Beta Xi Chapter Midwestern University - Chicago College of Pharmacy

The Beta Zoid Phi Delta Chi Fraternity February 2007

Congratulations to New Bright outlook for 2007 Officers Beta Xi Chapter gears up for a new year On January 22, 2007, Beta Xi elected officers for the In this issue of The Beta Zoid, you will find the activities new year. The results of the elections are as follows: and accomplishments of the Phi Delta Chi Beta Xi Worthy Chief Counselor: Rino Gammariello chapter for the year 2006. Our chapter is truly in a Worthy Vice Counselor: Zachary Albaugh period of growth and continues to strengthen as we Worthy Keeper of Records and Seals: Shadi Salami progress into 2007. This was shown when our chapter Worthy Keeper of Finance: Heather Stieber was recognized as 100% efficient in the 2005-2006 Phi Worthy Correspondent: Lauren Healy Delta Chi National Achievement Award program. We Worthy Prelate: Janet Strain are very proud of this accomplishment because it is the Worthy Alumni Liason: Jessica Walby first time we’ve reached this high level of Worthy Master at Arms: Nora Richardson accomplishment in over five years. Worthy Inner Guard: Austin Wahle Member at Large: Vickie Paprocki We’d also like to recognize the efforts of our faculty advisors, Dr. Sarah Grady and Dr. Sheila Allen who A big thank you goes out to the old executive board: took over in Fall 2005. Without their continued support Worthy Chief Counselor: Dale Drizd and enthusiasm, you would not be reading about all the Worthy Vice Counselor: Rino Gammariello accomplishments of our brothers over the past year. Worthy Keeper of Records and Seals: Shadi Salami Worthy Keeper of Finance: Curt Waldvogel We are excited for this upcoming year with spring Worthy Correspondent: Kristi Ryzner pledging just around the corner in April. Community Worthy Prelate: Becca Young service events will include Y-Me Breast Cancer Worthy Alumni Liason: Sandra Calenda Awareness walk, food/clothing drive and many more. Worthy Master at Arms: Laura Treadaway We recently unveiled the Beta Xi website so that Worthy Inner Guard: Eddie Kang members can be kept up to date on current chapter Member at Large: Sumeet Brar events and keep in touch with other brothers. With plans to become more active with the community, the university, and the other fraternities on campus, Beta Xi is looking forward for another electrifying year. Alterum Alterius Auxilio Eget!

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2 Community Service 3 Pledging  4 Social Events PHI DELTA CHI 5 Member Accomplishments “Leaders in Pharmacy” 6 2006 Pictures

The Beta Zoid 1 EACH NEEDS THE HELP OF THE OTHER Community Service 2006 MWU Health Fair Flor Cantu and Todd Davis explain the importance of an asthma In 2006, MWU hosted two Health Fairs for the action plan to visitors at the 2006 Health Fair. community. Initially, the annual Health Fair was held in the Spring quarter. This year it was moved to the Fall quarter to coordinate with flu shot season. Phi Delta Chi sponsored two booths at the annual MWU Health Fair on November 4th, 2006. At the asthma booth, PS2’s Flor Cantu, Todd Davis, and Jessica Walby along with faculty advisor Dr. Grady, educated patients on asthma triggers and demonstrated proper use of inhalation devices and peak flow meters. PS2’s Zach Albaugh, Vickie Paprocki, and Josephine Than organized the herbal booth. These students as well as Dr. Chapman provided counseling on natural remedies such as peppermint, St. John’s Wort, and ginseng. In addition, Halloween Fun Fest they served a variety of green teas to those who visited their booth. The health fair, in which Phi Delta Chi Beta Xi chapter hosted a booth at the annual MWU participates annually, allows our fraternity to promote Halloween Fun Fest in October 2006. This year’s booth scholarship and reach out to the community. featured a “Spider Web” ball and catch game. Our members dressed up in Halloween costumes and played the game with the kids. Our brothers helped YMe Race for Breast Cancer pass out candy to more than 700 children in the Downers Grove community! On Mother’s Day of 2006, Beta Xi chapter sponsored a team to walk in the annual YMe race for breast cancer. This 5K walk was throughout the city of Chicago. About 13 brothers participated and we ended up raising around $7200 for breast cancer. Food and Clothing Drive In May of 2006, we hosted a food and clothing drive to donate goods to Salvation Army. We set up collection boxes in all of the MWU residence halls in hopes of catching people wanting to get rid of items as they moved back home for the summer. Our efforts were a success! We had over two car loads of donations. “The woman at the shelter said she had never seen such a large donation made by a single organization that was not during the Winter holiday season, “ said Nora Richardson, the project’s coordinator, “It was good that we could help out our surrounding community and show them that we are still thinking about them at times other than the holidays.”

Brothers Flor Cantu, Nora Richardson, Michaela Green, and Rino Gammariello show Phi Delta Chi support for finding a breast cancer cure.

The Beta Zoid 2 PLEDGING 2006

The year 2006 was a year of growth for Beta Xi chapter. Recruitment has been one of our chapter’s strengths over the last few years. We added 38 new members to our brotherhood. Managing such large pledge classes was quite a feat, but WMA Laura Treadaway conducted two of the smoothest pledge periods we’ve ever seen.

The Spring 2006 pledge class participated in many events that allowed them to get to know our brothers. These included rock climbing, bowling, a movie night and the Big Brother dinner. The pledges were also required to participate in a fundraising raffle for a new computer. Their efforts help us raise over $1000 for the chapter!

With the Fall 2006 pledge class we decided to try TOP: Bowling is always a popular something new by requiring them to participate in a pledge event. This community service event. This year they decided to run a photo was taken during book drive to send education materials to teachers the Fall 2006 pledge oversees. This also required them to fundraise which was period. done in the form of a silent auction. That money was used to ship the books. Overall they raised $165 which was used boxes of books that totaled 58 pounds of books. The remainder of the money went to St. Judes. The RIGHT: Edmond Chan poses on “Charlie” for pledges got to know our brothers through various events a picture during the including bowling, rock climbing, a trip to a haunted pledge scavenger hunt. house, pumpkin carving, and the Big Brother Dinner.

N E W I N I T I A T E S We’d like to welcome the following brothers initiated on April 21, 2006: Ken Bast, Dorian Bella, Edmond Chan, Kristy Curry, Dhvani Dave, Anna Grinberg, Lauren Healy, Jason Howard, Angela Kirchner, Shane Miller, Heather Stieber, Josephine Than, Sean Tragesser, Jessica Walby

We’d like to welcome the following brothers initiated on November 3, 2006: Natalie Boo, Donald Brown, Emoke Bury, Angela Dumire, Richard Grace, Jessica Hart, Katherine Herman, Salem Isawi, Marina Khalabuda, Andrew Kim, Valerie Loborec, Melissa Marquez, Jared Morrow, Ha Nguyen, Daniel Polcyn, Amanda Sliz, Bothers enjoy pizza and conversation at the Spring 2006 Big Victoria Stanislovaitis, Bridgette Sullivan, Sarah Szulc, Brother Dinner. This is often the favorite event of most Jami Tarasievich, Dmitriy Voloshin, Austin Wahle, brothers and helps to close the pledging process. Caitlin Ward, Lisa Wong

The Beta Zoid 3 Social Events BROTHERS ATTEND REGIONAL MEETING How Beta Xi has some fun! What could be more exciting than a little road trip This year’s social calendar started out in January with the with your PDX brothers? Last April, 9 members of Beta Xi (Flor Cantu, Karen Frank, Rino Gammariello, annual CCP Winter formal. Beta Xi brothers donned their Michaela Green, Vickie Paprocki, Erin Randolph, finest and enjoyed a night of dancing. Spring quarter also Nora Richardson, Shadi Salami, and Melissa brought more interesting events as bothers asked for Watkins) traveled to Ann Arbor, Michigan to more social events off campus. “Cocktails for a Cause” participate in the Midwestern Regional Conference. The weekend program consisted of educational was held at the Reserve downtown and raised money for workshops focusing on the Achievement Awards Orchard Village charity. Brothers also traveled together to Program, How to Build a Chapter from Within, watch a Chicago Wolves hockey game later in the Building Faculty Relations, and Ritual Link. In quarter. After initiation in April, brothers spent the evening addition, participants had a chance to attend a mini- playing games at Dave and Busters. Our favorite games career fair, an awards banquet, and a formal meeting/ closing business session. Most importantly, were Skee-Ball and the Quarter drop. the Regional Conference allowed brothers Over the summer, Rino Gammariello organized a Phi representing more than 12 chapters to network, share ideas, and build the bond of brotherhood. Delta Chi BBQ. Rino was deemed the “Grillmaster” and

served our brothers delicious hamburgers and hotdogs. Brothers spent the afternoon catching up and playing volleyball. Fall quarter came quickly and much of the social events were part of the pledge process. These were good ways for pledges to get to know our brothers and how much fun we are! Finally, at the start of December, a group of brothers traveled to Medieval Times. We cheered the Blue Knight on to victory! The best thing about the Beta Xi brothers is all the time we spend together outside of chapter organized activities. “ A S B R O T H E R S P A S S I N T O This shows that we truly are friends and brothers for life! A L U M N I S T A T U S … ” We thank you, our newest alumni, for all your time and effort in making our fraternity grow. Best wishes Bothers pose for a picture at Medieval Times . Bridgette for the future and keep in touch! Sullivan got in the spirit by dressing up for the event! MARCH 2006 Bola Akinlawon, Annie Chiu, Nichole Coop, Danielle Gerner, April Goocher, Jill Hendon, Amit Patel, James Quach, Kathryn Randall, Susan Rapp, Christine Schnieder, Shannon Smith, Priyank Trivedi

SEPTEMBER 2006 (AGO) Sandra Calenda, Lizzette Perez, Nasia Roumeliotis, Melissa Watkins

The Beta Zoid 4 MEMBER ACCOMPLISHMENTS

We’d like to recognize some of the academic and professional achievements of our brothers. Scholarship and advancement of the profession are important aspects of the fraternity. Beta Xi brothers truly are “Leaders in Pharmacy.”

The following brothers have been inducted into the Rho Chi Pharmacy Honors Society: Class of 2007: Sandra Calenda, Jade Huizenga, Melissa Watkins Class of 2008: Kelly Hamilton, Agnieszka Kolodziej, Laura Petges, Kristi Ryzner, Jennifer Selvage, Rachel Silva, Curtis Waldvogel, Richard Wolek, Becca Young

The following brothers won awards at the 2006 CCP Student Awards Gala in April: Albertsons Bright Star Scholarship: Lizzette Perez Albertsons Scholarship: Vickie Paprocki Doc’s Drug Award: Lauren Healy Rite Aid Scholarship: Rachel Silva ShopKo Scholarship: Kristi Ryzner Walgreens Minority Student Scholarship: Flor Cantu CCP Hadley Research Award: Melissa Watkins CCP Pharmacy Administration Award: Melissa Watkins CCP Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence: Class of 2007: Sandra Calenda, Hanan Hasan, Jade Huizenga, Alice Kim, Melissa Watkins Class of 2008: Lauren Babjak, Sumeet Brar, Dale Drizd, Kelly Hamilton, Angela Kirchner, Agnieszka Kolodziej, Laura Petges, Kathrine Rosinski, Kristi Ryzner, Jennifer Selvage, Rachel Silva, Brian Sizemore, Nora Strehin, Laura Treadaway, Curtis Waldvogel, Natalie Wasynczuk, Richard Wolek, Becca Young

APhA Patient Counseling Competition: Melissa Watkins won 1st place in the Midwestern University CCP competition and represented MWU at the APhA national competition in March 2006 in San Francisco, CA. The competition involves receiving a patient profile/prescription and accurately counseling the patient about their medication. Melissa went on to receive 2nd runner up at the national level!

ASHP Clinical Skills Competition: Kristi Ryzner was part of the two member team that won 1st place in the Midwestern University CCP local competition. Kristi went on to represent MWU at the national competition at the ASHP Midyear meeting in December 2006 in Anaheim, CA. The competition involved critically evaluating a patient case and compiling a patient care plan to ensure the patient would receive optimal therapy. The recommendations in the plan were defended orally to a group of faculty members. Brother Natalie Wasynczuk was part of the second place team at the MWU local competition.

2006 PS-3 Teacher of the Year: Dr. Sarah Grady, Faculty Advisor

2006 NACDS Foundation Student Scholarship: Karen Frank, one of 33 students nationally to receive this award.

2006 CCP Student Leadership and Research Award: Kristi Ryzner, for presentation of her research project at the 2006 ASHP Midyear Meeting entitled “Retrospective Evaluation of Drug Therapy Regimens in Heart Failure Patients at a Community Health Center.”

. LEFT: Kristi Ryzner stands with her poster presentation at the 2006 ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting in Anaheim, CA.

RIGHT: Flor Cantu, Vickie Paprocki, and Nick Muscolino at the 2006 CCP Student Awards Gala.

The Beta Zoid 5 The Year 2006 in Pictures…

The Beta Zoid 6 “And we will never once forget we’re Phi Delta Chi…”

The accomplishments of 2006 are truly due to the efforts of each and every brother of our Fraternity. We’d like to recognize all the active members of the Beta Xi chapter of the Phi Delta Chi Fraternity. (As of December 2006)

PS-4’s Melanie Butler, Karen Frank, Hanan Hasan, Jade Huizenga, Mary Beth Tinsley

PS-3’s Lauren Babjack, Brandy Baich, Sumeet Brar, Carrie Daubner, Dale Drizd, Joe Herrera, Suzanne Ibrahim, Angela Kirchner, Agnieszka Kolodziej, Rhiannon Krause, Laura Petges, Kathrine Rosinski, Kristi Ryzner, Jennifer Salerno, Jennifer Selvage, Nora Strehin, Laura Treadaway, Curtis Waldvogel, Natalie Wasynczuk, Richard Woleck, Becca Young

PS-2’s Zachary Albaugh, Ken Bast, Dorian Bella, Donald Brown, Flor Cantu, Edmond Chan, Kristy Curry, Dhvani Dave, Todd Davis, Rino Gammariello, Richard Grace, Michaela Green, Anna Grinberg, Lauren Healy, Jason Howard, Shane Miller, Nicholas Muscolino, Lalitha Nathyanandam, Vickie Paprocki, Daniel Polcyn, Erin Randolph, Nora Richardson, Shadi Salami, Amanda Sliz, Heather Stieber, Janet Strain, Josephine Than, Sean Tragesser, Jessica Walby

PS-1’s Natalie Boo, Emi Bury, Angela Dumire, Jessica Hart, Katherine Herman, Salem Iswai, Marina Khalabuda, Andrew Kim, Valerie Loborec, Melissa Marquez, Jared Morrow, Ha Ngyuen, Tori Stanislovaitis, Bridgette Sullivan, Sarah Szulc, Jami Tarasievich, Dmitry Voloshin, Austin Wahle, Caitlin Ward, Lisa Wong

We’d also like to thank all our faculty brothers for their support of Beta Xi Chapter (and not getting too angry when we send 20 pledges to their office at once for signatures!): Dr. Sheila Allen (Chapter Advisor), Dr. Robert Chapman, Dr. Lea Dela Pena, Dr. Sarah Grady (Chapter Advisor), Dr. Jennifer Javier, Dr. Karen Nagel, Dr. Carrie Sincak, Dr. Sherri Stensland, Dr. David Zgarrick 

About Phi Delta Chi The Phi Delta Chi Fraternity was founded at the University of Michigan in 1883. The purpose of the fraternity is “To advance the science of pharmacy and its allied interests, and to foster and promote a fraternal spirit among its members.” Phi Delta Chi has chartered 57 undergraduate chapters and has initiated over 33,000 men and women into the Brotherhood. Beta Xi chapter was founded at Midwestern University – Chicago College of Pharmacy on February 5, 1994. In this short time, we have initiated 261 members into the chapter. Information about the fraternity can be found at the Phi Delta Chi national webpage: www.phideltachi.org.

About The Beta Zoid This issue of The Beta Zoid was complied and edited by the following brothers: Kristi Ryzner (Editor in Chief), Rino Gammariello, and Vickie Paprocki. We’d also like to thank the brothers who provided photos for this issue.

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