Professor Gregory Parks is named one of four recipients of the 2014 Delta Gamma Compass Award.
The Compass Award is given to a non-member of Delta Gamma Fraternity who, through his/her extraordinary leadership and service, has made a lasting and deeply significant contribution to the Fraternity and/or the interfraternal movement. The award may be given to recognize a single “life changing” achievement, or it may commemorate a “lifetime” of important achievements. Recipients of this award display fraternally-focused leadership on an elite scale.
This year’s recipients are:
Dr. Gregory Parks, Author, Speaker and Assistant Professor of Law at Wake Forest University Law School. Parks was nominated by VP: Alumnae Cori Gilbert Wallace, who previously served as VP: Communications, and the Delta Gamma Executive Offices Training and Development Team.
Wallace says this about Parks, “Dr. Parks has established himself as a savvy, knowledgeable, prolific and passionate explorer of the complex issues that confront the contemporary fraternity experience. His publications, personal blog, commitment to Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., as well as his participation in discussion panels and scholarship have provided both context and understanding to many. When Dr. Parks speaks, people listen, and are encouraged to think critically about what Greek organizations need to address to ensure relevance.”
Tim Burke, Founding Partner of Fraternal Law Partners. Burke was nominated by former VP: Finance Dell Shay Kingan who said that he is a leader in the world of fraternal law.
“It (Fraternal Law Partners) is the only law practice dedicated to the legal issues impacting fraternities and sororities and their related educational and charitable foundations. Its partners provide experienced legal counsel on business matters, as well as risk management, anti-hazing education, crisis and incident management, litigation and other liability issues. Tim is the heart and the soul of this practice,” Kingan wrote in the nomination letter.
Cindy Stellhorn, Executive Vice-President of MJ Insurance, Sorority Division. Stellhorn was nominated for this honor by former Fraternity President Laurie Petrucce Roselle, Beta Iota-Purdue, who says it is her commitment to all National Panhellenic Conference groups, not just her clients, that makes Cindy stand out.
“She created the MJ Housing seminar which is held annually and MJ, via her suggestion, financially supports many Greek events and events sponsored by the National Panhellenic Conference,” Roselle stated in her nomination.
Dave Westol, founder, owner, and CEO of Limberlost Consulting. Westol was nominated by VP: Finance Suz Stiles, who previously served as VP: Collegians. She says it was Westol’s guidance that helped shape Delta Gamma’s Chapter Incident Procedure.
“Dave has helped not only Delta Gamma but other Greek organizations by his presence at these leadership workshops (NGLA). As the award requires, he has made a deep and lasting contribution to the interfraternal movement,” Stiles said in her nomination letter.
Cindy Stellhorn was given her award in April at the Fraternity Sorority Political Action Committee dinner in Washington, D.C. The other three recipients will be honored in December at the Association of Fraternity/Sorority Advisors annual meeting in Nashville, Tennessee.
About Delta Gamma Delta Gamma Fraternity was founded in 1873 at the Lewis School in Oxford, Mississippi. The objects of the Fraternity shall be to foster high ideals of friendship among women, to promote their educational and cultural interests, to create in them a true sense of social responsibility and to develop in them the best qualities of character. Today we have more than 210,000 initiated members, 146 collegiate chapters and more than 220 alumnae groups. Delta Gamma Fraternity Executive Offices is in Columbus, Ohio.