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President (Continued from Page 1) for your piece of Gamma Xi history. We are offering 4” x 8” bricks for $250.00 and each brick will allow for 3 lines of text with up to 18 characters per line. Please stay tuned for more details but feel free to place your order now by emailing alumni@ufbeta.org with your contact information. We’ll send you the necessary order form with payment details. Those bricks ordered in August should be installed by Homecoming with a possibility of being installed prior to our annual band party. Speaking of the alumni party, this year it falls on the Friday night before the LSU game (Friday, October Festivities kick off at 5:30 pm at the house. 10th) and will again feature another popular band from Also, as fall approaches, we will be holding our the Southeast. An alumni reception starts at 7:00 pm 6th Annual Alumni/Active Leadership Retreat at and the band goes on at 9:00 pm so make your plans the Orange Lake Resort in Orlando. Each year, the now to attend. Hotels are already flling up, but we do chapter’s executive team gets together with a group have special pricing at the Paramount Plaza Hotel & of alumni advisors (all alumni interested are welcome Suites here in Gainesville. Call 877-992-9229 and ask to attend) to discuss the upcoming year. It has been a for Mark and Beta Pricing. great way for the guys to kick start their planning for In addition to the Alumni /Active Band Party on the the fall as well as allowing some great interaction with 10th, we will also be hosting game day BBQ’s and alumni. We are always looking for those who want to alumni receptions for each home game. Fortunately get involved, so please contact me if you are interested the newly formed SEC Network already appears to be in attending, or helping advise the chapter in another paying dividends as our frst three home games are late capacity. The retreat is Saturday, August 16th, and all afternoon/evening games to help with the heat. that wish to attend our welcome. Please let me know if The season kicks off with Idaho on August 30th at you are interested. 7:00 pm, Eastern Michigan on September 6th at 4:00 In closing, hopefully I will see some of you in Oxford pm, and Kentucky on September 13th at 7:30 pm. for Beta’s 175th convention. I will see you this fall at Receptions and BBQ will start at least 4 hours before the house. game time so stay tuned to the website www.ufbeta.org Yours in Kai for details. In addition to game day activities, we will also have an alumni reception at the house before the Gator Growl on Friday, October 17th. With its frst year Brad Fortune ’92 back at Flavet Field, the walk just got a little shorter! Becker (Continued from Page 1) but Steve assembled that young man may a pitfall be. He too must a team of committee cross in the twilight dim. Good friend, I am members from across building this bridge for him.” If you haven’t many eras to lead this been to the house lately, please stop in the next critical task. With the time you are in Gainesville. You are sure to help of architect (and receive a warm welcome! District Chief) Dan Steve has retired from fund raising, after Farmer ’75, their having led some forty successful campaigns. success is evidenced He is continuing with his consulting practice, by the gorgeous newly advising others on how to be successful. His renovated Beta house advice to young people just starting on their on Fraternity Row in careers? He says, “Guard your reputation Steve (left) at the 1994 pledge class reunion. From the left of Steve is Mike Remsen ’69, Gainesville today. The above everything. In today’s social media Richard Hirte ’69, and Gary Leech ’69. Photo taken on the wall in front of the house. redeveloped house’s world, be very careful about the words and raise funds to renovate the house, something bricks and mortar pictures you post.” long overdue, they turned to Steve Becker are almost as strong as the brotherhood that So we shine our Alumni Spotlight on Steve to lead the campaign. Steve was chairman lives within it. Like the Bridge Builder poem Becker. His leadership has been invaluable to of “Preserving Our Legacy – Campaign in Beta lore, they built it not for themselves the continued success of Beta Theta Pi, both on for the Future of Gamma Xi.” Fund raising but for the young men who will follow them. the General Fraternity level and to the Gamma during a recession isn’t usually a good idea, “This chasm which has been naught to me to Xi chapter at the University of Florida. 2