Dear SigEp NH-A Alumni,
We believe that our Chapter remains a fraternity built on a strong brotherhood with
members who are leaders across campus and bound for success after graduation.
Please find below short descriptions of recent accomplishments by brothers since 2014.
The list is not by any stretch exhaustive, but rather was compiled to illustrate the
diversity and depth of involvements of the recent SigEp brotherhood.

COLLEGE INVOLVEMENT
College Leadership
Our Chapter’s brothers continue to excel as members and leaders of a wide breadth of
campus activities, including sports teams, academic groups, and other campus
organizations. It would be impractical to list out all the activities our brothers lead and
participate in, so we have selected a few below:
Within Greek life itself, SigEp had demonstrated its leadership since 2014 with several
officers in the Greek Leadership Council (including 3 GLC Chairs) as well as the InterFraternity Council. With respect to Greek awards, in 2015 alone, for example, the
Chapter received the O’Connor Award (awarded to the “best” fraternity of the year) for
the fourth year in a row, the Service Award, and the Leadership Program Award. The
same year, the Greek Community gave two “All Star” awards to two brothers as well as
“Greek Man of the Year” to the Chapter’s president (note “Greek Man of the Year” was
awarded last year to a SigEp as well). While we are confident that we have continued
to lead as a fraternity at Dartmouth, the awards we received for Greek programs have
been discontinued recently and replaced by new categories of awards (for example, we
received the new Scholarship Award last year).
Outside of Greek life, we have had several brothers lead a variety of activities with the
Dartmouth Outing Club. For example, in the past couple years alone, one brother was
the First Year Trips Director and several were on the First Year Trips directorate.
Others have led groups such as The Dartmouth (which a SigEp ran as Editor-in-Chief
last year), STAR peer mentoring, and the bonfire committee. We have had two chairs
of the Undergraduate Finance Committee, in charge of allocating over $1,000,000 to
various campus organization, in the past few years.
Brothers continue their involvement in a variety of intramural, club, and varsity sports as
well as arts programs on campus. For example, we have members of the varsity
rowing, squash, and swimming teams, as well as continued deep involvement in
Ultimate Frisbee (in which SigEps have helped captain/lead for the past several years).
In performing arts, SigEp has had and currently has representatives in almost every
Hop ensemble (Wind Ensemble, DSO, Glee Club, Handel Society, Barbary Coast, etc.)
and a variety of a cappella groups (Aires, Dodecs, Sing Dynasty). SigEps consistently
take on leadership positions in these groups as musical directors and business
managers and are consistently selected as leads in the College’s own productions. For
example, a SigEp ’20 recently played the lead male in the fall musical, Cabaret.

 For our leadership on campus, our brothers have won countless awards and gained
recognition by peers. Awards and recognition for leadership given to brothers in the
past few years include, but are not limited to, the Dean’s Plate Award, President’s
Leadership Award, and Dean’s Office Emerging Leaders Award. Many brothers have
been selected as Rockefeller Leadership Fellows. In terms of other forms of
recognition, for example, brothers consistently have been nominated to be Class
Marshals or similar positions (e.g. Historian, Orator) for their graduating class.
Academics
The Chapter continues to demonstrate a commitment to learning at Dartmouth. The
average GPA of the Chapter from Fall 2011 through Summer 2017 was 3.60, the
highest of any fraternity (and second of all Greek organizations). This compares to a
male affiliated average GPA of 3.43 and overall undergraduate GPA of 3.48 for the
same period. Our Chapter has also continued to focus on advancing academically, with
our Chapter GPA increasing 3 of the last 5 years (with a total increase of 0.04 during
the period) and growing faster than the undergraduate average (trend data compares
the school years of 11F-12X to 16F-17X. Source: College Pulse).
As such, the house has had dozens of brothers graduate with latin honors (i.e. Cum
Laude through Summa Cum Laude) and several brothers obtain prestigious postgraduate scholarships. For example, we have had 2 Rhodes Scholars, 1 Schwartzman
Scholar, 1 Fulbright Scholar, and 1 Yenching Scholar in the past 4 graduating SigEp
NH-A classes alone.

MAINTAINING A STRONG BROTHERHOOD
Programming
Our brotherhood continues planning a variety of both internal and public programming
events through the year. A handful of examples from the past few years include apple
picking with a sorority, “Pizza & Profs,” Sigma Phi Chefsilon (and related cooking and
grilling events), visiting breweries and the Cabot cheese factory, laser tag, paintball
outings, weekly lunches off campus (e.g. The Orient), and sports game watch parties.
Brothers also supplement these executive-led events with their own “Phi Events,” where
they are required to organize and execute their own group activity (e.g. cheese tasting,
camping / dinner at the Lodge, movie and subsequent interpretation, dance classes,
and a juggling workshop taught by a brother who had been on David Letterman for his
juggling abilities). We also continue to plan and execute very large and intricate events,
including Pop Punk, SPEakeasy, and our termly formal. Lastly, every term, we continue
to have programming focused specifically on self-reflection, including brotherhood
discussions and Pass the Sword / Hoops of Steel.
Service and Community Engagement
The brotherhood continues to be actively involved in community engagement and
service. Brothers have spent thousands of hours and raised thousands of dollars the

 past few years on service projects ranging from providing tutoring and/or financial
advice to low-income community members, mentoring students, cooking for the
homeless, and more. We regularly sponsor charity events around campus such as the
Rose Benefit, Relay for Life, and Feeding the Hungry at the Haven and field teams of
volunteers for events such as the Prouty, Special Olympics, and Memorial Challenge.
We recently created Sigma Pie Epsilon, where members of the community pie SigEps
in the face, for charity – the event was a huge success. Lastly, our brothers continue to
lead these efforts across campus as well; brothers are leaders of organizations such as
DREAM as well as organize events for awareness of key issues. For example, this
week, a brother planned a men’s roundtable event for sexual assault awareness week;
out of the ~25 attendees, almost half were SigEp.
Financial Aid
The Chapter’s financial aid program has been a paradigm for other fraternities at
Dartmouth. Frequently, other fraternity presidents on campus ask our executive
committee how to implement similar programs to dramatically reduce the chance that
finances would be a reason a brother could not participate in Chapter activities. We are
confident we have the most robust and fair financial aid program, meeting an internally
estimated 85-90% of need during a given quarter by recently providing over $10,000 in
aid in a given term (not including summer). This aid is entirely grant based and has no
contingencies; for example, other houses require additional duties or cleans around the
house for aid. We are extremely proud of our financial aid program and look forward to
meeting 100% of requested financial aid support in the terms moving forward.

POST-GRADUATION
Following graduation, a significant portion of our brothers have started working at some
of the most prestigious firms in the world. These include, but are not limited to
McKinsey, Bain and Co., Goldman Sachs, Amazon, Microsoft, and the Federal
Reserve. Others have joined extremely reputable and selective “start-ups” including
Affirm, Wealthfront, and Uber. While many of our brothers go into corporate life, others
have continued with their studies in the world’s top medical, law, business, and other
graduate schools, including at Harvard, Oxford, and Cambridge. One recent SigEp
alumnus is serving the United States military as an officer.
We expect this trend to continue given the ‘18s and ‘19s have already accepted full-time
and internship opportunities (respectively) at similar firms (e.g. Goldman Sachs, Oliver
Wyman, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Wayfair, Microsoft, Amazon, Citi, etc.) or are
perusing their education further (e.g. medical school, a BE at Thayer).

Sincerely,
Eli Derrow, ’15 SigEp President
Joseph Clyne, ’16 SigEp President
Ellis Guo, ’17 SigEp President
David Herrera, ’18 SigEp President