Kathryn Lieber

Kathryn Lieber
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Name	Kathryn Lieber
Chapter	Delta Chi Lehigh University
Date Inducted	Spring 2005
Roll Number	ΔΧ 168
Alumni Chapter/Assoc	National Alumni Association
Honorary Member	Zeta Alpha (UC San Diego)
Major	BA: Theatre and Design Arts, MFA Candidate: Scenic Design
Birthdate	March 20, 1986
Spouse
Nicknames	Kat
Awards	Most Dedicated Brother Award ( Spring 09, Spring 08, Fall 07), Most Outstanding Fellowship Award (Spring 08, Fall 08)

Kathryn Lieber (born 20 March 1986) is an Alumni Member of Delta Chi Chapter (ΔΧ 168) at Lehigh University.

Early Fraternity Life and Career

As a freshman at Lehigh University, Kathryn received the now familiar Phi Sigma Pi invitation letter at the start of Spring semester 2005. Thinking it was an elaborate hoax set up by upperclassmen to throw water balloons at Freshmen (for 'honor' and 'fraternity' were not often in the same sentence at Lehigh), Kathyrn attended a Delta Chi info session wanting to be a part of what was sure to be the best prank ever. The end of the session came and the water balloons did not. Her curiosity was piqued. So she attended the rush events hoping to gain a better understanding of this group. By the end of rush she still did not understand what an Honor Fraternity was, but she enjoyed the people and the events and needed to find her niche in college life. So with an invitation to attend pref events, and later an initiate pin, Kathryn decided she would continue with Phi Sigma Pi until it stopped being fun.

Collegiate Years at Delta Chi Chapter

Kathryn entered the Brotherhood a little shy and unsure and decided to spend a semester trying to understand the chapter and what it meant to be a brother. But after only one semester, she jumped into leadership and ran for, and was elected, Historian. She dedicated her term as Historian to expanding the position into a more integrated member of the exec board with more of a presence within the chapter.

She organized the business of taking pictures at events to ensure that all events were covered, where in the past the more photogenic Social events had greater representation. She also worked to further the practice of records keeping. Her predecessor, Scott Menzer, had moved the Historian position into the 21st century by doing away with mandating that the Historian make a physical scrapbook in favor of a digital slideshow instead. However, by the time Kathryn came along, the budget still stated that she could only use her allocated funds to buy paper and glitter. She changed this to allow her to be able to purchase DVDs and could therefor burn a copy of the semester's slideshow for each brother. In this vein, Kathryn made it her goal to have the chapters Brother Info Pages binder brought up to date. A binder that contained basic info of all the brothers so that potential Rushes and Initiates could quickly see the diverse and interesting range of brothers that Delta Chi offered, the Brother Info Page binder had fallen into disrepair and no longer represented the whole chapter. By the end of her term, every single active brother had a page in the book and a system had been put into place to ensure that it would stayed up to date. (The turning in of a Brother Info Page was added to the Initiate Requirement.)

She also worked with the exec board and committee chairs to collect and maintain a concise, digital reference off all their important files that could be stored by the Historian and distributed at each transition of leadership so that records would never be lost. Unfortunately, mid-efforts her computer proved the necessity of this act and it's hard drive crashed, loosing everything she had collected. The idea lost steam at this point, but she has since maintained backup copies of whatever she could and has served as a resource for Delta Chi whenever they needed to delve into their history.

Kathryn also worked to give the Historian a more active role within the chapter. Noticing that morale was dropping, and so was the chapter's knowledge of its own and national history, Kathryn started giving the Historian something to say during officer reports. She reinstated the tradition of the Historian giving an "Of The Day" as part of their report. Kathryn presented a Fact Of The Day, sometimes in quiz format with prizes, that reintroduced the chapter to important, interesting, or funny facts from their and National's past. Kathryn also presented a Brother Of The Day, highlighting one brother each week by showing off their Brother Info Page and reacquainting the chapter with that brother.

With her big having graduated shortly after her induction, she was a family of one, but was resolute in maintaining her family line.

Alumni Years to Present

• former Alumni Advisor for Zeta Alpha Chapter, now happy that they have local alumni to fulfill this role but she still reads their minutes, newsletters, and facebook posts and offers advice when she can. Kathryn is always happy to see their names and faces pop up in national news and can't be prouder
• was an active member of New York Metro Area Alumni Chapter while living within the city limits and continues to participate as much as possible with her 4 hour commute to the city
• a recent addition to the Greater Boston Alumni Association eboard as the Webmaster/PR Chair and is excited to help drum up more interest in her new home Phi Sigma Pi organization

National Involvement

Kathryn hopes that someday National events will stop being held in places she just was or will be soon and will instead be held close to where she currently is. She had a great time at Alumni Convention 2011 in Las Vegas and is looking forward to convention in Chicago 2012. Kathryn is currently applying to be a Region Consultant and has her fingers crossed.

Bigs and Littles

Kathryn Lieber's Big Brother is Alon Abramson, who is also an Alumnus.

Kathryn has 5 Little Brothers:

• James Blaney, Alumnus
• Heather Wilson, Alumna
• Perri Alex, Alumna
• Brian Lindeboom, Alumnus
• Johnathan Kuhn, Resigned

Further Resources

• thekathryn.com

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