Delta Chi Chapter

Delta Chi Chapter

Delta Chi Chapter (Founded 3 December 2001) is located at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa. The Chapter was founded with the help of Hoyt Craver, Director of Expansion, and Rich Freed, Chapter Advisor and Theta Chapter Alumnus, Alpha Eta Chapter Founder. Delta Chi is a member of the East Region.

Chapter History

Founding

After the discovery of an Alpha Eta, University of Delaware, alumni working in the Career Services Department of Lehigh University, Phi Sigma Pi Nationals decided to give those students with a 3.0 GPA or higher the opportunity to start a Lehigh University chapter of Phi Sigma Pi. Invites to an information session were sent out to these students on October 5, 2001. Of the hundreds of students who received these letters, some attended the first ever Lehigh University Phi Sigma Pi meet night held on Monday October 15, run by Nationals and Richard Freed, the Alpha Eta alumni who initiated the entire endeavor. Due to the interest generated, the staff arranged an organizational meeting for the next Monday, October 22. Many attended this meeting, including the National President, Tammy A. Mleziva.

Determined to begin this chapter, the group elected student officers for the chapter: Cheryl Foster, President; Justin Federici, Vice President; Pamela Passerello, Corresponding Secretary; Stella Maher, Recording Secretary; Martin Uteras, Treasurer; Sara Ferris, Rush Advisor; Kristin Matchica, Initiate Advisor; Amy Gilbreth, Parliamentarian; and Marika Deppmeyer, Historian. The next week, the budding chapter officially motioned in Richard Freed as their advisor and requested that Alpha Eta, of University of Delaware, be their sister chapter, officially beginning the process.

Service, Social, Scholarship and Exams

As they worked to become a chapter of Phi Sigma Pi, the group was named the Alpha class at Lehigh’s chapter and therefore needed to complete several requirements of the Phi Sigma Pi Tripod of Service, Social, and Scholarship; and the Delta Chi Chapter of Lehigh University was well on their way to doing that in November 2001. The first Monday of the month the chapter held a canned food drive and a pizza party before their official meeting, completing their requirements for service and social. At this same meeting, new bylaws and operating policies for the chapter were rising, as the chapter instilled policy that disciplinary action would be taken after three unexcused absences.

With all the fun of other activities, another requirement loomed amidst the group, the National Exam. In order to become a brother of Phi Sigma Pi, students must pass the National Exam, an exam testing the students knowledge about Phi Sigma Pi values, history, and present. To prepare for this exam in two weeks, the students involved took one quiz with questions similar to those on the exam on November 5, and then two more on November 12.

The exam date was set for November 26, but before that day, their fundraising and scholarship requirements still had to be completed. Fundraising was fulfilled with the producing and selling of Alpha class Phi Sigma Pi t-shirts, made for less than five dollars and sold at ten dollars to yield a profit and effectively fundraise for the chapter. In addition, candy canes would be sold from December 3-5. These shirts were completed and sold on November 19, the same day that the scholarship event was completed. Richard Freed, the chapter’s advisor, came to the chapter as a Career Services Speaker, and educated the group about topics such as resumes, job hunting, and interviewing. By the end of this chapter meeting, the class achieved the completion of all the requirements, except for the test the next week. In order to take the pressure off the test, a holiday party was planned for after the exam. That next Monday, November 26, 2001, the Alpha class of the Delta Chi Chapter of Phi Sigma Pi took the National Exam, and they all passed with over 80%. With this success, Alpha Eta Chapter inducted 36 brothers into the Delta Chi Chapter on December 3, 2003, the founding day of the Delta Chi Chapter of Phi Sigma Pi, at Lehigh University.

The first executive board consisted of Cheryl Foster, President; Justin Federici, Vice President; Stella Maher, Recording Secretary; Pamela Passarello, Corresponding Secretary; Martin Uteras, Treasurer; Sara Ferris, Rush Advisor; Kristin Matchica, Initiate Advisor; Amy Gilbreth, Parliamentarian; and Marika Deppmeyer, Historian.

Early Years

The spring semester of 2002 came to a close at the end of April, and the Delta Chi Chapter of Phi Sigma Pi properly completed the semester with officer votes and awards. On April 22, the chapter gave Cheryl Foster, the founding president of the Delta Chi Chapter, the Most Valuable Brother Award and the following week they presented her with flowers for her hard work and dedication. All of the members of the E-Board, and honorary brother and faculty advisor Richard Freed also received gifts for their hard work as well. At this time, the old officers transitioned into the new officers: Justin Federici, President; [Stella Maher]], Vice President; Kevin Shephard, Corresponding Secretary; Katie Bex, Recording Secretary; Kristin Matchica, Treasurer; Rachel Zief, Rush Advisor; James Pontius, Initiate Advisor; Pam Passerello, Parliamentarian; Suzanne Ennis, Historian.

Although only one semester old, the chapter graduated 13 brothers at the end of this semester, and so it was a time filled with both the joy of becoming a real chapter, and the sadness of loosing so many brothers so soon.

Summer 2002 and Stella Maher

Grand Chapter, the gathering of representatives of all Phi Sigma Pi chapters convenes during the summer each year to discuss National business. In 2002, the chapters met in Tennessee for the weekend of July 19-22. Because of location difficulties, Justin Federici, the president of the Delta Chi Chapter requested that Stella Maher attend the gathering because of her nearby location in North Carolina. At this Grand Chapter, Stella Maher witnessed and realized what Phi Sigma Pi was really about. After this epiphany, Maher left Grand Chapter wanting to make the Delta Chi Chapter representative of Phi Sigma Pi and all of its other chapters. When Stella through a house party at her home in North Carolina, she invited Phi Sigma Pi brothers from across the nation, and her thoughts and feelings about the situation were verified. The crusade to improve the Delta Chi Chapter began. On July 26, the Delta Chi executive board met online to discuss the chapters next semester. Exploding with enthusiasm, Maher requested money for the purchase of a Phi Sigma Pi banner for the chapter. With the request granted, Maher ordered the banner on August 7. In addition, Maher wrote the chapter’s bylaws and operating policy, and so began the enactment of her vision for the Delta Chi Chapter of Phi Sigma Pi.

Exec Board Shrivels

Within the first two weeks of school, the Delta Chi Chapter experienced much havoc as much more was now expected of Phi Sigma Pi. Kristin Matchica, the former initiate advisor and then elected treasurer for the chapter, refused to return emails or phone calls from other executive board members the entire summer, and did not attend the executive board’s online meeting in July. Due to this behavior, she was put on probation and she rescinded her position as Treasurer. After she had missed 25% of the meetings, by not attending any, a motion was made for her expulsion, and it was passed.

A similar situation occurred with the recording secretary, who after taking minutes for the first two meetings, stopped attending meetings and events, eventually leading to her expulsion. This same behavior was seen in corresponding secretary Kevin Shepard.

Parliamentarian Pamela Passerello also decided to step down from the executive board, doing so in a more respectable manner as she soon applied for inactivity for the fall and spring semester, and then graduated in May 2003. James Pontius, the Initiate Advisor, also went inactive, but only for the fall semester.

As a result of half of the executive board of the Delta Chi Chapter defecting, elections were held on September 2, 2002. Before the elections on this day, Stella Maher motioned to amend the Chapter Bylaws and combine the positions of Recording and Corresponding Secretary into on position of Secretary. The amendment passed. With this new amendment, only four positions had to be filled. Elections yielded Jeff Samuels as Secretary, Samuel Wallace as Treasurer, Mark Elloff as Initiate Advisor, and Suzanne Ennis as Parliamentarian.

Rush Pins 40 Future Brothers

Despite the recent problems with the executive board, the chapter started the semester with a scholarship event on the same day that the chapter instated the new officers. Guest speaker’s came from other chapters to speak about Phi Sigma Pi and the tripod and suggestions for strengthening the chapter. Within the next weeks, several social events were also planned and attended by brothers: bowling and a horror movie night.

Amidst the events, rush info sessions were held on September 16-18 and the first event was held on September 20, 2002: a very successful and well attended rush BBQ at a brother’s off campus home. Those rushing also participated in creating cards for sick children at St. Luke’s Hospital. For the final rush event, brother’s learned about those rushing through information sheets, conversation, and a canned food drive, held in the Ulrich Student Center on September 26.

At the meeting on September 30, the brothers voted to pin all of the rushes, who were then pinned on October 1.

Fundraising Goes Wild

Fundraising for the fall semester of 2003 started off strong with a bookstore tent at a football game on September 13, then continued with another tent at the September 27 football game, and then again at the November 1, Parent’s Weekend, football game.

Halloween Grams were sold once again from October 27-29, and then delivered to the students’ mailboxes. At this time, Deana Willard, the fundraising chair, stepped down from her position to focus on school work and track, and so Andrea Luebbe filled her spot. As fundraising chair, Luebbe ran the buying, organizing, and selling of Lehigh-Lafayette t-shirts. This fundraiser involved selling t-shirts that showed that Lehigh is better than their arch-rival Lafayette. These t-shirt sales gained over $600 for the chapter, making it the one most successful fundraising event seen by the chapter.

Epsilon Class Does it Right

After participating in a comprehensive and well done rush process, the Epsilon Class was initiated and started the pledging process. This process consisted of weekly meetings run by Initiate Advisor Stella Maher, completing an event for each part of the tripod, interviewing ten brothers, and passing the national exam. During these meetings the pledges learned about the national and chapter history of Phi Sigma Pi through power point slides prepared by Maher.

Their first project was to take pictures with all ten mules in Bethlehem and all groups completed it on time, but this amount of work and effort was too much for two of the initiates, who soon dropped out of the process.

The Big-Little process and bond is an important part of pledging for any fraternity, and to make this aspect stronger in the Delta Chi Chapter, Maher organized an icebreaker event at which potential bigs and littles could get to know one another on September 25. After this event, each would choose who they would like to partner with. Once assigned littles, the pairs were able to get to know one another better through interviews. Their knowledge of one another would be tested at the Big-Little Quiz show held on October 23. Big Rachel Mandeville and her Little Yos Priestly won the game at this event.

At the second initiate meeting on October 7, elections were held as they are held in the chapter meetings, for the initiate officers: Katie Rikkola, Gamma Class President; Lauren Halgash, Secretary; Matt Griffiths, Treasurer; Suzanne Whitten and Craig Foo, Co-Historians. In preparation for brotherhood, Maher divided the initiates into committees, which would then plan the specific events that had to be completed. Committees were also formed to plan the events that the pledges had to complete to become brothers.

For their service event, the pledges went to the Boys and Girls Club again to play with the kids on November 4. As a scholarship event, as a class they saw the play Picasso at Lapin Agile on October 30 which was playing at Zoellner Arts Center. The fundraising committee sold class t-shirts as all initiate classes do, but with the help of Treasurer Matthew Griffiths, the class obtained Play Station 2 games, an X-Box with games, and a computer game pack all free of charge. They raffled off these items and raised over $150 for the chapter. The class also went on a initiate class retreat on October 25 to Sayre Lodge where they were able to complete interviews with one another and bond as an initiate class should. On October 27, the chapter did a midway vote on the initiates, and all of them were voted to continue the pledging process.

The National Exam approached the group quickly, and as a study tool for the exam, the chapter’s scholarship committee and Maher organized Brothers vs. Initiates Jeopardy on November 10, and all of the questions would be related to those on the exam. Despite the fact that the brothers had much less schooling in than the Epsilon class, the Brothers won Jeopardy.

First Ever Brotherhood Retreat

A retreat had been in the works for the previous semester, but due to lack of interest and funds, the event did not go through. With the help of Vice President Jessica Maurer, the retreat this semester happened, and it became a camping trip.

October 17, 2003, the twelve people brave enough to go camping left Lehigh at half past four to head towards the campgrounds in the Poconos. When they arrived, the ground was damp and it was becoming dark. Immediately all of the brothers took a task and some began to set up the tents, while others collected dry wood and leaves and started the fire, while others prepared the food for dinner.

Although difficult to start because of the rain, the camp fire was soon built with the help of lighter fluid, and stories and laughs were shared all around such as now inside jokes as the “Ass Link” and the “Chapter Pyro”. Soon President Jeff Samuels decided that he needed to become more rustic than before and attempted to make the fire as large as possible. Others, such as Secretary Kai Schlingmann were not far behind.

As everyone grew tired, slowly they went to sleep in the tents they put up themselves. They awoke early and decided that one night of camping in the cold was enough, and so they quickly packed up and went to breakfast with brothers who did not come camping at the local Perkins.

First Annual Semi-Formal

At the request of several brothers, a semi-formal was planned for the fall 2003 semester for the brothers of Delta Chi. From the beginning of the semester, Historian Rachel Mandeville searched for venues at which to have the semi-formal. She quickly discovered Carmine’s, a small Italian restaurant with a banquet room and a dance floor. With the right price and the right room size, the place was quickly booked for Thursday November 6, 2003. The semi-formal was huge a success. Centerpieces of live fish in vases awed the crowd and were given out at the end of the night. Many of the brothers attended and had a fantastic time dancing and eating

Scholarship and Service Hold a Record Number of Events

In addition to the rush events that involved service, the service committee chair, Jackie Lanzon, dedicated to her job, offered many service opportunities throughout the semester. The Boys and Girls Club was revisited several times including November 4, 2003 with the initiates, and the chapter participated in Spooktacular. Spooktacular involves the local area children coming to Lehigh and going through the University Center in costume, getting their faces painted and playing games, and then going to some of the residence halls to go trick or treating. Delta Chi had the face painting station. In addition, the chapter collected and donated over $100 to Turning Point, a women’s shelter in Allentown, who was in much need of money this semester. The final service event of the semester consisted of making cards for sick children at the local hospital in order to help them get better.

The first scholarship event, which doubled as a risk management event, was held on October 6, 2003 right before the Chapter meeting, and at it SexPerts, one of whom was brother Reid Gronostajski, educated the chapter on safe sex. Games were played and free condoms and dental dams were given out. A successful and informative event proved to be a lot of fun.

The scholarship committee also sponsored a Career Services event at which Faculty Advisor Richard Freed came to the chapter on October 27 and answered questions of the chapter about resumes and interviews and getting jobs, internships, and externships. And of course, the next month, the Scholarship committee helped organize the Brothers vs. Initiates Jeopardy. These usually weaker aspects of the Tripod for the chapter saw great strength in the fall semester 2003.

A Successful Semester Closes with a New Faculty Adviser

Richard Freed informed the Delta Chi Chapter that he could no longer serve as their faculty adviser after the fall semester of 2003 because of previous commitments, and so the search began for a new faculty advisor. An ad-hoc adviser search committee was formed and headed by Daryn Reyman. Reyman found several potential candidates, but due to illness, soon had to turn the committee over to AJ Miceli, who interviewed several candidates and found the best person for the job in Professor Small. Small was invited for a chapter interview, at which he could also ask the chapter questions. Voted on by the chapter at the meeting following the interview, Professor Small was voted to be the new faculty adviser for Phi Sigma Pi on December 1, 2003 and he soon after accepted the position. Another position filled at the end of the semester was that of Rush Advisor for the spring semester. Michael Sullivan would be going abroad to London along with several other Delta Chi brothers, and so his position needed to be filled. Several brothers ran for the position, and the votes showed that Laura Spessard earned the spot on November 10, 2003.

After 97 motions, a record number of social, service, scholarship, and fundraising events, the election of a new rush advisor, and the election of a new faculty adviser, the Delta Chi Chapter saw great improvements over the previous semesters.

New and Improved Rush

With new rush advisor Laura Spessard leading the way, the spring 2004 rush went without too many problems. The process began with three rush info sessions. One of the strongest aspects of the info sessions was the slide shows, which the potential rushes could view while waiting for the session to begin. In addition, Laura Spessard decided to have strong public speakers present the information to the potential rushes, even if that wasn’t the president. This would also improve the presentation.

Rachel Flink, a member of the Rush & Initiation committee put the slide show together with pictures from the previous semester. A previous problem, which the slide show solved, was that the fraternity was not put in a fun light when discussed at the rush info sessions, and so by showing pictures of how much fun PSP is, it encourages people to rush because they see how much fun it will be.

Rush events started smoothly with the making of cards for sick children. Everyone showed their eagerness to draw cards to be delivered to the children at St. Luke’s Hospital. Because Laura held the event in the UC, the food had to be bought from Wood Dining Services, and so everyone enjoyed cookies and hot chocolate while making their cards. Although not the most exciting of events, Cookies and Cards allowed for everyone to sit and talk to one another, and it ended up being one of the strongest events. The following night, Friday January 30 2004, many rushes and brothers attended broomball. A very fun and exciting event, not many people got to know one another too well, but it showed that Phi Sigma Pi can have fun as well as do service and scholarship events. In order to add in a more social aspect to the event, Treasurer Angela Rizzo recommended getting pizza afterwards so that everyone could eat and mingle. Most rushes stayed and ate. To take advantage of everyone being there, the E-Board tried to arrange some game playing, such as four corners, but with a twist so that information could be learned about one another, such as go to a certain corner depending on where you are from.

Taking a break, pref events did not continue until Friday, February 6, on which day the rushes and brothers were supposed to go to the local Boys & Girls Club, which is a favorite event of the chapter. Unfortunately, weather reared its ugly head, and there was another snowfall the previous day, closing the local schools, and when the schools close, the children do not go to the Boys & Girls Club afterwards, and so an alternative event had to be offered. The E-Board brainstormed all afternoon to come up with a competitive group activity, which was recently done in one of their sociology classes, building with straws and paper clips. The judging would be based on height, strength, and creativity. Everyone arrived and was told of the situation. The competition began, and the observers and brother group members were able to see how the rushes worked in groups, a needed quality because of the committee work required in the chapter. After all the work done by the groups it was decided that everyone won, and the reward was juice and cookies provided by the chapter. Once again, everyone mingled and continued to get to know one another.

The final rush event convened at a local union bowling alley with inexpensive games because of the subsidization from the union. Brothers paid only $1 per game, which included shoes, and the rushes were covered by the chapter. The small size of the alley contributed to the environment that allowed for people to talk and bowl at the same time. Every lane had a great time, and a couple of closet bowlers came out to show off their stuff. Everyone only played two games, and so the night ended in a couple of hours. Brothers enjoyed the event so much, that social committee chair Lauren Halgash made another bowling event later in the semester on March 20 2004, with the same prices and the same fun.

Second Brotherhood Retreat

The second semi-annual Brother’s Retreat was held on the weekend of February 20, 2004 in Cherry Hill, NJ at a penthouse in a hotel. Last semester brothers retreated to a camping ground in Pennsylvania where they set up tents, built a fire, ate, and talked. Although the brothers did not have to endure physical activities, they got to know each other nonetheless. Four cars transported the 12 brothers to the penthouse allowing a get to know each other car ride to begin the experience. Once settled in the brothers ate, played ice breaker games, card games, and board games (including Twister).

Several brothers sat up late into the night talking to one another. Breakfast was provided by the chapter, and so brothers woke up to bagels, donuts, juice, and coffee. That morning everyone left, and although only 12 brothers attended the retreat, those brothers left knowing more about each other than before, some forming great friendships, and ultimately achieving the goal of the retreat.

Better Big/Little Pairings

A very important part of the pledge process is for the initiate to receive a big who helps them adapt to and learn about the chapter, and to be there for the initiate for any help needed. Unfortunately, the Big-Little pairs of previous semesters have not always been the best matching, and so a new process was developed for the spring 2004 semester. Initiate Advisor Stella Maher, with the help of her committee, devised two new events that would help the Bigs and Littles get to know one another so that they can choose people that they can become friends with, which is the ideal situation for a big-little pair.

The first event took place on Sunday February 15 2004. In one of the rooms in the UC, a circle of chairs was organized, and all of the potential Bigs and Littles played Phi Sigma Pi’s favorite game Never-Have-I-Ever. During this game, a person stands in the middle and says something that they had never done. Then, in this version all of the people who had done it would have to get up and try to find an empty chair. The person left without a chair had to do the next “Never-Have-I-Ever”.

Next, everyone picked a Starburst candy out of a bag, and depending on the color of the candy one received they would have to tell something about themselves, such as most embarrassing moment, favorite Lehigh moment, and other such facts. In the end the games worked very well and everyone left knowing more than before they came.

This event was followed up the next weekend when a session of “speed-dating” took place in the UC on February 22 2004. First all of the brothers removed one of their shoes and made a pile. Each initiate picked up a shoe and sat across from the person to whom the shoe belonged. This started the speed-dating. Every three minutes the initiates would switch places and would go through and speak to each brother for three minutes. This method succeeded in allowing each potential big to talk to all of the initiates and vice versa.

Habitat for Humanity

On March 27 2004, twenty- four brothers and initiates, including some inactive brothers, woke up early to meet in Campus Square D. The job consisted of rebuilding an old distribution center into their new main office. Some people cut drywall and put up insulation for the office part of the building. Others put together shelves and put away building materials in the warehouse part. Still others dug a ditch, in which a new wheelchair accessible ramp would go.

Ad hoc Bylaws Committee

At the last meeting of the semester, new Parliamentarian Matt Griffiths brought to the table a semester’s worth of work, a slew of amendments to the bylaws. Every section had changes, produced by the ad hoc Bylaws committee, formed solely to amend the bylaws so that they would not have to be amended again. Meeting every week for a month and then holding a marathon meeting on Friday April 16 2004, the committee made it through the entire Chapter Bylaws.

The Chapter Bylaws and Operating policy were originally written by Stella Maher the summer after the creation of the Delta Chi Chapter of Phi Sigma Pi at Lehigh University based on other chapter’s bylaws. As a result, they needed changing in order to comply with the nuances of the Delta Chi Chapter.

In order to bring it to the chapter so as not to waste hours upon hours of precious time, Matt Griffiths proposed to submit all of the amendments as a whole, and then start a discussion board regarding it. All of the amendments that were addressed on the discussion board would be voted on separately.

Surprisingly the method worked. All of the amendments passed as a whole, with the exception of the two amendments discussed, the paying of local dues by locally inactive brothers, and the time span for nominations and voting for new officers.

As a result of much debate and in addition to many friendly amendments, the chapter decided that locally inactive brothers would not have to pay local dues, and that nominations for a position would be held one week before elections, unless it is deemed an emergency by an unanimous vote by E-board, in which case the nominations and elections could be held in one night.

This chapter meeting proved impressive, as many brothers spoke their beliefs and all using Robert’s rules, perhaps it was the food provided by the chapter for the meeting. With the changes to the bylaws, many actions of the chapter would now by covered in the bylaws, and meetings in general could run more smoothly with an easy reference for the rules. Next semester, the chapter has aspirations to amend the Operating Policy into a useful document.

Delta Chi Forges Inter-Chapter Relationships

One of the goals of President Angela Rizzo was to create a inter-chapter relationships, an aspect of fellowship that the Delta Chi Chapter was currently lacking. She got in touch with the President of Kutztown University’s chapter which was located near Lehigh. A lunch was set up at the Olive Garden on a Saturday afternoon in October. The members of the Executive Board were very excited to meet members of the Epsilon Alpha Chapter. The brothers spoke about their respective chapters and learned that though similar in some respects the brothers that made up each chapter were extremely different. After an enjoyable lunch contact information was shared and the possibility of a joint event was discussed.

In another attempt by the Delta Chi chapter to improve its inter-chapter relations, Spencer McCord, Brandon Fishman, Angela Rizzo, Rachel Mandeville, Alon Abramson, and Ryan Botzler drove down to Gamma Pi (Towson University) on Friday, October 17 for their semi-formal. The group was split into pairs and each pair was hosted by a Gamma Pi brother.

That night, the Gamma Pi chapter sponsored an off-campus toga party in which the Delta Chi brothers eagerly attended with their hosts. The next day, the Gamma Pi brothers took the Delta Chi gang on a tour of Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. The group had a bonding experience at lunch at the California Pizza Kitchen and then took a Water Taxi tour of the harbor. The highlight of the afternoon was the taking of a group picture by Jeep photographers around and on top of the Jeep used in a popular television commercial.

At, the semi-formal that night, Ryan stole the show through his smooth actions and dance techniques with three of Gamma Pi’s female brothers who, by the end of the night, were on the verge of fighting over him. Due to the amazingly fun time the chapters had hanging out with one another the Delta Chi Chapter invited Gamma Pi to attend their semi-formal and many of the them excitedly agreed.

The Active Chapter

The current chapter has about 60 active brothers.

Past Chapter Presidents

• Cheryl Foster
• Justin Federici
• Jeff Samuels
• Angela Rizzo
• AJ Miceli
• Jamie Yengel
• Ryan Templin
• Katie Graul (Present)

Chapter Events & Activities

Founder's Weekend

A required event in the chapter’s Operating Policy, Founder’s day is a very important event, and so planning for it began on November 17 2003, when the chapter was asked by Historian Rachel Mandeville if they would prefer to order food, or to have a potluck dinner for the celebration. The chapter decided to have a potluck, and so the list began to organize what everyone would make.

The dinner would be held at Sayre Lodge on December 3, 2003, the second birthday of the chapter. As it was a required event, 95% of the chapter attended and everyone enjoyed themselves, and the food, which ranged from soup to meatloaf to cookies and much more.

While the chapter dined, Vice President Jessica Maurer awarded certificates to many brothers. The following brothers received awards: Stella Maher, Most Devoted Brother; Craig Foo, Volunteerism Award; Angela Rizzo, Most Hardworking Brother; Brian Dunst, Eagle Scout Award; Laura Spessard, Best New Addition to E-Board; and Jessica Maurer, The Loud and Lovable Award.

Delta Chi has since continued the tradition of holding a potluck dinner on its Founders Day.

Kickball

Started in the fall of 2005, Delta Chi holds an annual kickball weekend. Brothers from nearby chapters come for the weekend events which include kickball and a service event.

Current Executive Board

• President - Katie Graul
• Vice President - Stefie Kan
• Recording Secretary - Julia Mauk
• Corresponding Secretary - Krystal Kaai
• Treasurer - Andrew Kump
• Rush Adviser - Therese Quinn
• Initiate Adviser - Kevin Ford
• Parliamentarian - Garrett Wadsworth
• Historian - Ariana Tibaldi

Current Committee Chairs

• Social Committee - Tara Goldberg
• Service Committee - Melissa Berenholz
• Awards and Scholarship Committee - Cali Roth
• Fund Raising Committee - Rachel Hughes
• Public Relations Committee - Alex Alhadeff
• Alumni Committee - Seetha Chandrasekhara
• ICR Committee - Justin Capalbo
• Regional Delegate - John Gilpatrick

Notable Alumni

• Stella Maher (Α)

CSK 2004

• Jeff Samuels (Β 42)

CSK 2006

Chapter Honors and Awards

National Awards

• 2005 Clarence O. Williams Most Improved New Chapter Award

University Awards

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• None to date

Other Awards

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• None to date

Further Resources

• Delta Chi Chapter Website