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To Family, Alumni, and Active Members,
The semester is coming to a close quickly, and withonly a few more days of classes left, it is time to reflecton this past semester. As always, Spring semesterfeels like it flies by faster than Fall, but we are veryproud of all our accomplishments this semester.
To begin, we iniated five new brother into The Order(Ben Westrich, Bruce Holm, A.J. Fink, Zach Scruggs,Kris Killips), bringing our total chapter size to 39. Weare ecstatic to see how much we have grown in thepast year and it can be attributed from a ton of hardwork and passion the chapter has put in.
Tyler Wells <[email protected]>
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Theta Class
With the year coming to a close, we unfortunately have to say goodbye to fivebrothers (David Lynch, Kevin Schrader, Dan Essenpreis, Dan Pineau, and TomMcDuffee). Everything they have done for the chapter during their time here hashelped us become the chapter we are today. You will be truly missed, but we knowyou will be going on to bigger and better things. Congratulations Brothers!
If you would like to come support our five graduating brothers as they walk acrossthe stage this weekend, the ceremony starts at 9am Saturday, May 16 in the SIUArena.
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Class of 2015
Our Roses:
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We would like to thank our Roses for everything that they have done for ourchapter. Rachel Dunning, Alpha Gamma Delta [Left] and Emilee Hudgins, Delta
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Zeta [Right] are both graduating this Saturday and we will miss both of you. Congratulations!
To continue with the newsletter, we have a ton of accomplishments to talkabout from this semester and the past year. From the Greek Awards Ceremonythis past week, we were awarded:
Chapter Greek Awards:
20142015 Fraternity of the Year20142015 InterGreek Council Most Improved Fraternity20142015 Outstanding Service Event (Giant City Weekend Clean Ups)20142015 Top InterFraternity Council Greek Standard Score20142015 Gold Level in every Greek Standard20142015 Most InterFraternity Council Service Hours per man20142015 Alumni Relations Award
Individual Greek Awards:
Kevin Bradley:20142015 IFC Greek Excellence Award20142015 IGC Officer of the Year
Dr. Melinda Yoemans:The Greek Ally Award for her support with our chapter and the LGBTQ community.
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Along with all the Greek Awards above, we have a few more individualmembers to talk about and give them recognition for their accomplishments!
To begin, 12 Brothers received an Environmental Ambassador Award out the 40awarded, for their volunteer efforts around the Southern Illinois area.
Order of Omega is a Leadership Honor Society for members of GreekOrganizations. Members are chosen from the top 3% of students at eachinstitution. We are happy to announce four brothers were initiated into thisorganization.
Mike Holm (Vice President of Order of Omega)David LynchCody RewDalton Runyon
Indivdual Awards:
David Lynch:Lincoln Laureate AwardService to Southern AwardNIC Undergraduate Award of Distinction
Dan Pineau:Gordon F. Pitz Award (Best Thesis in Psychology)1st Place in the Center for Ungergraduate Research and Creative ActivitiesPoster Forum
Kevin Schrader:Lonnie Russell Award for Excellence in ResearchAccepted into Southern Illinois University Medical School
Jared Dillman:Area Council Secretary Award
Luke Baumgartner:Cadet of the Semester for ROTCSuperior Cadet Decoration Award for ROTC
Ben Westrich:Ideas to Investigation (i2i) Research Grant
Dalton Ruynon:Frank L. Klingberg Award (Top Political Science Student)
Jacob Trammel:Directors Award from the Paul Simon Public Policy InstituteMerit based award from SIU Credit Union
Madison Self:Academic HonorsUniversity Honors Program Honor's DayNational Society of Leadership and Success (Presidential Member Status)
Mike Holm:Jan Martan Undergraduate Scholarship for Zoology
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Congrats brothers on all your accomplishments and awards!
Alumni Announcements:
Congratulations Michael Buhman on being named 20142015 IGC Alumni of theYear! Thank you for everything you contribute to this chapter!
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MDA (KA's Philanthropy):
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We hosted a couple of events this semester to help raise money for the MuscularDystrophy Association. The large event this semester was a bowling tournament,hosted at the Student Center, where participants tried to get their highest scorefrom two games. At the end of the night, the top three participants with the highestbowling scores went home with prizes. We also held a couple small eventsthroughout the semester to raise some more money for MDA. New thissemester, we created what our chapter calls the Root Beer Extravaganza, wherewe sold root beer floats to students and faculty around campus. It has become abig hit with the student body so were are going to continue hosting this event in thecoming years. Along with those events, we also won 100 dollars to go towardsour philanthropy from a Greek Week Challenge. In total, we raised about 700dollars for MDA this semester. Our chapter is excited to start planning bigger andbetter events for next year to help raise more money for this great cause.
Pictures:
Brothers competing in the CURCA Poster Forum
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Conclusion:
To sum up, this semester has been great and we are still continuing to strive forexcellence in Academics, Service and Philanthropy, and the Reverence ofWomen. Congratulation once again to everyone graduating! We wish you thebest of luck with the next chapter in your life and we know you will do excellent inwhatever you pursue.
The links to our Facebook page and Twitter are above. "Like" and "Follow" tostay up to date on events happening in our chapter. Just click on the icon and itwill take you right to the homepages. As well, we have been working with Omegafito get our website up and running and it should be ready by this coming Fall. As
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To all the actives and alumni, we are excited to see what is in store for us nextsemester. To everyone else, as a chapter, we wish you the best in the comingmonths. Have a great summer and see you all in the fall!
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“The education of a man ( or woman ) is never completed until he dies.”― Robert E. Lee
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