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Spring 2018
Omicron Chapter of Psi Upsilon at the University of Illinois
Save the Dates!
July Golf Outing
Saturday, July 14 at 1:00 p.m.
Mount Prospect Golf Club
Mount Prospect, Illinois
For additional details and to sign-up:
tinyurl.com/PsiUgolf2018
Homecoming 2018
Saturday, October 13
Football vs. Purdue
Visit us at
www.illinipsiu.com
From the Alumni President:
Greetings brothers! on the west side of the house toward the
First off, I would like
to apologize on behalf street. Lastly, Ray put $800 worth of parts
into our boiler, which we voted to replace
of myself and the rest of at the Homecoming meeting to the tune
the board that we did of approximately $10,000. The undergrad-
not get a newsletter out uates are very appreciative of Ray. The last
last year. The board and I thing that we have asked Ray to assist us
had a very busy year putting the pieces in with is coming up with estimates and po-
place to lead to our future success. First, we tential plans for redoing the 2.5 bathroom.
brought in a new CPA firm in June. We have This project is long overdue. More details
appreciated the tenacity and transparency to come in our fall newsletter!
Billy Stull of Stephens & Stull has brought The last partner who joined our team
to our team. He brought forward some this past year was Elevate. As I mentioned
great ideas. In addition, undergraduate ac- earlier in the letter, we were unable to
counts receivable (AR) are as low as they send out a newsletter last year. We began
have been in recent history. Billy sends communications with Elevate last fall af-
out monthly statements to each brother ter a referral from Tom Fox ’00. I met with
with an outstanding balance, in addition one of the principals from the company
to being very strict regarding the payment and, based upon our discussion, knew
deadlines and assessing late fees. Five in- that Elevate could bring great value to
dividuals from the prior semester account the Omicron Chapter. We have contracted
for 70 percent of the outstanding AR. These them to send out biannual newsletters, as
individuals have been sent to collections. well as to track donations and to update
In November, we brought in a new our website. We refinanced our mortgag-
property manager, Ray Hughes. Ray has es in the fall as well, and the cost savings
experience flipping old houses. The exper- are greater than what we will be paying
tise he brought to us was astounding, and Elevate on an annual basis.
we are leaps and bounds ahead of where Last year, we raised $14,797 in donations.
we were four months ago. Ray resolved We look forward to another successful year!
many of our flooding issues. To put this in Thank you all for your continued support.
perspective, a few weeks ago, when about
80 percent of the state of Illinois was under Yours in the Bonds,
water, our basement was dry. To accom-
plish this, Ray resolved the issues we were
having with our sump pump and designed Brandon Burd ’13.5
a system to take 75 percent of the water President, Omicron Alumni Association
From the Archon:
The past semester
for Psi Upsilon has been
excellent. Every fall and
spring, Psi Upsilon hosts
a blood drive for the
campus and community
to donate. Last fall, we
partnered with Army ROTC. Hosted in the Thesauristis Steven Tijerina ’20 and Archon Brad
From the Archon (continued on next page) Martisauski ’20 prepare to attend an ΑΔΦ event.
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