2013 Summer Carnation

Delta Sigma Phi | Summer 2013

Special Convention Issue

Letter from the Executive Director Brothers, Welcome to the 58th & Biennial Delta Sigma Phi Convention!

We have so much in store for you!

For the last year, and especially the last six months, our outstanding headquarters staff has been working diligently to bring you the 58th & Biennial Convention. This special edition of the Carnation is just one of the many exciting things we have up our sleeves for this year’s Convention!

This year’s Convention theme is Leading the Way. Our theme goes hand-in-hand with Vision 2025 and the bold goals we set for our great Fraternity. As a Fraternity, we are making an impact in the journey to achieve the strategic initiatives of Vision 2025. We’ve built a solid foundation for growth, and we are proving each year that we are destined to become America’s Leading Fraternity by 2025. But let’s not stop there. We must stay focused as we continue to lead the way. With our vision within reach, we know that success is inevitable.

During Convention we will take time to celebrate where we’ve been, where we are and where we’re going. Events such as Messages for You, From the Ritual will help us celebrate our rich history. The State of The Fraternity Address during our Opening Ceremony will help us celebrate how far we have

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come. Our educational sessions and closing banquet will give us a chance to advance ourselves and give us the energy we need to keep leading the way to Vision 2025!

For those of you who were unable to venture to Phoenix for Convention, I hope that this special edition will bring a little bit of Convention to you. We truly missed each and every brother who was unable to attend this year. In addition to this special edition of the Carnation, also be sure to like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter to see more special highlights – find all Convention related tweets at #dspconv13.

In closing, I thank everyone for allowing me and my staff to host such a prestigious event for you. While I have attended many past Conventions, this is my first as Executive Director – and I couldn’t be more excited to be here with you!

With all that being said, I hope you are ready for a Convention for the history books!

YITBOS, Patrick F. Jessee, JD Executive Director

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Editor Brian Brooks, Missouri ’64 Contributing Writers Jennifer Graham Nick Gerhardt, Missouri ’08 Merritt Onsa Art Director Shelle Design Incorporated

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Honoring Our 50-Year Donors

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DEPARTMENTS 2 Letter from the Editor 4 Convention 2013 8 Past Award Winners 12 Chapter Advancement 16 Delta Sigma Phi Legacy

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20 Honoring Our 50-Year Donors 23 Donor Spotlights 25 Foundation 26 Bond Eternal

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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 2013 Convention

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Convention 2013

The Fraternity has put a concerted, intentional effort into the social media presence we maintain online. From Facebook to Twitter to LinkedIn, hundreds of Delta Sigs join our social networks every month to keep up-to-date with the Fraternity and engage in the conversation.

In May, we asked our followers who had already registered for the 2013 Convention to share their excitement and favorite convention memories, and this is what they had to say.

RYAN ST. MARTIN,

SEAN MCGARRY,

UW-OSHKOSH ‘09 “The opportunity to take a 30 hour road trip with my brothers and then have the chance to meet other Delta Sigs from across the nation.”

MSOE ‘11 I can’t wait to catch up with all the guys from other chapters I’ve met over the past few years at Summit/RLA/ road trips etc.

KEVIN HOPPER, EASTERN MICHIGAN ‘12 Travelling with the brothers. I’ve lived in PHX for a summer so I’m pumped to go back.

Especially excited to see how the brothers react to the heat—we’re in Michigan and they’re in for a hot surprise.

MICHAEL WIMS,

JABARI ABDUL HASAN, SJSU ‘12 I am looking forward to developing a deeper connection with the National Fraternity, seeing how other chapters operate and learning how to become a better Fraternity man and leader.

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NORTH TEXAS ‘66 When the national President Tom Decker rode into In Convention Assembled on a camel. I think this was at the centennial convention.

THANK YOU TO OUR CONVENTION SPONSORS!

Platinum Sponsors Explosion Sportswear Geico Arizona Benefits/Mike & Maggie Hoffman

Gold Sponsors OmegaFi

Silver Sponsors Herff Jones PCI Lee & Jill Dueringer

In-Kind Sponsors Campus-Classics Vision Graphics

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CONVENTION

SPEAKERS DAVE WESTOL Dave Westol is an alumnus of Michigan State University and the Detroit College of Law. His involvement with fraternity and sorority life began as an undergrad, when he held several leadership positions for his chapter and served on the MSU Interfraternity Council. He served five years as a regional volunteer and eight years as a national officer for his fraternity. He then served for 18 years as Chief Executive Officer of Theta Chi. Dave has made presentations on over 420 campuses and at over 300 national men’s and women’s fraternity and sorority events. He has nearly twenty national fraternities and sororities as clients for services ranging from board orientation, governance and governing document review, risk management, alumnae/alumni corporation development and chapter membership reviews, of which he has participated in or overseen over 90.

Dave has officiated football at the high school level, as well as D-II and D-III college levels. He served three years as co-chairman of the Indiana Officials Association football section—the IOA is the largest of over 20 associations in Indiana—and now co-chairs the New Football Officials program. His officiating crew advanced to the Sectional Final game level in 2011.

Dave was honored with the Gold Medal from the North-American Interfraternity Conference for service to the interfraternal community in April of 2012. He received the Silver Medal from the Conference in 1995.

He has received numerous interfraternal awards from a number of organizations and men’s national fraternities.

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DR. LINDA LANGFORD Dr. Linda Langford is a Boston-based independent consultant specializing in promoting safe and healthy campus environments. Trained in public health, she focuses on approaches that engage the entire community and expand beyond response and punishment to include “promoting the good.” From 1998 to 2012, she served as an Associate Center Director of the U.S. Department of Education’s Higher Education Center for Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Violence Prevention, initially managing the Center’s evaluation projects and from 2002-2012 serving as Director of Violence Prevention initiatives. During her time at the Center, Linda developed a framework for violence prevention in higher education based on a public health approach that promotes campus and community collaboration and systematic data-driven planning based on the best available prevention science.

Since the Higher Education Center’s funding was eliminated in 2012, Linda has been consulting, speaking, and training on a variety of issues related to effective campusbased prevention, including “Prevention101,” strategic planning, effective partnerships, logic models, bystander intervention, social norms, hazing, sexual violence, and other topics. She currently works part-time as an Evaluation Scientist at the SAMHSA-funded Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC), based at Education Development Center, Inc., in addition to running her own consulting practice, Langford & Associates. Her company logo is an “endless knot” or “eternal knot.” Among other meanings, it signifies that future positive effects have their roots in the actions of the present, and it represents the intertwining of wisdom and

compassion. These ideas fit with her approach to prevention, which includes systematic and science-based planning but recognizes that this work combines both head and heart.

If she’s not geeking out on prevention science, you can probably find her zydeco or swing dancing, traveling, or reading a trashy mystery.

MATT MATTSON Matt Mattson is co-founder and President of Phired Up Productions, an education firm that has helped thousands of fraternity and sorority chapters grow since 2002. Mattson has a B.A. in Advertising and Public Relations from Grand Valley State University, where he joined and led Alpha Sigma Phi, and a Master’s in Education. His experience as a member of, a leader in, an educator to, and an advocate for membership organizations is deep and varied. From college student organizations, to national mental health groups, to several other not-for-profits, Matt has provided a spark for many groups. As a speaker, he has keynoted and led deeply experiential workshops at hundreds of major conferences, corporate events, and college campus gatherings since 2002. He co-authored Social Excellence: We Dare You and before that, he coauthored Good Guys: The Eight Steps to Limitless Possibility for Fraternity Recruitment. He is a runner, a reader, the proud father of two daughters (Elliotte and Josie)—thanks to his amazing wife, Meggan—and is an unapologetic Chicago Cubs fan.

LOREN MALL Loren Mall is a business attorney in Denver where he was director of his law firm for many years. He was a member of our Grand Council for 16 years and National President of Delta Sigma Phi for two terms.

Loren started his volunteer work for Delta Sig chapters more than 50 years ago. His lifetime goal is to see Delta Sigma Phi recognized as the Fraternity that provides the most benefit for its members. Throughout five decades, this ambition has put him close to the fundamental changes of the Fraternity.

He has been piecing together the hidden story of Delta Sigma Phi ever since he was initiated.

After Loren gives you the inside account of Delta Sigma Phi at Convention, feel free to ask a question about something that he wasn’t able to cover.

DEAN HALLETT Dean Hallett is Executive Vice President, Operations and Strategy and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for Fox Filmed Entertainment (FFE), where he is a key member of the executive team and is instrumental in shaping the overall strategy of the studio. In his current role, Hallett provides strategic direction and operational guidance to all FFE divisions including theatrical production, worldwide theatrical marketing and distribution, worldwide home entertainment, television distribution, digital exhibition and digital media. He aligns and optimizes resources while providing guidance to each of the studio divisions as they integrate digital product offerings into day-to-day operations. Hallett also oversees strategic planning and business development, technology research and engineering, studio and post-production operations, information technology and finance.

Hallett has overseen several key studio initiatives including new digital sell-through home entertainment strategies, the company-wide content management strategy, the digital cinema strategy and rollout, and the business process/ cost revolution effort that resulted in establishing the new Enterprise Operations unit.

Prior to joining Fox, Hallett was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for The Walt Disney Studios (TWDS), a position he had held since January 2000. Prior to his CFO role, he was Senior Vice President, Planning and Control for TWDS, where he drove international theatrical and home entertainment integration initiatives, served as executive sponsor for shared services of The Walt Disney Company and helped spearhead strategic sourcing and ERP initiatives for the corporation.

Hallett joined The Walt Disney Company in 1990 as a Manager in the Corporate Management Audit department.

He was named Director of Finance at Buena Vista Pictures Marketing in 1991 and promoted to Vice President in 1994.

Hallett came to Disney from Anthony Industries, Inc. (now K2, Inc.), where he was Group Controller, after spending more than seven years with Ernst & Whinney, including a one-year stint in the UK. A native of Los Angeles, California, Hallett received his degree in business administration from the University of Southern California (USC) in 1980. He is currently ViceChairman of Marshall Partners (the premiere academic support group for USC’s Marshall School of Business), and is a member of USC’s Board of Governors and USC Marshall’s Corporate Advisory Board. Hallett previously served on the Board of Directors of Partners Federal Credit Union, and is a member of several Fox company boards of directors.

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FRATERNITY HONORS

PAST AWAR

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Past President Brian Brooks, Missouri ’64 and Bruce Loewenberg, Missouri ’58 CHARLES G. BARTELL OUTSTANDING CHAPTER ADVISOR AWARD 1985, Charles G. Bartell, Idaho 1986, G. W. Steele, Maryland 1987, Jack W. Barnett, Western Carolina 1988, Thomas F. Hruby, Michigan Tech 1989, Dr. Thomas Daubert, Penn State 1990, Dr. Gordon A. Taylor, Western Illinois 1991, Dr. John J. Dunn, South Dakota Past President Tom Decker, Missouri ’69 and Gene Vance, Transylvania ’85

School of Mines 1992, Dr. Robert G. Wingate, UW-LaCrosse 1993, Jim F. Smeltzer, Northwest

MR. DELTA SIG AWARD 1969, William S. Noblitt, UC-Berkeley 1970, Dr. Hugh J. Ryan, Pittsburgh 1971, Hon. Samuel O. Smith, Millikin 1972, F. Chandler Harris, UCLA 1973, Charles A. Tonsor, Jr., NYU 1974, Harold P. Winter, Chicago 1975, Francis P. Wacker, Penn State 1976, Dr. William A. Kinnison, Wittenberg 1977, Albert C. Tillman, Chicago 1978, Frank A. Hoke, Missouri 1979, Henry D. Stricker, Jr., Michigan 1980, Horatio M. Fitch, Illinois 1981, Russell T. Roebuck, Barton 1982, Hon. H. Ross Adair, Hillsdale 1983, Dr. Donn D. Moomaw, UCLA 1985, D. Lee Dueringer, Illinois 1987, Loren L. Mall, Kansas State 1988, T. Eugene Blanchard, Illinois 1989, Robert E. Pitts, Arkansas 1991, C. Gary Kalian, UC-Berkeley 1993, E. Allen James, North Carolina State 1995, Brian S. Brooks, Missouri 1997, Gilbert P. Williamson, San Jose State 1999, Russell C. Shaw, Ohio State 2001, Edward F. Rodriguez, Texas 2003, Theodore E. Desch, Illinois 2005, Thomas E. Decker, Saint Louis 2007, Michael D. Wims, North Texas 2009, Bruce J. Loewenberg, Missouri 2011, Palmer Gene Vance II, Transylvania

Missouri State 1994, Rev. Raymond E. Parnell, Purdue 1996, Kirk Tolle, Transylvania 1997, Ron Ricker, Iowa State 1998, Charles E. Franklin, UCLA 1999, James Menton, Eureka 2000, Brad Sayre, Iowa State 2001, William Daley, Oregon 2002, Jim Boggus, San Diego State 2003, Dan Morrison, NC State 2005, Don Rieley, Virginia Tech 2007, Art Richard, Tulane 2011, Dr. Paul Hirtz, Missouri S&T

Grand Councilman Tom Cycyota, Illinois ’77 and Dr. Paul Hirtz, Missouri S&T ’07

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Tech Talk 2013 Convention E. ALLEN JAMES OUTSTANDING

RUSSELL T. ROEBUCK OUTSTANDING

HARVEY H. HEBERT MEMORIAL AWARD

UNDERGRADUATE AWARD

NATIONAL VOLUNTEER AWARD

1931, A.W. Diefenderfer, Cumberland

1965, Dale T. Alexander, Alberta

1991, Palmer Gene Vance, II, Transylvania

Salvador Roccaforte, Tulane

1966, Wilkie A. Wilson, Jr., LSU-Baton Rouge

1992, Louis F. Ripberger, Purdue

R. Guy Smith, Texas

1967, Brian S. Brooks, Missouri

1993, Michael F. Stravino, St. John’s

1968, Frank M. Sahlman, Jr., Michigan Tech

1994, James J. Pietrzycki, Cleveland State

1933, H.O. “Fritz” Crisler, Chicago

1969, Charles B. Gilliland, Auburn

1995, James L. Madsen, Eastern Michigan

1935, Leslie H. Belknap, Michigan State

1970, James C. McDaniel, Virginia

1997, David H. Harvey, North Carolina

1937, Edward F. Hebert, Tulane

1971, Peter L. Williamson, Maryland

1999, Christopher Northern, Texas

1940, W. Lloyd Rhode, Texas

1972, Douglas G. Voegler, Nebraska

2001, Mark Kipp, Rose-Hulman

1947, F. Chandler Harris, UCLA

1973, Mark W. Jones, Illinois

2003, Jason Kalis, Grand Valley State

Arthur H. Sprague, Wittenberg

1974, Anthony F. Litt, III, UW-Platteville

2005, Carl E. Miller, Indiana University

Charles A. Tonsor, Jr., NYU

1975, Ronald H. Clingenpeel, Nebraska

of Pennsylvania

1976, Michael B. Bragg, Illinois

2007, Jason DeKeuster, UW-Eau Claire

1977, Douglas L. Madsen, Idaho

2009, James L. Knoll, San Jose State

1978, Donald W. Myears, Missouri

Ernest F. Viberg, McGill 1949, A. Ford Dickerson, Millikin William S. Noblitt, UC-Berkeley Hugh J. Ryan, Pittsburgh

1979, Eric W. Jacobson, Illinois

1951, Hon. E. Ross Adair, Hillsdale

1980, Marc A. Mathews, Transylvania

HUGH “CAP” RYAN OUTSTANDING

1981, Terry G. Buttchen, UW-Platteville

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION AWARD

1982, Kirk Tolle, Transylvania

1991 Epsilon Rho Alumni Chapter

1983, John C. Boma, Illinois

1993 Houston Area Alumni Association

1984, Daniel T. Kittrell, St. Cloud State

1995 Delta Lambda Alumni Chapter

1985, Alan B. Storrow, Transylvania

2007 Washington D.C. Alumni Association

1957, Laurence J. Hoge, UC-Santa Barbara

1986, Miles W. McHugh, Illinois

2009 Epsilon Rho Alumni Association

1959, Frank D. Lloyd, Washington

1987, Todd G. Newman, Northeast Louisiana

Sidney V. Beach, USC 1953, Joseph T. Miceli, Tulane Henry F. Scherer, Tulane 1955, Philip L. Burgett, Pennsylvania Belden S. Gardner, UC-Berkeley

Francis P. Wacker, Penn State

1988, Steven P. Cabrera, Michigan Tech

1961, Hon. Samuel O. Smith, Millikin

1989, Cliff Veatch, Kansas State

FRANCIS “PETE” WACKER

Matthew Spiesman, Pennsylvania

1990, Charles C. Sims, Transylvania

INTERFRATERNAL AWARD

Albert C. Tillman, Chicago

1991, Alan D. Rutenberg, Transylvania

1989, General Russell Doherty,

1992, George P. Liakeas, SUNY-Stonybrook

Lambda Chi Alpha

1993, Brian J. Kennedy, New Mexico State

1990, T. J. Schmitz, Tau Kappa Epsilon

1994, William C. Donato, Penn State

1991, William Sherman, Omicron Delta Kappa/

1995, Richard H. Mains, Transylvania

Phi Gamma Delta

1996, Don L. Daniel, St. Louis

1993, Maureen Syring, Delta Gamma

1997, Kevin C. Brown, Transylvania

1993, Frank J. Ruck, Jr.,

1998, Brian Connett, Drexel

Sigma Phi Epsilon

1963, Edward H. Hegmann, Pennsylvania Roger M. Jacobs, Georgia Tech Mechial Voyne, UC-Berkeley 1965, William F. Ramsdell, UCLA Russell T. Roebuck, Barton 1967, Edward W. Clements, San Jose State W. Frank Powell, Auburn Henry D. Stricker, Jr., Michigan

1999, Ryan McMahon, Western Michigan

1997, Brian S. Brooks, Missouri

2000, Elliot P. Dale, Oregon

2001, Paul Lawson, Stetson

Marriott Bredekamp, Maryland

2001, Kyle R. Burritt, Eastern Illinois

2005, Bob Dudolski, Iowa State

John C. Harris, Texas

2002, Jason Finehout, Texas A&M

2011, Julie Cain Burkhard, Alpha Chi Omega

2003, Luke Fuszard, Texas-Austin

Emanuel F. Zalesak, Maryland Harold P. Winter, Chicago

2005, Robert Martin, Kentucky

CAREER ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

2006, Stan Hill, Georgia Tech

1985, Michael K. Deaver, San Jose State

2007, Casey Solem, Arizona State

1987, Dr. Robert H. Felix, Colorado

2009, Clayton Spiceland, Kentucky

1988, Lee O. Hills, Missouri

2011, Tom Seto, Purdue

1989, Gilbert P. Williamson, San Jose State

2012, Nate Spriggs, Kansas State

1990, Hon. Thomas Harkin, Iowa State 1992, William E. Moore, Georgia Tech 1994, Hon. William J. Hughes, Rutgers 1995, Neal J. Shine, Detroit 2002, Michael Waller, Millikin

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1969, Meyer Boskey, CCNY

1971, James R. Larkin, Kansas State

2004, Paul Lidy, Millikin

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J. Harold Weise, UC-Berkeley

1973, Charles Clark, SMU William Kinnison, Wittenberg Harmon H. Ruliffson, Nebraska 1975, Charles T. Aylesbury, USC T. Eugene Blanchard, Illinois Harold C. Treichel, Chicago 1977, D. Lee Dueringer, Illinois Seth J. Spitler, Michigan State 1979, Gerald W. O’Brien, Purdue Robert E. Pitts, Arkansas

1981, James B. Fennell, Penn State Charles E. Jarden, Penn State 1983, Pat J. Bosco, Kansas State Loren L. Mall, Kansas State 1985, Brian S. Brooks, Missouri Donald B. Falk, Illinois 1987, E. Allen James, NC State C. Gary Kalian, UC-Berkeley David O. Kindorf, UC-Berkeley 1989, Russel J. Knorr, Penn State Bruce J. Loewenberg, Missouri Russell C. Shaw, Ohio State 1991, Francis L. Boyle, Michigan State Norman R. Potter, Michigan State 1993, Fred M. Arnold, Michigan State James O. Braeutigam, Texas Taylor H. Rhodes, SMU 1995, Theodore E. Desch, Illinois William G. Hooker, Western Carolina Edward F. Rodriguez, Jr., Texas 1997, Thomas F. Hruby, Michigan Tech David H. Bahlmann, Hillsdale Daniel A. Smercina, Jr., Texas 1999, Thomas E. Decker, Saint Louis Marc A. Mathews, Transylvania Michael D. Wims, North Texas 2001, Bernard E. Tishkowski, Jr., Hillsdale P. Gene Vance, II, Transylvania 2003, Patrick J. Stephens, Wisconsin-LaCrosse

Mike Wims, North Texas ’66

Louis F. Ripberger, Purdue Kenneth W. Kramer, Detroit-Mercy 2005, Thomas J. Roeser, Purdue Brian C. Patrick, North Texas Thomas W. Howard, Texas 2007, John Boma, Illinois Jim Greener, Arizona State Don Chandler, Texas 2009, D. Anthony Blanton, Transylvania Christopher Northern, Texas James Rath, Wisconsin-Oshkosh Scott Wiley, SUNY-Oswego 2011, Dr. Thomas Daubert, Penn State Bob Kennel, NC State James Yemm, Missouri

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Chapter Advancement

Delta Sigma Phi has over 100 chapters and new chapters across the United States.

Each year, headquarters staff works diligently to build new chapters and further develop chartered chapters to help drive the Fraternity towards Vision 2025. The 2013-2014 school year will bring eight colonizations and recolonizations — Fall 2013: Indiana University, Oglethorpe University (Alpha Nu), University of Arizona (Beta Omega) and San Diego State University (Gamma Alpha); Spring 2014: University of Washington (Alpha Omega), Iowa State University (Beta Omega), Bradley University and University of North Carolina at Charlotte (Eta Rho). *Number following school denotes mileage to Convention 2013!

ALABAMA Kappa, Auburn, 1769 Zeta Chi, UAB, 1706 Beta Kappa, Alabama, 1656 ARIZONA Beta Omega, Arizona, 118 Beta Psi, Arizona State, 12 CALIFORNIA Gamma Sigma, UC-Davis, 773 Gamma Epsilon, San Jose State, 717 Hilgard, UC-Berkeley, 648 Beta Nu, Cal State-Fresno, 603 Epsilon Rho, Cal Poly, SLO, 569 Delta Mu, Loyola-Marymount, 395 Beta Gamma, UCLA, 392 Epsilon Pi, Woodbury, 392 Eta Beta, Cal State-San Bernardino, 326 COLORADO Theta Zeta, Colorado State, 883 Zeta Kappa, Northern Colorado, 872 CONNECTICUT Theta Theta, Hartford, 2538 WASHINGTON, D.C. Eta Psi, Gallaudet, 2282 FLORIDA Iota Epsilon, Central Florida, 2153 Alpha Chi, Stetson, 2121 GEORGIA Theta Omega, Georgia Southern, 2016 Iota Alpha, Georgia College & State, 1949 Theta Chi, Georgia, 1920 Alpha Gamma, Georgia Institute of Tech., 1853 Theta Psi, Shorter, 1822 IOWA Gamma Psi, Morningside, 1450 IDAHO Gamma Iota, Idaho, 1220 Boise State, 923

ILLINOIS Epsilon Kappa, Loyola-Chicago, 1742 Zeta Upsilon, Eureka, 1637 Alpha Alpha, Illinois, 1636 Alpha Lambda, Millikin, 1593 Epsilon Omega, llinois State, 1584 Gamma Kappa, Western Illinois, 1498 INDIANA Iota Gamma, IU-South Bend, 1787 Delta Delta, Purdue, 1731 IUPUI, 1689 Zeta Lambda, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, 1617 KANSAS Alpha Upsilon, Kansas State, 1121 KENTUCKY Theta Mu, Kentucky, 1791 Beta Mu, Transylvania, 1790 LOUISIANA Zeta Pi, Louisiana-Monroe, 1352 MARYLAND Eta Xi, Towson, 2283 Alpha Sigma, Maryland, 2134 MICHIGAN Beta Pi, Michigan Technological, 2001 Eta Kappa, Michigan-Dearborn, 2001 Gamma Tau, Eastern Michigan, 1939 Alpha Pi, Michigan State, 1911 Tau, Hillsdale, 1896 Alpha Tau, Albion, 1881 Epsilon Tau, Grand Valley State, 1860 Beta Tau, Western Michigan, 1833

NORTH CAROLINA Epsilon Phi, East Carolina, 2334 Zeta Omega, North Carolina-Wilmington, 2228 Rho, North Carolina State, 2177 Alpha Epsilon, Duke, 2151 Alpha Delta, North Carolina, 2150 University of North Carolina-Greensboro, 2096 Delta Zeta, High Point, 2091 Theta Epsilon, Wingate, 2081 Appalachian State, 1975 Delta Omicron, Western Carolina, 1937 NEW JERSEY Gamma Zeta, Rutgers, 2392

MINNESOTA Zeta Xi, St. Cloud State, 1706

NEW YORK Theta Gamma, SUNY-StonyBrook, 2471 Epsilon Zeta, Clarkson, 2467 Beta, Columbia, 2416 Iota Beta, Binghamton, 2356 Theta Kappa, SUNY-Oswego, 2349

MISSOURI Delta Epsilon, Missouri University of Science & Technology, 1354 Beta Beta, Missouri-Columbia, 1333 Epsilon Lambda, Northwest Missouri State, 1286

OHIO Case Western, Case Western Reserve, 2008 Delta Omega, Cleveland State, 2005 Alpha Eta, Ohio Northern, 1877 Alpha Iota, The Ohio State, 1877

Denotes closest and furthest chapters from 2013 Convention site: Arizona State (12 miles) and Johnson & Wales (2,589 miles), respectively.

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Beta Iota, Wittenberg, 1832 Iota Zeta, Miami, 1791

RHODE ISLAND Eta Omega , Johnson & Wales, 2,589

OREGON Theta Rho, Oregon, 1170

SOUTH DAKOTA Gamma Upsilon, South Dakota School of Mines & Technology, 1213

PENNSYLVANIA Gamma Chi, Drexel, 2344 Upsilon, Franklin & Marshall, 2277 Theta Lambda, Dickinson, 2229 Epsilon, Pennsylvania State, 2198 Gamma Pi, Indiana Univ.-Pennsylvania, 2119 Gamma Rho, Gannon, 2100 Sigma, Thiel, 2075

TEXAS Theta Upsilon, Texas A&M, 1114 Gamma Xi, North Texas, 1028 Eta, Texas, 1010 Zeta Zeta, Texas Tech, 773 UTAH Delta Lambda, Utah State, 766 Utah, 686

VIRGINIA Alpha Mu, Virginia, 2181 Iota Delta, James Madison, 2171 Kappa Delta, Virginia Tech, 2051 WASHINGTON Gamma Delta, Washington State, 1221 WISCONSIN Epsilon Beta, Wiscosin-Oshkosh, 1781 Eta Alpha, Milwaukee School of Engineering, 1773 Eta Omicron, Wisconsin-Eau Claire, 1700 Epsilon Iota, Wisconsin-LaCrosse, 1673 Epsilon Delta, Wisconsin-Platteville, 1621

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Chapter Advancement

DELTA SIGMA PHI’S CHAPTER ADVANCEMENT TEAM HELPS LEAD FRATERNITY TO

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ach year within the Fraternity world, chapters open and close. Over the past several years, Delta Sigma Phi leadership has put their brains together to come up with the best solution to support existing and create new chapters: Chapter Advancement.

So what is Chapter Advancement, and what’s different about this model?

As always the Chapter Advancement department of National Fraternity Headquarters is dedicated to providing the best possible service to the Fraternity’s members. The staff is responsible for overseeing all areas of undergraduate operations for the Fraternity including: • New chapter development • Recruitment • Chapter operations • Coordinating and executing the outside of finances functions In addition to overseeing chapter operations, Delta Sig staff is committed to developing chapters through a personal and holistic approach – for both new and established chapters.

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• Recruitment coaching • Leadership programming & consultation • Chapter operations training • Chapter reporting

This year marks the biggest Chapter Advancement team to date. All 13 staff members (on page 15) each have a role in helping Delta Sigma Phi become America’s Leading Fraternity.

Delta Sig’s bold goals in Vision 2025 cannot be met alone, so headquarters wanted to provide as many hands as possible to help our chapters achieve and surpass goals.

“Chapters can expect a more hands-on coaching model from our staff,” Director of Chapter Advancement Amber Huston said. “The Fraternity has increased staff so that we can increase the services and work more closely with chapters, members and volunteers.”

This upcoming year Vincent Woods, Bryan Witt, Kevin Parks, Ross Klein & Bryan Beran will be conducting coaching visits to each collegiate chapter. Each staff member will be assigned chapters not based on region but based on the best mutual fit. Staff will focus their efforts on organizational leadership, operations, membership, new member education and citizenship, all to guide our brothers to become Better Men.

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Amber Shaverdi Huston, Director of Chapter Advancement

Andy Bremer, Assistant Director of Fraternity Recruitment & Development

David Kuczmanski, Chapter Development Coordinator

Nik Koulogeorge, Assistant Director of Fraternity Growth

Kenny Traber, Chapter Development Coordinator

Albert Kotchish, Assistant Director of Chapter Development

Bryan Witt, Chapter Development Coordinator

“Vision 2025 challenges Delta Sigma Phi to be leaders in their community, on campus and in their chapter,” Huston said. “Our support and guidance will be rooted in creating America’s Leading Fraternity with each member’s involvement.”

New Chapter Development? Doesn’t everyone call it expansion?

New Chapter Development (NCD), a segment of Chapter Advancement, has been a game changer for Delta Sig’s future. Over the past four years, the Fraternity has been developing a philosophy, which differs from our peers, in regard to building chapters.

Within Delta Sig’s New Chapter Development model, staff members create new chapters and drive them to become the highest performing chapters.

“We believe there is a stark contrast between what other fraternities call ‘expansion’ and what we do with New Chapter Development,” Huston said. “We do not recruit 80 men and leave them with a new member manual and contact information for their regional consultant.”

What Delta Sigma Phi does differently from perhaps other organizations, is handle all of the developmental aspects of new chapters throughout colonization and after

Kevin Parks, Assistant Director of Chapter Advancement

Bryan Beran, Chapter Development Coordinator

Vincent Woods, Assistant Director of Chapter Advancement

Casey Dwyer, Chapter Development Coordinator

Ross Klein, Chapter Development Coordinator

Kai Schuster, Chapter Development Coordinator

the chapter is chartered. New Chapters are built with a five year strategic plan that aligns with the Fraternity’s Accreditation program and goals of Vision 2025. The Fraternity develops a five-year plan with each new chapter to set them up for sustained success versus focusing on the present. New chapters also identify their vision immediately upon colonization; this in turn is utilized by staff as a process for holding the new chapters accountable to their stated purpose as creating a chapter of the Fraternity.

Delta Sigma Phi’s process extends not only into the students who are recruited and the process to help them succeed, but also into the institutions Delta Sig partners with. The Fraternity aligns with institutions that have common links between Delta Sigma Phi, people of the institution, their mission, expectations and values. This better prepares us to build a chapter that will be a top chapter both nationally and per each institution.

“To accomplish our goals in Vision 2025, our staff works alongside outstanding alumni, volunteers, collegiate members and campus professionals,” Huston said. “We all believe in our vision and are working hard to achieve it.”

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The Legacy of Delta Sig

someday you’ll be a

DELTA SIG”

The Riley Family’s Legacy Experience

LEGACY: the younger of two or more relatives of the same gender who belong to a fraternal organization.

Try and remember those questions you asked yourself when you began applying to colleges. Perhaps they looked something like this: Do I want to go to a big school or a smaller school?

Do I stay close to home or get out of my comfort zone?

Do I want to go somewhere with a good football team?

Do I want to go to a school with a strong “Greek life”?

What about, “do I go to a school where there’s a chapter of Delta Sig?” “Not really, it wasn’t a major consideration” Alex Riley, UW-La Crosse ’12, said. “When I started college, I didn’t really know what I wanted to go into.”

Riley was born into Delta Sigma Phi. The legacy of his father Ken, UW-La Crosse ’85, Alex grew up near the UW-LaCrosse campus.

To understand the fraternity experience is to live the fraternity experience. As such the Delta Sig Legacy question—do you consider Delta Sig when you apply for school?—is probably more likely to be on the mind of a father or uncle than an overwhelmed 17-year-old.

“I’m somewhat embarrassed to admit having a legacy was incredibly important to me,” Ken Riley said.

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Take a look at Ken Riley’s graduation photo. There’s Riley, smiling ear to ear in his red cap and gown. Tucked in his arms is 11-month-old Alex, decked out from head to toe in—if you can believe it—a darn-near Nile Green velvet outfit (photo above).

“I can still look at that picture and remember,” Ken said, “I was looking at him thinking someday you’ll be graduating just like I am, and one day you’ll be a Delta Sig.” According to USA Today, there are nearly 2,500 public and private colleges & universities in the United States.

Delta Sigma Phi has just more than 100 active chapters and new chapters. No matter how you do the math, those are long odds.

Yet Delta Sig has a strong presence in the University of Wisconsin system, Ken Riley’s home state. He came to know that fact well through years of volunteering his time to leadership initiatives and the Alumni Corporation Board (ACB). With active chapters at UW-La Crosse, UW-Platteville and UW-Oshkosh, Riley’s shot at keeping Delta Sig in the family, assuming his son stayed in Wisconsin, looked pretty good.

“As he got closer to college age, I thought ‘I hope he goes to the right school; he can go anywhere in the world he wants--but I hope he picks a school that has Delta Sig,’” Ken said.

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(Left) Ken and Alex Riley pose in the chapter house. The Rileys are one of many sets of legacies within Delta Sig. (Right) Beau Rath and Alex Riley (L) pose with their Delta Sig paddles.

As luck would have it, the younger Riley picked one of the Wisconsin schools—UW-Milwaukee, a fine school for wrestling, but devoid of a Delta Sig chapter.

“My dad wanted me to get out of my comfort zone. I was looking for places with connections with wrestling, so I applied to Milwaukee and to Minnesota because of wrestling.”

Although he was happy for his son and excited for what Milwaukee could bring, Riley admits he was a bit disappointed that Delta Sig might not be an option.

“I knew there wasn’t a chapter at Milwaukee, so I was disappointed but it wasn’t like I was going to push him into a school based on fraternity.

“I just kept hoping it would connect itself somehow,” Ken said.

Alex briefly considered a fraternity that had just colonized at Milwaukee.

“There were a couple friends of mine who were talking about one fraternity that was just starting up,” Alex said.

But would he have joined a fraternity if not for Delta Sig? “I’d probably say no,” Alex admits.

His father remembers thinking, “maybe he’ll get a group of guys together and they’ll start Delta Sig on campus, and they’ll go through recruitment with the national headquarters. I had greater hope that he would be a Delta Sig than anything else.”

Like many sons of Delta Sigs, especially those as involved as Ken has been, Alex was more or less locked into a longterm relationship with Delta Sig from a very young age.

“What I knew about DSP,” Alex said, “you could trace back to when I was a kid.” There was that picture of him with his dad, not even a year old, but the experience certainly didn’t end there.

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“I would always bring him to the house. The [Epsilon Iota—UW-La Crosse] guys I was working with were always amazing with my kids,” Ken said. “It was just something that Alex always grew up around.”

Ken’s iPhone is full of pictures of his son helping out around the chapter house. Ken provided many of them to The Carnation: in the first, a baby photo of the younger Riley, another of both Rileys in the chapter house and a third of Alex and pledge brother/fellow legacy Beau Rath, UW-La Crosse ’12, holding Delta Sigma Phi paddles, smiling.

“I’d been working with the chapter immensely,” said Ken. “So when Alex decided to go to Milwaukee, I was disappointed but also relieved.

“He wouldn’t have had the same fraternity experience I had,” Ken said. At that time the chapter was in the midst of what Riley called a “re-gentrification of values.”

Left unattended, a fraternity chapter is liable to slip into a four-year culture cycle, with each class of new members helping to define and enact the culture of the organization, for better or worse, in conjunction with the elements already established by the older culture.

Give even the best of chapters a couple years’ worth of non-values based recruiting, and you may end up with a large house, but the culture can end up being one of cliques, dissonance, and disorganization, or just a downright dearth of values and numbers. And although we can’t say that’s what had happened in the last half of the last decade at La Crosse, there was certainly progress to be made when the younger Riley began his studies at Milwaukee.

“It was one of the top five things I thought when he was born. I thought ‘I want him to experience the same kind of thing I did because it was such an instrumental part of my life.’”

One of the great predicaments of the legacy experience is that most younger Delta Sigs don’t have the same kind of experience their parents had. Though the precept of fraternal existence has remained the same for more than a hundred years, the execution of it varies wildly from campus to campus, generation to generation.

Alex eventually took his German studies and used them abroad. He stayed out of the states for nearly a year before coming home. After he returned, Alex decided to transfer to the college nestled in his home town.

“I thought he’d stay abroad,” said his father. “When he came back for his fourth year and decided he wanted to go to school at La Crosse…”

All the sudden, the possibility was alive again. Riley didn’t want to get too excited—not yet. “[Alex] wanted to be able to gauge the culture [of the chapter] himself,” Riley said.

“I was going to join in the fall,” Alex said, “but between work and school, between all the recruitment stuff and pledging, I had to bail out the third week because my overload was a little too high.”

He said he didn’t know if he had enough time to commit to the chapter, and that he felt like they deserved better than that.

“Ken really wanted me to join, really wanted me to be a legacy. I figured well, you know, he seems to be right about everything else, so I figured it couldn’t hurt.”

The time away, “allowed me to evaluate if I really wanted to do it. I’m glad I did, because the pledge class I got initiated with was a really, really good class and I still talk to them quite a bit,” he said.

A legacy being able to join the same chapter as his dad, uncle, et. al., is rare enough. Joining at the same time as another legacy, rarer still.

The cards fell in such a way that Spring at La Crosse that Riley went through the new member process with not one but two more legacies: Beau Rath, the legacy of Jim Rath, UW-Osh Kosh ’71; and Taion Roy Dumke, UWLa Crosse ’12, legacy of Tom Dumke, UW-Osh Kosh ’84.

“What was really nice about those guys and myself is that we didn’t want to ride on the coattails of our fathers or our alumni,” Alex said.

“I think there are a lot of people that might hang on to that legacy card; when I came in, I thought ‘I’m not going to be that guy.’

“I wanted to make a name for myself. We never used our legacy status as a crutch. The way we saw it was, that’s great that our dads or uncles or brothers were DSP guys, but that doesn’t say anything about us,” Alex said.

And the gentleman of Epsilon Iota are off doing well.

This spring semester, they hosted the Crushing Cerebral Palsy philanthropy, raising nearly $2,000 for Cerebral Palsy awareness through an Independent Wrestling Show—a result, somewhat, of Riley’s pre-Delta Sig experiences.

“We’d moved a great deal those last few years [before Alex arrived at UW-Lacrosse] towards getting back to our original values. Recruitment has been geared towards really solid men who led with their values, so by the time he joined it was perfect timing,” Ken said.

“I didn’t really know what to expect when I went into the Fraternity. We see all these images of fraternities, but what was different was seeing in the long run how organized we can really be when we put our mind to it.”

“There’s Delta Sig; there’s family—when the two come together, it can be an experience unlike any other.”

As far as the changes, if any, the Rileys noticed after Alex initiated, the son could point to two specifically: one, when the son has a question about bylaws, he has a one-stop-shop for the right answer.

And two, “everybody likes that Ken and I have this unwritten rule: if he’s going to blast me in front of my friends, I get to blast him in front of his.

“It’s funny because now alumni will say to me, ‘I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone talk to your dad like that.”

“Sometimes he’ll tell a story from his perspective, and it’s funny because now we’re on a level playing field.”

And he can get away with it.

“I really can man. I’m sure people are like oh boy, here they go again.”

There’s Delta Sig; there’s family—when the two come together, it can be an experience unlike any other.

“The Fraternity right now,” Ken added, “is the same fraternity with a different generation of men that I was in.

“We came full circle, I think.”

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Honoring Our Donors

HONORING our 50-year donors Brother Bill Cross, Stetson ’59

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This year the Delta Sigma Phi Foundation celebrates a major milestone in giving. Bill Cross, Stetson ’59, Jerry Crump, UCBerkeley ’55, and Richard Duroe, Iowa State ’50, are the first of our brothers to reach the 50-year mark in giving to Delta Sigma Phi. We are grateful for their longtime support of the Fraternity and celebrate their loyalty, which has been part of ensuring Delta Sigma Phi’s ongoing success.

Bill Cross credits his Fraternity experience at Stetson for helping to shape his personal and business life. “I was able to be a leader in the fraternity and on campus, including president of the Alpha Chi chapter, the Business School president, the Stetson Men’s Council, and four years of baseball lettering and team captain,” he said.

After graduation in 1962 he remained involved as an alumni advisor for his chapter; he also served with other local organizations including Little League Baseball, Florida Conservation Association, Ducks Unlimited and the PESO Auction, which is now United Arts of Central Florida.

After a brief period working for a national CPA firm, Cross started his own CPA firm (now Cross, Steward & Co., LLC), which has served the Orlando community from the same location for 37 years. Today, he remains Managing Partner of the firm and maintains a full CPA schedule. He and his wife Joan (of 33 years) have two daughters who are also in the accounting profession.

Of his history of giving to the Foundation, Cross said, “It is my pleasure to send a contribution each year in remembrance of the great years gone by and what the Fraternity has meant to me. I hope that in some small way I have been, and can continue to be, an influence on young men to join Delta Sigma Phi Fraternity. The current staff of Delta Sigma Phi, and all who have gone before, has my sincere appreciation for serving and helping to develop new business leaders around the globe.”

Richard Duroe’s first gift to the Foundation was in 1956, just a few years after his graduation from Iowa State University.

He said he made that gift because he “felt it was the right thing to do.” Just a year prior he’d begun working for the State Bank of Jeffers, founded by Duroe’s grandfather and his sons. After the death of their father, Duroe and his brother became majority owners and took over leadership of the bank. For the last 10 years, he has served as President of the bank, which is located in Minnesota.

As he thinks back to his experience in Delta Sigma Phi he said, “It was a home away from home, much more so than a room in a dormitory or a private residence.” Giving back is

important to Duroe in order that others who follow in his footsteps might have the same experience. “I have continued to give over the years because I believe this feeling of ‘home away from home’ should be available to all who desire that type Brother Jerry Crump, UC-Berkeley ’55 of environment at college.”

Jerry Crump joined Delta Sig at UC-Berkeley and clearly remembers his visit to the 1955 Convention in French Lick, Indiana. His first gift to Delta Sig in 1961 was just one way to acknowledge what the Fraternity did for him as a college student. Moving from then-small-town Sacramento to attend college at UC-Berkeley “was a big step,” he said. “I loved Cal, but they expected you to do it all on your own. Fraternities in that day were pretty much a place to stay and a place to belong. Delta Sig gave me that, and I thought it was very worthwhile.” In addition, Crump made some lifelong friends that he still treasures today.

After college he spent three years at Boalt Hall Law School, also at Berkeley, and stayed connected to his chapter. After graduating in 1959, Crump joined the Air Force as a Judge Advocate General (JAG) and served on active duty for three and a half years. Marriage and a move to Los Angeles followed his active duty service. He then joined the Air Force Reserves and received several promotions culminating in the position of Major General in charge of the JAG Reserve program.

Concurrently, he worked as Chief Assistant County Counsel for the County of Los Angeles until his retirement in 1997.

Today, Crump is enjoying his retirement, especially the opportunity to spend more time with his family, including his wife (of 33 years) Glenda, his three children and a 2-year old grandson. Also important is staying in touch with old friends, many of whom are fraternity brothers.

We honor these three brothers for their faithful, longtime contributions to Delta Sigma Phi. Each one serves as a model for all of us of what it truly means to Pay the Debt.

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odney Drinkard, Oglethorpe ’89, leads the executive protection program for The CocaCola Company in Atlanta, a job he got after serving as a law enforcement officer and undercover agent for the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.

His job is to provide security for top Coca-Cola executives when they travel to dangerous areas of the world, and he leads a team of people charged with doing just that. He credits his experience as president of his Delta Sigma Phi chapter for teaching him many of the leadership skills he uses every day in the business world.

“I had a great experience in Delta Sigma Phi,” Drinkard said. “I had a wonderful opportunity to develop leadership skills at a young age. Managing people is an important skill, and much of what I learned about doing that came from my experience as president of my chapter.”

Drinkard also values the lifetime friendships he gained in Delta Sigma Phi. Seven of the 10 groomsmen in his wedding were Delta Sig brothers.

Including Drinkard, six of those brothers have remained so close that they get together with their wives each Labor Day weekend.

Since graduating from Oglethorpe in 1992, Drinkard has continued to be active with his chapter. In the past, he served on the Alumni Corporation Board, but now he has passed along those duties to younger alumni.

“I think it’s important for the undergraduates to see young alumni who are involved,” he said.

That doesn’t mean, however, that Drinkard has stopped working for his chapter, which is being revived this fall after an absence of several years from the Oglethorpe campus.

“I’m set to serve this fall as the leadership training advisor for the chapter,” Drinkard said. That, he explained, will involve teaching new members of the group how to develop leadership skills.

“There’s always a role for alumni with a chapter,” Drinkard said. “Even if you’re not on the ACB, you can speak to the chapter about life skills that are important to young men.

That’s what I plan to do with the leadership training.”

RODNEY DRINKARD OGLETHORPE ’89 Drinkard’s involvement with Delta Sigma Phi has not been limited to work with the chapter. He has been donating to the Delta Sigma Phi Foundation since he joined CocaCola in 1996.

“The foundation has really developed and is doing much more than it used to do,” Drinkard said. “I’m impressed with the number of undergraduates being touched each year with its leadership-training programs.

“I hope others will follow my lead and contribute to the foundation. Few things are more important than the development of our young men, and Delta Sig does a great job with that.” .

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ames Hill graduated from Atlanta’s Oglethorpe University in 2006 and immediately put to work his degree in mathematics by entering the insurance industry. Today, he’s a commercial insurance expert with Liberty Mutual.

In college, he joined Delta Sigma Phi, and he values the experience. “I made a lot of great friends in the fraternity, and they are still my best friends today,” he said.

Hill acknowledges, though, that the college years can be tough for young men. College, he said, was a time for him to learn that life brings challenges as well as good times.

“It’s frustrating to me how we learn – or don’t learn – to deal with conflict,” Hill said. “Too many people are not living up to their end of the contract.”

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Learning to resolve conflict is an essential skill in the business world, and in Hill’s view the Fraternity is a great laboratory for learning leadership skills, managing organizations and resolving conflict.

“There are not enough opportunities out there for young men to learn about leadership,” Hill said.

“But the Fraternity is one of those places.”

Hill is impressed with the programs of the Delta Sigma Phi Foundation, which, he said, have grown stronger and stronger even since he graduated. “Undergraduates can learn a lot today versus what they could learn in the past.”

The foundation’s leadership academies, conventions and other such events give Delta Sig members a great opportunity to develop essential skills they will need in the business world. It’s all a part of Delta Sigma Phi’s goal of becoming America’s Leading Fraternity while Building Better Men. “The foundation is doing a great job,” Hill said. “People have lots of opportunities to invest both their time and money. I would really encourage alumni – both young and old – to invest in our Fraternity. It can make a huge difference for our members.

“If you do that, I’ll guarantee that the satisfaction you derive will far outweigh your investment of time and money.”

Some alumni, Hill noted, are not close enough to a chapter to help on an ongoing basis.

“But everyone out there can make a donation to the foundation,” he said. “Your contributions can make a huge difference in the lives of our young men.”

Hill practices what he preaches. He’s a volunteer member of Oglethorpe’s Alumni Corporation Board, and he’s a significant donor to the foundation as a member of the 1899 Society. That’s an impressive record for someone less than 10 years removed from the college campus.

At the time Hill joined the 1899 Society in 2006, he was the youngest member. “Our chapter closed three or four years ago, but we’re determined to reopen it,” Hill said. “I want the young men at Oglethorpe to experience what I experienced, and I want them to have an even better opportunity to grow.”

DELTA SIGMA PHI FOUNDATION MOVES BACK TO HEADQUARTERS July 1 marked the first day

the Delta Sigma Phi Foundation was back in-house under headquarters’ roof after being outsourced for 11 years.

The Delta Sigma Phi Foundation was incorporated in 1954 whose mission is to raise money to invest in and develop Delta Sigma Phi’s leadership programming. The leadership programming Delta Sigma Phi offers exists to improve our chapters and their operations, and also to develop our brothers at an individual level.

In 2002, the Foundation Board of Trustees decided to outsource fundraising and contracted with Charitable Partners. In 2008, Charitable Partners merged with The Pursuant Group, a full-service fundraising and communications consulting firm. June 30, 2013 was the last day for the Foundation’s contract with Pursuant.

Ultimately, Delta Sigma Phi and Pursuant came to an agreement that if Delta Sig were to bring Foundation efforts back in-house, then the Foundation would be able to raise more money through its own infrastructure.

Bringing the Foundation back means more full-time headquarters staff. Wight, who has been at Delta Sig since January will oversee all fundraising and communications efforts in his role as Delta Sigma Phi’s Chief Advancement Officer. For the past year, Keith Collier has served as the Associate Director of Development. Collier’s role maintains heavy focus on 1899 Society members.

In addition to Wight and Collier’s positions, there is also a newly developed position (Manager of Advancement

Operations), which will focus on a stewardship program and oversee the Delta Sig Annual Fund. Alaina Cutler filled the Manager of Advancement Operations position in June. Matt Conroy was also hired and started July 15. Conroy, who will become an alumni initiate at Convention, will work closely with the team to build the donor base at the 1899 Society giving level of $1,000 and above.

“We are in the process of developing a very cohesive department that will cultivate and build relationships with our members and donors,” Wight said.

The decision to bring the Foundation back in-house will allow for the Fraternity to make a conscious effort to refocus on alumni engagement and growing the Delta Sigma Phi experience by raising money.

“This is a really big deal,” Wight said. “We want our members to know where their money is going and the impact their donation is making.”

By strengthening alumni communications, donors will always know where their money is going and how it is being utilized. This is a key part in growing the Foundation and it’s donor base.

“We appreciate all of our donors’ support, and we greatly need their support,” Wight said. “We want them to feel good about giving and get excited about the Delta Sigma Phi experience. Our Fraternity has set bold goals in Vision 2025, and we need our alumni to get behind and support them – we have this vision, but we need our members help to make the vision a reality.”

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CHAPTER Epsilon Epsilon Eta Eta Kappa Kappa Kappa Lambda Lambda Lambda Lambda Lambda Lambda Lambda Lambda Lambda Lambda Nu Hilgard Omicron Omicron Omicron Pi Rho Rho Rho Rho Rho Rho Rho Rho Rho Rho Rho Rho Rho Rho Rho Rho Rho Rho Rho Rho Rho Rho Rho Rho Rho Rho Sigma Sigma Tau Chi Omega Alpha Alpha Alpha Zeta Alpha Eta Alpha Eta Alpha Eta Alpha Eta Alpha Theta Alpha Lambda

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Alpha Pi Alpha Tau Alpha Upsilon Alpha Upsilon Alpha Phi Alpha Phi Alpha Pi Alpha Chi Alpha Omega Beta Alpha Beta Alpha Beta Beta Beta Gamma Beta Gamma Beta Gamma Beta Gamma Beta Epsilon Beta Eta Beta Theta Beta Theta Beta Theta Beta Theta Beta Iota Beta Iota Beta Iota Beta Kappa Beta Mu Beta Mu Beta Nu Beta Omicron Beta Pi Beta Rho Beta Rho Beta Upsilon Beta Psi Gamma Alpha Gamma Delta Gamma Iota Gamma Kappa Gamma Kappa Gamma Pi Delta Gamma Delta Delta Delta Delta Delta Iota Delta Lambda Delta Tau Delta Tau Delta Upsilon Epsilon Beta Epsilon Beta Epsilon Mu Epsilon Rho Zeta Zeta Zeta Nu Eta Gamma Eta Zeta Eta Sigma Gamma Rho Theta Mu Beta Psi

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Due to incomplete information, deceased dates may reflect the date the fraternity was notified. The Fraternity was notified of these members’ passings between February 1, 2013 and May 31, 2013.

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