Delts Involved on Campus

Recently, many Delts have been interviewing for prestigious positions throughout the university and have been attaining vital roles throughout campus. Kyle Faulkner was accepted as a Summer Welcome Group Leader for this upcoming summer, a very tough role to achieve. Michael Baldetti and Reid Browning were accepted to Mizzou for Malawi, a campus organization that raises funds to benefit Malawi. Clark Conlisk and Brandon Pilas interviewed and received acceptance on Homecoming Steering Committee. This Committee is very important to the University to uphold the tradition of Homecoming. J.T. Scarpinato was promoted to Tour Team Co-Chair. Sam Peglow was accepted into GAMMA, Greeks Against the MisManagement of Alcohol. Many more Delts are currently in the interview process for clubs and organizations vital to Mizzou. Best of luck to those still applying and congratulations to those who were accepted into their respective groups!

Delts Study Abroad

Juniors Jacob Church and Quincy Hamilton are currently studying abroad in Alicante, Spain. Both are International Business Students who will be considered fluent in Spanish upon their completion of the academic trip. We hope the best for them the remaining semester and a safe return back to the United States.

Quincy (left) and Jacob (right) are dressed up for Carnaval, Spain's version of Mardi Gras.

Quincy and Jake mentally preparing to jump off a waterfall

Quincy, in the yellow shirt, on top of a rock called El Penon de Ifach with fellow classmates

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