Shayde Rudenick Scholarship

The Shayde Rudenick Scholarship will benefit and encourage involvement and brotherhood in a fraternity, sorority or club on the WSU campus.

Criteria

A. Recipient must be enrolled full-time and in good standing at Winona State University.
B. Preference will be given to students enrolled in clubs and groups, like fraternities and sororities, which are active with WSU and/or the community at large.
C. The spirit of this award is to help an average student with a minimum g.p.a of 2.5.

*Biography/Motivation

The Shayde Rudenick Scholarship Award was created after Shayde’s death in 1995 to honor a Brother who lost a courageous battle to a horrible disease.
The chapter was very stunned by Shayde’s situation and we wanted to honor Shayde’s memory and keep his legacy alive in our hearts and the history of our chapter. After much discussion, it was decided to start a scholarship in his name.
Shayde represented what every Brother of Pi Lambda Phi strives for: He was intelligent, athletic, active on campus and within the fraternity.
Shayde was a well-rounded individual who was involved in many aspects of college life and he was very popular and well-liked by the people who knew him.

The scholarship criteria is fashioned to recognize the Brother who best reflected Shayde’s attributes. It is not enough to have the academic achievements. You also needed to be involved on campus and within the fraternity.

As the chairman of the Shayde Rudenick Scholarship award for the past several years, I am pleased to say that the men who have been bestowed with this award have held to the high standards that we would expect from anyone associated with it. They have proven themselves to be leaders and gentlemen we expected them to be. All of them are very proud to be following in the footsteps of someone so revered by the Brothers of this fraternity. It is a coveted award for the undergraduate Brother who is recognized with this honor every year.