Chico Greek Alumni Weekend – May 2, 2009

Don’t forget alumni weekend is coming up. This one is being organized by alumni, for alumni. It’s all-Greek, so you’re bound to see some familiar faces. More event details on the ‘Events’ page: http://www.etaomega.org/events/

Chico Updates from the Alum VP

Eta Omega Chapter President, Adam Shea and Andrew Chalmers attend the 15th Annual B. Nelson Deranian Presidents Conference (DPC) for chapter, colony, and interest group leaders will in Indianapolis. Their flights apparently sucked but they had a good time anyway (even though they couldn’t find any Alpha Phi’s to party with).

When it was all said and done, they both learned many new best practices that help create and maintain successful chapters across the nation. Andrew later said, “I was fortunate enough to see Jereme Grinsdale at the goodbye dinner … he is excited to see what we have in store and he touched on what the chapter also needs to be on track for to be considered for the loan… GRADES.  Last semester we were above our required average for the school and our pledge class had the highest GPA among the other fraternities.” Keep those grades in check gentleman!

The Chico State campus has had some recent news as well:

• Chico will honor Charles Darwin’s 200^th birthday by organizing a series of events, film showings, lectures, and nature hikes.
• For the second year in a row, CSU, Chico is the top collegiate fund-raiser for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., with a total of $183,561 raised during 2007-2008, with records for the number of volunteers, 2,021-and the number of letters sent out requesting support, more than 37,000.
• Chico State’s Career Center, Best in the West! A 2007 survey of recruiters rated 70 percent of Chico State students Outstanding or Above Average compared to students at other universities. Over 83 percent rated our Career Center operations as either Outstanding or Above Average.
• Forbes Magazine ranked CSU, Chico 24th in the nation among all public universities for the median salaries of its graduates, based on a 2008 study by PayScale.com, which looked at the earnings of college graduates with 10-20 years of work experience.
• New student Rec and exercise center to open Spring 2009.

So do kids still go to the flumes, or tube down the river, or sneak into Dime Bag Willie’s house…?

Willie Shoffner
Alumni Board / Vice President

2008 Alumni Weekend Scheduled for October 3-5 in Chico

It’s that time of year again – time for another crazy alumni weekend. Come run around town and pretend you’re still in college. The chapter is going strong and leading the Greek system and the alumni support is the best it has ever been. Come see what has changed and see whats still the same. The itinerary for this alumni weekend is:
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First Ever E-mail Newletter Gets Quick Donation Responses

Not even 45 minutes after we blasted a newsletter e-mail to the ~380 alumni e-mail addresses we have on file, we got 4 credit card donations. Quickest to respond with their wallets were (in this order):

• Shane Pickett (S’87)
• Poul Willerup (F’89)
• Tyler Ticen (F’97)
• Brian Alt (F’98)

Update (7/25): A couple more guys stepped up recently…

• David Scotto (S’87)
• Ed Stone (F’89)

Way to go guys – thank you. Every dollar is going to pay off the re-roofing project that was just completed. But we still have a long way to go.

Time for everyone else to chip in. When we receive checks, we’ll give credit on this site, too.

Here’s the e-mail newsletter, by the way (minus all the fancy photos)…
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Spring ‘98 Guys Heading to Chico for 10-Year Mark

Congratulations to the Spring 1998 pledge class rallying a trip to Chico this weekend for the 10-year anniversary of their initiation – or of their bid – or whatever. Guys: tear it up at Rileys, of course, but make sure to stop by the House to watch the roof get demo’d. Should be kinda cool to watch all that dry rot come down.

Photos of Recent Fires in Humboldt

Slideshow of the recent ‘Humboldt’ fire near Chico: http://s229.photobucket.com/albums/ee315/TamboCreeper/Humboldt%20Incident/?albumview=slideshow