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Volume 107, Issue 2

Letter from the Editor As I grow older and older, I realize that it’s time to pass the torch to a new generation of Delta Sigs. Those of my generation won’t be here forever, and to prosper in the future, the Fraternity needs younger men to step up and lead.

This year, I celebrated my 50th year as a member of our great Fraternity. For all but a few of those years—those when Uncle Sam called me overseas—I’ve been working for the Fraternity in one capacity or another. I held several chapter offices, including President of my chapter, as an undergraduate.

Later, I had the pleasure of serving as a District Governor, helping other chapters in my region. I then spent 16 years on the Grand Council, two terms as your National President and one year as President of the North-American Interfraternity Conference. This is my second stint as editor of The Carnation.

And in years when I was not out of the country or serving in a national office, I was at work for my own chapter on its Alumni Corporation Board.

Like so many others of my generation, I have given a lot to the Fraternity, both financially and in volunteer effort. I did so because the Fraternity in large part made me the man I am today. Without Delta Sigma Phi, I’m not sure what would have become of me, but I know I am a Better Man because of my membership. Like so many others, I viewed my time served as a volunteer and my financial contributions as a small way of Paying the Debt.

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It is, of course, a debt that is impossible to repay. How does one ever repay an organization that did more to enrich my life than any other of the many groups I have joined? It simply cannot be done, but I continue to try, and I will until I die.

The remarkable thing about Delta Sigma Phi is that the more you put into it, the more you get out of it. I have made some lifelong friends through my work with the National Fraternity and the NIC. I treasure those friendships with men from places like Cal-Berkeley, Texas, Virginia, Kansas State, Purdue and dozens of other places. And, of course, I treasure the friendships with the men of my own chapter, some older than I am and many younger ones.

As I grow older, I realize how important it is to bring younger men into the fold. I’m not going to be around forever, and Delta Sigma Phi and my own chapter need younger men to step up and carry the torch for those of us who are headed off into the sunset. At my chapter, we’re tackling that challenge by enlisting more and more younger alumni to serve in positions on the Alumni Corporation Board and as Chapter Advisor. It’s refreshing to me to see these men step up and do a great job.

If the profiles of 40 outstanding young men in this issue are any indication, that’s happening all over the country.

From coast to coast, younger Delta Sigs are volunteering to help their own chapters, other chapters in their areas, the National Fraternity, their cities, states and even the nation.

Some do that in volunteer positions in the Fraternity or their chapters. Others do it by contributing financially. Still others do it by playing a leading role in the nation, their states and their communities. That, in turn, enhances the reputation of Delta Sigma Phi, which is increasingly recognized as an organization that produces talented men who are leaders in their spheres of influence.

So, in this issue, as we highlight 40 outstanding young men who do a great job of enhancing our Fraternity’s reputation, we all have a right to be proud. The profiles of these young men show the world that Delta Sigma Phi is indeed living up to its goal of making Better Men, Better Lives.

It did that for me. It is doing that for the men profiled here.

For the undergraduates reading this issue, it can do that for you, too. Delta Sigma Phi is the gift that keeps on giving – particularly if you make an effort to get as much out of it as you possibly can and then take the time and effort to Repay the Debt.

YITBOS, Brian S. Brooks, Missouri ’64 Editor

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Editor Brian Brooks, Missouri ’64

Alumni Wine Trip

Contributing Writers Jennifer Graham Nick Gerhardt, Missouri ’08 Cory Collins, Transylvania ’10 Art Director Shelle Design Incorporated

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Mission: The Carnation is a lifestyle magazine meant to entertain, educate and inspire the members of Delta Sigma Phi to become better men and lead better lives, while also educating and entertaining other readers who may not be members.

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Tech Talk

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Delta Sigma Phi’s online presence continues to expand as social media has entrenched itself as a vital tool in our communication efforts. Follow us on twitter at @DeltaSigmaPhiHQ and like us on Facebook (facebook.com/DeltaSigmaPhiHQ) to keep up-to-date with the triumphs and happenings of Delta Sig, as well as to interact with the National Fraternity and one another.

In keeping with the magazine’s “commitment” theme, we reached out to our social media audience and asked: What Does “Commitment” Mean To You?

Join the Conversation!

“Like” us on facebook at facebook.com/ DeltaSigmaPhiHQ and follow us on twitter @DeltaSigmaPhiHQ for your chance to have your name appear in this section.

San Jose State ’64 “Don’t make promises you can’t keep.”

James Lee, Ohio Northern ’12 “‘Commitment’ – a word used but seldom followed through with. I am a veteran of the U.S. Navy, [and] I understand that commitment is one of our three core values, and I try to take the lessons I learned from that time and add them to my everyday life. Now as a brother of this Fraternity I use the commitment that I learned in the Navy and added it to the values I have gained in this Fraternity and will use them in the next task that I set myself up for in the future.”

Kaleb Chaudoir, Wisconsin-Eau Claire ’09 “Seeing something through till the end. What defines the end of something is unfortunately somewhat subjective. If it is an organization, obviously, you will need to adjust your levels of commitment as time passes. Even great CEOs know when it is time to step aside and let the new leaders succeed them.”

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Ted Bloyd,

Jeff Belevender, Gallaudet ’94

“You talk… You do it!!!

You start it... You finish it!!!”

Pause for Applause Update on The Lamp The Lamp is Delta Sigma Phi’s online learning initiative for undergraduate and alumni members. While Delta Sigma Phi continues to offer and expand traditional inperson programs, The Lamp will give all members access to important Fraternity training and personal development opportunities. Starting next fall, members can expect online programming for New Member Education as well as support for our graduating seniors who are transitioning into their alumni experience. The Lamp will also offer volunteer training and resources.

Collegians

The Lamp will continue to increase the number of online

CF Chapter President Matt Stapp, Central Florida ’11, U received the Golden Knight Award for Outstanding Graduating Senior Man of the Year.

of supplemental content for existing programs such as the

training programs offered each year, including the addition Regional Leadership Academy, Summit and Presidents’ Academy. Our hope is to create an educational ecosystem

att Deptola, Ohio State ’12, M received the North-American Interfraternity Conference Undergraduate Award of Distinction. He is the second Delta Sig to win the award since the NIC was founded in 1909.

that allows members to learn and grow by aligning the efforts of chapter leaders, local advisors, professional staff, regional and national programs and online learning.

Delta Sigma Phi is aiming to become America’s Leading Fraternity, and that means more than a handful of workshops throughout the year and it will require our members having access to a constant conversation about the values, goals and skills necessary to build

Chapters

better men – The Lamp makes that possible.

issouri S&T brought home three of the four awards M presented to fraternities on campus this spring: Top Fraternity GPA, Outstanding Volunteer Organization, and Nate Dowd, Missouri S&T ‘10 was named Fraternity Man of the Year.

Foundation This spring the Delta Sigma Phi Foundation hosted the inaugural March Madness Competition. This year’s winner was Kyle Hood, Georgia College & State ’07.

Do you have a submission you would like to send in for Pause for Applause? E-mail us at communications@deltasig.org.

Please be sure to include your first and last name and pertinent information about your submission.

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Delta Sigs in the Military For years this publication tracked our brothers who either volunteered or were drafted into military service. As a National Fraternity, we take tremendous pride in the work our brothers do for the world, and would like to extend an especial thanks to those who fought for their country. In each issue we will continue to highlight brothers who’ve served. Tell us your story, or provide the name of a brother or brothers who’ve served by emailing us at communications@deltasig.org.

j Col. Craig Temmer, Northern Colorado ’81 Chief of Domestic Operations, Training and Education US Army Why did you enlist?

Ever since I was a young boy, I always wanted to fly helicopters.

Due to the economic situation of my family, the only way I could do something like that was to go into the military. I knew I had to get a degree, get commissioned, and do the other things that go along with that.

I enlisted into the Marine Coprs Reserves; I went to their boot camp the summer of 1981, and when I graduated from UNC in December of ’84, I applied to every service.

The army was the first service to accept me to go to flight school, so I took that opportunity with the first offer, have never looked back and turned it into a career.

of course, helped me understand responsibility a little bit.

Being the Pledge Educator [now called “New Member Educator”] taught me about the training of young men, them understanding the fraternity and what our role is, what the whole brotherhood experience is.

I think all 3 positions are like the three-legged stool— they all supported the seat.

Why do you continue to serve?

People do it for love of country, and then when you get into it, you really love it. If there’s one thing I will miss when I retire, it’s putting on the uniform every day. To me, that’s an issue of personal pride.

Why do you continue to serve?

I still very much enjoy the work, and you could say it is my duty.

So what does a Chief of Domestic Operations, Training and Education do?

That responsibility entails training personnel throughout the services, the National Guard and the reserves to respond in emergencies.

We aid in the response to catastrophic events because at times various federal agencies because and the state and locals got overwhelmed. That’s why we get involved and we— the military, United States Northern Command—end up supporting those people and bringing those efforts to bear.”

How does your membership in Delta Sigma Phi affect your role in the armed forces?

As a matter of fact, they all three relate. I was Sergeantat-Arms, Pledge Educator and Secretary. The secretary taught me how business was conducted. Sergeant-at-Arms,

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j Col. Mike Wims, North Texas ’67 Retired Colonel US Air Force Why did you enlist?

My father was in the [American] Air Force, my uncle was RAF, and I was born in England and grew up there. Growing up, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer.

Later on I found I could be both a lawyer and in the Air Force.

What about the kids?

Someone’s wife’s question will always be, “what about the kids?” My answer to that is “Let me tell you about my last duty assignment. My last active duty assignment in JAG, I went in and took the place of another colonel. He was second generation Air Force. My father was in the Air Force, so I was second generation Air Force. My deputy was also second generation Air Force. And when I left, my successor was second [generation], so I think that speaks very highly of how the children see it.”

How does your membership in Delta Sig affect your role in the armed forces?

No campus organizations come close to having the same effect as the Fraternity experience. No one ever says, “Gee, I sure am glad I joined the French Club.” Each brother is personally responsible for the success of chapter programs.

Delta Sig Library Author Timothy J. Nielsen, Western Illinois ’85 Book The Road to Smolensk: The Northwind made the Vikings and the Vikings made Russia Genre Non-Fiction Where to buy Amazon.com

Author Frank Basile, Tulane ’58 Book Traveling with Frank and Karina Genre Non-Fiction Where to buy ibj.com (all proceeds go to a non-profit) Synopsis “Frank and Katrina Basile rarely take the road most traveled. While

Synopsis “It was November 14, 2002, in Moscow, Russia, when I woke up in the middle of the night thinking about writing this book. My mind was racing, and because I couldn’t fall back asleep, I quietly got out of bed, found my journal, and headed down the hall to the kitchen where I sat down and started writing. I’ve learned that if I will just write out my thoughts when I wake up, that usually does the trick and allows me to fall back asleep. That night at the kitchen table I wrote out my plan for The Road to Smolensk and now ten years later it has somehow finally finished itself.

Although the story is richer, the ‘take aways’ are the same today as they were on November 14, 2002. The first is to share what was learned about how early Russia transformed into today’s Russia. The second is to inspire others to keep a journal. And the third is to educate and provide positive information on adoption. The Road to Smolensk is a story about what was learned from a very special journey to a very special part of the world for a very special reason.” – The Road To Smolensk

traveling to 174 countries on all seven continents from Bhutan to Bosnia, Antarctica to Greenland and Serbia to Syria, they’ve experienced the world in ways you won’t find in guide books. So come along with the Indianapolis Business Journal travel columnist and his wife on their journeys throughout the world. This book will entertain you, motivate you to travel, provide you with some travel planning ideas and stimulate your thinking about possible travel destinations.” – Traveling with Frank and Katrina About the Author Basile is a travel columnist for the Indianapolis Business Journal who serves on various non-profit boards including: Indianapolis Art Center, Center for Performing Arts, Arts Council of Indianapolis, The Eiteljorg, Herron School of Art and Design and the Eskenazi Hospital Foundation Board, among many others.

Basile wrote the book to share experiences rather than descriptions or photos, because he believes people can just look those sorts of things up online. Basile does not

About the Author Tim Nielsen is a Financial Advisor with Northwestern Mutual. Nielsen decided to write the book based on interest and personal experience within the country. Nielsen, who founded a 12-step process called the Engineered Future, arranged his book to follow within his 12 steps. He currently has two more books in the works: one about India and one about Egypt.

make any profit off of the book—all proceeds go to a non-profit. “We believe in giving back to the community because we feel like the community has been good to us,” Basile said. “Philanthropy is very important to us.”

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Alumni News

wine trip Alumni

By Jennifer Graham

During the 2009 Convention in Saint Louis, Bruce Loewenberg, Missouri ’58, had an idea and Chris Northern, Texas ’77, ran with it.“Bruce said, ‘Why don’t we go out to the wine country,’ and since he said it in front of my wife, we had to go,” Northern said.

And so with that, the 2010 Alumni Wine Trip was in the works. In February 2010, Northern (and his wife, Cheryl) along with Loewenberg (and his friend Gale) traveled to Napa Valley, Cal. for the third Alumni Wine Trip.

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“We said, ‘You know, we should tell more people about this.’ We talked about it, and then made a tactical error— we mentioned it to Jim Larson (Cal Poly, SLO ’72), and Jim told everyone at Epsilon Rho,” Northern said with a laugh. “The trip grew from just four people in 2010 to 29 people in 2012.”

The idea behind the biennial wine trip was to see people between Conventions; the trip occurs in the off years of Convention.

“There are times to see friends, but it is usually when you are working at RLA or The Summit or a chapter visit, and its 95% work,” Northern said. “These are people over the course of time who

have become friends, and I figured an opportunity to go on a wine trip to get the Midwesterners out of the Midwest in February and go to an area where the wineries are open but the tourists won’t be there just made sense. To this point, it’s been an accurate assessment.”

This year, the group traveled to Paso Robles, Cal. where 70 Delta Sigs and guests gathered in February to see more than twenty wineries in total. While on the trip, the excitement for the 2016 trip had already started to build.

“We had a dozen different people during the course of this trip raise the question ‘where are we going next?’”

Northern said. “That’s really gratifying

that in the middle of a current trip people are trying to plan for two years down the road.”

Northern believes that the options for a 2016 trip are endless. Napa Valley, Sonoma and Paso Robles offer many, many wineries that the group hasn’t visited. He also noted that Washington, Oregon and Southern California offer excellent wineries.

One thing is definitely for certain, though. With the trip expanding from four people on the first trip to 70 people on the third trip, Northern believes if the trip continues to grow, they will have to look for an expert to organize the trip— currently they are looking to recruit an

expert for the 2016 trip.

“We were able to deal with it this time because several guys pitched in: Noel Shutt, (Cal Poly ’69), Chris Patterson (Cal Poly ’73) and Jim Larson all contributed time and effort to getting things coordinated. It was great for our 75-80 person limit,” Northern said.

To help with the sheer amount of people during the Paso Robles trip, the group often split up. There were arrangements for three vans to transport 15 people each. Others went by their own vehicles in groups of two, four or six.

“The single most enjoyable place was the first winery that two dozen of us went to: The Steinbeck Winery,” Northern said. “They offered an educational tour, and the owner’s nephew is an Epsilon Rho member.”

In addition to the Steinbeck Winery, there were another two dozen or so people who were able to have a group dinner at the Justin Winery, formally owned by Delta Sig Justin Baldwin, San Jose State ’67.

The opening banquet at the Elks Club saw more than 50 people in attendance. The closing banquet at McLintock’s in Paso Robles hosted between 60 and 70 people.

“The best part [of this trip] was when we got large groups together—you had people from all different chapters and a large variety of ages, life experiences and Fraternity experiences. It made for a wonderful group dynamic,” Northern said. “There were 12 chapters represented on this year’s trip.”

Jason DeKeuster, Wisconsin-Eau Claire ’95, travelled from Minnesota to partake in his first Alumni Wine Trip experience.

“I can’t wait for the next trip,” DeKeuster said. “It was great to visit with friends and to make new ones.”

While the trip started out as just a great way to gather with friends outside of Convention, Northern believes the outing is a great way to remind people about the Fraternity experience.

“Alumni quite often have either forgotten or never realized that the experience of the Fraternity, as well as the friendships, should extend beyond graduation,” Northern said.

California Wineries with Ties to Delta Sigma Phi

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Introducing the DELTA SIGMA PHI B E T T E R

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Delta Sigma Phi Fraternity is proud to reveal the inaugural 40 Under 40.

In October the Fraternity launched the process to nominate deserving brothers of this accolade. Within this year’s 40 Under 40, thirty-one chapters are represented. The prestigious lineup showcases doctors, lawyers, businessmen, entrepreneurs, engineers, mentors and executives, among various other professions. While this list is in no way exhaustive, the Fraternity is proud of these men and their accomplishments.

Note: All 40 Under 40 brothers were required to be under the age of 40 when the nomination process ended.

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40 Under 40 How did you get to where you are? I joined the Marine Corps in 2003 and was injured in Iraq in 2006. During my recovery process, I had the opportunity to meet Colts’ owner Jim Irsay, who offered me a position. So now I’m going on my sixth season with the Colts.

What does your job entail? I travel around the country doing motivational speaking. It started off with a lot of schools and churches, and now it’s actually changed directions with a lot of corporations, a lot of sales meetings and things like that. It’s an awesome job: for one, to be able to work in the NFL, and two, to go out and share my story and so many other stories.

What do you talk about? Life and overcoming obstacles and enjoying the things that we’re given.

Matthew Schulman, M.D. Franklin & Marshall ’94 Board-Certified Plastic Surgeon matthew Schulman, M.d., P.c.

Age: 40 What does your typical day look like? I operate three days per week and see patients in the office on the other two days. On surgery days I begin operating in my own private fully accredited office operating room at 8 a.m. and continue until I am done at around 6 p.m. I generally perform three surgeries per day. I am one of the busiest plastic surgeons in New York City.

What makes you stand out from others in your field? I am an innovator. I have created procedures that focus on providing superior results with more rapid recovery. I have made numerous appearances on ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, WPIX11 and “The Doctors.” I am also routinely quoted in the New York Post, New York Daily News, In Touch Weekly, Life & Style, Star Magazine and The Globe.

What role did Delta Sig play in your development? Delta Sigma 12

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Phi helped to foster my interpersonal skills, which is crucial to success in a consumer-driven field like cosmetic plastic surgery.

How did commitment lead you to your successes? I have committed myself to my patients. This means that my primary goal is to offer superior results, delivered safely.

Do you volunteer or give back to the community? I receive many requests for pro-bono cosmetic surgery and make it a priority to donate my services to worthy causes. These cases may (involve) donating my services to someone injured in an accident, women who have been deformed by an abusive spouse or treating military veterans and their spouses.

What advice would give yourself 10 years ago? Continue the course because it is a marathon and not a sprint.

How do you make society better through your job? Everyone can relate to going through hard times. Everyone faces challenges—from third graders, to high schoolers, all the way up to people who are in corporate America. I think when I tell my story, it’s letting people be ok that there are things that happen in this world, there are things that go wrong. It’s really a lot of support we are given and the attitudes we choose that get us through those moments in life, and really look into the opportunities that come out of our challenges.

What is the importance of staying in touch with alumni? My closest friends are from Delta Sig. We still all hang out. We were brothers back then, we are still brothers now, and now we’ve added family to it. College is such a great time and at that time everything is still developing from your characteristics to where you’re headed in life, and those guys were part of that time. They know all about you—who you are—and they watched you transition over those four years. College is when you start choosing who you want to be around, and that’s how I found my brothers.

Josh Bleill

Purdue ’96 Motivational Speaker Indianapolis Colts Age: 37

What are you working on right now? I created software for fraternities and sororities to recruit and track their relationships—it is called Chapter Builder. At this point, about 50 chapters have an account and their recruitment teams are using this to track their relationships in a user friendly way.

What kind of volunteer work do you do? One of my favorite non-profits is missouri S&T ’10 called FOCUS North America.

Consultant/ They provide Entrepreneur occupations, Accenture clothing and Age: 24 shelter to the homeless in the local area. In St. Louis I led a fundraiser group that raised $35,000 for the center last year. This year we expect to raise $100,000.

DaviD Lecko

What does it mean to you to be successful at young age? I think success is subjective. I feel really honored, but at the same time I feel like there are a lot of people who are involved in my successes who don’t get recognized. How can you imagine success without other people?

What role did Delta Sig play in your development?

We talked about values, applying them and evaluating our actions. Now I keep a David Lecko code-of-conduct in my phone. It sounds overkill, but it keeps me on track.

What is your personal mission statement? Make sure everyday before you go to bed that you do something for someone else that you’ll never be recognized for. Not only will that bring yourself gratification, but it’s those types of things that can pay themselves back for those you help, and you’ll never even realize it. I was really able to articulate something like that after going through the Fraternity experience, and it’s part of being a Better Man. Be intentional with how your values are, and how you interact with other people.

So, what do you do with Prepare a Future? I’m a mentor to young adults.

I started to notice there was a growing trend with college students and recent grads not really knowing what to do with their lives or second guessing what they were doing. So, I started mentoring young adults helping them figure out whether to stay on their current path or help them find the right one.

What are you doing now? Writing a book, The Twenties BeatDown. It’s about the period in people’s 20s where they may feel beat down from life. Usually, it stems from a vocational question or anxiety about the future. So, out of that, I’ve created a curriculum specifically designed to help young adults with this problem. I’m also researching the reasons adulthood is being delayed and how it’s affecting human development.

You can visit twentiesbeatdown.com to find out more.

What does your job mean to society?

I believe that societally we have an

unnoticed problem. There are such high rates of anxiety and depression among this generation. The current ways that most students are trained and developed—everything from parental methods to high school and colleges—they are preparing people to get to the next step, but aren’t necessarily preparing them to make their own way. When you have training that’s so linear, then you get out into a non-linear world, it creates a real problem. Not many people have someone who’s talked to them about their identity and their purpose. So I feel what I’m doing is helping people understand who they are and what they’re called to. It’s like “Better Men, Better Lives,” and I keep my eyes on “better society.”

What drives you? Thanks to Delta Sig, the first time I ever realized I had any mentoring gifts was when I got a little brother. It was a different type of relationship I never had before, and I realized it was a gift I had to give back to others. This is the best way for me to invest in the future.

Drew Lichtenberger Virginia Tech ’99

Founder, Prepare a Future ™ And Author, The Twenties BeatDown™

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40 Under 40 What kind of work do you do in addition to being an attorney?

• Executive Director of the Philadelphia Republican Party • Adjunct Professor at LaSalle • Chairman - Mayfair Community Development Corporation • President - Mayfair Civic Association

What inspires you? I saw that I could affect changes just by doing things.

Why do you stay so involved? It started a little bit in high school, and it became even bigger in college. I started at Albright College and transferred to LaSalle when they started a football team. They did not have a Delta Sig chapter on campus, so I decided to start one. We started a football team, I was a Founding Father for Delta Sig’s LaSalle Chapter, I started the College Republicans Group, and I started my own television show.

Being involved became so easy in high school and college that when I got out in the real world, I just continued to do this stuff.

What does it mean to you to be successful at a young age?

It means that I still have a lot more room to grow, frankly.

I’m not where I want to be, and I want to continue to be able to move forward.

Joe DeFelice

What is your personal mission statement? Be who you are and be that well. Don’t try to be anything you aren’t; be who you are and be the best you you can be.

Where do you go from here?

I would like to be on the beach relaxing! I would like to be in a position in life where I don’t have to worry. My six-year-old son has autism, and I have a four year old son. It’s taken a toll financially on our family, and I want to be in a situation where my family doesn’t want for anything. Once that happens I’ll be able to achieve inner peace. A lot of what I do is to further myself, thereby furthering my family.

If I can go out there and do more and make more connections and meet more people and make more money and further my career, then the better off my family will be down the line.

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How did you get your start in real estate? I started with a local agent at age 13. She would pick me up and take me to her open houses so I could get a feel for it. She would also take me to her office, and I would just hang out there and do things for her like make flyers and brochures. Every Sunday she would pick me up and take me to her open houses, and if she didn’t have any, I would have my parents take me to open houses.

What sparked your interest in real estate? At the age of five or six I was drawing floor plans -- I thought I wanted to be an architect. I’ve always had an obsession with houses—inside and out and top to bottom—ever since I can remember.

What makes you stand out from others in your field? It isn’t just a way to make money for me. It’s seriously what I enjoy doing; I’ve wanted to do it since I was younger. Real estate is my job day in and day out, and I think being available and having a general understanding of the community sets me apart.

What motivates you? Just seeing people in the community happy and getting them into their homes. I know how exciting it is to get your first home or get your family somewhere larger.

What drives me is making Lincoln (Ill.) and the county a better place. I have a general passion for this town. It is smaller, but it’s my home and that’s all I know.

When you find time to do other things, what do you do? Ever since I was a little kid, I said there were two things I wanted to do: fly hot air balloons and sell real estate. I donate a lot of balloon rides to silent auctions. I get to fly people who have never been in the air, and I get to see the look on their faces. It’s amazing.

Seth Goodman Millikin ’07 Broker/Owner ME Realty Age: 26

Anthony Hopkins

Temple ‘99 Director of Communications Public Citizens for Children & Youth Age: 33

What does your typical day look like? As the Director of Communications for Philadelphia’s leading organization for children, every day at work is pretty busy. I start my mornings by looking over our social media pages and scheduling posts. From there I’ll look over several news websites to see the latest articles on issues affecting children and mentions of our organization’s work. After that, the bulk of my day involves working on communications projects. They range from writing press releases and pitching stories to the press, to writing newsletters and promoting events. Needless to say, I could use a vacation!

I try not to spend all of my time working.

I have an amazing wife who keeps me pretty busy, and me and a couple of my buddies from Theta Tau play together in a bowling league on Monday nights, and another one of my old Delta Sig brothers and I play softball together in the spring and summer.

What makes you stand out from others in your field? The fact that I spent my entire career working in TV as a news producer,

Adam

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What do you have going on right now?

•T his summer I will be working for General Electric in their Early Talent Development Identification Program (ECLP). If I perform well, it will turn into a full-time position with GE – it’s a very prestigious development program not only here, but around the world.

• Beta Omega’s Membership Advisor •P resident-Elect of the professional sales club at The University of Arizona •T eam lead for consulting with Microsoft – coming up with ideas and doing marketing analyses on a new project they are working on.

•W orking with multiple businesses I founded, including Phoria, an energy efficient technology company based in China.

Are you going to take on any new businesses soon? The second year of the MBA program is focused on entrepreneurship. Chances are I’ll probably be launching another small business, or if not launching then certainly getting into the small business realm again.

What does your typical day look like? I’m always up at 6 a.m., and I hit the gym at 6:30 a.m. I’m on campus by 8:15-8:30 until 8:30-9 at night. I come home and study before I inevitably pass out.

Kansas State ’06

so I have a general understanding of how reporters think, their deadlines, what they’re sensitive to. I’m able to kind of take the work that we do and basically show them why it’s a good story they should cover.

What role did Delta Sigma Phi play in your development? The biggest thing is that Delta Sig trained me to be a leader. I took part in the Leadership Institute when I was an undergrad. That taught me how to work with people, to understand how other people operate, and then how I can apply my message to them because, at the end of the day, everyone needs to work together if you want to be successful.

What does it mean to you to be successful at a young age? I’m actually following my passion, which is helping children. There are plenty of people out there that have found success in one way or another; I don’t think I’m more successful than the next guy. I just feel like I’m blessed just to be in a position where I’m doing what I love, and I’m able to give back.

What sets you apart from other entrepreneurs? I have a passion for helping other people and delivering value to other people’s lives. For me it’s not about chasing a dollar. I always have the overarching theme of being able to help other people, and so that’s why I love to get involved with things with Delta Sig here at Arizona or community service events— whatever it might be—those types of things always have an underlying motive of being able to give back. I think as long as I don’t lose that, that’s what sets me apart. Some people are driven for the money, the prestige, the power, but that’s not in my realm whatsoever.

What is your personal mission statement? To help others.

To change the world. To know that anything is possible.

MBA Student

Entrepreneur

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40 Under 40 What role has Delta Sigma Phi played in your development? I’ve always believed that had Delta Sig not come into my life, had I never had the opportunity to work for the Fraternity, I probably would never have stumbled onto the opportunities I have now… believe it or not, it all started with the Fraternity for me.

On one of our chapter visits, I was walking by the career services center and noticed a bulletin that said there was an opportunity to work in Washington D.C. for the US Trade Representative for China. When I had the interview, he seemed very impressed that I was willing to give back and work with chapters and alums and things kind of went from there.

What makes you stand out from others in your field? I like to try new things. A lot of people get intimidated by change, but I am usually the first guy to jump in and take a stab at it.

I did it when I went out to China, venturing out to a country halfway around the world and learning the language and culture.

What advice would you give yourself 10 years ago? I probably would say two things: to be more generous with people, to be more understanding

with people—that’s one. And two, think before you say anything.

Do you volunteer or give back to your community? I give to a charity called Alliance for Smiles—not only in monetary donations, but I try to help out when they do charity events in Asia and mainland China where they help out kids with cleft lips.

I’m also working with the University of Arizona helping them with their initiatives in China. So that’s a little different (laughs), but it’s nevertheless a probono charity cause that I do.

What inspires you? I’m inspired by people who create something from nothing. You read about immigrants all the time who come to the US with nothing, on food stamps, and they make something of themselves.

That’s why I took on the challenge when I was an undergrad at Arizona of building Beta Omega as a Founding Father, and why I’m now trying to do the same thing in Asia as an entrepreneur.

It’s not about the money; it’s not about the fame for me; it’s really about being able to say to yourself at the end of the day, “I created something that meant something to someone or had a lasting impact on another person’s life.”

Aaron How did commitment lead you to your successes?

I have always believed that if you are going to do something, you have to do it 100 percent. I try to approach all aspects of my life with this attitude. The adage of “If you don’t have time to do it right, then you have time to do it again” rings true for me.

What does it mean to you to be successful at a young age? Obviously, I’m not successful in the traditional definition of money, ownership of my own company or a senior manager at a company. Delta Sig’s approach of “Building Better Men” always rang true with me. My personal goal is that you find your time with me to be beneficial. I want to be sure that my influence is positive and that if I were to die tomorrow, I would be remembered in a positive light.

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ArizonA ‘99 investment professional AKP Capital Age: 34

Kramer Do you volunteer or give back to the community?

I have volunteered in multiple different areas over the past 14 years. I have been a Big Brother for Big Brothers Big Sisters. I still ring the bell for The Salvation Army every year. I served on my condo association board, and I have tutored refugee children after school for many years.

Recently, I’ve signed up to be trained as a literacy volunteer for adults for ESL. What is your personal mission statement?

Make a difference.

How do you make your company or society better through your job? CNO Financial is very active in the community. We do lot of partnering with United Way for fundraising. Our company, Bankers Life, started a day called Forget Me Not Day for fundraising for the Alzheimer’s Association. We go out in the streets of Chicago and raise money for Alzheimer’s Research, and all of our sales offices do the same. We raise thousands of dollars every year for the organization.

CNO FINAnCIAL GROUP

Age: 35

What does your typical day look like? Wake up in the morning, breakfast and off to work. I spend about three quarters of my time designing on unigraphix NX, and the other quarter is spent doing concept designer views.

Then in addition to that, on a typical day I’m usually pulled into what has to do with employee engagement. There is a group of engineers and employees that are the ones that put on all the extra stuff that sweetens the deal and makes work fun.

That’s what my time at Boeing looks like. Once I get off work I might spend a few hours that evening working on my film production company; I might spend it talking with some of the undergrads, and the occasional writing or music—trying to write a story and also trying to make an album.

What role did Delta Sigma Phi play in your development? I would classify it as highly instrumental.

Delta Sigma Phi gave me the opportunity to build the confidence and character necessary to deal with complex people situations and decision-making work environments.

Something else that really helped me get into the door with a lot of employers was I was a Founding Father of a Delta Sigma Phi chapter, and that was something that perked everyone’s ears up.

What makes you stand out from others in your field?

I am a right-brain engineer, and that is what makes me

stand out the most from the heavy logical left-brain engineers that I work with.

How do you make society better through your job? Just recently we’ve connected with local high schools. We put an event on for them where they got to see Boeing and tour a bunch of different, exciting areas that we have within the company and I put on an Amazing Race event.

Then within the company, I put together events that will enrich our employees livelihood at the company. My first event that I ever did was a monthly flight simulator program. We take, randomly, six employees and give them about an hour in the flight sim[ulator].

This now is, you could argue, one of the most successful employee engagement events that we do. Each month we have over 170 people apply.

What does commitment mean to you? Commitment, to me, is sticking to something that, at one point, you were all about and despite it becoming challenging or changing, you stay true to your initial reasons that you got into it.

What do you do in your free time?

Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, judo, cooking, remodeling my house, fostering for Midwest Dachshund Rescue and travel.

How do you find spare time as a company owner? Its really just about strict time prioritization—you have to find a work/ Wisconsin-platteville ‘01 life balance and make Owner, Savvy Panda time to enjoy the little things in life. A core Age: 31 value we instill at our company is having fun and& being balanced which means being healthy and happy, loving what you do and living life to its fullest. I’m not effective or productive if I’m not meeting my family, physical, spiritual and self needs.

Work life balance is a very dear subject to me and for my company.

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Tim Gowan

Missouri S&T ’06 F-15 Tooling Engineer, Boeing Age: 27

I believe very strongly to perform your best you must be whole, meeting your work, family and friends, physical, spiritual and self needs. I did an Ignite (a five-minute, 20-slide presentation) at a recent conference that was held at Harvard University on the subject.

How did you get to where you are? I started Savvy Panda freshman year of college—an architecture firm in Milwaukee asked me to build a website for them. They really enjoyed my work so they referred me off to some other people. By the time I was done with college, I had a full client base, hired my first employee and had my own office. It wasn’t easy though; I juggled business, school, wrestling, a social life and being involved in numerous organizations. In the end my persistence for success and drive for excellence is what got me there.

What does it mean to you to be successful at a young age? I think I still have a long way to go. I look at the top 1% of entrepreneurs and where they are at, and I think there’s still a long way to go. I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about it. I don’t know if I will ever be satisfied. I’m always hungry, and I always want to achieve more. It’s a lot about growing.

What is your personal mission statement? “Exciting change in your life or your organization so you can do more.” It’s my company’s mantra, but it comes from me personally. I love helping others overcome their challenges.

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I think my typical day depends on what time of year and what’s happening with the team—whether we’re in training camp, whether we’re in the playoffs, whether it’s during the regular season, it changes. This is definitely a job that keeps you on your toes.

I’m engaged, so I have a fiancé and two dogs, I’m a basketball junkie so if I’m not here, I’m probably watching it on TV. Or playing with my dogs.

Nick Arison Duke ’00 CEO, Miami Heat/American Airlines Arena Age: 32

What makes you stand out from others in your field? I think part of it is I’ve grown up around basketball, so it’s in my blood—I’m the third generation of my family involved with the team, so I’ve grown up around it, and I’ve been around basketball, the HEAT and other programs my whole life. I basically eat, sleep, drink and breathe basketball, so I’m lucky to be in a position where I absolutely love what I do.

What role did Delta Sigma Phi play in your development? I didn’t [hold any leadership positions] with my Fraternity; I was a manager for the

What’s the story behind Phone Scoop? How old were you when you started it? I was 23 and still living in the Fraternity house when I came up with the idea and started working on it. I had recently completed a Drexel co-op at a web startup. [This was during those heady days of the first dot-com bubble and bust.] My brothers—especially Joe “Doc” Dougherty—were invaluable in helping me focus the idea and encouraging me to push forward with it.

What does your typical day look like? I wear three main hats and wear at least two on any given day. One hat is running the business. The second is the technical aspects of improving and running the website.

And the third is creating some of the content. I work from home, where I’ve created a nice home office for myself, but I’d go bonkers spending all of my time there, so nearly half of my day is spent at the local Starbucks.

What role did Delta Sig play in your development? Delta Sig played a huge role in my success. In my case, I was treasurer at a time when we had a budget that equaled that of a small business. It almost felt like running a small startup. I tried to look at it like a business and implemented some major reforms right away. I’m proud of my time as treasurer, and have no doubt that helped prepare me for running my own business.

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basketball team at Duke so because of that it’s a pretty demanding schedule during the season, it’s like having a full-time job, and we traveled with the team on the road, so I wasn’t able to hold other leadership positions because that consumed so much of my time.

Delta Sig was responsible for helping forge lifelong friendships; there’s a lot of guys from my fraternity in college that I still keep in touch with, and I’m still friends with to this day, one of which is actually with another NBA team [Brooklyn Nets], Brian Basloe.

What does commitment mean to you? I think that, every opportunity I’ve had, whether it’s with the HEAT, at Duke, or with USA Basketball, there hasn’t been anything that I haven’t been willing to do. I was willing to do anything and everything at any time if it helped the team, the organization, succeed. I’ve been a HEAT ball boy, I’ve been a manager at Duke, I’ve never been afraid to do grunt work—I’ve always been “All in.”

How did commitment lead you to your successes? I believe in cultivating a good reputation based on doing right by people, and generally, I’ve found that my readers and employees reward that with loyalty, which goes a long way toward success.

Do you volunteer or give back to the community? I have about a dozen charities I donate to regularly, half of which are local. I give about 20 percent of my income to charity.

Our chapter was always very active that way, heavily involved with March of Dimes, and others like Habitat for Humanity and Ronald McDonald House. The Fraternity definitely impressed upon me the importance of giving back in that way.

Rich

Brome

Phone Scoop

Age: 36

How did you end up here? I had a Fraternity brother who moved to Newport Beach after college. He said, “I have an extra room for rent, why don’t you come down? I’ll give you a free month’s rent, and then you can find a job and pay for the next month.” I packed my things and moved from ID to CA within three days and found a job selling copiers. Within a year, I sold a copier to my current company, and they thought my sales approach would work well in the medical industry. They offered me a job that has progressed to partnership.

What role did Delta Sigma Phi play in your development?

Delta Sig played the hugest of roles. It was the experience of being in the chapter, and then taking chapter leadership roles.

Engaging in the brotherhood formulated my passion to go into student affairs, and then to work in Fraternity & Sorority life professionally for a time while I’ve been in student affairs.

What does it mean for you to be successful at a young age? You’re always shooting for higher things, but for me it’s about happiness and where you are in life. I love where I live and the people I’m surrounded by. I have the freedom to really enjoy life to the fullest.

Do you have a personal mission statement? When deeds speak, words are nothing.

What advice would you give yourself 10 years ago? Many of the ways I volunteer, I think, are directly connected back to the Fraternity experience, so through leadership programs through Delta Sig and others, I’m continuing to put people in the space to think about, “what is it to be a person of integrity?

What is it to be a person who gives service and gives thought to others? How do we celebrate the virtue of authenticity?”

What makes you stand out from others in your field?

I would say…I live in my truth, wherever I’m at. Whether I’m talking to you or whether I’m on the phone with my parents or whether I’m on a call with colleagues, I am there—wherever I am at—I am the same person. I do not know how to switch back and forth. So what happens is, when you’re the same person, you’re authentic and you are living your truth all the time—work no longer becomes work; work is just a factor of breathing, so I find myself finding success because I’m totally in alignment with what it is I find my purpose to be at that moment.

I think that…not all people have cultivated fully their own level of self and authenticity

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Wingate ‘01 Asst. director of student involvement, University of Chicago Age: 32 and so it’s not able to permeate itself as well in their work environment, to get to that kind of success that they are looking to have in their own lives.

What does commitment mean to you? What it means to me is that I’m continually affirmed that being myself is 100% okay and what I need to be.

How did you get to where you are today? In this moment, I have to acknowledge that there are a chorus line of people who’ve sung the song to the success I’m currently experiencing. This was never the Darren Pierre show; it never has been.

I feel like this interview should have a hundred other people in the room with me.

What motivates you? Within my work life, I am motivated to make our company one of the most revered and successful brands within our industry. Ten years ago we were a three-person startup working 7 days a week with many obstacles in our path. To start with little and make it to the top of a very competitive field would be quite an achievement.

Do you have any involvement in the community? I am an avid member of The Big Brothers/Big Sisters program. I was a big brother for eight years, and in 2010 I was Big Brother of the Year in Orange County (CA).

Volunteering as a Big Brother has been one of the best things I have done in life. My Little Brother and I are still in touch and continue to make the most of a great program.

Colin Glen Idaho ‘97 Partner, VP of Business Development, Intelligent Medical Solutions Age: 36 Summer 2014

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Then I host about half of the official UK pre-game shows. Then I do a post-game show. There are days that I’m on the radio for seven-and-a-half hours; it doesn’t happen a lot, but occasionally.”

Matt Jones Transylvania ‘96 Owner/Founder Kentucky Sports Radio Age: 35

What does it mean to be successful at a young age? I am very fortunate—I picked the right time to get into the business I am doing. It’s a great honor; I’m happy I get to do what I love and get paid for it. It’s been a lot of fun. I always wanted to be a part of sports in some regard, and I thought it would be via the law, but this has been a different path, and I’m very happy about it.

What does your typical day look like?

I have my morning radio show from 10 a.m. to noon on 26 stations across the State of Kentucky. In the afternoon I do business management stuff for the website, some writing, and I talk to advertisers. During the season I’m on the official UK pre-game and postgame show, and I am also a sideline reporter for some of the games. I also work a couple times a week doing commentary for a local TV station.

What are game days like for you? Game days can be really busy! I have my own

What inspires you? What inspired me at first was to try to have a chance to make it doing what I wanted to do. What really drives me a lot now is that we have employees that work for us, a lot of fans who listen every day. It’s sort of the quest to help other people and make their similar dreams come true.

What does your typical day look like? A typical day for me starts at 5 a.m. I have a morning ritual that involves meditation and prayer; it’s a time for me to reflect on what’s going on. Then the kids get up—we’ve got two kids under two—so my wife and I get straight to work getting them ready, and then I start the day! Once I’m at work, it’s anything. There’s no normal day-to-day operation when working for a statewide administration. I’ve got a staff of 18 that I’m always on the phone with, talking about different issues and projects that come up throughout the State of Illinois.The next day may include working with legislators and community leaders to partner or promote key issues for our office and constituents.

What makes you stand out from others in your field? My

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What does your job mean to the community? [I get to] entertain many people who have the radio show and website as an important part of their lives – that’s a neat part of it. It’s just sports, but at the same time, to a lot of people, it’s really important, and I really take seriously the responsibility to keep people entertained.

passion is and always has been serving others, so I truly take pride in the fact that every day when I go into the office, the question at hand is: am I serving others? Am I helping others get the answers they need?

What role did Delta Sigma Phi play in your development? The Fraternity taught me leadership and how to work with folks, you know, just like in politics—you have to work across the aisles; you have to know how to work with people. When you’re in a fraternity house with 40 guys living under one roof, there’s going to be issues, and you’ve got to think about how to lead them and make sure that everyone’s rowing the boat together.

As an alumnus, I’m the president of the Chicago Alumni Association and Epsilon Omega’s Alumni Corporation Board. I started the association because I met so many amazing, successful Delta Sigs in the Chicagoland area, and when you have the chance to learn from individuals that are so experienced and still have the passion for the Fraternity 10, 20, 30 even 40 years later, it inspires you to do the same.

What is your personal mission statement? I’ve got a quote that I keep right in my office; it’s actually from Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax, but I love it: “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better, it’s not.”

Rodriguez

Office of Comptoller judy baar topinka

Age: 29

What does your typical day look like? The Currituck Chamber of Commerce is a small non-profit, so no two days are alike. In the same week, I will be meeting with senior government officials, and later in the week, I could be directing traffic for a local festival.

What makes you stand out from others in your field? I try to put the needs of the businesses I serve ahead of my own self-interests.

Logan Farrell Illinois ‘09 mechanical Engineer, Nasa Age: 23 What does your typical day look like? I generally wake up, come in around eight or nine or ten or eleven, depending on if I worked until 2 a.m. the night before. We have a really collaborative environment; a group of about seven of us mechanical engineers and a couple electrical and software engineers do the designs for the robots. Depending on what part of the project we’re in, I’ll usually be doing: design work, CAD (computer-aided design) work, brainstorming. If we’re in the assembly stages, I sit in my jeans and a t-shirt and build NASA robots.

What makes you stand out from others in your field? A combination of my creativity in coming up with new solutions to problems and my drive to make things work. I’ll put in however much time is needed to make things work how they’re supposed to— to make the best product.

What role did Delta Sigma Phi play in your development?

Through college I spent a lot of time in the engineering labs doing work, reports, papers and studies… Delta Sig actually kept me happy and going and motivated because I had that release from all the stress from school…A good pool of friends and that support network really helped me get through school as well as I did.

Do you volunteer or give back to your community? I spend a lot of time mentoring a high school robotics team. It’s a program I did when I was in high school, FIRST Robotics, and it led me to be an engineer and go to [the University of] Illinois. Students have six weeks to build a 120-pound robot to play a game followed by six-toeight weeks of competition.

It’s amazing to me because it gives me the chance to give my talent back to society and get kids excited about science and engineering, the same way my mentors did when I was younger.

What advice would you give yourself 10 years ago? It would actually probably be, ‘relax a little bit—everything really works out OK. You’re going to put in the time; just make sure you have fun along the way.’

What inspires you? The drive to make new and interesting things.

Just the concept of getting a project, sitting in a room and starting with a blank piece of paper. Then, in less than a year or so, it goes from that blank piece of paper to a fully-functional robot.

Just seeing all those ideas and all your creativity come from nothing to a fully-functional robot is what keeps me going—it’s cool to do.

What role did Delta Sig play in your development? I learned how to work with people who hold differing opinions and who come from various backgrounds.

How did commitment lead you to your successes? I think those who know me best would say that if I really believe in something, I do not give up easily. I think commitment depends on passion.

What does it mean to you to be successful at a young age? I don’t think age matters for success. I have a job I love and that I am passionate about.

I have a wife who loves and supports me, a family who stands by me and friends who bring me great joy. My career is just one aspect of success in my life.

What is your personal mission statement? Love what you do. Be kind.

Work hard for your community.

What inspires you? One of my heroes is someone few people have heard of: a man named Pearl Fryar. There was a documentary film about him called “A Man Named Pearl.” He takes very ordinary-looking bushes and shrubs and sculpts them into amazing topiaries.

How do you make your company or society better through your job? I hope that I help the small businesses and organizations who are members of the Currituck Chamber of Commerce achieve their goals and dreams.

What goals would you like to accomplish that you haven’t had a chance to yet?

I would like to see the Currituck Chamber grow to have more members and continue to have a greater positive impact on the community.

Josh Bass

UNC-Chapel Hill ’03 President Currituck Chamber of Commerce Age: 30

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How did you get to where you are? I joined Delta Sig at Louisiana State right when the chapter was being re-chartered. After graduation, I took a job overseas to apply my international finance degree, and then moved to Florida to complete my MBA. I started working in the banking industry with Citibank in Miami after graduate school, and by 28, was already promoted to Vice-President at Citibank’s NY headquarters.

I left Citibank after 11 years to accept growth opportunities as a Finance Director at UBS and the Federal Reserve Bank of NY.

analyst team that oversees the budget and forecasting of the Federal Reserve Bank of NY. The last few years have been an interesting time at our nation’s Central Bank, and the Fed is an instrumental institution that can make a difference in our economy. It’s interesting having worked in Wall Street for a dozen years. I saw the [economic] crisis first-hand, and I feel like I am being able to leverage my finance skills for the greater good to try to be a part of the solution as the Fed continues to overcome some of our nation’s biggest economical challenges.

What role did the Fraternity play in your development? A lot of business skills I gained came from my academic years at LSU and my time with Delta Sigma Phi. The Fraternity provided me with important skills such as teamwork, cooperation, leadership, building networks, conflict-resolution and working in committees. I really cherish my experiences with Delta Sig, which provided me with a strong foundation for the business world.

What does it mean to you to be successful at a young age? I do not look at is as “being successful,” I instead look at it as an ongoing journey of continuous improvement. I’m just trying to always improve, become better, and also help improve those around me. I believe in mentoring others, and in giving back to the community, including the Fraternity.

How do you make society a better place through your job? I manage the finance

Louisiana State ‘95

What role did Delta Sigma Phi play in your development? Interestingly, Delta Sig was one of my first exposures to real estate, because when I was in school, we had just founded our chapter and were trying to find facilities for the group. Myself, along with the chapter advisor at the time, worked to find appropriate housing and ended up doing so by leasing a property from a local investor who had just bought the house from a fraternity that was closing down. So I was heavily involved in figuring out the lease structure, and how to fund the operating costs through the chapter and the brothers that would live there.

What makes you stand out from others in your field? Having the background I have from the debt side to the equity side to the corporate side and also at the asset level, I think the broad exposure to real estate across different sectors has helped me significantly in the role that I have now.

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What is your personal mission statement?

“Aim for perfection, but expect the unexpected.”

You strive for the best, but you have to be ready for anything.

Director, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Age: 38

What does it mean to you to be successful at a young age? For me anyway, success is a moving target. If I were ever in a place where I thought I had reached that, I think that it might make me uncomfortable. I think the driver, the motivator is always about having something in front of you to work towards.

What advice would you give yourself 10 years ago? Honestly, I probably would have focused more when I was an undergrad on my career path. I think if I had been more diligent about what I wanted to do with my life, I could have taken a shorter, easier course to private equity than having to go through graduate school first. You sometimes forget as an undergrad that there is day coming when you have to start a career outside of attending football games.

What does commitment mean to you?

Commitment is really about dedication and diligence in anything that you pursue.

Tyler Williams Georgia ‘02 Vice President of Acquisitions/Investments Guggenheim Partners – Guggenheim Real Estate Age: 31

What makes you stand out from others in your field?

My job is to oversee the Georgia College administrative services; I’m & State ‘07 in charge of all Town Manager the personnel Tyrone, Ga. and finances.

Age: 29 This job allows me to use a varied range of personality traits and characteristics. I don’t have to be the best at any one thing. It gives me the ability to learn a lot of different things and to work with the people.

Kyle Hood

What role did Delta Sig play in your development?

I was the oldest guy in the group and I did a lot of the work with the office administrators. So it was not at all what you would expect, what most people would expect of a fraternity experience on campus. But I think that set me up exactly the way I needed to be, to be successful in what I do every day.

How did commitment lead to your success? You know, it was going back to that humbling sort of experience even in itself: being so much older than all the other guys and still going through the pledge period like everybody else. I had a job, and I was working in an office on campus, but to still have to go through all those same rigors as freshmen. But I think the standards of conduct and the respect for college men that Delta Sig requires of their initiates, I think speaks volumes of the organization as a whole.

How do you make your company or society better through your job? I try to represent my generation—this millennial generation—which does not have the best reputation, particularly in the business and political world. I think my greatest contribution is trying to be a representative not only of my school and my fraternity and my community but of a greater generation.

Do you have plans to run for office one day? Yes. I think something at the state or federal level.

Ajay K. Ojha UNC-Chapel Hill ‘95 Federal Government Consultant, Associate Faculty, COO, Department of Defense (DoD) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS), The Washington Center, Emotive Systems Age: 38 Do you volunteer or give back to your community?

• I sit on the board of several NGOs and non-profits •B oard of Directors for UPAKAR Scholarship Fund •A lumni Committee for Racial and Ethnic Diversity for UNC-Chapel Hill •C ommissioner for Washington DC Mayor’s Commission on Asian and Pacific Islander Affairs Why do you donate so much time to volunteering of work? I think a job or a career can define you in just one way, and that’s (jobs) extremely important – it’s how you pay the bills, how you move up in the world, etc. But on the other side of that, as a human being, we have a right to give back. We are very fortunate to be on this planet, and beyond that, we should be able to give back to our communities, give back to people and give back to humanity in general. That’s something that was instilled in me when I was very, very young. I carried that through my bachelor’s degree, while I was a Delta Sig undergraduate—

that was just a part of who I was. I believe now more than ever, especially when you get older, it’s important to remember those things because it builds character, defines who you are and shows people what you are made of and not made of, too. It helps you grow as a person. Without giving back, you aren’t really growing as an individual.

What role did Delta Sig play in your development? Delta Sig was instrumental in helping me further develop time management, camaraderie and giving back. These are skills and qualities that help me today when I try my best to help others.

What is your personal mission statement? Be the change you want to see in the world. – Mahatma Gandhi We are all vehicles for change. We can make things happen if we persevere; if we work hard enough, believe in something and accept the challenges and keep moving forward and we try our best, we can definitely be vehicles for change.

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Flotkoetter

JoshMiles Purdue ’97 Principal, Miles Design

What does your typical day look like?

My typical days are pretty full of coffee, email and meetings, but my primary responsibilities for the company are to drive business development, build and create new relationships, helping clients at a high strategic level, and occasionally working on the fun stuff: helping our awesome design team come up with the most creative solutions possible.

What makes you stand out from others in your field? We’re a branding and design firm that works primarily with professional service firms—and that’s an industry that’s been largely ignored— so we help professional service firms really take a hard look at what makes them unique, how to stand out in a crowded market.

In order to do that, we have to— as I joke with them—play one part psychiatrist and one part talk show host, which means we have to sit them down and help them unpack their deepest, darkest secrets and their feelings and really how they want to be perceived in the world. Then we have to get that message ready for primetime.

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Age: 37

What role did Delta Sigma Phi play in your development? I was the social director for our chapter, and sometimes that meant cold-calling a sorority or cold-calling an event venue and figuring out how we were going to put together all the pieces.

I think it’s interesting looking back and then looking at how we run complex projects today, that was a huge help in just preparing me for what the real world was like when you have to put something big together.

What advice would you give yourself 10 years ago? It’s my own personal OCD I suppose, but I’ve mapped how one client that we’ve met here led to a connection over here which led to a client over there or a friendship in the future and… it’s interesting how many of those relationships I invested in early in my career have continued to create new things that we’ve been able to build from.

What does commitment mean to you?

Saying that you’re committed means that no matter what—not just that it’s interesting, not just that I’m going to try—I’m going to get this done. No matter what.

Michigan state ’02 Manager, zero Emissions Group-Nissan Age: 31 You’ve been involved in the auto industry since graduation -- why do you enjoy it? I chose a career path revolving around hybrid and electric vehicles, and everything I’ve done up until this point has revolved around it. For me, that area of industry was interesting for a couple of reasons. One, it’s technology that’s good for the environment, and secondly its cutting-edge technology.

What is the importance of alumni bonds? As an undergraduate you develop these relationships and bonds that become life-long bonds with members of the Fraternity. You don’t realize at the time you are an undergraduate how meaningful these relationships are that you are developing. It’s a natural progression as you graduate that you keep in touch with these people. I feel that’s what differentiates us from other fraternities. Brothers that come from Delta Sig keep in touch and have a strong bond that progresses our entire lives. More than half of my sailing team are Delta Sigs.

What advice would you offer to younger Delta Sigs?

The Fraternity is one of the best opportunities to prepare someone for life after college and a career.

You’ll get out of the Fraternity tenfold what you put in, and that’s been my experience. Looking back on my undergraduate years, I was extremely motivated and dedicated to taking on leadership positions, and I’ve seen how that naturally translates to the types of experiences that are expected within the workplace and community.

What motivates you? Being the best person I can be, the best brother I can be, and the best father I can be.

I want to do the best job I can in all facets of life.

How did commitment lead to your successes? I want to give credit to the organization. I learned true commitment while pledging the Fraternity, and that is what kept me in college. I was going to leave school my sophomore year, but the Fraternity is what kept me at Grand Valley and helped me get my degree. It was a fraternity brother, Brenden Stark, who got me my job with Farmers Insurance Group right out of college. I was able to work my way up the corporate ladder from there.

What’s your Fraternity involvement look like? I’ve held various positions in the Fraternity over the years. I was the Chapter Advisor, ACB President, Epsilon Tau Alumni Chapter President and currently sit as an advisor to the ET ACB and ET Alumni Chapter executive boards. I also mentor several of our undergraduate members through the Epsilon Tau Alumni Big Brother program.

What do the alumni bonds mean to you? Most of my close co-workers are Fraternity brothers, and all of my best friends are Fraternity brothers. We’ve all remained close after college and often vacation together. Our wives and girlfriends have also become close friends, which makes it even easier for us to stay in touch on a regular basis. I think the fact that we’ve all remained so close after school has led all of us to stay involved with the Fraternity in one role or another. We often use various chapter functions as an excuse to get together and hang out.

What advice would you give yourself 10 years ago? I would have told myself to continue on with my education after completing my under-

What does your typical day look like? My role is to meet with our clients and design customized wealth management solutions for them, from estate planning to retirement planning.

What makes you stand out from others in your field? At the firm that I work for, I’m one of the younger people. I think that’s an advantage. I have a broad base of experience working with other experts at the firm, and so that gives me a breadth of experience.

What role did Delta Sig play in your development?

Serving as Vice President of our chapter for a year has set me on this path. Halfway through that year, the Delta Sig house burned down. I don’t think they ever determined the cause of the fire. But I had to navigate the chapter through that.

How did commitment lead you to your successes?

Commitment is the first necessary step to being successful. To do something well and right, you have to commit yourself to that effort.

Do you volunteer or give back to the community?

I’ve served on a couple of philanthropic boards and organizations, putting together events and fundraisers, including black and white galas and happy hour

graduate degree. This fall I will be starting my EMBA and after being out of college for 14 years I’m sure it won’t be easy.

What is your personal mission statement? Do what you say you’re going to do. If you tell someone you are going to do something make sure you do it in a timely manner and don’t let it fall to the wayside. It’s important because people rely on you and when you don’t, you let them and yourself down.

Bill

Yates

Grand Valley State ‘97 Marketing & Sales, Farmers insurance Age: 37

events for causes such as the American Cancer Society to Chicago Orchestra. A lot of them are kid and health-related.

What does it mean to you to be successful at a young age? It’s terrific. It’s a little bit of vindication.

The effort and commitment that I’ve put into getting where I’m at has worked.

How do you make your company or society better through your job? I’m in the business of helping people. A lot of times, it’s working with clients who have had a death in the family, and there’s a large inheritance, working with widows who have never managed the finances and who have a lot of questions. It’s rewarding.

What inspires you? It’s the idea of doing a good job.

Helping people while doing things well, doing things that you enjoy, coming home to my wife and daughter and knowing that I did good things well.

You started your job at this company 10 years ago, when you were 22. That’s uncommon today.

What’s your secret? Part of it’s the culture. Part of it’s loyalty. It stems from being a Delta Sig at Western. The idea of working your way up in a very natural way has always had an appeal to me.

Steve

O’connell Western illinois ‘99 Wealth strategist Northern Trust Age: 32 Summer 2014

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As a presidential appointee, I focus on program management, policy development and political and community outreach.

What makes you stand out from others in your field? My passion for government and commitment to being a competent public servant.

What role did Delta Sig play in your development? Whether personally or professionally, I can trace much of my success to Delta Sig. I heard about the job through a brother in my chapter. I have Delta Sig to thank for that—along with making it through a threemonth federal background search process.

Tanner Banion Kansas State ’04 special assistant to regional administrator, General Service Administration Age: 28

What does your typical day look like? I work out of my home, so as long I’m not on the road travelling, each day looks similar.

There is always some variance, but it usually begins and ends at my kitchen table on my laptop. In between is filled with customer calls, presentations, putting together slides.

Anything and everything I can do to help further the sales cycle.

Do you do any volunteer work or give back to the community? I’m a Sunday school teacher—every Sunday I teach a group of third graders. It gives me greater respect for the teaching profession each and every Sunday that I go. I also work with a local chapter of a group called the New Leaders Council.

What’s the New Leaders Council? It’s a group that gets together about once a month, and we put them through a series of training in order to prepare them to become the future leaders of Wisconsin in politics, business or law. It’s almost like a mini-MBA training.

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How did commitment lead you to your successes? Being committed to helping Delta Sig after you leave your time as an undergraduate—I do that through service on our alumni board. The commitment is for a lifetime. It sets us apart.

Do you volunteer or give back to the community? I enjoy giving back to the chapter through donation of time and effort.

What does it mean to you to be successful at a young age? I didn’t get here by myself. I don’t think there’s one thing I can point to other than the support of those around me— my Delta Sig brothers and family.

What is your personal mission statement?

Being in the service of others.

What inspires you? I’m a government nerd.

All too often government is denigrated to the extent it’s damaging the country. I’m inspired by government’s ability to help people through good, committed public service.

How do you make your company or society better through your job? Staying committed to being a good public servant, someone who wants to see programs and taxpayer money managed well.

Do you have plans to run for public office?

That may be an opportunity I entertain in the future. As a younger public servant, our time to make a positive difference in America is now – not to be disengaged or aloof. If you want to see positive change, then you have to be that change.

Why do you think it’s important to give back to younger people? It’s something I just personally enjoy. Both my wife and I are from Wisconsin, and we’ve chosen to raise our family here. We recognize if the state is going to have the caliber of leaders that is needed to take it well into the 21st century and be successful so that my children have the same opportunities that I did growing up [we have to give back]. It’s important that we give back and help those leaders on their journey so that when my kids are older they have role models and mentors that they need to be successful. It’s a little bit of paying it back, but even more so paying it forward.

What role did Delta Sig play in your success?

I owe everything I have accomplished professionally to the Fraternity. It taught me the value of giving back, incredible leadership skills and it created a network of individuals that I’ve relied on repeatedly throughout my career.

I feel as though I could work every day over the remainder of my life, and I could never fully repay the debt I owe to the Fraternity.

Luke Fuszard Texas ’00 Strategic sales manager, castlight health Age: 32

What does your typical day look like? Craziness. BodyBuilding.com is the world’s largest health and fitness website. We’re a top-250 website in the U.S. and a top-500 website in the world. My role is building all the content that we feature online.

What makes you stand out from others in your field? I’m a fitness enthusiast.

I have a passion for the industry. Combine that with my expertise in branding and social media.

What role did Delta Sig play in your development? It helped me understand relationships and networking. Being in Delta Sig is kind of like your first chance to work within a company. I learned about how to work toward a common goal.

How did commitment lead you to your successes? In Delta Sig, I learned a lot about what it takes to change your physique. You’re setting a goal, essentially, and you take steps toward those goals. The same process applies to life.

It’s all about commitment.

Do you volunteer or give back to the community? I do a lot with the Muscular Dystrophy Association. For two years, I’ve helped as a Big Brother with Big Brothers Big Sisters. Recently, I helped our company also build a free outdoor gym in Boise as a resource for our community.

What advice would give yourself 10 years ago? You don’t just work for a job.

A lot of people fall into roles because their parents told them to or they think you can make money in that role. That kind of motivation only lasts so long. I would have told myself to not just settle for a paycheck.

What is your personal mission statement? When you are weak, you are strong. It’s based on 2 Corinthians 12:10 in the Bible.

What inspires you? Stories of success from people who are struggling to make their lives better.

There’s a lot of get-fit-quick advice out there.

What’s your best single piece of advice for get-ting fit? Consistency. Programs work.

They all work. They all just take time.

You just have to consistently work the steps.

John

Hardesty Idaho ‘00 VP Digital Publishing, BodyBuilding.com Age: 32

Ross McDowell

UW-Oshkosh ’00 FOunder, Run Away Shoes Age: 33 What does your typical day look like? I go to my local hub, which is Appleton, and I will do emails and work with reps and with the different managers from each one of the stores. We also put on events. That takes a lot of time, working with sponsors and correlating marketing efforts for the events, plus with the sponsors and Run Away Shoes itself.

got approval from the local bank for the store.

What makes you stand out from others in your field?

I think it’s the way we take care of our own people and customers.

Do you volunteer or give back to the community? We’re involved in over 70 races throughout the year that are connected to local charities.

I’m definitely close to having donated more than $100,000 toward local charities.

What role did Delta Sig play in your development?

I was actually President of the Fraternity [Epsilon Beta Chapter] in 2004, which gave me a lot of good experience. At the same time period of being President of the Fraternity and graduating from college, I wrote a business plan and

How did commitment lead you to your successes? The first three to four years being open for business, I lost $15,000 to $20,000 a year. My commitment to the end goal of what I wanted to do for my life has really helped me. Now our business is growing by 30 to 40 percent each year.

What does it mean to you to be successful at a young age?

I really don’t look at myself as that kind of successful yet.

But I enjoy it, and it gives me more freedom to spend more time with my family as we become bigger.

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At work, I serve federal clients exclusively. I manage a small team of individuals, so I come in and get a level footing with them. We work directly with the client to help them solve complex business problems, typically around IT-related risk. Whether that’s insider threats or outsider threats to their system integrity, we help them optimize their processes and reduce organization risk.

I usually work until about six o’clock, then I come home, play with my son and give him a bath, put him to bed and usually just catch up with my wife and do things around the house. Then do some more work!

Pretty standard, you know.

What makes you stand out from others in your field? I work for a very large company, and I’d like to think I have a very good understanding of our business strategy and how we make money, and I have a good understanding of what the table stakes are for our business.

What role did Delta Sigma Phi play in your development? From my undergrad days, I was the Chapter President so: leadership, group dynamics and understanding how to motivate people.

Then I worked for the National Headquarters as a Regional Director [from ’04-’05]; it definitely made me much better at my public speaking and engaging a room full of challenging people.”

What does it mean to you to be successful at a young age? I think it’s very fulfilling because I can provide for my family. It keeps me motivated to think of what I want to be able to accomplish over the next 30-plus years of my career. What kind of larger accomplishments do I want to achieve? What kind of larger change do I want to affect?

It kind of broadens the aperture of what, I think, is possible, then if I was a little further behind.

What does commitment mean to you? “When things get tough…I think, without commitment, it’s very difficult to work through difficult times.”

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What does your typical day look like? I travel throughout the Mid-Atlantic Region, where I am responsible for $40 million in annual revenue for the Tissue Diagnostics Division of Roche.

I have eight direct reports throughout Pennsylvania, Maryland, Washington D.C. and Virginia. Our customers and clients are the hospitals and reference labs that make cancer diagnoses.

Christopher Hauck

Penn State ’96 Regional Business Manager, Roche Diagnostics Corporation Age: 37

What makes you stand out from others in your field? Not settling and not being out worked.

What role did Delta Sig play in your development? An incredibly significant role. My very best friends are from Delta Sig, and I am in contact with at least 15 of them several times every day via email since I graduated in 1999.

How did commitment lead you to your successes? Knowing how to see things through, how to finish strong and how to always take pride in what you do.

Do you volunteer or give back to the community? I served as the President of the Alumni Corporation Board at Epsilon for three years and am currently the Vice President of the ACB. I plan on being involved with our Alumni Board of Epsilon forever. Epsilon, for me, was Penn State, and the friendships I have made both as an active and as an alum are ones that will last my lifetime.

What advice would give yourself 10 years ago? Whining is easy; winning takes work.

Matt Caccavale

How do you make your company or society better through your job? I know that with every product and solution my organization provides, we help patients afflicted with cancer.

Virginia Tech ’00 Manager, cyber risk services, Deloitte & Touche Age: 32

What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever received? My dad would always say, you are never as good as you think you are at your best, but never as bad as you think you are at your worst.

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What role did Delta Sigma Phi play in your development? Just being part of the Fraternity as whole, just being part of a larger organization of 80 to 100 guys trying to move in one direction, gave me some insight early on into kind of the dynamics of personalities and talents that I use today.

What makes you stand out from others in your field? One of the things that I think is valuable to me and I think valuable to my clients is that I am acutely aware of the life context of their professional [role]—that they have to be merged.

What inspires you? Everything we do, particularly what I do professionally, is driven on the premise that the most valuable asset is our relationships, and the most valuable currency we have is time. What inspires me is when we can apply our most valuable currency to amassing all those valuable assets.

How does your job make society better? So many people hate their jobs…where they spend most of their time because they see their work life and their “true life” at odds, so they spend most of their time unhappy or lacking direction, making them less successful and even more unhappy. That’s the worst. My job is all about aligning what your personal goals are with your professional goals. I help my clients—on an individual level and then managers who are driving the individual contributors—to realize, how to link what they want outside of work with what they do within their professional role. If I’m doing my job well, my clients are left with that awareness and hopefully a little closer to being professionally, and more importantly, personally fulfilled.

Cerqueira North Carolina State ’98 Consultant, Aslan Sales Training and development Age: 35

What is your personal mission statement?We are most fulfilled when we serve others.

What does your typical day look like? A big part of my day is handling virtual communication. Recently I’ve been on very long conference calls with partners in South America, China, Sweden and Switzerland, and I’ve just returned from travel in Peru. Given that cancer is a problem everywhere in the world, collaboration is a key element to solving the issue, so much of my time is managing relationships across several different cultures.

Given that we’re a biotech company, and by definition that means that we do not have sales, a significant portion of my day is also fundraising. I would say I connect with an investor or a potential investor every single day.

What makes you stand out from others in your field? I think two things help me stand out: The first is that I am extremely fortunate to be surrounded and supported by an experienced, passionate and driven team. Without the team, and without all of us involved in the project, it simply couldn’t work. And then the second thing is, I think I have a fantastic ability to connect and work with many different cultures in a clear and productive manner.”

What inspires you? I’m extremely passionate because I have had the opportunity to personally witness success with our cancer vaccine. In short, I’ve met late-stage patients with an estimated life expectancy of 3-6 months. These patients then received our treat-

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ment and some are now over four years cancer free. That drives me.

What role did Delta Sigma Phi play in your development? The way I see it, Delta Sig is one of the pillars and part of my foundation that has supported my personal growth and allowed me to define who I am as a person.

Do you volunteer or give back to your community? My team and I have founded a non-profit called “I Can Win.“ The purpose of this organization is to take practical, nontoxic and more effective treatments to underprivileged communities—be it domestically or internationally—and our immediate goal is to offer these innovative therapies to patients that have no other available treatment options.

Lu

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Alleruzzo

Immunophotonics, Inc.

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kentucky ’03 Vice President, GE Antares Capital Age: 30 What makes you stand out from others in your field? I would say I have the unique experience of being able to elevate within my organization in a short period of time. Part of that is attributable the strong work ethic that I was able to employ through my leadership days in Delta Sigma Phi as an undergraduate and carry those into my role on the alumni board for our group, and I think without hard work, you don’t get success.

What role did Delta Sigma Phi play in your development? I would say that Delta Sigma Phi was instrumental in helping me chart a path to my career as well as providing me networking opportunities and leaders in our organization to connect with to explore those opportunities. I can think of a few instrumental people, one being Mike Falkowitz, who served as a mentor to me and also to the University of Kentucky’s Theta Mu chapter.

I point to guys like Richard Holmes and Chris Edmonds and others who have helped me make connections in my field, in finance, and without some of those personal

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touches where people went above and beyond their duty or their level of friendship and kind of elevated things to the next level, I wouldn’t have had some of the opportunities that I was able to exercise upon.

What advice would you give yourself 10 years ago? I would guide anyone who’s in a undergraduate chapter to think of where they want to work in the future and guide their decision-making, whether it’s what major they’re taking in their college, if they need to transfer to a different college, or if they need to take on an internship or some other extracurricular that will help improve their marketability for that role, that’s the most importance piece.”

Do you volunteer or give back to the community? I still remain very involved serving as the president of our alumni corporation board for the Theta Mu Chapter and I’ve had a lot of great opportunities serving in that capacity for the last few years and I think one of our hallmarks has been securing a house for the undergraduate men at UK.

What role did Delta Sigma Phi play in your development?

The idea of Better Men, Better Lives really clicked for me and forced me to be the best I could be. I decided that day that I would spend every waking moment, all my time and effort, making myself the best that I can be, making the community around me the best it can be, and making the world around me a better place.

Millikin ’10 A big thank you Packaging to the Fraternity, solutions obviously it’s been a specialist, huge impact on my life RV Evans Co. and continues to be and will be for the rest Age: 23 of my life, and I feel very honored that you guys would consider me for this.

Caleb Buscher

What makes you stand out from others in your field?

A lot of it is initiative and drive. With my current position, I do consulting and sales basically, and the nice thing about that is…If you want to work 16 hours a day, you can. Seven days a week or six days a week, it’s not an eight-to-five-type job so you get out of it what you put into it.

It’s kind of like the Fraternity. One thing that Delta Sig taught me is that the more you give to the Fraternity, and the more time you spend in it with others doing the things you need to do, the more valuable experiences you’ll get out of it.

And that kind of leadership and drive has kind of pushed me into my professional life the same way, where I’ll step up and take on tasks for the company and that drive is apparent.

What is your personal mission statement? It’s something I heard that’s kind of stuck with me my whole life…If better is possible, then good is not enough.

Never settle.

What does commitment mean to you? I think for me commitment is taking a stand, unwavering. I’m a firm believer that there’s no being uncommitted in your life. You’re either committed to greatness or you’re committed to failure, so either way you’re committed to something.

Do you volunteer or give back to your community?

I’m the President of CAST (Community and Associate Services Team), a TransUnion services organization dedicatPurdue ’95 ed to providing community VP of operations service and improving associ& Strategy ate engagement. We support a diverse set of charities through Transunion fundraising events and through Age: 37 volunteer activities. CAST also organizes associate events, like our summer barbeque and holiday party. I have also been a tutor for the past 3 years through IFL (Innovations for Learning), an online tutoring program. We help first graders improve their reading skills. I’m also becoming involved in The Child Rescue Coalition, whose mission is to identify child trafficking and child pornography rings. I was also a volunteer for Chicago Cares for about 8 years, which supports schools and youth in Chicago.

Shane Kondo

What triggers your passion to want to help others? I actually gave a speech on this theme in my Toastmasters club. My topic was “is the passion for philanthropy and giving a trait that is learned or is it something you were born with.” I think I was just born with it.

An as example—I grew up with an older brother. He was a typical older brother, he would pick on me, take all my toys, the normal big brother stuff. Naturally, being a little brother I should resent that, but that wasn’t the case for me. In grade school I would save the treats that we got in class and bring them home to my brother instead of devouring them like the other kids. That’s just how I was, I was that kid. In middle and high school I would deliver meals to needy families around the holidays. At Purdue I was the Chapter’s Philanthropy Chair. Throughout my entire life I’ve had a passion for philanthropy and giving.

What is your personal mission statement? Life is about experiences and being able to tell good stories. You need to have a wide variety of things to talk about, and you have to be proud and happy about the stories you get to tell.

What does it mean to you to be successful at a young age? It doesn’t mean a whole lot. Now that I have kids, it means being able to provide for my children. It’s a little cliché, but when you have kids, it’s very true. I want to provide bright opportunities for their future.

What role did Delta Sigma Phi play in your development?

Certainly leadership development, I was involved in several leadership positions at the chapter level at Maryland.

There were several Greekspecific leadership courses and I was a Chapter President so there was a chapter president’s class. I attended UIFI and did several RLAs and LI most importantly. I think those things instilled certainly a sense of confidence and a sense of “How do I lead? How do I manage a team?” And while I’m not thinking about those lessons on a daily basis in executing my job, I do think the tools and skill sets that they provided me with are critical to how I approach my internal team and my client base and even prospective clients. It’s just a sense of confidence and a sense of the ability to get things done.

How does commitment play a role in your successes? I would kind of relate this back to the Delta Sig experience. You see a lot of guys come through and say they’re going to be committed and they have lofty goals like having chapter leadership positions and it doesn’t always pan out…but for me, I viewed this as an organization that I thought very carefully about joining and when I did so, I wanted to give it 150%,200%, whatever you want to call it.

Professionally, I’m committed. I’m committed to making my company better, I’m committed to making myself better, my clients better. When you put all those things together, I think that’s why I’m so dedicated to the things I do.

What advice would you give yourself 10 years ago?

Ten years ago I was just graduating college. I think it would be to not sit back and wait for things to come to me…to jump on any opportunity and seize the day as soon as it comes because you don’t know where those opportunities will lead.

What inspires you? Good people that know how to maintain relationships. It could be as simple as making sure you’re in constant contact, making sure you’re acknowledging things that are done well. I think that’s something I really respect in a business setting, people that reward others who are part of their team, and also are not afraid to confront them when something’s wrong.

Brian Vincent

Maryland ’00 Director, Economic Partners, LLP Age: 32

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Bond of Brothers

“Then shall our names, familiar in his mouth as household words…be in their flowing cups freshly remembered. This story shall the good man teach his son; and Crispin Crispian shall ne’er go by from this day to

The bonds of brothers: A one-on-one with author Steve Fainaru

the ending of the world, but we in it, shall be remembered–we few, we happy few, we band of brothers; for he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother.”

– King, Henry V.

By Cory Collins, Transylvania ’10

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teve Fainaru has witnessed the bonds of brotherhood, the cost of bruises and bloodshed, and how quickly— so quickly— the heroes of America are forgotten.

So time and time again he told their stories. From the trenches in Iraq to the trenches that separate colliding helmets and bodies in the NFL, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and best-selling author uncovered sacrifice and corruption.

But he’s no cynic, for Fainaru also discovered that there is good to be found in the simplest of age-old stories: for every structure that seeks to separate, there are humans that connect.

That story once took a simpler form in the life of Steve Fainaru.

As a 1981 Delta Sig initiate at the University of Missouri, Fainaru sought to connect, not disengage. The Fraternity house was set up so that, as a brother aged, he gained privacy.

Freshman lived in big rooms with their pledge brothers; upperclassmen got their own space. Usually.

“But the guys I hung out with, we were so tight,” Fainaru remembered. “We decided we wanted to stay in the bigger room.”

Fainaru was initially befriended by a fellow journalism student, a fellow San Francisco Bay Area boy, a soon to be

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fellow Delta Sig. “Because we both lived in California, I recruited Steve to be a Delta Sig over the summer before his freshman year,” remembered Tim Burke, a 1979 initiate and now the Publisher and Editor of the Palm Beach Post. “After driving across the country with Steve to Mizzou and sharing some memorable moments, I just knew he would be an outstanding brother.”

What Fainaru didn’t yet know was that he’d gravitate to making connections that went outside the lines, beyond the fields. Initially, he just wanted to write about baseball.

“I wanted to be a sports writer; I wanted to cover baseball,” he said. “That was pretty much the extent of my career goals.”

Not long after leaving Mizzou, he got his dream job. The Hartford Courant hired him to cover the Boston Red Sox. The Boston Globe would give him the same gig shortly after. And there, an off-the-field story piqued his interest. A story that went far beyond baseball.

Fainaru worked for the Boston Globe when reports surfaced that Cincinnati Reds’ manager and legend Pete Rose had bet on baseball. He got the assignment. It’s a scandal that shut the gates of the Baseball Hall of Fame, forever, to Pete Rose.

It’s a scandal that opened a window of opportunity for Fainaru to see the value of other topics and other forms to be found in journalism.

“What a real force for good journalism could be—I think I knew it intellectually,” he said. “But I didn’t know it from personal experience. So I began to see that, to experience it.

And I began to gravitate toward stories where there was a public service component to it.”

That gravitation led him to places far beyond Missouri—to Boston, to Washington, D.C., to the shores of Cuba and the sands of Iraq.

It was there that Fainaru earned the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in international reporting for his uncovering of abuses involving private security contractors—guns-for-hire in Iraq unburdened by consequence.

“It turned the country into a free fire zone with zero accountability,” Fainaru recalled.

So Fainaru held them accountable. Though he says that physical risk outweighed the struggle to uncover information, the information sent shockwaves.

“Some of the things I was writing about were extremely sensitive… stuff that the US Government wasn’t even aware of,” he said. “I think that had huge implications for the war in almost entirely negative ways. They basically outsourced huge parts of the war.”

And remembered, at last, were those caught in the crosshairs of the sponsored violence: the soldiers and the American people.

More recently, Fainaru entered a different battlefield of sorts, but one with a familiar problem: bodies were being hired to inflict, and endure, suffering.

League of Denial, a book co-written by Fainaru and his brother Mark Fainaru-Wada, uncovered the ultimate NFL coverup. The brothers Fainaru chronicled the history of concussions in the league—what they knew, when they knew it and who suffered when they waited.

And according to Fainaru, he met more resistance from the NFL than he ever did in Iraq.

“The NFL, at its core, when you get beyond all the games and how great a sport it is, is a huge corporation,” he explained.

“That corporate culture, in the end, was extremely antagonistic toward us…totally uncooperative.”

“They would often fight back and try to get our editors to change the story,” he added.

But the story didn’t change. The brothers who shed blood side-by-side would be remembered, their suffering not lost.

“The NFL did a huge disservice to the players by trying to bury this information,” Fainaru said. So he brought it above ground, and garnered appreciation from the subjects of his story.

“It’s been really gratifying to hear from retired football players who have thanked us for sharing their stories,” he said.

But these stories are hard to stomach—stories of lives ruined, brains destroyed, families torn apart. And embedded in Iraq, Fainaru had witnessed people he knew lose their lives.

Surely it tears at him. But he keeps writing.

“In both those assignments, you had things going on that could leave you cynical,” Fainaru admitted. “But I think what

really keeps me from being that way is the people I’ve met. I can’t count the amount of incredible people I’ve met.”

“I’ve seen so much courage and humanity, both in Iraq and in the NFL,” he said.

So he keeps writing. He keeps uncovering. Why? Because he still seeks to make the human connection.

That, more than the accolades, represents his reward.

“It’s being able to provide information that is useful in some way,” he explained. “I think the media often gets a bad name.

But to me it really is, it really can be, a public service where you’re hopefully providing information that people can use, whether its better understanding a war being fought in their name, or a sport their kids play, or writing a story that moves someone in some way, either to take action or help them understand the world in a different way.”

And when you ask Fainaru what he takes away from each chapter in his already storied career, a theme resonates.

From League of Denial: “I got to do it with my brother, who I’m really close with. He’s my best friend.”

From Iraq: “My favorite memories of Iraq revolve around people I became really close with.”

From his fraternity experience: “You form really close bonds with people and that becomes your lasting memories…the seminal moments in your life.”

Humbly, he spoke of his fraternity brothers, “I’d be surprised if they weren’t surprised [by what I’ve done].”

Tim Burke may disagree.

“One certainly can’t predict a Pulitzer, but Steve had an incredible drive and talent the minute he walked on campus,” Burke said. “He always had the look of a winner in his eyes.

I am not surprised by his success.”

Fainaru downplays that success. But a theme certainly resonates. He uncovers. Always, he cares.

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Fraternity/Sorority Advisor

Donates to Delta Sig Cause //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

By Jennifer Graham

For some, college is easy to leave in the past; for others, it stays for a lifetime.

University of Michigan-Dearborn’s Greek Life Coordinator falls into the latter – Kristin McDonough has been employed with her alma mater since graduation, working first in the Development Office and now as the Greek Life Coordinator.

But, it isn’t just her alma mater that is sticking with her; it’s Delta Sig, too.

McDonough, an alumna of Delta Phi Epsilon, spent her college years beside Delta Sig brothers and has watched the chapter continue to prosper over the past several years.

McDonough believes the chapter’s commitment to each other is what makes them stand out. In July 2013, one of their chapter brothers passed away, and their response touched her.

“Seeing the chapter support each other and to know how many alumni came out to rally around the chapter and help them deal with a loss, deal with their individual feelings and also help support the individual member’s family—they just really showed through their actions how committed they are to each other,” she said.

The Delta Sig’s at Michigan-Dearborn don’t just rally around their own, though. While McDonough was an undergraduate, she lost her grandmother.

They were the first people there the night I found out the news [about my grandma],” she said. “I’ve had a long history with them. I’ve shared moments with brothers that have been the lowest moments of my life, as well as some fabulous moments and lots of great memories.”

It’s the moments she’s shared with Delta Sig, and Delta Sig’s desire to do better, be better that encouraged her to donate to Delta Sigma Phi’s Rally.org page in Fall 2013.

“It was an easy thing for me to say, ‘here’s this opportunity to invest in this organization that I think is building great men,’ so it wasn’t really complicated for me, it was just seeing that the opportunity was there and clicking on the link,” she said.

McDonough, a Greek herself, also credits her sorority for her decision to pay it forward.

“As a sister of DPE, our motto is ‘esse quam videri’ which means to be rather than to seem to be,” she said. “I really find that as a core motto of my life, not just saying things but acting upon those things and being that example for others.”

McDonough works closely with all twelve chapters on her campus. Before she was hired into the position, it was only a part-time position. She is the first full-time employee in Michigan-Dearborn’s Greek Life history. Having someone on campus to oversee Greek Life is fundamental to success.

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Michigan-Dearborn’s Greek Life Coordinator Kristin McDonough poses with undergraduate Delta Sigs.

“As Greek members in general, we’ve made an oath to set a higher standard and to expect more from ourselves,” she said. “The only way to really encourage that from people who are at the collegiate level is to be that constant example.“ Greek Life Advisors can truly set the tone for chapters on their campus.

“Every fraternity and sorority community is different from campus to campus,” Bryan Beran, Delta Sigma Phi Headquarters Chapter Advancement Coordinator, said. “In addition to the support and resources that our Fraternity’s National office provides to our chapters, it’s vital that the Greek Life advisors invest in resources that are beneficial for their unique community so that our members have a high caliber experience.”

In addition to helping develop and mentor undergraduates, Greek Advisors have the responsibility to encourage and reward chapters who are making strides in the correct direction.

“The Delta Sigma Phi chapter on our campus is moving in a really positive direction and are doing some really great things,” McDonough said. “They’ve been really critical of themselves, and they are changing some of their habits and traditions that may not have been serving them. I wanted to donate as a symbolic way of showing them that I support what they are doing and also to have them be more aware of their opportunities to be involved with their national headquarters.”

Beran said, “In order for our organizations to continue to grow and thrive across the nation, we need the help from individuals that dedicate their professional lives to support and advocate for our chapters.”

Delta Sigma Phi Fraternity Re-Charters One Chapter, Welcomes New Chapter to Delta Sig Ranks

By Jennifer Graham

Loyola-Chicago—Epsilon Kappa The Epsilon Kappa was originally chartered in 1968 as the 130th Delta Sigma Phi chapter. On February 1, 2014 they rechartered.

“Receiving our charter is just one tangible aspect of all the hard work all these gentlemen have put in over the past two years,” Loyola-Chicago Chapter President Benjamin Riesmeyer said. “From facilitating our first Egyptian Expedition, to numerous blood drives and building the bonds of brotherhood around Loyola’s campus, the charter is a reminder that the work we do is not for our own benefit.”

Loyola first became a new chapter in 2012, and their short two-year road to chartering has reaffirmed the chapter’s ability.

“I am incredibly proud of the job Epsilon Kappa has done in the past two years,” Kevin Parks Delta Sigma Phi Headquarters Assistant Director of Chapter Advancement, said. “The chapter has set the bar high for other new chapters in terms of meeting metrics at a fast pace.”

Loyola-Chicago has plans to continue their success in the years to come.

“We will continue to recruit the highest caliber of men on Loyola University’s campus,” Riesmeyer said. “We know that receiving our charter is a landmark; however, it is not the end goal, there is much more work to be done.”

The chapter is working towards increasing their presence on campus, as well as becoming the most involved fraternity on campus.

“Epsilon Kappa is working extremely hard to stand out on Loyola’s campus,” Parks said. “They’ve done a phenomenal job thus far, and they are well on their way to being recognized as the best chapter on campus.”

“We seek excellence in all we do in order to build better lives for all mankind,” Riesmeyer said.

Boise State— Iota Theta The new chapter at Boise State became Delta Sigma Phi’s 224th chartered chapter in Fraternity Iota Theta members pose with history. The their newly received charter. chapter, which broke ground on the Idaho campus in Fall 2011, chartered March 8, 2014.

“It’s hard to put into words what the charter means to our brotherhood,” Boise State Chapter President Greg Hart said. “What I do know for sure is that it’s the realization that three years of struggle, hard work and dedication have finally paid off for all of the men in our organization.”

While recognizing their accomplishments, the chapter is still going full-steam ahead to help Delta Sig continue on their journey to becoming America’s Leading Fraternity.

“Even though we all share an immense feeling of accomplishment, we are still eager to continue pushing the limits and redefining our own success,” Hart said.

“We have many small goals that lead up to our ultimate goal, which is to be the strongest fraternity on campus.”

Boise State’s goals are nothing short of challenging, and they are setting the standard for other fraternities on their campus.

The Boise State chapter has come along way throughout the last few years,” Ross Klein, Delta Sigma Phi Headquarters Chapter Advancement Coordinator, said. “The chapter through its success has become such a crucial part of the new foundation of Greek Life at Boise State University. They have really taken on the idea of Greek unity and made that a crucial piece of their organization.”

The chapter is putting focus on improving brotherhood and academic performance, as well as establishing themselves as the top service fraternity on campus. They are also continuing to develop their identity as the most diverse group on campus.

“I couldn’t be more excited to see all their accomplishments, but I am even more excited to see where they are going,” Klein said.

“From here, we just need to keep setting the bar high in everything we do, and the success will come naturally,” Hart said. “I have never been more proud to be a Delta Sig.”

Epsilon Kappa members pose with their charter during their chartering banquet.

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State of the Fraternity

By Nick Gerhardt, Missouri ’08

Fraternity Unveils First-Ever Presid For the first time, Delta Sigma Phi hosted a nationwide academy for Chapter Presidents in February 2014. On the heels of a revamped approach to both The Bruce J. Loewenberg Summit and the Regional Leadership Academies, the narrowly-tailored program is the first of its kind for the Fraternity.

Held at the same YMCA campground where Delta Sigs attend the Leadership Insitute, the Presidents’ Academy didn’t feel all that different from LI, facilitator Ken Riley, Wisconsin-LaCrosse ’85, said.

“It takes men that are really trying to figure out how to serve in their roles,” Riley said, “and [the] Leadership Institute really fleshes that out…and even though we don’t have five days to do it, we can really start to make an impact and get a really good start with Presidents’ Academy.”

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same position at different chapters. The Summit was never just the recruitment chairs, and the RLAs and LI both remain open to any member, not just officers.

That kind of esoteric approach seemed to resonate with the attendees.

“A lot of times when we’re at our own chapters,” Bence Tamas, Case Western Reserve University ’13, said, “it feels like we’re dealing with these day-to-day, everyday issues, and the biggest thing we don’t realize is that other chapters are dealing with the same things. I think it’s a great opportunity for all of us to get together to share our ideas, and really bring this Fraternity into it’s greater whole as a national organization.”

From the other side of the country, Nicholas Sweetman, Arizona State ’12, flew over 1,500 miles to participate in the program. Before getting on his flight home, he pointed out the camaraderie that attendees developed in just a few short days.

“Our chapters are different, and they’re on different campuses, but they have a lot of the same issues, and we can work on how to solve those problems and really better the Fraternity as a whole on the national level.

“Now I feel like I can give one of them a phone call if I have

sidents’ Academy a bad day or an issue in my chapter, and they can give me advice or someone to go to, and those relationships will make Delta Sig a stronger national fraternity.”

Brady Bair, Indiana ’13, is a Founding Father at the new chapter on the campus of Indiana University. Hosted right in Headquarters’ backyard, for Bair the Presidents’ Academy was one of the first real introductions to the greater whole of Delta Sigma Phi’s movement to create better men and better chapters.

“I learned a lot this weekend; it was an incredible effort on behalf of the national staff. Really one of the things from this weekend that I want to take back to my chapter is that a lot of times we think about us wanting to be a part of something bigger, and I think it’s so much more than that,” Blair said.

“It’s really about investing in others and building relationships with others in our chapter, and trying to get them to work towards a common goal and vision.”

Director of Education Ry Beck and the rest of the Headquarters team brought in a stacked slate of successful speakers for the inaugural academy. Among them, Mike Dilbeck, the Founder and President of the RESPONSE ABILITY (RA) Project.

“I think the number one lesson I learned from Presidents Academy,” Cameron Carey, Wisconsin LaCrosse ’12, said, “came while listening to Mr. Dilbeck.”

“He mentioned in his speech how asking ‘what if I had?’— by the time you ask that, it’s already too late—don’t give up any opportunity to not only make a difference as a bystander, but to make a difference as a chapter leader. You can really make a difference now, and you can transform your chapter into something and leave a legacy for many years.”

Facilitator and former Delta Sigma Phi Director of Communication Scott Cooper said, “I thought it was great! I’m ever impressed when I go to one of our Fraternity events at the rising caliber of the young men that are in our Fraternity.”

Riley was similarly impacted.

“I’m not sure who gets more out of these programs—if it’s the guys, or if it’s me. I walk away from every single one of these completely inspired by the guys,” Riley said.

To find out more about the Presidents’ Academy and all of Delta Sigma Phi’s leadership programming, visit www.deltasig.org/ educationtraining/thepresidentsacademy.

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Donor Spotlight DONOR SPOT LIGHT

Joe Burrow Tennessee-Knoxville ’43

By Brian Brooks, Missouri ’64

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ne of the Delta Sigma Phi Foundation’s longest-standing contributors is Joe Burrow of Omicron Chapter, our long-dormant group at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville.

The chapter has been gone for many years, but Burrow, now 91 years old and a 1943 initiate, was pleased to learn that the Fraternity has been in contact with the university about reviving the chapter.

Burrow has been contributing to the Fraternity since 1955, which is a remarkable record, particularly for a member from a long-dormant chapter. That shows a loyalty to Delta Sigma Phi that few could match.

“I belong to a Fraternity,” Burrow said when asked why he has supported Delta Sigma Phi all these years. “If I belong to something, I believe I should support it. If I belong to something, I believe I should be involved.”

He would be more involved, Burrow said, if he were closer to Knoxville or knew some Delta Sigs near his longtime home in Southern California.

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“I had one Fraternity brother from UT who moved out here and lived in Pomona,” Burrow said. “My wife and I used to meet him and his wife to play bridge.” That ended when the Fraternity brother died. And because Omicron has long been dormant, there’s no one to contact.

“I never did hear the story of how the chapter was lost,” Burrow said. “I’d love to know. The problem is that when you get to my age, most of your contemporaries are dead. I’m not sure anyone still living knows why Omicron died.”

After graduating from high school in Nashville in 1941, Burrow took a year off to work before heading to Tennessee in the fall of 1942. Like many men of his generation, his education was interrupted by World War II. On July 1, 1943, he managed to land a spot in the U.S. Navy’s B-12 program and was sent for a year of training at Louisiana Polytechnic Institute in Ruston, La. From there he was sent for further training in New Jersey and Chicago, where he spent four months at Northwestern University. He was commissioned as an ensign in the Navy and made a variety of other duty stops, including one in Coronado, Calif., before heading to the South Pacific.

He spent two weeks in Honolulu before being dispatched to Guam on a Coast Guard vessel, where he waited for his ship, the USS Hendry, to arrive. He spent a year aboard that vessel.

After the war, Burrow returned to Tennessee in 1947 and graduated with a B.S. degree in Business Administration in 1949. Those were interesting years for Omicron Chapter, which operated two houses because of the large number of returning veterans who were already married.

Burrow applied for a spot in the School of Naval Administration in Washington, but he ended up at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif. From there, he headed for the Marshall Islands as a government administrator.

He finished his government-service commitment in 1954 and while in San Francisco after that tour he met Alice, his wife of 60 years. They had two children, a son and a daughter. Alice died nine years ago.

Burrow’s civilian career led him to a variety of interesting jobs in accounting, construction and even the credit card industry.

“I thought about going to the national convention in Phoenix last year, but I realized I wouldn’t know anyone there,” Burrow said.

When informed that the next convention will be in New Orleans in 2015, Burrow said he’d try to make it.

“Maybe I can light a fire under somebody to get the chapter restored at Tennessee,” Burrow said. “I visited there last year after not being in Knoxville since graduation. The campus has changed a lot, but one thing is sure: Delta Sigma Phi needs to be there.”

Summit Gift

DELTA SIGMA PHI ANNOUNCES THE

BRUCE J. LOEWENBERG SUMMIT

AFTER MILLION-DOLLAR GIFT

By Jennifer Graham

Delta Sigma Phi Fraternity and Foundation announced the renaming of Delta Sigma Phi’s leadership program, The Summit, to The Bruce J. Loewenberg Summit, In January 2014. This is the first time in the Fraternity’s history that a program has been named after a member and donor.

Bruce J. Loewenberg, a 1958 initiate of the Beta Beta Chapter from the University of Missouri has provided one million dollars of his personal trust to partially endow the Delta Sigma Phi Summit leadership program.

“Sometimes, the honor of renaming a program is based on service, not donations. In this case, it’s both. Bruce has dedicated nearly half a lifetime to the Fraternity,” Foundation President Mike Hoffman said. “He has been committed to Delta Sigma Phi from day one, and naming The Summit in his honor

is one of the best ways to show our appreciation to Bruce for his service and philanthropy.”

“Delta Sigma Phi has always been about Building Better Men,” Loewenberg said. “The Fraternity built me into a better man, and I feel like this is the best way for me to repay the debt and help the Foundation and Fraternity continue developing leaders. Leadership is really the most important piece of Delta Sigma Phi, and by allocating funding to The Summit, we will continue to improve our mission of Building Better Men.” Like Loewenberg, Executive Director Patrick Jessee values Delta Sigma Phi’s mission to Build Better Men. “We feel very strongly about the importance of education and are committed to providing access to services such as The Summit to brothers who are trying to better themselves,” Jessee said. “The naming of The Bruce J. Loewenberg Summit

clearly marks a new milestone of partnership and commitment to Building Better Men.” Loewenberg has been extremely involved in Delta Sigma Phi since he joined. He has served two terms on the Grand Council, as well as four terms as a Foundation Board Trustee.

He spearheaded the creation of The Summit prior to its inauguration in 2008. Since then, The Summit has developed into one of the top programs Delta Sigma Phi offers.

Announcing Delta Sigma Phi Foundation’s ///////////////////////////////////////// Inaugural Online Auction Do you want to help the Fraternity Build Better Men? Here is your chance! The Foundation is looking for members to donate items for our online auction July 18-21, 2014.

Suggested Auction Items: Delta Sig Memorabilia, Event Suites, Event Tickets (Sports, Music, Theater, Racing), Golf Packages, Spa Packages, Hotel Packages, Restaurant Gift Cards, Sports Memorabilia, Behind the scenes tours or experiences, Sideline passes to a college or pro football game, Access to a private plane, Monthly delivery for one year of: flowers, cupcakes, wine, cigars, etc., Custom made suit, “Man Cave” package (flat screen TV, surround sound, leather recliner, etc.), Tailgate package (BBQ/smoker, large ice chest, chairs, EZ-UP canopy, etc.), iPad, iPod or other popular technology items, Vacation Time Shares, Vacation Packages (could include airfare), Unique Experiences

If you have any questions, please contact Alaina Cutler at Cutler@deltasig.org or at 317.634.1899 ext. 466.

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(l) Mike Goldfarb, Wisconsin-Oshkosh ’84 and (r) Gene Fatula, Maryland ’85

Delta Sig in Need of Kidney Finds Donor from Unlikely Source

By Jennifer Graham

“Did you see it on Facebook? Look what I found on Twitter….”

So many conversations start out like this these days, but for one Delta Sig, his July 2012 Facebook post was life changing.

Mike Goldfarb started his Delta Sig career at Wisconsin-Oshkosh and was initiated in 1984. Shortly after, he transferred to the University of Maryland where he would meet a chapter brother who would, at a later date, change his seemingly normal life.

Long after college, after he was married and had a family, he went in for a regular physical, and his doctor noticed his creatinine levels were elevated, so they started monitoring him. His bi-yearly blood tests went on for several years.

Fast forward to four years later.

“It all of a sudden became an issue,” Goldfarb said. “The doctors said it was a problem, the disease was becoming active, and that I needed to start looking for a kidney donor.”

The disease, polycystic kidney disease (PKD), is a genetic disease that affects one-in-500 people, according to the PKD Foundation.

“A lot of people don’t even know they have it unless it gets to a dangerous level,” Goldfarb said. “My sister had it, but it wasn’t active. My two girls may have it, but it doesn’t show up until your 30s or 40s, so there’s no reason to have them tested because you don’t want them to be pre-diagnosed because there’s nothing you can do about it.”

There is no cure for PKD. With the fact that there is no cure and with the doctors urging Goldfarb to seek a donor, the process began.

First, they took to their personal network. Goldfarb is blood type O, so he can donate to anyone, but he

“I saw Mike post his situation on Facebook, and it just hit me – this is something I need to do... I gave him a call and said, I’m in.”

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can only receive from another blood type O. “We did a friends and family campaign where we sent out an email to hundreds of friends and family and told them our story and tried to find someone within our immediate network, or to at least have them pass the word around,” Goldfarb said. “We got a couple of responses, but unfortunately we didn’t have any success from it.”

Goldfarb had two of his sisters with blood type O who were rejected based on donation criteria. He also had a friend of the family rejected based on donation criteria as well.

After the Friends and Family campaign was deemed unsuccessful, Goldfarb and his wife took to the internet – specifically social media.

“We eventually posted my need for a donor on Facebook, and almost immediately, Gene Fatula messaged me,” Goldfarb said.

“I was home one Saturday morning drinking some coffee,” Gene Fatula, Maryland ’85, said, “And I saw Mike post his situation on Facebook, and it just hit me – this is something I need to do. I showed it to my wife and she asked me, ‘Why are you showing this to me?’ I said, ‘Because I’m going to do it.’”

Fatula said his wife, a registered nurse, had many questions and was concerned about long-term effects on his health until he explained it to her.

“I said, ‘Look, here is a guy who is a dad, a father – just putting myself in his shoes, who would do it for me?’”

Fatula said.

So here is Fatula reaching out to his friend, his chapter brother, to offer him a kidney. But 25 years after graduation, they’d really become more of just acquaintances.

“I had not seen Mike in 25 years,” Fatula said. “After I saw his post, I gave him a call. I said, ‘Hey Mike, It’s Gene Fatula. I’m in.’ Mike asked me what I was in for. I told him, ‘I saw your post, I’ll help you out.’ He thought I was kidding!”

Although two years ago, Goldfarb recalls the conversation about the same.

The Goldfarb family (left) and the Fatula Family (right, children not pictured) in high spirits soon after surgery.

“He said ‘I’ve got two kidneys, and I only need one.’ It was pretty matter of fact response,” Goldfarb said.

Goldfarb and Fatula met each other in 1985 at Maryland. During their time in the chapter, there were around 80 brothers, so while the two weren’t extraordinarily close, they were friendly.

“It was a little strange after 25 years for a guy who I wasn’t best friends with to offer to donate his kidney to me,” Goldfarb said. “So, I kept questioning him, ‘Are you sure you want to do this, Gene? Are you sure?’”

Fatula was sure. His father, Edward, was an organ donor whose selflessness touched the lives of 17 families.

“When Gene saw my Facebook post, I think it resonated with him. It was a way to give back and honor his father,” Goldfarb said.

Donation was something I’ve always believed in, it says donor on my license,” Fatula said. “But I never thought I’d be a live donor.”

Luckily for Goldfarb, Fatula was a live donor who was ready to begin the process.

Goldfarb had Fatula contact the hospital to get the ball rolling. Fatula had to fill out forms and go through a series of tests and a physical to make sure he was an ideal candidate to act as a donor.

He was an ideal candidate and on Delta Sigma Phi Founders’ Day—

December 10, 2012—Fatula left his Philadelphia home to travel to Chicago to give Goldfarb a chance at a normal life.

“My wife had never met Mike’s family,” Fatula said. “She actually met them in the waiting room the morning of surgery.”

Fatula had travelled to Chicago in October to meet with doctors and the Goldfarb family.

Fatula believes one word describes this experience: emotional.

“After surgery, you have to get up and walk, so I walked to Mike’s room,” Fatula said. “As soon as I saw him, I started crying.”

There were no complications from the surgery, and Goldfarb leads a very normal life.

When people find themselves in a spot where they need help, Goldfarb encourages them to share their story with everyone they know.

“Don’t be afraid to talk about it with as many people as possible and get the word out, whether it is through social media or word-ofmouth,” Goldfarb said. “Initially I was a little more private about it. I really didn’t want to talk about it or make a big deal about it and bother people with my problems, but people want to help. People really do want to know your story and help get the word out.”

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Foundation

Delta Sig Achieves Life-Long Goal Through Leadership Institute Every Leadership Institute attendee commits to bettering themselves—to becoming better leaders, better communicators and better as a human being. At the 2013 LI in Prescott, AZ, we met an officer from the Rho chapter— Jean-Luc Banks, a 2012 initiate of Virginia who lost his father just a few weeks after initiation and transferred to North Carolina State.

Like the other graduates of the program, Banks knew how he wanted to be better and, upon graduation, he set a goal. He wanted to be a better leader, sure, but there was something else—something he had never really done, yet it was something every other graduate had probably done at least once.

“I had never been able to fully run a mile that I can honestly remember,” Banks said.

“Ever since I was born, I’ve had bilateral hip dysplasia,” he said.

For those born with this condition, running a mile is no small feat. Hip dysplasia occurs when the femur and hip joint develop abnormally—whether the joint itself is too loose, or the ligaments binding the joint and thighbone aren’t tight enough. In severe cases, the thighbone can actually slip out of the socket completely.

While it’s true that the condition has no tangible impact on a person’s ability to lead, the Leadership Institute has a heavier utilization of physical activities than any other National Fraternity program. Whether it’s rock climbing, scaling the giants ladder or small groups racing against one another in group activities, LI attendees end up getting a bit of a work out.

“When I was at LI and we were doing a group activity, people were able to run really well and I was really struggling behind,” Banks said.

Leadership Institute participants carry Banks at the end of a group activity.

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Other members of his group included Preston Tracy, IUSouth Bend ’10, and Alejandro Gutierrez, UCF ’11. Towards the end of the activity, those three guys created one of the most heartwarming images in Delta Sig history.

“That was when Preston and Alejandro picked me up and carried me,” Banks said, “which was really awesome for them to do and I really sincerely appreciated that.”

Despite the fact that the internet up at LI was spotty at best, one attendee captured a photo of the moment on his iPhone, overlaid HBO’s “Band of Brothers” logo in the corner, and managed to post it to Facebook.

It was one of those once-in-a-lifetime Delta Sig moments, a truly inspirational image, but one that only tells half the story.

“When I got back to school,” Banks said, “I kind of said in my mind that I was going to work as hard as I could in order to be able to run the mile.”

He knew what a daunting task this would be, and accepted the potential for failure. Committed he was, but it could take more than mere commitment to effectively choreograph mismatched bone structures moving full speed for 5,280 feet.

For several weeks, he worked at it. He was hearing from fellow graduates like Tracy and Joey Stinson, Eastern Michigan ’10, regularly. “Encouraging the Heart” is a facet of leadership that men can, at times, struggle with, but that was not the case here.

As LI got further and further away in his rearview mirror, Banks moved closer and closer to achieving something he hadn’t been able to achieve since birth.

“Then about a month later,” Banks said, “I was able to officially run an entire mile without stopping, without my hips going numb or having to stop because of the pain.”

Banks posted on his Facebook page, “I finally did it! For 20 years I’ve never been able to run a full mile without my legs giving out on me. Today I finally did it! Feels amazing.”

When we reached out to Jean-Luc Banks for this interview, we had to know: of all obstacles to commit yourself to overcoming, why did you pick running a mile?

Banks said the last thing we ever would have expected: Banks, who had lost his father just a couple years before and who persevered through a congenital condition to do the impossible, did it for his brothers.

“People would talk about how they overcame these really significant things, things I could never even dream of. They experienced setbacks that I have never had,” he said.

In the end, he set out to run a mile to show that “you can overcome whatever you need to overcome, as a way of being inspiration but also having seen inspirational people before me who had already overcome their obstacles and how far they’ve come.”

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LIFE ON

discusses New Chapter Development with New Chapter Development Coordinators Kenny Traber and Dave Kuczmanski, two members of the Headquarters’ New Chapter Development team.

THE ROAD

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// By Nick GErhardt, Missouri ’08 //////////////

The Fraternity’s New Chapter Development program has established a formula for success. Once-known as “expansion,” New Chapter Development today is an intentional, strategic approach to bringing the Delta Sigma Phi experience to college campuses old and new. Like any other business, the department’s success is built upon the strength of the team, and especially at the “boots on the ground” level—the men on college campuses today, recruiting the best and brightest.

The Carnation sat down with Kenny Traber, Georgia College & State ’09 (right), and Dave Kuczmanski, IU South Bend ’10 (left), two of Headquarters’ most experienced on-the-ground recruiters. We asked them to share with the Delta Sig Nation, ‘A Day in the Life of an NCD Staffer.’

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THE APPROACH Before getting into the heart of a project, the team must build a strong pool of potential recruits. How do you find those men?

Kenny Traber: What other expansion groups consider week one, we address during a pre-site visit, which positions us to hit the ground running.

If there’s not a lot of prep that still needs to be done, then in week one we can get started immediately. We’ll have some traction to work with, do student organization presentations in the evenings, and build he names list as fast as possible.

THE NIGHT BEFORE If you find yourself in the same campus location as one of our new chapter development professionals, you’ll know just where to find them on a weekday night.

Early-on in the project, they are planning or presenting information sessions, lasting anywhere from 30 minutes to just over an hour depending on the size of the crowd and the questions they have.

Dave Kuczmanski: Maybe other groups go in to present to sororities, says what organization they’re from, informs them of a fundraiser/philanthropy event and invites them to join.

We want to do something more. We want to be intentional with it. So we look at their sorority facts. When is their founding? Who are founders?

What is their national philanthropy?

What is their motto? We bring that information inside the presentation to keep them engaged and keep them participating.

These sessions are truly an experience, typically a high-energy atmosphere—and the guys bring plenty of goodies, from “I Love Delta Sig” buttons to the organization’s official flower, and more.

Whether it’s a presentation night or not, after about 6 p.m. they roll calls and update their notes. To get the ball rolling when they arrive on campus the following day, the team must make

efficient use of their afternoons and evenings by vetting through referred students.

DK: Things that set up the next day for success… On our projects, if we have a lot of names on our lists we can get a lot of momentum, can get a lot of those meetings, we feel good about it, and we’re able to drive results and success in the future.

DAILY ROUTINE KT: Typically I would say we wake up two-and-a-half hours before the first meeting actually happens. That’s usually about 7:30 a.m., and it’s usually a day that I’d want to get some exercise in the morning.

DK: Realistically we have a set schedule each and every day, we’d still try to wake up at same time to get inside that routine and so you’re able to set up your day from the beginning— making sure you’re utilizing time effectively and maximizing your day.

Getting good thoughts in your head, doing the things you need to do to be successful, whether that’s just eating a healthy meal or trying to work out in the morning…we just try to get our brain juices flowing.

ARRIVING ON CAMPUS KT: We like to be on campus a full 30 minutes before our first meeting, and set up for the day. I find my spot on campus where I’ll be doing my meetings for the next six, seven hours and jot down all my meetings onto a piece of paper with room for notes.

DK: We usually have a conversation before we start those one-on-one meetings together and talk about what are some other needs throughout the day in case we have any downtime, preparing for the evening or people that we need to contact with these other additional items. At this time we also send out reminder texts to all the guys in the morning before the first meeting.

KT: The reminder text is actually really important, because a lot of times it’s someone that you called the night

before, and it’s not in their set schedule.

Very seldom will someone actually show up if you don’t send the text, so those are crucial to do.

MEETINGS FOR THE FUTURE The bulk of a New Chapter Development coordinator’s time is spent meeting potential future brothers of Delta Sig. By cold calling, networking and old-fashioned sit down meetings, they come across hundreds of students searching for the best and brightest.

DK: It’s all about building that relationship from the start. I want to become their friend and get on their level—where are they at in their lives? If they’re a freshman who’s just coming into school, everything is a new experience, so you try to be empathetic to that. That first meeting, you’re asking very introductory questions—where they’re from, their major, what do they do for fun, have they joined any other organizations on campus…and usually within one of those you’re able to find a relation point that you can spark up a conversation.

It’s not just right off the bat, going into it like, “hey we’re Delta Sig, tell me about yourself.” It’s more, “hey just wanted to learn a little more about you because you were recommended to us by a high-caliber person—a student leader, a faculty/staff member, or another individual.”

From there, you’re able to initiate a conversation to get to know them first before you can actually make an ask, because maybe their values are not aligned with the organization’s.

KT: You have to get creative in what you do because every single moment you want to be productive; whether it’s thinking of another group you can get in front of to present to drive more names or connecting with the Greek Life office to see what it is we need to do. If we don’t actually have a lot of meetings with potential new members, we are still being productive with our time knowing that the resources have Summer 2014

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DK: If you don’t have any meetings going on, focus all your activity on thinking about things that set up the next day for success. If you’re only having three meetings one day, how can you guarantee that you’re going to have 10-20 meetings the next day?

But when you have a lot of meetings, it’s a good day. Even though they’re really heavy, you’re very focused; they go by fast, and you have a lot of great conversations.

PERSONAL RECORD What’s the most meetings you’ve ever had in a single day?

KT: At Arizona State I had meetings all day from 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m., no break in between. In those situations, you have to depend on your partner to support you, and you do the same.

DK: The most meetings I’ve had in one day is 24 or 25; You may get one cancellation within there so you’re able to eat lunch or go to the bathroom or grab some water, but it’s pretty much just having conversations all day. Those are the good days, the days we really want.

EAT. MEET. CALL. REPEAT. If you find yourself in the same campus location as one of our new chapter development professionals, you’ll know just where to find them on a weekday night.

Sound familiar?

The key to a successful project is commitment, organization and a routine— or at least, something like a routine. Once their day on campus is through, we already know how they spend their afternoon and evenings.

DK: Immediately after we get back we prepare to roll calls, and type in our notes for the day, which can take up to an hour, say if you had 25 meetings that day. So I’m usually preparing to roll calls at 7:30 p.m., starting at 8 p.m. and staying on the phone sometimes until 10-10:30 p.m.

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early, I like to do some personal things [like] call my mom and eat dinner.

WINDING DOWN During the last few days of a New Chapter Development project, an Assistant Director of Chapter Development like Albert Kotchish, James Madison ’11, joins the on-theground team. He initially spends his time getting to know the undergraduate men before elections occur. He meets with new members applying for office positions, develops relationship and settles into a proactively developmental role.

VOLUNTARY REMARKS Anything else to add about what it’s like to be involved with New Chapter Development at ΔΣΦ HQ? KT: In a word, rewarding. It’s nice to give back to the Fraternity that I’ve had so many good experiences with.

What really drives me each day on a project is that my experience was so amazing in my undergraduate career that I strive to give other people the same or similar experience. I’ve already seen the five-year anniversary of my

chapter. These new members can build and see something they can be proud of five years down the line. I’ve been really fortunate to have the opportunity to work with the chapters that we’ve been able to build or rebuild in the past two years.

DK: Imagine flying across the country to a location you neither have visited nor have any friends.

Your objective is to build relationships with hundreds to thousands of new individuals and after 4-6 weeks, many you call brother. Most of these men never imagined themselves founding a new campus organization, and definitely never founding a fraternity. As Delta Sigs, we strive to grow both personally and professionally to become better men. Through this growth we live a more holistic, cultured and better life.

The NCD team takes those personal experiences, practices articulating them and shares them with everyone. I will forever be in debt for all the challenges, opportunities and learning experiences Delta Sig has given me and continues to provide.

Chapter News

The Carnation is bringing back a Delta Sigma Phi tradition. For decades, undergraduate chapters of Delta Sig submitted a brief recap of the chapter’s wins, updates and forthcoming events. With the advent of the internet, the capability of our organization to communicate expanded drastically in a few short years. Now that the Fraternity has a clearly-established communications model, it’s that time again—Delta Graphs is coming back.

Headquarters reached out to several undergraduate chapters for an update on the year so far. What we see below is intended to provide a snapshot of the full section yet-to-come this fall. To submit your chapter’s graph, please send us an email at communications@deltasig.org.

RHO North Carolina State The Rho Chapter is doing quite well this academic year. We had a fall new member class comprised of 19 upstanding gentleman and we will be initiating our spring class in a few weeks. Our philanthropy event in the fall, Bowlathon, raised a lot of money for the Red Cross, and we are excitedly looking forward to our spring philanthropy event, our second annual Spike for a Cause. Each brother is working on becoming a Better Man by taking on various roles around campus. We have a solid roster of men on the Interfraternity Council, serving as Ambassadors for their respective colleges, as well as taking leadership in their respective academic clubs and societies. The Rho chapter was awarded the Outstanding Educational Programing award due to our commitment to both new member and member education. We had people come speak to our chapter about various topics from the dangers of alcohol and tobacco to risk management during an event. We are currently in the running for the Caldwell Cup, an award recognizing the fraternity who has achieved excellence and distinction in one or more of the Greek community’s ten shared principles. We are looking forward to summer and ending this year strong.

Beta Omega Arizona In December of 2013, Beta Omega Chapter initiated 76 new members into Delta Sigma Phi. Since then, our young new chapter has grown exponentially taking in 13 new members during the spring. Some big news for us, come Fall 2014 we will be moving into our new house located just half a mile off campus with plans of eventually relocating onto Greek

Row. In terms of our philanthropic efforts, we were able to raise over $200 in just three days selling American Red Cross wristbands and are in the midst of planning our first Greekwide philanthropy event that will take place in the fall. We plan on applying for our charter at the end of this semester.

Gamma Tau Eastern Michigan Gamma Tau so far has hosted a huge and successful Bone Marrow Registration Drive for the Be The Match Foundation called Community for a Cause. Chapter President Noble was notified he was a possible match. Past President Tim Grady and his Executive Board completed their year of service and provided a smooth transition to the next executive board. We initiated nine men in the fall and three men in the spring. Ritual went off without a hitch, with a huge turnout of brothers and alumni. Polar Plunge was a huge success; great press and exposure throughout campus. We have a number of new undergraduates taking on important leadership roles: community service/social/health and wellness, etc. Our chapter meetings host a weekly entertaining and enriching report from the Health and Wellness chairperson. We received the framed and reconstructed charters to display in the house. We painted and put up new letters on the house. Headquarters Chapter Development Coordinator Bryan Beran visited and we developed a vision and action plan for the chapter. Last semester we beat the all male average GPA. We currently placed third in Greek Week but had a wildly successful variety show performance. As we plan for initiation on Saturday, we will be wrapping up the year with an alumni vs. undergraduates kickball tournament before we reconvene for the Alumni Golf Outing in August. *Items submitted prior to April 1, 2014 Summer 2014

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bond eternal

Brothers are listed by chapter, with the following dates being of initiation and then of passing.

Epsilon James Romberger, ’41, 10/21/13 Aleck MacKinnon, ’42, 10/18/13 Robert Sourbeer, ’44, 10/21/13 Charles Seaton, ’46, 11/19/13 William Porr, ’51, 10/10/13 Kenneth McGuire, ’52, 10/15/13 John Hampford, ’52, 2/5/14 Milton Netcher, ’53, 2/5/14 Gerald Malatino, ’54, 10/15/13 Regis Grace, ’60, 10/2/13 Terry Weibley, ’63, 10/3/13 Eta Virgil Cassel, ’49, 11/12/13 John Hancock, ’49, 10/15/13 Robert Anderson, ’49, 2/10/14 Ralph Marshall, ’50, 10/15/13 Marcus Singletary, ’50, 1/24/14 Henry Freytag, ’55, 1/13/14 Gail Johnson, ’60, 2/25/14 Calvin Owens, ’62, 11/11/13 Theta Albert Carpenter, ’23, 10/15/13 Bernard Cross, ’29, 10/30/13 Edgar Persons, ’30, 1/1/62 Finley Porter, ’36, 10/14/13 Iota Francis Crisp, ’40, 10/12/13 Edward Quist, ’41, 10/10/13 Kappa Fred Bass, ’36, 10/10/13 Roger Hamel, ’37, 10/1/13 Patrick Logan, ’46, 10/15/13 Billy Williams, ’46, 10/31/13 William “John” Montgomery, ’47, 11/24/09 Willard Murphree, ’47, 10/8/13 Hugh Edge, ’48, 10/3/13 Fitzgerald Steele, ’48, 10/23/13 Roderick Slater, ’49, 10/21/13 Frank Bianchi, ’58, 10/1/13 John Howell, ’71, 10/5/13 Lambda Allan Dial, ’47, 10/8/13 William Patterson, ’47, 12/11/13 Thomas Rose, ’48, 10/30/13 Mu Robert Faris, ’25, 10/23/13 Nu George Pierson, ’49, 10/1/13 Robert Sauer, ’49, 1/29/14 Frank Johnson, ’50, 10/15/13 James Bristor, ’52, 10/21/13 Herbert Tennant, ’53, 10/3/13 Nicholas Kapottas, ’56, 11/11/13 Irvin Page, ’58, 1/28/14 Ralph Minech, ’59, 10/15/13 William Park, ’60, 12/13/13 David Morrow, ’61, 12/4/13

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Hilgard George Dowley, ’49, 10/9/13 Joseph Richwood, ’49, 1/31/14 Gregory Granger, ’83, 11/24/13 Clint Ulrich, ’94, 10/21/13 Omicron Cleve Jacobson, ’33, 10/2/13 John Elliott, ’48, 10/3/13 James Myracle, ’48, 10/14/13 William Malone, ’55, 3/21/13 Pi David Berry, ’49, 12/4/13 Rho Hal Bain, ’27, 1/15/14 Frederick Herbst, ’28, 1/15/14 William Sumner, ’45, 12/20/13 John Spencer, ’49, 10/7/13 Arthur Capstaff, ’64, 10/30/13 Ernest Howard, ’67, 1/28/14 Sigma Herbert Harman, ’31, 10/2/13 Frank Du Mars, ’39, 10/15/13 Clarence Lorre, ’40, 12/19/13 Kenneth Gosnell, ’46, 10/16/13 Robert Benninghoff, ’46, 10/21/13 William Wagner, ’49, 10/13/13 R Werner, ’50, 12/4/13 Joseph Kurtz, ’51, 10/8/13 William Stimmel, ’56, 10/30/13 Charles Fording, ’58, 1/31/14 John Loutzenhiser, ’59, 12/4/13 John Wascak, ’68, 10/3/13 Douglas Snyder, ’70, 10/8/13 Scott Raybuck, ’75, 2/20/14 John Zalinski, 10/21/13 Tau Charles Koehler, ’42, 10/8/13 Norman Longenecker, ’47, 10/15/13 Edwin Campbell, ’48, 10/21/13 Robert Ketelhut, ’57, 10/8/13 Edgar Torey, ’60, 10/4/13 John Auseon, ’61, 10/14/13 Fred Herzog, ’62, 10/15/13 Ronald Bradley, ’69, 10/4/13 Stephen Day, ’69, 10/4/13 Upsilon William Witmer, ’34, 2/20/14 Richard Trach, ’40, 10/15/13 Henry Garber, ’46, 10/14/13 Herbert Ziegler, ’50, 10/28/13 Paul Shyman, ’68, 10/21/13 Jesse Walters, ’93, 10/10/13 Phi Paul Steinbicker, ’55, 12/4/13 James McGarry, ’55, 12/7/13 Kenneth Grant, ’58, 10/22/13 Michael Condit, ’62, 10/1/13 Gary Sanazaro, ’70, 10/15/13

Chi Fred Schuber, ’40, 10/15/13 Daniel Kirschenheuter, ’47, 10/8/13 Christian Bosch, ’48, 10/8/13 Lawrence Fuhrman, ’50, 10/3/13 John Sandy, ’54, 10/28/13 Leo Segalla, ’56, 10/10/13 Don Marsalis, 12/4/13 Psi Harris Parker, ’46, 10/8/13 Robert Gibbons, ’51, 2/3/14 David Walker, ’53, 1/29/14 L. Brooks McLain, ’55, 10/3/13 William Hyman, ’62, 2/21/14 Omega William Conner, ’22, 2/4/14 Manuel Wilken, ’46, 10/1/13 Daniel Kanoza, ’50, 10/12/13 Joseph Scarry, ’50, 2/10/14 George McGrew, ’53, 11/11/13 Basil Kurutz, ’59, 1/14/14 Lawrence Wozny, ’59, 12/4/13 Alpha Alpha William Biederman, ’26, 10/30/13, Walter Olson, ’37, 10/2/13 Harlan Bruer, ’40, 10/3/13 William Castle, ’41, 3/21/14 Robert Wakefield, ’42, 10/15/13 Keith Hutson, ’46, 10/11/13 Thomas Beling, ’50, 11/22/13 George Angus, ’50, 10/8/13 Richard Minor, ’50, 10/23/13 Stacy Wisegarver, ’72, 10/22/13 Alpha Gamma Arthur Vansuetendael, ’48, 3/7/14 Charles Edwards, ’48, 3/1/13 Frank Buffone, ’49, 4/1/13 William Jeter, ’50, 3/11/14 Robert Lindegard, ’51, 10/14/13 Harvey Korsrud, ’54, 3/11/14 Larry Haller, ’55, 10/8/13 George Hawkins, ’55, 10/12/13 John Peart, ’56, 3/11/14 William Seward, ’56, 3/11/14 Joseph Griffith, ’60, 11/1/13 Benjamin Radford, ’63, 3/10/14 John Underwood, ’63, 3/11/14 Richard Sendler, ’63, 12/14/13 Alpha Epsilon James Sapp, ’32, 10/15/13 William Allred, ’46, 2/3/14 Charles Cecil, ’60, 10/21/13 Robert Lifton, ’63, 10/5/13 Lloyd Caudle, ’79, 10/8/13 Alpha Zeta Reginald Miner, ’39, 10/1/13 Gilbert Brinnier, ’41, 10/1/13 Charles Brady, ’41, 2/11/14 Wilson Cushing, ’47, 10/3/13 William Maloney, ’48, 10/1/13 Bernard Driscoll, ’50, 10/8/13 John Adams, ’50, 10/3/13 William Haring, ’50, 10/10/13 Ned Martin, ’51, 10/15/13

Robert Briney, ’64, 6/18/13 Nicolas Gerold, ’73, 10/12/13 Robert Anderson, ’80, 10/22/13 Alpha Eta Dan Yount, ’29, 12/4/13 Robert Minke, ’42, 10/3/13 Wayne Shaffer, ’42, 10/1/13 George Hadaway, ’42, 1/30/14 William Turner, ’47, 10/8/13 Donovan Schuster, ’47, 10/8/13 Walter Neidhardt, ’48, 7/5/13 Don McDonald, ’49, 10/21/13 Alpha Theta Delbert Collins, ’61, 3/19/10 Alpha Iota Don Hileman, ’48, 1/3/14 Jack Wingrove, ’52, 10/4/13 Robert Lockwood, ’53, 10/22/13 Robert Steele, ’53, 12/6/13 Gerald Haas, ’57, 12/4/13 Ralph Tolbert, ’58, 10/3/13 William Henneke, ’64, 10/30/13 George Berg, 10/8/13 Alpha Kappa Dorsey Botham, ’26, 12/3/13 Robert Bitner, ’50, 10/23/13 Alpha Lambda Russell Bentley, ’40, 11/11/13 John Garver, ’42, 2/4/14 Norman Hassler, ’42, 10/10/13 Jack Huss, ’43, 10/8/13 Lloyd Attaway, ’46, 10/8/13 William Hawkins, ’47, 10/3/13 Robert McCarty, ’49, 10/1/13 Francis Uhl, ’49, 10/3/13 Harry Kelley, ’52, 10/30/13 Harold Bell, ’53, 10/2/13 Larry Partington, ’55, 10/11/13 Dennis Bunting, ’60, 10/21/13 Richard Reese, ’64, 10/3/13 Richard Helledy, 11/11/13 Alpha Mu Mortimer Payne, ’27, 11/11/13 Alpha Nu Maclay Salfisberg, ’35, 10/3/13 Jim Decker, ’38, 2/3/14 Alpha Xi Thomas Meyer, ’47, 1/30/14 Thomas Clear, ’48, 12/17/13 John Hunter, 10/15/13 Alpha Omicron Edward Fox, ’49, 2/12/14 Alpha Pi Robert Taplin, ’37, 10/15/13 Robert Ramsay, ’46, 10/15/13 William Rindskopf, ’48, 12/12/13 Raymond Bandemer, ’49, 10/2/13 Edward Griffin, ’51, 10/23/13 John Holder, ’56, 10/21/13

Alpha Rho Neil Threlkeld, ’38, 2/4/14 Bill Ward, ’41, 10/3/13 Robert Phillips, ’48, 10/8/13 Albert Knott, ’50, 2/17/14 Thomas Young, ’58, 2/14/14 Alpha Sigma Adolph Koldewey, ’28, 11/5/13 Maurice Goubeau, ’32, 12/23/13 Arthur Naylor, ’41, 10/3/13 John Schrecongost, ’46, 10/2/13 Wilbur Cooney, ’49, 10/14/13 Isaac Anderson, ’49, 12/12/13 Petro Kosmides, ’51, 10/10/13 John Lessig, ’53, 10/1/13 Thomas Wieneke, ’66, 1/15/14 Alpha Tau Theodore Meister, ’36, 10/22/13 William Hopkins, ’42, 1/29/14 Donald Roosa, ’48, 10/1/13 David Eash, ’50, 10/15/13 James Hildebrand, ’54, 12/19/13 Robert Wallis, ’64, 12/4/13 Daniel Porter, ’86, 10/21/13 Alpha Upsilon Carl Morgan, ’48, 1/31/14 Herbert Baker, ’50, 11/11/13 Warren Lynn, ’54, 2/10/14 Alpha Phi Louis Olker, ’30, 10/23/13 Clifford Stewart, ’44, 10/8/13 George Smith, ’51, 10/11/13 Mario Dare, ’52, 10/21/13 William Boswell, ’54, 10/23/13 Alpha Chi Russell Thacker, ’39, 10/8/13 Harry Brownlee, ’46, 10/6/13 Stewart Maxcy, ’47, 10/2/13 Robert Wilson, ’48, 10/21/13 William Birnbaum, ’48, 10/21/13 George Watson, ’48, 2/20/14 William Beaton, ’49, 10/22/12 Salvatore Manfre, ’50, 10/4/13 Pierre Steward, ’52, 2/20/14 Richard Ellinor, ’52, 10/2/13 Alpha Psi Charles Thorne, ’26, 2/7/14 Richard Fensler, ’49, 10/1/13 David Chapman, ’53, 10/16/13 Vaughn Nelson, ’56, 10/23/13 John Allington, ’57, 10/28/13 Alpha Omega William Preston, ’31, 10/21/13 Beta Alpha Wesley Pohorsky, ’29, 10/23/13 John Hubbard, ’32, 10/15/13 Robins Jackson, ’43, 10/29/13 Howard Stevens, ’44, 10/8/13 Frank Holland, ’45, 10/8/13 Joe Davis, ’49, 10/2/13 David Irwin, ’54, 10/17/13 Lee Hartmann, ’56, 10/21/13

Harlin Sime, ’59, 10/12/13 James Racine, ’61, 3/29/14 Gary Stamp, ’67, 10/8/13 Robert Caughron, ’89, 8/23/13 Beta Beta Aaron Boren, ’11, 1/17/14 Robert Schick, 1/16/14 Beta Gamma Lloyd Johnson, ’41, 10/9/13 David Jacobsen, ’42, 2/4/14 Jack Edwards, ’43, 11/18/13 Stephen Baer, ’48, 10/21/13 Ralph Randall, ’49, 9/19/13 Richard Leigh, ’50, 10/11/13 John Bourne, ’52, 10/30/13 Martin Stiles, ’53, 10/1/13 John Tascher, ’58, 2/12/14 Gary Heng, ’02, 2/15/14 Thomas Nestojko, ’03, 2/21/14 Beta Delta Malcolm Wheeler, ’35, 10/23/13 Tracy Kegley, ’42, 10/21/13 John Glazner, ’48, 12/4/13 Henry Gaylor, ’49, 12/8/13 Thomas Austin, ’50, 10/4/13 Beta Epsilon Harold Uhlig, ’42, 1/30/14 George Gurwell, ’42, 10/8/13 Robert Blaine, ’42, 10/1/13 William Osborn, ’52, 10/11/13 Richard Duncan, ’52, 4/1/13 Beta Zeta Fred Kramer, ’31, 12/10/09 Lawrence McGee, ’32, 10/21/13 Francis Newsome, ’34, 10/14/13 Ray Pratt, ’54, 10/21/13 Manuel Menendez, ’55, 10/21/13 Thomas Bloodworth, ’67, 10/14/13 Beta Eta Patrick Golden, ’41, 12/4/13 Beta Theta Justin Glide, ’36, 10/21/13 Warren Sawyer, ’38, 10/8/13 John Burgio, ’39, 12/3/13 John Kvochak, ’47, 10/8/13 Glen McNaughton, ’47, 12/11/13 Harold Grim, ’49, 12/19/13 Ross Simmons, ’50, 10/8/13 Gerald Snyder, ’54, 10/21/13 Bruce Loev, ’81, 7/1/13 Beta Iota William Hamilton, ’43, 12/3/13 Robert Plazibat, ’47, 10/15/13 Beta Kappa John Arfman, ’33, 10/1/13 Thomas Brennen, ’43, 10/12/13 William Berryman, ’49, 10/1/13 Robert Patton, 12/3/13

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Beta Lambda Alton Hardison, ’49, 11/19/13 Harry Lewis, ’59, 1/29/14 Jerry Essic, ’60, 8/15/10 Neill Smith, ’63, 10/4/13 Emmet Baker, 10/25/13 Beta Mu Edward Deysher, ’48, 12/5/13 William Toth, ’51, 10/4/13 Thomas Summey, ’91, 12/4/13 Max Gjerde, ’06, 11/4/13 Beta Nu Leon Parris, ’50, 10/23/13 Beta Xi David Boone, ’49, 10/23/13 Beta Omicron Kenneth Laetz, ’48, 2/17/14 David Derrick, ’50, 10/8/13 Robert Benezette, ’50, 10/28/13 James Thomas, ’53, 10/22/13 C Whitney, ’54, 11/7/13 John Rynn, ’64, 2/18/14 John Meagher, ’65, 11/12/13 David Palmquist, ’87, 10/7/13 Beta Pi Donald Skibbe, ’48, 12/19/13 Adolf Jarema, ’48, 2/14/14 William Cary, ’49, 10/8/13 Richard Lozier, ’49, 2/1/14 David Lazarus, ’51, 10/2/13 John Pennock, ’51, 12/4/13 John Chisholm, ’52, 10/3/13 Paul Huebotter, ’54, 12/13/13 Peter Pekkala, ’55, 10/28/13 Nelson Lund, ’58, 10/1/13 Thomas Hart Stewart, ’58, 1/31/14 James Guerard, ’58, 11/11/13 Andrew Posa, ’91, 10/5/13 Paul Briggs, ’91, 1/1/08 Michael Esch, ’95, 9/12/98 James Roberts, ’96, 10/3/13 Beta Rho Francis Cucciarre, ’48, 10/10/13 Raymond Dobricki, ’49, 10/2/13 Bruce Webster, ’63, 10/8/13 Mark Werden, ’86, 10/23/13 Beta Tau Jack Thwaites, ’49, 12/19/13 Neal O’Connor, ’49, 10/1/13 Leslie Spaulding, ’50, 1/29/14 John Kugler, ’51, 10/1/13 Robert Van Beck, ’51, 10/15/13 Paul Brown, ’53, 10/22/13 Frank Gualandi, ’56, 12/4/13 John Raffaelli, ’57, 11/11/13 Richard Dwoinen, ’58, 10/21/13 Beta Upsilon Roy Larson, ’48, 10/8/13 Curtis Charrier, ’49, 10/10/13 Albert Star, ’57, 2/28/14 Floyd Broussard, ’62, 12/23/13 Kenneth Hutchinson, ’68, 10/7/13

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Beta Phi William Anderson, ’48, 1/1/10 Joseph Barry, ’48, 12/11/13 Donald Bradley, ’51, 1/1/11 William Stadtmiller, ’52, 10/3/13 John Kozusko, ’53, 10/7/13 James Brown, ’54, 1/1/12 Edward McGinley, ’57, 2/21/14 Thomas Rhoads, ’60, 10/15/13 Peter O’Brien, ’61, 10/15/13 Andre Bourgeois, ’66, 3/30/99 Beta Psi William Pomeroy, ’49, 11/11/13 Cal Banker, ’50, 10/1/13 Robert Williams, ’50, 10/2/13 Edward Bamrick, ’50, 2/14/14 Lawrence Fleming, ’53, 10/15/13 Robert Jorgensen, ’53, 12/18/13 Bill Roberts, ’54, 2/12/12 Jeffrey Roth, ’72, 12/31/13 Beta Omega Charles Smith, ’51, 12/27/13 Gamma Alpha Vernon Shears, ’48, 10/1/13 Theodore Goff, ’50, 10/23/13 Robert Knudsen, ’51, 3/28/14 Vernon Main, ’52, 6/12/13 John Shaw, ’53, 10/1/13 Harvey Prince, ’57, 10/2/13 Gamma Beta Donald Endicott, ’52, 10/15/13 Gamma Delta Clarence Miller, ’49, 10/11/13 Edmund Preuschoff, ’50, 10/9/13 Gamma Epsilon Lincoln Scarper, ’51, 10/1/13 Gamma Zeta Francis Unietis, ’50, 10/8/13 Stanley Rogers, ’51, 10/8/13 James Moore, ’55, 10/21/13 Gamma Eta Frederick Schaeffer, ’50, 10/9/13 Charles Wilkinson, ’53, 10/2/13 Gamma Theta William Clissold, ’51, 2/11/14 John Fisher, ’53, 10/8/13 Jack Kozma, ’56, 10/16/13 Dennis Stiner, ’71, 10/8/13 Jeronimas Zubrick, ’83, 1/5/14 Gamma Iota Dan Anderson, ’50, 11/11/13 William De Pell, ’50, 2/21/14 Dale De Francesco, ’63, 10/8/13 William Owens, ’69, 10/7/13 Gamma Kappa Richard Mills, ’50, 10/3/13 Ward Roseberry, ’52, 10/8/13 John Maher, ’56, 11/12/13 Wilfred Johnson, ’58, 10/8/13

George Weeks, ’59, 10/30/13 Steven Andrew, ’70, 10/1/13 Juan Reyes, ’78, 10/21/13 Robert Jackson, 10/8/13 Gamma Nu Bobby Winkler, ’56, 10/15/13 Darrel Shahan, ’64, 10/23/13 Gamma Xi Gavin Murrell, ’53, 10/30/13 Roy Richards, ’84, 11/11/13 Gamma Omicron Billy Samples, ’51, 10/31/13 George Nicholas, ’53, 10/3/13 Joseph Jelinek, ’53, 1/31/14 Elon Peters, ’54, 10/5/13 Gerald Lohrmeyer, ’63, 10/23/13 Calvin Reese, ’64, 12/5/13 James Morton, ’65, 10/7/13 Douglas McMillen, ’65, 10/29/13 Jeffrey Porter, ’68, 10/8/13 Dennis Zimmerman, ’72, 7/13/12 Patrick Charlton, ’73, 11/6/13 Gamma Pi Maj McCoid, ’60, 10/4/13 Terrance McGill, ’91, 11/11/13 Gamma Rho Stanley Skrypzak, ’58, 10/21/13 W Harter, ’58, 10/1/13 Henry Badach, ’58, 10/7/13 Donald Meyers, ’59, 10/10/13 Frederick Grau, ’64, 10/8/13 Gamma Sigma Donald Peart, ’55, 10/3/13 Gordon Avilla, ’58, 10/9/13 Gamma Tau James Messmore, ’51, 10/8/13 Edson Gallup, ’64, 10/21/13 Philip Addy, ’71, 10/2/13 Ronald Lagodna, ’83, 12/13/13 Gamma Upsilon James Russell, ’59, 10/7/13 Gamma Phi Bruce De Pue, ’54, 10/15/13 Gamma Chi Edward Radke, ’58, 1/31/14 Thomas Pullen, ’67, 2/9/14 Raymond Davis, ’70, 1/30/14 William Fritz, ’92, 10/21/13 Gamma Psi Don Templeton, ’55, 10/16/13 Robert Hecker, ’60, 2/20/14 Gamma Omega Duane Simmons, ’56, 10/2/13 Sidney Allison, ’57, 10/5/13 Harry Loftus, ’59, 10/21/13 Arthur Barringer, ’65, 11/11/13

Delta Alpha Franklin Izzard, ’56, 2/3/14 Robert Lichti, ’58, 11/8/13 Leon Negri, ’62, 11/5/13 John Schulz, ’64, 10/1/13 David Hurst, ’72, 10/4/13 Delta Gamma James Fleming, ’57, 9/2/11 Gary Osborne, ’67, 10/30/13 Delta Delta Richard Ellis, ’57, 10/15/13 James Thomas, ’57, 10/1/13 Fred Bowen, ’58, 12/6/13 James Chaddock, ’67, 3/4/14 Kevin Dolan, ’06, 2/14/14 Delta Epsilon Darrell Schmedding, ’57, 10/10/13 Gerald Cooper, ’58, 12/4/13 Alan Haynes, ’63, 12/28/11 Delta Zeta David Kenerley, ’60, 12/19/13 Charles Kerr, ’63, 10/8/13 Delta Eta Robert Koth, ’57, 12/4/13 Leo Kelly, ’59, 12/5/13 Benny Lowman, ’65, 11/19/13 Delta Theta Herbert Peterson, ’51, 10/2/13 Robert Thornburg, ’51, 12/6/13 Harold Koontz, ’58, 12/4/13 Charles Burns, ’59, 10/15/13 Delta Iota Carey Banks, ’58, 10/2/13 John Wooten, ’58, 10/7/13 Craven Sumerell, ’58, 10/11/13 James Daniell, ’58, 10/29/13 Jack Phillips, ’58, 10/23/13 Billy Merritt, ’60, 10/7/13 Johnnie Fields, ’61, 10/15/13 Joseph Cagle, ’62, 12/4/13 Thomas Kinker, ’94, 11/11/13 Delta Kappa Forrest Visser, ’60, 2/23/14 John Sievert, ’67, 11/5/13 Delta Mu Patrick Griffin, ’58, 10/1/13 Thomas Hill, ’61, 12/13/13 John Kavanagh, ’61, 10/23/13 David Kurt, ’62, 3/26/14 Delta Nu Ralph Hargest, ’63, 12/4/13 Edwin Morgan, ’64, 2/1/07 Thomas McCracken, ’67, 1/30/14 Delta Xi Richard Clevenger, ’64, 10/11/13

Delta Pi Robert Smith, ’60, 10/21/13 Marshall Moore, ’64, 12/4/13 Delta Rho James Meyer, ’62, 2/19/14 Robert Dupnick, ’65, 11/11/13 Joseph Ruzicka, ’69, 10/10/13

Epsilon Omega Gary Anderton, ’71, 1/29/14 Zeta Epsilon David Anderson, ’82, 10/24/13 Zeta Iota Erik Marks, ’88, 12/5/13

Delta Tau Frederick Scarpace, ’63, 11/11/13

Zeta Mu Thomas Welte, ’80, 12/2/13

Delta Upsilon Mark Hazelwood, ’68, 3/17/14

Zeta Omicron John Bolton, ’83, 10/3/13 Akshay Patel, ’87, 10/16/13

Delta Phi Ronald Gratz, ’64, 1/28/14 Michael Seman, ’70, 1/20/14 Thomas Bonner, ’77, 10/14/13 John Ritzo, ’82, 10/3/13 Delta Chi Walter Roth, ’63, 10/21/13 George Bobal, ’72, 10/29/13 Delta Psi Carl Emmerich, ’64, 12/4/13 Richard Watson, ’65, 1/22/14 Delta Omega Raymond Kopchak, ’63, 10/16/13 Robert Charvat, ’63, 1/9/14 Arthur Neumann, ’64, 10/30/13 Christopher Zehe, ’83, 2/4/14 Epsilon Beta Charles MacLean, ’64, 11/22/13 Epsilon Gamma Carl Buggeln, ’66, 2/20/14 Epsilon Delta Dennis Bailey, ’73, 11/5/13 Epsilon Zeta Daniel Volk, ’67, 12/3/13 Frederick Smith, ’68, 10/11/13 Edward O’Conner, ’77, 10/30/13 Epsilon Eta Timothy Billot, ’69, 10/11/13 Epsilon Iota Roger Green, ’66, 10/2/13 Epsilon Lambda Travers Booth, ’66, 12/2/13 Jeffrey Gaskill, ’70, 1/21/14 Thomas Fuller, ’72, 12/22/13 Epsilon Nu Edward Bevilacqua, ’67, 10/14/13 Epsilon Rho Eddie Sauer, ’55, 10/2/13 Carlton Cowen, ’56, 9/18/13 Salvador Jacobs, ’61, 3/15/14 Joseph Lo Conte, ’64, 10/8/13

Zeta Upsilon Richard Lichty, 12/2/13 Zeta Phi Richard Amos, ’89, 2/16/14 Zeta Psi Thomas Tellier, ’94, 12/2/13 Eta Zeta Dean Lutz, ’89, 10/11/13 Eta Iota Gregory Ellisen, ’88, 10/11/13 Eta Kappa Mark Yeghiazarian, ’87, 2/17/14 Eta Xi David Lombardo, ’95, 12/3/13 Eta Omega Michael Roy, ’92, 10/19/13 Theta Epsilon John Byrne, ’09, 2/14/14 Bluefield State College Colony Jack Borich, ’70, 10/5/13 Ryerson University Colony Gerhard Strauss, ’62, 10/23/13 University of Denver Colony Floyd Herner, ’50, 8/13/11 Clifford Terry, ’50, 10/8/13 Fredrick Hilker, ’52, 8/29/03 Wayne State University Colony Jon Bergeron, ’90, 11/21/13

Due to incomplete information, deceased dates may reflect the date the Fraternity was notified.

Many of these notifications came from the Fraternity’s Directory Update. The Fraternity was notified of these members’ passings between October 1, 2013 and April 1, 2014.

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