Each year the Fryberger Sing brings together Greek organizations to have fun and raise money for campus programs. Traditionally the Fryberger Sing proceeds benefited various non profits and programs at UofL as well as academic scholarships for Greek members.
For the last two years the Fryberger Sing committee has also decided to support the Student Affairs Greek Leadership Funds which were set up to support student leaders within the UofL Greek community.
The Greek Leadership Funds are comprised of 3 individual gift opportunities: IFC Greek Leadership Fund, NPHC Greek Leadership Fund, and the Panhellenic Leadership Fund. The Greek Leadership Initiative recognizes the importance of the Interfraternity Council, National Pan-Hellenic Council, and Panhellenic Council on the UofL Campus and the enriching experience they give students associated with each of the UofL Greek chapters that encompass these three councils.
Our goal is to raise enough funds to establish an endowment to support student leadership activities including campus programming and travel to conferences. Involvement in Greek organizations provides students with unique opportunities to develop their leadership skills. Anything we can do to enhance those opportunities gives our students an advantage as they move into their chosen professional and get involved in their local community.
The Fryberger Sing committee has earmarked $9,000 for the Greek Leadership Initiative over the last two years ($3,000 to each fund: IFC Leadership Fund, NPHC Leadership Fund, & Panhellenic Leadership Fund). This speaks volumes about the Greek communities commitment student leadership and to future Greek leaders.
The Fryberger Sing was started in 1937 for Agnes Moore Fryberger, a music professor at UofL in the 1930s. Her students arranged the musical competition to honor her when she was forced to leave the university due to illness. It remained a university-wide event for decades until waning interest threatened its existence. The Greek community then adopted it as its own.
If you have never attended a Fryberger Sing check it out next year. Your attendance will support the performers as well as the future student leaders. To learn more about the Greek Leadership Initiative and possibly make a gift, visit
http://louisville.edu/studentaffairs/giving/givingmain/giving/greekleadershipfunds.html
The event was the brainchild of the Medical School Class of 2016 that wanted to have an event for all the HSC Students. Ahmed Farag the Vice President of the group was concerned because there are a lot of events campus wide for the Belknap Campus but not for the HSC. He and his fellow Med School Freshman wanted to have a nice end of the semester event for all of the students from the 4 schools that make up the Health Sciences Campus. They applied for funding from the SGA Special Projects fund and were able to have a nice cookout, a DJ, corn hole and Basketball mini tournaments and some inflatables. The members of Kappa Sigma Fraternity cooked steadily for 3 hours to feed the masses.
