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Nu Prime Chapter Update- Spring 2022

3/2/2022

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Nu Prime Brothers, 
The current active members wanted to update our alumni on the current state of our Chapter, a summary of this past school year, as well as information about upcoming events. This past fall, the chapter hosted an alumni open house and tailgate for the Pittsburgh game. We want to thank all of the alumni who came out and showed us that this brotherhood is truly not for a semester or term, but for life. The donations that we received from the event were used for annual house maintenance projects, as well as building a DJ booth (pictured below).

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Speaking to more current events, our chapter just finished our spring rush where we welcomed 11 pledges. The chapter has started philanthropy work for this semester with our annual super bowl squares event. We are currently organizing more philanthropy events for later this semester including a food drive with Sons of Saturday and a volleyball tournament at the house for the Military Heroes Campaign. 

We would like to inform you of Kappa Sigma’s annual Steven Alonzo Jackson weekend of giving that starts this Friday. For those of you who may not know, the weekend of March 4th - March 6th is a weekend of giving for the Kappa Sigma endowment fund. What makes this weekend special is that 100% of donations go directly towards our Nu Prime chapter’s endowment fund. From this fund, brothers in our chapter can apply for academic scholarships helping to cover Virginia Tech’s ever increasing tuition. The link to this fund is provided below, but please make sure to wait until Friday, March 4th at 12:00 AM to make your donations. Any charitable act is greatly appreciated by the chapter and will go a long way. Once again, we’d like to thank you for your continued support, support that ensures that our brotherhood will be here for years to come.
Donate Here for the Steven Alonzo Jackson Weekend of Giving!


​We initiated 15 new brothers this past fall into the chapter. Their names and years are included below.
Class of 2023
Arnav Divaker
Class of 2024
Michael Finfgeld
Class of 2025
Andrew Parry     
Caden Cary         
Christian Kramer
Croix Javier
Evan Niewoehner
Bradford Beck
John Anthony Kadian
Lucas Malay-Olano
Ujwal Gudipati
Roman Pena
Nicholas Brown
Michael Wall
Nikolas Anastasi


A.E.K.D.B. 
Executive Committee 
Grand Master: Matthew Skipper 
Grand Procurator: Cody Wright 
Grand Master of Ceremonies: TJ Bullhoes 
Grand Treasurer: Dillon Kaldes 
Grand Scribe: Hayes Warlick
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Nu Prime Chapter Alumni Open House - October 16th, 2021

9/27/2021

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Nu Prime Chapter Alumni Open House
Location: 413 East Roanoke St – Blacksburg, VA
Time: 10:00am - 12:00 pm
Visit the Chapter House And Enjoy Beverages & Refreshments in the Backyard with Current Brothers and Fellow Alumni.
No cost and please indicate in your Tailgate RSVP if you plan to attend the Chapter Open House.

We look forward to seeing you on October 16 in Blacksburg!
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Nu Prime Alumni Tailgate- October 16th, 2021

9/27/2021

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Nu Prime Alumni Pre-Game Catered Tailgate
Location: VT Lot 4, Space 123 (Click for map)
Time: 12:30 pm - 2:45 pm


  • Full Grilled On-Site Oktoberfest Meal (Menu TBD)
  • Keg Beer (Oktoberfest & Miller Lite)
  • Full Bar & Wine

Cost is $30 per person (Meal/Beer/Bar)
OR
No Meal & BYOB Is Free


Nu Prime Alumni & Guests Welcome.  
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Please RSVP (and pay for your tickets) by Monday, October 11th to skipper@ncsi.com and indicate if you are buying the Meal/Beverage and for how many persons.​
Purchase Alumni Tailgate Tickets
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Nu Prime Chapter Update- Summer 2021

8/17/2021

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Nu Prime Alumni Weekend-October 15th-17th, 2021

7/25/2021

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​Brothers,
The Chapter will be hosting an Alumni “cookout style” Open House on October 16th, during Homecoming Weekend. Additionally, there will be an Alumni Tailgate starting 3 hours prior to the game against Pittsburgh.

Nu Prime Alumni Homecoming Weekend
October 15th-17th
  • Homecoming Football Game VS Pittsburgh
  • Alumni Cookout at the Kappa Sigma House Backyard 413 E Roanoke St – Sat 10/16 TBD
  • Alumni Tailgate Sat 10/16 3 hours prior to game Lot 4, Space 123 Area

This is a long-overdue gathering so please plan to attend & reach out to your pledge brothers to join us too!
Hotels are already tight but rooms are currently available at the Hampton Inn Christiansburg/Blacksburg on Arbor Dr.

Please RSVP to skipper@ncsi.com if you plan to attend. More details to follow soon.


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Mentorship Program: Revised and Re-Established at Nu Prime Chapter

4/17/2021

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A few years ago, the Nu Prime Alumni Association established a mentorship program to aid the chapter actives ease their way into the workplace careers. 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 (when that's feasible), etc.”
 
***CALL FOR ALUMNI VOLUNTEERS***
 
The actives at our Nu Prime chapter have provided the attached list of 2 dozen brothers seeking an alumni mentor. Please review this list and volunteer to mentor one (or more) of these actives.
If you would like to help out an interested active brother or younger alumni and be added to the alumni mentor list presented to the Chapter periodically, please contact the Alumni Association at kappasignuprime@gmail.com and provide the following information:
  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
  8. Any other pertinent info you would like
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Actives and Recent Grads Needing Mentors

Name
Major
Expected Grad Year
Hometown
Phone Number
email
Matthew Skipper  
​Business Management and Marketing
2023
​Burtonsville, MD
​301-526-5241
​skipper23@vt.edu
​Tyler Walker
​Business Information Technology (BIT)
2022
Spring Lake Heights, NJ
732-749-5500
​tylerbwalker1@gmail.com 
​Dylan Foster
​Biological Systems Engineering
2022
​Flemington, NJ
​908-391-7125
​dylanfoster@vt.edu 
Jack McManus
​Finance- Real Estate Finance
​May 2022
​ Bethesda, MD 
​301-466-2476 
 
​Stan Maoury
​Biological Science
​2023
​Ashburn, VA
​703-819-3558
​Smaouryiii@vt.edu 
​Jake Crouse
​Marketing
2022
​Alexandria, VA
 
 
​Liam Barrett
Business Management
​May 2022
​Morganville, NJ
​908-670-7187
​Wsb817@vt.edu 
​Brendan Embon
​Accounting and Finance
​May 2022
​Wall Township, NJ
 
 
​TJ Bulhoes
​Civil Engineering
​2023
​Reston, VA
 
 
​Ambar Nandi
​HNFE ( Concentration: Physician Assistant)
​Spring 2022
​Malvern, PA
​610-457-5950
 
​John Siegel
Computer Engineering
​2023
Virginia Beach, VA
​757-748-1868
 
​Jason Lengel
Construction Engineering and Management
2022
​New London, PA
​484-667-9380
​jvlengel@vt.edu 
​Eric Lindsay
Finance, CFP Concentration
​2021
​Devon, PA
​610-999-4136
​elindsay1234@gmail.com 
​Brandon Bready
​Construction Engineering Management
​2023
​Byram, NJ
​973-534-0478
brandonb18@vt.edu
Ben Greenstein
Corporate Financial Management
​2022
​Flemington, NJ
​908-377-9462
jaketf@vt.edu
​Hojin Mun
General Engineering
​2022
Bethesda, MD
​301-852-8774
hojinmun3@vt.edu
​Andrew Chicalo
​Industrial and Systems Engineering
​2023
Stratford, NJ
​856-522-6546
achicalo11@vt.edu
​Ellis Gloyd
Business Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology
​2022
Baltimore, MD
​240-444-3215
emgloyd@vt.edu
​Mohamed Naji
​Computational Modeling and Data Analytics
​2022
​Burke,VA
​703-789-1127
mohamedn@vt.edu
​Grant Sullivan
Business information Technology 
2022
​Leesburg, VA
​703-618-4626
​Grants00@vt.edu 
​Paul Plawin
​Business Information Technology
2021
​Vienna, VA 
​202-744-8879
​Paul.plawin@gmail.com 
​Eddie Mohler
​Communications Public Relations, Japanese
​2022
​Reston, VA 
​703-483-5423
​Edisonmohler@vt.edu 
​Kidus Abebe
​Computational Modeling and Data Analytics 
2023
​Washington, D.C 
​202-264-9988
Kabebe22@vt.edu
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SAJ Weekend of Giving 2021

3/4/2021

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​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!


Click Here to Donate

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Notes from the Recent Meeting with the EC

1/25/2021

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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. 
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Update from the Active Chapter-Spring 2021

1/25/2021

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Update from the Active Chapter

9/11/2020

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