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Alpha Nus
Spring 2018 Newsletter
(Take 2)
This is an edited addition of the Alpha newsletter to provide additional information and to provide a link to allow dues and donations for scholarships to allow voting for changes in the Alumni Association Charter By-Laws and to provide information on a UMD Reunion to be held in June.
Please take some time to read the information included and respond accordingly. We need your involvement to continue to move the mission of the Alpha Alumni Association forward.
Alumni Association Annual Meeting
Saturday May 19, 2018 10:00 AM
Woody’s Grille
6399 City West Parkway
Eden Prairie, MN 55344
Directions to Woody's
Come and reconnect with your Brothers and meet some of the new members. We need your help with the organization especially with the planning for the Alpha 60th reunion to be held in 2019. We will also review the vote on the changes in the Charter with respect to functioning of the scholarships and discuss ways to keep the Active Chapter viable.
Of course we will break for lunch/beverages at Woody's that will give time for listening to brotherly BS.
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Alpha Nu Omega ALUMNI ACTIVITIES
The Scholarship Committee continues to work with UMD to select worthy recipients from the Active Chapter to receive scholarship support.
COMMUNICATIONS
To tell the world who were are, we have created newsletters and websites for not only the Alumni Association but for the Active Chapter as well:
The Alumni Association website has links to previous newsletters, membership information, dues, leadership and links to numerous UMD and Alpha sites. Try it.
We also issue information through periodic newsletters, but the major issue we have with Alumni is that we have email addresses for only half our membership.. If you know of brothers not receiving our communications, please forward this newsletter using the link at the very bottom or send information to one of the email links above.
ALPHA 60th REUNION
The Board of Directors is beginning to plan for the 60th reunion in 2019. Suggestions were made to avoid the Homecoming weekend and move the 60th reunion to September to take advantage of lower hotel rates, better weather and Active recruitment. Mike Dean is looking at venues, but there will undoubtedly be a Duluth Experience feature. Tim McEvoy has again agreed to handle music.
UMD WOMEN'S CROSS COUNTRY SUPPORT
For the last tjree years members of the Alumni Association have provided financial scholarship support to the UMD Women's Cross Country and Track Team initiated by founder Lynn Jamison. We have raised from $1000 - $1500 each year. The team and its coach Joanna Warmington have been very grateful for our continued assistance because they have to try hard to get financial needed scholarship support to compete with other schools. We will again solicit support later this year.
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Alpha Nu Omega Dues and Donations
Our organization needs your donation to continue our work. Please consider a generous tax deductible donation to our dues and donations fund.
PLEASE PUSH THE BUTTON AND YOU WILL BE DIRECTED TO OUR WEBSITE DUES AND DONATIONS PAGE:
Only dues paying members are eligible to vote on Alumni Association such as ratification of the Charter.
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Alpha Nu Omega Scholarship
Providing scholarships to worthy individuals in the Active Chapter is still the primary mission of the Alumni Association. Last spring John L. Banks scholarships in the amount of $5000 each were awarded to Isaac Winter and Andreas Aristidou. To date, we have awarded over $82,000 in scholarships. Considering the first awards were only $100 in 1964, this says a lot about our organiization and the cost of tuition. Again, your donation is needed to increase funding for our scholarships considering the escalating tuition costs. UMD continues to support our fund as well and provide great assistance in the process of selecting candidates.
The Scholarship Committee together with the University is in the process of selecting this year's recipients and will update their names and awards at our annual meeting.
Charter revisions necessary to bring our by-laws related to scholarship to actual practice are presented in this newsletter. Please send your vote (via an email link) on the ballot listed below.
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Alpha Nu Omega
Alumni Association Charter Ballot
Ballot for Charter Revision Ratification
Because of confusion caused by UMD's curriculum change from a quarter to a semester system, our Charter By-Laws need to be revised to clarify qualifications for scholarships. In the proposed revision, to qualify for an Alpha scholarship an Active must have at least one semester of enrollment at UMD, not as an initiated member of the Fraternity. Therefore, a freshman who has completed one semester and has pledged and been initiated before the spring scholarship selection process begins is eligible to apply for the Banks and Knodt scholarships, but not the Orrick scholarship which requires at least four semesters of Fraternity membership. A section below has been added to vote to approve these Charter changes
Click to view and vote by email on the Alpha Alumni Association By-Law Revisions:
Charter Revision Proposal with Ballot
NOTE: You need to be a current dues-paying member to vote. See the donation page above.
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Alumni Association Social
UMD Special Reunion Event
You are invited back to Duluth to celebrate a UMD Reunion on June 8-10, 2018. The Class of 1968 is celebrating 50 years with the help of former classmates.
All alumni and friends are invited to attend the festivities, even if you are not a graduate of 1968!
A Message from Alumni President Mike Dean
Greetings,
I am happy to announce that the Active Chapter of Alpha Nu Omega had the highest GPA of any other Greek organizations -- fraternities or sororities. UMD’s Kirby Student Center has Kathleen MacLeay in charge of its Greek life administration. Kathleen is a Greek. Finally! She earnestly wishes to assist us in recruitment of new members and has a very high opinion of our Active Chapter. Kathleen will be participating in the scholarship interviews on April 24.
I am currently serving on a UMD reunion committee with fellow Greeks from the 1960’s era. We are putting together a reunion June 9-10 with some very nostalgic components that should be great fun and serve as an event for us as well. We are proactively seeking participation from several fraternities and sororities of that era. (Click the link for information and registration below.)
The committee and alumni office are striving to have a men’s national championship hockey presence as a part of this event. You are urged to attend. Let’s make this an Alpha event.
The Friday event is at Hoops Craft Beer facility in Canal Park. Following this event the different fraternities and sororities will have their own evening at various restaurant venues in Duluth. We will probably have ours at a room reserved at the Pickwick.
The Saturday night event will feature our own Tim McEvoy. Mac has an ensemble band named 'Under the Bus' that is quite fabulous with a playlist reminiscent of the Grub Dance Era. The Saturday night event is casual with retro London Inn Drive-In onion rings and Sammy’s Pizza.
An interesting option is the UMD apartment facilities. It might be fun for Alpha couples to consider this option. Each apartment consists of four bedrooms and a full kitchen and living area at $28 per person per night.
This UMD reunion promises to be a wonderful experience for us. It also gives us an opportunity to reconnect with many other alums outside of Alpha Nu Omega.
Please register by Friday, May 18.
I hope to see you there!
Mike
Please Click:
UMD REUNION INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION
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Alpha Active Chapter News
The Active Chapter continues to have quality members with good academic standing. So good that they have the highest GPA average of any Greek organization on campus, male or female..
In the fall semester the Active Chapter added two members, Christopher Jetter and Max Anderson and graduated one, Ahmed Almanaseer.
Alpha participated in the Homecoming Chariot Race but failed to repeat their previous win in the first round due to their failure at making a suitable chariot.
In the fall they also served the local community by bell ringing for four hours at Mount Royal. They also were active in creating social events with sororities and the rest of the Greek community.
This spring they initiated one member, Eric Magaw. One of the brothers, Scott Scullin, won the sorority Beta Lambda Psi's “Kiss the Pig” event; he had to literally kiss the pig (not a Beta).
They also served at the local Damiano food shelf in this month. The Active Chapter had their spring banquet in which there was a new executive board for next year including a new president, Christopher Jetter.
The Active Chapter will be graduating three members this spring: Anas Aljuhaymi, Scott Scullin and Isaac Winter – leaving five active members.
Departing Active President Isaac Winter (pictured as the Alpha Sigma Tau sweetheart nomination) submitted this letter to our Alumni Association:
Alpha Nu Omega Alumni Association,
As I approach my last month of my undergraduate college experience, I am reflective on my fraternal experience the most. This fraternity has been a major part in my life, when I first met the active members my sophomore year to present times when I am letting go of this organization. I have put my heart and soul into trying to continue to build this organization when it went through tough times and presently, with new leadership and the guidance each active member needs.
This fraternity and its continuing legacy would not have been without the brotherhood and leadership in its alumni. I would like to formally thank each and every one of the Alpha Nu Omega Alumni Association for its continued mentoring of the active chapter and all the amenities it brings to the active chapter and its members therein.
My fraternal experience would not have been the same without this association, from the past two year’s scholarships, the county internship which has even further gained my interest in the legal occupation, and the advice about recruiting, leading, and organizing this fraternity from a wide array of alumni members. My college and social experience would have been considerably different if I had not discovered and joined this organization.
Again, thank you for helping me to make the most out of these past three years at UMD with all the opportunities this association and the active chapter offer. I ask only to continue to mentor and advise the active chapter.
Thank you,
Isaac Winter
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UMD News
Bulldogs Win 2018 NCAA Frozen Four
National Championship
Here are some video links to the event:
Getting Back to the Frozen Four
Game Day
Player Celebration
Fan Celebration
Slide Show
The Entire Game
UMD STATISTICS
Here is an updated 2018 summary of UMD provided by U.S. News' "Best Colleges" that includes history, tuition, curricula and rankings in comparison with other schools. Click on the following link to see the University statistics.
University of Minnesota Duluth Summary
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