The Mask of Kappa Psi Pharmaceutical Fraternity Spring 2008

SPRING

2008

T HE O F

K A P P A

P S I

P H A R M A C E U T I C A L

F R A T E R N I T Y

From the Grand Regent

Driving Change Brothers of Kappa Psi, I hope this finds your chapters and Provinces doing well. And I hope you are continuing to make improvements and other positive changes in your chapter and Province.

Everyone knows that change is inevitable. But the key is not only to make sure that change is for the better, but to make sure you are driving that change rather than having change thrust upon you. You will be far more successful if you take the time to identify needed areas of improvement and then create a plan to address those areas. This reflective process should be a part of the culture of your chapters, and it all starts with the thought: “Continuing to improve our chapter so we are better than we were last year is important to us, and the best way for us to improve our chapter is to set goals and take steps every day to reach them.”

If your chapter lives by this philosophy, then you can’t help but be your own “agents of change” and be far more successful than you ever thought. And if the chapter starts getting down on itself or Lawrence “LB” Brown

starts to procrastinate, all you need is one brother to say, “Hey, we all agreed that improving our chapter and reaching these goals were important to us, so we need to get some work done.”

So where can you start? All you need to do is look at the last chapter progress report form you submitted to the Central Office. If there are gaps in your report, then start taking steps to fill those gaps. If you didn’t even fill out a progress report, then your first goal should be to make sure to fill one out for next year. But set a goal for the number of points you want to have in the end. Maybe the number is just 10 percent more than last year, or maybe it is 200 percent more than last year. Of the two, I would go for the 200 percent. Even if you don’t make that goal, you will still end up far above 10 percent.

And because I want everyone to have a chance at winning Chapter of the Year, I will let you in on a little secret. If you take the chapter progress report form and plan your year out in advance so that you can get as many points as possible, I guarantee you will have a much stronger chapter, and will have a better chance of winning Chapter of the Year than you did last year. If your goals are important to you, doesn’t it make sense to work every day to reach them?

Remember that fear, procrastination, self-doubt, and the words “We can’t” or “There is no way we can” are your enemy. Be fearless. Be positive. And get started now … because it is important.

Kappa Psi for Life …

Fraternally Yours,

Lawrence “LB” Brown Grand Regent 2007–2009

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Contents 4 Chapter News . . . 8 KY Photo Album . . . 23 Postscript . . . 39 2007 ASHP . . .

Volume 105, Number 2, Spring 2008 Whole Number 418

Official Publication of the Kappa Psi Pharmaceutical Fraternity, Inc. Founded 1879 Incorporated 1903 A quarterly magazine maintained and published in the interests of the Fraternity, College, and University by The Kappa Psi Pharmaceutical Fraternity, Inc., College of Pharmacy Health Sciences Center, 100 Campus Dr., Southwestern Oklahoma State University, Weatherford, OK 73096.

Web site: www.kappapsi.org.

POSTMASTER—Send notice of undeliverable copies to Central Office, Kappa Psi Pharmaceutical Fraternity, Inc., College of Pharmacy, Southwestern Oklahoma University, 100 Campus Dr., Weatherford, OK 73096.

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On the Cover Spring in all its rush of colors!

Renewing those old friendships at the spring meeting of Province VII are (L–R): Ben Welch, Paul Knecht, Johnny Porter, Charles Carden, and Dewey Garner.

Spring Each year I look forward to the arrival of spring. The flowers, moderate temperatures, rainstorms, thunder, and the smell of freshness and newness in the air all add up to make spring well worth anticipating. With each coming spring, I realize that another cycle of life has ended and another cycle is ready to begin.

Spring is the time for resolutions—not the cold dark days of January, but the fresh promising days of spring. You are able to reflect on how your life has evolved during the last year. Spring is the time you will have the opportunity to work to correct any shortcomings or missed goals or to continue on the path you have chosen. Spring gives us the opportunity to change.

Spring can bring each of us a new attitude, new plan, renewed energy, more enthusiasm, and even a fresh outlook. Is there any reason not to like spring?

I bet some of you are even more excited than most. Graduation is just around the corner. A new cycle of life will begin for you that is really exciting. Spring will mark the jumping off point for this new and exciting time of your life—just another reason to look forward to spring.

Enjoy the spring … it really is a great time of the year.

Fraternally,

Johnny W. Porter

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2007 ASHP Las Vegas, Amy Everitt, Lawrence Brown, Marvin Smith, and Amy Montes enjoy the ASHP reception.

By Grand Historian Kali Jernigan

The brothers of Kappa Psi Pharmaceutical Fraternity, Inc. made their way to Las Vegas, Nevada, December 2–6 for the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists Midyear Clinical Meeting. The brothers came to the convention for various reasons, including fun, learning, recruiting, and applying for residencies. Many stopped by the Kappa Psi booth to see old friends and make some new, and we were visited by brothers from around the world.

The Kappa Psi reception was saved at the last minute by Grand Regent, Brother Lawrence Brown. The Fraternity was not going to have a reception due to budgetary constraints, but Brother Grand Regent saw how important the reception was to the fellowship we all hold so dear. Brother Grand Regent sent a call out to brothers for help and asked seven brothers to join him in donating $500 to fund the reception. True to Kappa Psi form, brothers responded and the money was raised in less than 48 hours. There were more than seven brothers willing to help, which really showed what it means to be Kappa Psi. We should all be proud to be a part of the fantastic brotherhood that fosters such amazing willingness to help. A special thanks goes to Brothers Johnny Porter, John Grossomanides, Norm Campbell, Eric Gupta, Fletcher Nehring, Lawrence Brown, Ed Roche, and Kali Jernigan for their generous contribution.

The reception was held Monday night at the Flamingo’s Scenic Ballroom and was a huge success with over 300 brothers in attendance. While it wasn’t exactly scenic with no windows in sight, the best part of the reception was the ability to socialize with our brothers. Keep a lookout for Kappa Psi booths and receptions at future ASHP and APhA meetings! Hope to see you all there.

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All good times must come to an end, but with smiles.

Nevada Executive Director Long and Collegiate Member-at-Large Brian Macdonald at the ASHP exhibit.

Brothers enjoying food and drink at the reception during the ASHP meeting.

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2007 ASHP Las Vegas, It can be fun during the reception.

It was a little warmer at the reception that in Minnesota.

Executive Director Long with brothers at the reception.

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Nevada All smiles at this year’s ASHP reception.

More smiles at ASHP reception.

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Chapter News

Beta Omicron and Delta Mu brothers demonstrate their bowling skills in Pullman, Washington.

Epsilon

University of Minnesota Founded 4/30/1928 College of Pharmacy 5-130 Weaver Densford Hall 308 Harvard Street S.E. Minneapolis, MN 55455-0343

After welcoming our 33 new brothers last semester, we are thrilled to have another 10 pledges for spring semester! We welcomed our new pledges with an exciting night of pizza and bowling.

We have been having a great time with the social and service events this past winter. Just before we left for winter break, the brothers braved the Minnesota weather to enjoy a horse-drawn hayride. We also had a fun-filled evening at our dinner meeting. We had a delicious dinner at a steak house and enjoyed listening to the stories of our speaker for the evening, Bob Volk, a brother who was initiated into Epsilon back in 1956. The chapter also celebrated the holidays with a “Secret Santa” gift exchange, and we all put down our books before final exams for a holiday party. We also helped several children celebrate the holiday season by donating gifts to the Ronald McDonald

Nu Brothers (L-R) Andrew Bzowyckyj, Michael McGuire, Kevin Awugah, Clayton English, and Paul Lagasse at the UConn School of Pharmacy White Coat Ceremony, fall 2007.

House. During our winter break, several brothers got together to walk and raise money for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. The event is held at the Mall of America before stores open, which allowed the brothers to get some exercise and raise money for a great cause while avoiding the wintry weather outside.

Once classes resumed, but before they got too stressful, sever-

al brothers got together to show off their skills on the ski slopes for a skiing/snowboarding/tubing extravaganza. Early in the semester, we participated in a Kidney Early Evaluation Program screening where brothers helped patients register for the event and took height, weight, and blood pressure measurements. We continue to serve the Phillips Neighborhood every Monday night at the Phillips

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Neighborhood Clinic, and we are continuously visiting area high schools to give STI presentations.

We’re looking forward to several more social events including a night out at the comedy club and also a night of theater when we go see Jane Eyre later this semester.

We are also hoping to continue our domination on the court in intramural volleyball, and we have assembled an intramural bowling team that plans on dominating the lanes. Epsilon brothers are also planning to participate in the Malaria Swim for the second year.

The Malaria Swim is an event where teams swim laps to raise money to help purchase mosquito nets for families in Africa.

—Alison Wagner

Theta

Virginia Commonwealth University Founded 7/30/1921 School of Pharmacy P.O. Box 980533 410 N. 12 Street Richmond, VA 23298-0001

Theta chapter had a great 2007 and is now looking forward to the year ahead as we have many events

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planned for this upcoming spring semester.

We started the year off with various rush events and have since begun the pledging process. This will be one of our largest pledge classes ever with 12 new members in the pledge class. We look forward to welcoming them as brothers into the Kappa Psi family later this semester.

The Theta chapter’s spring semester will be headlined by our eighth annual ALS Association golf tournament. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), better known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, is a motor neuron disease that leaves patients in a state of paralysis but fully coherent to the world around them.

Proceeds from the event will be donated to the ALS Association whose mission is “to find a cure for and improve living with ALS.” We are hosting this event along with the school’s alumni association and are excited about the buzz this event is gathering.

We also had a large contingency head up to the Province III spring meeting in Washington, D.C. This event was held at Howard University and was hosted by the Delta Kappa chapter whom we would like to thank for this great weekend.

The brothers of Kappa Psi Theta chapter are excited about this upcoming year, and we look forward to all the events we have planned for this semester. Our ranks will be growing with the addition of a new pledge class. With them, we will strive to do all we can— not only for the profession of pharmacy, but also for the community at large.

—Matt Staples

Andy Neipp, adopted a street in our downtown that we are responsible for cleaning multiple times a year.

We helped a local Girl Scout raise more than $300 dollars in cookie sales. Brother Chris Dykes headed a group of volunteers who pressure washed our dean’s house on campus. Finally, on April 1, we will hold our elections for next year. That is all to report from the Iota chapter and, as always, we are dedicated to not only preserving our legacy, but also creating novel boundaries.

—Sean Jesinkey

Mu

Massachusetts College of Pharmacy Founded 3/4/1907 SGA Office c/o Kappa Psi 179 Longwood Avenue Boston, MA 02115

Mu Brothers Shawn, Richard, and Timothy posing for the KY GQ edition.

added the names of almost every graduate dating back to 1965. As for those alumni in-town, they have allowed our brothers to do yard work and various other jobs, which have created a two-pronged benefit.

One benefit is a rapport that has developed between the alumni and current brothers. The other benefit is that it generated funds for our chapter.

In an attempt to show our dedication to the Brotherhood, we dou-

bled our attendance this year at Province. Iota was represented by William Shealy, Trey Reeves, Seth Pulley, Justin Kellett, William Gibson, Mitchell Page and Jeremy Heller. A special congratulation goes to our current regent, William Shealy, for being nominated as the National Historian.

On top of everything else this semester, we have continued to do volunteer work around our community. For example, our vice regent,

Mu chapter would like to welcome and congratulate our newly initiated brothers: Timothy, Shawn and Richard. The brothers have bared the cold winter weather long enough and are ready to get out. Many of the brothers are going on spring break trips. Also, the school is having its first ever Greek Week, a competition of all the fraternities against each other. The brothers look forward to taking first place in that competition. Mu chapter will also be hosting the Province I meeting in March.

—Kunal Patel

Iota

Medical University of South Carolina Founded 11/29/1927 The College of Pharmacy 280 Calhoun Street Charleston, SC 29425

This semester the Iota chapter has taken on new initiatives in an effort to preserve the reputation it upholds within Kappa Psi. For starters, our attention has been focused on the alumni. We built a strong alumni database by compiling a list of names from every pledge class starting in 1979 to the present. On top of this, we also

The brothers of Epsilon and their families braved the cold for a fun-filled horse-drawn hayride.

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Chapter News

Socializing and meeting other brothers in Dallas, Texas, for Province VII, pictured (L–R) Kendra Morrison, Sloane Schulz, Katie Myers, and Erin Byrne.

Nu

The men of Rho chapter who attended Province VII in February.

Rho

University of Connecticut

University of Kansas

Founded 5/17/1928

Founded 4/23/1932

School of Pharmacy Box U-92 Storres, CT 06268

Room 2056, Malott Hall 1251 Wescoe Hall Drive Lawrence, KS 66045

Nu chapter is full of life this semester, with numerous social and community service projects on the agenda. Right from the start, we decided that we wanted to reach out to the community, where we plan to volunteer a few weekends to run a friendly game of Bingo at the Mansfield Nursing Home and Rehab Center. We had our first combined Spring Rush event with the UConn chapter of Lambda Kappa Sigma and plan to pledge three new members in midFebruary. We hope everyone enjoys and takes in all of the traditions associated with Kappa Psi and especially Nu chapter. Plans are in the works for numerous social events with Lambda Kappa Sigma in the coming weeks, including our annual Spring Social event. Brother Andrew Bzowyckyj is spearheading the introduction of Pharmacy Greek Week— a face-off in athletics, community service and philanthropy between the four pharmacy fraternal organizations at UConn.

Also, be on the lookout: on the Kappa Psi website, in the near future, we will be selling the remainder of our Kappa Psi pint glasses, as seen at the 53rd GCC. —Will Anctil

Rho is excited about a great upcoming semester for our Kappa Psi brothers. In early February, several crazy brothers participated in Polar Bear Club. This year it was minus 20 degrees outside when brothers jumped into a frozen lake.

Twenty-six brothers attended Province VII in Dallas where we made lots of new friends and became motivated to improve the chapter. This change started at our most recent meeting when we voted on bylaw changes and discussed the use of ritual.

Currently, we are busy planning a formal for the pharmacy school in conjunction with a golf tournament.

The Thomas Mikkelson Memorial Golf Tournament will take place in April; money raised will benefit HealthCare Access, a non-profit clinic that provides free medical care to the uninsured in Lawrence, Kansas. If you like to golf and want to help a good cause, come visit us in Kansas and send an email to rho@kappapsi.org.

—Katie Myers

Sigma

University of Maryland Founded 3/27/1924 School of Pharmacy 20 N. Pine Street Baltimore, MD 21201

The year 2007 ended with an amazing holiday party filled with

Brother In Kim opens her gift to reveal a multifunctional tool kit only to be stolen later in a game of “Dirty Santa” at Sigma’s holiday party.

food and lined with gifts. The event was organized by our social chairs: Brothers Xuan Tang, Erica Swanson, and Shek Mehta, who required each brother to bring a gift to play “Dirty Santa,” a crazy game involving the opening, stealing, and swapping of gifts. Where else would you excitedly pick the largest box and open it to discover a toilet seat cover or frantically try to steal a multifunctional tool kit or even a Starbucks gift card.

Afterwards, brothers enjoyed a night of board games, Wii, and Guitar Hero.

While most brothers were enjoying the winter break at home, three brothers from Sigma —Chris Charles, Gregory Kim and Sophia Park—journeyed out to West Palm Beach, Florida, to attend the

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Province IV conclave. It was a good opportunity to see the workings of another Province as well as meet new brothers.

After the winter hiatus, our chapter reconvened for a special event.

It was our second annual Winter Retreat, created to bond brothers closer together and come up with ideas to make our chapter even better. From pizzas to team-building games to brothers speaking on what Kappa Psi means to them, we had a fun and productive night.

Are you just as sad as I am about football season being over?

Thankfully, we have our wonderful memories of the Super Bowl bash to reminisce. Though it was a chaotic mix of brothers who just wanted to socialize and brothers who wanted to watch the game,

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Sigma brothers: a picture worth a thousand words …

Beta Gamma brothers at their Big Brother revealing.

Beta Nu brothers enjoy a study break in January by going ice skating at a local ice rink in Omaha.

Psi Brothers Youseef Zaky (left) and Elisa Giroux (right) getting their jerseys from Big Brother Tiffany Bird (middle) on Jersey Night.

Giants beating the Patriots made everything worthwhile—at least for some of us.

On an icy mid-February night, brothers braved a winter storm in support of the Concert of Hope organized by Brother Eun-Mi Ahn and GCD Brother Dr. John Watts.

The Concert of Hope was a musical

program whose mission was to raise funds for the Esperanza Movement Foundation, a non-profit organization that provides free food and health care to the impoverished children of Latin America.

Performances included our singing sensations Brother Dr. John Watts and Brother Brittany Farrugia, accompanied by pianists Brothers Tina Son and Linda Sun. We are grateful to have such talent in our Brotherhood, as well as brothers with caring hearts who truly reach out to the destitute communities both near and far.

—Sophia Park

Psi

University of Tennessee Founded 10/9/1925 College of Pharmacy 31 S. Barksdale Memphis, TN 38104

The Psi chapter finished 2007 with a month full of events before tackling finals. The first weekend of

December, Psi sponsored a water station at the Memphis St. Jude Marathon. This event is an annual one for the Psi chapter and one that we always have a good time at despite the freezing temperatures.

This year we shared duties with the other pharmaceutical fraternity and had a record turnout to support the runners. That weekend was a busy one because that same night, we held our second annual Tacky Christmas Sweater Party. This event is quickly becoming a favorite among the brothers because we love getting into the Christmas spirit by dressing up in our most festive Christmas garb. This year the attire consisted of not only sweaters but costumes with a full manger scene and a gingerbread man!

The New Year started out all business with the initiation of the pledge class which included 94 new brothers! With initiation complete, Jersey Night quickly followed. Psi brothers had a blast listening to the stories that surfaced on how the new brothers got their nicknames.

In February, Psi attended Province VII conclave and was able to take 24 brothers all the way to Dallas, Texas. We had a great time, but I cannot speak for all since one of our brothers became sick with food poisoning as soon as we arrived and was stuck in the hotel room all weekend. We were very proud to say our vice satrap, Jodi Leke, is from our chapter and did a wonder-

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ful job helping conduct the conclave. Normally for Psi chapter, seeing Dr. L.B. Brown means class is about to start, but this weekend it was an honor having him attend our conclave as the Grand Regent.

We wrapped up February with elections for new officers and are excited about the new Executive Committee and what they will bring to the chapter in the coming year!

—April Hodson

Beta Gamma

University of California— San Francisco Founded 9/23/1910 College of Pharmacy 1499-5th Avenue San Francisco, CA 94122

Winter quarter is the time when pledge events are in full swing. We started off with a new pledge event called -Harmony. Kappa Psi brothers and all 52 pledges were given one minute to talk to each other on a one-on-one basis before rotating to the next brother. It was a great event that gave everyone the opportunity to learn more about each other. Another successful event was our annual scavenger hunt. Although it rained during the first hour, the pledges were determined and continued to press on throughout the evening. The winner of the scavenger hunt will be revealed during the last study hour.

Big Bro revealing took place on February 1 at Pier 39 in Fisherman’s

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Wharf. Brothers surprised their pledges with a one-hour cruise along the city’s waterfront. Despite the cold and windy weather, everyone was socializing and enjoying the scenery. We sailed under the Golden Gate Bridge, past Sausalito, and around Alcatraz.

Beta Gamma volunteered at Glide Memorial, which is a church that caters to the underserved.

They provide shelter, warm meals, and counseling for those who need it. On January 19, we joined Habitat for Humanity to build affordable homes for people who have housing problems due to high costs, crowding, and homelessness. We plan on continuing our involvement with Habitat for Humanity in the future. We also participated in the AIDS Cycle Kickoff Party, where we helped cyclists register for the upcoming bicycle event in June.

Riders will travel 545 miles from San Francisco to Los Angeles in order to raise money for treatment and research to help those who are living with HIV/AIDS. Beta Gamma is in the process of finalizing spring quarter projects this year. We are still signing up participants for our first annual golf tournament at the Presidio Golf Course & Country Club. The tournament will be held March 27, 2008, and all are welcome to attend.

Proceeds from this event will be donated to the American Heart Association. We are also searching for sponsors for the UCSF School of Pharmacy Spring Auction in April. The auction raises money specifically to support community service projects for all registered

Beta Kappa brothers Ryan and Krista before the APhA-ASP formal.

campus organizations in the school of pharmacy.

As we continue to uphold the traditions of Kappa Psi, Beta Gamma is finding new ways of instilling these traditions in the pledge class.

We show them by example by organizing events such as the philanthropy projects and teaching them the history of our Fraternity. We are looking forward to initiating another group of proud and committed Kappa Psi members.

—Sokkim Lim

Beta Epsilon

University of Rhode Island Founded 5/17/1911 College of Pharmacy 41 Lower College Road Kingston, RI 02881-0801

As the cold weather is beginning to subside and spring is upon us, Beta Epsilon brothers have much to be excited about. On February 25, we hosted our third annual Kappa Psi Date Auction. We had more than 25 brothers who stepped on stage and were auctioned off.

The proceeds from this event went to the American Cancer Society. In previous years, we have raised over $700. This year we raised almost $1,500, which is a huge increase from previous auctions. The winning bidders will accompany their dates to a Beta Epsilon hosted event, and the proceeds will also go to the American Cancer Society.

Brother Adam Beer did a superb job of coordinating this event.

After our initiation this past winter, we have increased the size of our chapter to 95 brothers. Our roster has never been bigger. In sports, we reclaimed the indoor soccer championship once again.

We had an undefeated season with the participation of 15 brothers.

Our basketball season is also off to a good start. At this time, we are 4–0 and hope to continue to excel for the rest of the season.

On March 27, we are having our annual Drug Fair in which various companies visit the University in an attempt to make connections with students. This Kappa Psi run event will include over 10 representatives from many different areas of pharmacy. Coming up in April, we have the annual Relay for Life at the University of Rhode Island. Beta Epsilon has been the top fundraiser at the University for the last three years. As a result of our participa-

Beta Xi brothers Caroline Worley, Tammy Chen (front), Alyssa Keating, Meredith Mahaffee, Nicole Nicolsen, and Tiffany Sims at the Mardi Gras Mixer with the professional dental fraternity. tion during these years, we have raised a combined total of more than $10,000 for the American Cancer Society. We have set our goal to make more than $3,500 during the upcoming event in the spring. It is a rewarding and fun, bonding experience for all who participate and donate.

In the last few weeks, we have pulled out our chapter bylaws and made some edits and amendments.

These changes include chapter dues, brotherly conduct, and our judicial system. It is now an updated, more complete set of laws to abide by. Finally, we have many social events planned for the near future with various sororities.

During the last week of classes, we are also having our annual semiformal with our sister sorority Lambda Kappa Sigma. Good attendance is anticipated as well as a good time by both organizations.

—Andrew Benson

Beta Kappa

University of Pittsburgh Founded 3/26/1913 School of Pharmacy 228 Salk Hall Pittsburgh, PA 15213

With the spring semester nearly half over, the Beta Kappa chapter at the University of Pittsburgh has had a strong start to the New Year.

Congratulations to all of the officers elected at the end of the fall semester who have already done an amazing job continuing the tradition of

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Beta Kappa’s leadership in both the profession of pharmacy and the community. Newly-elected officers include: regent, Katelin Speer; vice regent, Ashley Toale; recording secretary, Jessica Klunk; corresponding secretary, Dana Roman; treasurer, Richard Schanz; chaplain, Kristina Kernich; historian, AnnaMarie Oakes; sergeant at arms, Karleen Melody; ASP representative, Alexa Ray; IFCs, Ryan Yanicko and Brian Straub; immediate past regent, Tim Kaylor; grand council deputies, Dave Maszkiewicz, Dr. Deanne Hall and Dr. Brian Potoski; and chapter counselors, Erin Lopata, Tyler Gnesda, Vadim Gazarov and Chris Miller.

Helping to shake those back-toschool blues, January was filled with the excitement of Pharmacy Week activities that led up to the White Coat Ceremony for our P1s and the annual APhA-ASP formal.

With so many of our brothers active in APhA-ASP, it was a great time to unite to promote the profession of pharmacy and have fun doing it.

Events included the annual Kappa Psi vs. PDC football game, APhAASP Patient Counseling competition, in which our own Leah Stonesifer placed third, and the PPA Jeopardy OTC competition.

Three of our brothers, Gretchen Kreckel, Courtney Mills and Marilyn Torch, comprised the winning jeopardy team and moved on to represent us at the Smartest Pharmacy School in PA competition

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Beta Lambda

University of Toledo Founded 5/22/1925 College of Pharmacy 2801 W. Bancroft Street Toledo, OH 43606

Beta Kappa brothers on their ski trip at Seven Springs.

Beta Xi brother Tiffany Sims raises money for the chapter by cleaning the Dean Dome after a UNC basketball game. that was held in Harrisburg on February 8. Also, among the event, was the Phi Lambda Sigma auction; all profits were donated to Rx Counsel of Western Pennsylvania, which provides medicine at no cost to those in need.

The spring semester has also provided many opportunities for brothers to help out other brothers.

The P3–P4 dinner was an exciting evening and a chance for P4s to pass on their insight about rotations to the P3s who will soon begin their selection. Also, brothers had the pleasure of supporting our own Josh Momper at the CD release party of his incredible band, The

Meridians. Keep your eyes out for them!

After an eventful beginning of the semester, brothers took a break to relax for the weekend at our annual ski trip to Seven Springs. And as spring break approaches, many of our brothers are also looking forward to the 2008 annual APhA-ASP meeting and exposition to be held March 14–17 in San Diego, California. It should be an enjoyable time filled with learning activities and networking opportunities.

Continuing our commitment to philanthropy, chaplain Kristina Kernich organized numerous service projects to take place throughout the spring semester. For Valentine’s Day, Beta Kappa made cards to send cheer and show our gratitude to veterans at the VA hospital. Brothers also participated in a Valentine’s bake date at Family House and continue to hold blood pressure screenings at local Rite Aid pharmacies.

Additionally, recognition is due to Beta Kappa brothers who have been inducted into Phi Lambda Sigma Leadership Fraternity: Karleen Melody, Brian Straub, Alexa Ray, Mike Smith, Michelle Bert, Rhea Santangelo, Megan Reilly and Jenny Bacci.

And last, but not least, hats off to all of our December graduates: Tyler Gnesda, Kristen Topolosky, Brandi Kennedy, Ji Hoon Moon and Josh Wireman. Good luck and may you have continued success in all future endeavors!

—Anne-Marie Oakes

The spring semester for Beta Lambda is unique this year. Based on the success of last semester, eight new pledges is a reasonablysized class for us, so the brothers voted to pledge again this spring.

All five pledges have shown real interest in both pharmacy and philanthropy. So far, they have spent meetings learning about Kappa Psi’s history and traditions. They have also participated in our nursing home philanthropy events and taken part in meet-and-greet activities with actives.

Socially, the brothers are focusing on interactions with other college of pharmacy organizations, particularly the other fraternal organizations. The brothers participated in a bowl-a-thon, hosted by Alpha Zeta Omega, and a cocktail party with the ladies of Lambda Kappa Sigma. Additionally, the annual alumni event every spring (stag) allows the brothers to network with past members of Beta Lambda.

Philanthropy has always been one of Beta Lambda’s focuses. This spring the chapter sought to outdo itself. The brothers have started volunteering regularly at a local nursing home. On a couple of Saturdays each month, brothers and current pledges go to the residency and visit with the seniors who live there. They spend time with them during meals and call out Bingo numbers. The nursing home

Beta Xi brothers Caroline Worley and Allison Matthews wrapping books at Barnes and Noble to raise money for the Beta Xi Relay-forLife team.

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employees take care of all of the day-to-day arrangements, so the brothers serve a purely social purpose and the residents themselves seem to love it. Additionally, the brothers are collecting pop tabs to donate to the Ronald McDonald House. The fundraiser involved the entire UT College of Pharmacy and annually raises thousands of pop tabs. Finally, the brothers gave more than their time—they donated blood to the Red Cross. Every donation saves three lives and, despite a potential fear of needles, is entirely painless.

—Steve Markowiak

Beta Nu

Creighton University Founded 11/21/1914 School of Pharmacy 2500 California Plaza Omaha, NE 68178-0001

As we are getting into the swing of the New Year, Beta Nu has been quite active and will continue to be throughout the rest of the semester. We have already served a meal at the Ronald McDonald House, and we will be back three more times this semester to help out this wonderful organization. Beta Nu brothers will also be donating their time to the Child Saving Institute in Omaha by helping them as they move into a new building. Child Saving Institute is a non-profit agency that aims to prevent child abuse and neglect through programs such as foster care, Big Brothers Big Sisters, and counseling. Later in the month of March, we will also be participating in the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life, which will be held at Creighton. Our second roadside cleanup of the year will also be scheduled for sometime in April when the weather in Omaha gets a little warmer. We also had a great turnout for a social held at a local ice rink in January. There are also many people in our chapter planning on attending Province VIII conclave, which will be held by our brothers at Gamma Kappa. Beta Nu will be rounding out the school year by holding our spring banquet in April where we will be inducting our new officers who will be announced in the summer issue of THE MASK. —Ann Foede

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Beta Xi

University of North Carolina Founded 5/1/1915 208 Finley Golf Course Road Chapel Hill, NC 27514

Beta Xi rushed right into a jampacked spring semester here at UNC. As soon as we were back to school, our rush events began. This semester we held info sessions and a pizza lunch at the School of Pharmacy to show students what Kappa Psi is all about. We also spent a fun evening at Charlie Goodnight’s Comedy Club, went to a Carolina Hurricane’s hockey game, and hosted our annual Blizzard Party which allowed brothers time to socialize with the rushees. Our last rush event before formal rush was a Community Service and Bingo Night. We assembled the vials for our Vial of Life project and then enjoyed a night of Bingo and prizes. As the rush came to a close, we gained five pledges—all with a genuine desire to learn about Kappa Psi. In the area of community service, we have been more than hard at work. Adopt-a-Highway and making dinners at the Ronald McDonald House continue to be two of our philanthropy events. Now that our vials have been completed during rush, we will be handing them out to the public. A Kappa Psi alumnus from a local CVS has given us permission to hand them out at his store, and we hope the vials will serve as a way to better the health care in our community. Our tobacco cessation program is still in effect as well. We continue to set up tables on campus to counsel and educate the students of UNC about the importance of tobacco cessation. We are also planning a big event to help students visualize the health consequences of smoking in support of Kick Butts Day on April 2. In addition, we have set up a Kappa Psi Relay for Life team, and our team goal is to raise $1,000 to go towards cancer research. One of our biggest community service projects this semester will be our first annual Food Drive competition we are organizing in the UNC School of Pharmacy. We will be hosting a competition between the first-year pharmacy students, second-year pharmacy students, third-year students, and the graduate student organization. Harris Teeter has

Delta Mu (Kristin DeGirolamo, Laura Dinsdale) and Beta Omicron (Jennifer Chow, Dan Choi) brothers enjoying the snow on Mt. Baker. given us a gift certificate to provide breakfast to the winner. We hope to collect a lot of money and cans for the Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina.

Fundraising this semester has kept the brothers of Beta Xi busy as well. We wrapped books at Barnes and Noble around Christmastime.

All of the donations we received went to support our Relay for Life team. This semester we participated in four “Dean Dome cleanups� where we put in a lot of hard work to raise money for our chapter.

Dean Dome cleanups consist of picking up trash and recyclable materials throughout the UNC basketball arena as well as sweeping up the rows. In March we are hosting a “Shake & Bake� sale where we will be selling shorts that say “Shake Well� on the back and homemade goodies in the pharmacy school.

We also participated in a few other social events this semester.

We hosted a Mardi Gras Mixer with the professional pre-dental fraternity Delta Delta Sigma in February. In addition, we participated in the All Male Miss Pharmacy competition at the School of Pharmacy. One of our brothers dressed up as a girl and was Miss Kappa Psi in a “beauty pageant� where proceeds from ticket sales went to Senior Pharm Assist. This is an organization that helps the elderly pay for medications and counseling when they cannot afford it. It was a hilarious night to say the least! In addition, many of our brothers in the pharmacy school

attended the Pharmacy School Semi-Formal where students and faculty gathered for a night away from studying and teaching. Lastly, Beta Xi has been playing in an intramural coed basketball league where our team made it through to the third round of the playoffs before our season came to a close.

We are now preparing for softball season.

The Beta Xi chapter is looking forward to attending Province III at Howard University as 21 of our brothers will be going up to D.C. to support our Beta Xi brothers in their last meeting as Satrap and Historian of Province III. It should be a very fun weekend and we hope to get a lot accomplished with the brothers of the other Province III chapters. We are also looking for-

ward to having Family Day at our house where we will welcome our families to Kappa Psi and show them all we have accomplished this year. In April we will have our annual Formal, which this year will be held in Myrtle Beach. It will be a very enjoyable weekend of dancing, relaxing, and presenting awards to very deserving brothers. We will be closing out the semester with our 28th Annual Tunnel Party. Brothers are hard at work building an intricate tunnel from big cardboard boxes that will go throughout the entire living room of our house. In addition to crawling through the tunnel, there will be a live band and DJ. This night always serves as a great time for brothers, faculty, and friends. It is looking like our spring semester will remain busy right up to the very end! —Nicole Nicolsen

Beta Omicron

University of Washington Founded 4/15/1916 School of Pharmacy Kappa Psi P.O. Box 357631 Seattle, WA 98195

With the start of a new year, Beta Omicron organized our first winter social activity with a ski/snowboarding trip to Mt. Baker. Over 60 brothers attended the weekend trip, making it the biggest turnout for this event in our chapter’s history.

We were also very excited that Canadian Delta Mu brothers Laura Dinsdale and Kristin DeGirolamo were able to join us as our imported international dishwashers for the

Beta Omicron brothers at the closing banquet of the Province X meeting.

(L–R): Skyer York, Nick Au, Francine Lai, Luis Ramos, Rachael Forster, Diana Spencer, Paul Kuo, and Bao-Linh Nguyen.

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for all of our officers, especially our regent, Scott Mcleod. Many sleepless nights were spent by our team of officers leading up to Province, ironing out all of the details to ensure everything ran smoothly.

Congratulations to Scott Mcleod and Stacy Crow from our chapter, elected satrap and historian, respectively, for our Province.

Outside of Province meetings, participating brothers went bowling at Zeppos and had a few nights out on the town, kindling that Pullman spirit for all visiting brothers to discover and enjoy. Up next for Beta Pi chapter: Habitat for Humanity in Spokane, Open To Close, and our annual cruise around Lake Coeur d’ Alene in April. We will also be looking to award “Brothers of the Year” to our pledge class and second-year class at that time.

—Robert Griffith

Beta Pi brothers who attended the Province X meeting in Pullman, WA. trip. The snow conditions were wet and somewhat windy, but that did not stop our brothers from enjoying themselves as they traversed down the mountain. Everyone was comfortably rested in their warm cabins after an exhausting day of snow activities.

After Mt. Baker, several of our brothers were already prepared to travel to Pullman, Washington, for the Province X meeting hosted by Beta Pi. Attendees from Beta Omicron included Province X officers Bao-Linh Nguyen (GCC delegate), Rachael Forster (chaplain), Diana Spencer (secretary/treasurer), as well as Brothers Paul Kuo, Francine Lai, Nick Au, Skyler York and Luis Ramos. We celebrated our arrival on Friday night with brothers from other chapters at Pete’s Bar and Grill, in which everyone was able to enjoy a night of Wileys and dance move demonstrations.

Business meetings were held the next morning followed by a social gathering at a local bowling alley.

Activities later that day included an evening seminar on the zero-order kinetics of EtOH and a walking tour of Pullman at night. Sunday night ended with a closing banquet and induction of new Province officers.

Beta Omicron would like to congratulate brothers from our chapter who were elected as the new Province X officers: Rachael Forster (Vice Satrap), Francine Lai (Chaplain), Skyler York (Secretary/Treasurer), as well as Beta Pi elected officers: Scott McLeod (satrap) and Stacy Crow (historian). We would also like to especially thank Beta Pi for all their

Beta Upsilon

Butler University Founded 2/27/1930 4600 Sunset Avenue Indianapolis, IN 46208

Beta Upsilon members from Butler University pose and shiver for the camera after the Polar Bear Plunge to benefit Special Olympics. hard work put into organizing the meeting and showing us a good time. Our chapter plans to return the favor when we host the Province X meeting in Seattle next year.

Our main philanthropy project for the quarter is a food drive for Northwest Harvest Food Bank due to decreased donations in the spring. Our chapter has provided food bins within the school for students to donate nonperishable food items. Beta Omicron has increased the incentive to donate by making the food drive a class competition with a dessert party as the prize for the class that makes the most donations. Additionally, we are also in the process of planning the annual Variety Show for students, staff, and faculty to show off their performing talents.

—Nicholas Au

Beta Pi

Washington State University Founded 4/18/1916 College of Pharmacy Wegner Room 155 Pullman, WA 99164-6510

It has been a fun but busy transition into spring for the Beta Pi chapter. To kick off the new semester, our brothers traveled north to Sandpoint, Idaho, for a weekend ski trip at Schweitzer Mountain Resort.

A very special thank-you goes out to Stacy Crow for all of her hard work in planning this getaway and dealing with a variety of lodging and accommodation issues.

Overall, it was a successful and fun weekend.

As the host chapter for Province X, our officers were busy at work planning the arrangements for our fellow Kappa Psi brothers from the Province. Recognition is deserved

Spring 2008

Beta Upsilon finished off 2007 by inducting the pledges and enjoying a congratulatory dinner at TGI Friday’s in honor of our new members. Before finals set into full swing, members joined for a Christmas party with a white elephant gift exchange. Beta Upsilon also helped to sponsor an Angel Tree family.

With the New Year underway, Beta Upsilon is back to some chapter traditions, including the trip to BW3s following meetings and the annual dive into the icy water at the Polar Bear Plunge for the Special Olympics. Our chapter successfully completed our annual blood pressure cuff and stethoscope fundraiser. In addition, planning is in progress for spring philanthropy projects such as Relay for Life and social events to connect pharmacy students on Butler University’s campus.

—Katrina Coffee

Beta Phi

University of Cincinnati Founded 2/12/1927 College of Pharmacy Mail Location #4 Cincinnati, OH 45267

The Beta Phi chapter has been busy this quarter. After initiating our 18 newest brothers in November, we have worked hard to

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get to know each of them. We recently held our officer elections, and our chapter would like to congratulate our newly appointed regent, Matt Bell.

We have kept busy participating in a variety of philanthropy events this quarter. We had a very successful coat drive in which we collected several items to donate to those who needed them in these recent cold winter months. We have also been working with our local Ronald McDonald House. The chapter has cooked and served lunch for the families and patients who are currently staying there. We are still collecting tabs from soda cans for them as well, and our containers are overflowing! We are also working on a team to participate in Relay for Life, and our goal is to raise more than $1,000 for the American Cancer Society.

With rush and pledge events concluded, our focus has turned to solidifying the bond of brotherhood. Over Martin Luther King, Jr. weekend, we traveled to Gatlinburg, Tennessee, for a brotherhood retreat. It was a nice relaxing time in the mountains and a wonderful way to get to know our brothers better. The annual Kappa Psi ski trip was a hit, with several brothers tackling the slopes. And better yet, everyone finished the night safely with no broken bones or concussions! Our boys’ intramural basketball team did a good job this season, and we are looking forward to putting together winning soccer and softball teams for the spring. The pharmacy school formal is quickly approaching. As head of the event, we have been busy fine-tuning the details. It should be a huge success and a night to remember.

—Sarah Good

Beta Chi

Drake University Founded 5/3/1930 College of Pharmacy Cline Hall, 2507 University Avenue Des Moines, IA 50311-4505

Beta Chi began the semester with activation week. The pledges and actives played Kappa Psi trivia, went roller-skating, and watched a movie. On Friday of the week, all 28 pledges were activated. We are ready to volunteer in a couple of philanthropic events. We will be making dinner monthly at the

Beta Phi brothers tackle the slopes at their annual ski outing. are also in the planning stages of Geek Week, similar to the campus Greek Week. It is a week of events where Kappa Psi brothers and Phi Delta Chi brothers compete in friendly games and have other social events to get to know each other better.

—Danelle Rollinger

Beta Psi

University of Wisconsin Founded 12/6/1919 School of Pharmacy 615 North Lake Street #2 Madison, WI 53703

Beta Psi brothers pack up items from the former Beta Psi house.

Ronald McDonald House in Des Moines. Collecting pop tabs for Ronald McDonald House is also a yearly event for our chapter. We have a competition between the classes to see which class can bring the most tabs per member. We are also working on preventing blindness, where brothers will go to elementary schools and screen the children and see if they need to be checked by an eye doctor.

Fundraising has been going well with many ideas presented. We will be selling Drake College of

Pharmacy sweatshirts and T-shirts and keep doing online surveys. We will also be selling Kappa Psi black polos with red embroidering.

Conclave fundraising includes working concessions at Iowa Cubs baseball games this spring and summer. Beta Chi brothers danced the night away at Formal that was held in the botanical center. Every month brothers continue the tradition of Night Out; this is a social event that encourages brothers to get to know each other better and have a good time after meeting. We

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The members of the Beta Psi chapter said farewell to the beloved

house this winter. Fortunately, a new one is on the horizon where future generations shall create stories that are just as memorable.

Packing, cleaning, and moving items into storage was quite an undertaking that occupied a fair amount of our time. Two pledges have decided to join us this spring semester and we are very anxious to learn more about them.

This is the second year that we are volunteering at a local middle school to assist students for Science Olympiad. We help children do projects from insect identification to robot building. The children are excited to be involved with these projects and we enjoy seeing

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Beta Chi brothers enjoying formal: Monal Ray, Amy Kuehl, Abby Matulewicz, Molly McConville, and Danelle Rollinger.

Beta Chi Brothers Jeff Prill and Katie Zwirchitz during activation week trivia. them succeed. Also, like every semester, we will be cooking a great meal for the Ronald McDonald House.

Ice-skating will turn into rollerblading as the snow gives way to grass. Many other fun activities are in the works as well, but for now we are just getting through the frigid days. Recognition must be made to Brother Michelle Soloman for organizing brothers to update our local ordinances. She has done the parliamentarian position justice.

—Brad Shaw

All of the Beta-Omega brothers who helped out at the Toy Drive gather for a group picture.

fiting children whose parents are currently undergoing chemotherapy at Temple Hospital. We bought a generous amount of toys with donations from brothers, fellow classmates and faculty members; wrapped them ourselves, and gave them out to children and their siblings. The newly inducted brothers of Beta Omega were the life of this generous occasion and were active participants in serving lunch and punch to all in attendance. Digging deep into our college budgets, we even raffled off a BMX bike.

Through the hard work of all the brothers, we were able to put smiles on the faces of many children right before the holiday season.

The brothers of Beta Omega are excited about this new semester in that it is full of new, exciting charitable events, as well as our old

favorites. We are thrilled about the expansion of our Spring Formal, hosted by , and , which we opened to the entire school this year. Profit from this year’s formal will be donated to Shriners Hospitals for Children.

Our chaplain and staff are actively planning and organizing this festive event for all students at the Temple University School of Pharmacy.

Another new event the chapter is hoping to accomplish this spring is treating children from the Temple Children’s Hospital to an afternoon Philly’s game.

Aspiring to strengthen the active brother and graduate alumni relationship, the brothers of Beta Omega are also hosting an alumni barbecue at the chapter house.

Guaranteed to be action packed, we hope to pass on Beta Omega tradi-

—Mohamed Fouad

Gamma Epsilon

University of Nebraska Founded 3/20/1920 Univ. of Nebraska College of Pharmacy 985025 Nebraska Medical Center Omaha, NE 68198

Spring is just around the corner for Gamma Epsilon and there are many big events in the works.

Hoops for Healing, our main philanthropy, is about to kick off its 11th year. We anticipate this year will be just as successful as previous years.

Camp Floyd Rogers for children with diabetes will continue to thrive with the help of proceeds from the tournament.

Gamma Epsilon is embarking on a new endeavor in developing a smoking cessation philanthropy.

Although we are only in the devel-

Beta Omega

Temple University Founded 5/22/1930 1247 W. Allegheny Avenue Philadelphia, PA 19133

In the traditional fashion, the brothers of Beta Omega ended this fall semester with a toy drive bene-

tions and memories to our new brothers, establishing precedents for future generations. On the same note, to encourage fellowship amongst active brothers, Beta Omega will host “Open House” at the chapter house every Friday this spring semester. “Open House” is time for both old and new brothers to come together and forge bonds that unite the Fraternity.

Beta Omega will continue planning more community events for this season, and expect to foster fraternal traditions that continue to embody the true meaning of Kappa Psi. Beta Omega wishes success to all brothers and chapters of Kappa Psi and hope all are living their semester to the fullest.

Brothers of Delta Beta 2008 Spring 2008

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opmental stages, we are very excited to get this philanthropy off the ground and see the benefits of our labor.

Although Gamma Epsilon is hard at work on many upcoming activities, we never forget to have fun! A group of brothers got together recently to support the local hockey team followed by a fun night on the town.

Fall 2008 Province VIII conclave is another great event Gamma Epsilon is busy working to put on.

The rapidly approaching event has brought all Kappa Psi brothers together to make it a sure triumph.

—Melissa Maiefski

Gamma Zeta

Samford University Founded 3/20/1935

Gamma-Epsilon brothers (L–R) Adam Smith, Sarah Cox, Angela Pantelogianis, and Mary Gargano having fun on the town.

800 Lakeshore Drive Birmingham, AL 35229

As spring quickly approaches, Gamma Zeta chapter has gotten off to a running start. This past January, we sent 10 brothers to the Province IV winter conclave in West Palm Beach, Florida. The weekend was much too short, but we had a blast! Most of all, we would like to extend a special thanks to all of the Delta Upsilon brothers who showed us such hospitality and a wonderful time. It was encouraging to see such a wonderful foundation of Kappa Psi brotherly support.

In January, we kicked off the semester with brand new committees and some exciting events planned. Already, we have had a dinner and bowling night, Valentine’s Day Bake Sale, and a trip to Birmingham’s very own— The McWane Center. Taking a trip back to our youth, we got to play with science gadgets from all over.

In the upcoming months, we have several fun events planned, including a movie night, playground build, and even a cookout.

As many of you know, February is National Heart Disease Awareness Month. Many of our brothers teamed up throughout the month to wear red on Fridays and raise awareness for this cause. In addition, some of our special committees are starting to plan another philanthropy event in order to aid our student relief fund. The annual “Pharmacy Carnival” is held in March, and all proceeds made from

Gamma Theta brothers at the fifth annual Wes McIntire Volley for Charity, benefiting the American Cancer Society. ticket sales and games go directly to a fund for students in need.

Lastly, the chapter is scheduled to help out Habitat for Humanity one Saturday in March.

—Brandy Hooper

Gamma Eta

University of Montana Founded 6/4/1920 University of Montana Dept. BMED, SB 244 Missoula, MT 59812

Last December, Gamma Eta chapter hosted a very successful Adopt-a-Family outreach program, collecting toys, clothes, and gifts for a local family in need. The program saw an outpouring of generosity from the school and the community, and allowed the family to celebrate a Christmas to remember.

The year 2008 started out with a

bang, with Gamma Eta hosting a classy welcome-back reunion party for the brothers. It was a fun-filled event, with brotherhood, camaraderie, and T-Bag’s famous salsa.

In February, the chapter also hosted a teacher-appreciation breakfast, with members serving up pancakes, sausage, fruit and coffee for the pharmacy staff and faculty. A big event for the semester was our chapter’s attendance at Province X in Pullman, Washington. With 14 brothers, Gamma Eta had the largest presence of all the chapters in Province X. Everybody had a great time sharing thoughts and ideas, as well as enjoying fraternal bonding with our brothers from around the Northwest. For the future, we are planning a quilt raffle, Buzz Cuts for Bachmeier fundraiser, and will help host a health fair at a local pow-wow. In all, it has been a fun first half of the year, and we are looking forward to more fun times to come. Go Grizz!

—Jessica Gieser & Mike Sulzbach

Gamma Theta

for upcoming events. The mobile unit is an RV used specifically for HIV testing and prevention education. It’s taken to health fairs, parades, and community events to provide awareness of HIV. We are also proud to announce our regent, Sean Hawkins, was elected Province VII Treasurer.

Sean is the first member of Gamma Theta to hold a Province office in several years. We are confident he will serve Province VII with the same dedication and enthusiasm as he does when leads Gamma Theta.

The annual Gamma Theta formal is on our calendar this semester as well. Brother Nicola Black has been busy planning a fun night out for members and guests at the Point Annex on the Country Club Plaza.

There’s no better way to celebrate such a great year.

We also have high hopes for the sixth annual Wes McIntire Memorial Volley for Charity to be held April 19. Brothers Rebecca Marsh and Tyler Kenney have devoted themselves to organizing the event, while all Gamma Theta members are pitching in getting donations for prizes, promotions and advertising, designing shirts and recruiting teams. All proceeds from the tournament go to the American Cancer Society in support of colon cancer prevention and awareness in the Kansas City area.

Volley for Charity is a huge event for us, and we are honored to be supported by our classmates, faculty, and the Kansas City community.

Our chapter is busier than ever this semester. We are planning fundraising events as well as coming up with new ways to get involved in the community and have a little fun in the process. We have some exciting projects in the works and look forward to updating everyone next issue.

—Amanda Neilsen

Gamma Iota

University of Missouri— Kansas City

University of Buffalo

Founded 5/17/1957

Founded 1/16/1921

School of Pharmacy 5005 Rockhill Road Kansas City, MO 64110-2499

Cooke Hall, North Campus Amherst, NY 14260

Gamma Theta started this semester with a little spring cleaning. In a special project with the Kansas City Free Health Clinic, brothers donated a Saturday afternoon to prepare the clinic’s mobile education unit

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Gamma Iota was proud to welcome 15 new brothers this year.

Congratulations Christopher Chan, Johnny Hon, Elissa Ostrander, Kristen Bayerl, Scott Wilson, Rob Seabury, Aniela Markut, Elizabeth Panfil, Clavin

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Gamma Kappa Brothers: (back) Jill Corbett and Danielle Graves, (middle) Cara Counter, Tasha Engelmeyer, and Tammy Berg, (bottom) Claudia McIntosh and Amanda Muir pause for a picture during the White Elephant Christmas Party at the Kappa Psi house.

2007 Gamma Iota Pledge Committee.

Meaney, Alicia Harrison, Esther Huang, Pulkit Bhuptani, Saneel Kulkarni, Joe Marino and Tom Latuga. With the help of our dedicated pledgemaster, Greg Gotie, his pledge committee, and the outstanding support of all the brothers at Gamma Iota, we have added 15 dedicated brothers to the Fraternity.

Last fall, Gamma Iota participated in several community service pro-

Buffalo News Kids Day and March of Dimes.

The election process is also in full swing, with several nominations already in place. It’s always exciting to see the future of the chapter taking form. Planning for the annual end-of-the-year banquet has also begun. Last year, dinner was held at the scenic Top of the Falls restaurant located at Terrapin Point on Goat Island in Niagara Falls.

The restaurant offered a breathtaking view of the Horseshoe Falls and the Canadian skyline and will be a difficult location to top, but the brothers have a few exciting locations already staked out. Gamma Iota looks forward to completing another school year and beginning next year’s pledge process.

—Nicole Cieri

Gamma Kappa

South Dakota State University Founded 10/17/1958

jects including Yoplait pink lids to fight breast cancer, pop tab collections for Ronald McDonald House, a Winter Food Drive, Cooks for Kids, and Adopt-a-Family, to name a few. To wrap up the semester, the brothers held their annual Toys for Tots benefit. Brothers brought new, unwrapped toys and a potluck item for admission to the party and then celebrated the end of the semester with good food, good drink and

good friends. A few SUNY—Buffalo faculty brothers and Buffalo Grad brothers were also in attendance to join in on the fun. The best parts of the night included the huge mountain of toys for children and the secret Santa “steal-the-gift” exchange that often gets quite competitive among the brothers, but all in all was a good time. This spring, Gamma Iota looks forward to several new service projects, including

Gamma Theta brothers volunteering for the Kansas City Free Health Clinic: Jimmy Benjamin, Mary Jane Chandler, Lindsay Cunningham, Cassie Koetting, Kelsey Carter, Brenton Foresee, Tyler Kenney, Sean Hawkins, Patrycja Wilczynska, and Dr. Maqual Graham.

Spring 2008

College of Pharmacy Box 2202C Brookings, SD 57007

The brothers of Gamma Kappa would like to welcome our newly initiated brothers: Ashley Ball, Megan Binger, Courtney Conaster, Jenna DeMers, Brian Fisk, Craig Fjeldheim, Ryan Fox, Kathy Glanzer, Kyle Heer, Ashley Herzog, Matt Hines, Wesleigh Jastorff, Kara Kaiser, Kasey Kirschenmann, Ann Knonechne, Kristen Kramer, Courtney Larson, Shawn Murphy, Mallory Onisk, Tiffany Politz, Kristen Remund, Robert Sayles, Jessica Scroeder, Jason Stubbe, Tyler Van Metre, Carissa Vice, Chelsea Wecker, Beth Wienmeister and Kristin Wulff. Initiation was held on December 4 with a dinner at the Days Inn afterwards. The outstanding pledge award was given to Brother Shawn Murphy who exemplified the qualities of a brother.

Our annual Penny Wars competition was once again a great success.

The P1 class defeated the P2 class by raising $588 with the help of the P3 class. The total raised was just under $1,000. We donated the money to the Women’s Domestic Abuse Shelter in Brookings. They used the money to hold a very eventful Christmas party. We would like to thank Brother Dr. Gareth Davies for his performance of a Welsh Santa during the cookie and

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milk party held for the winning P1 class. We also held a white elephant party, just before Christmas break, to let off some steam before we prepared for finals.

Gamma Kappa brothers participated in a competitive dodgeball tournament. We had two teams who unfortunately had to compete against one another. One team reached the semifinals, but was unable to make it to the finals. The money raised went to the Children’s Miracle Network StateA-Thon, with the winners donating their prize money back to the charity.

Our regent, Mathew Macziewski, competed in the Mr. SDSU pageant. He was crowned Mr. SDSU and Mr. Congeniality after competing in lip-sync, school spirit, and formal wear competition.

Gamma Kappa chose the CMN State-A-Thon as their charity. The money raised from admissions will be donated to our charity in Kappa Psi’s name. The Gamma Kappa brothers performed cholesterol screenings at the SDSU Wellness Fair. We had lots of help from brothers during the fair, especially P4 Brother Mike Schaub who volunteered to perform the screenings throughout the day. The testing supplies were donated by Lewis Drug and the proceeds went to the American Heart Association. The P3 brothers have kept busy stuffing backpacks for underprivileged children in Sioux Falls. The backpacks provide food for the school children during the weekends.

Upcoming events for Gamma Kappa include pledging three more brothers in early April, highway cleanup, and Glory Days in preparation for conclave. We will also continue to work towards making the Province VIII conclave a success.

—Mathew Macziewski

Gamma Nu

University of the Pacific Founded 9/17/1960 236 W. Stadium Drive Stockton, CA 95204

This year we decided to start a new tradition called the Giving Tree. Families in need request an item they would enjoy. We put each request up on an ornament and adorn them on a Christmas tree.

Gracious volunteers can take an ornament and help buy the gift presented. It was a big success with all the ornaments taken and knowing

Gamma Kappa pledges, who are now brothers, helped clean up the yard by raking leaves, picking up sticks, and taking out the trash during pledge week. that we helped bring cheer for the holidays.

Our biggest and most glamorous event of the year is none other than Rush Dinner. Everyone dusts off their dancing shoes and dresses to impress. There were over 30 alumni in attendance from all over California just to make this important event. We were even delighted to have our very own Grand Regent Lawrence Brown grace us with his presence. Everyone had a wonderful time. There was great food, stunning gowns, and lots of memories to be retold. We only wish that events like these would happen more often.

We held our winter retreat in what seemed to be a barren desert this year. It’s not as peculiar as you think, but rather it was our paint balling retreat. What is better than a bunch of guys who know nothing about paint balling and are armed with guns? It’s pure excitement!

Most of the brothers knew nothing about paint balling and on top of that, they rented us the worst guns possible. All these ingredients made for a very long day. As the end of the day neared, we may have come home with welts on our bodies, but it was an experience of a lifetime.

—Jonathan Chan

Gamma Chi brothers Katie Georges, Eric Tedeschi, Erin DeDoes, and Michelle Ruiter enjoy a rush dessert.

Gamma Pi

St. Louis College of Pharmacy Founded 3/19/1946 4588 Parkview Place St. Louis, MO 63110

Gamma Pi has been very busy this semester. The major renovations of the chapter house have been completed. The bathroom was moved to give more room for the dance floor. Cable and internet was installed along with a new washer

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and dryer that were donated by the graduate chapter. Along with renovating our house, we have also taken a look at our philanthropic efforts and have decided to add some new events this year. Along with our usual AIDS awareness event, poison prevention campaign, and our participation in a disability project on campus, we are going to start offering many different types of health screenings.

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Brothers Josh Halporin, Elena Roe, and Diana Ursoiu relax at Gamma Chi’s professional rush event at the house.

Gamma Pi Brothers Sean Howes, John Hamilton (St. Louis Grad), Ian Rich, and Sean Jewell at Province VII banquet.

We have many fellowship events coming up. We are organizing a golf tournament on August 16, so get those clubs out and join us on the course. Our annual float trip is scheduled for the weekend of July 25–27; we are already planning for a floatin’ good time. Both activities guarantee a lively, relaxing time to be had by all! If you would like more information about these events, you can contact Ian Rich at irich@stlcop.edu. We are also planning some fun events to give the first-year students a chance to get out of the dorms and expose them to fraternity life. We are planning a Wacky Tacky Prom Night at the house. Other activities for first-year students are being considered at this time.

Gamma Pi would like to thank Delta Pi for hosting a great Province VII meeting this year in Dallas. We were pleased to receive the man-mile award this year. We had another honor this year— Anastasia Roberts was elected to Province Historian. If you did not have a chance to attend Province VII, make plans for next year because we will be hosting Province VII in St. Louis. We have already started kicking around ideas to make it a hard-working, fun-filled weekend for attendees.

We would like attendance to be the highest ever so start making plans to visit “The Lou.” —Anastasia Roberts

Gamma Rho

University of New Mexico Founded 2/16/1948 College of Pharmacy 2502 Marble NE Albuquerque, NM 87131

Gamma Rho celebrated 60 years of brotherhood at the University of New Mexico College of Pharmacy.

We honored our anniversary with a social gathering that provided food, fun and dancing. The majority of

our brothers were in attendance for this event, which even included a Kappa Psi birthday cake.

Right before the holiday season, we held a successful silent auction that raised more than $1,000 for our chapter. We auctioned off salon appointments, ski lift tickets, a day of “slave labor” from Gamma Rho brothers, an iPod, and gift certificates to many popular local restaurants. For the spring semester, we sponsored a Valentine’s Day Gram fundraiser where brothers played Cupid for fellow students and faculty at the College of Pharmacy.

Brothers participated in several health screenings this semester including the KOB Health Fair and Fiesta de Flu. We were able to screen patients for diabetes, cholesterol, blood pressure and osteoporosis, and offer flu shots to those who were interested. The KOB Health Fair is one of Albuquerque’s annual health awareness weekends, and we were able to screen and educate thousands of people.

In the coming months, Gamma Rho is planning a ski/snowboarding weekend getaway to enjoy each other’s company on the slopes without the stresses of school. We are also planning to do another philanthropy event at the Battered Women’s Shelter, with whom we have worked in the past. As always, we will continue to promote the ideals of Kappa Psi and celebrate our Brotherhood throughout the spring semester!

—Alexandra Grubbs

Gamma Upsilon

University of Arizona Founded 3/20/1950 P.O. Box 210207 1703 East Mabel Tucson, AZ 85721

It hasn’t been an eventful semester thus far for Gamma Upsilon at the University of Arizona. We

Gamma-Omega brothers at the Pledge Spaghetti Dinner: (L–R back) Dr. E. Kim Fifer, Khoi Vo, Josh Winningham, Matt Hambuchen, Alexandra Stowe, Anne Marie Beckwith, Lauren Briggs, LeeAnne Pipkin, (L–R middle) Heather Wells, Lisa Hatfield, Catherine Hill, Erin Beth Hays, (L-R front) Kristina Ta, and Sara Mueller.

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ended fall semester 2007 with our first annual Kappa Psi Salvation Army Toy Drive. The competition among classes, faculty, and staff helped us donate more than 100 items. We rewarded all of those who participated with cookies in January.

We began spring semester 2008 with a percentage night at Macayo’s, a Mexican restaurant.

The restaurant donated 20 percent of their sales to our organization.

The rest of the semester looks to be packed with fun! Events include our annual March Madness Raffle to benefit the Arizona Cancer Center, sloshball, many social events, and our end-of-the-year banquet.

—Kwyn Forbregd

Gamma Chi

Ferris State University Founded 5/6/1952 119 S. Warren Avenue Big Rapids, MI 49307

The Gamma Chi chapter continues its academic, community, and social activities as we approach the stretch run of the ’07–’08 school year. Ferris State’s Interfraternity Council recently recognized 12 of the Kappa Psi brothers for their outstanding GPAs for the fall 2007 semester. Congratulations to Brothers Erin DeDoes and Josh Halperin on their 4.0 GPAs, as well as to all of the Gamma Chi brothers who work hard to make Kappa Psi the academic leaders of IFC! Gamma Chi has once again opened up the chapter house to Big Brothers Big Sisters in Big Rapids to spread holiday cheer. We will soon be following up last semester’s Halloween Haunted House with an Easter celebration. Also, Brother Michelle Ruiter collaborated with Ferris State pharmacy students on another of our annual service events, volunteering for Special Olympics in Lansing. Finally, Brothers Erin DeDoes and Katie Georges coordinated a very successful first annual Christmas party for the families of WISE, a local women’s shelter. Donated presents for the children, gift baskets for the mothers, and a special visit from Santa and his helper (Brothers Josh Ghiringhelli and Lindsey Berlinghoff, respectively) made for a very warm December night. The Gamma Chi chapter has enjoyed working with all of these kids, who

Delta Delta Brothers Jason Tam, Kyana Stewart, Dr. Louis Williams, and Thomas Key. challenge our creative side while keeping us young at heart.

The bonds of the Gamma Chi chapter have been strengthened by recent Brother Nights. Surprisingly competitive no-stakes, no-limit Texas Hold’em, as well as a broomball match each semester, help us blow off some steam while staying tight-knit. There is no doubt that our newest initiate, Brother Sarah Barrigar, has helped foster this family spirit. Her encouragement and laughter are consistent bright spots at the chapter house. The brothers look forward to pledges Philip Kociemba and Adam Tedeschi getting to know the Gamma Chi family and sharing the Kappa Psi tradition.

Last but not least, the Gamma Chi chapter looks forward to spending more time with our alumni this semester. This year, our spring “unformal” will be taking place at Craig’s Cruisers in Grand Rapids and at the chapter house. We are also planning a house fix-up date with our alumni. The chapter would like to thank the alumni for helping us make sure the house will continue to provide Gamma Chi a place for our shared history, ritual, brotherhood, and traditions, as well as a home to many of our brothers.

—James Mikula

Gamma Psi

University of Georgia Founded 3/16/1953 School of Pharmacy 3001 Mercer University Drive Atlanta, GA 30341

The past few months have been very productive and fruitful for the brothers of Gamma Psi. After helping introduce the incoming P1s

Delta Delta Brothers Dr. Louis Williams and Tommy Ho.

with our annual Kappa Kabana party, we held two blood drives in conjunction with the Red Cross and met our goals in pints of blood each time. The brothers were also able to offer their services at various volunteer events such as the Atlanta Strong Legs Benefit and the Alzheimer’s Walk this past winter. In early January, we attended the Province IV conclave in West Palm Beach, Florida, where Brothers Shirish Parbhoo and Jonathan Hamrick were elected as Provincial Newsletter Editor and Parliamentarian, respectively. We also were able to hold a very successful ski trip where the Gamma Psi brothers and other brothers from chapters in our Province were able to take a few days off and enjoy the snow and slopes at Big Bear Lodge in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. As the second semester rounds up, the brothers are looking forward to an enriching pledge process and our annual Founder’s Day Banquet in March.

—Ubong Umoren

Gamma Omega

University of Arkansas Founded 5/28/1955 College of Pharmacy 4301 West Markham Little Rock, AR 72205

It has been a busy year so far for the brothers at Gamma Omega.

We were excited to initiate eight new members into Kappa Psi: “Kristina” Duyen Ta, Alexandra Stowe, Sara Mueller, Khoi Vo, Matt Hambuchen, Josh Winningham, Lisa Hatfield and LeeAnne Pipkin. Our new brothers have much to offer our chapter,

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and we are excited about the energy and enthusiasm they bring to the chapter. After initiation, we had our traditional spaghetti supper social where we all got to know our newly initiated members and share our thoughts about the chapter.

During the past months, we have also been busy with fundraising and community service projects.

Our Kappa Psi Chili Pie is a fundraiser we have organized several times this winter with much success. Our famous chili pie always draws a big crowd and is a favorite with the other students and faculty on campus. In addition to fundraising, our chapter has been busy donating time and services to our local Habitat for Humanity.

Gamma Omega had two brothers attend Province VII in Dallas this past February. We are proud to say our chapter was awarded the ‘Most Improved Chapter’ title. We hope to keep the momentum going with our future projects and look forward to the leadership of our new brothers.

—Anne Marie Beckwith

Delta Beta

Southwestern Oklahoma State University Founded 3/13/1963 100 Campus Drive Weatherford, OK 73096

It has been a while since the Delta Beta chapter has given an update as to the things going on at Southwestern Oklahoma State University College of Pharmacy.

We recently held our spring backto-school social and pledge drive.

We were extremely excited to see the renewed interest in Kappa Psi

Photo Album Kappa Psi brothers care for others in their communities.

Knoxville Psi brothers working hard for Habitat for Humanity.

Gamma Kappa Brothers Katie Bremmon and Laura Viereck stuff backpacks for underprivileged children in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

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Gamma Theta Brother Tyler Kenney cleaning the Kansas City Free Health Clinic’s mobile education unit.

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here at SWOSU, as we had 16 pledges come to enjoy some brisket and learn about our Fraternity. We are excited about the future of Kappa Psi at SWOSU. Toward the end of the fall semester, Kappa Psi faced off against Phi Delta Chi in the annual Hygieia Bowl. This full contact football game has been played every year since the 1970s as a fundraiser for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. The weather did not cooperate at all and very few people showed up, but we had a good time and raised some money for a great cause.

The spring semester is when we have our major charity fundraiser.

Every year, the Delta Beta chapter sponsors a golf tournament in order to raise more money for St. Jude’s.

Last year we were able to raise $1,500 for St. Jude’s and look to increase that number this year. The golf tournament will be played on April 26 at Sugar Creek Canyon Golf Course in Hinton, Oklahoma.

We would love for any brothers who wish to play in this tournament to contact us and get a team entered. Regent Weston Lovell can be contacted by sending an email to deltabeta@kappapsi.org.

—David Cannon

Delta Epsilon brothers at Meet the Pharmacy Greeks.

Delta Delta

University of Houston Founded 2/28/1963 College of Pharmacy 4800 Calhoun Boulevard., 141-SR2 Houston, TX 77204-5515

The brothers of Delta Delta cannot contain their excitement! Delta Delta was awarded CHAPTER OF THE YEAR and BEST CHAPTER REPORT at the Province VII meeting held February 15–17 in Dallas, Texas. We want to thank each and every brother for making this accomplishment possible, the 29 brothers who attended Province, and Dr. Louis Williams for guiding us every step of the way. This was a great success for our chapter, and we hope to make it an annual tradition.

The brothers of Delta Delta still have a lot of work ahead of them.

We will be having our Spring Formal on March 8 at Maggiano’s Little Italy. This will be the first formal in which we try to reconnect with all of Delta Delta’s alumni. The Graduate Relations Committee has started a big effort to reestablish

Beta Epsilon Brothers Maureen Baxter, Brittney March, and Ashley Varhol at Ritual Movie Night. alumni connections. During December, they drafted a letter signed by Dr. Williams and Thomas Key (our current regent) that was individually addressed to each alumnus. Accompanying these letters was the semester alumni newsletter. Many of these packages were hand-delivered by several brothers. The Committee would like to thank Thomas Key, Kyana Stewart, Tina Hwang, Jason Tam, Clay Boyd, William Chau, Daniel Ortiz, Jeremy Garcia, and Stephanie Weightman for taking time to personally deliver these packages to alumni.

We are also working very diligently to plan the first Kappa Psi Walk-A-Thon to benefit the Thomas Street AIDS Clinic. The Walk-AThon will be held April 19 at Tom Bass Park. Our goal is to raise

Craft time at the Ronald McDonald House. (L-R): Delta Zeta Brothers Randy Shaw, Amanda Drevyanko, and Megan Brockman.

$5,000 and help Thomas Street Clinic fulfill things that they are no longer able to accomplish because of monetary shortcomings. We will be making this an annual event to help out a different organization each year. We want to thank our brother, Kyana Stewart, for heading the project and all the hard work she’s put into getting the chapter organized to take on such an endeavor.

Delta Delta would like to congratulate the Patient Counseling Winner, Kandi Icenhower, who will

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be representing the University of Houston College of Pharmacy and Kappa Psi at the APhA Annual Meeting in San Diego, California.

Best of luck at annual, Kandi! A congratulation goes out to Aimee Villalon for completing her first Houston Marathon on January 13.

Delta Delta is also very proud of the new members of Phi Lambda Sigma: Angel Hinojosa, Shahana Quadri, Jason Tam, Aimee Villalon and Stephanie Weightman. Job well done, brothers!

—Aimee Villalon

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Psi Brothers (L–R) Carmen Smith, Paul Moore, and Carrie Harris dressed in their best Christmas garb for the annual Christmas party.

Delta Zeta at the Ronald McDonald House. (L–R): Sara Kehe and Emily Smith.

Delta Epsilon

Delta Zeta

Duquesne University

University of Iowa

Founded 2/24/1967

Founded 12/12/1968

600 Forbes Avenue 304 Bayer Learning Center Pittsburgh, PA 15282-0000

College of Pharmacy 110 Pharmacy Bldg.

Iowa City, IA 52242

Delta Epsilon has been keeping busy with events such as pizza socials, Ritual Video Night, Meet the Pharmacy Greeks, and pharmacy open house.

Our largest undertaking so far this semester was our Healthy Heart project that took place on Valentine’s Day. For this project, we involved faculty brothers, educated the general university population, provided an opportunity for blood pressure screening, as well as raised funds for the American Heart Association.

Brothers screened blood pressure for 44 people ranging from university staff, faculty, and students from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. We handed out brochures outlining heart healthy lifestyles and displayed an educational PowerPoint on heart health during the screening. The project was a great success and was well received by the Duquesne community.

Currently in the works for the rest of the semester is a service project with Carson City Towers, a local assisted living facility, an oncampus Easter Egg hunt service project, and Spring Formal.

—Alexis Gaggini

At the end of November, we had the privilege of initiating 15 new pledges into the Kappa Psi Pharmaceutical Fraternity: Jen Carver, Emily Douglass,

Elizabeth Frazier, Christina Gaard, Audra Hudrilk, Sara Kehe, Dana McDougall, Meghan Piepho, Kelly Richeal, Katie Rollinger, Randy Shaw, Candi Sturges, Ben Sutti and Tian Zhang. They are a very energetic group of students and full of new ideas for future activities.

Our Education Committee has been working on training the new members on how to take a person’s blood pressure. In March, we will be holding numerous hypertension screenings at Wal-Mart and CVS to help raise awareness of this very

common health issue. Our Fundraising Committee raised quite a bit of money by holding a pizza lunch for all students at the College of Pharmacy. We are also trying to come up with new designs to sell Kappa Psi apparel.

The Philanthropy Committee will be holding a Ronald McDonald House Crafty “Funness” Night where the kids will make cookies and do crafts. In addition, Delta Zeta will be participating in the March bowl-a-thon. This will be a good time for everyone to get together and bowl for a great cause.

Delta Lambda brothers party down at the Brookfield Nursing Home Valentine’s Day Dance.

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Delta Nu actives get together to decorate a lounge on campus with lights, ornaments, and a Kappa Psi poster to spread Kappa Phi cheer during the holiday season.

Delta Lambda brothers gather for the signing of the Brie Ann Reynolds Memorial Scholarship.

At the beginning of February, we had a number of members participate in Dance Marathon. This was a very wonderful and rewarding time because the organization reached our goal of raising over ONE MILLION DOLLARS for kids with cancer! Great job, dancers.

Awards for members of Delta Zeta were recently handed out to the following individuals: Megan Brockman for “Most Active Executive Member,� Matt Witry for “Most Active Non-Executive Member,� Tony Nguyen, Alisha Picht and Emily Smith for “Most Active Philanthropy Member,� and Karen Hora for her hard work as Conclave Chair. —Ashley Kessler

Delta Lambda

Campbell University Founded 4/23/1988 School of Pharmacy P.O. Box 1090 Buies Creek, NC 27506

Several Delta Lambda brothers attended the December ASHP Midyear Meeting in Las Vegas. Our Delta Lambda family expanded on January 17 when Brother Thora Ann Brown welcomed her daughter Kadence into the world. P1 student Ashley Barnes is bravely pledging alone this spring. This semester we are focusing as a chapter on strengthening our fraternal bonds and expanding our service commitments.

On January 26, Delta Lambda was recognized by the Autism

Society of North Carolina, Carrabus County Chapter for our contribution to the James P. Garrison education grant. Delta Lambda held a Valentine’s Day dance for the residents of Brookfield Nursing Home in Lillington, North Carolina. Both the residents and brothers had an excellent time celebrating together.

Planning is underway for the creation of an annual Cystic Fibrosis Walk, the first of which we hope to hold in fall 2008. Right now, recruitment and fundraising are being done for the Campbell University Relay for Life. Delta Lambda is part of the pharmacy school team competing with the Campbell University School of Law in a friendly fundraising competition.

Delta Lambda recently signed an endowment agreement with Campbell University to found the Brie Ann Reynolds Memorial Scholarship. This is the first time that a student group at Campbell University has entered into this type of commitment with the university. The first award will be given in April at Parent’s Day. Eight Delta Lambda brothers traveled to Washington, D.C., for the Province III spring meeting.

Delta Kappa did a great job hosting the event and we all had an excellent time. October 17 and 18 were chosen as the dates for the Province III fall meeting to be hosted by Delta Lambda. —Dana Fasanella

Delta Lambda Brother Robbie Stebbins shows off his dance moves during the Valentine’s Day dance at the Brookfield Nursing Home.

Delta Nu

Midwestern University Founded 3/12/1994 College of Pharmacy 555 31st Street Downer’s Grove, IL 60515

Active brothers of Delta Nu spread joy this holiday season by decorating the campus with Kappa Psi cheer. Everyone came together to light up the room with bright shining lights, promoted our Fraternity with Kappa Psi posters, and hung Kappa Psi stockings above the fireplace during this holiday season. The event turned out to be successful with many brothers attending and attracting much of the campus to see what Kappa Psi is all about—Brotherhood.

Furthermore, the pledging process at Delta Nu turned out to be a great success, and we initiated 22 new members to join the Fraternity. These new pledges

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worked hard to be initiated. They did volunteer work such as cleaning up the highway, creating a booth at the annual campus Halloween Fest, and helped out with the Midwestern University Health Fair. They also worked hard on their fundraiser and sold Kappa Psi jackets as well as put on a bake sale. These new pledges are promising actives that will assimilate the honor of being in this Fraternity.

Delta Nu members have worked hard to ensure unity with the Fraternity by holding lunches for everyone to spend time together or other various social events such as bowling and a bonfire. They also have spent their time volunteering at hospitals, helping kids make Tshirts, and at health fairs testing bone mineral density. Overall, this year has been quite successful for Delta Nu. —Mansi Shah

Delta Xi

Shenandoah University Founded 9/13/1997 Bernard J. Dunn School of Pharmacy 1460 University Drive HPB Building Winchester, VA 22601

Delta Xi greeted the New Year with Fraternity Week! As our tradition continued on, brothers of Delta Xi threw a marvelous luau for prospective pledges. Delicious Hawaiian dishes such as oven kalua pork and Hawaiian chicken were served. Brothers also offered vegetarian dishes, potato salad, fresh fruits, and desserts. The night was filled with events both fun and informative. Brothers and prospective pledges were given a chance to

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Delta Xi Brothers Stephanie and Bo showing off their Project Runway creation with grass skirt.

Smiling Delta Xi brothers after a successful luau. schedule to put forth a very educational and helpful Chapter Development Seminar. The first half of the seminar was directed towards the brothers and the other half was for the Delta Xi pledge class. The seminar was motivational to all the brothers who attended. —Cindy Quejada

Delta Omicron

Wilkes University

Founded 11/7/1997 Nesbitt School of Pharmacy Wilkes-Barre, PA 18766

Delta Xi Brother Paul Nguyen, Pledge Jasmeet Kalsi, and Brother Jeanette Kao presenting the Vial of Life Program at the Apple Blossom Wellness Festival in Winchester, Virginia. know each other with our own version of “I’ve Never,� a speed dating game. The night was capped with a thrilling game of limbo. Delta Xi extended their bids on 12 potential brothers: Jin Chen, Michelle Choi, Aleena Mahal, Esther Lee, Gunjan Shah, Shamika Pryor, Helen Park, Heli Patel, Jasmeet Kalsi, Shalisa Salla, and Choua Vang.

The very first Big and Little event was our annual String Night. After the pledges successfully untangled hundreds and hundreds of yards of string, they found out the identity of their Bigs. It was a lot of hard work for the pledges but a whole lot of fun for the brothers. The Bigs

took their Littles out to eat dinner at the new Thai restaurant in town.

Both the brothers and pledges had a wonderful evening.

Social events for brothers and pledges were cancelled three times due to the horrible weather conditions. Fortunately, the weather cleared for the Apple Blossom Wellness Festival, which was the first philanthropic event for the spring semester. Delta Xi presented the Vial of Life Program for residents of Winchester, Virginia, with the help of the pledges.

We would like to thank Gamma Psi alumnus Dr. Marvin Smith for taking the time from his busy

The spring 2008 semester has gotten off to a good start for Kappa Psi at Wilkes University. We are happy to have 10 new P1 brothers and one new P2 brother joining us.

In January, Kappa Psi took part in many school-wide events such as a Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins hockey game, bowling with the Luzerne County Pharmacists Association, the pharmacy ball, and a volley ball tournament which Kappa Psi hosted. We have been involved in numerous community service activities already this semester, including osteoporosis education at local nursing homes, helping APhA conduct diabetes screenings, as well as donating, collecting and packaging personal hygiene and winter clothing items as part of a “backpack project� for a local free clinic.

The brothers of Kappa Psi have been donating their time to our newly established community service project at a nearby nursing

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home, the Heritage House. At the Heritage House, brothers play Bingo, make crafts, sing karaoke, give manicures, serve snacks, and play trivia with the residents several times a month.

We are looking forward to the Spring Formal on April 12 at the Waterfront in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, where, for the first time, we will have the installation of our new officers and awards presentation. We will also be hosting our annual versus faculty softball game and enjoying a WilkesBarre/Scranton Yankees baseball game on April 24. —Tracy Mertz

Delta Pi

Texas Tech University Founded 11/14/1997 School of Pharmacy 1300 S. Coulter Street Amarillo, TX 79106

Delta Pi would first like to express our extreme gratitude towards our Province chair planning committee Brothers Megan Brown, Sam Park, and James Lee for all of their hard work, time, and effort on such a grand Province VII. There was a greater than anticipated turnout, and it was a great pleasure to see our Province VII brothers under one roof. Thanks to everybody who made it and to those who wanted to be there but could not.

In January, we had a birthday bowling night for our brothers. We also competed against our faculty

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members and even though we lost miserably, we still managed to have a really good time. We also are anticipating an end-of-the-schoolyear Kappa Psi bash to be held in downtown Amarillo.

For community service, our brothers volunteered at the Amarillo Habitat for Humanity.

Instead of the usual painting and hammering, our brothers were needed in the HFH storage shop.

Here, we cleaned and organized the shop for better accessibility.

Congratulations to our brothers, Catherine Njehu and Mr. and Mrs. Rex Gueffroy, on their first expected little ones (both expecting precious baby boys).

—Andrea Haynes

Delta Rho

Nova Southeastern University Founded 11/13/1998 1420 NW 86th Terrace Pembroke Pines, FL 33024

The Delta Rho chapter is proud to announce that we are now 19 brothers stronger. This recent addition to our family has accelerated the dedication and ambition of our chapter. Our brothers have continued to advance the field of pharmacy through many other organizations as well. We are proud to announce that the following three brothers were inducted into the National Pharmacy Leadership Society, Phi Lambda Sigma, this year: Amy Everitt, Melissa Ortega, and Ryan Ritchie. We would also like to recognize the brothers who placed in the APhA-ASP Patient Counseling Competition: Melinda Deen (third place), Amy Everitt (second place), and Amber Wojack (eighth place).

The Delta Rho brothers are always proud to participate in philanthropy projects. On three separate occasions, we volunteered at the national headquarters of the Multiple Sclerosis Foundation. To express our support for the American Heart Association, our chapter dressed in red clothing on “National Wear Red Day.” Every few months, our brothers donate their time to road cleanups along the street that we have adopted.

This past weekend, we set up a Heart Disease Awareness booth at the Nova Southeastern University Community Fest. It is very important to us that we give back to the community in which we reside.

Our chapter also values every chance that we are able to meet with brothers outside of Delta Rho. In November, we invited Brother Dr. Marvin Smith to speak at our Chapter Development Seminar. We were pleased to hear that he accepted our offer again this year. His true love for Kappa Psi and his ability to motivate others is a powerful combination from which we are all able to benefit. The following week, several of our brothers traveled to Las Vegas for the ASHP Midyear Meeting. While at the meeting, we attended the Kappa Psi reception, which provided a great opportunity to meet brothers from across the nation. Before returning to school this January, our Province brothers were reunited at the winter conclave in West Palm Beach. The Delta Upsilon chapter went above and beyond to provide us with such an unforgettable experience. We also enjoyed having the Delta Upsilon brothers accompany us to Bodies, the exhibition in our hometown, Fort Lauderdale.

One of our most memorable events this year was Crossover, which we celebrated during Presidents Day weekend. We traveled to St. Petersburg where the brothers and “soon to be” brothers stayed in log cabins. Everyone experienced a night they will never forget! We later concluded the Crossover Ceremony at our school campus with a semiformal dinner,

Delta Xi Bigs Kim Nguyen and Beth Zuhr with their Little Shamika Pryor (center) after String Night. where we exchanged paddles for jerseys as we honored each new brother.

—Amy Everitt

Delta Sigma

Midwestern University— Glendale Founded 9/9/2000 College of Pharmacy—Glendale 19555 N. 59th Avenue Glendale, AZ 85308

Another quarter has ended for the Delta Sigma brothers and we are taking some much needed rest.

The quarter was a busy one, full of

class work and pledge events.

There were lots of exciting pledging events: a mixture of community service and social events. The pledges’ commitment was challenged with projects such as memos to be translated from Greek and a Jeopardy game to test their knowledge of the Fraternity. The pledges also participated in a scavenger hunt, a night of bowling, and some very creative and humorous drug counseling skits. Our chapter also dedicated time to volunteering at Habitat for Humanity and the PF

Delta Rho Brothers Rhona Singh, Danielle Talleri, Amy Montes, Tami Houser, Ryan Ritchie, Nicole Storm Lamb, Molly Hicks, and Jessi Hoon dressed in red on “National Wear Red Day” to support the American Heart Association.

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Delta Rho Little/Big Brothers Angela Hernandez and Amy Everitt holding a “mini-paddle” at the Crossover dinner.

Delta Rho brothers volunteered at the national headquarters of the Multiple Sclerosis Foundation. Volunteers include Ryan Ritchie, Amy Everitt, Jessi Hoon, Jun Huang, Tami Houser, Shannon Piatek, Elise Manee, Amber Wojack, and Molly Hicks.

Chang’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon.

The quarter ended with a very nice initiation ceremony for the 39 new brothers. We are very excited about the next generation of brothers and look forward to working with them over the next year. Up next, our brothers are preparing for the visit to Stockton, California, for the next Province meeting.

—Erin Carey

Delta Rho Little/Big Brothers Veronica Zolotushkina and Kristin Cipolla exchange paddle for jersey at the Crossover Ceremony dinner.

Delta Tau

University of Southern Nevada Founded 1/10/2003 Nevada College of Pharmacy 11 Sunset Way Henderson, NV 89014

The Brothers of Delta Tau had a great end to 2007 with several community events and fun-filled winter festivities. Brother Ashley Isom and

Delta Phi brothers Gwen Le, Thanh Le, Fauzia Khan, Linda Tang, and Yolanda Dickey at the Lunar New York-themed pledge party.

her honorary canine brothers participated in the Las Vegas Santa Run where over 7,000 people gathered in downtown Las Vegas to raise money for Opportunity Village, a local charity that raises money for people with disabilities.

Delta Tau brothers also bonded with Ice Skating at Lake Las Vegas and a Christmas Bowling Night.

Brothers also participated with the

Drug Abuse Awareness Team (DAAT) to educate middle school students about the risks of prescription drug abuse. After three weeks off for winter break, brothers were eager to get together and celebrate Delta Tau’s fifth anniversary on January 10 at TGI Friday’s. Delta Tau hosted a Super Bowl Party at Brother Margo’s house. In early February, we held an ’80s Skating Night where brothers dressed up in ’80s gear and roller skated at a local rink. Delta Tau has many philanthropic events on the horizon, including serving food at a local shelter and more DAAT presentations at other local middle schools.

First-, second- and third-year brothers are looking forward to attending the Province meeting in Stockton at University of Pacific.

—Jennifer Smith

Delta Phi brothers Justin Cho and Tim Bassell find out whose Kung-Fu is stronger.

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Delta Phi

University of CaliforniaSan Diego Founded 8/8/2003 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla, CA 92093-09657

The chill of the San Diego winter saw the Delta Phi brothers and Zeta pledge class embracing each other not only for warmth but to learn the ways of Kappa Psi brotherhood.

With the conclusion of an exciting rush period last quarter, the brothers threw a Hollywood themed pinning party on November 29 to congratulate the pledges on their first steps towards becoming a Kappa Psi brother. The Zeta pledges and their big bros became the celebrities of the night walking down the red carpet into the party as specially trained Delta Phi security members struggled to hold back the throngs of crazed fans and paparazzi. Throughout the night, movie themed games such as Pin the Oscar on the Actor, movie trivia, charades, and good old-fashioned banter on favorite movies gave the pledges their first taste of the pledge process that would leave them hungering for more.

And more they would have. With the New Year still fresh in our minds, we decided to host a new pledge event, the Interview Party.

On the night of January 10, the Kappa Psi brothers and Zeta pledge class gathered on the familiar ground of their first-year classroom.

The night began with a game of “Point & Shoot” where brothers and pledges struggled to see who could name each other the fastest once the sheets dividing them were dropped.

With everyone in good spirits after such a rousing game, the pledges and brothers divided themselves up into smaller groups and began their conversations on randomly chosen topics. Over cheekwarming hot cocoa and cookies, the groups discussed subjects like favorite things and embarrassing moments where many of the brothers and pledges found unexpected commonalities between each other.

Their newly found connections prompted them to share more about themselves and each person’s stories fed into the next in a wondrously sociable cycle.

Towards the end of the night, the pledges were presented their

Delta Sigma brothers volunteer at PF Chang’s Rock ’n Roll Marathon.

pledge hats meticulously decorated by their big bros. With such an awesome event completed, each pledge gladly donned their hats with renewed pride in their ongoing pledging efforts.

To thank the brothers for their continued guidance and eager for another opportunity to get to know them, the Zeta pledges hosted a Chinese New Year themed party on January 22 for the brothers. After spending countless hours making decorations, food, and thinking up of games to entertain the brothers with, the pledges created a truly memorable night that blew away all expectations. The night was highlighted by an authentic Chinese Lion Dance led by Old Man Brother Stan Chu, reflecting all the hard work the pledges put in for the brothers.

With rave reviews from the Epsilon pledge class, Speed Pledging made a triumphant return this year to help the brothers of Delta Phi and the Zeta pledge class get to know each other. The brothers manned an eclectic mix of stations such as the Inkblot test, The Pepsi Challenge, and The Connect-4 Smackdown that the pledges participated in to break the ice before drifting into related conversation. In trios and pairs, the brothers posed

Delta Phi Brothers Linda Tang, Cathenne Hong, and Cathy Lu sporting their hand-crafted pledge caps. their five-minute challenges to individual pledges to wrest stories, talents, and jokes that they might better understand their future brothers.

With so little time and so many pledges and brothers yet to talk with each other, time at each station was strictly enforced. At the blow of a whistle every five minutes, the pledges and brothers bid their hasty adieus and grudgingly cut involved conversations short to meet another set of brothers at the

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next station. Though limited in time, both the pledges and brothers savored each minute of interaction with each other and ended the night with something special to remember everyone by.

On February 26, the Delta Phi brothers proudly initiated the Zeta class and celebrated with a night of karaoke and bonding at Rock Bottom. To start the festivities, the Zeta class performed a spirited rendition of “Milkshake” that had all the brothers cheering and singing

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Delta Tau Brothers Jerrica Shuster, Tawny Lizarraga, Jessica Garcia, Kasey Greathouse, Christie Bridgen, and Jennifer Reeves.

Delta Sigma new inductees following the ceremony February 2008.

along. The Delta Phi brothers, old and new, then looked to the future, smiled, and sung away the night.

We would like to welcome our new brothers of Zeta class: Catherine Hong, Ken Nguyen, Gwen Le, Cathy Lu, Justin Cho, Rebecca Romasco, Kayvan Moussavi, Julie Kim, Fauzia Khan, Chetan Sharma, Yolanda Dickey, Linda Tang, Colette Brown, Natalie Keil, Cristy Garcia, Thanh Le, Kim Tsai, Jeannette Truong, Shaddy Javadinejad and Tim Bassell.

We’d also like to thank chaplain Michelle Ho for all her absolutely amazing work guiding the pledges through their tasks. In the time we spent with the Zeta class, we can say with confidence that all of them have something truly special to contribute to our chapter. Their blossoming as full brothers fills us with

pride and is yet another flower to add to the bouquet that is our Brotherhood.

—Ed Su

Delta Psi

Delta Rho Crossover Dinner paddles.

University of Minnesota Founded 8/8/2003 School of Pharmacy Duluth, MN 55812

Greetings from Delta Psi. This semester is off to a great start. We unfortunately did not receive any new pledges this semester, but we are always promoting Kappa Psi values in our College of Pharmacy to encourage new members. We promote our Delta Psi chapter by participating in fundraisers, social events, philanthropic events, and community events.

This semester we participated in February’s Heart Health Awareness Month. We helped to educate fellow students on the ways to keep

your heart healthy. In March, we look forward to educating about cancer for Cancer Awareness Month.

This March, we are looking forward to sponsoring a tubing/sledding event for all pharmacy classmates. It is a way to get to know people in other classes better and promote Kappa Psi. In April, our chapter looks forward to attending spring conclave in Brookings, South Dakota. We always have great percentages of our chapter attend conclaves. We hope to get the traveling trophy for a second time!

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For community events, our group is looking into many group and individual volunteering opportunities here in Duluth. We are getting involved with the local Habitat for Humanity. We have even started aluminum can collection to raise funds for Habitat. On May 18, our group is participating in the Kidney Walk. Our goal is for each member who walks to raise $100. This event is very important to raise funds for kidney disease research and help raise awareness for kidney disease prevention and screening.

—Amanda Westerlund

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Delta Omega

South University

Founded 12/10/2005 School of Pharmacy Savannah, Georgia 31406

With the prospects of a new year in mind, the Delta Omega chapter is undeniably ambitious. We would like to announce 23 new brothers to Kappa Psi: Nikki Adeniyi, Scott Behrens, Andy Claybaugh, Ashley Dolman, Shari Flynn, Kristen Francis, Laura Francis, Andrea Hamby, Dan Goldman, Hanny Hassan, Emilie Landreth, Lauren Lantz, Lindsey Loworn, Tawnya McAhren, Sheree Pack, Jessie Rodery, Manav Saini, Kyle Saunders, Katie Schillaci, Hollie Shelton, Jonathan Slocum, Deja Stephenson and Ben Thomason.

Our newly expanded chapter has enabled us to aim our projects/community outreach high, and we are all motivated to accomplish these goals.

Our chapter commenced the year with an excursion to West Palm Beach for Province IV winter conclave 2008. We are proud to congratulate our regent, Heather Franco, for being elected Province IV Historian! Overall, for our new brothers, it was an invaluable learning experience and for ALL of the brothers, it was a rewarding and enjoyable event. We would like to thank our brothers of Delta Upsilon for their hard work and planning in hosting a successful conclave!

Already this year, our brothers have participated in the Kappa Psi Ski Trip in Gatlinburg, Tennessee (immense thank-you to our Gamma Psi brothers for hosting the trip!), wore red for Women with Heart Disease Awareness Day, and are now engaged in the selling of our renowned St. Patrick’s Day shirts for GCC fundraising. Most importantly, we have elected our new chapter officers and successfully installed our additional chapter committees.

Presently, Delta Omega is preparing to sell more shirts to the community on St. Patrick’s Day weekend, participate in the upcoming Relay for Life, work with Habitat for Humanity, organize our ‘Awareness Months’ events, and host social events for our graduate brothers. With our new committees in place, we have many projects

Epsilon Gamma getting together to award bids for the next class. underway and in the works to assure that spring 2008 will be rewarding for not only our community, but our Brotherhood as well. —Tawnya McAhren —Emilie Landreth

Epsilon Gamma

Western University Founded 7/28/2007 College of Pharmacy Pomona, CA

Since our last chapter update, we had great successes at both the City of Pomona Holiday Lane Health Fair and the Santa’s Workshop. Our Epsilon Gamma Brother Bonding Trip to Mammoth was a blast and full of great memories, and we can’t wait to repeat the experience next year. Refreshed from our trip, minus some bruises and aches, we started the spring rushing process. After having held five rush events—Bingo Night, Dave & Buster’s, Casino Night, Lunch at Angelo’s Pizzeria, and a barbecue on the final night, we gave out 19 bids to potential brothers for our Delta class. We are currently in the process of pledging, and we will keep you posted in our next update.

Other events that we are organizing this semester include fundraising events, community service, and a graduation banquet for our P4 brothers. Our first fundraising event will be at the 2008 Province IX spring meeting, where we will be selling Kappa Psi long sleeve tees.

Epsilon Gamma will also be selling yummy Persian food at Western University’s 2008 Annual Extravaganza that will be held in April. And in May, we will burn off some excess calories at the EIF Revlon Run-Walk for Women.

Lastly, we will celebrate the graduation of our P4 Epsilon Gamma brothers by holding a banquet for them on a yacht; however, details are yet to be planned. —Raheleh Eskandar

Mu Omicron Pi

Wayne State University Founded 12/10/2005 417 Auburn Street Detroit, MI 48202

This has been an event-filled past few months for the brothers of Mu Omicron Pi. I would like to start by congratulating the three newest members of our chapter: Hassan Ghoul, Mussa Mustapha, and

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Terence Steversen. These three have already made a big impact, and we are looking forward to seeing them lead our chapter in the near future. We also have three brothers who started rotations back in May 2007 who are now beginning to see the light at the end of many years of hard work. Johnny Khoury, Brad Laporte, and Mike Vasovski have only a couple weeks of rotations left until graduation.

We are all looking forward to seeing them graduate, since it has been a few years since we’ve had a graduation in our chapter.

Back in November and December, we once again helped out the St. Vincent de Paul Society at a local church distribute food and Christmas presents to needy families in the area. We helped over 80 families have a complete Thanksgiving and Christmas meal, and many children received presents they may not have gotten without the help of St. Vincent de Paul. In the upcoming months, we will be helping a couple of our graduate brothers by running blood pressure and diabetes clinics at the pharmacy they just opened. This should get us all some great experi-

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Central Michigan Grad participated in bell ringing for the Salvation Army.

ence working and communicating with patients while helping out members of the community.

In the next couple of months, we will begin CPR recertification for the students in pharmacy school.

This is our main fundraiser that we do every year, and it has helped us with the upkeep of our house and given us the ability to help out with philanthropic events throughout the year. If any chapter has questions about starting a CPR fundraiser for their school, feel free to contact us.

—Tim Niemiec

Boston Graduate Boston Grad has been up to quite a bit recently. We have been getting ready for our annual event, “The Smoker,” which will tentatively take place here in Boston. During the event, the Boston Grad will install new officers of our chapter as well as recognize collegiates who have gone the extra mile in reference to academia and fraternal matters. If there are any brothers interested in attending the event, please notify our regent, Michael Cournoyer, for arrangements.

Recently, our collegiate chapter has initiated three new brothers into Mu chapter. We would like to congratulate our new brothers on

Central Michigan Grad helped out at the Gamma Chi Christmas party for the local women’s shelter. (L–R): Erin DeDoes, Katie Georges, Lindsey Berlinghoff, and Josh Ghiringhelli.

earning a lifetime of brotherly bonds. May you bring out the best in yourselves and the brothers around you. Boston Grad would also like to recognize the outstanding efforts put forth this year by our collegiate chapter’s officers, led by regent Christopher Nadeau.

Lastly, the profession of pharmacy is something all of us have been trying to excel at. Regardless of whether we are in school studying for our next medicinal chemistry exam or if we are making sure chemotherapeutic doses are optimal for our patients, we have all been working hard to promote the advancement of our beloved profession. As part of our commitment to the advancement of pharmacy, we have been making plans to set up continuing education credit equivalents through live lectures and home based CEs. Look out for more updates from us as it may be of benefit to all graduates in our Fraternity looking for A.C.P.E. accredited continuing education.

—Saumil Patel

Buffalo Graduate Buffalo Grad has kicked off 2008 by planning events for the coming months. April will be particularly busy in Buffalo. We will start the month by making the short trip to

Cleveland, Ohio, for the Province V assembly. We’ve heard the Cornhole Tournament is not to be missed! Later in the spring, we are hosting our fourth Annual CE which has taken many months of planning. We are offering a threehour Medication Errors CE at no cost to our dues-paying members.

All are welcome to attend, and more information (including how to register) will be posted on our homepage: http://groups.yahoo. com/group/kappapsibuffalograd/.

Another fun event we have planned is attending a Buffalo Bandits lacrosse game. Your $25 ticket includes dinner at Pizza Hut and attendance at the game. If you’re in Buffalo, be sure to join us!

We have our meetings the last Monday of every month and would love to see you there. Keep checking our homepage to stay informed about Buffalo Grad.

—Nicole Wahl

Central Michigan Graduate We celebrated the holiday season by helping Gamma Chi chapter throw a Christmas party for the women at the local women’s shelter and their children. We decorated gingerbread houses, made candy cane reindeer, and the brothers bought gifts for each of the children

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and their moms. Afterward, we celebrated Christmas at the Gamma Chi house in Big Rapids with a Secret Santa gift exchange. Our chapter also did bell ringing for the Salvation Army.

Central Michigan Grad held an online meeting to eliminate travel time and discussed the upcoming Gamma Chi house repairs weekend and Big Brothers Big Sisters Easter Party. We will be donating our time and funds to help with the repairs on the house and also help with the BBBS Easter party, which includes egg decorating, an Easter egg hunt, coloring contest and a piñata. We’re looking forward to our next chapter meeting at which we will be developing a risk management policy, discussing participation in a Cedar Point fundraiser, and planning for our trip to Cleveland, Ohio, for the Province V spring assembly.

—Lindsey Berlinghoff

Columbus Graduate Columbus Grad held our winter meeting January 21 at Rooster’s near Ohio State’s campus. Items discussed included the whereabouts of several of our graduate members, possible community service projects, and the upcoming golf tournament. The annual charity golf tournament will be held May 10 at the Westchester Golf Course in southern Columbus, and proceeds this year will benefit the Autism Society of America. The tournament theme will be “Piecing our Brothers Together for Autism.”

We are excited to let you know that graduate member Justin Kullgren will be taking a faculty position at the University of Southern Nevada School of Pharmacy just outside of Las Vegas, and that we have reconnected with Brother Ellis Parish (Xi ’79) who reports he has a new job with Mercy Medical Center in Canton, Ohio. If you have any questions about Columbus Grad chapter, have news to report on your exciting adventures, or are interested in joining, please contact Regent Jackie Schneider at Schneider jackie@hotmail.com.

—Jackie Schneider

Iowa Graduate Greetings from the Iowa Graduate chapter! We do not have a lot to report, but our chapter continues to have a strong brotherhood.

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In fact, two of our brothers, Adam and Shauna Gregg, welcomed a new addition to their family, Alexander, this winter. He is destined to be a Kappa Psi brother some day. The Gregg family was going to be our hosts for our winter meeting, but their hands were full with the new little one; so we had to skip having a meeting this time.

However, we are looking forward to our next meeting that will be held at the Province VIII spring assembly this April hosted in South Dakota by Gamma Kappa. We will have plenty to report after this meeting. As always, if you are interested in joining Iowa Grad, please feel free to contact me at deannamcdanel@uiowa.edu. Proud to be your brother!

—Deanna McDanel

Pacific Graduate The winter months have always proven to be active for Pacific Graduate brothers. With rush events, leadership meetings, Province assemblies, along with various other activities, brothers often experienced conflicting events simultaneously. Thank you to all brothers who came out and have continued to make appearances at these events and in support of Gamma Nu. The largest gathering of Pacific Graduate brothers during this time was the Rush Dinner.

On February 2, nearly 40 Gamma Nu alumni attended their Rush Dinner at the newly built Sheraton Hotel in Stockton, California. From near and far, this mixture of faculty, residents, pharmacists and other leaders in their communities sat with the future of Gamma Nu to be another example of the potential that Kappa Psi has to offer. An exquisite buffet, singing cheers, group pictures, and motivating speeches were just part of the evening. Among the speakers were recent alum Ethan Anderson and the current Grand Regent, Lawrence Brown, who made the cross-country flight to have dinner in his old Kappa Psi stomping grounds. Other Pacific Grad brothers in attendance were Adam and Beth Kaye, Sheldon Kong, Mark Walberg, Sunny and Parvinder Bains, Gabe Leung, Chris Amaral, Sam Hodges, Wayne Lam, Roland Lee, Robert and Janis Halliwell, Donald Floriddia, Mike and Nora Pastrick, Brandon Okaneku, Leland Ibarra, Reid Kodani, Dany Khloth, Patrick Catania, Richard Abood, Rajul and Annie Patel, Mike Cuellar, Roger Santos, Eric Gupta, Jason Nakaoka, Binh Tran, Thanh Nguyen (2nd), Ominder Mehta, Denis Meerdink, Warren Shikuma, Sujeev Vhan, Dean Pham, Pat Chan, Greg Umeda, John Apostolo, Justin Borras-Reed, Mike

Brothers Adam Overberg, David DeLong, and Josh Crawford enjoy some fellowship at the spring Province III assembly in Washington, D.C.

Evangelista, Harminder Nahal, Doug Chang, and Derrick Egi. Wow! That did not even include the potentials, current brothers, and all other guests coming together on one night for this special event.

Another successful gathering of brothers happened at the spring Province IX meeting. Gamma Nu was the host chapter, so naturally, local alums came to the events throughout the weekend. At the Friday social event, Brothers Bradd Waki, Derrick Egi, Dany Khloth, Sam Hodges, Pat Chan, and Eric

Gupta helped welcome the visiting brothers at the Gamma Nu house.

At the meeting, faculty member Adam Kaye helped welcome the assembly to Pacific along with Sunny Bains and Chris Amaral. San Francisco Graduate chapter Brothers Roland Lee and Dany Khloth from Gamma Nu were also in attendance along with Pacific Grad delegates Derrick Egi and Sam Hodges. Still more alumni attended the banquet at the Moore’s Riverboat. Eric Gupta drove back from Capslead (CSHP)

Province VII officers: Satrap Robert Nunam, Vice Satrap Jodi Leke, Secretary Kyana Stewart, Treasurer Sean Hawkins, Historian Anastasia Roberts, Chaplain Thomas Key, Webmaster Dan Hunt, and Immediate Past Satrap Melissa O’Neill.

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Beta Pi officers enjoy a catered meal during Province X ceremonies. From L–R: Stacy Crow, Mindy Nance, Casey Taylor.

Rho and Gamma Theta chapters met in Dallas, Texas, at the opening social for Province VII. Pictured are Rho Brothers Lindsay Cunningham, Marsha Weber, Kimberly Guess, and three brothers from Gamma Theta.

in Sacramento to join the group along with Roger Santos (SF Grad) and meeting sponsors Leland Ibarra (Rx relief) and Cary Feng, Doug Chang and Ken Morris of CVS Pharmacy. Several of these brothers participated in the scholarship fundraiser poker tournament.

Roland Lee finished tied for third.

An awesome job to the hosts, Gamma Nu. There were so many other events that alumni were a part of including Capslead, Outlook, crab feeds, retreats and other rush events.

Thanks to all alumni for taking time to represent the Fraternity.

—Derrick Egi

Providence Graduate The Providence Graduate chapter held its annual meeting and election of officers on Thursday evening, January 10, 2007, at the Outback Steakhouse in East Greenwich, Rhode Island. Brothers Michael Sherry, Henry Pedro, Steve Edwards, Karl Kehrle, Dan Lefkowitz, and Past Grand Regents John Grossomanides and Norman A. Campbell were in attendance.

The following officers were elected: Dan Lefkowitz, regent; Michael Muller, vice regent; Michael Ira Smith, secretary; John Grossomanides, treasurer; Karl Kehrle, historian; and Fletcher Nehring, chaplain. Along with renewal of friendships and the discussion of chapter business, voting for the PGC Brother of the Year and the PGC Community Service

purchasing a new chapter house.

The new house will be closer to the School of Pharmacy to allow students easier access to the school.

We are excited to move into our new house and begin making it our own.

We are also beginning to plan our annual events, including our “Hacker’s Open” golf outing and Brewer’s baseball game/tailgate.

For more information on the Wisconsin Grad chapter or to join, please contact Lori Joas at lorijoas@yahoo.com.

—Nikki Musial

Province III St. Louis Grad Brothers John Hamilton, John O’Dwyer, Dan Hunt and Melissa O’Neill at Province VII meeting.

Award also took place that evening.

Brother Ron Jordan, who is acting dean of the URI College of Pharmacy and past president of APhA, was chosen to receive the Brother of the Year award, and Brother Jef Bratberg was chosen to receive the Community Service Award for his heroic efforts in providing relief for the victims of Hurricane Katrina. We look forward to formally honoring the recipients and installing our officers at our upcoming Annual Awards Banquet in the spring.

Brother Chris Novak is presently working as a clinical consultant pharmacist and is on the board of directors for Alzheimer’s Services of Cape Cod Islands in Massachusetts. Congratulations go

to Brother Henry Pedro who was honored during halftime at the URI basketball game on January 23 for his work with the URI Alumni Association and athletic program.

We also wish to congratulate Brothers Josh Spooner and his wife Linda of Sturbridge, Massachusetts, who announced the birth of their first child, Paige, who was born on November 8, 2007.

—Karl Kehrle

Wisconsin Graduate It was a bittersweet winter for the WI Grad chapter. We have officially sold the chapter house at 615 N. Lake St. in Madison, Wisconsin.

We have lots of memories in that house, and it will be missed by all.

Currently, we are in the process of

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At the time of this writing, the Province III spring assembly has just wrapped up at the Delta Kappa chapter at Howard University.

Friday night, the brotherhood congregated at Galaxy Billiards in Silver Spring, Maryland, just outside the district. Brothers got reacquainted and met new friends, and Grand Regent Dr. Lawrence Brown and Province Supervisor Michael Cournoyer socialized over billiards in a fun atmosphere.

The following morning, the assembly was welcomed by Satrap Harry Marcelin and Delta Kappa Regent Kevin Smith and addressed by the special guests in attendance, including Grand Regent Brown, Grand Counselor Andrew Frasco, and Graduate Member-at-Large Peter Brody of the Buffalo Graduate chapter. Brother Brown stressed promoting a culture of excellence at each chapter, as well

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as supporting the Brotherhood and making regular use of the ritual and Grip of the Order as a way to bind brothers even more tightly to each other and to the Fraternity. Brother Frasco urged the assembly to take an active role in understanding the ritual and Constitution, while Brother Brody talked about his role as Graduate Member-at-Large and his desire to increase graduate involvement in the Province.

Brother Marcelin thanked the Regents and explained some of his initiatives, including the quarterly Satrap’s Corner newsletter, the continued emergence of Province III’s identity as a province of philanthropy, and the use of Google groups and Gmail to improve communication among Executive Committee members, Province leadership, and the Province itself.

Brother Lauren Hooker updated the assembly on the Vials of Life Province philanthropy project, including the generous sponsorship of our initiative by CVS. Brother David DeLong, Province III Newsletter Editor, gave an update regarding his desire to add to the newsletter focus articles written by individual brothers, and set a deadline of March 21 for pictures and articles to go into the next issue.

Province Supervisor Michael Cournoyer and Assistant Supervisor Marvin Smith both spoke about their goals for the Province, including more diligence with regard to scholarship certificates, continued strong attendance at Province meetings, and a delegation of 200 brothers in attendance at the next GCC in Tampa, Florida.

Letters from Grand Ritualist Melissa O’Neill and Grand Historian Kali Jernigan were also read, which contained their desires to see full regalia in more widespread use and an update from each chapter to the History of Kappa Psi, respectively. Updates from each chapter were then given, and legislation to be considered in the afternoon session was introduced by Brother Steve Murray of NC Grad.

Following a delicious catered lunch sponsored by CVS, the introduced legislation was discussed and disposed of in a thorough manner. Nominations were taken for Executive Committee officers and elections were held. Congratu-

Epsilon brothers all dressed up at Region VIII fall conclave in Iowa City.

Province IX brothers at the banquet at Moore’s Riverboat. lations to the 2008–09 Province III Executive Committee: Satrap Josh Crawford of Theta, Vice Satrap Kathryn Kropp of Delta Xi, Secretary/Treasurer Adam Overberg of Beta Xi, Chaplain Chris Charles of Sigma, and Historian William Shealy of Iota.

Many thanks to the brothers of Delta Kappa for a successful Province meeting, the special

guests in attendance for imparting their experience and wisdom to the assembled brothers, and to the nearly 150 brothers who made it to Washington, which more than doubled attendance at the fall meeting.

The fall 2008 Province III assembly will be October 17 and 18, 2008, at Campbell University in Buies Creek, North Carolina, and the brothers of Province III and the

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Delta Lambda chapter at Campbell hope to see you there!

—Adam Overberg

Province IV Not even one week into the New Year, Province IV was up and running. Winter conclave was hosted

by Delta Upsilon on January 4 and 5 in West Palm Beach, Florida, and what a time was had! Special thanks

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Province III Brothers Harry Marcelin, Sophia Park, Gregory Kim, Kathryn Kropp, and Chris Charles with Assistant Supervisor Brother Marvin Smith. added to the Province IV GCC webpage (http://gcc.province4.org.) as it becomes available.

The Province IV summer conclave will be hosted by Delta Gamma and will be held in Auburn, Alabama, June 6–7. More information will be posted on the Province IV webpage (http://province4.org) as it becomes available.

—Heather Franco

Province V

The ladies of Rho chapter who attended Province VII in February. to Brother Matt Bamber and all of the other Delta Upsilon brothers for such an efficient and exciting conclave. Attendees included National Officers, Grand Regent Lawrence Brown, and Grand Historian Kali Jernigan, in addition to Province III Satrap, Brother Harry Marcelin, and several visiting brothers from Province III’s Beta Xi, Delta Xi, and Sigma chapters.

On behalf of Province IV, I would like to thank Brother Daniel Welch and the outgoing administration for all of their hard work and dedication to this Fraternity. I would also

like to congratulate the new Province IV officers. They are as follows: Jason Karnes (Satrap), Jeremie Johnson (Vice Satrap), Abe Duncan (Secretary), Andrew Crowe (Treasurer), Heather Franco (Historian), Jonathon Hamrick (Parliamentarian), Kristen Antos (Chaplain), Shirish Parbhoo (Newsletter Editor), and Ryan Ritchie (Webmaster).

The 54th GCC will be hosted by Tampa Grad in Tampa, Florida, in August 2009. Province IV is thrilled to host this event and is already planning for it. Information will be

Since our last meeting at the Midyear Assembly in Toledo, Ohio, the officers have been busy with the Province V Newsletter, drafting of the Province V Risk Management Policy, and promoting the sale of our signature Kappa Psi hockey jerseys. The Province V officers and Ada Grad have been working hard in anticipation of our Province conclave in Cleveland, Ohio. We are all excited to see Cleveland rock when Province V comes to town! Some of the weekend highlights will include: Cornhole Tournament, Saturday night dinner and dance, and, of course, brotherhood! Thanks to the officers and brothers of the Province who go above and beyond to make our time together so memorable. “One for all and all for One.” See you in Cleveland.

—Kate Nelson

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The Province VII conclave was held February 15–16 in Dallas, Texas. Thanks to Delta Pi for hosting a great Province meeting. The conclave was called to session on Friday evening at 6 p.m. After the meeting, everyone congregated at the Iron Cactus for an evening of brotherhood. Saturday consisted of a full day of meetings. Chapter reports were presented and bylaws were reviewed for changes. A change was made in the Executive Committee structure by separating the office of Secretary/Treasurer.

Our philanthropy project this year is called “Kappa Psi for Life,” which is aimed at promoting a healthy lifestyle. Each chapter is responsible for creating and holding two health events per school year (i.e. one event per semester).

To give each chapter greater flexibility, we are giving them the option of what types of health events to create. Some examples include giving health talks at local schools or wellness events centered on various health conditions such as diabetes, cholesterol, heart disease, etc. In addition to the health events, we are asking each chapter to do a fundraiser to benefit YMCA, as it is a health and wellness affiliated organization. Our goal is to present $5,000 to the YMCA of St. Louis during the 2009 conclave.

New officers were elected: Satrap Robert Nunan (Southwestern Grad), Secretary Kyana Stewart (Delta Delta), Treasurer Sean Hawkins (Gamma Theta), Historian Anastasia Roberts (Gamma Pi), and Chaplain Thomas Key (Delta Delta). At our evening banquet, Delta Delta was awarded Best Chapter Report and Chapter of the Year. Gamma Omega was awarded Most Improved Chapter. Gamma Pi received the Man-Mile Award for traveling the most total miles to the meeting. A special presentation was made by Dewey Garner to Johnny Porter to commemorate his hard work and dedication for the past 14 years as Editor of THE MASK. Province VII was honored to have five Grand Officers in attendance at our meeting. Thanks to Grand Regent LB Brown, Grand Vice Regent E. Ben Welch, Grand Ritualist Melissa O’Neill, and Graduate Member-at-Large Pete Brody. Editor of THE MASK,

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Johnny Porter and Executive Director Scott Long were also in attendance. We are looking forward to seeing everyone in St. Louis in 2009.

—Anastasia Roberts

Province VIII Greetings from Province VIII… everyone is gearing up for Gamma Kappa’s 50th anniversary, which will be celebrated at conclave in Brookings, South Dakota. The themes for the weekend are Hillbilly Hoedown and Prom of the Decades. We hope to see many brothers to share in this exciting time.

Not a whole lot is new, but plans are in the works to update the Province VIII Website. Many collegiate brothers are planning to contribute to the update; we plan to have something new up and running before conclave.

I encourage all brothers to participate in the different awareness months: March–Cancer Prevention and Awareness, April–National STD’s Education and Awareness, and May–Autism Awareness.

The EC plans to meet soon over dinner to discuss new ideas and prepare for the Province assembly.

—Amanda Weber

Province IX Recently, more than 120 brothers from Province IX came together in Stockton, California, for our spring assembly February 29–March 1.

The weekend started off on Friday evening at the Kappa Psi house where we enjoyed pizza and our Gamma Nu brothers graciously grilled up some juicy hamburgers and hot dogs. Brothers were able to mingle and catch up with old friends as well as meet new brothers. The evening was also filled with some brotherly competition and great dance moves as the evening progressed and brothers danced the night away!

Bright and early Saturday morning we got down to business. Both Province IX Supervisor Weaver (formerly known as Supervisor Jernigan) and Vice Supervisor Radhakrishnan were able to attend, and we were excited to see them again. Congratulations go out to Supervisor Weaver as she was recently married! We successfully discussed all new and old business and also enjoyed hearing what our

Province IX brothers show Friday Night at the House. colleagues were up to during the chapter reports. Of importance to note is that all of our chapters have plans set up to complete our Province IX philanthropy project this year, which involves raising funds in support of various disease states through participation in charity walks by the end of June.

Another highlight of the meeting was election of our new officers. It was exciting to see all the enthusiasm and interest from the Province IX brothers in holding office at the Province level, and it was a tight race for ALL of the positions this year. Congratulations go to our new Province IX officers: Robert Mancini (Satrap), Ryan Moore (Vice Satrap), Eugene Lee (Secretary/Treasurer), Sevana Ghazarian (Chaplain), and Kayla Buschko (Historian).

Later in the evening, brothers dined at the Moore’s Riverboat where we held our banquet and awards ceremony. A well-deserved recognition pin was awarded to Brother Dipam Doshi of Gamma Nu for all his hard work in organizing our spring assembly, which was an incredible success, AND notably

New Province IX officers (L-R): Ryan (Vice Satrap), Kayla (Historian), Robert (Satrap), Sevana (Chaplain), Eugene (Secretary/Treasurer), and Stephanie (Immediate Past Satrap). for being able to provide transportation for ALL brothers coming to the meeting—an incredible feat considering the closest airport was approximately an hour away!

Additionally, Satrap (now Immediate Past Satrap) Stephanie Villanueva received a recognition pin in honor of all her hard work

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and dedication to Province IX this past year.

Delta Sigma was honored with the Lapiz Taquitos award in recognition of excellence of their Province report. Delta Phi was awarded the Community Service Award, for the second time in a row, in recognition of excellence in

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cate to Target. For brothers not participating in the poker tournament, a live DJ spun some tunes and the brothers of Province IX danced the night away.

All in all, everyone had a wonderful time, and we are all looking forward to seeing each other again at our next Province assembly which will take place in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

—Elizabeth Sarles

Province X

Beta Omicron brothers stack it up during the closing banquet of the Province X meeting. promotion of the pharmacy profession while giving back to the community. The brothers of Delta Phi demonstrated this through their service to the community during the recent wildfires that devastated the San Diego area. The brothers of Delta Phi headed up the efforts to provide 24-hour pharmacy services to evacuees who were often without their medications and most of whom were not sure what medications they normally took. Epsilon Gamma was awarded the Fellowhood and Brother-ship Award in recognition of excellence in the development of relationships among brothers. Epsilon Gamma strengthened their bonds of brotherhood during a weekend trip to the mountains with over 50 percent of their brothers in attendance and a little fun on the slopes thrown in.

Epsilon Gamma was also awarded the Travelers Award to recognize their dedication to the Fraternity as demonstrated by their outstanding attendance at the meeting. Province IX was also able to award, for the second time, a $250 scholarship to Brother Dipam Doshi of Gamma Nu in recognition of his dedication and service to the Fraternity.

Immediately following dinner, our traditional poker tournament was held to benefit the Province IX Scholarship Fund. Special thanks go to all who donated to and participated in the tournament. And congratulations to Brother Robert Mancini of Delta Phi who emerged victorious and received a gift certifi-

Throughout the evening of February 15 and into the wee hours of the morning of the 16th, the brothers of Kappa Psi Province X checked into the Pullman, Washington, Hiltons (otherwise known as the Holiday and Quality Inns) in preparation for the Province X meeting bright and early Saturday morning. After experiencing a delicious continental breakfast from a 5-Diamond hotel, the brothers of Province X convened with all collegiate and one of the three graduate chapters represented. Entertaining slues of chapter reports were given and included tales of ski trips, unique fundraising events, awards, and news from GCC. Congratulations were given to Delta Mu on winning the Best Chapter in the Province award! The business wrapped up around noon, making it time for the social strengthening of our Province. For reasons understood by those in attendance, I believe it is safe to say that the Pullman Denny’s Restaurant has undisputedly been named “The Best Denny’s of Province X.” Sunday brought about more business of the Fraternity, with committee reports and resolutions, and the election of the new officers: Scott McLeod, Satrap; Rachael Forster, Vice Satrap; Francine Lai, Chaplain; Skyler York, Secretary/Treasurer; and Stacy Crow, Historian.

Many thanks go out to all those who helped to make this year’s Province X meeting possible, especially Scott McLeod for stepping up to the plate for last-minute planning. After a wonderful three-day weekend, long on fun and short on sleep, the brothers of Province X said goodbye for another year until we meet again at Beta Omicron’s home, in Seattle!

—Stacy Crow

Amy Montes, Kali Jernigan, and Amy Everitt at the ASHP Kappa Psi Reception.

Chapter Pride. For each chapter it’s different, but it’s there for everyone. For many chapters, their pride is based in their strong traditions. The tradition of being the best organization on campus is a source of pride for many chapters. For years your chapter may have always been the one that the college and community turned to when they needed help. The Red Cross may call every year to find out when the chapter is holding their annual blood drive, or the dean may knock on the door for volunteers for student interviews. Whatever the reason, Kappa Psi has the strong tradition of being the group that gets things done. As we move forward into the future, it is important to continue that tradition at all levels of our great Fraternity.

As a chapter, it is your responsibility to ensure that the activities you do to promote fellowship, industry, sobriety, and high ideals are continued for the next generation of brothers. These traditions not only help identify your chapter, they also have a large impact on who you are and give you your Chapter Pride.

This Executive Committee is working hard to be an executive committee that “gets things done.” We are working toward fostering Executive Committee “Chapter Pride” and being an executive committee that encourages Fraternity Pride. I am working hard to ensure that as your Grand Historian, I continue that tradition. I promised to give chapters the opportunity to update or create their written history. It is getting done. I hope that each and every one of you can find the same inspiration in Kappa Psi. Chapter Pride means something different to all of us. It is important that we recognize the things we do that make our chapters great and make us who we are as brothers.

Kali Jernigan Grand Historian

Spring 2008

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Brothers reach out to help others.

ABOVE: The Psi chapter volunteers manning a water station for the St. Jude Marathon in Memphis, Tennessee, the first weekend in December. BELOW: Showing off the Christmas spread for Gamma Chi’s charity party for WISE-local women’s shelter are brothers Erin DeDoes and Katie Georges.

Beta Omega Past Grand Regent Steven Molchanow helps with the chapter Toy Drive.

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ABOVE: Matthew Macziewski and Luke Merkel celebrate Mathew’s Mr. SDSU crowning. He won both Mr. SDSU and Mr. Congeniality. The winnings were donated to Children’s Miracle Network.

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