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Summer 2013 08 ���� Teamwork always make a difference 37 ����� Phi Delt Education: A year in review 42 ����� Foundation Annual Report 48 ����� $2 million gift from Maurice and Dorothea Shaffer Generous Phis Building the Bond Building Better Phis Scholarships How Whole Man Scholarships Helping Phis reach their dreams are shaping Phi Delta Theta contents The Scroll Summer 2013 Volume CXXXVI, Number 1 friendship learning rectitude 42 48 53 05 37 56 Foundation Annual Report Building Better Phis Phi Restauranteurs Service to others leads to friendship Phi Delt Education: A year in review Giving kids a chance We have one word for the past year: Turn to page 48 to learn about Shaffers’ William Stitt and Michael McDearman are mo•men•tum. With your generosity, we are gift, read the interview with Brother Ted just two Phis who turned their passion for 07…Stats 38…How to: Grill a steak in four steps 58…Iron Phi: United in the Bond well on our way to meeting a number of Lowrie, whose generosity will fund a food into successful businesses. Following 08…Chapter News 39…Fraternity News 60…Expansion our 2020 goals. Thank you again for all of Whole Man Scholarship (WMS), and meet their interviews is a directory of restaurants 24…Club News 41…Trustees Roundtable: 64…True Blue your support! two WMS winners from Butler University. where you can support your fellow brothers 26…Phi Footnotes In their own words 66…Chapter Grand who also are culinary minded. 34…Phi Sports The Scroll (ISSN 0036-9799) is an educational journal Postmaster The Scroll General Council General Headquarters Director of Education Leadership Consultants Phi Delta Theta Foundation Follow us published continuously by the Phi Delta Theta International Luke M. Benfield Robert Wolfley Fraternity since 1876. It is published two times annually Please send form 3579 for undeliverable copies to Editor President 2 South Campus Avenue (Mercer ’07) (Southern Indiana ’10) 2 South Campus Avenue in Liberty, Missouri. Third class postage paid at Liberty, Phi Delta Theta General Headquarters, Rob Pasquinucci Christopher A. Lapple Oxford, Ohio 45056 Oxford, Ohio 45056 2 South Campus Ave., Oxford, Ohio 45056. (Ashland ’93) (Cal State-Northridge ’80) (513) 523-6345 Director of Expansion Michael Boulter (513) 523-6966 Missouri, and at additional offices. Phi Delta Theta provides (Kettering ’12) (513) 523-9200 fax DeMarkco Butler (513) 523-9200 fax a life subscription of The Scroll to all of its members through Editor Emeritus Treasurer (Monmouth ’10) an online edition emailed to members after each issue is [email protected] Ryan Schell [email protected] facebook.com/ @phidelt youtube.com/ Deadlines Bill Dean Richard E. Fabritius published. To ensure that members receive this notification, (Texas Tech ’60) www.phideltatheta.org Director of Housing (Florida State ’12) PhiDeltaTheta phideltathetaghq (Kent State ’94) President please send email address updates to [email protected]. and Insurance Summer: Mar. 1; Winter: Oct. 1. Business Manager Executive Vice President David Lopez Robert A. Biggs A printed version of The Scroll is provided all undergraduate Reporter Melanie Clayton (Nebraska-Lincoln ’12) Robert A. Biggs Jeffrey N. Davis Robert A. Biggs (Georgia Southern ’76) chapters, alumni clubs requesting issues, and members of Copyright © 2013 by Phi Delta Theta International (Georgia Southern ’76) (Georgia Southern ’76) Business Controller (Southeast Missouri State ’94) Brandon Clark President Emeritus and the True Blue Society. Members can join the True Blue Fraternity. Nothing herein may be reproduced without prior Tom Paquette (Northwest Missouri State ’12) Society for $299 or $189 for Golden Legionnaires. For more permission. Printed in the USA. Editorial Assistant Members at Large Associate Executive Historian: information about the True Blue Society, members can visit Kelly Derickson Chris W. Brussalis Vice President Andrew Carlson Robert J. Miller phide.lt/pdtlinkedin www.phideltblog.com instagram.com/ www.truebluesociety.org. (Allegheny ’87) Sean S. Wagner (Syracuse ’12) (New Mexico ’50) phideltatheta Contributors (Widener ’02) Colin Hueser Director of Annual Giving On the Cover Jay Langhammer Morrison D. “Moe” Stevens (Southern Indiana ’99) Director of Chapter (Iowa State ’13) Joan M. Schiml D.A. Fleischer Services Alumnus Ted Lowrie with the 2012 and 2013 Whole Man Scholarship winners, Joel Rick Goughneour Director of Development McVey and Ryan “Kit” Mohler, at Indiana Gamma. Photo copyright ©2012 D.A. Fleischer. Jennifer Taber Jonathan C. Rogowski (Robert Morris ’13) (Miami-Ohio ’11) Douglas A. Sweeney CG Marketing Ben Putano Director of Communication Director of Stewardship Communications (Kent State ’13) and Iron Phi Linda R. Brattain Steven J. Good Matt Letcher (St. Louis ’13) Development Officers (Iowa State ’04) Jacob A. Kingdon Director of Canadian Services (Lawrence ’07) Keegan Colville (Dalhousie ’11) John C. Thompson (Mississippi State ’09) W. Andrew Cole (Hanover ’11) 2 Summer 2013 Summer 2013 3 Summer 2013 07 ����� Stats 08 ���� Chapter News dividends. The overwhelming evidence from our experience continues to 24 ����� Club News present a clear case for our policy. 26 ����� Phi Footnotes Consider the following: 34 ����� Phi Sports • Since implementing alcohol-free housing, our organization has undergone tremendous growth in the number of new members. This indicates a renewed demand for a values-based organization from college students. • Not only has Phi Delta Theta expanded to many new campuses since 2000, we are currently welcomed and sought after by administrations that recognize our Fraternity as a healthy, positive alternative. • We’ve reduced our insurance premiums as a result of lower claims and better risk management. In 1993, the Fraternity had 21 open liability claims (including lawsuits). As the Alcohol-free Housing Policy was implemented, claims steadily decreased. The money saved from insurance costs has enabled the creation of other educational programming activities designed to enhance the Phi Delt experience. I have other good news to report as we have less than half of the biennium remaining: • Our Foundation is having an amazing year, and you can read more Building a Better Brotherhood: about their success, including a first-ever $2 million gift, on page 43. Also highlighted are the hundreds of generous Phis who support the great educational opportunities for our members. I look forward to Phi Delt 2020 meeting some of the Whole Man Scholarship winners this summer at the Kleberg Emerging Leaders Institute in Oxford. • Our communication and brand development efforts continue to his summer, I made a visit that most Phis wouldn’t imagine their progress. Later this year, we’ll unveil a new PhiDeltaTheta.org that will General Council President would ever make—the Sigma Alpha allow us to do a better job of telling our story to current and prospective T Epsilon (SAE) Fraternity convention. You may wonder why on earth members. We’ll begin filling the pipeline with potential new members the SAEs, who are often our inter-fraternal rivals on campus, would want through more sophisticated marketing efforts. And, turning to more the Phi Delta Theta General Council President at their convention. The traditional media, the magazine you now hold was honored by the answer is simple: They see our success and want to emulate it. Fraternal Communications Association as an example of overall The SAEs, like many fraternities across the Greek world, are looking excellence when compared with our peers in the Greek world. I hard at implementing Alcohol Free Housing; a change we made more really want to thank the entire team who works on the publication, Ohio Epsilon brothers after working to clean up the Kungle yard and garden, which is a passion of Penny’s. The chapter also helped raise funds to build a wheel chair ramp to enable Penny to than a decade ago. I attended their convention to discuss the successes— in particular Rob Pasquinucci, Ashland, ’93, Scroll Editor, and Kelly access outside and garden. Penny is one of six people in the U.S. to be afflicted with both ALS and MS. and the challenges and objections—we faced with alcohol-free housing. Derickson (and the now-retired Barb Cotterman before her) who do Post-convention, I am sorry to say that SAE did not vote to approve AFH. much of the heavy lifting as editorial assistants. You may ask why, as I did, since they narrowly missed approving this Service to others leads to friendship same initiative at their previous convention in 2011 and they continue We have many things to be proud of, but there’s still a lot to accomplish By Betsy Groton, Communications Intern to experience many claims and pending lawsuits? Of course, this is a in this biennium. The challenges facing the Greek world continue. In the complicated issue for any fraternity as there is certainly opposition to words of Founder Morrision, we must “guard against elation” and be ever he word “brotherhood” means being there to support your First, Jeff Kungle, an unaffiliated alumnus of the University of Akron, maintaining old hard fought for traditions. SAE will have to sharpen its vigilant to protect our Fraternity from threats it faces while taking the risks brothers in times of great success as well as times of great sorrow. wrote General Headquarters expressing his gratitude for the extreme and pencil and find a way to educate underage undergraduates who have a vote necessary to allow it to grow. T Brotherhood is more than simply joining a fraternity to make new unexpected kindness of four Phis from the Ohio Epsilon Chapter. Mr. to continue to allow illegal drinking in their chapter houses. Thank you, Brothers, for making me forever proud to be a Phi! friends, to attend chapter events, or to have fun in college. Phi Delt men Kungle’s wife, Penny, is one of six people in the country who has been I found many parallels with SAE as to the way we both operate our beloved understand the value of their relationships with their brothers, and the living with Multiple Sclerosis and ALS.