Board Meeting Highlights

Sunday, January 29, 2017

12:00 – Milton Township Hall, Wheaton, Illinois

Your new alumni board president Connor Bostedt ’16 conducted the meeting.

The next scheduled board meeting:

When:   Saturday, April 29, 2017

Where:  Macomb, IL

* A block of rooms will be reserved at the Macomb Hampton Inn.

* A schedule of events will be posted soon.

* All alumni are invited to attend.

2017 Reunion

Date:  Saturday, July 29, 2017

Time:  11:00 am – 04:00 pm

Where:   Hawthorne’s Backyard

              1200 West Hawthorne

              West Chicago, IL 60185

Cost:      $35 per person/$60 per couple

Menu:  Pulled pork, sides, desert, beer, wine, soft drinks.

RSVP: Tom Stern

stng64@aol.com

(630) 436-8288

To pay using Paypal, go to paypal.com and pay to hvalacpa@aol.com.Those wishing to make donations, please use Paypal.

Old Timer’s Event

Date:  Friday, July 28, 2917

Time:  6:00 pm

Place: Tom Stern’s House

           423 West Thomas Road

           Wheaton, IL

Menu: TBD

Golf Event – To Be Determined

Roster: We have about 850 alumni brothers. We only have about 275 email addresses and 650 good mailing addresses. Tom Stern reported he has found 40 good mailing addresses to update our roster using the White Pages website. Please volunteer to help find contact info for brothers.

Jake Batusich, the current Chapter President, attended the meeting and gave a Chapter update.

• ·       Current Chapter membership is 28 with 3 members expected to graduate this semester.
• ·       Spring Rush (Recruitment) is currently in progress. Brother Batusich expects 6 -10 new members will pledge.
• ·       There were 12 pledges in the Fall 2016 semester. Brother Batusich stated the most pledges a fraternity recruited was 16.
• ·       The Chapter discussed the number of members they would like to have and feel 40 is a good number. They are working diligently to obtain and sustain this number.
• ·       The Chapter obtained a 2.965 GPA during Fall Semester 2016. This was slightly below the all men’s average (3.01).
• ·       Brothers not maintaining a 2.50 GPA are suspended for the semester and a mentorship program is initiated to assist the Brother with his studies so he may increase his GPA and return to active status.
• ·       Brothers are majoring in Law Enforcement Administration (LEA), Micro Biology, Fire Science, and others.
• ·       The Active Chapter recently initiated a system of fines for such things as not attending Chapter meetings.
• ·       Brother Batusich attended the Theta Chi National Leadership Conference where presentations were given on how to run individual chapters, the Resolute Man Program, and financial responsibilities.
• ·       Two Brothers attended the Recruitment Boot Camp and are actively recruiting members.
• ·       Two fraternities are no longer on campus; Delta Sigma Phi (Nards) and Pi Kappa Alpha (Pikes).
• ·       One new fraternity was granted permission to begin recruiting during the Fall 2017 semester.
• ·       Pledge Initiation will take place on Saturday, April 22, 2017.

Brothers will be on the lookout for a house to rent. The target size of the house will be about 10 brothers.

Thanks to Steve Stapleton for preparing these minutes. Click on the link to the right for the complete minutes.