Eta Beta Golden Scroll - Fall 2012

Golden Scroll Fraternity Journal Pi Kappa Phi- Eta Beta Fall 2012

No Boundaries Week Push America

The brothers of Pi Kappa Phi had the best semester in raising funds for Push America this fall while being led by one of the best Push Chairmen of all time for Eta Beta Chapter, Zack Hurst. Our fundraising exceeded $2,000 and should put the chapter within the top ten nationally for funds raised. The events during the semester consisted of No Boundaries Week, Visually Impaired Volleyball Tournament, and Empathy Dinner.

All events were well attended and put a great name to Pi Kappa Phi within the community. Special thanks goes out to all of those who donated and to our keynote speaker for the Empathy Dinner, Brother Evan Austin. “I have had a great time serving as Push Chair for the Eta Beta Chapter and look forward to what Ben Baumgart will do with the position. Thanks to everyone who helped in our most successful year of raising funds for Push.�- Zack Hurst

Meet the Lambda Class Alex Cloncs Year: Freshman Major: Criminal Justice

During recruitment we sold these guys on “Being part of the Movement.� This fall we dropped down to 15 active members and we preached that this would be the class that would make or break the Eta Beta chapter. This fall was the second re-founding of our fraternity on the Indiana State campus.

-Brandon Gaston

Hunter Goble

Tyler Collins

Year: Freshman

Year: Junior

Major: Criminal Justice

Major: Aviation Management

Heath Harris

Jack Buchanan

Year: Freshman

Year: Freshman

Major: Mechanical Engineering

Major: Undeclared

Ethan Hall Blaine Byrer

Year: Freshman

Year: Freshman

Major: Insurance and Risk Mgt.

Major: Athletic Training & Sports Medicine

Ben Baumgart Drew Becker Year: Freshman Major: Sports Management

Year: Freshman Major: Computer Engineering

Luke Garmon Phil Centofante Year: Freshman Year: Freshman Major: Criminal Justice

Major: Criminal Justice Lambda Class President

Cody Snyder

Mohammed Alnasir

Year: Freshman

Year: Sophomore

Major: Aviation Management major Unmanned Systems minor

Major: Pro Flight

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Hayride 2012 in Brazil, IN!

Volunteering at the St. Patrick’s school carnival!

Homecoming Week The theme for homecoming 2012 was “Miles of Sycamores memories.” Pi Kappa Phi was paired with Phi Kappa Psi and Zeta Tau Alpha. The trio of “pikappaphikappapsi” and ZTA finished 2nd overall in sycamore sync, 2nd in poster decorating, and 2nd in float!

The float was of the fountain on campus in front of Hulman Memorial Student Union. The team of pikapp and phi psi finished 6th overall in trike on a gloomy Saturday morning, the riders for pikapp where Nat Hyde, Phil Centofante, Luke Garmon, and catcher Ty Rosenbalm. While we were disappointed with our partner (Phi Psi) finishing 13th out of 14th fraternities Pikapp managed to finish 5th overall out of 14 fraternities and our pairing finished 2nd overall for homecoming 2012! A special thanks to our homecoming chair, Evan Shortridge for all his hard work during this stressful week!

-Brandon Gaston

Letter from the Archon Alumni of the Eta Beta chapter of Pi Kappa Phi, First, thank you for your continued support of Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity, without your hard work we would not be here today, thank you. Secondly, I would like to introduce myself and the rest of the Executive Council, as well thank the exiting EC, (Stay Royal My Friends). They are as follows: New EC: Exiting EC: Archon: Brandon Gaston Vice Archon: Joshua Voelker Treasurer: Ty Rosenbalm Secretary: Jerry Cooper Warden: Nat Hyde Historian: Drew Becker Chaplain: Tyler Collins

Andrew Graman Brandon Gaston Chad Greene Jerry Cooper Eric Brown Clint Hill James Kendrick

We are just coming off a big semester for our chapter, 13 men (11 of whom where first semester freshman) where initiated into Pi Kappa Phi, it is the largest initiated class since the re-founding fathers where initiated in the spring of 2007. We began the semester with 16 associates in the (Lambda) class, 13 members made it all the way through and unfortunately a family member passed away during I-week and one member was unable to continue. Thus, we had an 82% retention rate overall (MUCH improved from the past couple years). This is due in part to two transfer pikapps from the Alpha Phi chapter at Illinois Tech, Nat Hyde and Josh Voelker. Josh served as my recruitment chair and Nat jumped in as the New Member Educator. Nat and Josh worked very hard this semester on recruitment and retention, two areas that we have struggled mightily. As the Vice Archon for this past year I could not be more proud of our recruitment and retention numbers which are at an all-time high! I was even more proud to accept the “Most Improved Recruitment Success� award at mid-year leadership conference in St. Louis, Missouri. We also received Master Chapter awards in the

areas of Academic Achievement and Living the Ritual, and now have a Certified Ritualist in the active chapter, brother Evan Austin.

Along with great recruitment and retention that the chapter has experienced this fall, we have also had the most successful PUSH America semester that we have ever had, in large part to the leadership of our PUSH chair, Zack Hurst. During our “No boundaries Week” the chapter raised $550 dollars, which was right around our goal. Our new associate class put together the annual “blind volleyball” tournament which they raised over $300 dollars. Our biggest event of the semester was the Empathy dinner. The keynote speaker was eta beta’s very own, Evan Austin. Evan has just returned from London after competing in the Paralympics for team USA swimming. This was the second straight year Evan has spoken at our empathy dinner, and for the second straight year he did not disappoint. We had a record crowd of over 100 people in attendance, and raised over $1,600 for PUSH America that night! The chapter set a goal of reaching over $2,000 for PUSH this year. With the hard work from Zack and the chapter, we were able to reach that goal in just one semester!

There are two immediate goals that this EC has set for next semester; improve in the areas of finances and alumni relations. We had to dig ourselves out of a financial hole this past semester, the exiting EC implemented payment plans and began to notify nationals when people fell short on their financial obligations to the chapter. As we all know, brother is great but it isn’t free. The new EC is going to continue to make these financial strides. We currently have no debt to alumni or our national headquarters, and have a balanced budget heading into the spring.

Also, we are currently working on more effective ways to reach out to our alumni base, along with planning an alumni event each semester. As many of you know, in the past we have had a fair amount of alumni that stay in Terre Haute after their graduation; this is not a bad thing. However, during our leadership consultants annual visit he noted that there was inappropriate alumni involvement with the active chapter, and on STRONG recommendation from the national fraternity and our leadership consultant we recently passed an “appropriate alumni involvement” document. This document is not directed at one person or because of a certain action, nor does it discourage alumni from coming around, it is clearly just trying to incorporate appropriate separation between the active chapter and alumni.

I would like to also encourage the alumni’s involvement with the Council of Advisors. Although we set the Council of Advisors up here in the last year or so, it was created to have men be liaisons between the active chapter and the chapter alumni. You can contact these men in the event you would like to participate in a

certain area of the chapter, find out information, or help out in a certain area. The Council of Advisors is as follows: Council of Advisors Liaison: Lyle Nolcox Alumni Finance Advisors: Adam English—Curt Bromm Alumni Housing finance Advisor: Tres Barker—David Rae Alumni Push America Advisor: Brian Candlish Alumni Recruitment Advisor: Justin Steele Alumni Ritual Advisor: Keith Gettelfinger Chapter Advisor: Dr. Steven Pontius Lastly, after talking with our leadership consultant, he and I are very confident in the direction the chapter is going. We have set ourselves up for a great spring semester! With recruitment and retention at all-time highs and the finances back on track, we are poised for a break out spring semester. I cannot wait!

Keep Looking up, In Pi Kappa Phi Brandon Gaston HB #194