Rose-Hulman’s Triangle fraternity chapter has earned the $100,000 first-place prize as this year’s recipient of the Larry and Judy Garatoni Building Better Men Program for academic success, leadership, community and campus service, philanthropy, and chapter growth.
The award was presented at the fraternity’s national convention in Orlando, Florida.
This competitive recognition among all chapters nationwide is helping provide seed money to support the Rose Tech chapter’s plans to possibly construct a new chapter house on campus, according to 2022 chapter president Luke Dawdy.
“This award recognizes that our chapter is headed in the right direction and supports long-range plans for the chapter to get even stronger,” said Dawdy, a senior computer engineering major.
Rose-Hulman’s chapter, a member of the institute’s Greek Life system, currently has nearly 60 members, with 28 new members – one of its largest recruitment classes – joining the group during the 2021-22 school year. The membership’s 3.264 cumulative grade-point average for the 2021-22 academic year was higher than the collective academic mark for all students at the college last year. Members were involved in more than 30 campus organizations and five varsity athletic teams, with several holding executive or key leadership roles.
In the area of philanthropy, Triangle chapter members assisted in service projects that included a Praying Pelican Missions trip to a community in Belize last spring, assembling bicycles for Terre Haute Chances and Support of Youth’s Bikes For Tykes holiday project, assisting a variety of campus fundraising events, and supporting the national Triangle fraternity’s FIRST Robotics program.
