CHAPTER & ALUMNI NEWS DELTA
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NYU
Alvin & Friends The friends in Alvin & Friends include Tom Leghorn, Delta ‘77 and his wife Theresa. They are coowners of Alvin & Friends along with Alvin Clayton and CNN legal analyst Sunny Hostin. Tom is a trial attorney at Wilson Elser in NYC. Zagat rated the restaurant, located in New Rochelle, NY, 26 (out of 30) for food, 26 for décor and 26 for service. The Delta chapter volunteered for JumpStart to help make gift bags for kids in underprivileged communities. Jumpstart is a national early education organization that recruits and trains college students and community corps members to serve preschool children in low-income neighborhoods.
ZETA
Dartmouth College Austin Beutner, Zeta ‘82, civic leader and former Wall Street investment banker, is the new publisher and chief executive of the Los Angeles Times. Beutner, 54, who served as first deputy mayor of Los Angeles for more than a year and briefly explored a run for mayor himself, succeeds Eddy W. Hartenstein as Times publisher. “I wanted to find someone who was clearly steeped and invested in the city, and who has the same belief that I do, which is that a democracy doesn’t work without a vibrant Fourth Estate,” said Hartenstein, who was publisher for six years. Michael Kreicher, Zeta ‘08 was named to Forbes 30 under 30 in Finance. Michael is vice president at Morgan Stanley and co-head of Morgan Stanley’s commerical mortgage backed securities trading desk, one of the biggest on Wall Street. Patrick Caldwell, Zeta ‘18 claimed the national championship in the men’s freestyle race at the 2015 NCAA Skiing Championships hosted by St. Lawrence at Mt. Van Hoevenberg on March 11th. Caldwell, who won this event at the NCAA regional championship, became the first Big Green skier to earn a national title since 2011, winning the men’s 10k in 25:09.1.
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Hamilton College Mark Snickenberger, Psi ‘11 completed the Boston Marathon on April 21,2014 with a time of 4:56:31. Mark, after being injured in last year’s Boston Marathon bombings, decided to participate this year and raised over $35,000 for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. From October 8 through 10, 2014 the Psi chapter held its a philanthropy event to benefit Clear Path for Veterans, an organization based in the Syracuse area that provides programs to aid America’s war veterans with physical and mental injuries. Named “Cornhole!” the event offered members of the Hamilton community a chance to win prizes by tossing a beanbag into a hole approximately 15 feet away. With almost all of the prizes donated by local businesses, items included free movie tickets, coupons, chipotle burritos, and others.The event turned out to be a success raising a total of $2,302. The undergraduates raised $1,302 which the Psi Chapter’s alumni association matched with another $1,000. On November 15, 2014 Psi undergrads and alumni gathered for the annual Psi Career day. Undergraduate brothers had the opportunity to listen to speakers and ask questions of a panel of business leaders.Afterwards brothers gathered at the Alexander Hamilton Institute (AHI) for a banquet and award ceremony. Members of the chapter participated in the AHI Undergraduate Fellows Program and will be contributing support to the AHI’s annual Red Cross Blood Drive.
PHI
University of Michigan Tony Fadell, Phi ‘91 was named to Time’s list of the World’s 100 Most Influential People. Fadell is known for his work with the iPod and the Nest Labs thermostat.
OMEGA
University of Chicago Clayton S. Rose, Ph.D., Omega ‘80 of Brookline, Mass., has been elected president of Bowdoin College, effective July 1, 2015. Rose will become the fifteenth president of the 221-year-
