Sigma Chi Alpha Kappa

This semester, we proudly picked up 10 men: David Congdon, Patrick Nalepa, William Miles, Jordan Reimschisel, Cole Benzing, Daniel David, Cory Voorman, Luke Bessmer, Chris Boyajian, Daniel Bellett

We look forward to their initiation at the end of the semester.

This semester, we proudly initiated 10 men into our chapter: Daniel Teal, Gregg Coughlin, Jacob Adkins, James Gurnee, Lee Hopper, Michael Lehe, Nate McBride, Nick McIntyre, Robert Hasler, and Thomas Ohlgren.

Our chapter recorded over 800 hours of service from numerous philanthropic events. One of these events, our second annual 3 on 3 basketball tournament, raised $340 for the Hillsdale Alpha Omega Women’s Care Center. Other events and organizations that brothers volunteered for include:

• Bi Annual High Way Cleanup
• Red Cross Blood Drive
• Big Brothers Big Sisters
• Adopt a Grandparent
• Pledges painted a local church
• Salvation Army
• The Hillsdale Manor
• Participated in the Tough Mudder
• Hillsdale College Gina Relays
• Reading to elementary school students
• Teaching Gym at a local school
• VITA (Voluntary Income Tax Association)
• Hillsdale Humane Society
• Volunteering at local churches
• Science Olympiad
• Coaching Tennis
• Eagle Scout Volunteering Program

Additionally, brother Patrick Davenport is the head of the Adopt a Grandparent GOAL program and brother Andrew Haines is the head of the Big Brothers Big Sisters GOAL Program. In an effort to reach out to alumni, our chapter hosted an event at a local brewery which kicked off a short term fundraising project to raise money for chapter house renovations. Information on this can be found on our Facebook page.  We are proud of brothers Andrew Smith (Above) and Dan Klimas for their Division 3 National Championship in Shotgun that they won in early April. We say goodbye to seniors Joseph Viviano, James Markman, Steve Delie, Jacob Shafer, Dan Pauley, Mike Morrison, Kyle Forti, Max Nichols, Kevin Bishop, Thomas Harner, Elliot Braman,Victor Tenbrink, Christian Mull, David Montgomery, and Daniel Klimas. We were honored to have Joseph Viviano and Kevin Bishop graduate with two of the top ten cumulative grade point averages for their class. They will be sincerely missed here at Alpha Kappa, and we wish them luck in their post graduate endeavors.

-Matthew DeLapp ’2013

Last semester, we picked up 9 pledges, and initiated 4 of them into our brotherhood this January. During one of our most successful Derby Days in recent years, we raised $4300 for the Hillsdale Manor, a local home for underprivileged children. In addition, a large group of us helped them repaint and fix-up numerous rooms in their house which was in desperate need of repair. Other philanthropic events included adopting and maintaining a 3 mile stretch of local highway, participating in an inter-fraternity council sponsored clothing and food drive for the Salvation Army, and providing a family with thanksgiving dinner.

During Fall Break, the majority of the fraternity spent the weekend at Hillsdale’s Rockwell Lake Lodge, in Luther Michigan (as seen above). There we participated in various team building and goal setting exercises that helped us re-focus on how we can make our chapter, our college, and our community a better place.

Christmas, as always, was a very cheerful time at Alpha Kappa. The Christmas Party was a great success, and every room in the house was decorated magnificently. As the semester came to a close, our ambitions became heavily centered on grades. The newly built tables in the Brother’s room allowed for a great study environment, and the company of each other only motivated us further to work hard.

Our goals for the next semester include maintaining our tradition of leadership on campus, reclaim the scholarship cup that has been taken from us for the past several years, find new and innovative philanthropies, and to recruit more outstanding men into our brotherhood.

Today (February 13, 2011) Alpha Kappa had pick-up, and we picked up 7 great guys to pledge our Fraternity. They are (From Left to right): Andrew Haines, Alex Kane, Brad Mitzner, Kirk Fredrickson, James Block, Paul Chirdon, and Tommy Lundberg.

Alpha Kappa once again picked up the second largest number of the Greeks. Also, this is the largest spring pledge class in recent memory. We are looking forward to a great semester!

January 22nd brought Alpha Kappa 8 new initiates to 172 Hillsdale St. We are very proud to welcome them into our fold!

The New Initiates are: John Flo, Timothy Jagielski, John Tilton, Andre Edinger, Aaron Tracey, Patrick Davenport, Paul Rezzo, Andrew Smith.

In Hoc!

Pick-up happened this past weekend (Oct. 17) and Alpha Kappa picked up 9 great guys. They include: Andre Edinger, Tim Jagielski, John Tilton, John Flo, Aaron Vaught, Aaron Tracy, Patrick Davenport, Andrew Smith, and Paul Rezzo.

Alpha Kappa picked up the second largest number of guys this fall!

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Left to Right: John Flo, Andre Edinger, Aaron Vaught, John Tilton, Aaron Tracey, Paul Rezzo, Pat Davenport, Andrew Smith, Tim Jagielski

Greetings Sigs!

The Homecoming information for our 30th Anniversary is as follows:

Friday, November 5th

6:00pm: Hillsdale Alum Dinner (DOW Center)

9:00pm: Bonfire and Pep Rally located on the IM fields

Saturday, November 6th

11:00 am: All Chapter meeting (Lane Room 125, SIGS ONLY)

Noon-2:00pm: Tailgate Lunch (ΣΧ house)

2:00pm: Football game (Hillsdale vs. University of Findlay)

10:00pm: Themed Party [Theme TBA] (ΣΧ house)

Sunday, November 7th

9:00-11:00am: Send-off Brunch (ΣΧ House)

Please RSVP to Mike Morrison at mmorrison1@hillsdale.edu  By October 31, 2010!

Thanks!!