Volume 58 issue 1

In this Issue: Officer Reports

Fall 2014 Initiates and Spring 2015 Pledges

St. Baldrick’s Preview

Campus Involvement

Bonus Flashback Section

Hello Delta Upsilon Alumni,

My name is Devin Johnston and I have been elected as

Alumni and Parent Relations Chair for 2015. I’m a sec-

ond year Computer Science

major from Villa Rica, Geor-

gia, and I look forward to

representing the DU under-

graduates for you over the

next year. This issue will

include a selection of re-

ports from new chapter of-

ficers, an update on our

newest initiates and pledg-

es, and a preview of the

2015 St. Baldrick’s event.

Last but not least, be sure to

check out the flashback sec-

tion on the last page to learn about the results of our

effort to digitize our extensive backlog of Delta Upsilon

photographs.

Fraternally,

Devin Johnston

Alumni & Parent Relations Chair

President’s Report DU Alumni,

I'm incredibly excited and honored to have

been elected President of our chapter for the

next year. I believe that the fraternity is poised

to make huge breakthroughs on campus and I

hope to instigate change that will allow this to

happen. The Executive Committee that I will be

working with is incredibly hard working, talent-

ed, and experienced. With their help I hope that

the fraternity will

be able to exter-

nalize a lot of the

great movements

DU has made in

the past few

years.

I look forward to

continuing the

Homecoming

alumni event and

pushing other events that re-connect under-

graduates with alumni. I hope we can do well

in Greek Week, intramurals, and push our cur-

rent philanthropic endeavors to involve organi-

zations throughout Georgia Tech’s campus.

This next year should be successful and reward-

ing for everyone involved.

Taylor Willoughby

President

Fall 2011 Pledge Class

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New Officer Reports

My name is Jon Cordova and I am proud to say that I

am the new Vice President of Member Education. This

year, my plan is

to keep a diligent

working relation-

ship with the

Member Educa-

tion Committee

in order to im-

prove our events,

increase on cam-

pus presence,

and strengthen

brotherhood throughout the chapter. I have the privi-

lege of working with a fantastic Member Education

Committee this year and am very optimistic that we

will accomplish a great deal.

Jon Cordova

Vice President of Member Education


My name is Zach Slaney and I am a 5th year Psychology

and Finance double major. I joined DU in the fall of

2010 and it has been an exciting adventure since the

first day. My goals for this position are for at least one

intramural team to make the playoff per phase (4 phas-

es), win TUG for the second consecutive year, and most

importantly, win Greek Week. With a good level of

preparation and an all around great motivation to suc-

ceed, I think we have an excellent chance.

Zach Slaney

Athletic Chair


New Officer Reports

As the new Campus Relations Chair, I have made it

my goal to build up our presence on campus. First, I

want to get more brothers

involved in campus organ-

izations. Every brother

has something he is pas-

sionate about, and I am

confident that every one

of us can find a campus

organization that can aug-

ment that passion. Sec-

ondly, I hope to build our

relations as a whole with other fraternities, sorori-

ties, and organizations on campus. This will make it

much easier to hold events with the organizations

and thus expand our outreach. All in all, I aim to en-

sure that more people on campus know just how

great Delta Upsilon is.

Alec Hendrix

Campus Relations Chair


My name is Robby Guthrie. I am a second year Com-

puter Science and Applied Math major from Bowling

Green, KY. I am excited to be Scholarship Develop-

ment Chair this coming

year, especially since we

have been so successful ac-

ademically recently (our

brotherhood GPA was an

impressive 3.34 in the fall).

I hope to promote more

academic activity outside of

classes and grades, for in-

stance, pushing younger

brothers to go on study

abroad programs that push them out of their com-

fort zones (like language immersion programs) or to

get involved in research..

Robby Guthrie

Scholarship Chair


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Fall 2014 Initiates 771 Zachariah Swint

772 Andy Leekung

773 Cameron Walker

774 Phillip Reeder

775 Aaron Ackerman

776 Joseph Lesniak

777 Renato Maues

778 Rohith Ravi

779 Alec Hendrix

780 Matthew Clark

781 Zach Jacob

782 Chris Nowack

783 Jacob Webber

784 Jude Nifong

785 David Aylward

Spring 2015 Pledge Class Following a very successful Spring rush period, we have

recruited seven new associate members that we believe

have the potential to be excellent members of Delta

Upsilon:

Caelan Radford

Sai Naidu

Zachary Broderick

Matthew Wallace

Andres Filmer

Karim Badawy

Jasper Narvil

St. Baldrick’s Preview My name is Stephen Haley and I am the new Philan-

thropy Chair for DU. This spring, we will once again

be raising money for the St. Baldrick’s Foundation.

For those that are not familiar with St. Baldrick’s, it is

an organization that raises money for the fight

against childhood cancer. All those who volunteer for

the organization collect donations from friends and

family in exchange for a pledge to shave their heads

in a show of solidarity with children affected by can-

cer. Last year, we did very well, raising about

$12,000, coming in third overall out of the fraterni-

ties at Tech. This year, however, I believe we can do

even better. To do that though, we will need your

support. Our team page is located at https://

www.stbaldricks.org/teams/gtdu2015. Any amount

will go a long way. If you have any questions, contact

me at [email protected].

Campus Involvement Update Recently, there has been a surge of DU involvement

in high places on campus. Several brothers have po-

sitions with IFC, Georgia Tech’s Interfraternity Coun-

cil: Matt Naugle is Vice President of Recruitment, and

Ryan Burke holds the position of Social Chair. In ad-

dition, brothers Jon Cordova and Brian Swanson

hold positions in TEAM Buzz (Director of Projects

and Director of Finance, respectively), a group that

hosts an annual day of service for the city of Atlanta

that draws a lot of participation from the Georgia

Tech student body.

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Flashback In Fall 2013, in an effort to better preserve the history

of the Georgia Tech chapter of DU, the brotherhood

commenced an effort to scan our extensive collection of

photographs into an online photo drive. Here I have

included a few of the photos from this new drive. If you

would be interested in seeing more, contact me at

[email protected].

Devin Johnston

Alumni and Parent Relations Chair

DU Fest 2015 Results

Odds: 3

Evens: 0

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