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The Zeta Chapter of Phi Kappa Sigma is pleased to welcome back its alumni and their families to the Chapter House and to a dinner reception at the Lancaster County Convention Center.

See here for details.

Congrats to the newest alumni members of Zeta Chapter, and especially Scott Stolzar, who graduated magna cum laude. His achievement brings honor to our Fraternity, and to the NJ public education system, of which he is also a proud product.

We will be playing at Overlook Golf Course this year because Kappa Sig has the entire course of Lancaster Host booked for a shotgun. That means they have at least 72 golfers signed up to play! I still hate those guys . . .
 
Seriously, I need all of your help in growing our golf outing to that level. Please encourage all brothers you keep in contact with to play. I appreciate all of you who have played loyally in our outing the past few years and I would really love to grow our event to the point where we have at least 40 or 50 brothers playing. At that rate we would be raising well over $1,000 for the house - plus it would be a great excuse for us to all have a great time. I think those of us who have played regularly have had a lot of fun and if we can get some more brothers to play they will make it an annual commitment as well and our numbers will increase.
 
Please let me know if you have any suggestions on how we can make our golf outing bigger and better.
 
Thanks and I look forward to seeing all of you on the 10th.
 
Doug

See the note below from Pres. Fry regarding Brother Robert Brooks.

I’m writing to share some tremendous news with you. Robert J. Brooks Sr. ‘66, P’98 and his wife, Susan C. Brooks, have pledged a major gift of $2.5 million to Franklin & Marshall College. With their support, Franklin & Marshall will build a new commons for the Marshall-Buchanan-Thomas House. As of today, MBT House is renamed Brooks College House.Bob earned a degree in mathematics from Franklin & Marshall in 1966. He was a member of the men’s varsity tennis team, participated in intramural sports and is a Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity brother. After graduation, he went on to earn an M.B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business in 1968 and pursued a successful career in business. In 2005, Bob was elected to the Board of Trustees, and he offers his guidance in a number of ways as a member of the Executive Committee, Facilities & Planning Committee and the Quality of Campus Life Committee. Bob also chaired the Alumni Engagement Task Force, and he serves as a reunion volunteer and as a member of the Diplomat Athletic Club Advisory Council. In addition, Bob serves as director of the Brooks Family Foundation in Murrysville, Pa.

I am deeply grateful that Bob and Sue have so generously expressed their support of the College House System. Their investment will give faculty and students a common space to meet, share ideas and explore mutual academic and social interests. Their gift will enrich the entire College community.

Please join me in thanking Bob and Sue Brooks for their devoted friendship and support of our students.

With warm regards,

John Fry

 

 

Therway Inc. has rolled out Therway 2.0.  (code-named Elijah James).   Therway Inc.  hopes v.2.0 corrects the many bugs and eccentricities of Therway 1.0.  So far, core user groups have embraced Therway 2.0 as a much needed update.  Therway 1.0, now 3+ decades old, requires continuous upkeep and downtime.  Therway 2.0 runs 24/7, although he consumes energy at an alarming rate.

Eli James Therway is now 8 months old.  Click here for pics from the 6-month milestone.

Zeta Alumni Corporation has decided to host an off-site gathering this year after the annual meeting. The gathering will take place at the Hotel Brunswick and will consist of a formal dinner and drinks. The cost of the event is $40 for adults, and $30 for children.

For more information, click here.

Additionally, we were able to negotiate a lower room price for anyone interested in lodging at the Hotel Brunswick for the weekend. The weekend rate for their newly renovated rooms is $99, down from their regular price of $139. We will be sending out formal dinner and lodging invitations over the summer, and will take care of securing all reservations. If you have any questions, concerns, or suggestions, please contact Joseph Perrotta.

I’d like to take this opportunity to welcome everyone to the new and improved ZetaSkulls.com website! This is a culmination of months of work on the part of several of our alums, including Brad Rosenkrantz, Joe Perrotta, Sean O’Mara, and myself. A couple items of note:

• We now have RSS capability! For those of you not familiar with this technology, it allows you to subscribe to new updates to the site. There are plenty of ways to do this; I’ll simply refer you to the wikipedia article on the same subject for more details.
• You can now leave comments on the site. In order to do so, you need to register (don’t worry, we won’t sell your name off) by clicking on the Login link on the right sidebar, then click the Register link.
• We are actively inviting people to contribute! If you’d like to help write articles for the site, please e-mail register@zetaskulls.com.

Enjoy the new website!

-Josh

We’ve set up a Zeta Chapter Alumni Group at LinkedIn. For those of you who aren’t familiar with LinkedIn, it’s kind of like a MySpace site for professionals, and it’s free to join. 

The intention behind this is to create networking opportunities among alumni Brothers. I imagine that the active brothers will also want to participate to find some leads for their first job or just get some advice from someone in a field that they may be interested in. 

I encourage everyone to create a profile and join the group, but only if you’re interested in interacting with active and alumni Brothers on a professional level. Note that you can control your contact settings to allow people to contact you directly, indirectly, or not at all, but all communication through the site occurs over e-mail (i.e., no phone calls). 

Here’s the link:http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/54897/7210EA3143B0