Ethan Pickering Wins the 2016 International Balfour Award
Ethan Pickering, CASE WESTERN 2015, accepted the 2016 International Balfour Award (IBA) at the July 30, 2016, closing ceremony of the Balfour Leadership Training Workshop at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio. He is the first brother from his chapter to receive the award. “This is a dream come true to be up here, winning […]
University of Idaho Sigs Claim Daniel William Cooper Award
The Sigs from the University of Idaho came away from the 2016 Balfour Leadership Training Workshop at Bowling Green State University with the Daniel William Cooper Award, which is presented annually to the chapter with the Fraternity’s most outstanding scholastic achievement program. The chapter previously won the award in 1949. In addition, the chapter’s brothers received […]
Nine Chapters Claim the James F. Bash Significant Improvement Award
The Fraternity unveiled nine winners of its 2016 James F. Bash Significant Improvement Award. They are the chapters at: DePaul University; Florida Atlantic University; University of the Pacific; University of Virginia; University of St. Thomas; Albion College; University of South Florida; A college in Tempe, Ariz.; and Stephen F. Austin University. The Bash Significant Improvement Award […]
Twenty-three Chapters Receive the Legion of Honor Award
The Fraternity unveiled the 23 winners of its Legion of Honor Award at the closing ceremony of the 2016 Balfour Leadership Training Workshop. The winners are the chapters at: McGill University; University of Cincinnati; Eastern Kentucky University; University of Memphis; Hanover College; University of Waterloo; Yale University; University of South Alabama; Clarkson University; Albion College; […]
The Fraternity Lauds DePauw University Faculty Advisor
Sigma Chi International Fraternity has announced the winner of its Dr. Henri Stegemeier Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award as Nick Stepaniak, the faculty advisor to its chapter at DePauw University in Greencastle, Ind. Stepaniak is also the university’s coordinator of fraternity life, having joined the staff in August 2015. According to his nominator, Stepaniak has assisted […]
Parents Club at Texas-Austin Named Fraternity’s Most Excellent
The Fraternity has awarded its Parents Club Award for Excellence to the chapter at the University of Texas at Austin. The award recognizes parents clubs that contribute in significant ways to their sons’ experience in Sigma Chi and their respective undergraduate chapters. Presented annually, it honors the support of parents for a chapter’s operations, as […]
MIT Alumnus Recognized as Fraternity’s Best House Corporation Officer
The Fraternity has conferred its William T. Bringham Best House Corporation Officer Award on Karl Büttner, MIT 1987. Büttner has been a member of his undergraduate chapter’s house corporation since 1987, and was its president from 2002 to 2010. In addition, he was executive chairman of the house corporation’s Beacon to the Future capital campaign […]
Fraternity Recognizes Outstanding Alumni Chapter Officer
The Fraternity has awarded its Jay E. Minton Best Alumni Chapter Officer Award to Alex Borowski, NEW MEXICO 2013. According to the brothers who nominated him for the award, Borowski has used his roles as secretary and treasurer of the Albuquerque Alumni Chapter to streamline the chapter’s finances, create and regularly publish e-newsletters, and encourage […]
Tennessee Tech Chapter Advisor Recognized for his Fraternity Role
The Sigma Chi International Fraternity has presented its 2016 Erwin L. LeClerg Outstanding Chapter Advisor Award to Jim Woodford, TENNESSEE-KNOXVILLE 1973. Woodford advises the undergraduate Sigs at Tennessee Tech University, a position he first took up in 2005. The Fraternity has presented the LeClerg Award to its most outstanding chapter advisor each year since 1972, […]
Sigs Gather in Skokie, Ill., for the 2016 Grand Council
Nearly 300 Sigma Chis and their family and friends gathered from June 10 to 12 at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Chicago – North Shore Conference Center in Skokie, Ill., in order to participate in the 2016 meeting of the Grand Council. The event afforded participants the opportunity to adopt changes to the language comprising the […]
Brothers Prepare to Attend 2016 Balfour LTW
Brothers attending this month’s Balfour Leadership Training Workshop (LTW) at Bowling Green State University should keep in mind what they will and will not need to pack before departing for Ohio. In particular, participants should be sure to bring such items as four days’ worth of casual clothing — such as shorts, T-shirts, polos, etc. — […]
Horizons Participants Reflect on Their Experiences
The Fraternity’s Horizons Huntsman Leadership Summit has hosted three of its five 2016 sessions so far, with 144 rising underclassmen leaders benefitting from the leadership development program’s teachings. Taking place in Snowbird, Utah, the program transports participants to a setting of mountainous vistas where they work alongside other promising freshman and sophomore brothers for six […]
Five Purdue Sigs Earn Fraternity Award for Volunteer Service
The following is an abridged version of the story Memorializing a Fallen Friend Through Service that appears on page 8 of the summer 2016 edition of The Magazine of Sigma Chi. To nominate a brother for the Mark V. Anderson Character-in-Action Leadership Award, email your answers to the questions posed under the “Nominate a Brother for the Award” section of the award’s […]
Traveling Sigs Connect Through Social Media
Since November 2015, Sigma Chis on the go have had an easy way to connect with one another: the Facebook group Sigs at an Airport. Founded by Scott Bondy, TORONTO-RYERSON and WINDSOR 1997, and moderated by him and Don Copeland, STEPHEN F. AUSTIN 1989, Sigs at an Airport provides an easy way for brothers to […]
Fraternity Honors 18 Brothers for Alumni Service
The Sigma Chi International Fraternity has presented its 2016 Seven Lights Alumni Award to 18 brothers. Each year, Sigma Chi presents the Seven Lights Award to alumni who have provided at least 10 years of exceptional volunteer service to the Fraternity at the local, provincial and/or international levels. Each candidate must be nominated by at […]
