Help recognize outstanding undergraduate members, alumni, volunteers, and friends of Delta Chi. Please use the following form to submit one individual for consideration of an award. Please feel free to submit this form multiple times if you have multiple nominations.

Due Date: May 31, 2019

Current undergraduate members are eligible to be nominated for the following awards:

• The Marge Lee Outstanding “C” Award
• The “E” Key Award
• Chapter Luminary

The Marge Lee Outstanding “C” Award recognizes chapter/colony “C”s who exhibit exceptional performance in all their required and recommended duties. Chapters/colonies nominate candidate(s) by a vote during a business meeting, which will be verified through the CMR (Chapter Meeting Report). A nominee must have held office for at least one full semester/quarter (by the close of this school year) and be in good standing with the Chapter/Colony. This awards was named after Marge Lee at the 2004 Convention to honor her service to the Fraternity and her relationship to Chapter and Colony “C”s.

The “E” Key Award is the oldest award given by the Fraternity and seeks to recognize chapter/colony “E”s for their exceptional performance of all communicative duties. Chapters/colonies may nominate candidate(s) by a vote during a business meeting, which will be verified through the CMR (Chapter Meeting Report). Nominees will be evaluated based on their Quarterly submissions, including “Campus Scene”, narratives, Farewell/Parting material, Keeping in Touch material, and contact information updates with the International Headquarters. Both timeliness and quality of content are weighted in consideration for this award. Award recipients will be presented with a traditional pocket watch key featuring the badge with red enamel.

Each chapter and colony selects one Chapter Luminary every year to be recognized in the Quarterly. The Chapter/Colony chooses the recipient because he best exemplifies the ideals of Delta Chi and for his overall involvement with the Chapter/Colonies, campus and community. Chapter/colonies may nominate candidate(s) by a vote during a business meeting, which will be verified through the CMR (Chapter Meeting Report).

In recognition of the hard work and dedication that our volunteers devote to Delta Chi, the following awards are available:

• Outstanding Chapter Advisor
• Meritorious Service Award (MSA)
• Richard N. McKaig Outstanding Greek Professional Award
• John J. Kuhn Award

The Outstanding Chapter Advisor award is designed to recognize an outstanding advisor for a chapter or colony for a specific, exceptional act of service during the previous academic year. The award will recognize individuals for their ability to strategically impact an undergraduate chapter or colony. A Faculty Advisor, “BB”, live-in advisor, ABT or Housing Corporation member.

A Meritorious Service Award (MSA) is given to an alumnus who makes significant contributions to Delta Chi as a “BB”, ABT member, House Corporation member, general Fraternity committee member, Regent, Vice-Regent, or staff member. Recipients must be a member of Delta Chi.  Services rendered as an undergraduate do not qualify a member for this award.  An alumnus who has received this award within the last five years is not eligible to be considered for it again in the same position.  However, an alumnus who holds multiple positions in Delta Chi may be eligible for service in difference capacities. (i.e. Someone received an MSA in 2008 for service to the North/South Chapter could receive an award in 2009 for service to the East/West Colony, but could not receive an award to the North/South Chapter for five years).

The Richard N. McKaig Outstanding Greek Professional Award recognizes one student affairs professional each year for their exceptional service to the Greek Community. Nominees must be a student affairs professional who have given exceptional service to an institute. Recipients are typically campus-based professionals. Richard McKaig’s (Ball State ’66) devotion and commitment to the college Fraternity is acknowledged by all.  A graduate of Ball State University and a loyal member of Delta Chi, Dick is known by his contemporaries as the “Fraternal Dean.”  This award was renamed for him in 2009 to coincide with his retirement from Indiana University and to honor his exceptional service.

The John J. Kuhn Award is designed to recognize individuals who have dedicated their lives to the betterment of the fraternity community.

• It recognizes accomplishments and contributions of individuals within the fraternity and sorority world regardless of affiliation. 
• Qualified candidates will have served the Fraternity/Sorority community at large.
• Involvement on national/international level preferred. For example: involvement with a Fraternity or Sorority HQ, AFA, speaker/researcher/trendsetter, Umbrella Organizations (NIC, NPHC).

The John J. Kuhn Award was created in 1992 by the Delta Chi Board of Regents to recognize individuals who have dedicated their lives to the betterment of the fraternity community.  The award is one of the most prestigious awards that the Fraternity offers.  The award is named after Delta Chi’s first North-American Interfraternity Conference (NIC) President, a past “AA” of the Fraternity, and dedicated contributor to the efforts and endeavors of the fraternity movement within and beyond Delta Chi.

In recognition of those Delta Chis who truly embody the virtues of promoting friendship, developing character, advancing justice, and assisting in the acquisition of a sound educations; the following special recognitions are available: 

• Valor Award
• Humanitarian Award
• Distinguished Delta Chi
• Delta Chi of the Year

The Valor Award recognizes special acts of heroism on the part of any member of Delta Chi who puts his own life in peril. To qualify for this award, an individual must have rendered heroic service, well documented, above and beyond simply membership in a uniformed and structured organization (i.e. state troopers, police officers, firefighters and military personnel), where his actions place his own life in peril or potential peril while attempting to save the life of another.

The Humanitarian Award is presented to a Delta Chi (undergraduate or alumnus) who, through his actions, exemplifies the ideals of Delta Chi and promotes the welfare of another person or persons.

The Distinguished Delta Chi award recognizes significant achievement in a alumnus’ profession or outstanding civic service while upholding the values and ideals of the Fraternity.

The Delta Chi of the Year designation recognizes alumni who have distinguished themselves in such a manner that their peers recognize them across the United States, Canada and/or the world. Their contributions to Delta Chi are not a criteria of this award.

An eligible nominee for Delta Chi of the Year is an alumnus who has made a significant contribution to:

• Medicine, humanities, law or science; or
• Exceptional and publicly recognized service to mankind in a civic or humanitarian manner; or
• Exemplary success in business or industry at the senior executive level; or
• Outstanding achievement as a military officer; or
• Great achievement in the executive, legislative or judicial branch of government; or
• Outstanding accomplishment in amateur or professional sports.