Page 2 - Eta Survey - Spring 2015

Chapter News From the Consul e l l o HEveryone! My name is Jack Umlauf and I am the Consul of the Eta Chapter. It is a very exciting time to be a member Spring 2015 Induction. Spring 2015 Initiation. of Kappa Delta Rho, and the opportunity to be her President is truly an honor. Currently our John E. Krapf membership has grown to eighty Chapter Spotlight: outstanding gentlemen with ten new actives joining us this Spring. Editor’s Note: Representing the chapter as Spotlight is Sophomore John Krapf. The most exciting part is that these From the hometown of The Woodlands, TX, John is pursuing his degree at Illinois new actives, along with the pledge in Molecular Biology with a minor in Chemistry. To better prepare for work in class in the fall, have already started the feld, John is a member of the Academic Committee of Alpha Epsilon Delta taking positions in the house and (pre-health Honors Society), the Molecular Cell and Biology Honors cohort, and becoming excellent active brothers he works part time as an undergraduate research assistant in a bio-chemistry lab, of the chapter. and as a private tutor. John’s volunteer work includes emergency medical services Along with having a solid pledge at Carl Hospital and as an Illini EMS. One of his proudest accomplishments so class get initiated this year, we far has been becoming a licensed EMT. For fun outside of school, John enjoys are also having a philanthropy golfng with his father and travel. Read on to fnd out more! dinner catered by Portillo’s at the end of April and along with our major philanthropy event we are What led you to join KDR? per week. As for the clinical portion of my training, also planning a blood drive with To me, Kappa Delta Rho set itself apart from the I directed the triage of an emergency department the American Red Cross, a rice other houses by its dedication to service, academics, through 12 hour shifts and performed the duties of a packing event for a local company, and most of all, brotherhood. I recall a specifc story fully functional EMT on 24 hour ambulance shifts. and of course during rush of a brother telling me about a crisis My experience with obtaining my EMT license has participating situation where he was at the house and late for an been nothing but positive and has excited me even in as many exam, but the brother next to him didn’t have to further for a career in medicine. s o r o r i t y think twice before dropping what he was doing to How do you spend your free time outside events as we give him a ride. It was after hearing this story that I of school? can. Next could see that the fraternity clearly upheld the motto s e m e s t e r “Honor Above All Having been introduced to the game at age fve we plan on Things,” making my by my father, golf has having a Car decision an easy one. played a huge role in my Bash event life. In high school I was where we When did you fortunate enough to play buy a car and develop an interest for our varsity golf team sell tickets to hit it paired with a in medical services? all four years, competing dinner hosted at the chapter house. The father of a close in national tournaments This semester we were also friend of mine in and reaching a handicap recognized by the Greek community high school was an of “+2.” Although for our Risk Management as we established orthopedic college comes attached took second place in IFC, and surgeon. During my with a busy schedule, Novi Singh (pictured above), freshman year of I still set aside time to our past Consul, won President high school, I took a Pictured left to right: John Krapf fnishing T1 in a memorable visit the driving range national high school golf tournament, posting a score of 69. of the year! With big shoes to keen interest in the to polish up my game. fll and high expectations for the surgeon’s craft. After Most of all, after a long coming semester, our chapter and my frst day of shadowing him in the operating day of studying, I love to go to the gym with friends I look forward to the challenge room, I knew that I aspired to be a surgeon. to clear my mind and relieve some stress. of maintaining the excellence of Any plans for after graduation? our chapter and growing it to new What type of training have you done to levels of success. earn your EMT license? After graduation, I plan to attend medical school and aspire to practice sports medicine as an orthopedic I earned my EMT license this past summer through surgeon. As an extrovert, I love conversing with both extensive classroom and clinical training. My people and practicing sports medicine will allow classroom training lasted for fourteen weeks and me to create long-lasting relationships while Jack Umlauf consisted of four and a half hour lectures, four times combining my two loves of sports and orthopedics.