Deltasig July 09 - Delta Sigma Pi

Welcome back Kappa Rho Chapter! Adelphi brothers celebrated their reactivation March 28.The chapter was originally installed March 27, 1982.Delta Sigma Pi’s 202nd Chapter,Adelphi, Reactivated!Adelphi University, in Garden City, N.Y. (on Long Island),first became the home to Kappa Rho Chapter on March 27,1982. After a period of closure since 1995, a colony was formedin April 2007 with support from Assistant Dean BrianRothschild to reactivate the chapter which culminated withceremonies on March 28. Two faculty members joined 44 studentsin the initiation ceremonies and became the reactivationfounders. Several Deltasigs were already among the faculty.Kappa Rho Chapter initiated 284 students and faculty membersbetween 1982 and 1995.The initiation was led by Northeastern PVP Onuka Ibe andEastern RVP Tom Calloway, assisted by student members fromNew York, St. Peter’s, and area alumni officers. Following theinitiation, a reactivation banquet was held at Villa UmbertoBanquet Hall with Brother Calloway serving as Master ofCeremonies. In addition to the charter being presented byBrother Ibe, additional fraternal presentations were made byVice President-Organizational Development MarkChiacchiari, Leadership Foundation Trustee Emeritus NickSteinkrauss, and Educational & Leadership ConsultantAndrew Ochoa.The colony was pledged by Golden Council memberWendy Eilers and District Director Shreema Sanghvi. Othernational guests in attendance included Golden Council membersDoug Spy, Kathy Lazo-Thompson, Paul Carpinella, LouisMaull, Provincial Professional Development Committee ChairLiz Calloway, and chapter members from Boston.During the colony process, the students completed severalservice projects and fundraisers for the Invisible Children’sFund, Meals on Wheels for the elderly, and Operation Smilefor children and infants with cleft lips. Their professional programsincluded workshops on dining etiquette, Dress forSuccess, and resumes and interviewing, along with speakerson finance, leadership, and human resources. Among theirsocial program of bowling and pool was also hosting alumnion Founders’Day with Jim and Julia Jacobs (son and daughterin-lawof Deltasig founder Harold Valentine Jacobs) and a networkinglunch at Goldman Sachs. Students also traveled toLEAD events in Birmingham and Boston.Adelphi was founded in 1896 as the first institution of higherlearning on Long Island. The first classes were held inBrooklyn at a prep school that still exists today. For threedecades following 1912, the college served only women andwas among the largest college units of the U.S. Cadet NurseCorps. The college moved to its current Garden City location in1929 and now enrolls over 8,300 students, of which over 500are undergraduate business students and 300 enrolled in theMBA program.Welcome back Kappa Rho Chapter! ▲JULY 2009/THE DELTASIG OF DELTA SIGMA PI 33