HAMPDEN-SYDNEY, VA (07/03/2012)(readMedia)-- Omicron Delta Kappa, the national honorary society for leadership, has named Steven Barron Frazier, Hampden-Sydney College Class of 2012, ODK National Leader of the Year in Campus Life - Scholarship.
The National Committee for the ?D? Leader of the Year award was authorized by the 1974 National Convention following a recommendation by the National Committee on Scholarship Awards. Each Circle nominates one ODK student member of the year from their Circle to compete for the National Leader of the Year award. Five candidates are recognized, one from each phase of campus life – Scholarship; Athletics; Campus & Community Service; Journalism, Speech & the Mass Media; and Creative & Performing Arts. From those five, a National Leader of the Year is selected.
A Venable Scholar at Hampden-Sydney, Frazier served as President of both Good Men Good Citizens and the President's Men. He planned and organized "Greeks for Green" and the "H-SC Cares for Kids" programs. Frazier is a member of the honorary societies Phi Beta Kappa (academics), Omicron Delta Kappa (leadership), and Chi Beta Phi (science) and the Society of '91 (leadership program). At H-SC, he received the Sophomore Academic Excellence Award, the Samuel S. Jones Phi Beta Kappa Award, the Lewis & Nell Drew Student Government Award, and the Anna Carrington Harrison Award for Leadership. He was recognized for student leadership in the 2012 edition of Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges. Graduating summa cum laude with a B.S. in biology and Second Honor, Frazier is the son of Jane Hudgins Frazier of Norfolk and Steven E. Frazier of Chesapeake. He will be attending Eastern Virginia Medical School in the fall.
A college for men, Hampden-Sydney is ranked in the top 100 of liberal arts colleges by U.S. News & World Report. The College is known for its Rhetoric Program which stresses excellence in writing and speaking, the Honor Code which stresses individual and collective responsibility, and a focus on the development of young men.