PSK Properties President’s Message

A Message from Phi Sigma Kappa Properties

Greetings from Phi Sigma Kappa Properties!

As we embark on our journey to 150 years of Phi Sig, I think it is fitting that Phi Sigma Kappa Properties now has its own column in our magazine. While I may not be the expert that Brother Al Shonk (Southern Cal ’54) is on Phi Sig history, I have to believe our founders would be amazed at the work we have collectively done since the time of our founding.

One of our Fraternity’s recent accomplishments was the founding of Phi Sigma Kappa Properties. Sure, we may have been founded 20 years ago, but that still makes us the youngest of our three entities. PSKP stands at the ready to help our alumni clubs secure and maintain housing throughout all of Phi Sigma Kappa.

Over the last year, we financed the purchase of our Sigma Epsilon chapter house at Ferris State University, and last November, we purchased the IHQ building from the Phi Sigma Kappa Foundation. More recently, we made a loan to our Phi Upsilon Chapter at Valparaiso University so that they could contract with a fundraising company to do a feasibility study for the construction of a new chapter house.

If you have a housing or improvement need, PSKP might be able to partner with your local association to help improve your housing situation. Please keep in mind that we only make loans to established alumni clubs or housing corporations. Please reach out if your chapter doesn’t have an established alumni organization. We can help you incorporate a group. A strong chapter starts with strong alumni.

The next year will be a great time to be a Phi Sig. I have attended every Leadership School and Convention since 1999. I look forward to seeing our brothers at what will surely be the largest gathering of our Fraternity in her lifetime. Take the time to celebrate with your brothers this year, reach out, share some memories, and recapture some of that love you had for this great Fraternity.

The Fraternity has meant a little something different to all of us over the decades. I hope you will take some time throughout the year to reflect on what Phi Sigma Kappa means to you today and how you could help ensure the next 150 years are better than the last 150 years.

Like many of you, I still keep her fair name brighter than the jewels of her emblems by wearing those emblems above reproach. See you in New Orleans!

Damn Proud,

Shawn Shivnen Properties President

PHI SIGMA KAPPA PROPERTIES BOARD OF DIRECTORS

PRESIDENT

Shawn Shivnen (Eastern Michigan ’00)

VICE PRESIDENT

Michael Palm (Indiana ’04)

TREASURER

Brian Radke (Northern Illinois ’05)

SECRETARY

Peter Anderson (Michigan ’87)

BOARD MEMBERS

Jacob Defassio (Valparaiso ’12) David Epstein (Southern Illinois ’75) Michael Gonzalez (Stetson ’10) Leigh LaChine (Eastern Michigan ’90) Jonathan Lowrey (NW Missouri State ’07) James McGuigan (Wisconsin/Milwaukee ’90)

PSK Properties is financially self-sustaining and does not receive any revenue by way of membership dues paid to the Grand Chapter or donations made to the Phi Sigma Kappa Foundation. It is run by a fully volunteer Board of Directors.

Shawn Shivnen (Eastern Michigan ’00)

Phi Sigma Kappa Properties President