1993 Volume 116 No 1–4 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

The General Fraternity
Stewart new ADCS
Steve Stewart, Westminster '92,
was hired as the new assistant
director of chapter services. Stewart
has worked for
General
Headquarters as
a chapter
consultant for a
year. In his new
position he will
be in charge of
Steve Stewart J expansion of the
Fraternity onto new campuses,
dealing with chapter crisis situations,
and other undergraduate programming.
Stewart succeeds Martin
Taylor. •
Phis facilitate UIFI
Two Phis served as session
coordinators for the National
Interfratemity Conference's Undergraduate
Interfratemity Institute.
Abe Cross,
Tampa '88,
director of
chapter services
at General
Headquarters,
and Jim Hoppe,
McMaster '90,
Abe Cross t^g Fraternity's
scholarship commissioner, both
coordinated sessions in IndianapoUs.
The program brings fratemity and
sorority imdergraduate leaders from
across the United States into a
vmified program of leadership
education. Rush, cultural differences,
group dynamics, and corifrontations
skiUs are some of the topics discussed.
'The Institute identifies problems
associated with Greek Ufe and helps
the students develop sfrategies to
resolve them," says Cross. •
Chapter Advisers Needed!
• At the Allegheny chapter. Call Bob
Heister at 412-355-4406.
• At the UCLA chapter. Call Chris Lapple
at: 310-809-4729
• At the Lehigh chapter in Pennsylvania.
Call Wes Schaefer at: 215-395-1958
Fire & life safety loans
Realizing the importance of
improved fire and life safety
measures in chapter houses, the
General Council, on the recommendation
of the Housing Coirunission,
wiU now authorize loans of up to
$5,000 to house corporations for
specific fire and life safety improvements.
The terms of the loans carmot
exceed three years and the interest
rates are 4%. The
funds will be
avaUable through
the Walter B.
Palmer Foundation.
W. R. (Rusty)
Richardson,
diredor of
Rusty Richardson
business affairs
and staff liaison to the Housing
Three chapter
consultants retire
T
hree
of Phi Delta Theta's most
visible employees have retired
from their positions as chapter
consultants. W. Pafrick Lay, Centre
'90; J. Marc Hopper, McMaster '90,
and Sean F. Keefer, South Carolina
'90, left staff May 28 after fraveUng to
chapters across the U.S. and Canada
for the past two years. Each of them
visited undergraduate leaders at
approximately 120 chapters.
Brother Lay retvimed to his home
town of Lexington, Kentucky. He
wiU be working in the investment
and securities industry.
Marc Hopper retiu-ned to his
Conunission, says the purpose of the
loans is to encourage increased
safety of chapter facilities.
"The goal of this program is to
have the safest fratemity houses in
the Greek world," says Richardson.
"Every chapter house wiU have state
of the art fire detection equipment to
promote life safety."
The program comes as part of a
renewed emphasis on the
Fraternity's risk management
poUcies, which address housing as
weU as alcohol.
"As part of a risk management
inspection program, we identified
these areas as ways to improve the
safety of our members in houses"
says Richardson. "These loans will
help chapters that need to upgrade
safety but lack the funds to do so." •
Left to right:
Marc Hopper,
Patrick Lay, and
Sean Keefer
retire.
home in Hamilton, Ontario, where
he wiU be relaxing before starting a
job search.
Brother Hopper said, "I honestly
hope I made a noticeable impact in
the chapters over the past two years.
I hope I left undergraduates with the
luiderstanding that consultants are
hired to help them not to act as
investigators."
Sean Keefer wiU be moving to
NashviUe, Termessee, to pursue a
music career. "I want to be in a
position to help the Fraterruty in the
futiu-e," he said. Brother Keefer wiU
be returning to Oxford for the 1993
Leadership College.
General Headquarters has hired
four new consiUtants who wiU be
profiled in the next issue. •
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