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April 2023 – PsiU Today

2023 March Challenge

The 2023 March Challenge is one for the history books! 223 donors from 32 chapters helped us raise over $45,000!  THANK YOU to everyone who helped make the campaign so successful, especially those who made generous matching gifts!

In the end, something was achieved that was not expected: The Eta (Lehigh) and Omicron (Illinois) Chapters tied for first place, each having 38 donors when the campaign ended at Midnight Pacific Time! Rounding out the top 5 chapters were the Gamma Tau (Georgia Tech) with 37 donors, Omega (Chicago) with 20 donors, and Chi Delta (Duke) with 12 donors.

Read more and see how the Challenge unfolded here!

Social Impact Workshop

Earlier this month, the Psi Upsilon Foundation held the Social Impact Fellowship Retreat & Reception to honor and teach our Social Impact Fellows. Distinguished facilitators Kevin A. Klock, Chi Delta ‘01 (Chi Delta), Roberta Hunter, Epsilon Iota ‘ 94 (RPI), Dr. Elise Walton, Kappa ‘80 (Bowdoin), Lance Miller, Epsilon Nu ‘80 (Michigan State) and David Miller of OrgForce Consulting LLC facilitated leadership development sessions with the 2022-23 cohort of Fellows, including Christopher Lawrence Tang, ESQ, Gamma Tau ’01 (Georgia Tech), Devon Trotter, Phi Beta ’06 (William & Mary), John D. Hatfield. Iota ‘94 (Kenyon), Dr. Audrey Fisch, Gamma ‘87 (Amherst), Dr. Alison Munzer, Ph.D., Gamma ‘09 (Amherst). The retreat was followed by a reception for fellowship supporters and leadership. 

View pictures from the weekend here!

Psi U regional events galleries

Psi U is excited to have hosted a series of smaller venue and in-home gatherings in February and March of 2023 throughout the country. With generous brothers opening their homes to enjoy fellowship and catch up with our beloved fraternity, we aimed to make these events complimentary to brothers living or staying in the area. 
See pictures from Akron, DC, Atlanta, Tampa, Vero Beach, West Palm Beach, and more on our Flickr account. https://www.flickr.com/photos/psiupsilon/albums

Consider becoming a sponsor of an event at $300 donation to the Foundation. Contact Bethann Taylor at Bethann@psiu.org or 317-571-1833 x102 if you have any questions or interest in helping.

Ask An Expert Series

This exciting online event consists of a series of ~45-60 minute afternoon zoom sessions focused around key venture and entrepreneurial topics held by accomplished brothers in the respective fields.  
This small series of zoom forums in April are for founders, CEO’s, investors and advisors to gather to ask questions and receive brief perspectives around very pointed topics of relevance. 
We anticipate about 15-20 people joining for free via zoom each week in April. The series will lead up to our Venture Summit on May 11 in the San Francisco Bay Area, and is meant to energize the network of brothers who are venture-minded from both the investor and the start-up side. 
The Psi U “Ask an Expert” series starts Thursday April 6th!

From the Archives: Psi U’s Star of the Silent Film Era

Richard Barthelmess, Beta Beta 1917 (Trinity College) was a star of the silent film era and influential in Hollywood, helping build it to the institution it is today. He was a founder of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts in 1927 and is one of the few actors that has been nominated twice in one year for an acting award.
Read more about his career and influence here!

Fraternal Law Partners

Fraternal Law Partners is a respected law firm dedicated to the issues impacting fraternities, sororities, student life organizations, and their related charitable foundations – from tax to corporate governance to civil litigation. We recommend all advisors, and any alumni who are passionate about the interfraternal movement, to sign up for their newsletter which addresses current issues, scroll to the bottom of their website and click on “join our newsletter”. They also have an exhaustive list of past articles, searchable by topic, viewable here.

Speaker Series

You are cordially invited to our FishFund Venture Summit & Presentations next month

Our keynote will be Doug Sweeny, Pi ’90 (Syracuse University). Doug is CMO at ŌURA.
Hear from thought leaders and investors in the innovation space and learn about new startup projects helmed by Psi Upsilon brothers. Guests and Significant others are welcome.

To qualify to present, the startup must have a fully developed and working product.
A founder, C-Suite leader or key investor must be a Psi Upsilon brother.

May 11th, 2022
6:00 pm 
The Clift Royal Sonesta Hotel
495 Geary Street
San Francisco, CA 94102

Register Here to Join Us. Direct inquiries to Director of Member Engagement Jonathan Chaffin jonathan@psiu.org
Gallery of our 2022 event

Annual Fund Updates

Please check to see if your company does Donation Matching for 501c3s. (Google, The Home Depot, Microsoft, and many more match 50 to 100%, some up to 500%!).
https://doublethedonation.com/psiufoundation

Alumni, consider supporting the Annual Fund with a gift of $250
or more to join our Founder’s Society!

Thank you to everyone who made a gift in 2023! Check out donors from your chapter here!
You can view the 2022 Founder’s Society Members here.

In Memoriam

See a listing of brothers whose passing has been reported to us since July 2022.

Upcoming Events

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04.06.2023Ask an Expert: The Basics of Building a Successful Company and Raising Capital for Ventures*
Date: Thursday April 6th, 2023. 
Time: 11-12pm EST
Location: Online Registration – https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYpfuqvrjwtG9MsKFXFw-4BTaiD4VLF1sDH
Patrick Gilrane, Psi ’83 (Hamilton)
Managing Partner at the Wentworth Group LLC
https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-gilrane-111a9920/

04.19.2023 – Ask An Expert: 5 Practical Ways to Scale your Business in Uncertain Times
Date: Wednesday April 19th, 2023.
Time: 12-1pm EST
Location: Online Registration – https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYvcuihrzoiH9NYVDgS2tAMc26pXH4zIQZG
Benjamin “Bo” Friedman, Chi Delta ’92 (Duke)
Founder of Build Scale Grow, Inc and author of “Scale: Reach Your Peak” (book for founders with traction to grow exponentially)

05.11.2023 – FishFund Venture Summit – San Francisco, CA
Date: Thursday May 11th, 2023
Time: 6pm Start
Location: The Clift Royal Sonesta Hotel 495 Geary Street San Francisco, CA 94102
To qualify to present, the startup must have a fully developed and working product.
 A founder, C-Suite leader or key investor must be a Psi Upsilon brother.Spouses, Guests, and significant others are encouraged to attend
Ticket prices: $65 Alumni • $25 2017-2021 Recent Undergrad • $300 Sponsor the event
Regster Here

06.01.2023
Social Impact Fellowship Launch
Learn about the program here
All brothers asked to please recommend additional candidates
Nominate a brother at https://psiu.org/social-impact-fellowship/#nominate

07.28 – 07.31.2023
179th Psi Upsilon Convention
July 28th – July 31st, 2023
Atlanta Sheraton Downtown
Atlanta, GA

Hosted by the Gamma Tau chapter
Register Here


Click here for a complete list of Psi U events. If you’re interested in sponsoring an event in your area or to have your event listed in the calendar please email Director of Engagement Jonathan Chaffin (jonathan@psiu.org).

Have news to pass along? We’d love to hear from you! Please contact Executive Director Thomas Fox (tfox@psiu.org) with anything you would like to share.

© 2023 Psi Upsilon Fraternity

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11.07.2022_Psi Upsilon Beacon, published Fall 2022 Leadership & Service Highlights

Psi Upsilon Beacon, published Fall 2022 Leadership & Service Highlights Published on Nov 7, 2022 The Beacon highlights the grant, scholarship, and fellowship programs of the Psi Upsilon Foundation in support of the Psi Upsilon Fraternity. This issue highlights our 2022-2023 Social Impact Fellows, alumni doing philanthropic works, and more.

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07.01.2022_Psi Upsilon Beacon, published June 2022 Scholarship Highlights

Psi Upsilon Beacon, Scholarship Highlights published June 2022. The Beacon highlights the grant, scholarship, and fellowship programs of the Psi Upsilon Foundation in support of the Psi Upsilon Fraternity. This issue highlight our 2022-23 graduate and undergraduate Scholarship recipients, the history of a new named Travel and Engagement fund, and updates on new members of the scholarship committee.

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2022-23 Scholarship Recipients & Beacon

2022 Psi Upsilon Beacon, Scholarship Highlights – Published June 2022

The Beacon highlights the grant, scholarship, and fellowship programs of the Psi Upsilon Foundation in support of the Psi Upsilon Fraternity. This issue highlight our 2022-23 graduate and undergraduate Scholarship recipients, our new FishFund, the history of our named scholarship program, and updates on the life and careers of several of our past awardees.

2022-23

This year the Psi Upsilon Foundation awarded over $44,000 in scholarships to deserving brothers. We’d like to congratulate the 32 brothers from 14 chapters who received scholarships. The average undergraduate received a scholarship of $1,407 in 2022-23. There were 5 Graduate scholarships awarded.

To read our full list of scholarship recipients, read the Psi Upsilon Beacon: Scholarship Highlights

Graduate Scholarships

Lewis Finkelstein, Omicron 1983 Awards 
Basile Montagnese, Zeta ‘22 (Dartmouth)  

FishFund Awards 
Collin Brooks, Epsilon Nu ‘19 (MSU)

Gwen (Uyen) Do, Delta ‘22 (NYU)

Henry B. Poor, Gamma 1939 Award
Lucas Rempel, Zeta Zeta ‘22 (UBC)

Ian Welsch, Epsilon Nu ‘20 (MSU)

Undergraduate Scholarships

Albert C. Jacobs, Phi ‘21 Award  
Hannah Kubik, Chi Delta ‘22(Duke)

Benjamin T. Burton, Chi ‘21 Award 
David Hynes, Psi ‘24 (Hamilton) 

Curtis J. Rettke, Eta ‘84 Award
Christopher Gerazounis, Eta ‘24 (Lehigh)
Dylan Loiacono, Eta ‘23 (Lehigh)
Daniel Bramah, Eta ‘23 (Lehigh)

Earl D. Babst, Iota-Phi ‘93  
Yu Chang, Gamma Tau ‘23 (Georgia Tech)

Eric W. Didul, Phi Beta ‘90 Award  
Zachary Kempf, Phi Nu ‘23 (CNU)

Francis C. Hardie, Omicron-Zeta ‘18  
Amy Nwaoha, Zeta ‘23(Dartmouth)

Gardner A. Callanen, Psi ‘29 Award 
John Donahue, Psi ‘24 (Hamilton)

Gregg E. Rohlin, Phi ‘83 Award  
Zachary Kaufman, Phi ‘23 (Michigan)

Henry B. Poor, Gamma ‘39 Awards  
Nicolas Herrerias, Tau ‘23 (Pennsylvania) 
Kush Pandey, Tau ‘23 (Pennsylvania)
Luca Martini, Tau ‘24 (Pennsylvania)
Ethan Schwartz, Tau ‘23 (Pennsylvania)

J. Russell McShane, Delta ‘32 Award  
James Bentayou, Upsilon ‘23(Rochester)

Jerome W. Brush, Jr.,Delta Delta ‘39 Award  
Max Freeman, Tau ‘23 (Pennsylvania)

Jonathan E. Persky, Omega ‘85 Awards  
Raiyan Hossain, Alpha Omicron ‘23 (NJIT)
Johan Omar (Omar) Lopez Alvarado, Psi ‘23 (Hamilton)

Michael D. Oberg, Theta Theta ‘88 Award  
Yury Onikashvili, Zeta Zeta ‘23 (UBC)

Paul D. Friday, Theta Theta ‘26 Award  
Brendan Woodward, Zeta Zeta ‘23 (UBC)

R. DeWitt Wallace, Epsilon ‘14 Award  
Mustafa Ozbag, Zeta Zeta ‘23 (UBC)

R. Timothy Leedy, Phi ‘57 Award  
Alicia Medina, Chi Delta ‘24 (Duke)

Robert W. Morey, Pi ‘20 Awards 
Ben Gansenberg, Pi ‘23 (Syracuse)
Alec Ostrowidzki, Pi ‘23 (Syracuse)

Robert W. Parsons, Xi ‘22 Award  
Evan Kroeze, Lambda Sigma ‘23 (Pepperdine)

William P. King, Omicron ‘73 Award  
Sajni Saravanan, Gamma Tau ‘23(Georgia Tech)

Psi Upsilon was please to give out 34 scholarships this year!


Read it full screen or download the magazine at this link, or flip through it embedded below.

https://issuu.com/psiupsilon/docs/2021_beacon_scholarship_finalpdfb?ff


Thank you to everyone who volunteered and assisted with the creation of this document.

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2022 Edition of “Reflections: A Journal of Psi Upsilon History”

Reflections: A Journal of Psi Upsilon History is a publication of the Psi Upsilon Foundation focused on researching and highlighting the stories behind the members, buildings, artifacts, and traditions of our order as we approach two centuries of brotherhood. Focused both on historic accounts, new research, and history making brothers of the current day.

Evan W. Terry, Epsilon Phi ’93 (McGill University), committee chair, writes “

Greetings Brothers. Welcome to our second annual publication of Reflections.   In the past year the History and Archives committee has been busy working with the Fraternity’s archives, starting the process of cataloging our extensive collection.  Also, the committee was engaged in the planning, preparing, and execution of our Archives’ move to climate controlled storage.  We are currently working with leadership of the Fraternity and Foundation to secure a permanent location for the Psi U Archives.

   As the committee spent several weekends preparing Archives material to be moved, we were struck by the breadth and depth of its contents.  In addition to the Fraternity’s official historical record of meetings and conventions held, chapter petitions submitted, and many back issues of the Diamond, we discovered other artifacts of interest:  a set of Magic Lantern slides from 1913, multiple proposed Psi U songs from the early 20th century, 16mm film reels, and 35mm photographic slides.  Additionally, 100+ year old minute books from specific chapters and decades of Executive Council correspondence were carefully examined.  Previous generations both had the advantage of the bleeding edge technology of the day and a keen interest in preserving our Fraternity’s history and the committee is indebted to those who came before us for their diligence.

    I hope you enjoy this edition of Reflections, and that it prompts those of you with Psi U-related historical artifacts to preserve them.  Today’s events are tomorrow’s history, and future generations will appreciate insight into today’s fraternal experience.

Yours in the Bonds, 
Evan W. Terry, Epsilon Phi ‘93 (McGill)


This issue features:

•The Psi Upsilon Hose Company Eta Chapter, Lehigh University – By John Mathews, Eta ‘81 (Lehigh)

•Founding of the University Glee Club of NYC John Tempest Walker Jr. Lambda 1884 (Columbia) By John F.H. Ong, Gamma ‘82 (Amherst)

•The Occupation Of Berlin “Howlin’ Mad” Howley, Delta ‘25 (NYU) By Lawrence Tang, ESQ, Gamma Tau ‘01 (Georgia Tech)

•Psi Upsilon Legacies: The Terry Family Researched By Evan W. Terry, Epsilon Phi ‘93 (McGill)

•A Priceless Pi Artifact is Reborn! The stairwell at the Pi house is topped by a gorgeous stained glass dome. By Jim Cornacchia, Pi ‘86 (Syracuse)

•About Our Founders: Edward Martindale Theta 1836 (Union College) By Misi Coliadis, Theta Pi ‘13 (Georgia State)


Read it full screen or download the magazine at this link, or flip through it embedded below.
https://issuu.com/psiupsilon/docs/reflections_2022_jmc_3.10.22_revision_12-13_issuu?ff


Thank you to committee members:

CHAIR – Evan W. Terry, Epsilon Phi ‘93 (McGill University)

Jonathan M. Chaffin, Gamma Tau ‘00 (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Gary W. Curzi, Epsilon Iota ‘89 (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

Clifford J. Edmisten, Gamma Tau ‘00 (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Larry J. Lenick, Epsilon Nu ‘66 (Michigan State University)

John S. Mathews, Eta ‘81 (Lehigh University)

Joseph McCaskill, Chi Delta ‘00 (Duke University)

Alex Senchak, Eta ‘06 (Lehigh)

Paul H. Travis, Gamma Tau ‘01 (Georgia Institute of Technology)

And contributors:
Jonathan M. Chaffin, Gamma Tau ‘00 (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Melissa Coliadis, Theta Pi ‘13 (Georgia State University)

Robert B. Dorigo-Jones, Epsilon Nu ‘85 (Michigan State University)

Lawrence Tang, ESQ, Gamma Tau ‘01 (Georgia Institue of Technology)

James Sullivan, Psi ‘21 (Hamilton College)

We wish to recognize brother Cushing Donelan, Gamma ‘05 (Amherst College) & Donelan Family Wines for their generous support of “Reflections: A Journal of Psi Upsilon History”, of the Speaker Series, and of the programs of Psi Upsilon.

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04.26.2022_A Journal of Psi Upsilon History – Psi Upsilon Foundation 2022

Reflections: A Journal of Psi Upsilon History is a publication of the Psi Upsilon Foundation focused on researching and highlighting the stories behind the members, buildings, artifacts, and traditions of our order as we approach two centuries of brotherhood. This issue features:
• The Psi Upsilon Hose Company Eta Chapter, Lehigh University
• FOUNDING OF THE UNIVERSITY GLEE CLUB OF NYC – John Tempest Walker Jr. Lambda 1884 (Columbia)
• 9 | THE OCCUPATION OF BERLIN “Howlin’ Mad” Howley, Delta ‘25 (NYU)
• 12 | Psi Upsilon Legacies: The Terry Family
• 14 | A PRICELESS ARTIFACT IS REBORN – The Pi Chapter House stairwell
• 16 | About Our Founders: Edward Martindale, Theta 1836 (Union College)

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02.16.2022_2021 Impact Report

2021 Impact Report “Persevere & Flourish” There is a lot to learn from the past year of transformation and innovation at the Foundation. These efforts are both years in the making as well as in reaction to the changes forced on all of us. The programmatic and communication expansion of the Foundation will stand as a new benchmark for years to come, a framework that impacts more brothers from more generations and will continue to provide new ways for us to be a Psi U for life. With these new programs, we all have learned some wonderful lessons about what our brothers are interested in, and how we can best engage them. I have the honor of listening to so many stories inspired by the excitement of learning about our new programs and content-rich publications. Our increasingly complex operations have only be made stronger by the strategic direction provided by the board and committees. This publication showcases our 2021 programs and bright future.

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