Page 2 - The Pi Kapp Gator - Summer 2015

ChapterNews Archon Report am excited to report that the This summer as brothers are them. As we have grown back on campus, 11 I Alpha Epsilon Chapter is still traveling around the country and Fraternity Row is again a place that all of our excited, invigorated and growing. world participating in internships alumni can call home and be proud of the men This spring we initiated 8 new and study abroad programs, we have inside of its doors. members into the chapter. We have three brothers taking part in cycling This semester has brought with it many already put in a lot of groundwork, events for The Ability Experience, triumphs, and I am excited for an even greater and will continue to, to ensure that formerly PUSH America. Ryan Fall semester. Thank you for all of your we have an extremely successful Montgomery and Justin Hall will support, and I look forward to seeing everyone fall recruitment. The spring also be cycling in the Journey of Hope for a Gator game this fall. brought some other successes, and Nick Stampar will be cycling Softball Intramural Champions, Basketball in Gear Up Florida. Intramural League Champions, along with Many of our re-founding fathers graduate bringing home frst place in a number of this spring. I would like to thank them and – Brandon Newell sorority philanthropies. In March we held our recognize them for helping to reestablish our philanthropy event, Rose Queen which raised chapter at UF, and for also bringing back a ΠΚΦ over $5000 for The Ability Experience. standard of membership and greatness with ChapterSpotlight: Corey Huff what I have taught them and I feel as if a career in Editor’s Note: Representing the chapter as Physical Therapy would allow me to experience Spotlight is upcoming Junior classman Corey this joy every day. Physical Therapy is a personal Huff. From the hometown of Loxahatchee, FL, job and creates a relationship between patients Corey is interested in pursuing his degree at and therapists that are benefcial to both physical UF in Psychology and hopes to attend school and emotional health. Helping people is one of for Physical Therapy. Serving the chapter as the most rewarding things in life, so to have the the Philanthropy Chairman, Corey organized opportunity of doing that every single day would and hosted the Rose Queen event, and is also allow me to follow a career path I truly love. involved with Dance Marathon, the Ability Experience, and intramural soccer. He has Any plans for the summer? been working summers at Gym Like This – a gymnastics day camp - since he was 16. This summer, I will be back at home working at a local summer camp that I have been involved with since I was 13. Every summer I work with kids $5,000 from the event and it’s great to know that in developing fundamental skills in recreational all the hard work paid off and is directly helping gymnastics. We create a fun atmosphere for the those in need. kids to enjoy being active in the gym, while Corey representing Also, I am very proud of facilitating our developing coordination, strength, and ftness. the gators at work. chapter’s involvement in Dance Marathon at UF. Around 15 brothers, along with hundreds of Also, over the summer I plan on volunteering with What led you to join Pi Kappa Phi? other students stood for 26.2 hours to raise money my mother where she is the director of rehab at an assisted living facility so that I can get more involved for the children at Shands Children’s Hospital. Originally, I had been very skeptical about As a chapter we raised $18,000 and UF raised and gain more experience with Physical Therapy. joining a fraternity and participating in Greek over $2 million. Life mostly because of all of the stereotypes and stories that were associated with it. Then, Where did I went to a recruitment barbecue and met some your interest in of the guys from Pi Kapp and immediately felt Physical Therapy at home. Being an incoming freshman, it’s very come from? important to fnd a group of people that you can I was interested rely on and build everlasting friendships, and Pi in Physical Therapy Kapp was the perfect place for that. at a young age, As Philanthropy Chair, which events because my mother are you most proud of? is an occupational therapist and I was As philanthropy chair I was in charge of constantly exposed to organizing and running our annual Rose the environment. My Queen pageant that raises money for the time working with Ability Experience, which benefts people with children made me disabilities. Our Rose Queen Pageant is a three realize that I enjoyed round competition where contestants from each watching people Dance Marathon 2015 with sorority compete. We were able to raise over grow and learn from the brothers of Pi Kappa Phi. 2