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George W. Spasyk was associated with the administrative staff of Lambda Chi Alpha International Fraternity from 1950 to 1990. A native of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, he received his Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of Michigan in 1949 and nine months later, earned his MBA while serving as a Teaching Assistant in the Business School. Early in World War II, he was engaged in scientific research with the Manhattan Project in work essential to the production of the atomic bomb, and was associated with the project at Princeton University. Subsequently, he entered the U.S. Navy and served for two years.

Following his graduation from Michigan, he was appointed Traveling Secretary for Lambda Chi Alpha and in 1952 was named the first Director of Chapter Services to head up the undergraduate chapter operations of the Fraternity, headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. He held that position for 16 years, and in 1968, he was named Executive Director of Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity and the Lambda Chi Alpha Educational Foundation. In 1989, his title was changed to Executive Vice President and on June 30, 1990, he retired after forty years of service and was designated Executive Vice President Emeritus.

A staunch advocate of interfraternity cooperation, George has served as President of the Fraternity Executives Association and he has served on many committees of the Association and of the North American Interfraternity Conference. He served on the NIC Commission on Values and Ethics for ten years and was Chairman of the FEA-sponsored Interfraternity Institute at Indiana University for four years.

He was a member of the Board of Directors of the North American Interfraternal Foundation from 1990 until 2003, and served for three years as President and two years as Chairman of the Board. He also served the Foundation as a Balfour Distinguished Lecturer for three years, and in 2004 was designated a Director Emeritus of the Foundation. He has been a frequent speaker at national and international fraternity, sorority and interfraternity conferences and at many Lambda Chi Alpha chapter events.

His interfraternity service awards include Alpha Sigma Phi's Grand Senior President's Citation, Chi Psi's Interfraternity Service Award, Kappa Delta Rho's Fraternal Merit Award, Lambda Chi Alpha's Order of Achievement, Phi Delta Theta's Meritorious Service Award, Phi Kappa Psi's Ralph D. Daniel Interfraternity Excellence Award, Tau Kappa Epsilon's Salsbury-Scott Award, Sigma Nu's Interfraternity Leadership Award, and Theta Chi's Chapman-Alter Interfraternity Service Award.

George was also the first recipient of the North American Interfraternity Conference Interfraternal Award in 1989; the Distinguished Service Award of the Fraternity Executives Association in 1990; the Evin Varner Interfraternity Service Award of the College Fraternity Editors Association in 1992; and in 1993, he received the Gold Medal of the North American Interfraternity Conference, the highest honor in the fraternity movement. At the 49th General Assembly in 2002, Lambda Chi Alpha's Interfraternity Service Award was renamed The George W. Spasyk Order of Interfraternity Service.

He was named an Honorary Texas Citizen in 1964 by Gov. John Connally; a Kentucky Colonel in 1972 and 1985 by Governors Wendell Ford and Martha Layne Collins; received a Certificate of Special Tribute from Michigan Gov. James Blanchard in 1989; was named a Sagamore of the Wabash in 1990 by Indiana Gov. Evan Bayh, and on March 17, 1990, Mayor William H. Hudnut III declared "George Spasyk Day" in Indianapolis, which he has called home since 1950.

Ever since his involvement with Lambda Chi Alpha began in Ann Arbor in 1946, George has been an active leader and support of the Michigan Chapter as well as a dedicated fan of the Wolverines. George attends nearly all home football games, making the trip from Indianapolis to Ann Arbor many times each year. He remains an active mentor and adviser to the undergraduates of Lambda Chi Alpha.