P I KAPP A PH I - ALP HA PH I
Alpha Philes Letter from the Archon F A LL 2 0 0 7 E D I TI O N Alpha Phi Alumni, The Brothers of the Alpha Phi Chapter have been hard at work improving the chapter’s scholastic achievement, relations with the IIT administration, and the renovating of the chapter house. Over the past year we have held meetings with the IIT VP for Business and Administration John Collins regarding either a major renovation to our chapter house or the building of a new chapter house. An architecture firm evaluated the house and put an estimate for renovating at $1.54 million or rebuilding between $2.2 million and $2.7 million. The expected funding avenues are from the following areas: IIT gift, Alumni Donations, Undergraduate Savings, and a mortgage for the remaining costs. Currently a gift amount has not been calculated as IIT has just received a new president. This year we have finally paid off our 40-year mortgage to the university which releases $12,200 from our expenses. We have now instituted a policy to put that $12,200 annually into a fund for the renovation or rebuilding of the chapter house. The Alpha
Phi Chapter also has set up a Capital Fund through IIT to receive Tax-Deductible Donations from our alumni to be used specifically for either a renovation or rebuilding of the chapter house. Please visit our webpage http://pkp.iit.edu for information regarding how to make donations via credit card. Check donations should be made payable to the Illinois Institute of Technology, and the memo line must include Pi Kappa Phi Housing Fund. The check should be mailed to our fund manager, Tara Young, 10 West 35th Street, Suite 1700, Chicago, IL 60616. Please direct any questions regarding the progress of the renovation or rebuilding of the chapter house to myself at rdt2@iit.edu.
multiple renovation projects. The first was the removal of the steam system from the mechanical room. IIT determined that running the steam system was too costly and that it would be more cost efficient to switch to hot water boilers in all of their buildings on campus. As a result, all of the houses on the quad received a new set of hot water boilers for free. Over the past couple of years our steam bills have been skyrocketing so this change will bring forth a large amount of savings to our yearly utility bill. (Continued Page 6)
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Pi Kappa Phi Gets a New Roof By Richard Thompson II Nearly 27 years ago on November 10, 1981 the chapter house received a new roof. The cost of that roof was $11,255.00 and came complete with a 10 year warranty from The Dow Chemical Company, which it surely has lived beyond.
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Nat Gombis (757) generously donated $1,000 as the first donation to the Pi Kappa Phi Housing Fund. Thank you for your support. This summer the house underwent
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The roof had survived a beating from both Chicago weather and from the many brothers who had visited the roof for various activities; however, its time had finally come. Labor Day weekend was filled with lots of hard work
as the entire chapter was involved with removing all of the gravel and insulation from the roof. Our hard work enabled us to knock $3,600 off of the cost of the new roof. The day started off with three groups. The (Continued on Page 2)
• Rush Week: Aug 18—23