By: Nicholas Sullivan Spring 2012 The KP Owl Spring 2012 Newsletter Welcome back! With spring rush right around the corner spring is going to be a busy season. The new E-board is back from academy, and we are ready to take on this semester! Contents Meet the new E-board Graduate brother spotlight. Philanthropy and Community service. The Presidential address Upcoming events The 100-year book Congratulations to the xi class! \r\nSpring 2012 Meet the New E-board PresidentRobert W. Marshall IV Pawtucket, RI Economics major with a Leadership studies minor TreasurerPeter Fredman Washington DC, Maryland Pharmacy Major Recording SecretaryJason Rubin Montville, NJ Public relations major Corresponding SecretaryNicholas Sullivan Coventry, RI Geoscience Major HistorianEric Munzert Pawtucket, RI Spanish and environmental/ Natural resource economics Graduate Spotlight Bill MacKinnon: Originally from Randolph, Massachusetts, Bill graduated with a Bachelors of Science in Business Administration. As a supply chain management major, he completed college with a 3.53 grade point average with magna cum laude distinction. During his time at URI, Bill was Treasurer of Student Senate as well as Public Relations chair for the Inter-fraternity Council. As a Phi Gam, Bill was president from fall 2009 until fall 2010. Additionally, he held other positions such as Corresponding Secretary, Judicial Board President, and Pledge Educator. 2 \r\nSpring 2012 Philanthropy and Community Service • Last February, the brothers of KP Phi Gamma Delta continued the FIJI Freeze. Raising money for Cystic Fibrosis, our undergraduates ran and jumped into the water at Scarborough Beach in Narragansett. In junction with our Cystic Fibrosis night hosted at Friendly’s in Wakefield, we raised approximately $650. • Towards the end of the spring semester, the brothers once again put on an event dedicated to Cystic Fibrosis. Brother Rich Tetreault’s truck ceased to function, so instead of just scrapping it, he donated it for our chapter’s “Beat the Frig Out of a Rig.” URI students paid to take swings at Rich’s truck with a sledgehammer. We raised close to $350 to donate to Cystic Fibrosis, bringing our single semester total to about $1000! 3 3rd An nual Fiji Fr eeze FIJI \r\nSpring 2012 Philanthropy and Community Service • Currently, thanks to undergraduate brother Nick Sullivan, Phi Gamma Delta is raising money at Burger Shack in the Emporium at the top of campus. Restaurant goers who donate at least 50 cents to Cystic Fibrosis receive a card that they can sign and place on the wall of Burger Shack. We’re anticipating our first philanthropy of the 2011-2012 academic year to be very successful. • Last spring, FIJI also participated in IFC and Panhel’s Greek wide cleanup. For this event, our brothers teamed up with all the fraternities and sororities on campus to pick up litter. Our Greeks made a huge difference, evidence by the appearance of Fraternity Circle and the accompanying areas. • On Saturday October 15th, several brothers and pledges headed down to the Bonnet Shores Community Center to participate in a cleanup of the beaches. FIJI’s worked by picking up litter and transporting sand in order to Rhode Island’s beaches looking beautiful. 4 \r\nSpring 2012 The Presidents Address Greetings brothers! It is with great excitement that we bring to you our new Kappa Rho Newsletter. Our goal in the beginning of the semester was to create a consistent flow of communication between our undergraduate and graduate brothers. Beginning with this first installment, we plan on releasing two newsletters per semester. In this inaugural issue, we will cover recent chapter accomplishments, along with some information on brothers and pledges. Additionally, at the end of the newsletter, you can view the upcoming events that we encourage all graduate brothers to attend. Now is a very thrilling time for our beloved Kappa Rho chapter. We have just completed our 100th year on the URI campus, to which our Housing Corporation has created a book celebrating our history (more on this book inside the newsletter). We have absolved ourselves of the preexisting debt we had been in since being rechartered in the spring of 2008, and are once again poised to recapture FIJI’s dominance on the URI campus. I hope that this first issue shows that the undergraduates have dedicated themselves to keeping our graduate brothers more involved, and I am only asking that you jump on board with us. The next few years will undoubtedly present many unforeseen challenges to our chapter, but I am more confident than ever that our undergraduates will rise to the occasion and will continue to build upon our chapter’s excellence, winning for Phi Gamma Delta glory eternal. Kevin Walsh Undergraduate Phi Gamma Delta President Kevin_walsh@my.uri.edu Perge! \r\nUpcoming Events & What’s New Frank B. Norris Pig Dinner Saturday April 14th. Our annual Pig Dinner is typically the first Saturday in April, but since Easter falls on the 8th, we have decided to push the Pig Dinner back till Saturday the 14th. More information about this year’s Pig Dinner will come in future installments of the Kappa Rho Newsletter. Save the date! 100 Year Celebration Books Please follow this link to view the order form for the 100 year celebration book. http://sl6dev.mailordercentral.com/spirit/prodinfo.asp?number=URI-PHIGAM Please feel free to email me with any questions, or comments at Nick427@my.uri.edu. If there is anyone you would like to nominate for the graduate spotlight, or any special mentions I will be including a new section in the next issue. Nicholas M. Sullivan Corresponding Secretary Kappa Rho Chapter URI Perge!