Nick Conway

Nick Conway
Name	Nick Conway
Chapter	Zeta Iota Saint Joseph's University
Date Inducted	April 17, 2011
Roll Number	12
Alumni Chapter/Assoc	DVAC
Honorary Member
Major	Finance and Family Business & Entrepreneurship
Birthdate	September 30th
Spouse
Nicknames
Awards	Chapter Service Key and Sally Seibert Award

Nick Conway is an Alumnus and Chapter Service Key Recipient of the Zeta Iota (Chapter roll #12) at Saint Joseph's University.

Early Fraternity Life and Career

Nick enrolled at Saint Joseph's University in the Fall of 2010 after graduating from Holy Ghost Preparatory School in Bensalem, Pennsylvania. As a Freshman, he was looking to become more involved on campus. Nick wanted to grow more as a person and believed the combination of scholarship, leadership, and fellowship would do just that. He saw flyers for a new organization on campus and decided to attend an info session. Nick rushed Phi Sigma Pi in the Spring of 2011 and he is a Charter member of the Zeta Iota Chapter. Nick has only missed one Chapter meeting during his time as an undergraduate, zero committee meetings, and zero Executive Board meetings during his 4 semesters on Executive Board. He always boasts that he has never lost a Zeta Iota scavenger hunt. Nick has also won a few superlatives including Best Bromance, Most likely to become a Millionaire, Most Fun, The Face of PSP, and Mr. PSP. He has held several positions in the Zeta Iota Chapter which include President, Vice President, Historian, Alternate National Delegate, Regional Delegate, ICR Chair, and Co-Chair of the Ad-hoc Campus Wide Event Committee.

Collegiate Years at Zeta Iota

Nick started out as the Chapter’s ICR chair while also serving on the Scholarship Committee. The connections he made as ICR chair helped him when he was elected Regional Delegate. Nick was the Service Chair and responsible for planning the service event for the Regional Conference at Gamma Xi. He organized Brothers to write Valentine’s Day Cards to patients at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Nick served as Historian while he was Regional Delegate. When he was Historian, Nick brought to the Chapter several new ideas. He introduced “Brother of the Month”, “Photos of the Month”, made photos available online via Google Drive, organized Zeta Iota's first ever Composite, started the first "Senior Sendoff", and created Chapter's Family Tree Lines/Names. During his 2nd term as Historian, the Vice President at the time resigned due to a new internship she received. Nick ran for Vice President and he was elected. Nick made the attendance for events available online and had Chairs meet Bi-Weekly for better planning of events. There was Executive Board Elections towards the end of the semester and Nick was elected President by the Chapter. Shortly after the election, Nick found out he would be acting President for the Chapter a couple of days after the election. Some of Nick’s plans during his time as President were redoing the Attendance Policy/Disciplinary Actions, Plan of Action Forms, Changing the way Probation was handled, Hosting Regional Conference, Campus Wide Event, Improving Communication among the Brotherhood, increase transparency, Decrease Brother Apathy, eliminate committee breakouts during Chapter meetings, have Brothers submitting amendments, and improve the transition process. Nick was also elected as the Alternate National Delegate for National Convention in Philadelphia. Nick became the Co-Chair for the ad-hoc Campus Wide Event Committee. The event was a 5 on 5 Dodge Ball Tournament (PSP Dodges MS) and all the proceeds goes to the National MS Society which took place May 3rd, 2014. He was in charge of the Finances and Operations. The event was extremely successful and the event helped raise over $1300 for the National MS Society.

Alumni Years to Present

Nick graduated from Saint Joseph's University with a double major in Finance and Family Business & Entrepreneurship in the Spring of 2014. He works full time at RLI Insurance Company in Bala Cynwyd, PA.

National Involvement

• Philly Metro Regional Conference - 2012, 2013, 2014 (1st place in Relay and 1st place Overall Team)
• Philly Cup hosted by Alpha Lambda and Gamma Xi - 2012 (Semi-Finalist), 2013 (Semi-Finalist)Philly Cup Goal Celebration
• National Convention (2013)
• Hunger Games hosted by Epsilon Tau - 2013 (2nd Place)
• 2014 National Awards Selection Committee - Appointed by National Secretary
• 2014 National Development Committee - Appointed by National President

Family

Nick is the founder of Beta Alpha Mu Family. He has three littles, Travis Knapp, Grant Malleus, and Mark McShane.

Other Interesting Facts

Nick has been working at The Mattress Factory since High School. He helped keep track of inventory and oversaw communication between the different store locations. He also has worked at the Center of International Programs in which he interacted with foreign exchange students on campus to answer questions and better enhance their academic experience. He helped answer other students questions on different programs they can take if they wanted to study abroad in different countries. He served as a Weekly Service Volunteer in which he tutored students at Gompers Elementary School in mathematics. When the Gompers Elementary students finished their homework, he participated in games such as kickball, tag, and football with the them. Nick was heavily involved in co-rec intramural sports on campus. He is the captain of the team called the Billsters. The Billsters won the SJU Championship in Flag Football 4 consecutive seasons. They competed in City 6 extramurals against Nova, Temple, LaSalle, Drexel, and Penn. The Billster's basketball team lost in the Semi-Finals 3 straight years and 2 of which they lost in the last second of the game. The Billsters also played Softball and they won the Championship 1 time in their 3 years playing. Nick played some Rugby his Freshman and some of Sophomore year as a winger. Nick is a die hard sports Philadelphia sports fan and loves going to Saint Joe's Basketball games to cheer on the Hawks. His favorite foods are Buffalo Chicken, Cheese Steaks, and anything you can buy at Wawa.

Regional Delegate
Preceded By None	Term Fall 2011 - Spring 2012	Succeeded By Alex Adolph

Inter-collegiate Chair
Preceded By None	Term Spring 2011 - Fall 2011	Succeeded By Marissa Kimmel

Historian
Preceded By Raya Abat	Term Spring 2012	Succeeded By Emily Miller

Vice President
Preceded By Stephanie Scalice	Term Fall 2012	Succeeded By Robbie Cusella

President
Preceded By Raya Abat	Term Spring 2013 - Fall 2013	Succeeded By Caroline Meñendez