FOUNDATION GRANTS, STIPENDS, and Award Presentations

A 2023 Epsilon Fund Travel & Engagement

A 2023

J. Martin Brayboy Fund

Travel & Engagement Stipend was applied for and awarded to Roberta Howard Hunter, PhD, Epsilon Iota ’94 (RPI). The 2022 Social Impact Fellow and Steering Committee member presented on Communicating for the Public at the 2023 Social Impact Fellowship retreat.

Stipend was applied for and awarded to Alison Munzer, Gamma ’09 (Amherst) to allow her to travel from California to Bethesda, MD to participate in the 2023 Social Impact Fellowship retreat.

A 2023 Connects Grant was awarded February 24, 2023 to Bill Bear, Eta ’84 (Lehigh), to assist with the Eta Resume Workshop

Career Day At The Eta

In recognition of the Eta’s founding, the Goodale Literary Association (GLA) hosted a career event at the chapter house with alumni and undergraduate members on Saturday, February 25th. GLA President Steve Moore, Eta ‘84, kicked off the session quoting from this Bethlehem newspaper report of the Eta’s founding initiation on February 22, 1884.

It “was a day full of meaning to those who could judge the importance attending to the granting of a chapter by a fraternity said to be the most conservative of its Greek-letter brethren. as well as an exponent of literary culture. It showed that Lehigh University was deemed worthy of a place with Yale, Harvard, Columbia and a half more score institutions equally well known.

On Thursday the first delegates began to find their way up Bethlehem hill in order to be on time for the junior exhibition on Friday morning, but the morning train of Friday added their quotas to the local delegations....”

The following speakers, several joining through a Zoom call on a large screen TV, each shared stories from their own careers. Noted speakers included Jeremy McKeon, Eta ‘08, President of Psi Upsilon’s Executive Council and Gary Pan, Eta ‘86, from teh Psi Upsilon Foundation’s Board of Directors. Additional speakers included:

Teddy Douglas, Eta ‘22

Stuart Schnabolk, Eta ‘09

Michael LaVigne, Eta ‘09

Phil Gauffreau, Eta ‘84

John Matthews, Eta ‘81

Bill Mathe, Eta ‘78

Thanks to all of our alumni speakers for supporting the event! Also, a special thanks to Chapter President Rocco Valvano, Eta ‘25, for coordinating the on-site and on-line arrangements. In the stories and live discussions, undergraduate members gained perspective on the challenges and successes to come in their own professional pursuits, as well as a keen sense of the valuable network they were building through the brotherhood of Psi Upsilon. Following the speakers, on-site participants adjourned to the dining room to enjoy pizza, greekers, and pierogies generously provided by the GLA and Psi Upsilon Foundation.