that attended our alumni din-

ner during rush and our alumni

weekend the weekend of Oc-

tober 2nd. I would also like to

thank all the input we got back

from the alumni that attended

on how we can improve these

events. We will be using this

feedback to make alumni

weekend the best in recent

history. In the next month the

undergrads are very busy with

many events such as parents

dinner, scholarship dinner,

haunted house and a couple

mixers with sororities so be on

the lookout next month for a

newsletter on how those

events go, as well as more

information on spring alumni

weekend and initiation for the

fall pledge class.

In Hoc,

Dan Zuber „10

Consul

We started this semester

with three main goals. They

were: to pledge 20 quality

guys, to increase house GPA

to a 3.0 and to win a Peterson.

With the fall recruitment period

finally over we

came very

close to our

first goal by

getting sixteen

out of twenty-

one guys to

sign their bids.

I would like to

formally thank

our recruitment chair Josh

Gilbert for managing and exe-

cuting a very successful rush.

I would also like to thank all

the brothers for working so

hard over the past four weeks.

This successful rush did not

come from one or two brothers

putting in all the effort, but all

the brothers working effec-

tively together. If all pledges

make it through pledging, we

will be going into spring se-

mester with nearly fifty broth-

ers. It has been a very long

time since we have had these

numbers. Recently we have

also been identified by mem-

bers of RPI

administration

as an upcom-

ing leader

among the

houses on

campus. If

these two

things are not

evidence to

everyone that we are getting

better and better every year, I

don‟t know what is. Some

may say it‟s still too early, but I

firmly believe if we keep up the

things we are doing we are

well on our way to make this

house the most respected and

desired to be in house on RPI

campus.

I would like to thank all alumni

Consul’s Corner

I n s i d e t h i s

i s s u e :

Consul‟s

Corner

1

Risk Manage-

ment Award

2

Saratoga

Palio Recap

2

Pledge

Profiles

3

Alumni

Involvement

Opportunity

6

R e n s s e l a e r P o l y t e c h n i c I n s t i t u t e

Sigma Chi Alumni

Newsletter O c t o b e r 2 0 0 9

The Delta Psi

Chapter of Sigma

Chi has its new

pledges! Many

thanks to those

alumni who do-

nated or helped

out, as we are con-

tinuing our upward

swing with 16 Fall

pledges! You can

find a picture and

their profiles start-

ing on page 3!

“Success is the

sum of small efforts,

repeated day in and day out.”

Robert Collier

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Risk Management at Delta Psi

The Saratoga Palio: Melanie Merola O'Donnell

Memorial Race On Sunday September 20th, 2009 the Delta Psi chapter of Sigma Chi volun-teered at the Fourth Annual Saratoga Palio Melanie Merola O’ Donnell Me-morial Race. Starting at 7 am brothers assisted in directing run-

ners along the course as well as in directing traffic away from the race. Some brothers helped to distrib-ute water at stations along

the course as well. The event in itself went incredibly smoothly with the brothers receiving plenty of praise from runners and onlookers alike.

With Halloween fast ap-proaching brothers are begin-ning to prepare for our 50th An-nual Haunted House. The event has become very popular among residents and students alike, and is often one of our largest phi-lanthropy events of the year thanks to donations by those who attend. Even the sororities on campus are eager to help, and we are having mixers with a few to carve the pumpkins and

create some decorations for the Chapter house.

In the month of No-vember we are looking to participate in the Equinox soup Kitchen, the largest Thanksgiving Soup Kitchen in the Capital Region. With the compassion and deter-mination seen in the broth-ers while assisting in past events these upcoming events are guaranteed suc-

cesses.

In Hoc,

Arunesh “Runey” Ghosh

money to install new

lighted exit signs, emer-

gency lighting, rope lad-

ders to provide brothers

with extra escape routes,

as well as hosting safety

seminars for brothers.

We hope to continue our

outstanding risk manage-

ment program into the fu-

ture and plan to use this

scholarship to continue to

improve or risk manage-

This year at Balfour Lead-

ership Training Workshop,

the Delta Psi Chapter won

the Risk Management

Foundation's yearly schol-

arship for outstanding risk

management. This schol-

arship provides the chap-

ter with $5000 to spend on

improving risk manage-

ment for the Chapter

house. The house is plan-

ning on spending the

ment program. Hopefully

we will continue to earn

this award and be a guide

for other chapters‟ risk

management programs.

If you have any questions

or concerns, feel free to

contact me.

In Hoc,

Seth Wagner „12

Risk Manager

wagnerseth@gmail.com

S i g m a C h i A l u m n i N e w s l e t t e r

Welcoming Our (16!) New Pledges!

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Joseph Thomas Salomone,`11 CSE/CS

Wilbraham, MA

Is a member of the RPI swim team, enjoys rock climbing, mountain biking, driving, and food.

James Walter Schneider, `12 Mechanical Engineering

Elizaville, NY

Is a fan of baseball, especially the Red Sox, and enjoys cars, mopars, and music.

Benjamin William L’Bassi, `12 Electrical Engineering

Shrewsbury, MA

Plays Lacrosse, paintball, Frisbee, golf, and enjoys fishing

Nicholas Charles Fortune, `14 Architecture

Red Hook, NY

Enjoys watching the New York Yankees, as well as math, eating, sleeping, and generally hang-

ing out with his friends.

Alexander Timothy Devik, `13 GSAS

Plymouth, MA

Enjoys hanging out, playing video games, among other things.

Jeffrey Paul Damon Jr., `13 Electrical Engineering

Belgrade, ME

Is very interested in electronics and computers, as well as music, snowboarding, and camping.

Ian Alexander Curtis, `13 Aeronautical/Mechanical Engineering

Owls head, ME

Is a member of Design Build Fly on the RPI campus, and enjoys antique airplanes, camping,

Solar cars and unicycling.

Joseph Alan Pumper, `13 Chemical Engineering

Minnetonka, MN

Played varsity football and baseball in high school, is a member of the RPI Jazz ensemble and

RPI Pep Band, and also enjoys camping and sleeping in his free time.

Thomas Vernon Erickson, `13 Mathematics

Bethesda, MD

Enjoys math, chess, cross country running and cooking.

Christopher Anthony Ryther, „11 Electrical Engineering

Copenhagen, Denmark

Chris is an exchange student from Denmark studying as an undergraduate at RPI. He enjoys

music, playing guitar, football (soccer), and being awesome.

Michael Anthony Colarusso, `13 Undeclared Engineering

Red Hook, NY

Enjoys reading, baseball, psychology, music, and cinema.

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David Griffith Dausman, `13 Chemical Engineering

Brookville, MD

Enjoys running, baseball, and watching football and hockey games on campus.

Kyle Robert Finver, `13 Chemical Engineering

Merrimack, NH

I a member of the Navy ROTC program, and enjoys music and sports among other fun things.

Michael Villeneuve, `13 Computer Systems Engineering

Enfield, CT

Enjoys playing paintball, golf, baseball and video games, as well as programming and watching

“The Office”

Christopher Anthony Roche, `13 Aerospace Engineering

Woolwich, ME

Enjoys reading, modeling miniatures, playing tennis and cross country skiing.

Nicholas Christopher Hyman, `13 Physics

Los Altos, CA

Enjoys music, math, skiing, and computers, and also collects coins.

Sigma Chi Delta Psi

Fall 2009 Pledge Class

P a g e 5

dresses, and whatever else they

may choose to provide.

If you are interested in

trying this out, please send me an

email and we can get started! I

certainly look forward to seeing

how things are going in the real

world with our many alumni.

In Hoc

Matthew Karnick

Alumni Tribune

karnick.matthew@gmail.com

In an effort to change

the format of the alumni newslet-

ter to something more about the

alumni, we are looking for your

input into the monthly newsletter.

Whether it be a full article, up-

dates on your brothers, or even

some old pictures and memo-

ries, we would like for the alumni

to be involved.

The general idea is that

there would be a “captain” for

each generation of the chapter,

one to cover roughly each half

decade. This captain would

keep in contact with the brothers

from his time, and send updates

on things such as weddings, ad-

Want to be more

Involved?

Sigma Chi Fraternity

58 Pinewoods Ave,

Troy, NY 12180

Sigma Chi ΔΨ

If you would like to make a donation,

you may either make a check out to:

Sigma Chi House Corporation

And mail it to:

PO Box 494

Averil Park, NY 12018

Or visit our website at:

Www.sigmachi-rpi.org

And click on the “Donate Now” tab on

the right-hand side of the page. Phone: (518) 274-4239

E-mail: deltapsi.sigmachi @ gmail.com