November 2008

Hey Guys,

 

Hope everyone had a great Halloween.  The house went trick-or-treating for canned goods in the neighborhood and it had a pretty good response.  The brothers also carved pumpkins for the sororities and neighbors.  We actually had two kids come to the house on Halloween night, but we had no candy so we gave them soup crackers and ramen noodles.

Thank you to everyone who came to the Alumni Dinner this past Saturday night.  Everyone had a blast.  The food was great and the turnout was also very good.  For those who don’t know, we honored Kevin Piatek for his ten years of dedication to the chapter as alumni adviser.  He’s done an awesome job and the chapter owes a great deal to him.  Piatek was given a plaque during dinner.  It was a very nice reception.  Pictures have been posted on our new online alumni photo album on flickr.  The address is http://www.flickr.com/photos/lambdaurialum. 

 

We’ve also started to upload some of the photos that are in albums at the house and put them online.  They’re on flickr as well at the same address.  The 1970s photo album is the first to go up.  Peace.

 

In ZAX,

JK
HZ 1343

School Year 2007-2008 Recap

This past school year was a good one. We initiated 14 new members in the Fall of 2007 and 9 in the Spring of 2008 for a total of 23 new brothers. They're a quality bunch of guys. Three of them have already won officer positions within our house and one was elected to the IFC board for this upcoming school year. We also hired a new chef, John Rousseau, and he's the man.

Three of our brothers have actually been elected to IFC: Greg Welsh is now the Vice President, Andrew Blais is Parliamentarian, and Aaron Clarke is the Public Relations Chair.

Andrew Blais was also just elected to the Lambda Chi Alpha Student Advisory Committee and we have another brother who sits on the board of directors at the Welcome House of South County in Peacedale.

The following is a list of our current officer positions

High Alpha - President: Sean "Sean Paul" Camillieri

High Beta - Vice President: Jared Bergman

High Theta - Philanthropy Chair: Andrew Blais

High Gamma - Secretary: Dan McCleary

High Tau - Treasurer: Sam Leo

High Iota - Risk Manager: Jimmy Thayer

High Kappa - Fraternity Educator: Patrick "Krazee-Eyez Killa" Sheppard

High Delta - Recruitment Chair: Billy Dorfman

High Phi - Ritual Chair: Greg "The Gull" Welsh

High Sigma - Scholastic Chair: Will "Llama" Higgins

High Epsilon - Social Chair: Zach "Delicious" Hershman

High Rho - Alumni Correspondent: Jonathan "JK" Kaufman

High Pi - Alumni Advisor Kevin Piatek

WELCOME!

I'm excited to launch the first online alumni newsletter for the Eta Zeta Chapter of Lambda Chi Alpha at the University of Rhode Island.  Here you can find great and useful information about our chapter including news, upcoming events, awards, achievements, and much more.  Posts will be made at a minimum of once a month.

I'm in the process of compiling a new Alumni Directory.  So if you haven't done so already, please email me the following information about yourself:

• Full Name
  
• Nickname
  
• Eta Number
  
• Graduation Year
  
• Major
  
• Employer
  
• Job Title
  
• Best Contact Address
  
• Phone Number
  
• Preferred Email
  

Our chapter is still located at the same address:

29 Old North Rd.

Kingston, RI 02881

We would love to see you so stop by if your in the area!

Please remember to sign your comments with your name, eta number, and graduation year.

Comments, suggestions, or anything you'd like me to post can be emailed to me at jkaufman@mail.uri.edu.

I look forward to many great events and stories!  Make sure you remember us if you ever win the lottery.

In ZAX,

JK

HZ1343

jkaufman@mail.uri.edu