Brothers,
As some of you have noticed, this is the first House Corp update of 2002 as I have been unable to devote as much time and energy to this position in the past few months as it deserves. American has been keeping me more than busy as we are approaching the launch of a brand new website for AA.com with a fresh new look and all sorts of functionality for our customers.
With it scheduled to launch later this month, my time for House Corp has been pretty limited. For those of you who are interested, we are having a beta-launch prior to the actual release for select customers. As airline employees and industry experts, drop me a line if you’re interested in trying it out before the general public and I can set you up.
31st Birthday Plans
The Undergraduate Consul, Mark Nicalek, and the rest of the active chapter have been planning for this year’s birthday celebration. Pricing for the weekend of festivities has been announced on the website as $47 per person. You should have receievd a postcard with basic info but you can find additional information as well as hotel arrangements online at www.etaiota.org/birthday. Feel free to contact Mark at nicklez@aol.com or by phone at 386-453-8240 if you have any questions.
House Corp Annual Meeting & Elections
The annual House Corp meeting will take place Sunday, March 24th at 11am at the Chapter House. Any local alumni as well as those in town for birthday are encouraged to attend to discuss developments over the past year and for an update on House Corp finances. At this meeting we will also be conducting the annual business of electing officers for the 2002-2003 term. If you have any nominations at this time, please email them to me at magnum@ntplx.net. The positions that are available include:
POSITION INCUMBENT
PRESIDENT John Banta
VICE PRESIDENT Brian Lojko
SECRETARY James Ahrens
TREASURER Mike Gehman
TRUSTEE Nick Cornwell
TRUSTEE Mike Wyble
Fire Sprinkler Update
Last Fall, the General Fraternity announced plans to consider allocating certain funds towards improving fire safety in light of recent events and increasing insurance costs. One of the proposals was to investigate assisting chapters with the costs of installing sprinkler systems for those that do not already have them. I have been approached by the General Fraternity and asked if we would be interested in participating with a limited number of other chapters to explore this option in greater detail. While I am still waiting to heaar back from headquarters, I am hoping that this is something that we can pursue with our current house. Obviously there will be many factors influencing the final decision, some of which include obvious costs we would have to pay, the expected savings that would result and of course the always asked: How much expected time left at 520 S Ridgewood. I’ll keep you posted once we hear any developments.
Guard Well,
John Banta
Eta Iota House Corporation President
Eta Iota Birthdays
Once again, as always, Happy Birthday to those brothers celebrating in March:
Name/Class Day
01 Felix M. Temples “Bud ” ’73 bitemples@cs.com
01 Mike Meck ’72
01 Jeff Lee ’73
01 Michael Saggese “Mike ” ’91 m.t.sdenco@att.net
01 David Craig ’00
02 Bob McGill ’80
02 John Wright ’95 john@laker.net
02 Anthony W Leggieri “Jack-in-the-Box ” ’01 TLeggieri3@aol.com
05 Larry Maddox ’77
05 Mike Kubanet ’74 michaelkubanet@sprintmail.com
05 Fred E. Evans ’75 fevans7294@aol.com
07 Robert Coffey ’73
09 Tom McCarthy “Gorf ” ’84 macflytx@onebox.com
10 Gary Wolf ’79 73431.42@compuserve.com
10 Mark Pfister ’95 markcpfister@home.com
11 Christopher MacDougall “Chris ” ’93
11 Gregory Guzik ’95
13 Gary Spangler ’72
13 Chris Gohlke ’97
13 Joseph Altomare ’00
14 Jere Thome ’90 Rhedbutler@AOL.com
15 Kevin Alston ’95 sigchi525@aol.com
16 Edward Coholich “Ed ” ’84 eddie@nauticom.net
19 Don Osmundson Jr ’72
19 Tom Henion ’74 the5onions@aol.com
19 Nicholas Cornwell Jr “Nick ” ’77 NCorn59318@aol.com
20 Dan Vasilj ’91
20 Timothy Glassett ’04 ctgfly@aol.com
21 Richard Rouse ’72
22 James Jocek “Jimbo ” ’80
22 John Alford ’84 johngaryalford@aol.com
22 Thomas Schaeffer Jr “Curious George (Tom) ” ’99 schaeffer22@yahoo.com
24 Brian Bartlett ’87 bkbartlett@earthlink.net
25 Todd Kaylor ’83
25 Scott A. Quinn “Scooter ” ’88
25 Walt Sharpe ’74 76627.1120@compuserve.com
26 Peter Zaccagnino “Mr Magoo ” ’92 9086722516@mobile.att.net
27 Dennis Caldwell ’72
27 Kenneth R. Kuhrt “Ken ” ’71 kuhrtkr@worldnet.att.net
27 Gerard Filippone “Jerry ” ’78 71322.577@compuserve.com
27 James Thoms “Jamie ” ’85
27 Richard Schooley ’91 rcschooley@aol.com
28 Bruce Lina ’77
28 Chris Wood “duece ” ’04 cwoody44@aol.com
29 Bill Ulm ’86 ulm5gang@aol.com
31 Clair Stahley ’84