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Awards

  • Fraternity Awards

Distinguished Service Chapter Award

Criteria

Awarded to alumni who have been actively loyal to the Fraternity for at least twenty years, rendered some unusual service to the Fraternity or Division thereof, and evidenced personal characteristics and habits which have been and are "worthy of all acceptance" by the Fraternity and society at large.

When the Distinguished Service Chapter was created by the Karnea of 1929 as the Court of Honor, plenary power was given to the Committee of three to determine from time to time the qualifications for Citations to membership therein.

The present Committee of the Distinguished Service Chapter has adopted the following criteria for the awarding of citations, based upon the rules which have been followed since the inception of the group.

  1. The Committee, the Arch Chapter, alumni chapters, officers of any division of the Fraternity, or individual members of high repute in Delta Tau Delta may make nominations.
  2. The term of membership in the Distinguished Service Chapter is for life, but the Committee may terminate any membership .for cause not known at the time of citation, or thereafter appearing.
  3. A nomination for citation shall be in writing, shall be signed by two or more members of the Fraternity who are in good standing, and show satisfactorily to the Committee that the nominee has (a) for at least twenty years been actively loyal to the Fraternity as an alumnus, (b) rendered some unusual service to the Fraternity or a division thereof, and (c) evidenced personal characteristics and habits which have been and are worthy of all acceptance. by the Fraternity and society at large. The names and locations of the nominee's college, active and alumni chapters, and his concrete services for which the Citation is sought must be included in the written nomination. The nominating letter should add other information which appears to bear upon the worthiness of the nominee. A nominee's own initiative or other form of promotion of his own nomination would be viewed as a vital disqualification and particularly out of harmony with the unselfish spirit and intent of the Distinguished Service Chapter.
  4. While not making an absolute rule affecting the matter, the Committee will usually insist upon much more than a chapter interest on the nominee's part, inasmuch as the Distinguished Service Chapter is representative of the entire Fraternity.
  5. No one shall be voted a citation while serving on the Arch Chapter.
  6. Citations will usually be presented at large, important Delt functions.
  7. The Committee grants citations by unanimous vote. In view of the fact that nominations are determined largely by personal friendships and that one nomination from a given locality easily evokes others from the same region, resulting in inequitable distribution of the honors, the Committee will, other merits appearing to be substantially equal, give preference to nominations from regions which do not appear to be adequately represented in the Fraternity. It may defer consideration of other nominations from the same chapter in the interest of substantial justice to all parts of the Fraternity.

Nomination Process

30 days prior to the anticipated; 60 days preferred. Nomination is to be made to the committee through the Central Office.

Distinguished Service Chapter Committee
Delta Tau Delta Fraternity
10000 Allisonville Rd.
Fishers, IN 46038

Award Given

Awards given only at large Fraternity gatherings (Karneas, division conferences, significant chapter gatherings).

List of Recipients