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Lafayette College hosted its first Greek Life Virtual Town Hall this afternoon. It is available for download and viewing at this link. I suggest everyone interested in Greek Life, DKE, and the progress of IAGGL (pronounced Eagle), watch and listen to the presentation. The first half hour is an overview by Dr. Celestino Limas. The second half hour is a Q&A session with a mix of pre-submitted questions and questions submitted during the virtual town hall by online participants.
The main speakers are:
- Bob Massa – VP of Communications – “Moderator” of the town hall
- Celestino Limas – VP of Campus Life & Senior Diversity Officer – Main speaker, Chair of IAGGL
- Stuart Umberger – Director of Fraternity & Sorority Life
- Other speakers were faculty/students, who introduce themselves when they speak
This Lafayette’s first time using this technology to communicate with its alumni base and parents of students. They covered a lot of ground and this is a good opportunity for alumni to see, hear, and think about how IAGGL is approaching their work.
If you have any questions, comments, concerns, or opinions about the virtual town hall or IAGGL’s work, please write them in the comments section of this post or e-mail them directly to Michael De Lisi.
Our hosting transfer is complete. We’ve added RSS feeds from our students (see right sidebar), and two from Lafayette College. One is for progress reports from the Implementation and Assessment Greek Life Group IAGGL and the other is for general Greek Life news (see left sidebar). rhodke.org is your one-stop shop for all Lafayette College Greek Life information relevant to Rho Dekes!
We also added an RSS feed you can subscribe to with your favorite RSS reader here or by clicking on the RSS icon in the top right of the page. You’ll also notice a button up there that takes you to the Rho DKE LinkedIn Group for professional networking and development.
As part of the hosting move, we decided to archive the forums. If there is demand, we can bring them back up. We have the data offline. Since we don’t have forums, please comment on the individual articles we post here or any of our pages.
All e-mails accounts have been setup. We are still in the process of setting up the individual class mailing lists. When we setup each mailing list, you will receive a confirmation e-mail with instructions on how to use the discussion list with your classmates.
We’re in the process of transferring to a new host. Please pardon our appearance and check back soon because the transfer is almost complete!
On November 25, 2011, between 3pm and 6pm, the Jiwanko Saathiharu Foundation will be hosting a Volleyball tournament at Amity High School in Amity, CT. Proceeds will be donated to benefit the children of the beautiful, yet impoverished, nation of Nepal, as well as an annual Amity scholarship in memory of Jeremy Saxe. DKE supports the foundation annually with it’s undergraduate event “The Saxe Basketball Tournament.” We encourage all brothers who are in the area this holiday season to stop by and support this noble cause. For more information: http://www.ctbulletin.com/articles/2011/11/17/news/doc4ec5389d1c00c307020110.txt
For those who are unaware, Jeremy is a member of the DKE RHO class of 2009, and passed away his Senior year from natural causes. The Jiwanko Saathiharu Foundation was set up in his honor to support the children of Nepal. These children had a special place in Jeremy’s heart after his study abroad experience in that region. The foundation has many goals at hand, including to construct a better Napali school. For more information on the foundation please visit www.jeremysaxe.com
Durring DKE’s homecoming meeting, several alumni raised questions about raising the profile of the annual Jeremy Saxe Memorial Basketball Tournament. Brother Baldwin ’12 indicated he would be crafting a press release to bring local reporters to the event this Spring. Additionally, Brothers Garelli ’09 and Crerand ’09, who are in charge of communications for the alumni association, would do all they could to raise the profile of the event among the alumni association.
The event raises funds for the Jeremy Saxe Foundation, which supports education in the developing world, an important cause to Brother Saxe who passed away of natural causes in his Sr. year at Lafayette. The tournament has been very successful since it’s debut in 2009, not only rasing money for the foundation, but also bringing alumni back to Lafayette to support their fraternity, and to honor a fallen brother.
A brother dead and brothers mourning
Fill the heart with grief today,
And the earnest grasp fraternal;
Speaks, “a dear one passed away.”
Yes, no longer we shall greet thee
In the halls of DKE,
Yet thy name in sweet remembrance
Graven on our hearts will be.
We have parted, Brother, parted,
As we trust, to meet again
In a full unbroken circle,
Free from sorrow, grief and pain.
Brother Duncan Andrews ’57 passed away March 17, 2011. In addition to his NYTimes Obituary, Doug Lanpher (DKE’s Executive Director) sent along the following thoughts to all Rho Dekes:
I’m very sorry to hear about Duncan passing away. He was a true gentleman and I hope you had gotten to know him. When I worked for DKE in the late 1970′s he was very helpful to me in many ways, not only helping me in the DKE job but also in teaching a kid from Ohio how to survive in New York City. He served DKE in many capacities (including President of the Board, and Executive Director), was the main contributor and editor of the 150-year history book, wrote many articles for the Quarterly, and was a worthy successor to Mike Michaels as the Rho representative on the DKE Board. I had been in touch by phone with him over the past year and sent him the newsletter and Quarterlies, and he loved hearing news about DKE, even though he could not get out and enjoy the DKE Club any more. I made sure to let him know that his chapter was doing very well, and he was pleased to hear that. He had great DKE spirit and he loved the fraternity. Rho Chapter, and DKE, has lost a true friend, and he will be missed.
In the Bonds,
Doug Lanpher
Brothers,
We are in the early stages of planning a networking group for Rho Dekes in the New York area. We hope to create and renew relationships on both a personal and professional level. At some point, we’d like to include Rho Dekes outside the NY area, and potentially Dekes from other chapters, but in these initial stages we think that keeping it local and meeting in-person with a smaller group will be the best route. No date is set, but we are looking to meet at the DKE Club (Yale Club) in Manhattan for drinks after work in the coming weeks.
If you have interest in being included in future correspondence about this group, please respond to dkenetwork@gmail.com.
In the Bonds,
Paul McCurdy
Dave Kiefer
Jay Mehr
Since 2007, we’ve relied on Lafayette’s mailing list to communicate with our members. We recently learned that recent graduates are required to identify themselves as Dekes rather than the school making this association for you. As a result, you probably haven’t been receiving the Rho News or associated mailings unless you’ve registered with Lafayette.
Please take the time to identify yourself as a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon living group in the drop down box under Miscellaneous at the bottom of the edit profile page.
We’re working with the college to improve their information system.
Our host is migrating some of our services. In the process, they neglected to migrate our mailing lists. We’ve opened a support ticket. In the meantime, no mailing lists for rhodke.org are functional. We apologize for the inconvenience. No FP for fungroup.
Update:Mailing lists have been restored.
Sign up for the new automated dues subscription!Thanks to Brian Schranz, we now offer a set it and forget subscription service for alumni to pay their annual dues. Just click here to sign up to pay your dues annually and optionally make a recurring donation to the House Association operating fund.
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