Chi Heorot

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Chi Heorot was founded in 1897 as a local fraternity named Alpha Alpha Omega, and in 1902 was granted a charter as the Chi chapter of Chi Phi. In 1903, the fraternity moved to its present location, and in 1927 it sold off its eighteenth-century house and built the house that stands today. By the mid-1900s, the Dartmouth chapter of Chi Phi was having some issues with its national charter. Some of these disagreements are alleged to have regarded the admission of an African-American student into the Ddartmouth chapter, in violation of Chi Phi rules. In 1968, the house finally dissociated from the national fraternity. It was then that the house became Chi Phi Heorot, but after several suspensions by the College in the early eighties, it re-joined the national in 1982. This was short-lived; in 1985, because of damage done to the house that the national refused to help pay for, Chi Heorot again opted to become a local fraternity, and the college assumed ownership of the property and house. The fraternity chose the name Chi Heorot, derived from the medieval poem Beowulf, where Heorot is the great hall where warriors converge to tell their stories. Chi Heorot draws a good deal of its brotherhood from a variety athletic teams. Most well represented at Heorot is the men's hockey team. The men's cross-country, track and field, rowing, and ski teams also make up a large portion of the brotherhood.

[edit] Notable Alumni

Lee Stempniak, NHL player
Adam Nelson, Olympic Silver Medalist (Shot put)

Win Johnson, Treasurer of Dartmouth College