Iota Beta Chapter at Missouri State Takes Home Top Honors

On Wednesday, March 23 the Fraternity and Sorority Life Office at Missouri State University hosted its annual VIP Reception and Awards Ceremony. Iota Beta Chapter was well represented in both chapter and individual award categories. The awards are listed below:

Chapter Awards
Chapter of the Year
Outstanding Risk Management
Outstanding Scholarship Program
Outstanding Recruitment Public Relations
Outstanding New Member Education
Outstanding Leadership Development
Most Fraternity Community Service Hours
Highest Fraternity New Member GPA
Highest Fraternity GPA

Chapter Award – “Superior Recognition” in the following areas:
-Scholarship and Academics
-Philanthropy and Community Service
-Membership Development
-Programming
-Recruitment

Individual Awards
Outstanding Recruiter: Kyle Copeland
Outstanding Male Sophomore of the Year: Miles Figg

Last week, Theta Chi also won Greek Week overall and Kory Lower was named 2011's Greek God.

Great work, brothers!

A Theta Chi to Conduct Research for U.S. Dept. of State

Matthew Becker (Gamma Rho/Florida State 2007) has been awarded the prestigious Title VIII Fellowship by the U.S. Department of State. He will be studying Bosnian—which is considered a critical needs language—during Summer 2011. Upon completion of language training, he will travel to Bosnia-Herzegovina to conduct research. Matthew is a current Ph.D. student studying political science at the University of Mississippi, and graduated from Florida State University with an M.S. in international affairs (2009) and a B.S. in political science.

Eddie Higginbotham named 2011 NIC Undergraduate of Distinction

Theta Chi Fraternity is pleased to announce that Eddie Higginbotham (Eta Omicron/Northwestern State 2010) has been named a 2011 recipient of the North-American Interfraternity Conference’s Undergraduate Award of Distinction, considered to be one of the most prestigious undergraduate honors in the interfraternity world.

First presented in 2002, the Undergraduate Award of Distinction “seeks to recognize the fraternity man who has found in his experience an outlet for developing as both a leader and a better man.” This year’s NIC awards will be presented on April 10, 2011, in Washington, D.C.

Eddie, also the Fraternity’s 2010 Colley Award winner, is the ninth Theta Chi individual to receive this honor from the NIC. Brother Higginbotham’s win also marks the fifth consecutive year that a Theta Chi has received the Undergraduate Award of Distinction. Past Theta Chi recipients include Colley Award winners Daniel Neumann (Beta Nu/Case Western 2009), Kevin Reilly (Tau/Florida 2008), Erik Lange (Zeta Kappa/Ohio Northern 2007) and current Executive Director Michael Mayer (Epsilon Phi/Central Missouri 2004).

You can read more about the NIC and the other awards being presented at April’s ceremony by clicking here.

Congratulations, brother!

Four Theta Chis receive Order of Omega scholarships

Four Theta Chi brothers received scholarships this year from Order of Omega, the Greek honor society that seeks to recognize "fraternity men and women who have attained a high standard of leadership in inter-fraternity activities."

This year's recipients are:

• W. Spence Dabbs (Beta Xi/Birmingham-Southern 2011)
• Matthew Richter (Beta Nu/Case Western 2011)
• Macklin Warrington (Gamma Phi/Nebraska Wesleyan 2011)
• Stepheno Zollos (Zeta Pi/Old Dominion 2011)

This year, Order of Omega awarded 136 scholarships totalling over $63,000, as well as $8,250 to graduate students from its fellowship program.

Click here to learn more about Order of Omega's scholarship opportunities, including information about the 2011 scholarship applications.