1872 Society Legacy Scholarship

The 1872 Legacy Scholarship was established in 2007 to honor and commemorates the one hundred thirty-fifth anniversary of the first fraternity founded at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. In 1872, the Delta Tau Delta Fraternity came to UIUC, and started a movement that has changed and made an impact on this campus every year since. For more than a century, fraternity men have emerged on campus with the ideals of brotherhood and camaraderie so coveted by their founders. Those founders saw the wisdom in our fraternal bonds and the endless benefits that those relationships would bring and thus an elaborate fraternal history has been created and will continue. Since the recognition of the first fraternity on campus, the Interfraternity Council has grown to more than forty fraternities, and more than 3,200 young men amass one of the largest fraternity system in the country.

Each fraternity is based on a tradition to grow its members by developing their potential to be better students, brothers, and sons. With this scholarship, it is the goal of our council to use these funds to help in advancing the potential of future leaders in the fraternity system and in the fraternal community. These individuals should be involved in the fraternity and sorority community, achieve high academic standards, serve their community, and show potential as a future leader committed to excellence. As a future leader, he should encourage friendship, leadership, scholarship, service, and social advancement while appreciating the diversity of our member organizations. It is the hope of the Interfraternity Council Executive Board to continue to provide opportunities such as this scholarship to ensure the development of fraternity men and a continued tradition of excellence in the fraternal community at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Past Recipients