Fall Crescent 2013

Alpha Gamma Rho Alpha Upsilon

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Founders Day March 15, 2014

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Table of ContentsNoble Ruler Report 2

Mom's Report 3

Membership Development 4& Recruitment

New Initiates 5

Homecoming 2013 6-9

Alumni/Active Work Day 10

New Alumni OfÞcers 11-12

Alumni Recognition 13-14

Senior Comments 15

New Dean Named 2

Noble Ruler Report 3

Mom’s Report 4

Membership Development 5 & Recruitment

New Initiates 6

Homecoming 2013 7-10

Alumni/Active Work Day 11

New Alumni Officers 12-13

Alumni Recognition 14-15

Senior Comments 16

Founders Day March 15, 2014

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UT Martin Names New Dean for the College of Agriculture and Applied Sciences

Dr. Todd Winters became Dean of the College of Agriculture a

Dr. Todd Winters assumed his role as Dean of the College of Agriculture and Applied Sciences on July 1, 2013. He comes to UTM from Southern Illinois University, in Carbondale Illinois where he served as a professor and Associate Dean in the College of Agricultural Sciences. He earned his Ph.D. in endocrinology/reproductive physiology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, M.S. in Animal Science from Purdue University and his B.S. in Animal Science at Washington State University.

Dr. Winters became a brother in Alpha Gamma Rho while at Washington State University and has continued to be involved with the fraternity throughout his professional career. He has served as advisor at Beta Alpha chapter at Southern Illinois for several years, received the “Brothers of the Century Award” and Advisor Service Award, just to name a few. He has the unique distinction of having his mother serve as Housemother at SIU!

“Alpha Gamma Rho has been a part of me for a large portion of my life. I look forward to working with Alpha Upsilon. The Chapter's continued success goes hand in hand with the UTM College of Agriculture and Applied Sciences.” Dr. Todd Winters.

Recognizing his talent and dedication to Alpha Gamma Rho, Dr. Winters has agreed to serve as Alpha Upsilon’s Assistant Advisor for Campus Relations and Academic Advisor.

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Noble Ruler Report:This  past  semester  has  been  very  busy  for  the  brothers  of  the  Alpha  Upsilon  

Chapter.    We  have  experienced  several  events  this  past  semester.    This  semester  we  won  out  third  consecu=ve  ropepull  =tle  and  won  the  overall  award  for  homecoming  as  well.    Also  we  had  our  annual  Ms.  Greek  Pageant  which  was  very  successful  as  well.    We  have  also  began  something  which  we  hope  will  become  a  tradi=on  for  years  to  come,  an  ac=ve  and  alumni  workday  at  the  chapter  house.      .    I  will  admit  that  this  semester  has  not  been  without  trials,  but  I  am  fortunate  to  serve  on  an  incredible  execu=ve  council  who  is  highly  dedicated  to  seeing  our  Fraternity  succeed,  and  we  are  backed  by  a  strong  ac=ve  membership  who  never  seFle  for  “second  best.”    The  trials  we  have  faced  have  undoubtedly  made  our  bonds  of  brotherhood  stronger  and  have  gone  a  long  way  to  help  us  reach  that  purpose  of  “making  beFer  men.”    We  are  very  proud  to  have  a  strong  new  ini=ate  class  of  thirteen  brothers  who  are  as  dedicated  to  this  organiza=on  as  any  older  brother  could  hope  to  be.    We  hope  that  these  new  brothers  will  con=nue  to  grow  as  men  and  con=nue  to  succeed  in  Alpha  Gamma  Rho  and  all  their  other  endeavors.    We  feel  that  these  new  brothers  along  with  the  older  ones  can  bring  the  chapter  above  and  beyond  what  we  have  accomplished  over  the  past  year.        

Alumni,  I  hope  this  Crescent  finds  you  and  your  family  doing  well.    We  are  so  apprecia=ve  of  the  unending  support  that  you  show  the  chapter.    We  sincerely  thank  you  and  know  that  it  is  because  of  you  con=nued  support  that  we  are  able  and  will  con=nue  to  be  able  to  make  beFer  men  at  225  University  Street.

Your  Brother,                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Seth  Tennant  “931  

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Mom's Coments:

Greetings from 225 University Street. As the saying goes time flies when you are having fun. We welcomed new initiates to our house this fall. Our prayers are still with Jacob Franklin who was injured in October.

It was great seeing new and old faces during homecoming week. As always our boys participated in all homecoming activities. It makes me proud to say I am mom to great young men. They never let me down.

We had a great work day on November 16. Along with hard work there was a little fun. We had several alums who supervised our work day and provided lunch.

We are looking forward to our annual Thanksgiving meal with the Ag department and Christmas with our children from the community.

Hope everyone has a very happy and merry Christmas.

Mom Conley

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Membership Development:

Recruitment:

Coming off of an excellent class in the spring, high expectations were set for the incoming class of Fall 2013. These 13 new brothers really stepped up to the plate and have shown a lot of initiative. Out of the thirteen new brothers three of them are colligate sophomores giving the new class better leadership. Since I became an active brother in Alpha Upsilon this has been one of the most goal oriented classes I have seen. They all are really involved in the chapter rather it be in; sports, campus activities, clubs, committees, or just in our brotherhood activities. The initiative of the new class has given me the upmost confidence in the future of Alpha Gamma Rho and Alpha Upsilon.

Fraternally,

Kody Read VNR-Membership Development

Summer recruitment went very well this past year and the many hours put into recruitment really paid off. We initiated 15 new brothers this semester all of which being of high quality. A lot of our success to this new class goes to the whole chapter. I had a lot of help from my Recruitment committee and also help from many alumni. We had 12 houseguests this fall and 3 out-of-house recruits. Coming into this position, I wanted to focus on quality not quantity and I’m confident that we accomplished both. I would like to thank everyone that helped out with recruitment this year from the active chapter and the alumni.

Fraternally,

Trae Smalley VNR-Recruitment

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Fall 2013 New Initiates:

992- Ryan Daniel993-Austin Anderson994-Taylor Branch995- Tyler Davis996- Jacob Franklin997- Lawson Lee998- Colton Moore999-Michael Morris1001- Marshall Neblett1002- Daniel Patrick1003- Skylar Ramsey1004- Ethan Rowlett1005- Brian Schmidt1006- Grant Taylor1007- Mitchell Tuttle1008- Tyler Weidner

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Homecoming 2013:

Pyramid:We  started  out  struggling  with  pyramid.  It  seemed  like  we  were  not  making  any  progress  the  first  couple  of  weeks.  Then  all  of  a  sudden  we  started  landing  our  pyramids  and  acing  our  dance  moves.  We  started  working  as  a  class  and  we  learned  to  trust  our  brothers.  I  really  think  that  it  brought  us  close  as  a  class.  We  did  not  place  this  year  but  we  performed  very  well  and  gave  it  our  all.  

Lawson  Lee    ‘997’

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Lip Sync:As  far  as  lip  sync  goes,  it  went  very  good  this  year.  Second  place  

isn’t  the  best  and  really  wasn’t  what  we  were  shooting  for,  but  it  gave  us  the  points  to  win  homecoming  and  that’s  all  that  matters.  Fall  2013  and  I  came  a  lot  closer  by  participating  in  this  homecoming  activity.  It  was  a  whole  lot  of  fun  and  you  found  out  who  could  and  couldn’t  dance,  not  to  mention  I  would  do  it  again  next  year  if  I  could.  From  what  everybody  in  Fall  2013  says,  it  was  a  great  experience  for  them,  and  hey,  putting  on  fake  boobs  isn’t  so  bad  and  the  sororities  liked  it.

Tyler  Davis

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Rope Pull:We  did  it  again!  Thru  all  the  blood,  sweat  and,  lets  be  honest,  tears  AGR  has  brought  home  anther  Rope  Pull  Championship.  I  admit  that  I  was  nervous  going  in  to  that  Lirst  pull.  AS  a  Lirst  time  coach,  I  didn’t  know  what  to  expect,  but  the  guys  who  had  been  there  before  helped  me  through  it.  Isn’t  that  the  meaning  of  Rope  Pull  in  itself?  A  team  coming  together  and  working  through  any  adversity  that  stands  in  their  way.  I  guess  that’s  why  I  love  it  so  much.  Rope  Pull  is  so  much  more  than  just  a  competition.  It’s  what  brings  us  as  AGRs  together  as  a  whole.  So  I  dare  any  other  fraternity  to  try  and  stand  in  our  way,  as  we  climb  to  the  top.

Matt  French  ‘919’

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Homecoming Day & Quad City:

We had a great homecoming week getting Þrst in rope pull, second in lip sync, and performed very well in pyramid. Everybody was happy with the third rope pull championship in a row on Friday. Saturday was homecoming, and it was very eventful all over campus. Early in the morning was the ground breaking for the sororities new meeting houses. We then had our active/alumni chapter meeting and our mother's club meeting where our new member's were introduced to all the moms. In our chapter meeting we handed out Elam Scholarship to Michael Morris and Bob Duck Scholarship to Seth Tennant, and we also gave our new initiate award to Skyler Ramsey. After the meeting was over, we went to our quad city event. We won second place in quad city behind pike who won Þrst. The theme of our tent was that of gangsters since the homecoming theme was the roaring 20s. We had a good turn out to quad city once again with many alumni and their families coming back to eat and watch the football game. We won Þrst place overall during all of homecoming week. I would like to thank all the alumni and their families that came out and supported us during the week, and hope that we will have the same support next year.

Fraternally,

John BrewerAlumni Relations

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Alumni/ Active Work Day:

This fall the Alpha Upsilon chapter started an active/alumni workday and we hope that this will be a part of every semester in the years to come. On November 16th, 2013 we invited all alumni to come out and take part in a day where we made any improvements that we could see necessary to the chapter house. All actives were required to attend and we hoped that this time would help us all to get better acquainted with some of our alumni along with helping everyone to keep pride in our beautiful home. It took a lot of planning and focus to narrow down a work list to the most important things that were needed and could be accomplished on that day. We started working at approximately 8:30 that morning and worked throughout the day until around 2 in the afternoon. In the mix of that time we all enjoyed lunch together which consisted of grilled hamburgers and hot dogs. At the end of the work day several things had been accomplished. Some of the bigger accomplishments being a total ‘’top to bottom’’ cleaning of the kitchen and new windows with blinds installed on door entrances of the house. This day was a great success and I believe that many actives including myself got acquainted with alumni that they may not have known otherwise. I want to thank all alumni that participated in the first active/alumni workday and I hope that even more alumni will be available to come and help in the future. Be on the lookout for a date of the next workday in the spring.

Fraternally,

Jeremy Green

920

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Alumni AssociationPresident Chad Bradshaw (601) lives in Mt. Juliet with his wife and daughter.He is partners with his father in Bradshaw Landscape and Maintenance Company. Chad has served for several years as Vice president of the alumni Association.

Vice PresidentMike Johnson (447) lives on afarm near Martin and is Senior Agribusiness Analyst for Farm Credit Mid America in Dresden. He had served a previous role as Assistant Treasurer with the Building Corporation.

SecretaryMatt Griggs (673) lives near Humboldt where he farms, raising primarily row crops. ?

TreasurerJason Law (696) lives in Martinwith his wife and daughter. He works First State Bank in Union City.

Assistant TreasurerCurt McDaniel (623) currently lives in Springville and is employed with the United States Department of Agriculture.

Alpha Upsilon Alumni News:

The fall meeting of Alumni saw some new and some familiar names assuming leadership roles in the Alumni organizations.

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Alumni News Continued:

Building Corporation

PresidentDavid Moore (486) lives in Martin with his wife and family. He is the Chief of Police for the City of Martin.

Vice PresidentBill Neal (338) resides with his wife in Dyersburg and is employed by the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation Division of Water Resources. Secretary / TreasurerLee Pritchett (240) lives near Martin with his wife and is employed with First State Bank in Martin.

Assistant TreasurerRuss Bragg (667) reside in Martin with his wife and two (soon to be three) sons. Russ works with

Mosaicco Company.

Dues Increase PassedDuring the annual alumni meeting held October 5th a proposal passed to raise annual dues to $40 effective 2014. Alumni dues go solely to support active chapter and alumni activities. Some major items include Scholarships, Career Development Workshop for chapter, Leadership Retreat for new Chapter EC, Founders Day Luncheon, to name a few.

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Alumni Recognition:

                         Brothers  recognized  for  their  commitment  to  Alpha  Upsilon:

Brothers’   Bob   Page   and   Joe   Brasher  were   recognized   for   their   outstanding   leadership  and   commitment   to   the   fraternity   at   the   annual   mee=ng   during   UTM   Homecoming,  October  fi[h.They   were   each   presented   pens   made   from   wood   saved   from   the   Oak   trees   on   the  property  of  Alpha  Upsilon.    These  trees  have  long  symbolized  the  strength  and  tradi=ons  developed  at  225  University  Street.  

Brother  Bob  Page

Brother  Bob  Page  (116)  was  ini=ated  in  Alpha  Gamma  Rho  in  1966.  He  was  involved  as  an  ac=ve  in  Alpha  Upsilon,  serving  as  Noble  Ruler  in  1969.

A[er   gradua=on   for   UT   Mar=n,   he   entered   Veterinary   School   at   Auburn   University.  A[er  gradua=on  from  Auburn,  Bob  entered  the  United  States  Army.

Comple=ng   his   commitment   to   the   Army,   he   moved   to   Dresden   with   his   family   and  foundedNorthwest   Tennessee     Veterinary     Services.   Bob   is   ac=ve   in   research   and   as   an  Entrepreneur,  developing  a  vaccinate  for  the  Parvo  Virus  in  dogs  and  opening  NeoTech  Labs,  to  produce  the  vaccine  as  well  as  other  vaccines.    He  also  established  A  to  Z  Vet  Supply  with  his  Son  IN  Law.

Bob   Is   a   leader   in   the   community   currently   serving   as   a   member   of   the   Northwest  Tennessee   Economic   Development   Council.   As   a   council   member,   he   is   focusing   on  Agriculture   related   development   ac=vi=es   pictorially   Entrepreneurship.   A   long=me  member  of   the   Elks,   Bob  has  held  numerous   leadership   roles,   including   Exalted  Ruler.  He  also  maintains  a  strong  interest  their  scholarship  and  ,  other  benevolent  programs.

He   maintained   his   involvement   in   Alpha   Upsilon   as   an   alumni,   begin   elected   Vice  President  of  the  Alumni  Associa=on  in  2004  and  the  as  President  from  2007-­‐2013.

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Alumni Recognition Continued:

Brother  Joe  BrasherJoe  Brasher  (159)  was  ini=ated  into  Alpha  Upsilon  in  1968  and,  was  elected  Noble  Ruler  in1969.  A[er   gradua=on   from   UT   Mar=n   he   entered   Graduate   School   at   UT   Knoxville,   gradua=ng  in1973  with  a  degree  in  Agricultural  Economics.  

His  career  began  with  the  Farm  Credit  Bank  in  Springfield,  MassachuseFs  from  1973-­‐75,  from  there   to   the   Farm   Credit   System   in   Denver,   Colorado   1975-­‐80.   A[er   a   brief   =me   with   the  Georgia  Farm  Bureau,  he  returned  to  the  Farm  Credit  Banks  in  St  Louis,  Missouri.  He  joined  the  Bank  of  Sharon  in  Sharon,  Tennessee  in  1987.    In  1997,  Joe  was  named  President  of  the  Bank  of  Sharon,  which  became  First   State  Bank   in  2003.     Since  2003  he  has  managed  First   State’s  Ag  Services  Division  and  three  other  offices.  

Joe   was   elected   Treasurer   of   the   Alpha   Upsilon   Alumni   Associa=on   in1988   and   has   served  faithfully  un=l  re=ring  this  fall,  which  totaled  25  years.  During  that  =me  he  has  also  served  the  chapter   as   Financial   Advisor.   Joe  was  named  as   an   Alpha  Upsilon   “Torchbearer”   in   2005.   He      was  recognized  at  the  2010  AGR  Na=onal  Conven=on  as  Advisor  of  the  Year.  

Joe  also  has  a   family  history  with  Alpha  Upsilon   including  his  son   Joseph  (711),  older  brother  Charles  (132),  nephews  Richard  LoF  (495)  and  ScoF  LoF  (517).“On  behalf  of  myself  and  all  of  those  who  have  the  pleasure  of  working  with  brothers  Joe  and  Bob,  it  is  such  a  comfor=ng  feeling  to  see  that  there  are  men  who  would  dedicate  themselves  to  Alpha   Upsilon,  both   as   undergraduates   and   alumni.   If   someone   were   to   ask   me   what   true  brotherhood   is,   I   would   tell   them   to   look   at   Bob   Page   and   Joe   Brasher.   Their   dedica=on   to  Alpha   Upsilon   and,   Alpha   Gamma   Rho   has   enabled   our   chapter   to   reach   and   maintain   the  extremely  high  standards  set  years  ago.  As  a  fellow  alumni  officer,  alumnus  and  brother  I  would  like  to  thank  both  Bob  and  Joe  for  their  past  service  and  for  their  con=nued  support  of  Alpha  Upsilon”.    

                         -­‐Chad  Bradshaw,  President  –  Alumni  Associa=on-­‐

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Senior Comments:

Brandon Mcmillan

Major: Ag. Business

Plans After Graduation: To Þnd a job in the agriculture Þeld.

Fraternity Involvement: VNR Activities, Þre marshal, B-team, sports, pyramid, lip-sync, standards committee, recruitment committee

Campus Involvement: IFC, IFC public relations, NAMA

Final Comment: Give all you got before your out, it'll be over before you know it