March 2010 Delta Nu e-Review

March 2010 Delta Nu e-Review

Fraters,
Happy St. Patrick’s Day, Happy Easter and Happy end to winter/start of Spring! The Alumni Association hopes everything is going well for you and your families. The March Delta Nu eReview is now available on the TKE Delta Nu website at www.nwtke.com on the front page and on the News & Info tab. Please take the time to catch up on the latest news. 
If you’re looking for a little inspiration, check out this message from our favorite coach – Coach Mel T!
Website Updates
In the past month or so, a lot of new content has been added to our website, www.nwtke.com. Please try to go there soon and check it all out. You may even find out some things you didn’t know.
If you have not already, please be sure to register on the website and create a profile. Much of the information published is only available to registered members to the website. Likewise, certain contact is only available to Alumni Association members. You can also keep your contact information up-to-date through the website was well. The information is secure behind a username and password, and registration is secured by name and scroll match.
Under About TKE, you’ll find the Delta Nu Museum, which is still being developed and filled. Currently though, you can find some recorded history, a list of the Past Prytani of the chapter, as well as a list of the Awards the chapters and that some of our Fraters have received.
Under Actives, you can meet the chapter executive board and undergraduate members can apply for the TKE Delta Nu Memorial Scholarship.
Under Alumni, you can read about and join the Delta Nu Alumni Association, review opportunities for you to donate to funds that support Delta Nu, and review those Fraters that have passed away and entered the Chapter Eternal. Additionally, on the main Alumni page, you can read the list of lost fraters as well as review the pledge class rosters. If you find any errors, please email Brad Shelton at brad.shelton@nwtke.com.
Under News & Info, you can read about upcoming and past events, view pictures, review the history of the Delta Nu Memorial Scramble as well as read current and past issues of the Delta Nu Review.
Additionally,please be sure to read about the Alumni Association and join today. Your dues help to keep the Delta Nu Review, www.nwtke.com and various events active and operating.
Upcoming Features – in the very near future, Alumni Association members will have the access and ability to search the online database to find other Fraters. Additionally, we will be completing a redesign to the site, as well as creating a business and skills directory.
Event Recaps
Bowling Tournament – Feb. 21
Although it was cold and nasty outside on Sunday, February 21st for the Annual TKE Bowling Tournament, the competition (if you want to call it that) inside the AMF bowling complex in North Kansas City was smoking hot. Thanks to the 20 TKE Delta Nu alumni that drove through the snow and ice to spend a couple hours sharing lies and throwing gutter balls.
Congrats to the winning team of Ken Yeager, Bernie Batliner, Tony Dorrell, Scott Ooton and Steve Brightwell. These gentlemen are now the Charter Members of a new traveling trophy that will be engraved with their names and cherished by all for years to come. 
YITB, Ron Beaver (858), BOA Social Director, rb64089@gmail.com
RCB – Feb 27
The 2010 Red Carnation Ball was held February 27th in Centerville, IA. Attendance at the event was reported to be outstanding! Frater Tommy Hester won Active Frater of the Year award.
Upcoming Events
TKE House Work Weekend
                The Annual Alumni-Active Spring work weekend has not yet been scheduled.  At this time, an Alumni coordinator is still needed to help coordinate projects at the house. If you have interest in fulfilling this role, please contact Kevin Smith at kevins@npgco.com as soon as possible.
                The Active Chapter is currently planning a work weekend involving their parents on Saturday, April 17th to do some cleanup and small projects around the house. If you have any questions, you can contact Prytanis Kenneth Hamilton at s255507@nwmissouri.edu.
15th Annual Delta Nu Memorial Scramble – Friday, June 4th, Mozingo Lake GC, Maryville
                At this time, nearly 50 alumni have submitted either a verbal notice or a paid registration for the tournament. Paid registrations must be received by May 1st to guarantee the size of the player’s preferred tournament shirt.
                Cost for this year’s event is $75 which includes golf, tournament shirt and dinner following. More information about the tournament, including the registration form, can be found on the tournament website.
Summer K.C. Gathering – Saturday, June 5th, Kansas City - More details to come when available
2010 Northwest Missouri State Homecoming – Oct. 29th and 30th, Maryville
                Frater Jeff Borchardt, President and C.E.O. Of the Kansas City Board of Trade, will deliver the Homecoming keynote address at the TKE House on Sat., Oct. 30th.
                For more information on the 2010 NWMSU Homecoming and related activities at the TKE House, please visit http://www.nwtke.com/content/2010-homecoming
2010 NW-Pitt. St. Fall Classic – Nov. 13th, Arrowhead Stadium, Kansas City - More details to come when available
Alumni News
Peter J. Greve Scholarship campaign and April 1st deadline
The deadline is April 1st for applications is fast approaching and there has been a great response from students interested in applying for the scholarship. If you know of a soon-to-be-graduate planning on attending NWMSU next year and want to help sponsor an applicant, please visit www.nwtke.com/content/scholarship to view and download the application. The scholarship applicant must by nominated by a TKE alumnus. 
It has been about one year since Pete’s passing. Nearly a year before, Pete started this scholarship as a way for TKE alumni to give back to the university that brought us all together and to promote TKE on campus and the community.   It is amazing how this effort has brought a lot of Fraters back in touch with each other! We are asking you to help keep Pete’s spirit, vision, and legacy alive with your support of the TKE Alumni Scholarship. The scholarship exists solely thru your 100% tax deductible contributions. Every dollar contributed to the TKE Alumni Scholarship goes to award future scholarships. We have just begun a fund raising campaign in hopes to be able to continue awarding scholarships. Please continue Pete’s efforts by donating today. 
For more information, contact Bruce Barlow, DN 533 at: tkedn533@comcast.net or visit http://www.nwtke.com/content/donation-opportunities
 
Chapter Eternal Updates
Since the last newsletter, the TKE Delta Nu Chapter Eternal has been updated. Please visit http://www.nwtke.com/content/chapter-eternal .   You can also view the Memorial Funds set up for these Fraters at http://www.nwtke.com/content/memorial-funds .
Please also remember the family of Frater Charles Allison III, 245. His obituary is posted on the website on the front page at www.nwtke.com.
 
Alumni Profile – Orlo Schroyer, 281
DATE UPDATED:   March 6, 2010                                SCROLL #:281
NAME: Orlo G. Shroyer
CURRENT ADDRESS: 928 Jason Road, Box 105061, Jefferson City, MO 65110
PREVIOUS PLACES LIVED:    Guthrie Center, IA; Savannah, MO; Montgomery City, MO; Chillicothe, MO
BIRTHDATE: March 12, 1942      BIRTHPLACE:    Monteith, IA
YEAR PLEDGED: Spring, 1962     YEAR GRADUATED:   1965
ADDITONAL EDUCATION:    
Masters Degree in Education, Northwest Missouri State University, 1969
Doctoral Degree in Educational Administration, University of Missouri, 1987
CURRENT OCCUPATION:     Retired
CAREER SUMMARY: I began my professional career teaching junior high industrial arts in 1965 in Savannah, MO.   After 14 years, I moved to Montgomery City, MO in 1979 to be Superintendent of Schools.   In 1988, I moved to Chillicothe, MO as Superintendent of Schools and retired from that position in 1995. I joined the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education as Assistant Commissioner for Instruction in 1995 and in 2000 I was named the Deputy Commissioner of Education for Missouri. I retired from that position in 2003 and then worked as a consultant for Edison Schools until I retired again in 2008. I now work full-time for my wife doing whatever she says. My sincere wish is that everyone gets to enjoy retirement as much as I am.
FAMILY BIOGRAPHY: On August 3, 1963, I married Karen Purdy. It must have been destiny that we would get married.   We have a picture on our refrigerator taken when she was almost 1 and I was 3 standing side by side. Karen taught first grade for 19 years.  We have one son, Whitney.   He was a National Merit Scholar and graduated from the University of Missouri. He is married, but we don’t have any grandchildren and since both our son and daughter-in-law are 40 we are about to give up.   Whitney lives in Asheville, NC, where he is a writer and has an on-line record business. He has one book published, “Sock Monkey Dreams.”    You should Google it and buy in from Amazon com. (Pardon the commercial.)
SPECIAL INTERESTS: I enjoy playing golf and my wife and I enjoy gardening and traveling. We have traveled several places around the globe as well as in the USA.   We have an RV that drag around the country.   Life is good.
HONORS OR RECOGNITION: One of the nicest honors I have received was an Honorary Doctorate of Pedagogy from NWMSU.   It was awarded when I gave the summer commencement address at NWMSU in August, 2003. I have been named Superintendent of the Year and received several civic and professional awards.
 
Delta Nu is looking for you! Join the TKE Delta Nu Alumni Association today to get added benefits and privileges. For as little as $35 a year, you can contribute to the growth of social events, enhancement to the website, and our efforts to reconnect as many Fraters as we can. Visit http://www.nwtke.com/content/alumni-association and join over 50 current members today!
 
Active chapter updates
Greek Week – TKE won 2nd best overall fraternity at Greek Week and placed first in Chariot as well as in the 5K race (TKE placed 3rd, 4th and 5th in the 5K race as well)
Philanthropy –
Mustache March: the chapter will be participating in the Mustache March to benefit the Nodaway Humane Society; WalMart pledged $1,000 to the event. The event is scheduled for happen in April.
Colden Pond Plunge: Frater Joe Maschiovecchio, the 2009 NW Homecoming King, raised $150.00 for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in the annual Colden Pond Plunge. The event happened on Feb. 26th. (Photo)
Each Greek organization will be participating in the Big Brother Big Sister philanthropy event on April 16, 2010 at Bearcat lanes. Each organization is required to raise a minimum of $750 dollars. The organization that raises the most money for the event will receive a $500 dollar prize.
House – Leases have been distributed and are required to be signed and submitted to Brian Ascheman by Monday, March 29th, 2010. House Cleaning is being performed twice a week on Thursdays and Sundays with a randomized rotation of guys living in the house and new guys to clean something specific in the house.
Homecoming – Possible themes for this year are “Las Vegas”, “Decades”, “Holidays”. Specific plans for activities at this house are still in the works at this time.
Fundraising – on April 2nd at the TKE House from 3 p.m. to 3 a.m., six bands will playing “TKEstock” as a fundraiser. The bands playing are: A No Coast November, Bottlerocket, InLike, LaCynge, Grizzly J Berry, and Answer Me Dancer.
 
The TKE Delta Nu Online Museum
                We are still looking for contributions to the TKE Delta Nu Online Museum. If you have old newsletters, news clippings, t-shirts, posters/flyers, composites, pictures, etc., we would love to get the images and scans of them into the museum. Please contact Dan Canchola, our curator, at dcanchola@kc.rr.com!
 
What the Alumni had to say….
“I enjoyed receiving the latest issue of the Delta Nu Review. It sounds like there are a lot of both active and alumni fraters that are doing great work for the chapter so I wanted to do something to help support all those good efforts. I have enclosed my check for a 3 year alumni membership.” Orlo Shroyer, 281
“It’s pretty amazing what Delta Nu chapter has accomplished since that terrible November day over 13 years ago. For many a fraternity, the loss of its chapter house would have been a death sentence. But not this chapter of unflappable determined men.   As I said this morning, "you can burn down the church, but not the congregation." A fire may have destroyed our treasured college home, but it couldn't destroy what really mattered most... our bond and commitment to TKE, Delta Nu and one another.” Tad "Trek" Trecker, 739
“Since I joined the Delta Nu Alumni Association, I have reconnected with several of my pledge brothers and have renewed the bonds of brotherhood. I am so proud of the work the DNAA is doing to support the scholarship efforts of the Pete Greve Scholarship fund and the TKE Active Member Scholarship find.“ Bob “Bobbie D” Nielsen 640
 
Did you know?
The Northwest Missouri State University Cheerleading team recently won the 2010 NCAA Cheerleading National Championships. This was the first National Championship for the Cheerleading squad. In addition, Northwest’s mascot, Bobby Bearcat, placed third and the Bearcat Steppers placed sixth at the competition. Congratulations!
Northwest’s Greek system is alive and well with nine Fraternities and five Sororities. To view Greek life at Northwest, please go to: http://www.nwmissouri.edu/greek/.