After the brothers of the Pi Delta chapter were done with Habitat for Humanity, they made their way to the Alpha Xi Delta philanthropy to benefit autism- PuzzlePalooza. This was a tournament in which teams competed to put puzzles together the fastest. There were four rounds to the event with each round’s puzzle harder than the last. Light snacks were served throughout the event. The TKE brothers had 4 teams to enter and they ranked 2nd overall.
All proceeds benefited the Autism Speaks and the Alpha Xi Delta Foundation!
On October 24, 2009, Pi Delta brothers, associate members, and chapter sweetheart volunteered with Habitat for Humanity. The brothers met at the HUC at 7 AM and on a rainy day to carpool to the site. The location was at Red Mill Road in Birmingham, and the house is being built for Lurette Holifield and her son, Jakobi. The brothers and the new associate members enjoyed the volunteering and helping out with Habitat, and special thanks goes to the Habitat for Humanity branch at UAB of Greater Birmingham for offering the opportunity to serve. We will be again back soon!
After the work was done and the hammers put up, the brothers made their way to Alpha Xi Delta ’s Puzzlepalooza philanthropy.
This past Saturday, October 10, marked UAB’s biggest day of service, aptly named “Into the Streets”. The event is hosted every semester by the Leadership and Service Council. Volunteers meet at the Hill University Center and pick one of the variety of sites to serve at. Work at the sights ranges from spending time with the elderly, to getting down and dirty in the mud and planting trees and bushes or cleaning the streets.
Just like every semester, the Pi Deltas were up bright and early to represent TKE at the event as site leaders and as volunteers. We chose to go to Birmingham’s Jackson Elementary School and split up in groups to collect trash from the surrounding area, do yard work to beautify the school, and sanitize the inside of the school. The sight leaders included Jason Hall, Tareq Fayyad, Andrew Cochran, and Julian Mitchell.
After the job was done the work hat put up, the volunteers were treated to lunch and the all-important free t-shirt at the UAB Mini-Park. This semester’s Into the Streets was, once again, a great success. The Pi Delta Tekes would like to thank UAB and all the hard workers at the Leadership and Service Council for providing such a great opportunity for students to be productive and give back to the city of Birmingham. Looking forward to the next one!
Here are a few pictures from the event:
Girl Talk at UAB
UAB Blaze Productions presented Girl Talk at the 1120 Nightclub and Lounge in 5 Points last Friday night the 9th. Frater Andrew Stone, the president of Blaze Production, worked long and hard along with many students (which included more of our involved Pi Delta Tekes!) to get Girl Talk and finally, his hard work paid off.
Friday night came, and the event was a huge success. The show sold out with more than 900 attendants, giving UAB the most successful concert it has seen in years. The event lasted until after 12AM and the entire audience was in trance the whole time.
Frater Andrew Stone made TKE and UAB proud , for Girl Talk will not soon be forgotten by the students at UAB.
It is also worth mentioning that we had a group of fraters from Iota Xi at Concord University visit The Pi Delta Tekes and celebrate this great weekend
On October 3, 2009, the Pi-Delta chapter of TKE was honored to host the 2009 Alabama Province Education Conference (PEC). Among the list of great facilitators, Past Grand Prytanis Mark C. Romig conducted a session about servant-leadership principals. Besides Pi Delta, about 50 fraters from 5 different chapter were in attendance.
PEC is typically a one day, local area conference that is free to attend for all Tekes in the area. The conference is planned and facilitated by local volunteers. PECs provides a great opportunity for fraters to share ideas with local TKEs, learn skills to make their chapter stronger, develop base leadership skills, and, of course, extend their TKE network! All active and candidate members of every chapter in the province are encouraged to attend.
This year’s workshops included risk management, leadership, social and career success, ritual, and recruitment. The day of sessions was ended with a round-table where the attendants got split into several groups to discuss and share habits and practices that make our chapters successful.
All the attendants finished off the day with a social event in a private venue in downtown Birmingham. Here is a list of all the chapters that were in attandance:
- Pi Delta @ UAB
- Lambda Zeta @ Troy
- Upsilon Alpha @ Spring Hill
- Tau Psi @ The University of West Florida
- Sigma-Psi @ Clemson University
Last but not least, we would like to thank all the volunteers for their great support and life loyal dedication. Their generous donation of time and money is always a source of inspiration and key to the success of the TKE Nation
- James Warren (Alabama Grand Province Adviser and organizer of the conference)
- Mark Romig (Past Grand Prytanis)
- David Adcock (Past Grand Officer)
- Matt Cole (Georgia Province Adviser)
- Jason Meier (Pi Delta Faculty Adviser)
- Charles Thomson (Alabama Province Adviser)
- Matthew Barclift (Nu Mu Chapter Adviser)
