Page 2 - Cla Delta Spotlight - Fall 2007

Chapter News From the Cal Delta Chapter President al Delta has come semester was our Big Brother Ca long way since Night/Ceremony in Las Vegas. our re-founding in 2005. However, not all of our events Last semester, we grew were social. Our philanthropy enormously as a chapter. chairman planned a night After recruiting a strong of dancing at a retirement Jeff Okita, a senior English major (yellow shirt, center), organized pledge class, we put home with the sisters of Delta the 2006 ALS Walk and is also planning the 2007 event. The chapter together an incredible Gamma, a Dodger game with a members rose early on a Sunday morning to host the event, and social, brotherhood, and foster home and the members of raised over $330,000 for the ALS Association of Los Angeles. philanthropic calendar. Alpha Phi, and a semester long Our chapter hit a few bumps along the way, tutoring program at a local middle school. in the works like our 2007 ALS Walk, which but our cohesiveness allowed us to overcome While it would be easy to be content with is set to raise more than $350,000, we will them, and in doing so strengthen our bond. all that our chapter accomplished last semester, undoubtedly achieve this goal. As we recognized our frst graduating class our goals for the future will make our chapter We plan to restore some of the great Cal of brothers, the end of the semester became a even stronger. Our pledge classes have been Delta traditions of the past while creating a time for refection. Our vision for the future taught to leave Cal Delta greater than they culture that will allow Cal Delta to survive will build upon our accomplishments and hard found it, and they have been selected with in the 21st century fraternity system. After work over the last two years. that in mind. Coinciding with the beginning of meetings with numerous Cal Delta Phis from At last semester’s Greek Awards, Phi Delta construction on our Chapter House, our goal different generations, another goal for our Theta Cal Delta received the most awards of for this semester and for semesters to come chapter is to reach out to the Cal Delta alumni all fraternities and sororities. Honors included is to establish a presence. Our events have community. the Chapter Vision Award and an award for best gone a long way in letting people know that The future of Cal Delta is promising. I Philanthropic and Fundraising Programming. Phi Delta Theta has returned to USC; however, look forward to seeing all of you at one of our Last semester also featured a full and exciting our presence is something we must continue alumni events. event calendar. Our social chairman planned to build over a period of time. Establishing an invite, three exchanges, and a spring formal. a presence with the school, the surrounding Yours in the Bond, Our spring formal in Lake Tahoe provided one community, General Headquarters, our peers in of the most memorable weekends we have had the Greek community, and our 1,400 Cal Delta as Phi Delts as well as a special moment for our alumni Brothers will be the guiding theme for Ali Shorooghi graduating seniors. My favorite event of last our chapter this semester. With events already shoroogh@usc.edu Cal Delta Member Spotlight: Mark Eisen ark Eisen is a Political Science and about a favorite Phi Delt memory, Mark said MEconomics major from La Canada, that the frst brotherhood retreat stands out. California. Mark joined the chapter the fall “It was so early in our forming and no one was semester of his sophomore year. He said he really sure how it would turn out. We went chose Phi Delta Theta “because it offered me to Big Bear Lake for the weekend. Everyone the opportunity to not only become part of a was interacting as if we had known each other fraternity, but to truly help in shaping it… At for years. That entire weekend brought us all the frst barbeque I met people just like me, much closer together.” Dan Johnson (left) and Mark Eisen (right) at leaders who saw a fraternity that didn’t have Mark served the chapter as Risk Manager the Belmont Village “Senior” Prom. They were to be like all the others, that could take a new during the 2006-2007 school year and he accompanied by the ladies from Delta Gamma. route and build an incredible brotherhood is currently the Vice President. He plans to from the ground up.” go to law school and then pursue a career in he graduates is important to Mark. “I cannot Mark said that his membership has been politics. He said that his Phi Delt membership imagine not continuing to contribute to the very benefcial. “Since I joined I have learned will beneft him after he graduates, “There chapter. If I stay in the Los Angeles area I will much I did not know not only about myself are a lot of things you just cannot learn in a remain involved with the Chapter Advisory as a person, but also about how much I was classroom. Leadership is a skill that can only Board, but otherwise I will have to fnd out missing in my college experience. Phi Delt be picked up through experience, not through how else I can help.” He added, “I want the allowed me many opportunities at USC I teaching. USC is a great academic university, alumni to know just how dedicated each one would not otherwise have had. Through our but without Phi Delt I would not be able to go of us is. Our bond is rock solid and we are all events I have met so many friends and looking into the real world ready and willing to take absolutely dedicated frst and foremost to the back over the last two years, I have made so charge.” continued growth and success of Cal Delta.” many incredible memories.” When asked Staying involved with the chapter after