Alpha Upsilon (Drexel) Dusak Fall 2014

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THE ALUMNI NEWSLETTER OF PI KAPPA PHI AT DREXEL UNIVERSITY

FALL 2014

THE DUSAK  

Alumni President Report State of the alumni organization Fellow Brothers, I would like to a moment to thank you for this opportunity. Pi Kappa Phi has provided me with incredible opportunities since I first came on campus over 20 years ago, and it is now my time to give back. The Brotherhood has come a long way in those 20 years. I hope we can do the same with the Alumni Organization. Over the past few years, the Alumni Association has sponsored several events that show the dedication we have to the Alpha Upsilon Chapter. The Annual Golf Outing in September has grown each year. It is the perfect way to reconnect with our old classmates, roommates and friends we have not seen in a while. This year I am excited to see ALPHA UPSILON PROVIDES FOOD, new Alumni Members, recent Graduates and Under Grads SHELTER & fUN TO BUILD AMERICA at the event. The event will again be held at Seaview CC in Galloway NJ. Get a foursome together, or bring yourself Build America (BAM) is a six-week long team summer event starting and come out and join us. back in 2003 whose founding was to shadow the mission of Push In the winter we sponsor a Senior Dinner. With roughly America, “Building Leaders of tomorrow by serving people with thirty seniors graduating each year and over 300 current disabilities today”. Build America at its core is the construction of alumni living and working in our area, the Senior Dinner is accessible environments and camps serving people with disabilities an excellent way to grow your network and contacts of but more than that the experiences the team receives are not just Brothers across a wide range of Industries. Do not miss this construction. The best experiences on Build America are in the opportunity. Not to mention Taco Lou is still the House evenings when team members gather with campers for dinner and Cook and he provides an excellent feast. This past year’s camp activities. These are the times that create the special memories attendance, with over 75 Alumni, was one of our best of camps and lifelong friends. Building piers, trails, climbing walls events in recent memory. For those of you who were not and many other amenities for campers are one thing but the relationships that the team members build with campers creates a able to make it I hope to see you next year. lasting impact on the team. In addition to these special events we have Alumni Meetings throughout the year that keeps our association in contact This year Build America is taking a different approach. Starting in with the current Brotherhood and keeps you informed of its’ Boston, MA its six-week long journey will be taking the team on the status. Recent events on campus have proven that a strong first ever-entire east coast tour traveling through locations such as Alumni Association is vital to the long term health of Pi Bedford, Hackettstown, Philadelphia, Washington D.C. and more. Beginning in the heart of American independence on June 25th and Kappa Phi. going through the city of brotherly love on July 11th, the team will I urge each of you, especially recent graduates, to travel south towards Atlanta, Georgia where they will end at at the very least attend one of these events. Stop in for a Supreme Chapter this year on August 8th. This is not the only first meeting, make it to the Senior Dinner, beat Steve Markley for BAM this year however. Build America is happy to announce its by 10 strokes at the golf outing. The future of our three new corporate sponsorships of DeWALT, Milwaukee Tools, organization depends on it. and Stanley Tools for the 2014 trip. These new sponsorships will continue to grow BAM into a leading summer event for brothers of Yours in PKP, Pi Kappa Phi. Matthew Claudy (AU 1214) Continued on Page 2...


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