Page 2 - The Delta Shield - Summer 2015

ChAPter NewS From the awareness. Many of Correspondent the Brothers are taking on more leadership roles around campus in various clubs he Brothers and extracurricular of Phi Kappa organizations. With TPsi Tennessee the end of the year, Delta have continued we are sad to see nine upon their success seniors graduate, but and continue to grow we equally are excited just a few years after our charter was to see what great reestablished. The chapter initiated things they will do in eight new Brothers of honor, courage, the future. From teaching to consulting, and Chuck Higgins ’67 joins chapter representatives Mack Clair, Dan and integrity with very welcoming journalism to fnance, our seniors will continue Weitz, Tommy Metke, and Josh Hamburger in Omaha, NE for the Woodrow Wilson Leadership School. arms. These new Brothers already have to succeed in their respective industries. We contributed greatly to the Fraternity and will surely miss them at Vanderbilt, but their will take on more leadership roles as soon leadership, mentoring, and advice will prove as the next semester. invaluable for the future success of this noble Throughout the semester, we have been Fraternity. inundated with various activities and philanthropy events, highlighted by our very - Joshua Hamburger ’14 own Austin Vitaliano ’13 winning ZTA’s AG We are proud to have been awarded the Outstanding Alumni Big Man on Campus beneftting breast cancer Relations Award and the Outstanding Educational Program Award by Vanderbilt Greek Life. Justin MaGnuson seemed like a natural ft. Chapter Spotlight: kids then helps them with homework. It Why are you interested in the working in Editor’s Note: Representing the chapter as Spotlight is the medical industry? Justin Magnuson. From the hometown of Owensboro, KY, During my senior year of high school I Justin is a Junior at Vandy and is a Biology major. He is met a Vanderbilt orthopedic surgeon and the current New Member Educator & Finance Committee shadowed once a month in clinic he ran in Kentucky. My mom is a physician’s assistant, member for the chapter. In addition, he is one of our best so I had some previous knowledge of the students and is pre-med. Justin also volunteers with the medical feld, but being in a clinical setting on Mentor TennisSee group, a program focused on tutoring a regular basis furthered my interest. Seeing and tennis for grade school children. Outside of school, how much a physician can help people, both Justin enjoys tennis and golf. Read on to fnd out more! athletes and non-athletes, get back to doing what they enjoy is very rewarding and a great motivating factor in my medical ambitions. What led you to join TN Delta? which provides an opportunity for the new What type of work will you be doing this During the beginning of the rush process I nembers to also meet TN Delta alumni. summer during your internship? got to know the Rush Chairs, Jack O’Leary How did you get involved with Mentor I will be working at Cleveland Clinic Sports and Tyler Bishop and realized we had similar TennisSee? Health in Cleveland Ohio this summer. My interests. After I, along with friends from my The summer after my freshman year I had job will involve compiling imaging (X-Ray hall freshman year, began coming around to a job back home in Kentucky working with and MRI) for a Sports Medicine conference Phi Psi more, the strong sense of Brotherhood middle school and high school kids in a to be held later in the summer. became evident. It was this that really made summer tennis league. TN Delta stand out, and I believe it continues I had played tennis to be one of our greatest strengths. all throughout high school but this was How have you contributed to the New my frst experience tennis. I Member Education program this year? teaching enjoyed the really The New Member Education program experience of passing has the goals of bringing the new member on my knowledge of class together and making them feel as the game to younger if TN Delta is their home at Vanderbilt. players. Entering We accomplish this through activities my sophomore year, involving strengthening the Brotherhood of I found out about the new members with both each other and Mentor TennisSee, a the entire chapter. Our initiation ceremony program that teaches Brothers Justin Magnuson, Brian Rizzo, and Josh Hamburger coincides with Phi Psi Founder’s Day, tennis to middle school (Founder’s Day 2015).