Monday, April 30, 2007
The Lied Center was filled Sunday evening for the 18th annual Interfraternal Council and Panhellenic awards ceremony.
KU fraternities and sororities were rewarded for their excellence in various categories.
“It’s an awesome way for our students to be recognized for their accomplishments in the Greek communities,” said Angela King, assistant director for fraternity and sorority life. “They do a large amount of great things.”
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The main thing is that we were able to recognize all the chapters that are contributing to the University of Kansas. We put in a lot of time, but it’s good to see it done.
-Ryan B. Lonergan, Mission Hills junior
As a new tradition, the Shirlie Anne Vaughn Outstanding House Director award was presented in memoriam of a former house director of Delta Upsilon. Vaughn’s son, David, took the stage to share fond memories of her before the award was given to Bonn Allred of Delta Gamma, and Alice “Bebe” Arbuckle of Phi Gamma Delta.
“My mother would have been really proud to know that the Outstanding House Director award had been named in her honor,” Vaughn said. “It wasn’t until after her death that we really got a handle on how much influence she had and all the people she touched.”
Other awards included the Intramural, Blood Drive and Highest Grade Point Average awards.
The masters of ceremonies, Ryan B. Lonergan, Mission Hills junior, and Julie Niggle, Overland Park junior, congratulated all Greek houses for their excellence in academia. For the fall semester, the all-Greek grade point average was 3.10, slightly higher than the all-University GPA at 2.92.
Six overall chapter excellence awards were given out, all to University sororities: Chi Omega, Delta Gamma, Delta Delta Delta, Gamma Phi Beta, Kappa Alpha Theta and Kappa Kappa Gamma.
Although women dominated the chapter excellence awards, the men of Beta Theta Chi won the most awards of any chapter. Eight awards went to the fraternity, which received first place in all three of the highest GPA categories for fraternities.
Only one award was not given this year, the M. Angela Carr Greek Unity award. This award is based on nominations made by Greek chapters for other chapters on campus. Greek chapters were encouraged to nominate for the next year’s awards ceremony so it could be given to a deserving chapter; no one was nominated this year.
Lonergan said he and Niggle began planning for the award ceremony in January and were pleased with the result.
“The main thing is that we were able to recognize all the chapters that are contributing to the University of Kansas,” Lonergan said. “We put in a lot of time, but it’s good to see it done.”
Tanner Burns, Wichita junior and Interfraternal Council vice president of public relations, said it was pleasing to see Lonergan and Niggle’s hard work pay off.
“It was great to see we had a lot of attendance,” Burns said. “The night turned out really well.”
Kansan staff writer Katy Blair can be contacted at kblair@kansan.com.
— Edited by Carissa Pedigo
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