The following is a re-cap of the Alumi Association Advisory Board, from Brother Michael Easton.
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A meeting of the Alumni Advisory Board was held on Tuesday, November 13, 2007.

In attendance: Tom Boelk, Michael Easton, Terry Lawler, Paula Mohan, Mark Litscher (aka Lurch), Bob Hazod, Ryan Trezek, Nick Weisensel (aka, Pokes), Kevin Grabowski (aka, Doggers), Luke Villwok, and Andy Ellinger.
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The following is a note from our Academic Advisor on the UW-Whitewater campus, Paula Mohan, regarding Greek System Reforms.

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SOLICITING ALUMNI FEEDBACK ABOUT HOW BEST TO REFORM THE GREEK SYSTEM AT UWW

The report issued by the NIC consultant’s study on how greek relations function on the UWW campus has been released and university officials are seeking feedback from alumni members, House corporation members, and anyone with an interest in UWW-Greek relations. The Blue Ribbon Commission on Greek Reform will convene after feedback is provided, will look at the input provided, and will write up a list of recommendations for changes in how the Greek system operates, due by February 15, 2008. (more…)

The following is a message from Brother Tom Boelk.

“After 25 years as serving as “High Pi” for the Lambda Iota chapter of Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity, I will be stepping down and will move to emeritus status. I will continue to attend Leadership Conferences and will stay active in both chapter and International activities, but it is time for a new person to take on the role of “High Pi” as the chapter recolonizes. I will be around to help the new person transition into the job and will always be available to give advice and to share the knowledge I have picked up over the years. To whoever steps forward to take this on, please know that you will not be alone but will have the support of both me and other brothers. I also hope that whoever becomes the new “High Pi” finds it as rewarding as I have over the years.”

The following message is from Alumni Association President, Marty Hoke.

“Given that Tom Boelk has indicated that he’d like to step down as High Pi, we’d like to offer the opportunity to any brother who would be willing and able to take on this rewarding challenge. Please think carefully about what this commitment will entail.

While there will be a great deal of support from other brothers and especially from Tom, Jarod Holt, who will be leading our recolonization effort, has made it clear that it will be necessary for the new “High Pi” to spend a significant amount of time helping to establish the colony and making sure that the new officers understand their roles in the beginning months. After the colony is established, it is anticipated that time requirements will be that of an established High Pi, and so will require less time. So, if you live somewhat close to Whitewater and you feel you have the time, energy and enthusiasm to make this commitment, please consider it.

If you have any questions or would like to nominate someone as a prospective candidate, including yourself, please contact Marty Hoke (mhoke@uline.com). Nominations will close at midnight on December 7th.”

A reminder that there is an Alumni Association Business Meeting:

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007 at 7pm
215 Hyer Hall, UW-Whitewater Campus

Click the link above to see the original posting with an attached agenda.

We surpassed our goal!
Final (Pending) Total: $1160 (11/05/07, 8:00am)
Donor List

With all electronic donations in, I can tell you for sure we have $855 in donations via this website, alone! Our Alumni Association President, Martin Hoke, has been accepting cash/check donations for the Food Drive and can add to this to make the grand total final. (Last I was told, he had $290 in cash/check donations which gives us the pending $1145 total). Upon finalizing the amount, a check will be sent to the Whitewater Food Pantry and a check presentation will be made. Follow-up press releases and photos will be sent to the newspaper outlets in the Whitewater and Janesville area. I will have the final conversion of pounds of food raised, once I confirm it with Marilyn Kleinbaum, director of the Whitewater Food Pantry. All totals will be posted here and submitted in the press release.

Again, many thanks to the Brothers who had the means to donate to our Fraternity’s largest philanthropic event, nation-wide! Keep up to date with the website to see final totals for Lambda Chi Alpha nationally for the North American Food Drive!
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The Alumni Association has put together a Facebook group for all Lambda Chi Alpha Brothers from Whitewater. If you are a Lambda Chi from Whitewater, we want you to join. The group is members only, so be sure to click the button on Facebook to request membership. You must have an active Facebook account to join the group.

Click here to go to our Facebook group.

We currently have over 25 of our Brothers in the group and more joining every day (I believe 10 have joined this week, alone). Group members can upload images, video and post items about themselves, what they are doing and general Chopper talk.

Some of the Brothers I have been excited to catch up with on Facebook are: Al Florence, Peter Jacquin, Ken Schuldt and Matt Nelson.

Do you have no idea what Facebook is? Click here to read the Wikipedia entry explaining it

The Alumni Association has scheduled a business meeting to discuss some of the preliminary issues in preparation for Recolonizing:

7:00 pm, Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
215 Hyer Hall on UWW campus

AGENDA:

a.) Expansion Committee process report and what will be required by the University

b.) Report from the Blue Ribbon Commission on Greek Reform and release of the National Consultant’s report

c.) The High Pi conference in San Antonio, January 2008

d.) Alumni membership concerns

e.) Report from Jeff Reisdorfer on North American Food Drive, Alumni website, Recruitment Campaign and general information on other projects on behalf of the Chapter

f.) Any new business that anyone else has

To add items to the agenda or if you have any questions, please direct them to Marty (mhoke@uline.com) Please comment to this post if you are plan to attend.

(Above) Our advertisement in the Homecoming Issues of the Royal Purple

Our Alumni Association President Marty Hoke and our Housing Corporation President Tom Boelk would like thank all of the Brothers who were able to attend the 2007 Homecoming events in Whitewater.

Lambda Chi Alumni met at the House at 416 West North Street at 11am and walked to the game at 1pm. At Halftime, the Warhawks were up on the UW-Oshkosh Titans 10-0. Brother Darren Hafford was up for a University Commerical Award, and while his entry was not chosen, a friend of Darren’s did win, so we congratulate him. The Warhawks went on to topple the Titans, 26-14. Aside from the win, a game highlight was Warhawk runningback Justin Beaver surpassing 5000 career rushing yards to become the first running back in UW-Whitewater and WIAC history to do so.

Brothers reconviened at the Brass Rail for the telling of stories and several games of pool. Alumni from several generations were represented. A big tip of the hat to all Alumni who made cash donations to the North American Food Drive during the homecoming weekend.

We are looking forward to Homecoming 2008 when we are planning to support our new Colony of Brothers to the fullest extents possible. Make plans now to attend Homecoming 2008!

From what I can tell, the theme of Homecoming 2007 is “Our Favorite Combo”.
…and I have no idea what that relates to.

Events for Whitewater Homecoming 2007:
Parade 10am - Main Street
Football Game vs. UW-Oshkosh 1pm - Perkins Stadium
A complete list is available by clicking here.

The Alumni Association is still putting together plans for a Homecoming gathering. If you are interested in attending, please reply to this post (by clicking COMMENTS) and comment with your name and what your plans are for the weekend. Any gathering at the House is still under review, as we need to clear that with the tennants who are currently living there (as they are not Lambda Chi’s).

Plans so far include:
- Running a supportive advertisement in the Royal Purple from the Lambda Chi Alpha Alumni Association
- Showing our spirit by attending the Parade and Game wearing Lambda Chi Alpha letters

Keep checking the website (and emails) for updates.

Click the media player below to hear Whitewater’s Fight Song!

Here is the much anticipated image of the Website Award that we won at the 2007 Leadership Seminar for this website. (You can also see the banner we put on the top of the banner, Lambda Chi Alpha’s Website of the Year!).

Thank you to everyone who has contributes to make this website a continued success!

Did you know that Lambda Chi Alpha is the 2nd oldest Fraternal organization in Whitewater? Only surpassed by Phi Chi Epsilon, Lambda Chi Alpha has roots as a Fraternal organization that goes back to 1929!

I have begun to compile our local history of an organization in Whitewater. Currently, I have all entries from Whitewater’s Official Yearbook, The Minneiska, from 1932-1990. This details the history of our organization, begining with a Fraternity known as Beta Kappa Nu, to Chi Delta Rho, to Delta Kappa, back to Chi Delta Rho and finally becoming Lambda Chi Alpha.

As I put together a complete history and map out all of the houses our Fraternity(s) have used throughout the years, I ask all of you to contribute any information you have to this effort. I am specifically looking for documents, photographs and other items that would prove useful in this documentation.

If you have materials or stories you would like to share and add to our local history, email me …remove the parens from the email address. If you do not have means to scan these documents to email, let me know and I will make arrangements to get the from/to you in an orderly fashion.

Brothers, here are the minutes from the Alumni Association Business Meeting which took place in Whitewater on August 21, 2007. You will find the names and contact information of our new officers as well as information on the upcoming meeting with Lambda Chi Alpha HQ Associate Director of Chapter Services, Jared Holt, which is scheduled for Tuesday August 28, 2007.

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The next Alumni Association Business Meeting has been scheduled.

Tuesday, August 21, 2007
7:00pm
Winther Hall, Room 2010
UW-W campus
(Click here to view the campus map for more information)

The agenda of the meeting will include:

1) Electing of Officers for the Alumni Association (If you want more information on being an Officer, contact Marty…see below)
2) Planning an agenda for discussion of the upcoming meeting with HQ representatives
3) Report on this year’s Leadership Seminar, as well as other updates
4) Any new business

If you have any questions/concerns, please contact either Alumni Association President, Marty Hoke(mhoke@uline.com) or Faculty Advisor, Paula Mohan (mohanp@uww.edu)

This is a follow up to my previous post about our Alumni Association winning the Lambda Chi Alpha - Alumni Website Award at this year’s Leadership Seminar.

The Lambda Chi Alpha - Alumni Website Award was judged on the following attributes:
-Use of computer technology
-Layout
-Content management
-Computer graphics
-Website design
(Content and usability were stressed to the judges)

Specific content that was mentioned included:
-Ability to donate online (live donations)
-Graphics used in posts
-Quality posts about history and current events
-Salute to our Brothers
-Vir Quisque Vir
-Business Meeting re-caps

I bring great news to all of our Alumni! Lambda Iota won the Alumni Association Website Award at the 2007 Lambda Chi Alpha Leadership Seminar for efforts of work on this website!

We would like to thank all of you who have made comments on stories and posts to this site. Also, thank you to all of you who read this site on a regular basis, suggest topics, stories and make donations to the Alumni Association. All of these things give us energy and reason to keep this site going and thus keep Lambda Iota going through this period of re-grouping.

Chalk one up for Lambda Iota and Whitewater, we’re on our way gentlemen!

I will be posting more information on Leadership Seminar, soon. In the mean time, snack on these few select pictures that are posted on the Lambda Chi Alpha Flickr stream.

On behalf of the Alumni Association, I would like to thank those of you who donated to the Recolonization efforts for Lambda Chi Alpha in Whitewater during our Recolonize in 5 campaign.

Your generous donations have raised over $900 to be put towards recolonizing and Alumni Association efforts!

For those of you who have yet to donate, you can always make a donation with a credit/debit card by clicking the “Make a Donation” button in the right column.

Thank you again for honoring your responsibilities and ensuring Lambda Chi Alpha will continue to live in Whitewater.

We are over halfway through our fundraising campaign for recolonizing Lambda-Iota in Whitewater. I am pleased to announce that we have collected over half of our goal of $1000! Click the clock above to learn more about the fundraiser.

On behalf of the Alumni Association, I would like to thank the handful of generous donors who have brought our donation total over $500 in just 15 days! I implore all of you to donate even the smallest amounts in assisting our Brotherhood’s return to Whitewater.

Click the “Make a Donation” button on the right side of the page. No PayPal account is required, and you can use a credit card to donate today!

Click the clock above to learn how you can IMPACT the future of LCA at UWW in less than 5 minutes.

I am pleased to announce that the Alumni Association is having a fundraiser to support the efforts of Recolonizing Lambda Chi Alpha on the Whitewater campus! From today, June 15th through July 15th, donations made to the Alumni Association through this website will be used in the Recolonization process and to support the Alumni Association. We have assembled a team to prepare a website, print, radio and tv materials for use in Whitewater to aid Recolonizing and get Lambda Chi’s name back on campus.

Donating is easier than ever with the new PayPal system we have set up. Click the “Make a Donation” button on the top-right side of this page. Track our Fundaising donations with the Lambda Chi Thermometer…and keep your eyes peeled to the Donor List page that lives on this site. (You can also access the Donor List through the link on the right navigation, as well).

Our goal is $1,000. Please give whatever you can. Even $10 will add fuel to our efforts of bringing Lambda Chi back to Whitewater!

On behalf of Martin Hoke (President of the Alumni Association) and all future Brothers of Lambda Chi Alpha in Whitewater, we thank you for your donations!