At Convention this past summer, the delegation voted to Re-Charter our Pennsylvania Tau Chapter at Saint Francis University in Loretto, PA. I had the pleasure of spending the semester working with their President, Kevin Hernandez as they planned their Installation banquet and so was extremely excited to be able to see how the weekend turned out!
Myself, Anita, and National President, Kevin Lampe all made the trip out on Thursday night so that we could spend all day Friday on campus with the guys. We were able to meet up with the outgoing and incoming Chapter Presidents, and meet up with the chapters advisors, both non-members who have given a lot of hours to help make this chapter successful! The chapter held Ritual on Friday night in the campus chapel with the help of the brothers of the Pennsylvania Alpha Xi chapter at Duquesne University. The Duquesne members even got a spaghetti dinner, courtesy of one of the mothers! We also had quite a surprise as the chapter had chosen to participate in Movember and there were some wild mustache's the entire weekend! Below you can see members of both chapters with Kevin Lampe after Ritual.
Saturday was a busy day for everyone! Many of the Pennsylvania Tau members are football players and cheerleaders and it was the last home game. We sat in the stands with all the parents cheering on the members! Although the team lost by 1 point, we got to witness a fantastic interception and touchdown by our own Russel Fisher! And lucky for us, it wasn't even that cold out yet!
Saturday night the guys held their banquet in the ballroom of the Ramada Inn in the nearby town of Altoona, PA. All of the chapters members, parents, and advisors and friends of the chapter were in attendance. The men put together a slide show of pictures and displayed their awards for Fraternity of the year from Saint Francis University, as well as the Colony Development Award that they were given at Convention. We heard speeches from Father Gabriel Zeis-President of the University, Greek Advisor-Bobby Anderson, Founding Father and alum-Ryan Bird, as well as Anita. The members of the chapter also presented the Chapter President and emcee for the night with a plaque in recognition for his service to the chapter. The evening ended with a speech from National President Kevin Lampe, as well as him presenting the chapter with Ritual books, the charter, and swearing in the officers. We then concluded by taking about a thousand pictures, Anita gave the two of us the titles of papparazzi for the weekend! I know it was a bittersweet night for many of the members who played their last football game that day, as well as seeing all of their hardwork come to fruition that evening with receiving their charter.
The members did an outstanding job, and we had a great visit with the members who always greet us with hugs and treat us like family! Congrats Pennsylvania Tau on an amzing milestone and I hope you'll please join me in congratulating our newest chapter! You can see more pictures on our facebook page, PK Thomas!
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