Iota Beta - Spring 2013

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Alumni Newsletter Iota Beta Chapter Pi Kappa Phi Inside this issue: Letter from the Archon

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Associate Member Retreat

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Inaugural Push Adventure

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Social Life

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Intramurals

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Key Upcoming Dates

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Alumni Spotlight

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Spring 2013

Key Updates 

The chapter Pre-Initiated 6 Associate Members this Spring

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At Mid-Year Leadership Conference the chapter was awarded Master Sound Chapter Operations and Master Living the Ritual. Both were level 3 awards, the highest level achievable

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The chapter competed in soccer, basketball, and is currently participating in the softball Greek intramural league

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The Inaugural Push Adventure was held on campus at UTSA on April 21st and raised over $1,300 in 7 hours.

Which brings the academic year total to $2,400.

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Rose Ball will be held on April 20th at The Omni Hotel San Antonio at The Colonnade

2013 Executive Council  Archon– Jonathan Huth  Vice Archon– Dominic Macias  Treasurer– Trent Masters  Secretary—Steven Maldando  Warden—Hunter Fulghum  Historian—Matthew Nelson  Chaplin—Patrick Daniels  Push America Chair— Santiago Hyslop  Risk Management—Stephen Kapp

Rose Ball 2013 By: Stephen Maldanado The annual Pi Kappa Phi Rose Ball is planned to be celebrated on the 20th of April. The event is taking place at the Omni hotel. As a cele-

bration of the Iota Beta's chapter founding, we would enjoy

an appearance from Alumni. Invitations to follow. Any questions or concerns please feel free to contact Steven Maldonado at 830-4228209.

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Letter from the Archon By: Jonathan Huth This semester has been one of new challenges and growth for the Iota Beta chapter. The New Executive Council has been working hard alongside the chapter to improve our quality of membership. We have been holding more events, such as our recent crawfish boil, to promote and strengthen our sense of brotherhood.

This semester, we rushed 6 new Associate Members into our fraternity, and we have high hopes for each of them. Our inaugural Push Adventure, created by Santiago Hyslop III, was suc-

cessful and raised over $1000 dollars in under eight hours.

Rose Ball is also approaching, and the chapter is working hard to make it successful. If you wish to attend, please inform us so we pass on more details to you. Please be sure to follow our fan page at www.facebook.com/ PKPUTSA if you haven’t already to receive updates on the chapter. We, as a chapter, are excited for the future and hope that you continue to support us as we move forward. We hope to hear from you again soon!

Archon Jonathan Huth

Associate Member Retreat

By Hunter Fulghum This past weekend we held the Associate Member Retreat; it went very well. We had clear skies, starry nights, and a whole lot of fun. We kicked off Friday night with the Delta Sigma and put the AM’s to the test exploring their knowledge and comprehension of our student creed, given that our values are intricately designed in our student creed. The AM’s were asked to recite individual stanzas to guarantee the successful apprehension of these values instead of reciting from start to finish.

On Saturday we held a fence

project bright and early and a cou- live a life of Pi Kappa Phi. They ple team-building activities. We did a great job in all the tasks started out the afternoon on a rope course; we used this task to help build their unity as a whole, communication amongst each other, and to allow them to take charge as leaders. We ended the afternoon with another team building activity, where they were prompted to lift and move a bucket using ropes to build teamwork and communication. Overall this weekend, I believe the guys came back with a sense of Armando, Rafael, Eric, Blake, brotherhood and the determinaMatt, and Josue (left to Right) tion and will power it takes to

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Inaugural Push Adventure By: Santiago Hyslop III The Inaugural Push Adventure was a successful event, it was hosted by the brothers of Pi Kappa Phi in order to raise awareness and collect donations for Push America. This event was a competition between Sigma Kappa, Gamma Phi Beta, Zeta Tau Alpha, Alpha Sigma Alpha, and Alpha Omicron Pi sororities. The main objective was to collect as many donations as possible and have as many of their sisters participate in the obstacle course.

The obstacle course was to challenge the participants when faced with a disability and it was held around campus during the event hours. At the end Alpha Omicron Pi collected about $515.00 and was the winner. Anna the candidate for AOPi is going to be crowned Miss Push America. At the end of the day it was a successful event and the Iota Beta Chapter of Pi Kappa Phi collected a rough estimate of about $1,367.40 during those 7 hours.

Kenzie (left) and Haley (right) from Gamma Phi Beta

Social Events By: Stephen Kapp

Crawfish Boil 2013

The chapter has had some good social events this semester, starting with the Brotherhood/ philanthropy event at California Pizza Kitchen which went over well. It was a fun night of eating with brothers while 20% of the bills went to Push America. Another great event we had this semester was the crawfish boil set up by Hunter Fulghum. The

Crawfish boil was hosted at Mitchell Corona, John Paul Borrego, and Cody’s house on St. Patrick’s Day. It was an awesome day of brotherhood, crawfish and, good conversations. A Date night was held at Car-vel Skate Center where the brothers got to bring out there dates and strap on some skates. We hope to plan more events in the future

the members, but also gets our fraternity more recognition on campus. In the fall, our only team was for Football. Our young squad tried hard, but eventually lost in the first round of playoffs. Spring was kicked off with Outdoor Soccer, where our team made it to the second

round of playoffs before falling.

Our first basketball team had an outstanding debut in the regular season with no losses, but an overtime loss dashed our hopes of winning the title. We are now focusing on our softball team and we also hope to create a dodge ball team as well.

Intramurals By: Matthew Nelson Guys love to compete in athletic games, and the men of Iota Beta are no exception. This year has seen an increase in both the number of brothers participating and the number of sports we participate in. Our participation in these sports not only builds stronger bonds between

Contact Us

Key Upcoming Dates

Pi Kappa Phi Iota Beta Chapter One UTSA Circle San Antonio, Texas 78249

For questions/feedback, please contact Trent Masters at tmasters92@gmail.com or 210-409-0613

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April 6th—Texas Ramp Project

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April 7th thru 13th—Achievement Week

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April 13th—Ritual of Initiation

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April 19th—Fiesta UTSA

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April 20th—Rose Ball

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May 10th thru 12th—Brotherhood Retreat

Chapter Meetings 

Every Monday at 8 pm in the Harris Room

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First Monday of every month is Formal Meeting

Visit Our Facebook www.facebook.com/ PKPUTSA

Alumni Spotlight By: Alejandro Lara As joining Pi Kappa Phi the Spring semester of 2012 was one of the best decisions I have made, joining made my college experience worth while. Partaking in a leadership position as secretary for the chapter in the Fall of 2012 was a great challenge that was given to me. I enjoyed accomplishing many task for the chapter on and off campus.

Graduating the Fall of 2012 with a Bachelor of Science in Biology, my plan is to apply to dental school this coming cycle in May and hoping to at-

tend the Baylor College of Dentistry the fall of 2014. I hope that in the future the chapter grow exponentially in size, strengthen its relationships with the sororities on campus, and increase it’s university relations.

Alejandro Lara, College of Science 2012