From the “AA”

Inside The Quarterly

Volume 104 Number 3 Fall/Winter 2007

2 From the “AA” 3 The V Foundation 4-5 highlights 6-8 Donor list 10 lifelong Committment 11 Annual Report 12-14 Award winners 15 State of the Chapters 16 Risk Management 17 Chapter Situations 18 Alumni 19 Keeping in Touch 19 Farewell & Parting

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Milestones!

I found a quote I like that says, “At the age of 20, we don’t care what the world thinks of us; at 30, we worry about what it is thinking of us; at 40, we discover that it wasn’t thinking of us at all.”

Well, last summer, your “AA” turned 40 - a milestone along the path of my life. I remember in high school thinking that at the turn of the century (2000) I would be 33 years old and that it sounded “old” to me then. Now 33 seems extremely young. I also think of the adults in my life and think back to where I was in life when they were 40. How I looked at the age of 40 then and how I look at it now are vastly different. I guess that is one of the realities of life. I still feel 23. My involvement with Delta Chi keeps me young. It keeps me around college students, and that is fun. Of course I do feel 40 when I return home from a weekend of Delta Chi activities that usually involves airline flights and obscenely late nights.

At any milestone, I believe we should take a moment to “stop and smell the flowers.” We should celebrate our relationships, challenge ourselves, and honor the past. I spent my fortieth birthday celebrating my relationships, surrounded by family and friends and fraternity brothers. It was just one more opportunity for me to realize how extremely blessed I am to have Lorrie as my partner in this journey, and I celebrated that relationship most of all. I also reflected on the relationships that Delta Chi has brought to my life. What a truly remarkable, life-changing decision it was to join Delta Chi 19 years ago.

I challenged myself – played 40 holes of golf for my fortieth birthday and committed to doing the same on my 50th, 60th and so forth. And I honored the past, spending some time in reflection on what my first 40 years have been and how lucky I have been in my life. I took the opportunity to let some of the people who helped shape my life know what their involvement in my life has meant to me.

Delta Chi is approaching several milestone events, including our 100,000th initiate. By my estimation, that milestone will hit sometime in 2009 or 2010. We are eight years from our 125th anniversary as an organization. I don’t want us to wait for these milestones to celebrate our relationships, to challenge ourselves or to honor the past. We should look at each academic year as a milestone – each Homecoming – each regional conference – each International Convention. And we should celebrate our relationships, challenge ourselves and honor our past then. When the milestones hit, won’t we be a better organization for it?

We have several months until we gather at Convention once again – this time in Las Vegas. I anticipate it will be the largest gathering of Delta Chis in our history, and I wonder if you will be there. I hope that hordes of undergraduates are making plans now to attend, as I am confident none will want to miss this one. I am also hopeful that alumni will come, at least for the weekend. It is a great place to bring your wife, enjoy the city, and participate in a gala dinner with hundreds of Delta Chis from all over North America.

The Convention will be a milestone event for me as it will mark the end of my time as “AA”. We still have some things to accomplish in my final year in the position – including a serious look at housing, attention to average chapter sizes and minimum standards, some serious study on our governance issues and several other things. The Fraternity has a goal to raise $100,000 for The V Foundation for Cancer Research by the time we gather in Las Vegas. What an accomplishment that would be!

In his book From Beginning to End: The Rituals of Our Lives (Villard Books, 1995), Robert Fulghum notes, “Rituals are timed by beats of the heart, not ticks of the clock.” Our organization is an organization of rituals. So as the spring is upon us, let’s time those rituals with the beats of the heart. I hope that our chapters and our alumni will join with the Fraternity leadership and take a moment to celebrate our relationships, to honor our past, and to challenge ourselves. We will all be better for it.

See you in Las Vegas. In the Bond,

Steven P. Bossart, “AA” Kent State ’90