Contact: Sammy McDavid
STARKVILLE, Miss.--Heidie Lindsey of Mississippi State is being recognized for outstanding professional service by the Southeastern Interfraternity Conference.
Lindsey, associate director of the university's Colvard Student Union, is the regional organization's selection for the 2007 Tom Shoemaker Adviser of the Year Award. A staff member since 2001, she currently oversees programming, governance and leadership development for MSU's 28 national fraternities and sororities.
Her administrative duties also include the campus Interfraternity, National Pan-Hellenic and Panhellenic councils, as well as the Miss MSU Scholarship Program, a preliminary for the Miss Mississippi and Miss America scholarship pageants. Additionally, she supervises all recognized student organizations and the Maroon Volunteer Center.
SEIFC is a voluntary association of more than 100 fraternity governing councils and is one of six throughout the United States. Members represent universities and colleges within an area from the District of Columbia to Florida to Mississippi to Kentucky. Texas A&M University and the University of North Texas are non-regional members.
Lindsey, a former regional officer for Delta Gamma social sorority, is a psychology graduate of the University of Central Florida. She also holds a master's degree in higher education administration from Florida State University.
She was assistant director of student life at MSU prior to assuming her current position with the Colvard Student Union.
The Shoemaker Award is a memorial to a longtime SEIFC member, who was dean of students at the University of Southern Mississippi.
For more information about Mississippi State University, see http://www.msstate.edu/.