HIGH POINT, N.C., Aug. 14, 2009 – High Point University’s Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity recently earned prestigious awards during the chapter’s Centennial Celebration, held July 31-Aug. 1 at the Scottish Rite Cathedral and Butler University campus in Indianapolis.
The chapter won three substantial awards during the two-day celebration ? the Tozier Brown Award, the Membership Recruitment Award and the Grand High Alpha Challenge.
The chapter earned the Tozier Brown award for its annual community project, the “Rock-a-Thon” event. Proceeds from the project supported the Aicardi Syndrome Foundation, which is searching for a cure and provides medical equipment for those affected by the disease.
The fraternity earned the Membership Recruitment award for recruiting a larger-than-average number and for initiating 100 percent of those who were recruited.
Finally, the chapter earned the Grand High Alpha Challenge for meeting requirements in seven categories – recruitment, academics, campus activities, fraternity rituals, finances, community service and membership.
“The Grand High Alpha Challenge has been given out for three years ? and our chapter won the award twice, the most of any chapter in the country,” says Shane Piccolo, president of the fraternity. “We won it for the first time in 2007 ? the only chapter in the country to win the award that year. This year, only five chapters in the country won the award.”
At High Point University, every student receives an extraordinary education in a fun environment with caring people. HPU, located in the Piedmont Triad region of North Carolina, is a liberal arts institution with 3,700 undergraduate and graduate students from 50 countries and 44 states at campuses in High Point and Winston-Salem. It is ranked by US News and World Report No. 5 among comprehensive universities in the South and No. 1 in its category among up-and-coming schools. Forbes.com ranks HPU in the top 6 percent among “America’s Best Colleges.” HPU was included in The Chronicle of Higher Education’s “Great Colleges to Work For” 2009 listings. The university offers 68 undergraduate majors, 40 undergraduate minors and seven graduate degree programs. It is accredited by the Commission of Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, and is a member of the NCAA, Division I and the Big South Conference. Visit High Point University on the Web at www.highpoint.edu. Chris DudleyVice President for [email protected]