Awards and Honors

2011 Sigma Chi Derby Days Champion!

  2011 Delta Zeta National Annual Awards


Presented at the 2011 Norma Minch Andrisek Leadership Conference

Silver Award - Fundraising Event - the DZ Auction
Honorable Mention Awards:
Delta Zeta Foundation Support/Loyalty Fund
Recruitment/Membership Program
Best Public Relations Event/Miss University of Louisville Pageant
I Have a Choice Week - Alcohol Awareness Education

2010 National Convention Awards

Founders' Award (only three awarded!!!) Six candlesticks commemorating our six Founders shall be given to the chapter or chapters with a high record of achievement over the previous two-year period. This award or awards shall be given when merited. Eligible chapters shall be judged on membership, financial standing, cooperation, college programs, philanthropies, and standing on campus.

Crest Award (only 11 awarded) This award shall be presented to outstanding college chapters that have excelled consistently in all areas of college programming.

Caryatides Award (New Member Education Programming - only six awarded!!!) Consist of six statues presented to those chapters which have best envisioned and fulfilled a New Member Education Program that has brought enrichment to the new members. The first Caryatides figures were presented to Delta Zeta in 2960 by Ruth Simmering, a loyal member of the Epsilon chapter (Indiana University), establishing the tradition portrayed by the six maidens of the Porch of the Maidens on the Acropolis of Athens, Greece.

National Program Awards;

1. Philanthropy Programming: Honorable Mention - Loyalty Fund Program/Delta Zeta Foundation Support

2. Philanthropy Programming - Most Money Raised - the DZ Auction:

Honorable Mention

3. Risk Management: Honorable Mention for I Have a Choice Week Programming

Other Recognition:

1. Outstanding Biennium Philanthropic Support - Only nine chapters recognized

2. Convention Sponsor

3. 1902 Loyalty Fund Participation

Beta Gamma Chapter & Louisville Alumnae Chapter Combined Award

The Gertrude Houk Fariss Award

Was established in her name in recognition of her many years of service to Delta Zeta as National President and as a Panhellenic leaders. The traveling trophy (silver punch bowl) shall be presently to recognize outstanding alumnae-collegiate chapter programming and activity (only one award presented).

Louisville Alumnae Chapter
Silver Award (Only Six Given) For Outstanding Overall Achievement

Outstanding Philanthropy Programming Recognition 
 

During the first two weeks in April , the Beta Gamma chapter was recognized with the following awards presented to the chapter during the 2011 Delta Zeta Region 13 Weekend, the University of Louisville Student Life Awards ceremony and the Greek Awards ceremony.

Delta Zeta Region 13 Awards

New Member Education for 2010
Quota Recognition: Fall 2010
Maintaining Chapter Total for the School Year
100% Initiation Fall 2010 Awards and Honors
Lamp Reporting for 2010
Academics-Highest Chapter GPA
Best Philanthropy Project for 2010 (DZ Auction)
Philanthropy 2010- Most Money Donated
Philanthropy 2010- Most Money Raised
Philanthropy 2010- Most Service Hours
Best Financial Program
Outstanding Senior in Region 13 - Amy Fussenegger 

  University of Louisville

Student Life Awards
Student Government Association - Senator of the Year/Allison Hunter
Outstanding Freshmen - Two SOSER's
Outstanding Sophomore - Lauren Nexus, SOSER
Outstanding Junior - Taylor Crush
Outstanding Senior - Emily Baldock
Cardinal Award of Excellence/Scholar - Leader - Amy Fussenegger

Greek Life Awards
TKE SORORITY OF THE YEAR AWARD
Highest Cumulative GPA - Spring 2010
Above All-Sorority Average GPA - Spring 2010 - Fall 2010
4.0 GPA for Four Years at the University of Louisville - Brook Houlette
GAMMA - Outstanding Risk Management - Matt Wooley Award
Sigma Kappa - Outstanding New Member Program
Alpha Omicron Pi - Panhellenic Spirit Award
Service Recognition - Most Service Hours - Fall, 2010
Most Influential Greek - Allison Hunter
Most Enthusiastic Greek - Megan Reeves
Best Personality - Lauren Nehus
Greek Top 10 - Outstanding Sophomore/SOSER
Greek Top 10 - Outstanding Senior/Emily Baldock

 Delta Zeta has won the University of Louisville Panhellenic Excellence Award for the past 16 consecutive years!