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21
Apr
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California Delta wins Many Honors at Greek Awards

Cal­i­for­nia Delta won many promi­nent awards at the annual Greek Awards on April 3rd, 2013. The first notable award was the the Dean Joan Schae­fer Award for Schol­ar­ship Pro­gram­ming. This award goes to the Greek chap­ter who holds the orga­ni­za­tion to a higher stan­dard of scholas­tic excel­lence, ulti­mately con­tribut­ing to a last­ing com­mit­ment to aca­d­e­mic excel­lence. It was said that:

“The men of Phi Delta Theta place a high empha­sis on schol­ar­ship within their chap­ter that extends from the pledge process through grad­u­a­tion. Manda­tory study hours, time man­age­ment sem­i­nars, and 24-hour quiet hours are only a few of the many poli­cies that they have enforced to help improve their chapter’s aca­d­e­mics. In the spring of 2012, Phi Delta Theta’s earned one of the high­est aver­age GPAs among fra­ter­ni­ties on the row, a 3.29.”

In addi­tion, we would like to con­grat­u­late our past Pres­i­dent, Daniel Moline, on win­ning the Chap­ter President’s Lead­er­ship and Vision Award. This award is given to one fra­ter­nity and one soror­ity Pres­i­dent each year and since there are 24 fra­ter­ni­ties at USC, it is a great honor. It was said that:

“When Daniel Moline served as Phi Delta Theta’s 2012 pres­i­dent, he sig­nif­i­cantly helped
the chap­ter revamp its orga­ni­za­tional struc­ture and cul­ti­vate a cul­ture where all the
broth­ers could progress fully and improve the chap­ter. He suc­cess­fully ran the fra­ter­nity
like a busi­ness, employ­ing mar­ket­ing prin­ci­ples and orga­ni­za­tional man­age­ment. In doing
so, he helped develop young lead­ers and saw them grow as men through­out the year of
2012. Grad­u­at­ing at the end of this semes­ter, Daniel states that he would never trade the
expe­ri­ences he had and the lessons he learned for anything.”

Cal­i­for­nia Delta also took home the Robert L. Mannes Award for Com­mu­nity Ser­vice. This award goes to the chap­ters who have excelled in bring­ing their mem­bers into the uni­ver­sity and com­mu­nity in diverse and inno­v­a­tive ways, empha­siz­ing the roots of com­mit­ment and ser­vice. It was said that:

“The broth­ers of Phi Delta Theta have also taken great pride in their hands-on phil­an­thropic efforts in the year 2012. For their annual phil­an­thropy Phi Delt FIFA, the broth­ers of Phi Delt raised over $5000 to donate to the ALS asso­ci­a­tion in addi­tion to par­tic­i­pat­ing in their annual Walk to Defeat ALS at the Expo­si­tion Park. Phi Delta Theta broth­ers also par­tic­i­pated in com­mu­nity ser­vice out­side of their fra­ter­nity such as the Tro­jan Dance Marathon, Bel­mont Prom, Troy Camp as well as a sum­mer Guatemala trip with Vol­un­teers Around the World.”

Cal­i­for­nia Delta also took home Run­ner up for Excel­lence in Alumni Rela­tions as well as Run­ner up for Excel­lence in Risk Man­age­ment.

20
Apr
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Mother / Son Luncheon Spring 2013

Cal­i­for­nia Delta held their 4th annual Mother & Son Lun­cheon on April 20th, 2013. This lun­cheon has been a long stand­ing tra­di­tion in the chap­ter since the rebuild­ing of the house. In total there were 41 moth­ers in atten­dance which makes up about 40% of all moth­ers of chap­ter mem­bers. In addi­tion, it is most notable that this con­sisted of nearly 85% of  all moth­ers liv­ing in the South­ern Cal­i­for­nia area and some moth­ers flew in from North­ern Cal­i­for­nia and even Con­necti­cut just to attend the event. There was a total of over 100 broth­ers, moth­ers, and fam­ily mem­bers that attended the event. It was awe­some to see all of our moth­ers and to get to meet each oth­ers moth­ers dur­ing the course of the day. A big thanks to our moms for spend­ing the day with us. Here are some great pic­tures from the day.

 

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20
Apr
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Volleyball Court Initiative Progress Report

Thanks to the con­sis­tent fundrais­ing efforts of our fan­tas­tic par­ents club and gen­er­ous alumni we have offi­cially reached our finan­cial goal to begin the build­ing of our sand vol­ley­ball court in the back yard. Start­ing shortly after finals phases one and two will begin. This will entail a lev­el­ing off of the loca­tion in the back­yard and the build­ing of the frame­work and retain­ing walls for the court itself.

Phase 3 of the vol­ley­ball court, fill­ing it with sand and putting all the fin­ish­ing touches on, will take place the week before we all get back from sum­mer vaca­tion. We are still seek­ing dona­tions towards Phase 3 and would be grate­ful if you could help us out by read­ing about ways to give to Phase 3 of the cam­paign below.

We want to take this oppor­tu­nity to once again thank any­one and every­one who has devoted their time and finances to this project and we can­not wait to open the court up with an alumni tour­na­ment in August.

 

How to Donate to the Last Phase (Phase 3) of the Vol­ley­ball Court Initiative:

  • Via Credit Card -by using our safe and secure Pay­Pal sys­tem below

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  • Write a Check - Made out to Phi Delta Theta Cal­i­for­nia Delta with the Memo read­ing “Vol­ley­ball Court Ini­tia­tive.” The loca­tion of our house is:

Phi Delta Theta Chap­ter House

c/o Kevin Fohrer, Secretary

1005 West 28th Street

Los Ange­les, CA 90007

**Please send an email to Kevin Fohrer if you send a check so we can con­firm it was received and get infor­ma­tion for your plaque. **

  • Other Con­cerns or Ques­tions - Con­tact Kevin Fohrer. Email him by click­ing here or check out the Vol­ley­ball Court Ini­tia­tive page here.

 

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7
Oct
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California Delta Launches Volleyball Court Initiative

Phi Delta Theta Cal­i­for­nia Delta has started a Vol­ley­ball Court Ini­tia­tive for the Fall 2012 semes­ter in order to return Cal­i­for­nia Delta to its orig­i­nal state. They seek to raise the funds nec­es­sary in order to rebuild the vol­ley­ball court which was at the house orig­i­nally before it burned down. The broth­ers see a long term ben­e­fit in broth­er­hood, recruit­ment, and phil­an­thropy. The broth­ers wish to trans­mit the Cal­i­for­nia Delta to those after great than it has been given to them and they are seek­ing the active help of cur­rent mem­bers, alumni, par­ents and other Phis in order to make this project a suc­cess. Progress has already started on the project but they need your help to con­tinue. Please con­sider donat­ing and receiv­ing a com­mem­o­ra­tive plaque around the court or even con­sider get­ting the court named after you. It would mean a great deal to the Men of Cal­i­for­nia Delta who have been excelling on cam­pus at the Uni­ver­sity of South­ern Cal­i­for­nia. To read more about the project or con­sider donat­ing visit here.

6
Oct
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California Delta Completes another Successful Philanthropy

Every year the men of Phi Delta Theta Cal­i­for­nia Delta get together to put on a phil­an­thropy called Phi Delta FIFA. In this phil­an­thropy soror­i­ties bat­tle on the soc­cer field to claim first place! Through­out the week T-shirts are sold, change jars are dis­trib­uted around cam­pus, Cal Delt holds a phil­an­thropic din­ner, and the week cul­mi­nates in the soc­cer tour­na­ment. All of the pro­ceeds of the tour­na­ment go to the ALS Asso­ci­a­tion. The broth­ers are then going to par­tic­i­pate in the Walk to Defeat ALS later in Octo­ber. This year some spon­sors of Phi Delt FIFA the event included: Chipo­tle, 5 Hour Energy, and Red Bull. Thanks to these com­pa­nies for their time, efforts, and dona­tions, it is greatly appre­ci­ated.  This year Cal­i­for­nia Delta is tak­ing a semes­ter long approach to rais­ing money for ALS and will have more fundrais­ing events but right now has close to $5,000 to donate to the ALS Asso­ci­a­tion. If you want to see all the pic­tures from Phi Delt FIFA like our face­book page and check out the whole album.

 

6
Oct
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Cal Delt Grade Point Average Beats All Greek Average

Phi Delta Theta Cal­i­for­nia Delta has been con­sis­tently one of the most involved and schol­arly chap­ters at the Uni­ver­sity of South­ern Cal­i­for­nia. With every mem­ber of the chap­ter involved in an aver­age of 2 extra-curricular activ­i­ties, many with lead­er­ship roles, and broth­ers help­ing other broth­ers to suc­ceed in their classes it was no sur­prise when the Spring 2012 grade report came in. Cal­i­for­nia Delta received an aver­age GPA of a 3.29 which ranks Cal­i­for­nia Delta as #1 in schol­ar­ship within the Inter­fra­ter­nity Coun­cil for a house with over 100 members. California Delta not only beat the All Men’s Aver­age of a 3.09 and the All Under­grad­u­ate Aver­age of a 3.14 but they also beat the All Greek Aver­age of a 3.28.

9
Aug
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Cal Delt Phis Volunteer in Guatemala

Recently three Cal Delts came back from a two week excur­sion in Guatemala. How­ever, this was no ordi­nary adven­ture. The adven­ture began with Tavish Nanda, a Phi Delt, when he had an idea to bring a new sub­set of Vol­un­teers Around the World orga­ni­za­tion to the Uni­ver­sity of South­ern Cal­i­for­nia. After suc­cess­fully estab­lish­ing the USC stu­dent orga­ni­za­tion he quickly started plan­ning a med­ical oper­a­tion to Guatemala. Vol­un­teers Around the World is a non-government med­ical orga­ni­za­tions whose pur­pose is to help local vil­lagers who do not have easy access to med­ical equip­ment by set­ting up mobile clin­ics. This ven­ture in Guatemala estab­lished seven mobile clin­ics whose pur­pose was to teach sem­i­nars on hygiene, first aid, and nutri­tion, as well as admin­is­ter med­ica­tions. Each par­tic­i­pant had to raise $1,500.00 for med­ica­tion before going on the trip. When Tavish inquired within Cal­i­for­nia Delta as to who was will­ing to go with him, David Liber­man and Shawn Clarke jumped at the oppor­tu­nity to help. Upon return David Liber­man said that the expe­ri­ence was “life chang­ing” and that “there is noth­ing bet­ter than hav­ing your broth­ers by your side as you are truly chang­ing someone’s life in a for­eign coun­try.” The broth­ers of Cal­i­for­nia Delta want to con­grat­u­late Tavish, David, and Shawn on their great accom­plish­ment and their true self­less­ness in tak­ing the time out of their sum­mer to accom­plish this great phil­an­thropic feat.

30
Jul
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First Cal Delt Obtains Iron Phi Status

Cal­i­for­nia Delta is proud to announce that Jor­dan McK­een has just obtained Iron Phi sta­tus. This makes him the first mem­ber of Cal­i­for­nia Delta to obtain this sta­tus since refound­ing. He serves as a leader as Cal­i­for­nia Delta sets its sights on new goals for the upcom­ing year, one which includes obtain­ing more Iron Phis in the house.

Jor­dan ran the Inau­gural Hol­ly­wood Half-Marathon on April 7th, 2011.  The event started at Uni­ver­sal Stu­dios in Hol­ly­wood and there were a total of 6,115 rac­ers at the event.  He raised a total of $1,050 dol­lars upon com­ple­tion of the event! Jor­dan started prepar­ing for the race when he was talk­ing to another brother, Kevin Fohrer, about run­ning a half-marathon in Jan­u­ary.  Kevin ended up hurt­ing his knee on their first run together, so he was mostly on my own for the rest of the race prepa­ra­tion. How­ever, his moti­va­tion never fal­tered. He ran any­where from one time a week to five times a week. This was some­thing he wishes he could go back and redo as Jor­dan felt that a more rig­or­ous and sched­uled train­ing reg­i­men would have helped him a bit more.

Jor­dan used to run in high school though so he was used to doing some run­ning on lit­tle train­ing. Jor­dan says that he “felt a lit­tle under pre­pared going into the event, super exhausted dur­ing it, and absolutely elated after reach­ing the fin­ish line.” When asked why he wanted to become an Iron Phi he answered that he has “always been a strong pro­po­nent of vol­un­teer work and com­mu­nity ser­vice activ­i­ties, so when [he] learned about the Iron Phi orga­ni­za­tion, [he] really wanted to be able to say that [he] con­tributed to an orga­ni­za­tion like that.  [He] wanted to get in a lit­tle bet­ter shape, so the race moti­va­tion also came easy.” When asked how it felt to be the chapter’s first Iron Phi since refound­ing he stated that “it was also pretty moti­vat­ing to be able to say that I was our chapter’s first Iron Phi, though I hope that I can inspire other broth­ers so we can all take the ini­tia­tive and also par­tic­i­pate in sim­i­lar events in the future.” All the broth­ers at Cal­i­for­nia Delta com­mend Jor­dan on his great feat. We are proud to call him our brother.

 

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Jor­dan is cur­rently a Junior at the Uni­ver­sity of South­ern Cal­i­for­nia and is get­ting a degree in Inter­na­tional Rela­tions. He just fin­ished his term as the phil­an­thropy chair of the house for the Spring 2012 semester.

 

25
Jul
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Cal Delt wins Trophies during the 2011–2012 Year

Cal­i­for­nia Delta has found much suc­cess in the 2011–2012 year.  At Gen­eral Con­ven­tion Cal­i­for­nia Delta was bestowed with the fol­low­ing awards:

  • Best Large Chap­ter House
  • Cam­pus Involve­ment Citation
  • Hay­ward S Big­gers Rit­ual Award
  • Cam­pus Involvement Citation

Dur­ing On Cam­pus Greek Awards Cer­e­monies Cal Delt received:

  • Best Chap­ter Room by the Inter­fra­ter­nity Parent’s Council
  • Risk Man­age­ment Award by the Uni­ver­sity of South­ern California’s Depart­ment of Pub­lic Safety

In addi­tion mul­ti­ple broth­ers have obtained high posi­tions in IFC, Order of Omega, and Under­grad­u­ate Stu­dent Gov­ern­ment for the com­ing aca­d­e­mic year. Cal Delt would like to extend their con­grat­u­la­tions to the fol­low­ing people:

  • Ali Sheikh­pour, James Shechet, and Wiley Stra­han who are now exec­u­tive mem­bers of our Inter­fra­ter­nity Council
  • Bren­ton Cald­well who is now an exec­u­tive mem­ber of Order of Omega
  • Matt Ark­feld and Wiley Stra­han who are now exec­u­tive mem­bers of Under­grad­u­ate Stu­dent Government

If you would like to read more about our involve­ment on cam­pus or look at the scholas­tic stand­ing of the house please check out our “On Cam­pus” menu.

17
Jun
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Cal Delt Phi becomes Greek Senator

On Feb­ru­ary 22, 2012 our Social Chair, Matt Ark­feld, was elected by the Uni­ver­sity of South­ern Cal­i­for­nia stu­dent body to serve as one of three Greek Sen­a­tors that are a part of the Uni­ver­sity of South­ern California’s Stu­dent Gov­ern­ment. As a Greek Sen­a­tor, Ark­feld will serve as a liai­son to advo­cat­ing progress and improve­ments within the greek com­mu­nity on behalf of the stu­dent gov­ern­ment. Dur­ing his cam­paign he ran on a plat­form of green ini­tia­tives, increased safety mea­sures, impor­tance of infor­ma­tion and com­mu­ni­ca­tion, and a united phil­an­thropic effort by all mem­bers of the Greek sys­tem. Ark­feld empha­sizes envi­ron­ment friendly lifestyles in all houses as well as sur­veil­lance and risk man­age­ment for the safety of all chap­ters on the USC Greek Row. He asserts that keep­ing all fel­low Greeks informed will help bridge the gap between admin­is­tra­tion and the Greek com­mu­nity. Also of great impor­tance to Ark­feld is the main­te­nance of rela­tions among all Greek divi­sions, includ­ing the Inter­fra­ter­nity, Pan­hel­lenic, and Mul­ti­cul­tural Coun­cils. Ark­feld was backed by our net­work of Cal Delt broth­ers as we gath­ered sup­port and con­fi­dence across cam­pus for our fel­low Phi. He is grate­ful to have this oppor­tu­nity and cred­its much of his suc­cess to the help and sup­port of his broth­ers in Phi Delta Theta.

 

Update:  Matt Ark­feld has been recently elected to be Speaker Pro Tem­pore, the third high­est posi­tion in USC’s Under­grad­u­ate Stu­dent Government. 

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