Chris Guhin Honored with Society Order of the Sword and Spear Award for 2005

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Friday, January 27, 2006

MORTON GROVE, Ill.—Chris Guhin of Charlottesville, Va., a 2005 graduate of Brown University, was recently awarded the Alpha Delta Phi Society’s Order of the Sword and Spear Award for 2005, the highest distinction the Society can give to one of its undergraduate members.

Guhin was presented with the honor during the closing banquet of the Society’s Seventh Convention and Leadership Training Conference, recently hosted by its Brunonian Chapter at Brown University in Providence, R.I. The Society announces the award recipients for the previous two years at each of its biennial Conventions.

The Society Order of the Sword and Spear recognizes the outstanding undergraduate member of the Alpha Delta Phi Society each year. A committee that included a graduate member from each of the Society’s chapters selected Guhin for the award from a number of nominees.

“Chris was one of our strongest leaders as an undergraduate member. Chris’ peers recognized his abilities, and he was elected to many of his chapter’s leadership positions,” said Alpha Delta Phi Society President Craig Cheslog (Bowdoin 1993). “The nominees were very strong, and the awards committee made an excellent choice. Chris set a wonderful example for future Alpha Delt undergraduates.”

As an undergraduate member, Guhin served as the chapter’s president, social chair, Pine Room chair, and parliamentarian. Guhin was the chapter’s Bizarre Bazaar Charity Auction Chair during 2002-03, leading an effort that raised more than $6,000 for Providence Summerbridge, a local educational charity.

Guhin graduated from Brown with a bachelor’s degree in classics and history. He was elected vice-chair and later chair of Brown’s Greek Council. He served as a program house chair for Brown’s residential council, and as managing editor of the Brown Journal of World Affairs. He is currently in his first year at the University of Virginia School of Law.

The Alpha Delta Phi Society is a literary society and one of North America’s foremost coeducational Greek-letter institutions, with five active chapters. The Alpha Delta Phi was founded by Samuel Eells in 1832 to encourage free thought and to supplement classroom education. In 1992, after years of controversy over the status of women within the organization, the Alpha Delta Phi formally separated into the Alpha Delta Phi Society, which would accept women, and the all-male Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity.

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