Spring 2006
The Miner Pi Kappa Phi Gamma Lambda Chapter
Officers: • Archon: Andy Wolf apwtd4@umr.edu • VA: Alec Bass tabgz7@umr.edu • Treasurer: Shaun Honeycutt sdhwxc@umr.edu • Secretary: Blake Mitchell bam365@umr.edu • Warden: Cody Polodna cjp2nf@umr.edu • Historian: Brian Bailey bjbht7@umr.edu • Chaplain: Mark Serra mas97b@umr.edu
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Poised For Success With a new strategic plan that emphasizes growth and additional alumni outreach opportunities, Pi Kappa Phi National Fraternity and the Gamma Lambda chapter are partners poised for success. In a bold effort to help set the course and illuminate a vision for Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity as it enters its second century, a panel of alumni volunteers, staff, and students participated in a two day planning retreat in Charlotte, North Carolina, to survey the landscape of the American college fraternity and set the priorities for the greater Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity. Together, they proposed a new mission, vision statement, and strategic plan for Pi Kappa Phi that will directly build upon the fraternity’s vision to be America’s Leading Fraternity. Today’s Pi Kappa Phi is
a vibrant organization with approximately six thousand undergraduate members at one hundred thirty-six chapters nationwide. Over the course of one hundred years, the fraternity has chartered a total of two hundred chapters and has initiated over ninety thousand men. By today’s standards, as codified by the North American Interfraternity Conference (the trade association for men’s college fraternities), Pi Kappa Phi ranks in the top ten (out of fifty seven) in most major indices. Only about half as old as the fraternity itself, Gamma Lambda has provided a meaningful fraternity experience for men at University of Missouri - Rolla for over 41 years. Nevertheless, Gamma Lambda and Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity is in an ‘industry’ that is increasingly under
external pressures that make joining a fraternity an increasingly difficult ‘value added’ experience in one’s college career. Pi Kappa Phi’s new vision and strategic plan plot the course for the fraternity’s continued success. The plan is focused on seven areas of strategic priority: Mission: We will lead Vision: Pi Kappa Phi will redefine fraternity as a lifelong brotherhood of leaders. 1. Strengthen our Brotherhood by living our ideals and instilling a true sense of duty and responsibility. 2. Recruit and build better men by providing a quality experience for all members through leading chapters. 3. Build lifelong Brotherhood by providing all alumni meaningful experiences and opportunities for involvement and investment. CONTINUED PAGE 2