Sigma Chi International Fraternity has selected its recipients for the 2024 Significant Sig Award, which recognizes members who have achieved high levels of professional success.
Awarded annually since 1935, the Fraternity has honored fewer than 2,500 Sigma Chis with the Significant Sig Award.
Members of the 2024 class will receive their honor either at Sigma Chi’s 85th Grand Chapter in Aurora, Colorado, in June 2025 or at a local Fraternity event.
Previous winners include such notable Sigs as country music artist Luke Bryan, GEORGIA SOUTHERN 1999; former late-night talk show host David Letterman, BALL STATE 1969; and former Villanova University men’s basketball coach Jay Wright, BUCKNELL 1983, who coached the university to national championships in 2016 and 2018.
The winners of this year’s award are:
Business, Entrepreneurship and Industry
Norman Bafunno, PURDUE 1983
James Bere Jr., INDIANA 1972
Roger John Bingham, OREGON 1973
William James Bliss, NORTHWESTERN 1986
Gregory John Burke, OHIO STATE 1978
George Carter III, ARIZONA STATE 1965
Dwight Lee Chapin, SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 1963
Tony Dazzio, NEVADA-LAS VEGAS 1984
George Doetsch Jr., MARYLAND 1963
Order of Constantine Sig George Freeman, ILLINOIS WESLEYAN 1970
Richard Guild, OKLAHOMA STATE 1979
Craig Huntington, OREGON STATE 1972
Anthony Andrew Kennada, PEPPERDINE 2008
Philip Lane, NORTHWESTERN 1987
Keith Edward Langbo, PURDUE 1998
John Laughter, GEORGIA TECH 1993
Edwin Lumpkin, ALABAMA 1974
Charles Maggelet, RENSSELAER 1986
William McGibbon, PENNSYLVANIA 1966
Charles Bruce McIntyre, WESTMINSTER 1963
Dana McManus, CAL. STATE-FRESNO 1972
Jack Mollenkopf Jr., PURDUE 1995
Joe Owen, MURRAY STATE 1965
David Pietrowski, SYRACUSE 1985
John Eric Pomeroy, PURDUE 1963
William Guthrie Scheible, EASTERN NEW MEXICO 1973
James Shields, IOWA 1963
Stephen Smolinske, WASHINGTON STATE 1983
Dr. James J. Tastard, Ph.D., CAL. STATE-LONG BEACH 1986
James Allen Thompson, TEXAS-AUSTIN 1970
Sports, Entertainment and Media
Paul Levin, CALIFORNIA-IRVINE 1980
Leonard Shapiro, WISCONSIN-MADISON 1968
Don Mark Wright, ARKANSAS 1979
Engineering, Science and Medicine
Douglas Charles Burton, KANSAS STATE 1989
William Clark III, GEORGIA TECH 1977
Brian Houston Craig, PURDUE 1998
Dr. Jeffery Lane Curtis, MD, FORT HAYS 1977
Dr. Ravi Goel, MD, YALE 1993
Dr. Ronald Jones, MD, ARKANSAS 1953
Dr. Todd Mosher, Ph.D., SAN DIEGO STATE 1989
Finance, Insurance and Real Estate
Earle Cooper, FLORIDA and FLORIDA STATE 1977
Scott Daugherty, SAN JOSE STATE 1979
Scott Harris, BRITISH COLUMBIA-SIMON FRASER 1996
Thomas Lofaro, Esq., SAN DIEGO STATE 1991
Government and Law
Hon. James Bishop, NORTH CAROLINA-CHAPEL HILL 1986
Kirk Caraway, MEMPHIS 1994
James Bruce Culpepper, FLORIDA 1988
Andrew Haden, JD, STANFORD 2000
Wade Leon Hartley, BIRMINGHAM-SOUTHERN 1991
Thomas Heywood, STANFORD 1978
Hon. William Vanderpool Hilleary, TENNESSEE-KNOXVILLE 1981
Dale Miller, CASE WESTERN 1971
Blake Moore, UTAH and UTAH STATE 2004
Frank Ruff, RICHMOND 1971
Military
Col. Jimmie Hathaway, OKLAHOMA 1991
Lt. Col. Charles Malcolm Sublett, BROWN 1968
Nonprofit, Religion and Education
David Cox, BALL STATE 1965
John Gill, CENTRAL FLORIDA 1986
Joseph Charles Jennett, SOUTHERN METHODIST 1963
Anthony Rabasca, KENTUCKY 1965