni. Bell is also the namesake of the Thomas Cowan Bell Sigma Chi Scholarship for both members and non-members of Sigma Chi at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln that are believed to exemplify the 7 pillars of Sigma Chi's Jordan Standard by being a man of good character, a student of fair ability, with ambitious purposes, a congenial disposition, possessed of good morals, and having a high sense of honor and deep sense of personal responsibility. Chapters of Sigma Chi with the most active alumni donors are given the name of "Bell Chapters" in honor of Thomas Cowan Bell. References Miami University alumni People from Bellbrook, Ohio Sigma Chi founders 1832 births 1919 deaths People from Nobles County, Minnesota People from Oakland, California