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In Hoc Chi Chapter May 2015 Volume 2, Issue 2

Index P1… Chi-Lights

P2-3… Snaps

P4… Alumni News

P5… Chapter News

P6… Events Calendar

Words from the Consul... and with an extremely gener-ous gift from Mark Evan Dun-ning ‘83, we are now able to begin the process of restora-tion. The newly restored char-ter will be available for viewing and there will be a rededica-tion with Grand Officers of the Sigma Chi Fraternity, including the Grand Consul, during Han-over’s homecoming in October. Along with raising money for the Huntsman Foundation, our chapter has planned a five-year fundraising partnership with King’s Daughter’s Hospital in Madison, Indiana.

We say farewell to our seniors and wish them the best in their next endeavors. We know that our graduating brothers will prove themselves worthy in the working world outside of Hanover College. Lastly, we also part with our two-year Sweetheart, Kaitlin Knapp, who has provided more than gifts, but also time, support, and love to our chapter and we are eternally grateful.

After spending a semester studying in Philadelphia, I returned to a completely different house of men, complimented by our two fall members Hoang Van ‘17 and Prof. Bill Bettler. The new dynamic of men carried

into a fantastic rush week and pledgeship. After eight weeks, we finally initiated nine members into Chi Chapter. Our new brothers had the top GPA of new fra-ternity men and prove to be extremely talented. While I spent most of the semester planning our formal, which took place in Indianapolis, our brothers got busy with service on campus. Chris Barbera ‘17, our Philanthro-py Chairman, organized a few campus initiative pro-jects to help clean-up the campus and surrounding hiking trails and pushed to make Derby Days a success

once again, raising around $2,000. New brother Joshua Parker ‘18 and the rest of the pledge class organized a Sorority Penny Wars chal-lenge and made over $400 for Huntsman Cancer Foun-dation in just a couple of

days.

We have plenty of new op-portunities for our chapter in our near future. Two of our brothers, Keegan Burton ‘17 and Jacob Bauman ‘17, will be attending Horizons this year and were given great advice from former-Horizon participant and this year’s Southern Province Balfour Outstanding Senior award winner, Nate Kremer-Herman ‘15. Clinton Bly ‘16, our treasurer, tracked down and uncovered our long-lost Chi Chapter charter. The response of the finding from past brothers has been great

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KorbyQuan Reed ‘16, Consul

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Right to left: Joshua Shirley ‘09, Grant Swenson ‘15, Ben Vogel ‘15,

Connor Easley ‘15, Slaton Blickman ‘15, Jacob Bauman ‘17, Mason

Cheng ‘17

In Hoc Chi Chapter Vol. 2, Issue 2

Senior Reflection Surprisingly enough, on

a campus that is well over 50%

affiliated, Sigma Chi is a house filled

with many members who did not

plan to rush when they came to

Hanover. Personally my plans in-

cluded avoiding that possibility

altogether and just getting in and

out of college as quickly as possible.

This mentality of mine was effec-

tively shattered mere seconds after

meeting just a few people whom I

would later have the honor of call-

ing my brothers. The older mem-

bers during that time showed me a

side of fraternity life which was far

removed from the stereotypical

“Animal House” image that I and so

many others felt we would find.

Sigma Chi, Chi Chapter, is a group of

brothers who have managed to be

the premiere fraternity on campus

while holding fast to our values and

not losing our sense of individuality.

Ask around campus and you’ll

quickly learn what stereotype each

house falls into, whether that be

the football house, soccer house,

preppy house, and so on. When it

comes to Sigma Chi, however, the

answers are almost never the same.

I’ve found that somehow we’ve

managed to uniformly work togeth-

er as a machine without losing our

individual autonomy, and I think

that’s what sets us apart on this

campus. Our different tempera-

ments, talents, and convictions

create a house as diverse yet cohe-

sive as you’ll find anywhere. It’s

difficult to accurately cover this

chapter with a stereotypical blanket

statement.

New Partners For years Chi Chapter has benefit-ed a number of charitable organi-zations within the Hanover-Madison Community. From our partnership with the local reli-gious organizations to our dona-tions to Casa Amiga we have al-ways made the active effort to improve our community in which we live by giving back to those who need our help the most. However, it was only recently that our chapter decided it was time to officially affiliate with a cause that truly speaks to the needs of our brothers and the members of our community. So, early this year a se-lect committee of members, in-cluding Brothers KorbyQuan Reed ’16, Matt Brown ’16, Drew Elston ’16, Chris Barbera ’17 and myself, sat down to discuss possi-ble organizations that might ben-efit from a partnership with Sig. The search was on and our mis-sion was to identify one local

charity or cause that spoke to the mission of Sigma Chi while also aligning with the goals of our national philan-thropic efforts. These pa-rameters are what led us to find the King’s Daughters’

Health Foundation, specifi-cally the newly established cancer treatment facility which completed construc-tion earlier this year. It all started with a simple email to Nadja

Boone, Director of the King’s Daughters’ Health Founda-tion, and a tour of their state of the art facilities in upper Madison, Indiana. The new cancer facility, which has access to the most advanced

treatment technology currently available, had yet to be opened, but it was clear from the be-ginning that the cause we were about to com-mit to was a worthy one. From the warm and considerate design of the chemotherapy area to the various uplifting messages fea-tured throughout, con-

cern for the well-being of the patients was evident. As the tour came to a close we were in agreement that this was where we felt our re-sources would be best allo-cated.

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On March 8, the execu-tive board decided, later con-firmed by the chapter, to enter into a limited five year partner-ship with the King’s Daughters’ Health Foundation as the first step in establishing a lasting affili-ation with their organization. While all proceeds from Derby Days will continue to benefit the Huntsman Cancer Foundation, all other philanthropic efforts at our chapter will be devoted wholly to KDH. We look forward to re-porting the growth of this rela-tionship as it progresses and hope that our alumni brothers will join us in lifting up this noble cause.

As I graduate I am filled with a vari-

ety of emotions. On one hand I fear

for the future of Chi Chapter; being

Consul for a year has given me an

almost over-protective paternal

sense of pride for this place. Not a

day here has passed when I didn’t

contemplate how the house would

continue to be successful. Risk

management, academics, philan-

thropy: the numbers show our

excellence and the sheer degree of

our achievement has made it diffi-

cult to imagine additional improve-

ment. How can we, and I do believe

we can, continue improving?

Despite my constant worry, my last

year has shown me that the broth-

ers in this house are more than

ready to continue improving this

incredible chapter. Stepping down

as my senior year progressed was

difficult. But just as stepping up

when I first entered the fraternity

got easier as time went on, handing

the reigns to the new blood became

less difficult as well. These men are

my brothers, and if I know them

even half as well as I believe I do,

their accomplishments to come will

make my graduating class look like

rookies.

Or at least they hopefully won’t

burn the

house

down.

Dakota McCoy ‘15 mccoyd15@hanover.edu

Jonathon Andrews ‘16 andrewsj16@hanover.edu

By King’s Daughter’s Health

In Hoc Chi Chapter Vol. 2, Issue 2

Finding the Charter I am Clinton Bly ‘16, the current Quaestor for Chi Chapter of Sigma Chi at Hanover College.

My position runs on a calendar year so I have only been on this position for four months. The start of this journey begins when I noticed a charge on our bank statement that occurred in Febru-ary that I didn't understand. The bank we have the house account with (Mainsource Bank) had charged us $25 and the descrip-tion didn't really explain why it was there. So I talked with the previous Quaestor, Nate Kremer-Herman ‘15, about whether he knew what the charge was about. He wasn't familiar with it so I went to the bank directly to ask why we were getting charged $25. It took some time for the tellers to check computer and physical rec-ords, but they found that it was for a safe deposit box at the bank. I didn't know we owned a safe deposit box. I only knew from pledgeship that my chapter be-

came inactive in 1917 be-cause only eight men were attending Hanover College that year. Instead of letting nationals take away our charter, one alumnus of Chi Chapter took the charter and had hidden it in a safe deposit box at a local bank. Mainsource did tell me though that there were two signers of the safe deposit box, Kris Kindelsperger and Geoff Walburn. Unfortu-nately Kris had passed away about a year ago and I had never heard of Geoff before, but the teller knew him be-cause he's a local Chiroprac-tor. So I talked with Geoff so we could figure out the le-gality of obtaining owner-ship of the safe deposit box. After he talked with the peo-ple at Mainsource, we were allowed to drill open the box. So the bank contacted a locksmith and Geoff and I arranged to meet up at Mainsource. The locksmith opened the box and one of the first items we saw was the char-ter. It was truly an amazing piece of history to hold in my hands. This doc-ument had been missing for almost 100 years. Other items were also in the safe deposit box. These items were as follows: a catalog of items to buy for Sigma Chi Paraphernalia; a balance book for

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the original bank we had an account with from 1942-48; a receipt from Hanover Col-lege for Chi Chapter buying furniture from another building on campus; a letter addressed to John Clements regarding a question he had about the lease for the house; another letter re-garding the same question for the house, the oath tak-en for the "Keeper of the Scroll"; and a letter from the Sigma Chi Foundation ad-dressed to Dr. Albert G. Par-ker, Jr., the president of Hanover College in 1947, requesting to set up a 15-year scholarship with a total worth of $375 that would be given to the fraternity rank-ing the highest in scholastic achievement. It specifies that the scholarship cannot be used for any other pur-pose. The idea was to drive

scholastic competitiveness on campus for all fraternities, not just for Sigma Chi. Being reunited with our charter is an amazing thing. We can use it to understand our chap-ter history a little better and ties together the story of how it was hidden in the first place. This was truly the find of a priceless artifact.

Clinton Bly ‘16, Quaestor

blyc16@hanover.edu

Original seal of Sigma Chi, by Jon Andrews ‘16

The original charter, by Jon Andrews ‘16

Signatures on the charter, by Jon Andrews

‘16

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Graduating

Taylor Alexander

Felipe Andrade

Slaton Blickman

Alex Brueckner

Connor Easley

Nate Kremer-Herman

Matthew Loria

Jesse MacGruder

Dakota McCoy

Grant Swenson

Benjamin Vogel

Jonathan Ward (Fall)

Jacob Winsett

Housing Corp

Jeff Tucker, President

Matt Dilly, Treasurer

Josh Shirley, House Dad

John Spradley

Ken Prince

Tyler Blaker

Sig-nificant Alumni A significant alumnus

is one who has made a deep

and lasting impact on his

community, school, or chap-

ter. Today we honor a Broth-

er of Chi Chapter, who,

through his bonds of friend-

ship, has served to foster a

greater sense of brotherhood

in the chapter. That brother is

Mark Dunning ’83.

Mark has had an

exceptional career after Han-

over. He achieved the rank of

Technical Sergeant in the

United States Air Force. He

is decorated with a handful

of medals and awards includ-

ing Joint Service Commen-

dation Medal (with an Oak

Cluster), Air Force Achieve-

ment Medal (with an Oak

Cluster), and the Defense

Meritorious Service Medal.

His service in the Air Force

included military police and

later intelligence. Later he

worked in the Pentagon with

the NSA. During September

11th, he helped in the efforts

to start to understand what

was happening as the attacks

had just reached the Penta-

gon. Since then he has

worked in Information Tech-

nology for companies that

service the state department.

“Mark is a true ex-

ample of a lifelong commit-

ment to Sigma Chi,” says

Connor Easley ’15. Even 36

years after Mark first

pledged Sigma Chi, he still

lives our values and demon-

strates them in his daily life.

Every active brother in Chi

Chapter knows Mark on a

first name basis. He is truly a

friend to the house. He has

stories, advice, and wisdoms

that he is always willing to

share with us. Nate Kremer

-Herman ’15 has said that

Mark is “always ready to

assist in time of need. His

impact is felt throughout the

chapter.” Several of our ac-

tive brothers have even visit-

ed with him in the D.C. met-

ro area where he works and

lives, and he is always a true

friend in those endeavors.

He took the time out of his

busy schedule to spend time

with his brothers, demon-

strating his fraternal bonds

have never disappeared.

His wealth of

knowledge on the fraternity

and Chi Chapter is a price-

less resource that we have

benefited from a lot, espe-

cially this year. He had

played a vital role in the

discovery of the original

charter for Chi Chapter by

getting the investigation roll-

ing. Currently, Brothers Aaron

Rogers ’18 and Chris Barbera ’17

have started a search for the first

Sigma Chi Chapter house. It was

torn down after the tornado in 1974

had ripped off its roof. This search

was started because of Mark Dun-

ning ’83 and Chris Barbera ’17

discussing trying to get a marker

placed at the location of the house,

and a discovery that the chapter had

been misinformed during pledge-

ship training about the actual loca-

tion of the house. Hopefully, with

the help of Mark, the Chapter will

be able to continue to learn more

about its history.

To put it in short, “[Mark]

is a true Brother” as Nate Kremer-

Herman ’15 put it. His loyalty

know almost no limits, and his pride

in Sigma Chi is endless. Connor

Easley ’15 puts it best, “Sigma Chi

would be lucky to have more Mark

Evan Dunnings” and that “ his pas-

sion truly shows his love for Sigma

Chi never

Chi Chapter Vol. 2, Issue 2

Christopher Barbera ’17 , Editor Barberac17@hanover.edu

Sweetheart Kaitlin Knapp (left) and Mark

Dunning (right) by Mark Dunning

Mark with Joint Chiefs Chair, by Mark

Dunning

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New Initiates

Hoang Van ‘17

Felipe Andrade ‘15

Chris Petersen ‘17

Carson Bailey ‘18

Fernando Hernandez ‘18

Bryant Grider ‘18

Marcus Shackleford ‘18

Keaton Veldkamp ‘18

Aaron Rogers ‘18

Joshua Parker ‘18

2015 Officers

KorbyQuan Reed ‘16—Consul

Matthew Brown ‘16—Pro-Consul

Jacob Baumann ’17 —Annotator

Clinton Bly ‘16—Quaestor

Nate Kremer-Herman ‘15—Magister

Keegan Burton ‘17—Recruitment

Dean Gnadinger ‘17—House Manager

Shawn Franklin ‘16—Risk Manager

Chris Barbera ‘17—Philanthropy

Chris Barbera ‘17—Chapter Editor

Keaton Veldkamp ‘18—Tribune

Dakota McCoy ‘15—Historian

Jacob Winsett ‘15—Kustos

Alex Brueckner ‘15—Steward

Shawn Franklin ‘ 16—Scholarship

Drew Elston ‘16—Social Chair

Jon Andrews ‘16—Social Media

Chi Chapter Vol. 2, Issue 2

Derby Days a Success Derby Days, a tradi-

tion of the Sigma Chi Frater-

nity, is a week-long philan-

thropic effort, usually put on

during the first week of Han-

over College’s Spring Term,

to raise money for the Hunts-

man Cancer Foundation.

This year, Chi Chapter raised

$1957.50 towards finding the

cure to cancer.

Headed by Philan-

thropy Chair, Chris Barbera

‘17, Derby Days saw its first

attempt at a theme, bringing

homage to the Olympic

Games and tying in the tradi-

tion and spirit of the tradi-

tional Greek culture. The

themed events pit campus

sororities against each other

in various activities, such as

laurel grabs, Catch-A-Sig,

volleyball, Water Balloon

Battleship, Greek Sing, and

relay events. Shirts (designed

by Sigma Chi Sweetheart

Kaitlin Knapp ’15 of Kappa

Alpha Theta) and conces-

sions were sold at the events.

Side events were done to

involve all aspects of campus

life to try to raise more mon-

ey for Huntsman and to pro-

mote the Fraternity’s efforts

to students that would likely

not take part in the events of

Derby Days in any other

way.

This year also saw

the first attempt at a Derby

Days-oriented pledge class

event. A Penny War was

carried out the term before in

order to raise awareness for

Derby Days and Huntsman

Cancer Foundation while

giving the pledge class a

taste of philanthropic efforts

in the Fraternity. At the end

of a three-day period, the pledge

class raised over $400 for the

Derby Days totals.

At the end of the week,

Alpha Delta Pi came out on top,

winning a portion of the proceeds

for their philanthropy endeavors

and an ice cream social. Kappa

Alpha Theta came in second

place, followed by Phi Mu and

Chi Omega.

Joshua Parker ‘18 Parkerj18@hanover.edu

Theta Talent show winners by Jon

Andrews ‘16

Sweetheart dinner 2015 by KorbyQuan Reed ‘16

Formal 2015 by Jon Andrews ‘16

Derby Day Champs ADPi by Jon Andrews ‘16 Mixer with ADPi by Jon Andrews ‘16

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Homecoming 2015

Chi Chapter Vol. 2, Issue 2

Friday, October 2nd

7:00-11:00pm —Sigs at the Shoebox

Alumni and brothers will gather at the house before heading to the shoebox for a fun night.

Saturday, October 3rd

9:00am to 2:00pm- Open House

The Sigma Chi House will be open to all for walkthroughs and tours.

10am-11am - Charter Rededication

The Grand Officers of the Sigma Chi Fraternity will be re-dedicating the original charter of Chi Chapter which was originally signed in 1871 and was recently recovered by the chapter. All alumni and guests are invited to witness this historic event.

11am - Tailgating

All Sigma Chi Alumni are invited to join the brothers at the Sigma Chi Tent in the tailgating area for food, games, and brotherhood.

Hotel Deals! While rooms are available, our fraternity has arranged special rates for homecom-ing weekend with the following local hotels in Hanover and Madison.

Holiday Inn Express (812) 265-1111

Comfort Inn (812) 273-4443

Country Hearth Inn (812) 273-0757

General Butler Park Hotel (502) 732-4384

In order to access these special rates simply inform them that you are Sigma Chi Alumnus. These deals are only available as long as rooms are available so be sure to make your reservations. Questions? Contact Keaton Veldkamp, Tribune at veldkampk18@hanover.edu