Phi Gamma Delta Mu Pi February 2020 MU PI NEWSLETTER FIRST EDITION SPRING 2020 First New Cabinet Overview The new leaders of the undergraduate chapter aim to continue the great legacy of the Mu Pi chapter. Second Third Letter from the Section Committee Head Chief Information Section Chief Francis Thompson’s address to the chapter. Including new fraternity information. Contact information for all new committee heads Spring 2020. Congratulations New Cabinet! From left to right: Thomas Levine (Historian), Deion Atkinson (Recording Sec.), David Ellis (President), Desmond Glover (Treasurer), Tyler Carneal (Corresponding Sec.) Perge! 1 \r\nPhi Gamma Delta Mu Pi Cabinet Members: President, David Ellis ’21 HPEX, Nu Class David Ellis starts his first semester as President of the Mu Pi chapter with the full support of his chapter and goals to grow FIJI’s presence on campus. The chapter is extremely excited to have David as their leader, and everyone is looking forward to seeing the great things this new president has in store not only for FIJI but all of VCU Greek Life. David has done a great job of leading our previous pledge class and now looks forward to leading all of us. Ellisds@vcu.edu Treasurer, Desmond Glover ’21 Finance, Nu Class With plenty of experience, Desmond looks to bring his knowledge from being treasurer of the NAACP Undergraduate Organization to the Mu Pi chapter. His goal is to further our economic prosperity as a chapter. With Desmond's experience and leadership, we look forward to growing our chapter funds and opening a joint savings account, controlled by the Graduate Chapter and Cabinet, for long-term chapter investments. Gloverda2@mymail.vcu.edu Recording Secretary, Deion Atkinson ’22 Mechanical Engineering, Nu Class Everyone who knows Deion knows the leader he is. Someone who unselfishly gives himself to his brothers without question and has the whole faith of the chapter. Deion is bringing his experience gained at the Phi Gamma Delta Leadership Academy this past January and feels completely confident to keep the chapter organized, up-to-date, and adamantly participating. Atkinsondj@mymail.vcu.edu Corresponding Secretary, Tyler Carneal ’21 HPEX, Mu Class Tyler starts his first semester on cabinet with the main focus of improving the broad aspects of what his position entails. He looks to expand our philanthropy and continue to grow our image in a positive light across the community. Tyler is an important part of this cabinet and will be crucial in growing projects. The whole chapter is looking forward to his success. Carnealtj@vcu.edu Historian, Thomas Levine ’21 Music, Mu Class As the only Dobson representative on the cabinet, Thomas “Tommy” Levine, is excited about bringing the “Dobson Eats” mentality to the cabinet and the chapter. Tommy is looking forward to expanding the chapter’s knowledge and understanding of the ritual. His aim is to further connect us to the one thing that connects all of our brothers internationally. Thomas.levine9904@gmail.com February 2020 2 \r\nPhi Gamma Delta Mu Pi Letter from the Section Chief: Greetings Brothers, This past year we have experienced strong brotherhood in the chapter’s daily activity and reach towards ‘Not For College Days Alone’. Two Pig Dinners within 2019. One in the Spring and the other the Fall brought undergraduates and graduates together in sharing personal stories of what the Fraternity means to each of us and sharpened our practice of upholding longtime Fraternity traditions. Leadership continues to be strong not only in the cabinet, but also in the ranks of the committees. This trend will allow the chapter to reach further goals and aspirations. The expectations of the chapter can’t be accomplished without strong leadership and participation from every chapter brother. Academy helped to emphasize the importance of Building Courageous Leaders in every area of a chapter. I ask each of you to contribute in your own way by leading in your chapter, academics, and community. Reporting on recent structural changes, the chapter is moving out of Section X Central and into Section X West. Other chapters will include Rho Chi at the University of Richmond and Delta Deuteron at Hampton-Sydney College. As we progress further into the year, I’ll look for ways the chapters can collaborate further. See below some details on the chapters. Mu Pi Chapter; established at Virginia Commonwealth University in 2014 Rho Chi Chapter; established at University of Richmond in 1890, Re-chartered in 2018 Delta Deuteron Chapter; Established at Hampden-Sydney in 1870, Re-chartered in 1967 In closing, I want to highlight the hard work the chapter has done in ushering in the new pledge class. I encourage all brothers to help these new pledges to learn our traditions, join our brotherhood, achieve academic success, and reach towards living our values to one day become a brother of our Fraternity. Perge! Francis Thompson (Virginia Tech / Rho Alpha '00) Section Chief for Phi Gamma Delta, Section X West 1311 Dance Street Richmond, VA 23220 C: 804-943-7677 Email: francis_thompson@me.com February 2020 3 \r\nPhi Gamma Delta Mu Pi Committee Heads Pledge Education: Jp Seibold (Nu Class, Finance, 2022) Seiboldjp@vcu.edu Brotherhood: Peyton Volman (Mu Class, Psychology, 2021) Volmanph@vcu.edu Philanthropy: Rohan Repala (Nu Class, Computer Science and Financial Technology, 2022) Rohan.repala@gmail.com Sports: Khafi Hidayat (Nu Class, Fashion Design 2022) hidayatkn@vcu.edu Huge Fundraising: Patrick Williams (Lambda Class, Finance, 2021) Williamspc5@vcu.edu Service: Augusto Gonzales (Nu Class, HPEX, 2022) Gonzalezsuaag@vcu.edu Personal Relations: Austin Mills (Omicron Class, Mechanical and Nuclear engineering, 2021) Millsah98@gmail.com Scholarship: Josh Smith (Omicron Class, Business Finance, 2023) Smithjp5@mymail.vcu.edu Social: Usamah Nelson (Nu Class Finance, 2022) Nelsonu@vcu.edu Recruitment: Gregg Barengolts (Omicron Class, Business Management, 2022) Gregbarengolts@gmail.com J Board: Cameron Glass (Nu Class, Marketing, 2021) Glasscj@vcu.edu Jobs: Michael Portillo (Lambda Class, Finance, 2021) Portillomk@mymail.vcu.edu Awards: Phi Do (Mu Class, HPEX, 2021) Doph@vcu.edu February 2020 4 \r\nPhi Gamma Delta Editors Notes: As the semester begins, thus does my term as the Mu Pi Graduate Relations chair. The graduate relations committee has made it a goal this semester to release this newsletter monthly to the graduate base. As the chapter grows I hope the letter will continue to grow with it, and provide key insight into the monthly activities of our chapter. We decided to keep this letter concise and simple for the first edition, but I look forward to providing you all more news about Mu Pi as we progress into the semester. This newsletter will be a vital source of communication between our undergraduate chapter and the graduate base. Please text or call me at 804-898-9088 or via email at nunnca@vcu.edu with advice, comments, concerns, or remarks regarding the newsletter in the future. Also, we are looking forward to having more graduate events this semester. We are planning events not only in Richmond, but we would like to have an event in the D.C. area as well! If you can help us plan this or would like your opinion heard on the matter do not hesitate to reach out! I'd also like to invite any grads to join us at our weekly grad-relations meeting at Tobacco Company power hour, Thursday 8-9 pm (when the weather gets nicer the meeting will move to VMFA happy hour). The first round for all grads that come to the meeting is on me, and I hope to see you all soon! Lastly, I’d like to shout out all the graduate brothers that have been around the past couple of weeks. Huge shout out to Jacob Camacho, Steph Espiritu, and Devin Zimmerman for coming around and helping the Undergrads! Mu Pi Cumba’s Column: “Give sice get sice” What do FIJI’s mean when they’re talking about sice? I believe this is a motto taken seriously by all brothers and stands for what it means to represent Mu Pi. As my third year being part of the chapter, I’ve seen lots of changes but sicing your brothers is one that’s stayed the same. The brotherly bond of giving back has been something engraved within the chapter and a tradition that will be carried on for many years to come. Made popular by the graduate brother Martin Klünder Eta class, a sice can be as simple as a swipe into Shafer or as deep as sicing your brothers Sushi King, or even giving your brothers a ride home to Nova. All of our brothers sice daily, which inherently leads to all of our brothers being siced daily. This is what makes our chapter better than anyone else’s as we always have our brothers’ backs through thick and thin. As always, I love all my brothers and I’m proud to be a FIJI! - Anthony Cumba ’21 Lambda class Andrew Nunn ‘21 Lambda Class February 2020 5