Pi Kappa Phi Tau Tales http://www.pkp.org
Mar. 27 , 2005
Spring Issue 1
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From the Gavel… Ryan Castile, Archon of Tau Chapter
Archon’ s Report Mid-Year Conference Push America Fundraising Cycling Events Rose Ball 2005 Parent’ s Weekend Pi Kapp Athletics Alumni Updates Pig Pickin’ coming up
This year, there is a lot of excitement running throughout the house. After initiating 12 new men in the fall, we currently have 5 men pledging this spring. We are currently ranked in first place in the race for the President’ s Cup, which is given to the top Fraternity in Intramural sports. After a slightly lower amount of people living in the house in the fall, our house size has increased dramatically for the spring and should be close to full next fall to continue our recruitment success in the fall. In our continuing effort to help PUSH America, we have increased our already strong showing at the national cycling events. This year, two brothers are participating in the Journey of Hope while one JOH alumni is riding Gear Up Florida. Our Alumni Golf Tournament for PUSH is on April 15th, so if you’ re a fan of golfing (or even if you have an 36 handicap like me),
Chapter Officers: Archon Ryan Castile T-1186 president@pkp.org Vice-Archon Justin Gerber T-1192 vicepresident@pkp.org Treasurer Will Armfield T-1201 treasurer@pkp.org Secretary Michael Katzman T-1213 secretary@pkp.org Warden Matt Holt T- 1227 warden@pkp.org Historian Joe Young T-1214 historian@pkp.org Chaplain Patrick Buckley T-1215 chaplain@pkp.org
there is no better way to have a good time and donate money to a worthy cause like PUSH, than the Golf Tournament. Already this semester we’ ve had two very successful PUSH events. During the first very cold week in January, the brothers held our annual scaffold sit and raised close to $400. Just
recently the brothers’ hosted our First-Annual Date Auction where brothers were auctioned off to various sorority ladies for a date on Valentine’ s Day. This event also raised more than $400.
Special thanks to Justin Gerber T-1192 and Matt Seaman T1195 for putting on these events and making them successful. Already the brothers are getting ready for the annual Greek Week competition. Last year we finished 1st place in Greek Week, and look forward to repeating our performance. At any rate, Tau Chapter already has over 60 brothers now, and if all goes well with the current pledge class, we’ ll be close to 70 brothers in the fall. Things are looking up for us, but we’ re missing one thing. That thing is you, our alumni. Come back to Raleigh, if only for a short while. There is so much we want to talk to you about and we hope that you want to talk to us. I look forward to talking to each and every one of you if you can make it to Pig Pickin’ . If not, you can always e-mail me at president@pkp.org and I will get back to you with any questions you may have. Look forward to seeing you in April!
Brothers Visit Mid-Year Conference By Will Armfield II T-1201, Treasurer On January 7th-9th, 2005 the Tau chapter visited the national headquarters for our annual conference. Mid-Year Leadership Conference is an officer training event that promotes ‘ choice.’ Officers decide the educational tracks they will follow in the areas that interest them most. The curriculum, which features “ The 7 Objectives of Chapter Excellence,”is designed to instill strong leadership at the core of every chapter. We had ten brothers attend the conference this time.
This is a large number for any chapter and had one of the largest representations at the event. We talked with nearby chapters about doing events with each other to have a better combined event. We are looking to work with our chapter at East Carolina to have a large outdoor concert to benefit Push America. For updates about the event contact our philanthropy chair, Matt Seaman T-1195 at push@pkp.org . We were also able to find new ways to tweak the operation of our chapter so it runs smoother.