To all alumni and colony members:
Greetings. Hope everyone is enjoying their summer so far and gearing up for
an exciting Fall for not only the FSU football team under new and exciting
coaching, but also for Eta Epsilon first full semester back on campus. Lots
going on in the next few months so I thought I would bring everyone up to
speed:
Colony:
By all accounts, the colony had a great first semester on campus. As I am
sure the original founding fathers of 1988 can attest, starting up a new
colony is very intense with lots of things to establish in a short amount of
time in addition to the members going to school, work, and other
committments. With a meeting at the end of the semester with Jim Divita,
Director of Sigma Pi expansion and Courtney Barry, Director of Greek Life
office, the colony has met or exceeded all of their goals and expectations
to this point. The guys had an eventful first semester with their first
crush, alumni / founder's day bar-b-que, and preparations for the fall
semester including setting up socials, pairing with Phi Mu for homecoming,
establishing their community service A.C.E. project that will clean up and
make improvements to the FSU REZ, and establishing their Sam Spady
philanthropy by inviting Samantha Spady's mother to do a presentation to the
greek community regarding alcohol awareness in the Fall. In addition, the
colony is actively working on recruitment with a weeklong list of activities
this week including a poker tournament at Southgate Campus Center with the
help of fellow alumnus, Jamie Thomas, that will be geared toward incoming
freshman and other interested students. They are also holding another
alumni / active event on July 7th at the FSU REZ that local alumni will be
receiving more info on soon. The colony is also sending three members to a
Leadership conference in Tennessee for Nationals this summer where they hope
to gain important information and positively represent the colony. They are
currently on track to charter with nationals in Spring 2008 and are hoping
to have a house in place by Fall 2008 at the latest. I recently met with
Joe Drain, Colony president, and a few other colony members and they
expressed to me how grateful they are for the support of the alumni to date.
They feel it has been a huge advantage for them and they are eager to meet
and speak with alumni to get view on the history of the fraternity and learn
the origins of Eta Epsilon's roots. I would encourage all alumni to take
just a few minutes to email Joe at
jkd05d@fsu.edu to offer words of support, advice, suggestions, etc... as
they guys really do appreciate it and it helps to further motivate them to
restore Eta Epsilon as one of the top chapters on campus. With current
suspensions of Sigma Phi Epsilon and Alpha Tau Omega for the Fall semester
and possibly beyond, we are in a great position to become one of the top
tier fraternities at FSU in a short amount of time. SAF will be presenting
a $1000 check to the colony this month to be used to help establish the
criteria set forth by nationals for chartering and thanks goes out to the
alumni that have made donations to SAF to help make this gift possible.
FSU Football:
A new football season is right around the corner and while we only have 5
home football games we have two big away games that should be exciting games
and be loaded with Seminole fans. SAF will be throwing at least two
tailgates along with the colony this upcoming season. We will be having
something for the Miami game for sure and then will leave it up to alumni
correspondence regarding the second game either Maryland or NC State. We
also have tailgates planned for two big away games: FSU vs Alabama in
Jacksonville. Alumnus, John Klein has already secured tailgate spots for
the game and is planning a tailgate for the game with SAF support. Also,
the FSU vs Colorado game in Denver also has planned events for the entire
weekend including a tailgate by alumni: Dennis Solo, Kent Underwood, Adam
Lee, Hector Mejia, and Von Limbaugh who all reside in the Denver area. All
current information can be found on the alumni website at
www.sigmapifsu.com with more specific details in the coming months. I
look foward to having a large alumni turnout for all the events as well as a
good turnout from the colony members.
Other than that, not much else going on at the moment. I am going to
continue my pursuit of locating as many alumni as possible this summer as I
have taken a few months of this. Again, if you receive my emails and plan
on changing your email address, home address, phone #, etc... in the near
future please email me at
spenceloriklein@aol.com with the changes or you can go to the website
and click on update my information. I would greatly appreciate it as I have
lost about 15 guys in the past several months who I now have to try and
locate on top of the guys still missing, so your help keeping the database
updated is crucial.
Thanks again for your time and continued support and please keep in touch.
Fraternally,
Spencer Klein
President- Seminole Alumni Foundation
Sigma Pi Fraternity
Zeta Pledge class
Florida State University