Fall 2010 - Phi Alpha Delta

Nearly 100 years ago, at its eleventh convention, Phi Alpha Delta
amended its constitution to allow the establishment of Alumni Chapters.
Unlike the student Chapters, the Alumni Chapters are chartered to serve
all alumni members in a particular area without regard to what law school
they attended. Four Alumni Chapters were chartered the first year of the
new program—the Chicago Alumni Chapter, the Portland Alumni Chapter,
the New York City Alumni Chapter, and the National Capital Area Alumni
Chapter. Since the inception of the Alumni Chapter program, ninety-seven
Alumni Chapters have been chartered in the fraternity.
In late 2008, under the direction of our International Justice Rhonda
Hill, the Fraternity’s Alumni Advisory Council set a goal to achieve 100
active Alumni Chapters by the 100 th anniversary of the chartering of the
first Alumni Chapters. 100 by 100! That 100 th Anniversary will occur this
biennium. This campaign has been and will continue to be promoted in
The Reporter, on the international list serve, on the P.A.D. webpage, and in
various other online groups. We have already seen great results and the
reactivation and/or chartering of several Alumni Chapters, including most
recently the reactivation of the Los Angeles Alumni Chapter and its
renaming in honor of our departed Brother Sandy Rae.
Still, there is much more to do, and to achieve our goal, we will need
the support of all of our brothers and sisters. To reactivate an inactive
Alumni Chapter (or to charter a new Alumni Chapter) requires a petition
to the International Executive Board signed by no fewer than ten P.A.D.
alumni members who actually reside or work in the community served by
the Chapter. (If it is a statewide Alumni Chapter, the required number is
twenty-five.) The Chapter is required to meet a minimum of two times per
year (though much more is possible and encouraged), conduct annual
elections, and pay an annual Chapter tax to the fraternity of $110.00.
The Alumni Advisory Council has begun the work of coordinating
this mass reactivation project by identifying potential local alumni leaders
various fraternity volunteer lists and key contact lists. District Justices and
Assistant District Justices are being contacted to supplement this list and
the work of reaching out to the members has begun. If you are interested
in participating in the reactivation or chartering of an Alumni Chapter,
your Fraternity needs you!
For information about how you can help or for assistance in activating
an Alumni Chapter in your area, please contact B.J. Maley, Chair of Alumni
Advisory Council at attybjm@ameritech.net.
THE REPORTER — FALL 2010 — PAGE 19
Valley of the Sun
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Alumni Chapter
Charity Golf
Tournament
By Errol Shifman, Marshal
The Valley of the Sun Alumni
Chapter of Phoenix is planning a charity
golf event for Saturday November 20,
2010 at the award winning Wildfire
Golf Club at the JW Marriott in
Phoenix. The proceeds from this event
will be donated to St. Vincent de Paul,
a local charity, which provides help for
the homeless and working poor. They
focus on providing food and clothing for
those who are in need as well as shelter
for the homeless, free medical care for
families and free dental care for the
children.
Registration is open to all and
begins at 6:30 am, with tee-off at 7:45
am. The cost for this event is only $125
per player or $400 per foursome. This
price includes: 18 holes of
championship golf, lunch, raffle and
awards ceremony. Sponsorships are
available. If you're interested please
contact Errol Shifman at
eshifman@hotmail.com
Brother Brent Kleinman points out the
P.A.D. logo on St. Vincent de Paul’s
Corporate Partners banner.