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Board of Advisors Epsilon Sigma Chapter
Tau Kappa Epsilon
P.O. Box 4092 Edmond, OK 73083
August 8, 2008
Dear Fraters:
This note is not to alarm you, but to advise you of a concern
and to ask you to help your chapter during a difficult
time.
With the help of our alums and a growing chapter, we built and
opened the new Epsilon Sigma chapter house
in Sept. 2005. Since, we have had enough men in the house to pay
the bills. We’ve even reduced the mortgage
by almost $25,000!
However, due to chapter turnover, young and often inadequate
leadership, and a breakdown in rush and rush
emphasis, we open the 2008 school year with only 13 actives and
only four or five men living in the house (the
remaining actives have already lived their required time in the
house and can’t quickly move back in due to
signed leases and obligations elsewhere).
Just to operate the house, we need around 13 residents, or a
bare minimum of about $5,000 per month to pay house
expenses.
Your board of advisors has worked hard to train and motivate the
undergraduates, even more since last Spring,
once foresaw the problem we now have. However, we now have our
fourth Prytanis since the start of last
school year, and a very young, small chapter that failed to
grasp the importance of recruitment.
We, the board of advisors, believe the ship can be righted.
However, it’ll take some time. We’re considering all
options to keep the house and the chapter. This may include such
drastic actions as recolonizing and keeping
only the cream of the existing group, or renting rooms to non-tekes.
We’ve also asked the international headquarters
to help us salvage the chapter.
If these and other emergency actions don’t take, we could lose
the house, and the fraters who guaranteed the
loan will be saddled with huge loses none can really afford. Due
to market conditions, the house current value
is much less than the mortgage payoff. Thus, selling is not an
option, and no other Greek group is in a position
to lease the facility.
Thus, we ask your help to buy us enough time to build and ensure
an adequate and well trained quality
membership base to get back to sound financial footing.
We need 100 fraters to step up and kick in $50 per month,
possibly through the entire 2008-2009 school year
(September, 2008 thru May, 2009 - up to 9 months). This gives us
time to do what we must. We ask this
commitment only for as long as it takes to turn things back
around, or to the end of the school year.
This is a notice we never wanted to send you, and a request we
believed we’d never have to make. But we
don’t want what we all worked for for 52 years to vanish
overnight. We don’t think you want that either. Please
help with any amount you can.
If you have questions, call Board of Advisors Chairman Jon
Tankersley at 405/387-3105. A constant update of
our progress and need will soon be posted at
www.tekehouse.com
Please let us immediately hear from you so we can best gauge our
next emergency step!!
Yours In The Bond
Epsilon Sigma Board of Advisors
Jon Tankersley #90 - Chair, Roger Pugh #238 - Co-Chair, Kevin
Micue, #653 - Sec., David Crain #244 - Treas
Edward Howell #541 - Chapter Advisor, Mike Lawter #230 - Member
Tim Resse, #420 - Member,
Scott Perry #571 - Member, Remington Butler, Chapter Prytanis,
Logan Bryant #767 - Chapter Crysopholos
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Fraters, the chapter is woefully young,
inexperienced and down to 13 actives....
.... Not nearly enough to sustain the new house
we built for them in 2005.
SAVE THE HOUSE!!!
Without Your Help, We May Soon Lose Epsilon
Sigma’s Chapter House (and our chapter).
Help
the Board of Advisors buy time to rebuild an adequate & well
trained quality
membership base so that we survive this tough time
If 100 Epsilon Sigma alums or friends step up
and kick in $50 apiece
(or whatever amount you can) each month for the
next few months
(no longer than Sept. ‘08 thru May ‘09)
your board,
with the help of
interested alums and the international
fraternity, will have time to do
whatever it takes to turn the chapter around
and
keep the bank from
taking our new house!!!!
Your donations will go directly to house
operations. It will not be used
for chapter parties or other undergrad
activities We won’t ask you to
continue contributing any longer than May ‘09.
Why Now A Problem?
Starting in fall
2007, we returned with a smaller and rather young group that had
not
been well trained by their predecessors. They
failed to grasp the importance of recruitment or understand
their obligations. This year, even fewer return
and they are only now realizing the trouble they are in.
So What Is Being Done To Solve The Problem?
Your
board is now looking at all options. Under consideration, among
other things, is revaluating each individual undergrad, keeping
only the cream, and re-colonizing the chapter, and/or renting
rooms to non-Tekes. We are also enlisting the help of the
international fraternity, recruiting more alums to help train
and motivate, and the board is closely monitoring the day-to-day
goings on.
Does The Board Believe That Things Can Turn
Around Before May ‘09?
YES!!! We would not
make this plea if we did not think a good fall and spring rush,
coupled with intense training of officers, existing members and
new members would pull us through.
YES, I’ll Help Save the Epsilon Sigma Chapter
House & Chapter!
Name____________________________________ Scroll
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email____________________________
Address________________________________________
City_________________________________ State_____ Zip __________
___Count on me for $________ per month each
month from Sept. _____, 2008 to no longer than May ______, 2009
___I’ll make a one time donation of
$_____________
___ Visa ____Master Card ____Monthly Bank Draft
(enclose a voided check) on the ______ day of each mo. ___Other
$_________
Credit Card #
___________________________________ Exp. Date_____________ Name
on Card_____________________________________
Signature________________________________________________________________________________________
Complete This Form and Immediately Send it to:
Epsilon Sigma P.O. Box 4092, Edmond, OK 73083. THANK YOU!!
Questions: Call Jon Tankersley, 405/387-3105
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____________________
 HOWELL
RE-ELECTED
The Epsilon-Sigma Alumni
Association met at Homecoming for their annual meeting. Frater Ed
Howell was once again elected to serve as president for the 2007-2008
year. Frater Scott Perry was elected to serve as Vice-President.
Frater Crain, has graciously again
agreed to serve as Treasurer.
Frater
Howell reported on the activities of the Alumni Association for the
previous year. The Association gave scholarships to Jared Smith
and Brandon Barnes for academic excellence for the previous two
semesters. Frater Crain reported that the Alumni Association was
represented well at the Biennial conclave in Las Vegas this past August.
The Association was represented by Fraters Roger Pugh and David Crane.
Frater Scott
Perry agreed to focus his energies on the social aspects of the
association. Upcoming events on the social calendar include
Founders Day in January, RCB in April and a 4th of July Celebration this
coming Summer. The dates for 2008 Homecoming will be announce.
Frater
Perry will be working on an Alumni v
Undergraduate sporting event (TBD) and perhaps a family picnic. We
may also look at resurrecting TEKE Third Thursday (drinks after work).
We will keep you advised.
Frater Perry
will be working on an Alumni v Undergraduate sporting event (TBD) and
perhaps a family picnic. We may also look at resurrecting TEKE
Third Thursday (drinks after work). We will keep you advised.
LOOKING TO THE SECOND
HALF OF OUR FIRST CENTURY
Now that the Alumni and
Undergraduates built the dream house what is next. There may be
those that think we have crossed the finish line and that our role has
been completed.
UCO has
grown into a very large University. The entire campus community is
very different from those that attended in the 1950's through the 90's.
In addition the caliber of students and cost of tuition continue to
rise.
The Alumni
Association is in the process of forming a committee to bring our focus
to Scholarships that can be offered to the undergraduates.
Presently the Association offers two modest scholarships. The
Association also helps sponsor delegates to Leadership Conferences and
Conclave.
We will be
looking at ways to expand and enhance these scholarships for the years
to come. Currently we are paying for these scholarships through
your annual dues. Please feel free to contact the
Association with your suggestions.
Epsilon-Sigma
Alumni
Scholarship Program
Bigger,
Better, Bolder
Meeting
the Challenge of our second half of our first Century
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