Collegiate awards serve to motivate and inspire all areas of chapter life: rewarding valued chapter characteristics and achievements. Chapter awards are earned by collegiate sisterhoods as a whole, not only officers, individual members, or advisors. Results are outcome-based, thereby making the awards process meaningful and transparent to all members of recipient chapters. Overall chapter performance is now recognized each January with Diamond Four Point and, in the summer of Convention years, Golden Lion.
Golden Lion Hall of Fame Chapters
In 1973, at the 123rd Anniversary Convention in Atlanta, Georgia, a new tradition began when the Golden Lion Hall of Fame Award was established. This award is the highest honor a chapter can receive. As was typical of Grand President Maxine Blake’s leadership, the award was introduced with grace, dignity, and a certain amount of fanfare when costumed trumpeters processed into the banquet hall to the delight of the Convention body. The Golden Lion Hall of Fame award is achieved by meeting exceptionally high standards in whole-chapter operations across all functional areas, including recruitment and member retention, membership engagement, marketing, service to others, chapter GPA, and business operations including accounts receivable and net income.
All chapters who earned at least seven Programming Excellence Awards at ADPi Academy were nominated for Golden Lion. Nominees completed a qualitative application of five questions where they shared their chapters’ successes in Chapter Operations, Member Experience, Alumnae Engagement, Chapter Marketing, and Support of the Alpha Delta Pi Brand. A committee of experienced alumnae volunteers very carefully reviewed each application and narrowed the list to the final winners—the very best of the best.
Golden Lion Nominated Chapters
Central
Alpha Gamma – University of Missouri
Beta Beta – University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
Beta Upsilon – University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Gamma Mu – Missouri State University
Gamma Phi – East Tennessee State University
Delta Nu – Southeast Missouri State University
Delta Upsilon – University of Tennessee, Martin
Epsilon Chi – Longwood University
Epsilon Omicron – Murray State University
Epsilon Psi – Tennessee Technological University
Zeta Gamma – University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Zeta Mu – Appalachian State University
Zeta Xi – University of Virginia
Zeta Psi – University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Eta Alpha – University of North Carolina, Wilmington
Eta Nu – St. Louis University
Eta Upsilon – Wake Forest University
Northern
Xi – Ohio University
Sigma – University of Illinois
Chi – Wittenberg University
Alpha Iota – University of Pittsburgh
Alpha Pi – George Washington University
Beta Alpha – Indiana University
Beta Tau – University of Akron
Gamma Theta – University of Mount Union
Eta Epsilon – Miami University
Theta Mu – Loyola University Chicago
Theta Rho – Sacred Heart University
Southern
Eta – University of Alabama
Iota – Florida State University
Beta Epsilon – University of South Carolina
Beta Nu – University of Georgia
Beta Sigma – Mercer University
Beta Omega – Auburn University
Gamma Iota – University of Florida
Epsilon Eta – Mississippi State University
Epsilon Pi – Georgia Southern University
Epsilon Omega – Jacksonville University
Zeta Iota – Georgia College & State University
Zeta Nu – Clemson University
Zeta Omicron – Georgia Institute of Technology
Zeta Tau – Winthrop University
Zeta Omega – University of Central Florida
Eta Xi – Presbyterian College
Eta Phi – Furman University
Theta Kappa – Florida Atlantic University
Theta Chi – Charleston Southern University
Western
Tau – University of Kansas
Psi – University of California, Berkeley
Alpha Eta – Kansas State University
Alpha Omicron – Oklahoma State University
Delta Gamma – University of Arizona
Epsilon Xi – Northern Arizona University
Zeta Lambda – Texas A&M University
Eta Eta – South Dakota School of Mines
Golden Lion Awarded Chapters
Iota – Florida State University
Alpha Eta – Kansas State University
Alpha Omicron – Oklahoma State University
Beta Beta – University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
Beta Epsilon – University of South Carolina
Beta Nu – University of Georgia*
Beta Omega – Auburn University
Gamma Phi – East Tennessee State University
Delta Gamma – University of Arizona*
Epsilon Pi – Georgia Southern University
Zeta Iota – Georgia College and State University
Zeta Mu – Appalachian State University
Zeta Nu – Clemson University
Theta Kappa – Florida Atlantic University
Theta Rho – Sacred Heart University*
*Won for the first time
