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Beta Eta House Corp., cont’d.

complete any such additional housing will this has come from current members of the brings specialized knowledge of Greek house
be negotiated with the university in the board, augmented by other contributions. corporations and alumni to our efforts. Enclosed
future as things progress with the chapter. The board believes the time is right to move you will find a feasibility survey. Please take a
• Since the fall of 2016, the board has received ahead with plans to construct the lodge facility moment of your time to complete and return it
over $160,000 in contributions and pledges on our existing property and, as discussed above, by the date indicated on the survey.
to fund the costs related to the house demo, has hired Elevate to conduct a feasibility study to Sincerely,
to engage the outside firms, and to begin the explore the potential interest and support among Beta Eta House Corporation
capital campaign for the lodge. The bulk of our alumni. Elevate is a consulting firm that

PROJECT TIMELINE Beta eta
House Corporation

Board MeMBers
april 2018 nOvember 2018 spring 2020
Ed Milton ’70 - President
en.milton007@gmail.com
OctOber 2018 Fall 2019 Fall 2021 Chris Heck ’94
chrisheckmd@me.com
John Hood ’66
JLHRET@gmail.com
Jon Hyink ’99
jonhyink@gmail.com
Randy Johnston ’77
randalljohnston58@gmail.com
Steven Philhower ’91
sanddphilhower@gmail.com
Feasibility campaign campaign Jack Stephens ’78
study begins Quiet phase ends aubie@hotmail.com
begins Mark Thomas ’91
Feasibility campaign cOnstructiOn mark.thomas@gmail.com
study ends public phase begins Jerry Weisenfeld ’89
begins jerry.weisenfeld@gmail.com

Why Conduct a Feasibility Study?

any graduates may wonder, “Why do capacity to make lead and mid-tier gifts,
Mwe need to conduct a capital campaign obtaining their reactions to the project,
feasibility study?” The answer is simple: just and determining if they have interest in
because we want to build a new chapter house supporting it.
doesn’t necessarily mean that we can conduct • Educating our alumni on the need for the
a successful fundraising campaign that will project and identifying the people we will
get us all the way there. This feasibility study have involved to ensure success.
will allow us to accomplish a number of tasks • Identifying alumni interested and willing to
designed to gauge the potential success of the help as volunteers throughout the campaign
campaign, including, but not limited to: and on one of the ongoing committees.
• Determining the overall interest level and • Most importantly, from all of this feed-
support of the campaign by our brothers back, establishing an achievable campaign
and assessing the overall fraternity experi- goal and campaign execution plan.
ence of our alumni from a broad spectrum Keeping the best interest of the chapter in not only from an initial funding perspective,
of generations. mind, the House Corporation (HC) wants but also in terms of sustainable operations
• Identifying those brothers with the to be sure a project will be financially feasible, over the long term.

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