SIGMA CHI
ETA PHI
SINCE 1977
Monday, June 15
Freshman IMPACT Session 1
Wednesday, June 17
Freshman IMPACT Session 2
Friday, June 19
Transfer IMPACT Session 1
Monday, June 22
Freshman IMPACT Session 3
Wednesday, June 24
Freshman IMPACT Session 4
Monday, June 29
Freshman IMPACT Session 5
Monday, July 6
Frshman IMPACT Session 6
Wednesday, July 8
Freshman IMPACT Session 7
Friday, July 10
Transfer IMPACT Session 2
Monday, July 13
Freshman IMPACT Session 8
Wednesday. July 15
Freshman IMPACT Session 9
PHILANTHROPY
UPCOMING EVENTS
Announcing the 2016 Significant Sigs
April 6, 2016
Last month, the International Fraternity unveiled the 46 winners of the 2015 Significant Sig Award, Sigma Chi’s highest honor for professional achievement.
Bobby Ogdin, TENNESSEE-KNOXVILLE 1966, a career sessions player in Nashville, Tenn., who has worked with such renowned artists as Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson and Kenny Chesney, says that the best part of receiving the Significant Sig Award is that it puts him in rarefied company.
“I remembered when I was a pledge and freshman in college, and the Significant Sigs were people like [Order of Constantine Sig] Merlin Olsen, UTAH STATE 1962, and senators and astronauts, star athletes and CEOs of major corporations. I’m just gratified to join them,” he says. “I was happy to see [the Fraternity is] considering people in the entertainment industry [for the Significant Sig Award] who are not performers. I work behind the scenes and don’t necessarily get the spotlight. It’s nice that recording people are being considered and paid attention to.”
The Fraternity recognized its first Significant Sig Award recipients at the 1935 Grand Chapter, and since then, more than 1,700 brothers have accepted the prestigious award. Members of the 2016 class of Significant Sigs have the option to be recognized at this year’s Grand Chapter meeting in San Diego from June 25 to 27, or at a ceremony with their local alumni or undergraduate chapter.
For more information about the Significant Sig Award, contact Sigma Chi International Fraternity Headquarters.
Sigma Chi News
Sigma Chi Pledges $10 million for Cancer Research
June 16 2016
The Sigma Chi International Fraternity further solidified its partnership with the Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) on Monday, June 15, pledging to raise at least $10 million for the organization by the end of 2022. It is believed to be the largest pledge to a single charity by a fraternity in the history of Greek-letter organizations.
“We feel so deeply that we are the next generation to eliminate cancer that there’s no amount of money that’s too great for us to raise,” said 68th Grand Consul (International President) Mike Greenberg, ILLINOIS WESLEYAN 1982, at a press conference announcing the historic agreement.
“Our goal is to keep people from suffering, from pain and heartache of having a disease that most had no idea they were going to receive in their lives,” said Order of Constantine Sig and Significant Sig Jon M. Huntsman,PENNSYLVANIA 1959, who founded the institute in 1995. “One way or another, our job is to end cancer forever, and ever, and ever ... You can do no greater work anywhere in the world than to end this horrible, horrible disease.”
In recognition of Sigma Chi’s gift, HCI has designated the sixth floor of its hospital as “The Sigma Chi International Fraternity Sixth Floor.” A wall display near the elevators reads, “The Sigma Chi International Fraternity in the spirit of friendship, justice and learning, dedicates its philanthropic efforts to Huntsman Cancer Foundation and pledges to be The Generation to End Cancer.”
Since endorsing HCI as the Fraternity’s preferred philanthropy in 2005, Sigma Chi has raised more than $3 million for the Salt Lake City research hospital, including more than $1 million during the 2014 to 2015 school year.
