​As you may already know, tomorrow starts the Kappa Sigma Steven Alonzo Jackson weekend of giving. The purpose of this historic initiative is to raise funds for each Chapter Scholarship Fund. Brothers and other Kappa Sigma supporters will be challenged to donate $5.34, $50.34, $150.34, $340.34, $3,400.34 or more between 12:00 AM EST on Friday, March 5th and 11:59 PM HST on Sunday, March 7th. The Nu Prime chapter specifically has been challenged to raise $2,800 this weekend and we are asking all of our alumni to join the effort to reach our goal. The scholarship fund allows our chapter to recognize brothers who exemplify leadership in all aspects of life just as one of our greatest brothers, Steven Alonzo Jackson, did. We have provided the link below where you can enter your information as a Nu Prime alumni and donate. Thank you for supporting the Kappa Sigma fraternity and specifically the Nu Prime chapter!


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​Below are some additional insights gathered by alumni Ralph Basile, John Skipper and TJ Wilson during a Zoom call initiated by the Chapter’s Executive Council (EC) after they provided the attached chapter update letter:

• Chapter house lease: Their lease of the Roanoke Street property owned by the Lambda Chi Alpha Housing Corporation entitles Nu Prime to rent through May 2022; thereafter, and only by annual mutual consent, Nu Prime may continue to occupy it through May 2024; it is unclear if Lambda will try to re-colonize their chapter at VT and when Nu Prime secured the lease, there was much interest in this property demonstrated by other VT fraternities.
  

• Chapter membership: After Fall Rush when 10 new brothers were added (mostly sophomores), the chapter is now up to 42 members; they are hopeful of adding another 10 new brothers during Spring Rush; they expect only 2-3 seniors to graduate, and feel having 50-55 brothers is the optimum size for now; hope to grow to 60 members in 2022; when asked they thought Nu Prime was a small/medium size VT fraternity, especially when compared to some on-campus fraternities that have 150-200 members; since not part of the IFC which has access to student grades, they surmise their cumulative GPA is on par with other VT fraternities (brothers are mostly engineering majors with mid- 2.0 GPA’s and business majors with mid- 3.0 GPA’s)

• Chapter finances and improvements: New EC has made certain the Chapter is meeting it’s financial obligations, as they have caught up on all back-rent and insurance premium payments; one of the 4 Chapter House beds is vacant, though, and as a result the Chapter loses out on collecting $650 a month; seniors are only charged ½ dues and EC members pay slightly less dues than rest of general membership; even so, they have made improvements to the Chapter House, like adding a new outside bar, outside benches, and a TV mounted in the Chapter Room.

• Chapter activities: Many of the Nu Prime actives have had COVID-19; they hold weekly chapter meetings either in-person or by Zoom depending on the agenda; before COVID restrictions they participated in a wide range of intramural sporting events (softball, basketball, dodgeball, etc.) and community service events (volunteering weekly at a local food bank, working with local restaurants to promote sales with a % going to Military Heroes Campaign, etc.); the three actives who recently attended the Kappa Sigma National Leadership Council in Las Vegas brought back new rush tactics they learned from other actives nationally (i.e., poker night, enhanced use of social media , etc.); COVID-19 restrictions on gatherings are enforced by Town of Blacksburg, but since the complaining neighbor has moved, they are able to host more compliant outdoor gatherings, weather permitting. 

​A few years ago, the Nu Prime Alumni Association established a mentorship program to aid the chapter actives ease their way into the workplace. At its most active period, about 40 alumni volunteered and were partnered with actives. However, as actives graduated, few new replacement pairings of actives and alumni were established to allow the mentorship program to grow and thrive.
 
TJ Wilson, our newly appointed Alumni Advisor who is working closely with the VT chapter, has made a great suggestion:
 
“Rather than hitch an alumnus to an active that will be moving on in whatever number of years, we set the Alumni up more like a permanent resource available to all the active brothers and newly graduated brothers, as necessary. So, there are certain Alumni available continuously as a subject matter expert in their particular field - Finance, Engineering, Business, Communications, Architecture, general / life studies, etc.
 
That way, whether the active is graduating or not is irrelevant. The Alumni will be available for however long they wish to participate and available to all active brothers and even newly graduated brothers. If there are more than one alumnus willing to participate, they can join in and add multiple voices to the mentoring.
 
We could provide the active chapter with an updated list each quarter that includes contact information and the active and alum would coordinate each phone call, zoom meeting, lunch (if and when that's feasible), etc.”
 
***CALL FOR ALUMNI VOLUNTEERS***
 
If you would like to help an interested active brother or younger alumni and be added to the alumni mentor list presented to the Chapter periodically, please the following information to the Nu Prime Alumni Association email address (kappasignuprime@gmail.com):

1. Name
2. Address
3. Contact Info (email and cell)
4. Year of graduation and degree
5. Place of employment
6. Position
7. Years of work experience

Any other pertinent info you would like

The Nu Prime Alumni Association will hold a virtual meeting on July 30th @ 7pm.  If you are interested in participating, please RSVP using the following link:

www.nuprime.org/rsvp.html

The Zoom meeting information will be sent prior to the meeting.

The Annual Nu Prime Alumni Association meeting will also be held before the Spring Football Game.  Join us as we discuss our current activities and ways that we can increase engagement between our members and the active chapter.  

Tentative Agenda

• Report on Association finances 
• Presentation by Nu Prime Chapter EC
• Report by on: Chapter House lease; and, status of attempts to find a new AA
• Other business
• Adjourn​

 
Meeting Details

• Nu Prime Alumni Association Annual Member Meeting
• Saturday, April 18 2020 – 2:30 pm
• Lane Stadium South Endzone, Suite 14
• Refreshments Served – Invitation extends for the Spring Game at 3:30 pm
• Must RSVP to skipper@ncsi.com by 4/15 to be added to Suite 14 Guest List
  • (Instructions to access suite will be e-mailed to all who RSVP in advance)
• All Nu Prime Alumni are invited, as space permits.

Brothers,

The active chapter is having an Open House prior to the Spring Game for alumni of the Nu Prime Chapter.  Below please find the letter of invitation from the EC.  If you plan to attend please R.S.V.P. by April 11th to ksnuprime@gmail.com.