Message sent 1/4/2007

Gentlemen,
I hope everyone had a great Holiday season and your New Years went well.  It is 
about time for many of you to get back to school and some of you on the quarter 
system are already back.  The Executive Office is also back open and we are 
preparing to head back on the road beginning next week and get our newly 
elected officers educated on your roles and duties as leaders of your 
chapters/colonies.  I want to take some time to remind people of a few items and 
bring you up to date on information you may find important this semester.  

Mid-Year Leadership Conference
If you have not already done so, get on-line today and register your Sage, Third 
Counselor and Recruitment Chair for Mid-Year at http://www.sigmapi.org/.  We 
have also included the agenda for both the Undergraduate and Alumni programs.  
This will help with making travel arrangements.  
We have seen a lot of growth in attendance with this program over the years: 2003 
(219 brothers), 2004 (239 brothers, up 9%), 2005 (256 brothers, up 7%), and 2006 
(325 brothers, up 26%)!!!  The number of groups attending has increased as well: 
2003-71 groups, 2004-70 groups, 2005-79 groups, and 2006-95 groups!!!!
This has been a great, interactive conference and our new leaders have praised it 
for helping them to have a better understanding of their roles and obligations as 
leaders in our Fraternity.  You do not want to miss out!!!

ACE Projects
I would like to remind our new officers that our goal for ACE Projects this year is 
115.  We currently only have 16 projects registered.  Last year in 2005-2006 your 
predecessors helped surpass our goal of 100 by completing 108 projects around 
the country.  Since its inception 3 years ago we have seen this project go from 33 
to 87 to 108!!!  This is Sigma Pi’s trademark and our host institutions have spread 
the word around the country about our Fraternity and the positive things we do 
through ACE.  We want to keep that up, after all we are changing the Greek 
World and this is one of our key points.  Go to 
http://www.sigmapi.org/ACE/index.cfm and get yours registered.  
VERY IMPORTANT: You MUST get with the University and ask them what Sigma 
Pi can do for them to make this project complete!!  Get your ACE chair up to 
campus immediately to get ideas and begin planning.  We have new ACE 
Banners waiting to send to you.

Sam Spady Foundation
This past Convocation in New Orleans your chapter brothers voted to drop the 
American Red Cross as our National Philanthropy and move it to the Sam Spady 
Foundation.  Some of you have already completed a Sam Spady Project and 
reported it to us with your man hours completed and/or money collected to be 
donated to them.  We are also in the process of putting up a registration link 
similar to the ACE link, until then you can simply send your project information to 
Jen Wyatt at jwyatt@sigmapi.org.  She will record your project, man hours 
completed and money raised.  We do ask that you send the check here and we 
can document it and forward it on to the Sam Spady Foundation.  If you have 
completed a project already let us know the above information for documenting 
purposes.  
VERY IMPORTANT:  Sam Spady and ACE are TWO separate projects.  

Recruitment
This past fall we had a very good recruitment period as an organization and your 
new members should be ready to initiate.  We need for you to get their forms/fees 
in so we can process them and get them their materials and track the growth of 
our Fraternity.  It is also time for recruitment to begin again.  I hope you have your 
recruitment plans made and prepared and you are going to reach your goals that 
were provided by the Executive Office for each chapter.  If you do not know what 
those goals are contact your ELC and they will be able to get you that 
information.  
We are also having a professional speaker from Phired Up Productions at Mid-
Year to offer new insight and ideas for recruitment (another change for Mid-Year).  
We look forward to reaching the growth goals of the Fraternity as we continue our 
journey to truly be the best fraternity in the Greek World.  Just as you compete on 
campus with other fraternities for recruitment, we as an entire Grand Chapter 
compete against the other fraternities on the National scale.  We have been 
making head way and turning heads for a couple of years now, so let’s all work 
together to keep that up.  We truly do have the best fraternity that a man can 
join!!!  If you need more recruitment materials you can order them through 
jwyatt@sigmapi.org.

Gold Standards
Since you are a new officer I would suggest going to the Cornerstone Concept 
section on the website http://www.sigmapi.org/cornerstone/index.cfm and 
downloading your officer manuals, Constitution & By-Laws, Risk Management 
manual and the Gold Standard.  These are manuals that will help you run an 
efficient chapter; if you can get an 80% or above on the Gold Standard you have a 
very good chapter.  At the same time you need to submit one both years in the 
biennium to be eligible for awards at Convocation in 2008 in Long Beach, CA.  
This document is due May 15th.  Our ELC’s can help answer questions you may 
have in concerns to it.

That is all for now, there will be more in the Bulletin that will be sent out next week 
along with the Balance (Risk Management Publication).  We will also go over 
some of these topics again at Mid-Year.  I thank you for taking the time to read 
this email and look forward to seeing you in St. Louis, home of the 2006 World 
Series champs!!!! (Sorry D-town).  Best of luck to you as you begin this New Year 
and new semester.

IST,

Jonathan M. Frost
Assistant Executive Director