Behrend is having their 2006 Alumni Reunion October 20th - 22nd this year. It has become the tradition that we will have our chapter Alumni weekend at the same time. Depending on plans, the chapter may have a dinner or other events go on.

We will hold our Alumni Association meeting on saturday. Time will depend on final times planned for some of the Behrend events. (we usually have our meeting at 11am.)
Also, their will be elections for new Alumni board officers.

So come on up to Erie and join in the fun. Behrend has planned events for the whole family for those of you with children (or just like to act like one).

Some events planned include:
* Sunday Brunch with the Dean
* Family Fun Carnival and Jazz Concert
* Free Picnic Lunch
* Athletics Hall of Fame Dinner
* Penn State Creamery Ice Cream
* Alumni Nine Hole Golf Scramble
* Horse Drawn Trolley Rides
* Tours of the new Behrend Arboretum
* Open House in Astronomy at the Mehalso Observatory
* Popular Faculty Seminars: \"Classes You May Have Missed.\"

Last year their was even a wine tour that Hendo got piss drunk at and passed out on the bus. Not sure if the tour is going on this year.

with one week to go untill the big alumni weekend in Erie, we are moving along with our house donation drive.

I have updated the list with all the names of those who have donated (46 people in all as of now) and wanted to thank everyone. Also, to help show just who has been donating to the chapter their is a fraternity class breakdown on the donation list page as well.... you can see how many of each class on the donation page here

Their are a few names that honestly i forget the pledge class for, so if you spot somewhone who doesnt have a class name next to them let me know. also let me know of any mistakes.

Again, i want to thank everyone who has donated money, keep it up. I am looking forward to a very productive meeting this weekend, and just an all-around good time seeing everyone, the young guys, and all the Behrend activities.

Remember. Meeting at 1-3pm in REED 117on campus... Dinner saturday evening at Nunzi's.. figure 6-7pm timeframe to start. Their is a wine tour from 3-6pm that I believe a lot of guys are going on too.


Hope to see everyone up in Erie this Friday, Saturday and Sunday..

Brothers,

As some of you may know, the house and the chapter needs our help. The house has fallen on hard times and we are seeking the assistance and support of all the members, both new and old, of the chapter for help. Due to many different house related issues, we will be needing a new house. The issue are ones that this chapter has always had, the structure of the house and its repair, and it should not surprise anyone that this has happened. It was only time. We want to work towards a future goal of a new house, but unfortunately the current financial situation of the alumni association does not allow us to begin work on those big plans at this time. We are seeking help to raise money to save the future of the chapter be it in one way or another.


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as a reminder this friday is the scheduled Happy Hour for May. Right now it is still planned for Bar Louie at Station Square. Show up whenever, usually starting around 5:30-6PM.

IF anything changes for the location I will post it here.... Anyone around Pittsburgh is welcome to come, active or alumni. We have these happy hour events planned for every first friday of the month, so over the summer maybe some of the college guys on vacation can attend.

Hope to see you all friday

Well as most of you know on April 16th the alumni association and the actives had our spring 2005 meeting. The topic of discussion was simply, the house. We discussed the current housing structure, horrible. The future wants and needs, a new house. And possible ways to achieve our goals. The general consensus was that we would need a new chapter house, or a major overhaul of the current one. While some of the facts are less than concrete, we decided to break up into three committees to address the various concerns. We were given until Dec 2005 by the borough to have the house repaired. And honestly, less time, by our insurance company it seems. It was decided the best action was to seek a new house (most likely build on our land or new land) for our chapter’s needs, but to also look at phasing into things using our current property.
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I attended the chapter meeting last night (April 12) as the actives discussed the various houseing plans for the future of the fraternity along with other items. I think it went very well and hopefully with this weekends other meetings we can all work together towards our goals.
Thank you to all the actives who have talked to me over the past few weeks, at formal and discussed things at last nights meeting. I think everyone there last night did a great job expressing their concerns, ideas and hopes for this chapter.

I had prepared something for the meeting to read but as the meeting ran long, and so much discussion about the issues was done I decided to simply post my message here on some things and let the actives or anyone else read them.

Changes and the Future - Brotherhood Meeting 2005-04-12

Yes, it is a bit on the long side as I just started to think about a lot of things that this chapter and its college members will be facing over the next decade. Feel free to share this with anyone you wish (its a PDF so it should be easy to email, or to link to) and comment on it. It is by no means everyone's view of our situation simply my own.

Thanks
Brian

It had been mentioned once that an alumni brother, or a the alumni's family may own some land up Jordon Road past I-90. The land would be past the point of campus.

Does anyone know who's family this may be? It has been brought up that the chapter may wish to purchase new land to build a new house on and we are trying to track this person down. If anyone remembers who, or knows of anyone who may know let me know ASAP. Kaylor and the actives think Anderegg may have known who owned the land, but noone has any contact info for him...

If anyone has any info please let me or Chris laugelli know.
Thanks...

first I wanted to announce the new Alumni association E-Board as a result of the elections held on Oct 16th weekend up in good old Erie

President - Brian Lindner (yes, I am back! )
Exec - Barry Gunther
Finance - Dave Madl (Yes, dave is nuts too)
Membership - Jesse Shrock
Programs - Jarod Stanton

I am looking forward to working with the new guys to the e-board and getting some good things done. Madl and I got to see a lot over the past 2 years and look plan to continue to get the house slowly worked on, and hopefully to get the Association Memebership, and alumni involvement in general with the chapter, up.

So to that end and to get people together....
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Note: I am out of town till Nov 2nd.. so if anyone needs to reach me call my cell...