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SPRING 2012 | THE MAGAZINE OF PHI KAPPA SIGMA INTERNATIONAL FRATERNITY | V O L . 15 1 N O . 1 + CHAPTERS OF EXCELLENCE SCHOLARSHIPS the AT OREGON REAL FULFILLING EXPERIENCE A FOCUS ON GROWTH TAKEControversial ESPN First Take Analyst Skip Bayless is the Alumnus of the Year 96th GRAND SPRING 2012 Volume 151 | Number 1 | The Magazine of Phi Kappa Sigma Las Vegas, Nevada The Magazine of Phi Kappa Sigma Aug. 2-5, 2012 International Fraternity CHAPTER Volume 151, Number 1 – Spring 2012 Phi Kappa Sigma Fraternity Vision: “Men by birth, Lifelong Growth and Development of the Fraternity and its MembersTM MEN OF HONOR by choice.” Executive Director Hamilton F. “Toby” Smith Photo courtesy of ESPN, Inc. Richmond 1983 Join Phi Kappa Sigma for a [email protected] Grand Chapter experience Director of Development like no other in Las Vegas! Christopher M. Hanes South Alabama 2001 CONVENTION HIGHLIGHTS [email protected] f Events throughout Vegas over 8 the weekend include: Assistant Director Alumni Reception of Chapter Services Vincent A. Grim PKS at Fremont Street West Chester 2006 Saturday awards program at The Rio [email protected] f Effective, focused programming, includes: Administrative Assistant Addressing the challenge of growth Deborah J. Kurynny and recruitment in our fraternity [email protected] Powerful ritual exemplification program Headquarters Intern 7 26 Grand Chapter legislative sessions Kristopher Nerl and election of grand officers A FULFILLING EXPERIENCE AWAITS .....7 A Message from the Grand Alpha 2 Ursinus 2012 Alumni-focused presentations Volunteers have a fulfilling experience Alumni News 3 while providing essential support for Magazine Creative Director f Multiple types of registration available. Phi Kap Impact 4 the Fraternity. & Editorial Advisor See www.GrandChapter.com for details! Chapter Eternal 6 Bruce Tria Participate for as little as $125 Tria Designs, Inc. ALUMNUS OF THE YEAR ........................8 State of the Foundation 14 Full registration is $300 Skip Bayless, Vanderbilt, 1974. Ways You Can Support the Foundation 15 Alumni and undergraduates welcome! Phi Kappa Sigma Foundation Scholarship Winners 16 International Fraternity You do not need to be an official A FOCUS ON GROWTH ........................26 Foundation Roll of Donors 17 Two Timber Drive delegate to attend! Phi Kappa Sigma seeks to double the Chapter News 20 Chester Springs, PA 19425-2818 number of undergradautes by 2020. P: 610.469.3282 Mitchell Chapter Standards Award Winners 29 F: 610.469.3286 LOCATION COVER: www.pks.org | [email protected] f Rio All-Suites Hotel & Casino Photo courtesy of ESPN, Inc. 3700 W. Flamingo Road Las Vegas, NV 89103 (866) 746-7671 www.RioLasVegas.com Duly Noted! Member of the Many thanks to those Phi Kap Civil War experts, who corrected us in identifying the North American InterFraternity Conference f Great room rate at two Civil War soldiers on the cover of the 2011 Maltese Cross. Frank S. Crane, Kenyon $89 per night for 1986, states, “The Union officer on the right is none other than, Lt. George A. Custer a standard suite! (of Little Big Horn fame) and the Confederate officer on the left is Lt. J.B. Washington, Member of the Like Us On Facebook: Follow Us On Twitter: a descendant of George Washington. The [1862] photo represents the sentiments of Fraternal Information Programming Group PKS Grand Chapter @PKSGrandChapter the lead article extremely well since Custer and Washington were friends and classmates at West Point.” Member of the Address Changes & News: To update an address or submit any news, please email [email protected], or Fraternity Executives Association Visit www.GrandChapter.com for registration, hotel reservations and updates send your full name, Chapter, year, new address, and/or news to the International Fraternity Headquarters with “Attention: Address Change/Maltese Cross News.” Phi Kappa Sigma Fraternity The Maltese Cross 1 ALUMNI NEWS MLS Intern Moving Forward Sean Michael Leaks, South Carolina 2011, recently A MESSAGE FROM THE GRAND ALPHA started an internship with Major League Soccer’s Let me begin by saying that it has been an f Grand Chapter: our traditional front office in New York Chris Mikulskis, absolute pleasure to serve you as Grand convention at which the future City. He works in the Illinois 2001, Alpha over the past two-years. I have had of the Fraternity is set Operations Department recently wrote the opportunity to interact with so many To read more about this initiative, please and is actively involved and published an wonderful people that this has been an go to www.pks.org/moh_experience.shtml. in preparing for the ACT prep book experience I will never forget and for which entitled “Fun ACT Great to be This year the Executive Committee also upcoming 2012 I have been truly blessed. Prep: Because Test made a financial commitment to help our MLS season. There have been many developments Prep Doesn’t Have Chapters grow and prosper. I am excited to over the last year but I would like to to Be Boring” a Phi Kap report that it appears we are on the verge of highlight just a couple. to provide high- Over the past 18 months I have been lucky having the largest number of initiates in the Phi Kappa Sigma continues to advance interest English enough to have traveled throughout the Fraternity since 2000. Our undergraduate our world-class membership development and Reading Brothers are to be commended for working world with the help of many different Phi programming. The Men of Honor program passages to high so hard this year to make growth a reality. Kaps. It has been quite an amazing journey held in January of 2012 enjoyed the largest school students While much has been accomplished, Long that I have lived over the past year and a attendance in its 12 year history and once preparing for the much is yet to be done. I call on our Alumni half. I have been to four continents, 28 again received high evaluations. The 96th Live the high-stakes ACT Brothers to step forward and help in any way different countries, 26 states, and visited Grand Chapter planned for Las Vegas in test. Passages possible. We continue to need additional Christmas August 2012 should also see a jump in combine skills 10 different Chapters while meeting volunteers to advise Chapters and alumni attendance given our ability to offer reduced Luncheon practice and test- hundreds of Phi Kaps. I have traveled over financial donations to the Foundation are price registrations for the first time. Members taking strategies 66,463 miles (almost enough to go around EXECUTIVE BOARD pivotal to the long-term stability of the Keith Deviney, can attend the convention for as little as $125 with original, the world’s circumference three times) with Fraternity. In particular, we are in need of Toronto 1969, registration fee and a discounted hotel rate high-interest Douglas Opicka Pat Grimaldi alumni with computer science backgrounds reports the over 40 Brothers throughout my travels from Grand Alpha Grand Delta of $89 per night. content relevant to assist in the myriad of technological Alpha Beta many different Chapters such as IIT, UPenn, IIT 1997 North Atlantic Region Thanks to the generosity of the Alpha to teens, like upgrades we have planned. We would like Chapter MIT, UMass Lowell, TCU, UNT, UCR, UMBC, SUNY-Potsdam 1979 Epsilon of Phi Kappa Sigma Educational prom, texting, and Michael Palladino to move to a paperless system in terms of celebrated its Wesley and Rutgers! Society, I am proud to announce that pop culture. The Grand Beta Tony Grimaldi Chapter reporting, allow both chapters and 44th Annual From California in the West Coast to Georgia Tech 2004 Grand Delta beginning in the Summer of 2013, our book is available members to update their rosters and contact Christmas Pennsylvania Region Fraternity will offer a new leadership on Amazon.com. Massachusetts on the East Coast and Kevin Olsavsky Clarkson 2006 information online and leverage mobile Luncheon program, the Carroll K. Simons Leadership from England to Bulgaria there have been Grand Pi applications to contact our Brotherhood. All in December Alter Ego Penn State 1986 Mike Landefeld Institute. The Alpha Epsilon Educational Brothers traveling with, and helping me, of these initiatives require skill sets which are 2011. Over Grand Delta Society pledged $75,000 to fund the first William D. Fetzer, UNC Chapel Hill 1955, along my entire journey. Phi Kaps have not held by our existing volunteer base. If you 50 brothers Curt Klinkner South Atlantic Region three occurrences of this new program and his sidekick, “Jerry McGee,” have been Grand Sigma VCU 2011 are willing and able to assist in any way with attended with helped me in my travels with everything starting during the summer of 2013 and together for 64 years and are still going Wisconsin 1995 these projects, please reach out. alumni from from showing me around in new cities to Alek Babel continuing in non-Grand Chapter years strong making people laugh. Brother Fetzer In conclusion, the past two years have seen the 1950s to helping me out with a couch or an extra James Fulmer Grand Delta thereafter. This final program rounds out our current actives, is a ventriloquist and “Jerry McGee” is his Grand Tau Mid West Region strong advancement in our core operations bed to sleep on, and I have even received leadership development pyramid very nicely. spanning 60 alter ego. As a retired industry consultant Alabama 1965 IIT 2007 and expansion into new areas that are critical help with my business. The complete program is as follows: to our future success. Please join me and years. The and former owner of a Charlotte, NC based Sean McCann David Smith Over the past few months I have even f Pillars New Member Education the other dedicated volunteers in advancing 45th Annual manufacturers rep firm, Bill and Jerry Grand Theta Grand Delta Christmas Joseph W.
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