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The Chronicle Hello, I’m Jacob Stayner, I am the current active
President of the fraternity.For the active chapter, in its current
form, I see so much potential for what is already a strong
brotherhood. Spring semester was full of insight and new beginnings
for many of our brothers. Coming off a successful recruitment and
new member education pro-gram, we had four new members go active
during the spring. Truly a class that shows quality over quantity,
they have already found themselves serving as leaders within the
chapter on our executive board. A strong effort was put into
raising our community service efforts in the spring, and I’m very
proud of the chapter for all the amazing work they have
ac-complished. Two of our brothers received presidential awards for
their service. One received a bronze award, and another received a
gold award for putting in nearly 500 hours of community service! As
some may already know, Relay for Life has been gone for a year now
on campus. Currently, we are attempting to bring it back. It is an
event that many keep close to heart, and to provide people with the
opportunity to experi-ence something like this is truly special. We
look forward to continuing our communi-ty service efforts into the
fall, and are hopeful to have Relay for Life back in the spring.
Recruitment is currently underway, which means we will have new
brothers soon! This is a very exciting time to be in Kings, as we
have hopes that this will be one of the most successful rushes
we’ve had in a long time. Small a chapter we may be, we are
certainly mighty in our presence. Our active chapter has done a
wonderful job of getting involved in a variety of organizations,
meaning that our upcoming class will likely be very diverse and
bring many new perspectives to the Fraternity. We would love to see
alumni come out for homecoming, our rush party, and final dinner.
It’s a great opportunity to not only reconnect with the chapter,
but to help the potential new knights see how deep our brotherhood
runs. As always, if you have any questions feel free to reach out
to me with my contact information listed below. Hail Kings!
Jacob StaynerPresident
[email protected]
This semester has been focused on rebuilding our social presence
on campus and recruitment. We have managed as a chapter to make
appearances at most campus events, increasing our social presence
among the Otterbein community. As recruitment continues to get hot
and heavy, we as a chapter are managing to attend certain
campus-wide activities. Our brothers are doing a great job
representing the chapter positively. Specifically, our excellent
turn out of the actives at first Friday, which was also a great
recruit-ment tool. We are at the point of the year where
recruitment is a huge topic and a priority of the chapter. The
active chapter will be innovative and passionate when recruiting to
show possible Knights what this fraternity stands for, and allow
for others to see what’s so special about our chapter. Our chapter
has been very dedicated to furthering our relationship with our
sister sorority, Theta Nu. We have been setting up numerous events
and small get-togethers, more or less just hanging out at the
house. Theta Nu even invited us all to hangout after first Friday,
this was a lot of fun and was a great opportunity for our chapters
to hang out and intermingle. Our relationship with our sisters has
always been a focus, strengthening the bond between our chapters
will always be important to our chapter, and we are excited to
carry on the pumpkin-carving tradition this October. Thank You,
Justin McCurdySocial Chairman
Oct. 19 - History Night
Presidential Address
Lambda Gamma Epsilon Kings Fraternity
September 13Fall 2017
Important DatesPresidential Address
Social Chairman Report
In This Issue
Home Improvement Outreach
Active Roster
History Night Announcement
Vice President Report
House Manager Report
Chaplain Report
Chancellor Report
Social Chairman Report
Nov. 19 - Activation
Oct. 24 - Knight Talent Show
Sept. 27 - Final Dinner
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With the coming of the new fall semester of 2017, we have many
new features in the new member education program planned. First, we
are excited to bring in a new Knight class to the chapter who will
strengthen our numbers and grow to be strong and prosperous
Kingsmen. I am working hard to make sure the program I’ve
constructed further instill values and the ideals of the
Fraternity. We have a new Greek advisor here at Otterbein as well.
Her name is Ashely Secord and she has expressed to us how
im-pressed she has been with our chapter and we are looking forward
to working with her during this semester’s program. Our Exec. Board
plans to have a meeting with her soon, since she is new to the
campus, and really just show her the good guys that we are. The
chapter this semester will hopefully play a more significant role
throughout this program, as well as Alumni who we plan to
incorporate. We have planned a history night (seen above) where
Alumni can over to not only meet the Knights, but to share stories
and knowledge of the chapter in the past with Knights and Actives
alike. Our Vice President, Joe Rigsby, will be in contact to help
set up these important events. As the Chancellor, I am very excited
to present these new opportunities and updates and hope that you
will be able to come around to experience them for yourself! Hail
Kings!
Gabe JonesChancellor 17’-18’
Chancellor Report
Actives and Alumni stop to catch up at Jimmy V’s
Actives spending time at our Sum-mer Retreat
History Night Announcement
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After coming into office, I have been striving to strengthen the
brotherhood even further. The summer retreat in Hocking Hills went
very well, continuing a strong tradition maintaining and uplifting
the bonds between our members. In the cabin, brothers were able to
go fishing, watch movies, hang out in the hot tub, and grill some
hot dogs! This weekend of relaxation was well deserved after the
success of our spring semester and that of the last renaissance
program. We had fun over the summer. We had people in and out of
the house, and we focused on some of our more time intensive
projects such as fixing up the boat and repainting the rooms. All
in all, summer was a productive time, many of our members also
spent their summer at exciting internships and career building
opportunities. One of our Actives, Nathan Tarr, even travelled as
far as Madagascar for an internship. Looking ahead, I am very
excited for the future. Under the leadership of our new president,
I think the bonds between our members will be stronger than ever. I
plan to have brotherhoods every week to strengthen those bonds, and
work on ways to solve conflicts. We’re looking at a great time in
the chapter where there are many highly dedicated members, as well
as plenty of room to grow our numbers. We’ve already had a few
rushing events that have been able to bring in new people into the
house. I think that this will be an amazing opportunity to grow the
brotherhood. As an ending note, I would like to say, even though I
am fairly new in the Fraternity I already feel like joining ΛΓΕ was
the best decision I have made. Hail Kings!
Beau La JoieChaplain
Actives Alex Godwin, Beau La Joie, and Josh Courtney pose with
Alumni Alexey
Stanislavovich at a C.A.B. event.
Chaplain Report
Vice President Report
When I started this position, if you look back to my last
Chronicle entry, I was very optimistic as to what I could
accom-plish within this chapter, and for the most part, I’m pretty
proud of the Vice President I was able to be. I made it a goal to
reach out to more Alumni than my last term, I worked with the
chancellor to help coordinate events during the next Pledge cycle
that Alumni may attend, and met frequently with our President to
advise him through several discussions. I hate to talk outside my
position, but since the new rush cycle is well-underway, a lot of
our efforts, no matter where you are positioned on the Exec. Board,
revolve around making this process run smoothly. Specifically, I
have been trying since the start of this semester to make Alumni
aware of the upcoming rush events (Final Dinner, the Rush Party,
etc) that we have coming up – be looking for those on the Alumni
Facebook group, you may also find those special dates at the
beginning of this Chronicle on the right-hand side. As I mentioned
in my previous entry last April, this position does still require
an immense amount of written articulation. However, I wanted to try
to show, not only to alumni, but to other individuals on campus the
way members within Kings conduct themselves, specifically those in
leadership positions. I can say without a doubt that is a goal we
all share in Kings– to be the best we can be, to exemplify
strength, chivalry, and what it means to be respectful. Thanks
again for reading - Hail Kings!
If you have any concerns, and you want your voice to resonate
directly within the Active chapter, contact me. Joseph RigsbyVice
President
[email protected]
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The summer went by without a hitch as far as the house goes this
year, which we are all counting as a blessing. The new carpet still
looks great and the current six residents (plus Rio; the house
tripod/dog) are doing great at keeping the place respect-able and
stand among the nicest Themed Housing residences at Otterbein. We
recently had the new Greek Director over and she said our house was
by far one of the better kept of all the Fraternity houses she had
seen that day. Several members of the fraternity were out and about
doing great things this past summer so projects kind of fell by the
wayside, but we hope to get moving on a few projects here soon,
which include repainting the crest in front of the house,
up-grading the Wi-Fi for residents, and fixing up the parking lot.
The house has changed quite a bit in the last few years so if you
haven’t been around in a while you should come check it out! We
love showing around aAlumni because we’re pretty proud of our
meeting place. If you’d like to come over shoot anyone a message on
Facebook or email and we can make sure some guys are around to hang
out. If you have any nice furniture you’re looking to get rid of as
well, please email or message me as we’re always looking to see if
we can cycle out some furniture. Thank you,
Nathan TarrHouse Manager
Triston “Dealer” AndersJosh “Otter” CourtneyAlex “Ace”
GodwinGabe “Cactus” JonesBeau “Blue” La JoieJustin “Goat”
McCurdyTrey “Simba” MilushDavid “Napolean” ParkisonJoe “Chief ”
RigsbyNicholas “Old Hickory” SkidmoreJacob “Jiggs” StaynerNathan
“Redneck” TarrMatt “Cub” Wollam
This house belongs to all members of this Fraternity, both young
and old. Itis our main headquarters, it is where we bond, where we
develop such deep fraternalconnections. That being said, this
summer we plan to finish several projectscentered around
rennovating the grounds and parking lot of the current House at 94W
Park St. If you would like to donate to help us re-gravel the
parking lot, fix up ourgardens, level the tiles, repaint the crest,
and work on several other projects, pleasecontact Joe Rigsby for
more information. Be sure to watch on our Facebook page forupdates
throughout the summer of the progress we have made! We wouldn’t
beable to do this without you.
Thank you, again, for any and all consideration regarding
contributionsmade towards our Fraternity.
Physical Contributions: Mail/Deliver to 94 W. Park St.Online
Payments: Either Contact the Call Center or see Facebook for more
info.
**If you have any questions please relay them to
[email protected]**
Home Improvement Outreach
Active Roster
House Manager Report
The 2017 Homecoming Banner with our sisters, Theta Nu!
The most recent class hangs up their addition to our
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