Chi Heorot

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Chi Heorot
XH
Dartmouth College campus 2007-06-23 Chi Heorot 03.JPG
Founded1985;39 years ago (1985)
Dartmouth University
TypeSocial
AffiliationIndependent
StatusActive
ScopeLocal
Chapters1
Members83 collegiate
NicknameHeorot
PredecessorChi chapter of Chi Phi
Headquarters11 East Wheelock Street
Hanover , Connecticut 03755
United States
Website darxhe642.flywheelsites.com

Chi Heorot (often referred to simply as "Heorot" or "XH") is a local fraternity at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. It was a chapter of the national fraternity Chi Phi until 1985.

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History

Predecessors

Chi Heorot origins date to 1897 with the establishment of a local fraternity called Alpha Alpha Omega. [1] In 1902 it was granted a charter as the Chi chapter of Chi Phi. Soon after, the fraternity moved to its present location on East Wheelock Street, and in 1927 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 Dartmouth chapter, in violation of Chi Phi rules of the time. [2]

Chi Phi Heorot

In 1968, the Chi chapter of Chi Phi disassociated from the national fraternity and became the local fraternity Chi Phi Heorot. After several suspensions by the college in the early eighties, it re-joined the national fraternity in 1982. However, in the winter of 1985, the brothers of Heorot attempted to turn the central hall on the first floor of the house into an ice hockey rink by flooding it and opening the doors to allow Hanover's subzero winter temperatures to freeze the water. [3] This caused the floor to fall through into the basement. [3] The national fraternity refused to help pay for the needed repairs.

Chi Heorot

Because of this lack of support from its national offices, Heorot again opted to become a local fraternity, Chi Heorot in 1985. The college assumed ownership of the property and house. In 2016, the fraternity built an ice hockey rink in its backyard. [3]

Chi Heorot is a member of the Dartmouth Interfraternity Council. [4] It currently has 83 active members. [1]

Name

After its final disassociation from the national in 1985, the fraternity chose the name Chi Heorot, derived from the medieval poem Beowulf . Heorot is the great hall where warriors converge to tell their stories, described by the anonymous author in the following excerpt:

Then, as I have heard, the work of constructing a building
Was proclaimed to many a tribe throughout this middle earth.
In time – quickly, as such things happen among men –
It was all ready, the biggest of halls.
He whose word was law
Far and wide gave it the name ‘Heorot’. [5]
The men did not dally; they strode inland in a group
Until they were able to discern the timbered hall,
Splendid and ornamented with gold.
The building in which that powerful man held court
Was the foremost of halls under heaven;
Its radiance shone over many lands.. [6]

Notable members

Heorot draws a good deal of its brotherhood from a variety of varsity athletic teams. Notable alumni include Gerry Geran '18, Adam Nelson '97, and Andrew Weibrecht '09, who have won Olympic medals in ice hockey, shot put, and ski racing respectively. [7] Another Olympic alpine skier who was a member is Nolan Kasper. [8] NHL hockey players Lee Stempniak, David Jones, Hugh Jessiman, Tanner Glass, Ben Lovejoy, J.T. Wyman and Matt Lindblad are also members.

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References

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  2. Chi Chapter Report. 1968.
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  5. Beowulf, lines 74-79.
  6. Beowulf, lines 306-11.
  7. "Dartmouth Olympians". Dartmouth Big Green website. Archived from the original on 2012-03-21. Retrieved May 25, 2011.
  8. Sullivan, Aleck (2018-04-15). "Spotlight On a Notable Alum: Nolan Kasper – Chi Heorot Fraternity at Dartmouth". Chi Heorot Fraternity at Dartmouth. Retrieved 2024-09-09.