September 2015 Volume 6 Issue 1 What’s Inside THE TRADITION CONTINUES Pledge Profiles Pg. 2 Summer Experiences Pg. 8 Chi Eta Chapter Contacts Pg. 10 What’s Ahead Above: The chapter poses in the Chandler Memorial cam- Purple Run: Oct. 24, 9 a.m. at Keriakes Park. Register at wkufiji. com/philanthropy. pus chapel after the Omicron Homecoming: Nov. 6-7, Football game at 11 a.m., Nov. 7. Details to follow. class stand in front of Ft. class was pledged in. Left: The 19 new members that make up the Omicron Armstrong just minutes after the celebration at Van Meter. 1 Friendship. Knowledge. Service. Morality. Excellence. 1 \r\nTHE “OMICRON” PLEDGE CLASS Name: Logan Carroll (2019) Major: Biology High School Activities: Trinity Cross Country, Trinity Long Distance Track, and Future Business Leaders of America Hometown: Louisville Big Brother: Joey Badinger What are you looking forward to most out of your fraternity experience? Getting to know all of the chapter members better, creating experiences that turn into weird stories, and Biking for Alzheimers Favorite Movie: Toy Story Name: Thomas Deaton (2019) Major: Undeclared Major High School Activities: Swimming, Tennis, Beta Club, Spanish Club, Class Officer, Principal’s Advisory Council, EHS Athletic Complex Media Director Hometown: Elizabethtown Big Brother: Elijah Essa What are you looking forward to most out of your fraternity experience? : A sense of unity and accountability among each other as we move into a new environment of challenges and experiences away from that with which we are familiar. Favorite Movie: You’ve Got Mail Name: Noah Robert Edmonson (2019) Major: Organizational Leadership High School Activities: FCA president, FBLA co-president, NHS member, Beta member, captain of the baseball team, 4 year varsity baseball letterman, served in Living Hope Baptist Church’s Middle School ministry for 2 years and served with 3 year olds for 3 1/2 years. Hometown: Bowling Green Big Brother: Alec Brown What are you most looking forward to getting out of the fraternity experience? I am most excited to grow as a Christian man through going through new experiences and being able to love my brothers and my university. Favorite Movie: Good Will Hunting 2 Friendship. Knowledge. Service. Morality. Excellence. \r\nName: Jake Edmunds (2019) Major: Marketing High School Activities: Track and field, cross country, spirit club Hometown: Bowling Green Big Brother: Hunter Sewell What are you most looking forward to getting out of the fraternity experience? Being apart of something great such as Phi Gamma Delta along with some great guys. Be the best Hilltopper, student, and Fiji I can be. Favorite Movie: Any superhero movie Name: Grant Fedoruk (2019) Major: Business High School Activities: Lacrosse, young life Hometown: Franklin, Tenn. Big Brother: Toryn Cornell What are you most looking forward to getting out of the fraternity experience? To make life long friends and bonds and to help myself become a better man. Favorite Movie: The Dark Knight Name: Peter Fields (2019) Major: Organizational Leadership High School Activities: Football, Track and Field, Student Council, Vision Team, Captains’ Club Hometown: Erlanger Big Brother: Jacob Hodges What are you most looking forward to out of your fraternity experience? A brotherhood that will last a lifetime. Favorite Movie: Oceans 11 3 Friendship. Friendship. Knowledge. Knowledge. Service. Service. Morality. Morality. Excellence. Excellence. \r\nName: Jonathan Greene (2019) Major: Biology and Chemistry High School Activities: In high school, I was apart of my schools marching and concert bands where I played saxophone and was Drum Major. I was also Vice President of Student Council and was involved in my church’s youth group. Hometown: Lexington Big Brother: Carson Price What are you most looking forward to out of your fraternity experience? I’m looking forward to getting closer to my brothers and having more opportunities for service work! Favorite Movie: Finding Nemo Name: Connor Hicks (2019) Major: Business Economics High School Activities: Basketball, worship leaders Hometown: Louisville Big Brother: Carson Ball What are you most looking forward to out of your fraternity experience? Just to bond with brothers through fundraising, trips, and quality time, to win some intramurals, and to grow closer with Christ. Favorite Movie: Gladiator Name: Josh Hicks (2017) Major: Mechanical Engineering High School Activities: Soccer and Tennis Hometown: Owensboro Big Brother: Ian Greer What are you most looking forward to out of your fraternity experience? To be more involved on campus and in the community. Favorite Movie: Our Idiot Brother 4 Friendship. Knowledge. Service. Morality. Excellence. \r\nName: Luke Huffman (2019) Major: Arabic, Self Design Russian High School Activities: WV Snowboard team, soccer captain, basketball, baseball Hometown: Somerset Big Brother: Logan Johnson What are you most looking forward to out of your fraternity experience? Making new pals. Favorite Movie: Monsters Inc. Name: Evan Kerr (2018) Major: Music Education- Integrated (voice and trumpet) High school activities: Football, wrestling, chamber chorale, marching band Hometown: Mt. Washington Big Brother: Seth Bland What are you most looking forward to getting out of the fraternity experience? I’m looking forward growing the fraternity and growing personally along with all of my brothers. Favorite Movie: The Dark Knight Rises Name: Nikil Ravishankar (2019) Major: Biology (Pre-medicine concentration) High School activities: Governors Scholars Program, Governors School for Entrepreneurs, National Honors Society, Student Council, Beta Club, Varsity tennis, Academic team, Kentucky Youth Assembly, National Society of High School Scholars, Chess club Hometown: Bowling Green Big Brother: Peyton Rhea What are you most looking forward to out of your fraternity experience? I am looking forward to growing as an individual. Through my journey, I aim to enhance my leadership skills, solidify strengths, and serve others in any capacity I can. Making a commitment to striving toward excellence as a fraternity compels me to build new friendships, achieve my highest academic potential, expand my network, and carry the knowledge I obtain throughout the rest of my life. Favorite Movie: Fight Club 5 Friendship. Knowledge. Service. Morality. Excellence. \r\nName: Jacob Roy (2019) Major: Sports Nutrition & Dietetics High School Activities: Basketball Hometown: Crestwood Big Brother: Travis Hardcastle What are you most looking forward to getting out of your fraternity experience? Looking forward most to having a community to support me as I go through the good times and the rough patches that come with each semester Favorite Movie:Shawshank Redemption Name: Noah Rudloff (2019) Major: Corporate and Organizational Communication High School Activities: Speech & Debate, Student Government, FBLA, Theatre Hometown: Bowling Green Big Brother: Will Hixson What are you most looking forward to getting out of the fraternity experience? The brotherhood aspect of the fraternity was the most appealing aspect to me. The motto “Not for college days alone..” is what made me love Fiji immediately. Favorite Movie: A tie between The Dark Knight and Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith Name: Aaron Smith (2019) Major: Secondary Education High School Activties: Football, baseball Hometown: Somerset Big Brother: Alex Turner What are you most looking forward to out of your fraternity experience? A bunch of guys that I can hang out with that will keep me accountable and help me improve. Favorite Movie: The Maze Runner Name: Alex Stackhouse (2019) Major: Undeclared High School Activities: Varsity Baseball and National Honors Society Hometown: Bowling Green Big Brother: Ben Brooks What are you most looking forward to out of your fraternity experience? Gaining the best and longest lasting brotherhood I’ll ever have. Favorite Movie: Field of Dreams . 6 Friendship. Knowledge. Service. Morality. Excellence. \r\nName: Noah A. Stevens (2019) Major: International Affairs & Arabic High School: North Hardin High School Hometown: Elizabethtown Big Brother: Tony Piedmonte What are you most looking forward to out of your fraternity experience? Helping others to and witnessing them reach academic milestones. Favorite Movie: Casablanca (1942) Name: Tommy Sullivan (2019) Major: Broadcasting/Spanish High School Activities: Student Government, Swimming, TV Production Hometown: Toledo, Ohio Big Brother: McGavinn Brown What are you most looking forward to out of your fraternity experience?: Supportive group of brothers Favorite Movie: Flight from Death: The Quest for Immortality Chi Eta By the Numbers 62 Undergraduate Brothers 1 Brother Abroad 19 Pledge Brothers 102 Graduate Brothers 3 Purple Runs 3 Bike4Alz Trips 2008 Chi Eta founded at WKU Friendship. Knowledge. Service. Morality. Excellence. 7 \r\nChi etas all over the world This summer the undergraduates of Chi Eta were learning, serving and working in all kinds of capacities and areas. From internships to mission trips to study abroad opportunities, Chi Etas are always striving to pursue excellence in every area. Featured on the next two pages are the stories of what Chi Etas did this summer. Logan Reynolds (2018) – Spent 10 weeks in Changwon, South Korea conducting chemical research with the chemistry department at Changwon National University. Ben Brooks (2017) – Participated in a 10-week Community Management Internship with Walgreen’s in Bowling Green. Ben handled store operations, merchandising and inventory management, along with senior outreach and immunization outreach events along with Prescription adherence improvement processes. His internship was capped Parker Kuhn (third from left) Brent Stephens (second from off with an Executive Summary presentation in front Wal- right) are pictured with their internship site staff at a Washinggreen’s corporate and district staff in Louisville. ton Nationals game. Parker Kuhn (2016), Brent Stephens (2016) – Interned at Kensington Park Senior Living Communities in Kensington, Md., learning the ins and outs of today’s long-term care environment. Matt Millay (2018) – Participated in the Summer Medical and Dental Education program at the University of Louisville, which offers opportunities for undergraduates to experience the way in which math and science are integrated into medical and dental school studies and careers. Grant Rohleder (2017), Colton Hounshell (2016), Brandon Pruitt (2017) and Austin Richards (2017) – For 10 weeks the four brothers were in Taiwan for an intensive Chinese immersion program. Andrew Boyles (2016) – Intern at Level Four Wealth Management in Bowling Green, preparing client data and researching the financial market. Friendship. Knowledge. Service. Morality. Excellence. 9 \r\nEnes Atici (2018) – Spent ten weeks at the University of Kentucky conducting hormonal research on fruit flies. Also went to Turkey for two weeks. Elijah Essa (2017) – Interned at the Finance Department at Appriss in Louisville, where he assisted with the rollout of new reporting software. Hayden Hickey (2016) – Intern at Norton Healthcare in Louisville working in organizational development. Drew Tingle (2016) – Intern at the Corvette As- ABOVE (From left to right) Austin Richards, Colton Hounshell, Ellen Linder (sister of Chi Eta graduate brother Will Linder) and Brandon sembly Plant where he helped manage preventative Pruitt (2017) are pictured in Taiwan. maintenance profiles and gave tours of the plant. BELOW: Jacob Tipton (right) is pictured alongside a Guatemalan he served with on a church mission trip to the village of Miramundo. Jamie Harvener (2016) – Performed in “42nd Street” which starred Tony award winning actress Karen Ziemba. They used the original “revival” choreography. Chris McKenna (2016) – Intern at the Institute of International Education in New York. Chris worked in the US student program’s office, the Fulbright scholarship in particular. Jacob Tipton (2018) – Took part in an Honors 251 trip to Washington and did research on DC Home Rule. Also went on a mission trip with his church to Guatemala working alongside Hope of Life Mission, helping construct a house and the first floor of a church in the village of Miramundo. Taylor Bowling (2016) – Project Engineer Intern for Messer Construction in Nashville as a Project Engineer constructing a Humanities building for Volunteer State Community College. Carson Price (2017) – Interned at Honeywell, a uranium refinery where he labeled pipes at the Honeywell metropolis showing what was in the pipe and the direction of flow. Alec Brown (2017) – Intern Tournament Coordinator at the Indiana Golf Office. Traveled the state of Indiana, spending all too many nights in Holiday Inn Expresses, directing and officiating junior golf tournaments for the Indiana Golf Foundation. Friendship. Knowledge. Service. Morality. Excellence. 10 \r\nChi Eta Chapter Contacts 2015 -2016 Chi Eta Housing Corporation President- Zack Ryle (2012) Secretary- Corey Johnson (2013) House Inspector- Josh Amos (2013) Graduate Delegates- Ben Harper, Luke Gilliam (2011), Ryan DeMuth (2013) Parent Delegates: Annette Wright, mother of Spencer (2014) and Skyler (2017). Scott Richards, father of Austin (2017). Quentin Hughes, father of Byron (2018). George Pennington, father of Erin (2013) and Erin (2015). 2015-2016 Board of Chapter Advisors Bob Anderegg (USC ‘71, WKU GA ‘10) Dr. Ray Blankenship (UK ‘84, WKU GA ‘10) Brian Campbell (2013) Brad Stephens (2013) Dylan Ward (2013) Chi Eta Purple Legionnaire- Brian Campbell 2015 Chi Eta Cabinet Andrew Boyles (2016) President Taylor Leigh (2017) Braden Profitt (2016) Treasurer Recording Secretary Taylor Bowling (2016) Sean Jacobson (2016) Corresponding Secretary Historian 11 Friendship. Knowledge. Service. Morality. Excellence. \r\nGraduate News Theological Seminary in Nashville. Ronnie Santana (2010) started law school at the University Joe Starks (2015) started teaching English to children in of St. Thomas School of Law in Minneapolis. Central Asia. Zach Graupner (2011) got engaged in June and is getting Zack Van Zant (2015) got engaged to Johnna Woodward married next July. and is getting married in December. Also started work as Chaz Vittitow (2011) commissioned as a Lieutenant in the an Investment Advisor. Navy and moved to San Diego. Matt Lawson (2015) began working as a Legislative In- Josh Wiseman (2012) accepted an externship position at the tern for Senator Mitch McConnell’s office in Washington. Nashville Zoo. Corey Johnson (2013) married Faith Edwards on June 27. Dylan Ward (2013) started his MPA at WKU-Owensboro. Erin Pennington (2013) married Angie Landon on July 11 and started work at Vanderbilt University in the audiovisual Have any graduate news? Send an email to graduate@wkufiji.com! department. Jacob Hood (2014) recently accepted a MLS position in Hardin Memorial Hospital in Elizabethtown. Tyler Lockhart (2014) started a job at Cumulus Media as an Account Executive for 104.1 KRBE in Houston. Sam Wells (2014) finished his year of service with Americorps in July and is moving back to Kentucky in October. Matt Purdom (2014) married Merritt Swisher on July 18 and started Law School at the University of Louisville. Ryan DeMuth (2014) married Carly Atkins on July 18. Wade Weatherholt (2015) married Jennay Dugan on May 30 and started WKU’s Doctorate of Physical Therapy program. Drew Morgan (2015) started studying at Southern Baptist Learn about the WKU Excellence Fund and how you can support Chi Eta at www.wkufiji.com/donate Current Supporters Bob Anderegg (USC `71, WKU GA `10) Jeff Baynham (WKU GI `10) Dr. Ray Blankenship (Kentucky `84, WKU GA `10) Brandon Bowman (WKU `10) Dr. Craig Cobane (WKU GI`10) Matt Edgar (British Columbia ‘07) George and Jane Pennington (Parents) Blaine Routt (WKU `11) Josh Wiseman (WKU `12) Brad Stephens (WKU’13) 12 Friendship. Knowledge. Service. Morality. Excellence.