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Fall 2009 Winged Sig Advisory Circular Newsletter

Fall 2009 Winged Sig Advisory Circular now available.

Alumni Leadership Encouraged by Undergraduate Accomplishments
The latest house upgrade has been completed as of the time I push the send button for this Newsletter. The north wing central air conditioning installation has been completed and nary an electrical fire was to be seen at 520 S. Ridgewood Ave.

Lease Documents

For those interested, the Lease Documents are included in this password protected zip file. The password is the same “dog’s last name” as is found on the Member Directory pages.
HC Lease

August 2009 Newsletter

House Update
Leases
Announcements & Birthdays

House Update
Not much new at the House this past month. I’d like to thank all the alumni who participated in the Alumni Work Weekend efforts. Thanks to your help, the undergraduates have a much improved (both in looks & organization); library, brothers office, chapter room, and kitchen. Our major overhauls can be found in the pictures below.
The undergraduates have completed their clean up of the planting beds out front as well as their continued quest of maintaining a clean/”mother approved” house.

Chapter Room

House Front

Currently our undergraduate numbers dwindle in the low twenties. A majority of this issue is due to graduating students, not disciplinary actions. Over the past 5 years, all Greek letter organizations have had significant problems recruiting/retaining individuals, especially during the spring semester. The undergraduates have done all they can, stretching every penny during these difficult times. With Recruitment week (Rush Week) beginning today, the boys have “gone all in” on recruitment. I am pleased to report nearly a dozen young men have been offered bids at the onset of this week. The boys have approximately sixty other names and contact information of potential pledges they have been in communication with. The undergraduate chapter is not scarifying quality for quantity, they are looking for the right guys, performing dinner interviews with potentials, answering questions and doing all they can to assure our future Brothers are the leaders needed for the next generation of Winged Sig’s. For this the undergraduate chapter especially Brother Hugo and Brother Radford deserve our upmost praise.

Leases:
It’s been the ultimate question for some time now; what is House Corp. responsible for, what is the undergraduate chapter responsible for, how; and to what lengths does accountability stop and Brotherhood take over? Well thanks to Brother Lojko and Brother Tetrault’s hard work / sleepless nights we finally have our answer. The lease agreement between the House Corporation and undergraduate chapter has been overhauled to answer these questions. The needs andexpectations of the current students has changed and we have been lacking an understanding of how to explain our expectations to them. In the new lease agreement; language has been altered to provide a better understanding of our expectations of them, while at the same time improve our operation. Like any other major change, there will be growing pains on both sides. However, I’m confident this will improve House Corp. / Undergraduate Chapter relationships for years to come. If anyone would like a copy of the new lease agreement package, please contact myself via email and I will be happy to email it to you

Announcements:
Eta Iota has some new looks. We’ve stepped up our stakes with some professional embroider polo’s. Make sure you check these and some classic Eta Iota merchandise out on our website. Make sure you include your size and quantity in your email. There is a zero percent mark up on these items. The intention is to dress our finest while still sporting the emblems of the order we love so much.

Birthdays

And here’s to our September birthdays:
09/01 Larry Prosser ’75
09/01 Trevor Prigge “Chesta ” ’04
09/02 Stephen Avery III ’71
09/03 Ken Bott “Excalibur ” ’90
09/04 Tony Russo “Oneder ” ’08
09/04 Gary M. Homanick ’82
09/04 Edward Gomez “Edie ” ’92
09/04 Bryan Hogan ’94
09/04 Ron Hoye “Cupcake ” ’94
09/06 Joshua Donaldson “Snagglepuss ” ’02
09/07 David Torres “Nacho ” ’98
09/08 Thomas Haught ’95
09/08 Nickolas Hugo “Radio ” ’11
09/08 Christopher Sanscrainte “Chris ” ’95
09/09 Dennis Hall ’74
09/09 Dan Bush ’75
09/09 Brent Gillam ’89
09/09 Brent McBratney ’93
09/11 Eric Bowen ’81
09/11 Dave Stepien “Step ” ’86
09/12 Jere Anderson “Fat Albert ” ’72
09/12 Darrell A. Beard Jr. “Skip ” ’73
09/12 Dudley Mecum ’83
09/15 Art Jacobs ’74
09/15 Chris Haun “Fieval ” ’01
09/16 Hayden Haddox “Burglekutt ”
09/16 Tom Moore ’81
09/16 Roger Ebbe “Rod ” ’85
09/17 James Gierhart “Gearhead ” ’93
09/18 Dave Stuart ’79
09/18 Ted Sandoval “Ted ” ’86
09/20 John Paul DiGiacobbe “Lil’ Peepers ” ’05
09/20 James Slater “Up Chuck ” ’10
09/20 Lawrence Rea Jr “Larry ” ’75
09/20 Eric Eichmann ’92
09/20 Jason Clancy ’93
09/21 Chauncey Clark ’73
09/21 Steve Schmidt ’76
09/22 Nikolaos Renieris ’92
09/23 Geoffrey P. Harned ’77
09/23 Dwight Cheek ’75
09/24 George E. Pence PhD “Doc ” ’61
09/24 Mark Rogers “Stormy ” ’73
09/25 Ron Delle Donne ’80
09/26 Mark Schachtel ’80
09/26 Neil Campbell ’92
09/26 Colin Malaker ’92
09/26 Anthony Hammond “the Dominator ” ’95
09/27 William F. Palmer Jr. “Bill ” ’79
09/28 Joshua Ru Vincent Selvadurai “OPEC ” ’08
09/28 Timothy Forman “Tim ” ’74
09/28 Rich Rossell ’95
09/29 Kevin Ergenbright ’88
09/30 Jim Hamblin ’72
09/30 Dan Ward ’88
09/30 Frank Bokulich ’95

Happy Birthday to those Brothers celebrating in August:
08/01 Patrick L. Caylor ’84
08/02 Edward Goerges ’73
08/03 Ryan Tucker Schubert “compass ” ’99
08/03 Sean Stefanak “K-Y ” ’10
08/03 Christopher Charles Cox ’90
08/04 David L. Bonifield ’73
08/04 David E. MacMullin “Lunchbox ” ’05
08/05 Rick Spicer ’72
08/05 Bryan Gleason ’96
08/05 Quincy Evans ’04
08/06 Kevin Stocker ’85
08/06 Charles Eric Culbertson “Maytag ” ’05
08/07 Bill Foulk ’85
08/08 Michael Ryan “Squeak ” ’10
08/09 Brian Valimont “Frenchy ” ’00
08/10 Paul Brandau “Dizzle ” ’05
08/10 Larry R Kolar ’73
08/11 Thomas A. Robbins “Tom ” ’84
08/11 Christopher Nevins “Chris ” ’96
08/11 Thomas Jacobs Turfitt III “Tommy ” ’04
08/13 Roger Moody ’73
08/13 Dave Evans ’77
08/13 Mike Rossbach “Cheech ” ’77
08/13 Scott Reiter ’80
08/13 Mike Plessinger ’85
08/13 Brett Watrous ’88
08/13 Jason Googe ’93
08/15 Michael McKenzie CCUE “Spike ” ’73
08/15 Hugh Reynolds ’74
08/15 Matt Hanson “Cannon ” ’91
08/16 Archie Roberts ’74
08/17 John Ehrenreich ’83
08/17 Stuart Fraenkel Esq. ’89
08/17 Steven Todd Weeber “Todd ” ’93
08/18 Alec Shovlain “Waterboy ” ’02
08/18 Scott C Bacon “Farva ” ’06
08/18 Bradley D. Bower “Brad ” ’91
08/19 Jason Koehler ’99
08/20 George Yurcic “Shovelhead ” ’96
08/21 James Thompson “Jet ” ’74
08/21 Jack Barsin ’71
08/21 Robert C. Lambert “Bobby ” ’77
08/21 John Belleau ’91
08/21 Mike Kline Jr “Hula Girl ” ’04
08/22 Kevin Lower ’85
08/22 Brian Kilday ’94
08/23 Doug Sherwood ’95
08/23 James Dianto “Meatbaul ” ’90
08/23 Andy Fischer ’99
08/23 Zachary McKenna “Ranger ” ’10
08/24 William Frey “Billy ” ’77
08/24 Tom Waterman ’86
08/24 Craig Jenkins “streaker ” ’92
08/25 Joe Ferrell ’78
08/28 John deLafosse ’72
08/28 Juan Gonzalez ’77
08/28 Blair Shiplett “Shaggy ” ’02
08/29 Nick Nelson “Clip On ” ’07
08/29 William Craig “Bill ” ’73
08/30 Buddy Evans ’73

Hope everyone enjoys their last days of summer.

Guard Well,
Brett Miller

Thank you letter from the parents of Drew Hunter

We would like to thank all of Drew’s Sigma Chi Brothers for the incredible support you have given us and his family and friends. From the moment Drew lost his life in the kayaking accident, we were enveloped by the love, support and compassion of his fellow Sigma Chi’s.

Several of you came to Vail and gave us immediate support. And when we returned home to Marshfield many of you flew in to help out and attend his Celebration of Life Service. Beautiful flowers were sent from the his Eta Iota chapter and its’ sister sorority, Alpha Xi Delta, to our home and to the church. The White Rose ceremony led by his little brother, Brad Vomacka, was incredibly meaningful and touching to everyone. To have so many Brothers participate, even some who had never even met Drew, speaks for the strong bonds that Sigma Chi develops.

When Drew first pledged, we immediately saw how seriously he took his commitment to Sigma Chi. We will always treasure the letters he wrote to us and the life reflections he made during that time. We have no doubt that the values he was raised with were strengthened due to his membership in Sigma Chi. He even told his fiancee that joining Sigma Chi had changed his life and help make him the man he was.

We thank everyone from the bottom of our hearts who knew and loved Drew, not only for your compassion to us, but also for giving him so many fond memories and strong friendships over the years. We will always consider you his brothers, and offer our home to you as he would have.

With affection and gratitude,

Gail and Jeremy Hunter

June House Corporation News

From the desk of the Prez – Bonds of Brotherhood:

Does it feel like time just slips away? Wasn’t Birthday just last week? Where does the time go? As the months/years fly by it seems the less and less time we have to stay connected with each other. This is no more apparent than the list of lost brothers. We all know we’re a small chapter, yet we have a rich history. Personally, that’s one of the greatest assets of our chapter. We’ve earned 17 Peterson Significant Chapter Awards, 2 Legion of Honor awards, a Public Relations Award, 2 Character in Actions, and countless Grand Consul’s Citations. Eta iota also has produced 2 Significant Sig Awards; Brother John Bailey `75 and most recently Brother Hugh Mills `74, our White Cross has gained new luster by their lives….Not Bad for 38 years.

Despite all of this, as well as an undying devotion to our order we still have almost 100 Eta Iota Sigs: Lost.

Over the past two months Seth Downs, Bill Palmer, Jon Wrightington and others have “Cut Loose” so to speak, implementing new/exciting programs to reconnect our chapter. Communication is the name of the game now, and I’m proud to formally announce our 5 year captains:

`70-`74 Mike Wyble
`75-`79 Dave Fraser
`80-`84
`85-`89 Jeff Penn
`90-`94 Brian Lojko
`95-`99 Curt Kienast
`00-`04 Jason Kreisher
`05-`09 Nick Weiss
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Friends and family share memories of Drew Hunter

: Drew Hunter and Jenna Seoane on the beach in Duxbury

By Dana Forsythe
MARSHFIELD MARINER
Wed Jun 17, 2009, 12:00 PM EDT

Marshfield – To his friends and family, Drew Brian Hunter was a beacon of inspiration, joy and love.

Hunter, a Marshfield High School graduate, died June 4 at age 29 after a kayaking accident in Vail, Colo. On June 8, he was remembered in an informal ceremony along the Black Gore Creek. Approximately 50 friends and family members gathered as they took turns singing songs, reading poems and carving messages and memories into a snowboard-shaped piece of wood.

The memorial — a horizontal piece of wood shaped like a snowboard mounted on a stake carved to look like a mountain peak — was placed a few feet from the site of Hunter’s accident. During the ceremony, when it started to snow, many of the gatherers said it felt as if Drew was looking down from above, having a bit of fun.

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Brother Hugh Mills (HI’74) wins Significant Sig Award

Brother Mills will be inducted as a Significant Sig on Friday, July 3rd, at the 77th Grand Chapter. During the 39 years of Eta Iota’s existence, we have only been recognized for one Significant Sig, Brother John Bailey’ 75.

I am humbled to have nominated Hugh for this great honor and am thrilled that he will finally be recognized for the tremendous sacrifices he has made for his community and our nation.

Brother Mills attended Officer Candidate School in the height of the Vietnam war. He was selected for Flight School and received his Army Aviator Wings as a helicopter pilot. At age twenty, he commanded a squadron of ten aircraft, and twenty young men in combat.