Xi Beta Founder’s Day Weekend

Come join fellow alumni and undergraduate brothers in celebrating the 14th anniversary year of Xi Beta’s founding. Dig up the Kappa Sigma stories that have morphed into great memories, and get ready to add some new ones!

Friday the 13th kicks things off with a trolley-car pub crawl through beantown, followed up by a pickup football game and dinner on Saturday the 14th. A detailed list of events can be found below:

Friday March 13th, 2009
8:00pm Meet and greet for food @ Game On (Fenway, Boaton)
9:30 Pub crawl (Departing from Game On)

Saturday March 14th, 2009
1:00pm Alumni vs. Undergrad football @ Carter Field (Columbus Ave, Boston)
6:30pm Maggiano’s cocktail hour @ Maggiano’s Little Italy
7:30pm Xi Beta Founder’s Day banquet

The suggested minimum donation for the weekend is $50 for individuals or $100 a couple. To RSVP please send an email to ksxbalumni@gmail.com by no later than February 27th.  Whether you can only attend one event or the whole weekend, let us know!

Click here for a detailed list of events with locations and directions.

Xi Beta Alumni Corp. Formed

Brothers,

We are very excited to announce the formation of the Xi Beta Alumni Corporation.

The mission of the Alumni Corporation will be three fold. The first and most important goal is to provide a forum for all alumni of the Xi Beta Chapter to stay informed of what’s going with the chapter and what events are occurring throughout the year.

The next goal is the creation of a scholarship program where a hopefully future stream of alumni contributions will be awarded to deserving undergrads, similar to the Scholarship-Leadership Award program run by the Kappa Sigma Endowment Fund.

The final and most exciting goal of the Alumni Corporation is the eventual purchase of a property that Xi Beta can call its home. This has been a dream of the chapter for years and the Alumni Corporation feels that it is time to begin the process of eventually making this dream a reality.

The corporation will be lead by a five member board of directors including Daryn DeCesare, Michael Hall, Peter Antonellis, Bradley Hoffman & Jared Shechtman. These brothers were highly involved in several aspects of chapter operations while undergrads and are looking forward to the challenge of finding new and fulfilling ways to improve the Xi Beta experience, during both a brother’s time as an undergrad as well as an alumnus.

As part of its plan of action, the Alumni Corporation has begun a project to collect the contact information of as many Xi Beta alumni as possible. Once this is completed, we will launch a new web based platform for everyone to stay in contact with each other and keep apprised of chapter news.

Anyone with questions regarding the status of the housing corporation can be directed to Peter Antonellis at psantonellis@gmail.com

AEKDB

Daryn D. DeCesare               Michael R. Hall
President, Board Member      Treasurer, Board Member
Xi Beta ‘05                           Xi Beta ‘07

Peter S. Antonellis                 Jared Shechtman
Secretary, Board Member       Board Member
Xi Beta ‘04                            Xi Beta ‘03

Bradley D. Hoffman
Board Member
Xi Beta ‘05

A Monthly Update From The GM

Brothers

I just briefly wanted to summarize our accomplishments last month, which started off the ’08-’09 school year:

• 52 Men Rushed, 30 Pledged thanks to every Brother’s hard work, especially Brothers Sambuca and Wyner.

Pike: 18 Pledged
SigEp: 11 Pledged
ADP: 11 Pledged
AKS: 13 Pledged

• Brought Norm Macdonald for our 6th Annual Comedy Show, while collaborating with Delta Zeta Sorority thanks to Brother Bourne.

• Two social events at third party vendors with the women of Delta Phi Epsilon and Delta Zeta Sororities thanks to Brother’s Hughes, Viccaro and Brem.

• Initiated 33 Men as part of the Bentley Installation. Thank you to all of those who attended, Brothers Slavin and Potter for organizing, and Brother Ranley for proving why he is a Master of the Ritual.

• Two Greater Cause Events at the Mission Hill Road Race and Breast Cancer Walk thanks to Brother Ucuz. Outstanding performances by our Intramural Teams, thanks to the leadership of Brother Avery.

• $600 in Fundraising thanks to Brothers Adams and Reagan.

• A Plug by the President of the University, Joseph Aoun in regards to our Stony Brook Carnival.

I just wanted to let you know that you all should be proud to be part of the best thing on campus. I sure as hell know I am.

AEKDB,

Lyle