Alpha Upsilon Chapter
Alpha Upsilon Chapter (Founded 12 February 1992) is located at University of South Carolina in Columbia, South Carolina. The Chapter is a member of the Southeast Region.
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Chapter History
Founding
The Alpha Upsilon Chapter was founded on February 12, 1992, we're not exactly sure which member or members founded the chapter, but the Alpha class had 93 members inducted between February 12 and April 22.
Early Years
Unfortunately, we do not have much information about the early years in our chapter. History wasn't recorded (that we know of) until Katie McLean created our Chapter History in 2003. What we know has been passed down through stories older brothers have shared with us.
Since our chapter's founding, we've had two mascots. Originally it was the cow (we don't know when it happened or why they chose it), but eventually at some point it was changed to the spider monkey, which it is still currently today.
Tim Bott was either the first president of our chapter, the Alpha class president, or both.
We've had two faculty advisers since our founding: Dr. Timothy Bergen, Jr. and Mrs. Mary Ellen O'Leary, who still currently serves as our faculty advisor (since September 26, 1995).
The Active Chapter
Our current chapter has 52 Active Members. Initiate classe size has ranged from 2, to 30 Initiates. The class of 30 Brothers being Alpha Iota Class, Spring 2008. We are currently rebuilding our public relations on our campus and have started to become a well known organization throughout the USC community. The Brothers of Alpha Upsilon are not only active in our Chapter, but many other organizations on campus. There rang from honors societies such as Alpha Lambda Delta, to social sororities and fraternities like Gamma Phi Beta and Pi Kappa Alpha, as well as organizations like Carolina Productions and Campus Recreation.
2009-2010 Executive Board
- President - Lexie Selzer
- Vice President - Neel Dhere
- Corresponding Secretary - Hannah Sagedy
- Recording Secretary - Josh Rickard
- Parliamentarian - Rob Werhman
- Treasurer - Jennifer Gornall
- Historian - Dee Milton
- Initiate Advisor - Chrysta Bigelow
- Chaplain - Farah Kablaoui
2009-2010 Committee Chairs
- Alumni - TBD
- Co-Initiate Advisor - Steven Cruise
- Fundraising - Maggie Hoppe
- ICR - Sean Jordan
- Public Relations - Meghan Tankersley
- Scholarship - Hayley McLeod
- Service - Amanda Polis
- Social - Chris Stapleton
- Sports Liaison - Jordan Gracien
Past Chapter Presidents
- Jeff Bergen (2001-2002)
- Kristen Ballard (2002-2003)
- Mandi Black (2003-2004)
- Alex Kronsteiner (2004-2005)
- Bill Arndt (2005-2006)
- Dawn Head (2006-2007)
- Jenelle Conaway (2007-2008)
- Marshall Taylor (2008-2009)
- Lexie Selzer (Present)
Past Executive Boards
2008-2009
- President - Marshall Taylor Vice President - Brian Harley Corresponding Secretary - Chris Ziegler Recording Secretary - Kelly Ridgeway Parliamentarian - Eric Bradford Treasurer - Ryan Pettitt Historian - Kristin Lowrey Initiate Advisor - Nikki Peiffer (Fall 08) & Austin Pair (Spring 09) Chaplain - Craig Stango
2007-2008
- President - Jenelle Conaway Vice President - Courtney Peralta Corresponding Secretary - Megan Lange Recording Secretary - Tasha Bowman Parliamentarian - Christine Redmond & Cale Bonner Treasurer - Ryan Pettitt Historian - Kristin Lowrey Initiate Advisor - Ashley Bradshaw Chaplain -Justin Cooper (Fall 07) & Andy Strassler (Spring 08)
Initiate Classes
Main Article: List of Alpha Upsilon Chapter Initiate Classes
Chapter Events & Activities
Founder's Weekend
- Alpha Upsilon celebrates their founder's day weekend the 2ed February of each year. Most founder's weekends are small, and in the past have not been large ICR based events. This is due to that years ago, Alpha Upsilon lost a substantial amount of funds while attempting to host a large founder's weekend, which then took years to recover from. In 2009, Alpha Upsilon hosted the Southeast Regional Conference, in doing so, they decided not to celebrate their founder's day. However, due to the chapter's recent growth explosion, Alpha Upsilon brother's have started to travel to more ICR events. Consequently, a highly anticipated Founder's weekend is expected to be planned for the chapter's 18th founder's weekend.
Phi Sigma Pi, "Pi" Mile 5k
- Alpha Upsilon hosts a 5k Run/Walk in order to raise money in support for Teach For America. While this event is only a few years old, it is increasing in size every year, with this past year almost doubling the participants of the previous year. This event has been previously held around early April, but with future intent on hosting it around March 14, Pi Day. Six trophies are handed out to the first three men and women to finish. Participants can also enter as groups, which encourage support and can persuade others to join them. The largest group to enter receives a plaque.
Rush Week
- Coming Soon!
Home Football Games
- 09/19/09 vs. Florida Atlantic
- 09/24/09 vs. Mississippi
- 10/03/09 vs. South Carolina State
- 10/10/09 vs. Kentucky (SEC Game)
- 10/24/09 vs. Vanderbilt (SEC Game)
- 11/14/09 vs. Florida (SEC Game)
- 11/28/09 vs. Clemson
Colby Cup
- The Colby M. Reimer Award is given in honor of late brother Colby Reimer, who passed away in 1997. The cup was donated by his family to be presented to the most outstanding Alpha Upsilon brother each semester.
- Spring 2009 Steven Cruise
- Fall 2008 Not Given
- Spring 2008
- Fall 2007
- Spring 2007
- Fall 2006 Kristin Lowrey
- Spring 2006 Kathryn Pfahler
- Fall 2005 Michael Guyton
- Spring 2005 Anne Coutch
- Fall 2004 Mike Christopher
- Spring 2004 Bill Arndt
- Fall 2003 Mandi Black
- Spring 2003 Katie Stephens
- Fall 2002 Jay Brigman
- Spring 2002 Dustin Barnett
- Fall 2001 Amy Young
- Spring 2001 George Hildebidle
- Fall 2000
- Spring 2000
- Fall 1999
- Spring 1999
- Fall 1998
- Spring 1998
- Fall 1997
- Spring 1997
Notable Alumni
- Creator of our Chapter History.
- One of the most active Alumni Brothers.
