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Arts Fest July 8-11 Homecoming October 9 vs. Illinois
State College, Pa.
October 2009
IN THE WORDS OF OUR ALUMNI How Pi Kapp Can Literally Change Your Life Alum Shares How His Networking with a Fellow Brother Landed Him a Job By Steve DiOrio ’78
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It’s easy to forget about the interview. fraternity, it’s easy to think it Mr. Exley took a chance on a was just something you did in fellow Pi Kapp. I will always be college…but this example more indebted to him. And I will always than proves the lasting value of be on the lookout for the opportubeing a Pi Kapp, shows how nity to help another Pi Kapp out. your alumni experience can I invite you to do the same.” literally change your life, either It’s stories like this that through networking like in this reaffirm why I am involved as a example, or through lifelong volunteer, and why you should friendships. actively participate with Pi Dan Castello writes, “After Kapp as an alumnus. Even Dan Castello in 1983. graduating in 1983 with a degree though you’re not in school any in Nuclear Engineering, I spent months looking longer, you just never know when the Pi for a job while earning a little spending money Kapp experience just might change your life! pumping gas and working in restaurants. In Here are the top five ways you can get reJanuary 1984, still unemployed, I remember involved today: getting a copy of the latest Alpha Musings and 1. Reunite with an old friend! Look up his reading through it. On the back page, I read contact info in the online directory at through the Alumni News, and noticed a blurb www.alphamupikapp.org. written by Bill F. Exley (1956, I think). 2. Submit a story, memory, photo or update for publication in our next "I will always be on the newsletter. lookout for the opportunity 3. Send us your email address so we can to help another Pi Kapp out." keep in touch with you throughout the year. Mr. Exley was updating his brothers on the 4. Register on the web site and take advanlatest happenings in his life, including his tage of the great tools it has to offer. current position at the Boeing Company in 5. Make a gift to the annual fund in Seattle. At the end, he provided his phone support of our alumni relations program. number, and invited any of his old friends to give him a call. Being in dire need of a job, I figured it could do no harm to give him a call. I introduced myself to him and explained my situation, including my status as an unemployed Pi Kapp engineer. He told me to send my resume, and that he would send me an application, and that he had a job for me. Six weeks later I started working for Boeing in Seattle, WA. Other than a telephone conversation with him, I never even had an
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