Sigma Tau Gamma Fraternity, Beta Xi Chapter Leadership Award

A chapter leadership committee will review and select an outstanding fraternity applicant who has exhibited academic excellence, leadership skills, has exceptional and mature listening, speaking and communication abilities, is an individual of high character and integrity, and shows indications of an entrepreneurial interest, respect for patriotism, fellow brothers, students and faculty.

Criteria
1. Sigma Tau Fraternity, Beta Xi Chapter Juniors
2. At least a composite GPA of 2.8 at Winona State University

Background/Motivation

The Sigma Tau Gamma Fraternity, Beta Xi Chapter Leadership Award is sponsored by two former WSU students from the classes of 1965 and 1966, respectively, who each served as chapter presidents. Harry A. Sieben, (B.A., business administration, ’65), and Roland D. Wussow, (B.A. business administration, ’66). Sieben and Wussow know that other Beta Xi members over the years have enjoyed success and at least subliminally, can credit some of that success to values and character development fostered by the fraternity. Sieben and Wussow urge others to contribute to the Leadership Award fund when asked to assure continuity and corpus growth so the award can be even more successful. The Winona State University Foundation, working with a committee of elected leadership of Beta Xi Chapter will seek additional funds from past and current fraternity members to grow the award corpus and will manage this award.

A highly successful trial lawyer (University of Minnesota Law School, J.D.) based in the Twin Cities, Mr. Sieben is a distinguished former Minnesota legislator and Speaker of the House of Representatives. He served in the U.S. Army Reserve during the Vietnam War era and continued his service in the Minnesota Air National Guard with distinction, retiring as Major General and remains a key adviser to the Army Chief of Staff. His wife Ginny is also a lawyer, nurse and retired U.S. Air Force officer. They live in Hastings, MN and have four children and six grandchildren.

Mr. Wussow is a former newspaper reporter, who following graduate school (University of Missouri, A.M., journalism,‘71) has spent the greatest part of his career in the healthcare field. He served in management positions at Mayo Clinic, the National Cancer Institute, large teaching hospitals and the world’s largest proprietary healthcare company. Since 1986, he has founded and led two national healthcare companies in Nashville. He and his wife Mary (Winona State University B.S., elementary education, ’66, and University of Missouri M.Ed, ’70) have three children and four grandchildren. They reside in Bernalillo, New Mexico.

Donors Urge Other Brothers to Pay It Forward
Sieben and Wussow valued their fraternity brotherhood experience and believe that their idea to provide a cash award to a worthy junior undergraduate is part of a ‘pay it forward’ opportunity for all involved, especially the individual awardee, the University and the fraternity.