Page 2 - The Alpha Nus - Winter 2014-15

From the Chapter News Chapter President Dear Alumni Brother Chapter WesTly sheAly ’14 of Alpha Nu, Spotlight My name is John Verrone and Editor’s Note: Representing the chapter as I am the current Spotlight is graduating Senior West Shealy president of Alpha ’14. From the hometown of Kansas City, MO, Nu. I am now West is earning his degree in Chemical and offcially a fourth Biomolecular Engineering at Tech. West is a year Computer recipient of the Robert C. Goizueta Scholarship Science major, but I still have plenty of for being involved in the Hispanic community. time left until graduation. I have been His excellent work at school enabled him to fortunate enough to meet many of you participate in the GA Tech Lorraine program during my time as president. Regardless where he enjoyed studying abroad and travel. of where or when we met, I have listened West has served the chapter as Co-Treasurer to your stories and heard your cries. of GA Tech Greek Week, Treasurer and is the I have learned that the real world is current Scholarship Chair for Alpha Nu. West something that can wait. I am proud to is working as a part-time Student Assistant announce that I recently made the choice with the GA Tech Center for Career Discovery to push back my graduation until May and Development until graduation. Outside of 2016 (a full fve years) and I am excited school, West enjoys cooking and golf. to make the most of an extra semester in college. This fall semester I have been How did you earn the Roberto C. How did you develop a passion for balancing my time between searching Goizueta Scholarship? cooking? for a summer 2015 internship, acing all my classes (including senior design), and This scholarship was awarded to me from Cooking has been an important hobby of mine my presidential duties, making it a pretty the work I did my senior year of high school. ever since I came to college. My mother is an exciting time in my life. It has truly been Attending a Catholic high school, I was given the amazing cook and made dinner every night while an honor serving as the president for the month of January off my senior year to pursue I was home. Food became an important way for past year and I would like to thank each a service project. I worked with an inner city our family to come together. Since coming to and every one of you for helping make school in a Hispanic neighborhood mentoring college, I’ve just tried to emulate her fantastic Alpha Nu the place it is today. the students and assisting the teachers. The cooking. I love bringing people together with Speaking of what Alpha Nu is today, let Goizueta Foundation was impressed with my food and sharing a nice meal. It’s an important me give you all some information on what work upon entering Georgia Tech and I was way for me to de-stress and be creative. is up over at 840 Techwood Dr. We kicked awarded the scholarship. Any plans for after graduation? off the Fall Semester strong with an ΘΧ awesome pledge class of eighteen quality What type of work have you done to Set to graduate this December, I am currently gentlemen. They get along really well earn experience towards your degree? running the gauntlet of fnding a job. I have with the active brothers and continue to As a Chemical and Biomolecular Engineer, I spoken to numerous chemical, pharmaceutical, prove to each and every one of us that they was involved in the Co-op program at Georgia and manufacturing companies about full time live by the Creed and ideals set forth by Tech. I worked three semesters at Johnson & opportunities and have several 2nd round our beloved fraternity. They are relatively Johnson in a pharmaceutical plant in Athens, interviews this October. athletic too! A pledge class of eighteen GA. Our site mainly produced the active falls just above average for fraternities of pharmaceutical ingredient for J&J’s opiate our caliber and we are all excited to one based drugs. I was in operations and mainly day call these men our brothers. worked on the day to day issues that evolved in Our socials this semester have been off the plant. I was also fortunate to work on a new the charts. You may remember an annual product introduction. Working with a team of beach weekend that was historically engineers, we introduced a new process our lab conducted over summer break. Well had fnalized into full scale production. this semester we moved that trip to Chapter (Continued on Page 4) What did you enjoy most about being in Georgia Tech Lorraine program? The GTL program was a great opportunity Chapter eternal for me to travel Europe with eight other Theta Chi brothers. While we took classes in We are saddened to learn of the Metz, France, we were given the weekends passing of our Theta Chi brother: off to travel. We went to Stuttgart, Munich, Charles R. Minors ’45 Barcelona, Milan, Nice, Epernay, Prague, David W. Watkins ’65 Bruges, Amsterdam, Rome, Florence, Venice, Pamplona, Heidelberg, and Oslo. It was Charles F. Jerabek ’67 certainly a busy summer but one that I will never forget. The friendships and experiences Westly with fellow Alpha Nu Dylan Kiess. made over the summer I still treasure today.