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tony’s tattler XI CHAPTER OF ST. ANTHONY HALL Chapter reaches out to UNC community We need your time! B&SA, a fundraising committee with a twofold mis - Sisters or brothers with experience in the In the active Xi Chapter, membership con - sion: one, to provide monetary support for following areas would be of especial tracts and expands, enthusiasm ebbs and needed house repairs; and two, to provide help right now: flows, but the responsibilities are ever present. scholarships to offset the cost of dues for For the upcoming fall 2009 semester— Hall members in financial need. Auditing and likely throughout the next school year— Another big project of note is revamping Communications/Public Relations the undergrads are committed to continuing and rewriting chapter bylaws—organizing ones Corporate Governance improved relationships with our graduate we do have, approving new needed ones, Customer Experience Development membership. Recent restructuring of SAANC pruning irrelevant ones, and bringing others has led to better lines of up for debate to the en - Direct Marketing/Direct Mail communication and tire membership. Event Planning/Coordination more clearly defined We always love to I.T./Website Administration points of contact. We see alumni around the Legal have also begun to nur - house. Please feel free Membership Development ture a relationship with to call me directly at Project Management the UNC community 704-651-1106 if you are Real Estate Assessment that will lead to a wider going to drop by. Also, audience for Hall-related please mark your calen - Recruiting Ken Wallenborn, ’49, U’52, and John events and activities. The Ξ dars now for Swingout Social Networking Davis, S’50, at the GC in Charlottesville. big event for the fall is 2010: it’s going to be Fund Raising being worked on by Sis. held on April 9-11. And Amy Olsen, Ξ’06, and Bro. Peter Pender - if you know of any candidates for rush who You can also visit www.stanthonync.org/ grass, Ξ’07, and it involves writers, multiple will be at UNC in 2009, please drop a line to donate to let us know a little about your departments on campus and...dinosaurs. [email protected] . interests and experience. Come join us! (Oh, all right, we’ll spill: We’re bringing Hugo Award-winning Dinotopia author James Gur - YITB, For more information, contact Bro. Jason ney to campus!) Courtney Rosenthal, Ξ’06 Z. Moore, Ξ’98, ’03, at 415-694-9867 or This past spring semester, we instituted Bt., Fall 2009 via e-mail at preΚ[email protected]. Upkeep on main house continues with alumni support Brothers and Sisters All, accomplish. In the coming year, we need to: Annex is gone, the backyard bamboo is being 1) repair damage to the kitchen floor removed at this time, and the land is being This year finds the SAANC treasury hold - 2) repair/maintain the back deck regraded and reseeded to restore the back - ing a mixed bag. On the one hand, hard work 3) repaint the interior of the house yard to a state such as few of us have ever by Bro. Glover, Ξ’97, to refinance our renova - 4) repair/maintain the front fence (donated seen. Generous alumni donations have paid tion loan has saved us thousands of dollars by Hop Swift, Ξ’36, when it was built) for this and for a new freezer for the kitchen, compared with previous years. On the other 5) continue to improve the physical plant as a new dryer for the laundry room, and many hand, an across-the-board 30 percent in - much as possible other items. More support is needed and al - crease to all property values by Orange ways will be, but the support we have re - County will cause our adjusted property tax If any of these are of particular interest to ceived thus far is greatly appreciated! to consume all of those savings and more. you, please feel free to contact SAANC to While we work to make better use of the contribute to a specific cause. YITB, money we have, there are still pressing re - That said, there has been much good Michael Williams, Ξ’96 pairs and maintenance items we must try to work and many successes to report: the [email protected] www.stanthonync.org • University of North Carolina • Summer 2009 SAANC Officers & What’s next for the Hall? Board of Directors It is inevitable to look back at a temporal distance and remark that “the more things President change, the more they stay the same.” Many generations of Xis have worked on the house Jason Moore , Ξ’98, K’03 [email protected] that Hugh Walker Gardner built in 1854. From the ashes of its demise in 1863 came the re - Treasurer founding in the 1920s: a contingent of St. As Michael Williams , Ξ’96 from other chapters put their reputations on [email protected] the line to bring back the Delta Psi presence at the University of North Carolina, and in 1926 Asst. Treasurer a charter was regranted. Dan Wright , ’05 Ξ Since the 1930s, there has always been a Edge Coble, Ξ’88, and David Wright, Ξ’77, at Secretary dedicated cadre of Xi alumni who have spent the Swingout banquet in April 2009. Katherine Milby , ’96 countless hours, recognized or not, attending Ξ to the day-to-day needs of both the physical [email protected] structure (be it at 111 Cameron or at 207 ory and will return to share it with others? Vice President of Communications Pittsboro) as well as the emotional and men - Jason Moore, Ξ’98, K’03, president of the tal well-being of the actives. These men and Kelly Jo Garner , Ξ’95 St. Anthony Association of North Carolina, re - [email protected] women have juggled careers, kids, and per - cently sent all Xis on the rolls a letter request - sonal commitments for the betterment of the ing volunteer assistance in specific, targeted Vice President of Member Services Order, and sufficient praise and gratitude can - areas of expertise. If you have responded, we Brian Antzack , Ξ’03 not be expressed for their generosity of spirit. thank you and look forward to your contribu - [email protected] Just as those before us took a risk in tions! If you have not yet replied, please con - rechartering and then supporting the Xi Chap - Vice President of Support sider taking the opportunity to visit ter, so now it is our turn to do the same. Your www.stanthonync.org/donate or by sending Doug Baldwin , ’94 Ξ expertise, your experience, and your knowl - an e-mail to the volunteer coordinators at [email protected] edge will benefit future generations of Xis to [email protected]. If you don’t Vice President of Legacy come. Too often, long-range planning and vi - have time to spare and feel a financial contri - sion is relegated to a secondary role as im - bution would be preferable, there are upcom - Jewel Ward , Ξ’88 [email protected] mediate needs are tended. Recent changes to ing projects that would benefit from funding. the property—most notably, the removal of Please use the enclosed gift card and return the Annex—have led us to the question, envelope to send in your contribution today. “What’s next for the Hall?” And here, your A quick peek in the archives at Xi shows us Non-Officer Directors input is coveted. that in a short time after the 1926 refounding, Think back to your favorite Xi moment. issues began popping up with the brother - Was it in the backyard, enjoying beverages hood: late payment of dues, leaks in the Gary Stahlberg , Ξ’89 with fellow St. As on a lush summer night? Or house, LDs not being submitted, fines not Elizabeth Peacock , Ξ’05 did it happen in the winter, returning from being paid, and so forth. Fast forward 20, 40, Adam Daland , Ξ’00 class to find the fireplace filled with warmth 80 years, and some issues remain with us still. Mike Glover , Ξ’98 and hot chocolate waiting? Perhaps it was at Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose. We a Swingout, meeting alumni from decades Edge Coble , Ξ’88 remember, and we anticipate, but the more Annie Peacock , ’08 before you had even been born, telling sto - collective institutional memory we have, the Ξ ries that were outrageously funny; or travel - LeAnn Spradling , ’96 stronger we are and the more likely it will be Ξ ing to a GC and encountering so many to have to look into the archives to even re - Paul Rowan , Ξ’90 different people—who shared more in com - member these problems at all. Kirsten Parriot , Ξ’93 mon with you than you initially conceived. How can we ensure that future active Xi YITB, members have the same sweet taste of mem - Edge Coble, ’88 Undergraduate Officers Ξ (in the usual order) Courtney Rosenthal , Ξ’06 Annie Peacock , Ξ’08 Lydia Marik , Ξ’08 Peter Pendergrass , Ξ’07 Laura Melosh , Ξ’08 Ted Keenan , Ξ’08 Walter Clark , Ξ’07 Backyard at 207 Pittsboro Street minus most of the bamboo, April 2009. Adam Graetz , Ξ’06 William Clement , Ξ’07 page two • www.stanthonync.org alumni send their news & notes A Fatback Feller in Tofu Land “Dad is doing okay,” writes Whit Bodman J. Taylor Doggett, Ξ’57 , writes that he retired about his father, Herbert Bodman Jr., Ξ’46 . 13 years ago, “although I never really worked I was a fatback feller in a tofu land.