Nu's News Colony Spring 2016

Edition: 3 Volume: 1 No. 1 March 14, 2016

On October 16, 2015 Lafayette College recognized Delta Tau Delta with the support of the fraternity’s national organization.

After receiving training, advice, and guidance from Kyle Yarawsky, DTD’s Director of Growth, our brothers settled into their roles as officers on the Executive and Administrative boards. Our objective is to build the colony to roughly 65 members by the end of recruitment in the fall of 2016.

When we reach those numbers, the colony will send its petition to nationals so that we may become a full chapter.

Currently, there are 52 of us.

Thank you for all of your help and support this past year. Our success would not have been possible without you. We cannot wait to see what this year has in store for us all!

Sincerely, David Hanke ‘16 Craig Lombardo ‘17

Secretary and Petition Chair Alumni Relations Chair 2

After receiving recognition, some were doubtful about mustering a fall pledge class so late into the year. Official Greek recruitment had taken place earlier in the year, and there was a very real possibility that we would not be able to recruit sufficient numbers. We came together to recruit 18 interested and talented men to join our group as the Gamma Pledge Class, pictured above.

The founding group of juniors and seniors had previously chosen to become the Beta and Alpha classes, respectively.

Spring recruitment is typically smaller than fall recruitment; however, we have eight members in what will become the Delta Pledge Class. In the next few weeks we will bring these new members under the fold and move towards our goal of 65 men. We are very confident going forward that we will meet or exceed our recruitment goals.

Alpha Class Fowler, Nate ‘16 Gaus, Collin ‘16 Hanke, David ‘16 Loftus, John ‘16 Lupia, Daniel ‘16 Marshall, Brad ‘16 Mitchell, Colton ‘16 O'Brien, Ed ‘16 Pallotta, Daniel ‘16 Shi, Kang ‘16 Soundy, Patrick ‘16 Wickwire, Christopher ‘16

Beta Class Burns, Jake ‘17 Cerbone, Ryan ‘17 Chawla, Santbir ‘17 Hillman, Jack ‘17 Hyatt, John ‘17 Keating, Michael ‘17 Lewis, Rand ‘17 Lombardo, Craig ‘17 Losito, Drew ‘17 Mullarkey, Toby ‘17 Port, Jeremy ‘17 Reyes, Lucas ‘17 Schaeffer, Billy ‘17 Verhoog, Charles ‘17

Gamma Class Albagli, Kevin ‘18 Bamford, Colton ‘17 Blake, Josh ‘18 Compres, Hamlet ‘18 Contarino, Nick ‘18 Hoeflinger, Christer ‘17 Lenskold, Colin ‘18 Mandel, Mitchel ‘18 Moore, Ryan ‘18 Mungovan, Liam ‘18 Paulis, Scott ‘17 Rosen, Adam ‘18 Slayton, Alexander ‘18 Storozum, Alex ‘18 Vincent, Daniel ‘17 Weissman, Simon ‘18 Wilkens, Troy ‘17 Woepse, Spencer ‘18

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From January 28th-30th, ten members of the Nu Crescent Colony and three Lafayette College alumni represented Lafayette College at the 2016 Eastern Division Conference. The gathering was a great way for the members to hone their skills as leaders in order to better serve their chapter. The undergraduate men learned everything from how to better organize chapter meetings to creating effective programing. The men met and learned from brothers across the region and were challenged to think outside of the box every day.

We can confidently say that the ten attendees have greatly improved as both individuals and leaders. The trip would not have been possible without the support and generosity of our Alumni.

Lou Schaffer ‘55 speaking and singing at the conference

Top Row (L to R)

Michael Keating ‘17 Nate Fowler ‘16 Oscar Huettner ’77 Dan Lupia ‘16 John Loftus ‘16 Dan Vincent ‘17 Bottom Row

Jack Hillman ‘17 Pat Soundy ‘16 Don Kress ’58 Charles Verhoog ‘17 Craig Lombardo ‘17 Colton Bamford ‘17 Not pictured

Lou Schaffer ‘55

Throughout the conference all chapters were challenged to compete in a 3-part competition: Social Media, pull-ups, and mini basketball. The competition took place between meetings. Of course we won, resulting in up to $100 towards leadership programs such as Ignite and The Charge.

Brother David Hanke ‘16 is featured here chomping on the prize after a bronze medal finish at the Philadelphia Dad Vail Regatta in May 2015. To his right is Lafayette coach Rick Kelliher while fellow rower Ryan Coulson is to his left.

Every year the Lafayette Civil Engineers compete in a bridge building competition.

The teams spent the fall semester designing their bridges, but they must be built on site in Kirby Gym during the competition held during finals week. Daniel Vincent ‘17 is hard at work in this photo along with Billy Schaeffer ‘17.

Featured below is the Lafayette Men’s Rugby team. Although a bit tough to see, brothers Colton Mitchell ‘16, Lucas Reyes ‘17, Kevin Albagli ‘18, and Hamlet Compres ‘18 can be found. The team had an undefeated season in which they scored over 300 points, only losing in the semi-final round of their tournament.

Colton was named toughest player on the team and Lucas was named forward MVP. We look forward to another great season this year!

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Mitch Mandel ‘18 with a large terrapin

Topher Wickwire ‘16 on the Half Dome “diving board” at Yosemite National Park

Brad Marshall ’16 looking for Topher

Family gathering in front of old Pardee (left to right): Christer Hoeflinger ‘17 Charles Verhoog ‘17 David Hanke ‘16 Drew Losito ‘17 Alexander Slayton ‘18

Dan Lupia ‘16 sabotaging the competition

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Ryan Cerbone ‘17 instructing yoga

Right to left: Scott Paulis ‘17, Daniel Vincent ‘17 taking a “selfie” with friends in Pisa, Italy

Ryan Moore ‘18 doing his best impression of a fish

Dan Pallotta ‘16 (white hat) Nate Fowler ‘16 (below Dan) in the Lightweight Men’s 4+ semi-finals during 2015 Dad Vail Regatta

A pensive Toby Mullarkey ‘17 in Iceland

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Brothers and Family, This has been a big year for Nu. After a year and a half as an independent group, we received approval from Lafayette to associate with Delta Tau Delta on October 16th. On November 8th we officially became the Nu Crescent Colony of Delta Tau Delta. I am so proud to be the president of a fraternity of men so committed to living the Delt ideal.

This process did not happen overnight, and success was by no means guaranteed. The school decided in September of 2014 that the campus was ready for a new fraternity, so a few friends and I decided that we were going to rise to that challenge. Through a year of working with the Office of Greek Life and talking to our friends and other students we grew from just 5 to a group of 27, ready to form a colony. We decided early on we wanted to be Delta Tau Delta. Your commitment to the school is stronger than that of any group, and we knew you were the men we wanted to emulate. In September of 2015 when the school had finally laid out the process for becoming a fraternity, we knew we were ready to tackle it.

We provided an application and then made a presentation to the school detailing why we should be allowed back on campus and why we were the right men to found the first new Greek organization in 23 years. Brothers David Hanke ‘16, Craig Lombardo, ‘17, Ryan Cerbone ‘17 and I presented our case admirably, and ultimately showed the school that DTD was prepared to return to Lafayette. We have been working closely with Delta Tau Delta's National Office, and we are in contact almost daily with either the director of growth or our chapter consultant, Zach Pasker. We are well on our way to achieving chapter status, and look forward to reviving the Delt legacy at Lafayette.

While we were working on presentations and applications, our colony was also able to keep its academic focus. Our sophomore class has the highest GPA of any Greek organization on campus with a 3.57, and overall we have the highest cumulative GPA of any fraternity with a 3.32. This is something we are all very proud of.

I would like to thank you all for your commitment to Nu throughout the years. It is so inspiring to see so many alumni who are still so invested in their chapter and in DTD after graduating 30, 40, or even 50 years ago. You inspire us undergrads to do better and commit to being the best Delts we can be.

Fraternally Yours, Daniel J.F. Lupia ‘16 President, Nu Crescent Colony Executive Board: Vice President

Ryan Cerbone

Treasurer

Nathaniel Fowler

Secretary

David Hanke

Guide Risk Management Academic Affairs Sergeant at Arms Recruitment

Jake Burns John Loftus Michael Keating Collin Gaus Patrick Soundy

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