Delts Aid Central Missouri Food Bank

The Central & Northeast Missouri Food Bank in Columbia, Missouri has had a shortage of volunteers in the winter months this year. Mizzou Delts have kindly given up their Saturday mornings to help as much as they can at the Food Bank. Some volunteer work they've partaken in include packing and unpacking food, loading trucks, and organizing donations. The Food Bank has been very thankful for our help and we will continue to aid them the rest of the semester.

The Central & Northeast Missouri Food Bank

Delts Volunteering at the Food Bank

Delts Packing and Unpacking Food

Delt Rocks Rock-It

On Friday, February 22nd, Delt dance team took home first place in the annual RAMS Rock-It Finals. The dance team, led by Kyle Faulkner, performed a dance routine called the Evolution of Pop. RAMS (Rocking Against Multiple Sclerosis) is a campus-wide philanthropy that is hosted every year to raise money to benefit the local MS Institute. This year more than $65,000 was raised. For more information about RAMS here is a link to their website http://www.rockinagainstmultiplesclerosis.com/ and here is a link to the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umzv5e_FPAY&feature=youtu.be&a

Kyle Faulkner led the dance team to first place.

Academic Achievement Ceremony

On February 13th, we received our Academic Achievement Gold Banner for placing 2nd in grades for the Fall 2012 semester among fraternities. A Gold Banner is given to the top three fraternities with the highest all member GPA. Our chapter earned a 3.153 semester GPA. The All-Fraternity was a 2.940, All-University average was a 2.987, and the All-Greek average was 3.102. Also, our New Member GPA was second among fraternities with a 3.262. We are very proud of our achievement and look to increase our GPA for the Spring semester.

The Gold Banner hanging up on the house.

Kyle Quatrochi, Brenden Lowe, Austin Stumpe, Sam Renschen, Keith Himebaugh received the banner at the ceremony in Jesse Hall.

Delts Travel to OKC for Divisionals

On January 31^st, 17 Delts traveled to Oklahoma City for Western Plains Divisional Conference. The new Executive Members met with Division President, Josh Schneider, to discuss how to continue to better the Gamma Kappa chapter. The awards we earned were Excellence in Community Service, Excellence in Recruitment Programming, Road Programming, AMA/AFA, Outstanding Member Education Programming, Excellence in Philanthropy Programming, and Service to JDRF. We hope to build on our accomplishments and strive to get better in every aspect for next year. 

Pictured Above are the 17 members who attended the conference along with Jim Meyer, the Chapter Advisor.

Delt Senior Wins Emmy

Congratulations to Delt Senior Artyom Rayev (Ari Alexander) on winning a Mid-America Emmy for his story entitled "Scoring for Slaten".  Ari works for KOMU News, a Columbia, MO NBC affiliate, and plans to graduate from the Journalism school next semester.  Keep up the good work!

To read more, check out the article http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kalonanews.com%2Farticles%2F2012%2F11%2F07%2Fsports%2Fdoc509a97bcae2cf829650796.txt&h=qAQHJCiER

4th Place in Homecoming!

Congratulations to the men of Delta Tau Delta and the women of Kappa Kappa Gamma on a 4th place finish in the 101st Mizzou Homecoming.  This year's theme was Famous Eras and our selection was the Roaring 20s.  The pairing finished high in several categories, including Skit, Blood, and Service.  If you didn't make it out this year, make sure to visit Columbia next year, as Delt has high hopes of finishing well again.  Check out some of the pictures below!

Pictured above: Members perform a skit in front of our house decorations, meant to resemble the outside of famous landmark "The Shack".

Pictured above: Thousands walk the streets of Greek Town to see the House Decs put up around the block.

Pictured above: Determined members of Delta Tau Delta and Kappa Kappa Gamma get up early to brave the cold weathers of the 7AM parade.  Thousands came out before the game to see the Mizzou spirit.

Delt Dad's Weekend 2012

Saturday, September 29th, was the annual Delt Dad's Weekend.  Traditionally, dads come into town early the morning of to play a round of golf with their sons and then somewhere afterwards to watch the Mizzou football game... and of course, eat LOTS of food!  Because of an early kickoff against Central Florida, pairings were able to choose between 9 and 18 holes, and then meet at the Quinton's rooftop for a full buffet as well as beverages of choice.  The weather was great, and everybody had a great time.  If you weren't able to make it last year, certainly plan on joining us next Fall!  Check out some of the pictures from Quinton's below.

Pictured above: Seniors Max Ottenlips, Sam Jones, Jack and Sam Peglow, and Cliff David with their dads, watching the game.

Pictured above: Freshmen and their dads having a blast at their first (of hopefully many) Delt Dad's Weekend.