There must have been somethingin the air some 14 years go at PiKappa Phi – literally.

Two Omega undergraduates ofthat era have found their way tobeing TV weathermen. SteveTempleton (Omega 1444) was aspring 1996 pledge who majored inmeteorology. He recruited someonehe had met in a Purdue class topledge that fall, Rob Woods(Omega 1469). Both were intrigued,and even infactuated about weather– passions not universally shared bytheir peers.

Templeton, a Northbrook, ILnative always wanted to be a weath-erman. In fact he would tell anyonewho would listen back home one ofhis dreams was to chase tornadoes.

As a youngster, it was the legacyof his late grandfather, a geologyprofessor, who inadvertentlyexposed him to the intrigue of

weather. In high school, Templetontook a geology class.

“It turns out that I really didn’tlike geology,” Templeton said, “but Iloved the atmospheric science por-tion of the class. I found it fascinat-ing to look up in the sky and under-stand the science of why a cloudforms or why it rains.”

Templeton was one of the firstmeteorologists in the county toreceive the Certified BroadcastMeteorology Seal from the AmericanMeteorological Society. He nowbroadcasts weather for News 4,KMOV, in St. Louis on weekdayevenings.

Though Woods was interested inweather as an undegraduate, hewasn’t quite yet a zealot. InitiallyWoods majored in meteorology, butswitched to communication with adesire to act.

“I loved acting,” he said. “I loved

the entertainment business andmoved from acting and became atalent manager with well-knownclients in the motion picture, com-mercial and soap opera genre.”

That career took the Evansville,IN, native from Purdue to LosAngeles, to Atlanta and New Yorkand then back to the West coast. Hewas a model and actor from 2000 to2007 and a talent agent from 2007to 2009.

During his agent stint, Woodsattended several Emmy Awards. Itwas a chance meeting with a worldrenown actor that helped him movefrom working with actors to televi-sion.

“One person told me, ‘You willmake it in whatever you do – just doit with passion,’ ” Woods said. “Thatperson was Robin Williams.”

Shortly thereafter, Woodschanged career paths to be more inline with what he wanted to bewhile growing up in Evansville.

“It was in December 2008 whenit really hit me,” he said. “My fatherhad just died and I realized thatyour life could end at any time. Iwas not stimulated in my career asa talent manager.”

He knew then that what he didin his living room while growing up,what he did as a weather intern inAtlanta while pursuing an actingcareer, was indeed his calling.

“Honestly, I should have beendoing the weather from the get-go,”he said. “Ever since I have been akid, I have loved the weather –especially severe weather. I used towatch The Weather Channel andperform mock weathercasts for myfamily the living room.”

Alongside his modeling, actingand agent careers, he earned an

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Continued on Page 2Steve Templeton stands before the blank weatherboard whilebroadcasting the weather in St. Louis.

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Omega ofPi Kappa Phi, Inc.Housing CorporationP.O. Box 2700West Lafayette, IN47996-2700

Chapter Web address:http://www.purduepikapps.com

CorporationOfficers

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PRESIDENT

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205, work765/743-6087, fax765/743-1256, cellpkuhnle@purdueexponent.org

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online meteorology degree from MississippiState, graduating in 2009. Finally, he wason an even level with his fraternity men-tor.

Upon graduation, Templeton knew ofthe competitiveness for becoming an on-airweatherman.

“I was considering becoming an earthscience teacher, but after interning in a TVweather department (at WGN in Chicago),I realized that broadcast meteorologywould allow me to combine my passion forboth understanding and explaining theweather,” he said. “So, I landed my first jobin a small town (Dubuque, Iowa) and that’swhen I realized I had made the rightcareer choice. I love what I do and haven’tlooked back.”

Along the way during his professionalcareer, Templeton became the inspirationfor Woods.

“He (Templeton) became my pledge pop(in 1996) and is now my mentor today,”Woods said. “With him doing weather inSt. Louis and me in California, we emailback and forth regularly comparing notesand forecasts. If I ever have a question, heis there with an answer, just like in thefraternity. He has always been there forme.”

Ever since January 2009, Woods – whogoes by the screen name Riley O’Connor

from his acting days – had been the leadweather forecaster for cable broadcasterCrown City News in Pasadena, CA.

“This is where I am supposed to be (onTV),” Woods said. “I am lucky to say that Ihave been down several different careerpaths. So many people say, ‘I wish I wouldhave done that, or I always wanted to trythat.’ Well, I have tried them.”

Both Woods and Templeton say PiKappa Phi helped form them into whatthey are today. Templeton, a former rushchairman, saw the parallels between rushand TV.

“You know those awkward rush partieswhere you need to talk to rushees youdon’t know?” Templeton said. “Then youhit that stride where you’re just beingyourself and chatting people up.Nowadays, I’m chatting it up with thou-sands of people through the camera. Noone wants to watch the awkward weatherguy.”

Woods saw tremendous growth while anundergraduate chapter member.

“I still to this day say the best time ofmy life was in the fraternity,” he said.“Little did I know that when I startedPurdue I would leave there having it madesuch an impact. Living and being associat-ed with Pi Kappa Phi gave me so muchconfidence … it gave me a chance to be aleader.”

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Rob Woods, going by a stage name of Riley O’Connor, does the weather forCrown City News in Pasadena, CA, a community cable network channel.

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Pi Kappa Pi has been recognizedas the top fraternity at Purdue forthe second year in a row.

On Oct. 20, 2009, the chapterreceived the 2009 R.B. Stewart ofExcellence signifying it as the bestof Purdue’s 41 chapters. It won thesame award in 2008.

“It’s a great honor to receive theR.B. Stewart Award for two consec-utive years,” archon Dan Cronin(Omega 1702) said. “A lot of timeand effort go into our programmingand daily operations and it is greatto be recognized with this award.

“Earning the award for the sec-ond year shows our commitment toexcellence is paying off.”

Chapter programming is multi-layered and diverse. In 2008-09, forexample, it raised $7,500 for the PiKappa Phi national philanthropiceffort, Push America. It also hadmore than one-third of the chapter

volunteer at a local high schoolwith a special needs class.Furthermore, chapter membersvolunteered 426 hours in communi-ty service.

It had alumni involvement inhomecoming, the Pi Kapp 100 (a100-kilomter cycling ride to raisemoney for Push America), newmember recruitment, FoundersDay (an event whereby we honorthe date of our national founding)and the chapter housing corpora-tion.

The Omega chapter finishedfourth in fraternity intramuralsand had championships in fiveindividual or team sports in 2008-09. Academically, it had 52 percentof the chapter members at a 3.0 orhigher, including four memberswith a 4.0 in the spring semester.It ranked second and sixth in fra-ternity grades in the two semesters

in the 2008-09 academic year.Since taking on the fall and

spring pledge classes, membeshipstands at 116.

“This period in the chapter’s his-tory may be the strongest it hasever been,” chapter advisor PatKuhnle (Omega 1197) said. “Themembers individually are qualitymen and collectively they consis-tently continue to raise the bar ofwhat fraternity means at Purdue.”

In addition to the overall award,the chapter was named Purdue’sbest in six of the nine categoriesused to judge the overall winner.Those individual awards included:

• Outstanding ChapterManagement

• External Relations• Leadership Development• New Member Development• Philanthropy• Social Development

Omega repeats as Purdue’s top fraternity

Alumni can place ticket ordersfor the Oct. 16, 2010, homecomingfootball game through the chapternow.

Tickets for the game are avail-able for $46 each. Purdue will hostMinnesota on Oct. 16, but game-time has not yet been determined.

Use the enclosed order form topurchase tickets in the Pi KappaPhi block. If you provide us youremail address in the return form,we will let you know the activityschedule for that day once the BigTen determines the game time.

In order to be included in the Pi

Kappa Phi block, we need paymentby Sept. 15.

Questions? Contact chapteradvisor Pat Kuhnle. His contactinformation is included elsewherein this newsletter.

Above: The 2008 and 2009 R. B. Stewart Awards stand in front ofthe undergraduates. Right: The 2009 RB Stewart Award standsalongside a plaque listing individual category awards.

Oct. 16 Minnesota homecoming football tickets now available

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As part of its Founders Day cel-ebration in December 2009, PiKappa Phi helped an associatemember from 18 years ago to findcompletion.

Eric Strohacker (Omega1776), a nine-year veteran of theIndianapolis Fire Department,became an Omega chapter initiateat Purdue. Unbeknownst to him,alumni of his era have been work-ing for nearly five months to getStrohacker initiated.

Strohacker started his under-graduate studies at Purdue in1991, but transferred to anotherinstitution prior to his initiation.He eventually dropped out of thesecond institution, which was clos-er to his Indianapolis home, toenlist in the U.S. Navy. After com-pleting his four-year commitment,Strohacker returned and earned adegree in electrical engineeringtechnology.

Since then, the 36-year-old hasbeen a firefighter, become a waterrescue instructor, a volunteer atthe local schools and a third andfourth grade football coach.

Each year as part of itsFounders Day events, the Omegachapter tries to identify men asalumni initiates. A group of alumnifrom the late ‘80s and early ‘90sheard of this effort and suggestedStrohacker.

Four alumni visited an under-graduate chapter meeting a monthbefore the event and made theirplea to the chapter members.

Alumni from Connecticut,California, Indianapolis andChicago came to Indiana to bealongside Strohacker as he becamethe chapter’s 1,776th initiate onDec. 6. A formal dinner followedthe afternoon initiation anddebriefing.

Ron Sadkowski (Omega 1299)was one of the alumni in atted-nance.

“The value of initiation into PiKappa Phi proves our brotherhooddoes not end upon graduation,”Sadkowski said, “it precedes thelifelong bond that is built upon bypast, present and future men.”

Strohacker speaks emotionallyabout what it meant to finally fin-ish was he started in 1991.

“I am lucky because not every-one is given a second chance,” hesaid. “This is why I have alwaysbeen proud to be part of the frater-nity and now officially as an initi-ate. I guess the best way todescribe my feelings is that my ini-tiation validates everything that Ialready knew and felt about thebrotherhood.

“I have been blessed with greatfriends who their efforts have givenme this opportunity.”

Nearly 2 decades after pledging,Indy firefighter becomes member

State Sen. Brandt Hershman(Omega 1196), R-Wheatfield, IN,hopes to replace his political men-tor in the U.S.Congress.

U.S. Rep. SteveBuyer, R-FourthDistrict, announcedin February that hewill not seek a 10thterm representingan area that runsnorth of Bloomington to the Illinoisline to north and east of Lafayette.Buyer cited his wife’s auto immunedisease as the reason for not seek-ing re-election.

Hershman, serving his thirdterm as a part-time Indiana StateSenator, is thefield representa-

tive for Buyer. Hershman is alsothe State Senate Majority Whip.

The Housing Corporation vicepresident will face 13 others in aMay primary. Opposition includesIndiana Secretary of State ToddRokita, who cannot seek re-electionto that post due to state term lim-its. Others include another statesenator, a Butler University profes-sor and the Greenwood mayor.

Alumni are encouraged to par-ticipate in, or financially supportthe 10th annual Pi Kapp 100.

The 100-kilometer April 17cycling event runs from theIndianapolis area to campus.Undergraduate and alumni ridersare asked to get pledges to supporttheir ride.

For more information or to bean alumnus rider, contact TylerLewis, Push America chairman, attjlewis@purdue.edu, 949.910.2683.

To financially support the chap-ter’s efforts, tax deductible dona-tions can be made payable to“Push America” and returned withthe enclosed donor slip.

Housing Corp VPfiles for Congress

Ron Sadkowski, Eric Strohacker, Rick Harvey and Jeff Rollo posein front of pledge paddles in the chapter dining room followingthe Founders Day celebration and initiation.

Hershman

Chapter encouragesPi Kapp 100 support

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Archon ReportIt is certainly a great time to be

an Omega Pi Kappa Phi.Fortunately, the chapter is blessed

with an exec that is nearly intactfrom the fall. That has allowed us to“hit the ground running” in terms ofchapter leadership.

In rush, for example, we followedup a 29-man fall class with 21 in thespring. Eric Allen’s (Omega 1724)effort of 50 new men was the mostsince 1998-89 when the house wasrebuilt. We now have 116 membersand pledges on campus.

Our third annual “War of Roses”competition will be in April. The Waris a weeklong, Greek-wide empathytraining and talent competition.Working alongside numerous sorori-ties, we are able to raise funds forPush America, our national philan-thropy.

Our April 17 Mom’s Day-Pi Kapp100 is coming, too. We seek alumniriders and support and you can readabout that opportunity elsewhere inthis Omegalite edition.

In the fall, we paired with DeltaDelta Delta for the multiple eventssurrounding football season. RyanNugent (Omega 1717) was a home-coming king candidate and served onthe court.

This spring, we are workingalongside Phi Mu for both BMOC(Big Man on Campus) and GrandPrix. BMOC is a campus-wide Greektalent competition to raise money forcancer research sponsored by ZetaTau Alpha. Nick Prichodko (Omega1752) spearheaded the Pi Kapp-PhiMu dance team competing in BMOC.

We continue to have roughly 30members participate every otherweek in our local volunteer relation-ship at a special needs class atLafayette Jefferson High School.

We are also nearing yet anothermilestone in our chapter’s history.When we initiate the Fall ’09 andSpring ’10 pledges, we will cross the1,800-initiate threshold.

This could not have been possiblewithout the strong foundation thatwas built by our alumni.

Dan Cronin (Omega 1702),Fall 2009, Spring 2010, archon

A sports commentator imploredcollege students to find mentors andlearn from them at a recent speechsponsored by the fraternity.

ESPN analyst and former UCLAbasketball coach Steve Lavin spoketo a crowd of more than 100 people –with the majority of them being PiKapps – for nearly an hour on Feb.20, shortly before he broadcast theIllinois at Purdue game.

In his comments, Lavin, 45, saidhe started developing mentors whilea basketball player at a small schoolin California.

“You’re at a stage right now whenI was at Chapman University writingletters to the people in a career thatyou have great interest in,” he said.

As a 19-year-old, Lavin turned tohis father’s coach while at theUniversity of San Francisco, PeteNewell, for advice. Newell, who wonan NIT title at San Francisco and anational championship at Cal-Berkley, identified four coaches toemulate.

Newell identified then UNLV’sJerry Tarkanian, Indiana’s BobKnight, Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski andPurdue’s Gene Keady. Lavin wroteeach of them and eventually spenttime on each of their campuses toobserve coaching techiniques.

Later, when he moved from anassistant at Purdue (1988-91) toUCLA, he got to learn from JohnWooden.

“I want to find that perspective, tofind those (fictional martial arts mas-ter) Mr. Miyagis and those (Star Warsfictional mentor) Yodas who are outthere,” Lavin said. “It’s not just thecurrent hot names; it’s those who arestill around. They are in their 70s,80s or 90s … I don’t think we takefull advantage of the wisdom, theexperience of the wise old souls withsage advice that our parents andelders can give us.”

Lavin said that once you chooseyour mentors, you need to fully devel-op your values.

“You will find that these old triedand true values really is what it’s allabout,” he said. “That’s still the foun-

dation. You can never get away fromthose fundamentals – the gratitude ofhard work of being prepared, beinggrateful – those basics.”

Lavin credits his parents and hisbasketball mentors for making himwho he is today – a nationally recog-nizable TV analyst. When he becamehead coach at UCLA in 1996, he wasamong the youngest coaches in thenation at 32 years old.

While head coach, he led his teamto a .650 winning percentage in sevenseasons. His teams went to theNCAA Sweet 16 in five of those years.

Being a film and TV major atChapman, the transition to broad-casting made smoother. Furthermore,as a youngster, he would attend SanFrancisco Giants games, take a taperecorder and sit up high in the standsrecording play-by-play. He wouldthen play it for his early mentors, hisparents.

“They would critique and review –and bless their hearts – you knowthey were bored stiff with a sixth orseventh grader doing nine innings ofbaseball,” he said. “They said ‘this iswonderful, Steve, this is great.’”

“The beauty is that my job now ishow do you communicate to the fan,the viewer at home about Big Tenbasketball? How do you keep yourmaterial fresh?”

Chapter hosts ESPN analyst

Archon Dan Cronin poseswith ESPN analyst SteveLavin on Feb. 20.

Pi Kappa Phi’s community out-reach was recognized, both by localmedia and school board officials onNov. 9, 2009, in Lafayette.

Chapter members gathered topresent a check for $1,863 to theLafayette School Board. The dona-tion represented the local grant por-tion of the chapter’s 2008-09 $7,452Push America fundraising in 2008-09. The money will support program-ming in a special needs class atJefferson High School.

In the Fall 2009 semester, nearly30 chapter members have volun-teered numerous hours of time inthe special needs classroom. It is thesecond year that Pi Kappa Phi mem-bers have assisted at LafayetteJefferson High School’s low incidenceclass.

Andrew Scheil, fall Push chair-man, and Jim Vasil, last year’snational Push Chairman of the Yearspoke to the school board.

“Our chapter has raised nearly$120,000 for Push America since1980,” Scheil said at the schoolboard meeting. “In recent years,Push America has allowed chaptersto donate 25 percent of their acade-mic year fundraising to local agen-

cies. This is whey we stand beforeyou tonight.”

Vasil recognized the seven chap-ter members who attended the meet-ing and spoke about the work thefraternity does in the classroom.

“We thank you for allowing us tobring the mission of Push America toLafayette Jefferson High School,” hesaid.

The school superintendent laudedthe chapter’s efforts and donation.

After a photo opportunity withschool board officials, the superin-tendent went out of his way to greeteach fraternity member individually

to thank them for their service.Three of the special needs stu-

dents, three teachers and one parentjoined the fraternity members dur-ing the presentation.

Steve Beeler (Omega 1169), theJefferson High School special educa-tion department head helped identi-fy the need and establish the localpartnership in 2008. The efforts areconsistent with the mission of PushAmerica, the national fraternity’soutreach program.

Chapter members rotate regular-ly with the homeroom classroom for

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School board honors fraternity donation, volunteerism

Lafayette School board members pose with chapter members aswell as special needs students and teachers.

Andy Scheil, fall Push America chairman workson a puzzle with a Lafayette Jefferson HighSchool special needs student.

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Eric Allen practices sign language with a studentalongside a teacher’s assistant in the chapter’svolunteer relationship.

DEATHS:

371Roland C. Sutton Jr.Nov. 17, 2009

542William C. BradshawOct. 12, 2009

1227Edward A. AlemanNov. 18, 2009(complications following cancertreatments)

BIRTHS:Ethan Odell Clark, son of Janiceand Matt Clark (Omega 1583).Sept. 16, 2009.

Amelia Claire Leslie, daughter ofRebecca and Phil Leslie (Omega1506).Dec. 26, 2009.

MARRIAGES:

Zach Isbell (Omega 1634) andBrooke Kingsley, Glen Allen, VASept. 6, 2009

Kent Weatherwax (Omega 1545)and Kelly Franczkowski, Akron,

OhioSept. 19, 2009

Mike Child (Omega 1582) andJoellen Hodge, Michigan City, INOct. 3, 2009

Tom Bentley (Omega 1436) andBeth Stone, Chicago, ILOct. 24, 2009

John Cimino (Omega 1379) andNancy Bartik, Chicago, ILSept. 19, 2009

Eric Fobes (Omega 1607) andAmanda AhrenholtzAug. 29, 2009

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the high school students. During the2008-09 school year, chapter mem-bers volunteered more than 300hours in the class.

Low incidence classroom teacherAlyssa Jenkins praised the frater-nity members’ impact on her stu-dents during a TV interview afterthe presentation.

“I have noticed a difference in thekids (when fraternity members arein class),” she said. “First of all, (thestudents) get excited every day. Theylook at the schedule to see who iscoming and at what time. If there’ssomeone new, (the students) flock tothem and want to know ‘who areyou?’ and ‘what’s your name?’ ”

The fraternity members workwith the students on life skills suchas buying groceries, washing clothesand making change.

One of the special needs parentswrote a blog comment on the storysection on the WLFI TV-18’s Webpage.

“These wonderful Purdue stu-dents volunteer every day at JeffHigh School’s special educationclasses for low-incidence disabili-ties,” she wrote. “They are terrific!We appreciate their generosity.”

The same parent sent an email tothe chapter, too.

She wrote: “My husband and Iare just bowled over by your gener-ous donation to my daughter’s class-room. Of course, even more impres-sive is your day-to-day volunteeringwith students. You’ll never knowhow your presence adds to theenrichment of their daily lives.

“I would also like to pay you aspecial compliment. She is my onlychild. If she’d had a brother, I wouldhave wished for a Pi Kappa Phi, asclearly you are as good as theycome.”

As a portion of its coverage of theschool board meeting, the local TVstation featured the chapter’s part-nership. It can be seen at:

"http://www.wlfi.com/dpp/news/loc

al/local_wlfi_Lafayette_LSC_approves_new_elementary_dis-tricts_20091109_rev1"

The city newspaper also devoted aportion of its meeting coverage to thecheck presentation.

A reader also commented on thenewspaper article.

“I think it’s really cool that a fra-ternity specifically chose a specialneeds classroom in which to volun-teer and donate. Kudos to them!”

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Ethan Clark Mr. & Mrs. FobesMr.&Mrs. Weatherwax Mr. & Mrs. ChildMr. & Mrs. IsbellAmelia Leslie

Robbie Staton plays ball with aspecial needs student.

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$1,000 OR MORE

376 Robert Swartz462 John Gaydos

$500 TO $999280 William H. Hundhenk464 Robert A. Rust722 Jack Berlien1031 Mark Higgins1366 Jeff Tang1488 Brent Wunderlich

$100 TO $499295 William Swager289 Clark S. Armstrong316 Harold Schweiger325 Grafton Houston355 William Swager420 Clark Thornton436 Richard H. Lowe448 Kelley Carr478 Richard A. Smith506 James D. Jackson509 Duane M. Davis517 Richard Wingard520 Al Kirchner522 David Griffiths571 John L. Weaver580 Larry Reed621 Hugh Flanagan629 E.D. Gruwell Jr632 James O'Reilly643 Bob Griffiths672 Ron Lema706 Gerard Buente819 Jim Berlien827 Phil Newhouse835 David Lane852 Kim Tubergen858 Bernard Platt951 Greg Linder975 Jeff Gates1017 Bruce Halley1030 Lars Kneller1197 Pat Kuhnle1286 Mike Porter1251 Dan Coppersmith1312 Brent Peacock1367 Matt Bouma1461 Kevin Johnson1554 Justin Hubbert1591 Brandon Delia1659 Brian HeiwigPsi William Newell

$50 TO $9989 Herman G. Riggs 263 Rolund De Hoog604 Anthony Terlep634 David F. Davis733 William Kanouse736 John Anglin751 John Lovell769 Jay Hackleman842 Richard Widman862 R. Michael Little994 William M. McNichols1077 Steve Bohner1272 Todd Spaulding1222 Chris Carrier1277 Pat Lyons1401 Porter Draper1405 Jim Taller1443 Dustin Zufall1459 Nathan Damasius1516 Bob Kramer

$25 TO $49286 Donald C. Adams385 William MacBeth399 Eldon Knuth596 Jerry Davee636 Fred Lyijynen664 Michael Cornick727 David R. Davis738 E. Neil Jay1374 Lars McCain1376 Mark Simmonds1423 John Reidelbach

UP TO $24838 Mark Laurent588 Hilton Henry1429 Jason Morin

OTHER

CONTRIBUTIONS TO CIFIN MEMORY OF EARL BOHNER

1031 Mark Higgins1197 Pat Kuhnle

HONARARY CONTRIBUTIONS TO CIFPsi Bill Newell

in honor of Pat Kuhnle

ALUMNI PUSH AMERICA DONATIONS

355 William Swager509 Duane Davis629 Edwin Gruwell

751 John Lovell1031 Mark Higgins1142 Brian Newell1197 Pat Kuhnle1272 Todd Spaulding1450 Andy Parker1488 Brent Wunderlich1624 Adam Poor

The Omega of Pi Kappa Phi, Inc.housing corporation received 114gifts during 2009 for $13,093.The breakdown of gifts included:$3,334 Mortgage reduction$3,174 Non-designated$2,950 Chapter improvements$1,535 Omegalite publication$1,375 CIF account$725 Chapter Push fund raising

Mortgage reduction donationswere applied to the principle. Themortgage balance as of 12/31/09was $162,142.13. The 24-year mort-gage matures in 2016. We are pay-ing 6.0 percent interest. The inter-est is based on the 3-year treasuryindex with a 2.75 point margin. Thenext 3-year adjustment is due inJune 2010.

Non-designated gifts areapplied at the discretion of thehousing corporation and are used tosupplement publication of theOmegalite. A total of $2,606.13 wasused for alumni mailing costs dur-ing 2009.

Non-designated funds are alsoadded to chapter improvementdonations used on the chapterhouse for summer projects. During2009, $32,244.47 was spent onimprovements as well as repair& maintenance. The largest singlecost was $19,182 for kitchen cook-ing equipment replacement. Otherexpenses included: HVAC mainte-nance ($4,757.21), window repairs($3,496.75, which included someweatherstriping replacements), treeremoval and trimming ($2,250),general maintenance ($2,078.51)and kitchen fire suppression systemimprovements ($480).

Undergraduate rent as well asalumni donations fund the corpora-tion’s anual budget.

2009 Annual Giving Report