Chapter & Alumni News

DELTA

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.

PSI

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-

old college. Rose, 56, is currently a member of the faculty at the Harvard Business School who teaches and writes on the responsibilities of leadership and managerial values. He succeeds Barry Mills, who will step down June 30, 2015, after a highly successful presidency spanning fourteen years.

PI

Syracuse Danny Zuker, Pi ‘86 is an executive producer and writer for “Modern Family” which won the Outstanding Comedy Series Emmy for the fifth year in a row. Prior to working on “Modern Family” he worked on “Just Shoot Me!” and “Grace Under Fire”. Danny got his start writing for the “Arsenio Hall Show.”

For more than a century, the Pi chapter has been proud to call the big house at 101 College Place their home. But a few years back, the chapter’s alumni leaders noticed something about the house that threatened that longstanding sense of pride: It wasn’t pretty. It was in disrepair and had been for quite a while. That realization launched a $350,000 renovation of the building’s facade, an extensive project that was carried out in phases between 2009 and 2013, with the crowning touches completed this past fall.

This is the 4th year that the Pi chapter at Syracuse University has had a team raising money for St. Baldrick’s Foundation which funds childhood cancer research. This year is extra special as one of the team members, Mike Dellon, Pi ‘16, has battled and beat cancer himself.

CHI

Cornell University

Yanni Hufnagel, Chi ‘06, was named an assistant basketball coach for the Golden Bears at the University of California. Hufnagel has previously held the position of assistant coach at both Vanderbilt and Harvard.

Mike Bergelson, Chi ‘95 and his company Everwise were a part of the Global STEM Alliance launch on September 22, 2014 at the United Nations. The New York Academy of Sciences has made a significant commitment to help increase the percentage of women in the pipeline for STEM fields with its “1,000 Girls - 1,000 Futures” program. The Academy chose to build the solution on the Everwise platform. Everwise is a tech-powered platform for matching “protégés” with the right mentors and shepherding them through a six month advisory relationship.

BETA BETA

Trinity College The Trinity College men’s hockey team won an historic 5-2 victory over University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, to bring home the college’s first national hockey championship. Eight Psi U played on national championship team:

Greg Rooney, ‘15 Sam Kane, ‘15 Paul Burns, Jr. ‘15 Michael Hawkrigg, ‘16 Joseph Gerard, ‘16 Benjamin Hjalmarsson, ‘16 Will Sleeper, ‘17

The team’s head coach is Matt Greason, Beta Beta ‘02.

ETA

Lehigh University

Jeremy McKeon, Eta ‘08, Christopher Hamilton, Eta ‘08 and Joshua McWaters,

Eta ‘09 hiked the complete Appalachian Trail. Their first trail day was March 19, 2014 and they completed the trail in August.

Jonathan Witt, Eta ‘15 was named one of 100 recipients of the Buick Achievers Scholarship, a renewable scholarship awarded annually by Buick and funded by the GM Foundation. The program seeks committed student leaders who plan to major in a specified course of study that focuses on engineering and technology or select design and businessrelated programs. Selection is based on the applicant’s academic achievement, financial need, participation in campus and community activities, work experience, and interest in a career in or related to the automotive industry. Witt’s credentials certainly qualified him, as his award totaled $25,000 – the highest possible value.

TAU

University of Pennsylvania

At the 2014 University of Pennsylvania’s Greek Awards Banquet, the Tau chapter won awards for Outstanding Alumni Housing Board Officer - Philip Timon ‘86, Outstanding Program for Alumni Relations, and Outstanding Program for Recruitment

In addition the Tau was runner up for the Outstanding Program for Philanthropy and Outstanding House Manager awards.

The 2014 Hult Prize Foundation finalists include a University of Pennsylvania team consisting of Thoba

Grenville-Grey, Tau ‘14, Josh Tycko, Tau ‘14, Eric Kauderer-Abrams, Tau ‘14

and two other Penn business students. The team presented their idea, Sweet Bites gum, on September 23, 2014 at the Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting in NYC. Sweet Bites gum is dedicated to improving oral health in urban slums. The gum is sweetened with 100% xylitol, a sugar-substitute scientifically proven to prevent cavities. Sweet Bites ran educational programs in schools located in Bangalore India, formed partnerships with local NGOs and sold the gum to local corner stores, overall introducing more than 50,000 kids to Sweet Bites gum.

Jacob Wallenberg ‘16 was elected president of the Interfraternity Council at the University of Pennsylvania. According to Dr. Sam Fager: “Jacob is an exceptionally good choice for the position. He is mature, thoughtful, diligent, articulate, and friendly. I am very proud of him and very pleased for him, for the Castle, and for the IFC.” Wallenberg is the second Tau brother in the past three years to win the IFC presidential election.

Ryan Williams, Tau ‘12, (right) has started a company, Jopwell, that helps companies recruit minority candidates for internships and jobs. Jopwell is a platform that lets companies connect with and recruit minority candidates for internships and jobs. These employers are considered partner companies by Jopwell, which helps them create a highly customizable employer page on the platform. That page enables companies to market their internships, job opportunities and programs to Jopwell’s minority users, which come from underrepresented ethnic minority groups– Black, Latin/Hispanic, and Native American.

The Tau was awarded the best pledge education program from the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life at Penn’s annual Greek Awards dinner on April 16, 2015.

OMICRON

University of Illinois Ivan Villamar, Omicron ‘17,(center) made the finals of BP’s Ultimate Field Trip competition. The annual competition asks students from across the country who are studying in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields to solve a real-world global energy problem. This year, BP asked participants to find a solution for cleaning the contaminated water created by the oil industry. The Omicron chapter placed first in the annual Atius-Sachem Mom’s Day Sing. The chapter partnered with Alpha Omicron Pi Sorority and held weekly practices in preparation for the finals.

THETA THETA

University of Washington Brothers got up bright and early and helped out with the Hot Chocolate 15k & 5k in March. Money raised by this event went to help support the local Ronald McDonald House.

Greg Thompson, Theta Theta ‘83 is the co-executive producer and a writer for “Bob’s Burgers” which won an Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program. Greg previously worked on “King of the Hill”, “Everybody Hates Chris”, and “3rd Rock from the Sun”.

Matt Clary, Theta Theta ‘85 and his company Waud Capital is looking to invest in software makers. The Chicago-based private-equity firm, is bankrolling veteran software executive Mark Layden to find a company, buy it and build it up. He’ll head up Greenwood Technology Partners, the new company launched by Waud. “We’ve spent a lot of time identifying markets we want to invest in and finding the person to lead that,” said Matt. They’re looking for business-to-business opportunities in health care, financial services or retail.

EPSILON NU

Michigan State University

The Epsilon Nu Chapter at Michigan State University raised more money in 2014 for Relay for Life in 2014 than any other fraternity at MSU.

The chapter is trying repeat this achievement in support of Micheal Bordas Epsilon Nu ‘17, who is currently being treated for a form of Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. They are teamed up with Alpha Xi Delta and Phi Kappa Psi.

Phi Delta Chapter

PHI DELTA

University of Mary Washington

Rob Eidson, Phi Delta ‘01 spends his free time raising awareness and funds for people who have autism spectrum disorder. When the University of Mary Washington graduate learned about the UMW Play Lab class, he combined his extracurricular activities with his alma mater. Play Lab teaches College of Education and psychology students how to work with students with disabilities in real-world setting by pairing community children with UMW students for one semester.

Christopher Rogers, Phi Delta

‘05 is a creator and co-executive producer of the new AMC series “Halt and Catch Fire” which dramatizes the personal computer boom in the 1980s. The show debuted last June and was renewed for a second season of ten episodes, to air in summer 2015.

Λαμ υναμέυοι Συμ οφαίνομεθαx

Lambda Sigma Chapter

LAMBDA SIGMA

Pepperdine

Simon Pagenaud, racing for Sam Schmidt Motorsports, won the inaugural Grand Prix of Indianapolis May 10, 2014. Sam Schmidt, Lambda Sigma ‘86, is a founder of Lambda Omega Sigma Fraternity which later became the Lambda Sigma chapter of Psi Upsilon.

Sam also participated in the SAM (semi-autonomous car) Project. The project fitted a black 2014 Corvette C7 Stingray with advanced electronics and a human-to-machine interface to allow people with disabilities similar to Schmidt’s to drive solo. No hands or feet are required to drive the car.

The car was designed in a collaborative effort with Arrow Electronics, Ball Aerospace, the Air Force Research Laboratory and Falci Adaptive Motorsports. The car could help others with disabilities enjoy the same feeling Schmidt has had while testing the vehicle. He drove his semi-autonomous car in a ceremonial qualification lap after Indy 500 practice in May 2014. Schmidt said he turned about 25 total laps during the project.

Áρνυμεθα Óρθογνωμονήσαντες

Alpha Omicron Chapter

ALPHA OMICRON

New Jersey Institute of Technology

On September 24, 2014 the NJIT Police Department interacted with NJIT students on the green during the department’s 2nd annual Meet and Greet. Officers served food and challenged students to Theta Chi’s life-sized Jenga game while Psi Upsilon provided music for the event. Also present was the Resident Hall Association, serving students cotton candy, snow cones, and popcorn.

Students attending the event participated in Police Bingo by asking the officers various questions. The students who completed a row or a column on the bingo card won gift cards to Subway and the NJIT bookstore. The grand prize winner won a tablet by

PHI BETA

William and Mary

Since July, 2014 Cody Dial, Phi Beta ‘09, has been missing in Costa Rica. He was seven months into an overland journey starting in Mexico. His last communication indicated that he planned to cross Corcovado National Park, a huge wilderness of rain forest, tropical coastline, and rugged mountains.

Phi Nu Chapter

PHI NU

Christopher Newport University

The Phi Nu chapter hosted its annual philanthropy “Psi Hoopsilon” raising $370 for the Newport News chapter of the Boys and Girls Club of America.

The chapter was recognized twice this year at the Greek Awards. Chapter archon, Jonathan Colb ‘16, was named the Fraternity Man of the Year and Dr. Brian Puaca ‘14H, the chapter’s faculty advisor, was named the Exceptional Organization Advisor.

θαρροῦμενδιὰ Παντός

Theta Pi Chapter

THETA PI

Georgia State University

The Psi Upsilon Executive Council and brothers from several chapters including of the Theta Pi, Chi Delta and Gamma Tau celebrated the installation of the 48th chapter of Psi Upsilon at the campus of Georgia State University on October 18th, 2014.