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Chapter News

From the alumni board and voted on a Delta Upsilon at Georgia Tech wins Greek Sing with a “Price is Right”
Chapter President location to invest this money. theme. We watch the Price is Right everyday at lunch so thought it was
The goal is to support future only fair to pay homage to it in our 10 minute musical.

Georgia Tech chapters with

Esteemed Alumni, financial gains from this fund and utilize it for Sing. These are four events that promote
brotherhood scholarships, recruitment, and to philanthropy, teamwork, and creativity.
It was a pleasure to further maintenance the house. I love the unity that this brotherhood has
serve as president of the and utilizes to succeed as a chapter in these
Georgia Tech chapter this I was also able to witness the chapter win campus wide events. I can only imagine
past year. As president I was able St. Baldrick’s, Greek Week, Tug, and Greek
to see the chapter continue its having such positive press was helpful
success internally and externally. in recruiting and initiating one of the
As a chapter we passed two largest pledge classes (17 initiates) we
bylaws to attempt to promote have had in my tenure as a brother.
sustainability of the fraternity.
We wrote a scholastic housing I once again am honored to have had this
bylaw that will attempt to create opportunity and am happy to pass down
a culture of academic success in the leadership to an even more qualified
the house. I hope this will help and excitable Executive Committee.
to further our consistent top tier I expect great things from DU this
GPA in the Greek Community. coming semester. Happy Holidays!
Fraternally,

We also passed our endowment GTDU wins Tug (a Greek Week Event) for the second year

fund; the Undergraduate in a row, beating TKE in the finals.

Chapter donated $15,000 to the Taylor Willoughby

Chapter Samuel Brown
Spotlight

Editor Notes: Representing the chapter as Spotlight is Sam Brown.
From the hometown of Bowling Green, KY, Sam is a junior at Tech
pursuing his degree in Mechanical Engineering. Sam is currently
serving the chapter as Treasurer, and he has served as Campus Relations
Chair in the past. Sam is also involved on campus as a Team Buzz
volunteer, Steering Committee member, Tools Chair, and has served
as Investment Committee Analyst. He is gaining experience through a
variety of internships, having worked with GM at the Corvette plant and
as a Packaging Designer Engineer; with Eaton, as a Lighting Designer;
and at Proctor and Gamble, as a Project Manager Engineer. Outside
of school, Sam enjoys the outdoors, fly fishing with his Dad, volleyball,
soccer, lifting weights, and spending time with his nephew Clayton.

What led you to join the Chapter? How productive was your time as Sam and the chapter Sweetheart, Joanna
Primarily it was the people and the Treasurer? Gochuico, at Greek Week, post tug.

atmosphere that led me to join the chapter. One of the big wins that I was able to have
I got the sense that the people in DU were as Treasurer was the creation of endowment
driven to be different and better than what fund that is derived from a donation from The hope is that this fund eventually grows
your normal guy going through college the both the undergraduate chapter and the large enough through donations and its own
ΔΥputting on a false profits so that the gains from this fund are
would experience, and I thought that if alumni. The idea is that we put funds that able to support the brotherhood on regular
I spent enough have been basis. So if the chapter size happens to
time around these deemed in shrink to a point where we can’t pay the
guys, I would start excess of mortgage on the house or we want to start
to have that same what we being more active with funding scholarships
drive as well. I might need to the brothers, we will have the ability to
also felt that as a in case of an do that. If I and the others who helped come
brotherhood, DU emergency, up with this endowment can come back in
seemed the most and we 15 years and see that the brothers at DU are
unified out of the invest them getting a richer college experience because
places that I went. in very low of this, it would be so rewarding.
I didn’t feel like risk fund
the brothers were in order to Why did you volunteer for Team Buzz?
get a near My parents have always stressed to me
face to try and constant
impress me, which Sam (pictured left) on spring break in Colorado with return on our that service is one of the best ways that
meant a lot to me. fellow brother Austin Jensen (pictured right). investment. you can help people, so as I grew up doing

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