Wilson B. Heller Papers, 1937-83

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Wilson Benton Heller (Pi Kappa Alpha) was known as "Doctor to the Greeks."  In 1912, Heller started the College survey Bureau to provide annual comparisons of college fraternities and sororities.  The comparisons were based on surveys of student views of the "importance, prominence, and power" of individual chapters on each  campus.  During the 1920's and 1930's, Heller was a Hollywood press agent, but gave up that career in 1945 to devote full time to his interest n the fraternity world.  In 1960, he started publishing Fraternity Insider, which attained a monthly circulation of more than 5,000.  Heller died on June 30, 1983.   

Heller willed the College survey Bureau and his papers to long time friend and Masonic brother William T. Bringham, Sr., former president of the National Interfraternity Foundation.  Bringham served 35 years as chief administrative officer of Sigma Chi and executive director of the Sigma Chi Foundation.  he gave Heller's papers to the Stewart Howe Foundation and the University of Illinois Archives in 1992. 

The Wilson Heller Papers, 1937-83, consist of correspondence, notes, surveys, and other documentation used in compiling the annual comparisons of fraternities and sororities.  This unique collection also contains correspondence and source material used for articles in Fraternity Insider, and publications of the College Survey Bureau and Fraternity Consultants.   

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