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Spring 2010

Greetings Alumni!Brother Brandon Michael Basehore, President

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NationalOfficers:

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Treasurer [email protected]

Hello to all Theta Delta Chi and Delta Sigma Chi Alumni from

Virginia Tech! My name is Brandon Basehore and I am the newly

elected President of the Nu Triton charge. I know it has been awhile since you have heard from your active members so we want

to try and get back in touch with as many alumni as possible. Iwanted to inform the alumni of some things happening with the

fraternity so that we can once again establish a relationship

between actives and alumni!In the past few years we have been growing in numbers

and we have we have finally reached 20 members once again! I

can honestly say that when I became a brother in the Spring of

2008 I wasn’t sure if we would get to this number again. Over the past two years we have been working to bring back the Theta Delttradition. There is a strong brotherhood still present here at

Virginia Tech and we’re looking to add more valuable memberseach year. This semester we were fortunate to get a couple

brothers back at school and we are hoping to have a very

productive semester and year.Last year was a very productive year in community service for Theta Delta Chi. In thespring we donated over $500 towards Delta Gamma’s Anchorsplash Philanthropy and are

participating in the event again this year. In the fall Team Theta Delta Chi donated $2500 to

the Virginia Tech Relay for Life! This semester we are hosting the First Annual TDXDodgeball tournament to support our national philanthropy that goes to benefit autism

patients.Thanks to Mr. John Winter, of Delta Sigma Chi, we were fortunate to find the

George Kelly Martin Memorial fund that was still held at the college. I know many of you

helped to raise money for this scholarship many years ago and we were very surprised tohear about it. We are hoping to get the scholarship established once again because it is a

great way to remember one of our fallen brothers.If you have any other alumni contact information that could help us please send an

email to either myself or Mike Rogewitz. It has been too long since the active brothers have

been in contact with all of the alumni! I’m hoping this newsletter will help us find some brothers that have been temporarily lost in time. Look forward to seeing some major

changes Thanks for taking the time to read this, I hope I’ll hear from you soon!

Brandon M. Basehore,President



Spring 2010

Treasurer ’s Report:

Ways and Means:

Our spring semester begins off with the collection of dues, which arecurrently 400 dollars a brother. With an ever-increasingly difficulteconomy, the difficulty involved in collecting dues has also

increased. The dues that immediately come in will go to the insurancethat we currently have to pay for each brother, the new Theta DeltaChi handbooks (which are now mandatory to purchase), composites,and the rush budget. These expenses total in over $3,000. After theseexpenses are paid for, the rest of the money from dues can be used for extracurricular activities as well as other various events. Not having ahouse is also saving the fraternity money, which is being recycled back into our budget. As the new treasurer this semester, I aim tokeep our fraternity on top of bills so that we don't get back loggedinto next semester when we move into the new house.

Ryan FahsTreasurer

This semester ways and means is off to an early start with the purchase of a breathalyzer.With this breathalyzer some of the brothers will sit outside of the bars in Blacksburg andcharge people a dollar a test. At tech people have been able to make around 300 to 400 dollarsa night, which would be a great bonus to add to our budget. We’re hoping this breathalyzer will help to pay for insurance and other various bills that will arise in the near future. Also thefraternity will be having a first-annual alumni golf tournament in Blacksburg, which will alsohelp benefit the fraternity’s ever-increasing budget. This semester were hoping to see an

increase in the frat’s budget due to the increased motivation we continue to put forth to add toour brotherhood’s money-making capabilities.

Ryan Fahs,

Ways and Means



Spring 2010

House Chair:

Philanthropy:

Social:

After getting rid of 301 Giles, the fraternity isstill doing well. Social functions have beenspread out to all brothers’ apartments and homes, bringing the brotherhood closer together. Justrecently, three brothers have signed a lease on asix-bedroom house on Tom’s Creek road thatwill serve as the new TDX house. This locationis across 460, perfectly close enough to thevillage and other apartments, yet far enough outof the way to not have to worry about noiseviolations. Also, the cost of rent is low enough toallow two rooms to be vacant, with 4 brothersliving in the house at an affordable rate. Thereare practically no neighbors, giving us hopes of rush bon fires and live bands next year. Themove in date is the 18th of June, after which weencourage any of you to come visit and see for yourselves the great new foundation this newlocation will provide for Nu Triton.

Michael Rogewitz,House Chair

Without a house, social events have been spread

out to other brothers’ residences. Since we are asmaller fraternity, we are currently havingsocials with the women’s field hockey team. Theteam has 25 girls and we have 20 brothers so thisworks out nicely. We also plan on teaming-upwith a bigger fraternity to have a social with oneof the big sororities this semester. Though thenumber of socials we have had this year hasdecreased, that will soon change the followingsemester in the new TDX house. Social eventswill posted on our website, and we welcome any

of you to join us at any of them.

Jake Waddell,Social Chair

This semester we were very fortunate to

receive a brother who transferred from Williamand Mary and is experienced in hosting philanthropies. With his help, we are currentlyin the process of hosting a TDX dodge balltournament to benefit autism. We plan to makethis an annual event that will help get our letters more recognized amongst the Greek community, as well as provide a way for TDXto help a good cause. We are buying T-shirtsfrom William and Mary’s past dodge balltournament at a discounted price that will also be given out at the event.Over the Spring the fraternity will once again be participating in Relay for Life. During thistime, we will be raising money for our team, aswell as participating in other various events.This event is a great way to bring the brotherhood together and this year we plan on beating last year’s record of $2,500. We willalso be getting you all more involved in theRelay this year and invite any of you to comeout for the event!

Darren Ziegler,Philanthropy Chair



Spring 2010

Pledgemaster:

Corresponding:

With the last current newsletter sent out being from Spring of 2005, much work and focus this year will be put on improvingour alumni relations. We are currently updating our alumnidatabase and working to get all alumni on our alumni listserve

so we can contact all of you quickly and easily. Please check theemail sent on the listserve under “messages” titled “UpdatingAlumni Info..”, as it has a document which contains all the infowe currently have. If you have ANY info that could help add tothis document please send it to me [email protected]. In addition to Buffet day, we willalso be holding a fraternity golf tournament in the spring. Bothof these dates are yet to be decided on but you all will benotified ASAP once they are confirmed. If you have anysuggestions on what you would like to see, or any advice ingeneral please also feel free to drop me an email. I look forward

to seeing more of you out and look forward to hearing morefrom the actives!

Michael Rogewitz,Corresponding Secretary

As soon as I became involved in TDX, I instantly knew Iwanted the pledgemaster job, and I'm very excited to fieldanother strong pledge class in a year that we are between

houses. The main issue I plan to focus on in my position isacademic performance. As a historic national fraternity, it ismportant to emphasize the legacy of excellence that we are

passing on to our pledges, and at the top of that list isgrades. As an organization of students and former students,we realize that while the bonds of brotherhood extend far beyond our time in school, we need to maintain certainacademic standards while we are here. I have the easiestschedule of my college career this semester (only 12 credithours), and I plan to use this extra time to help our new cropof pledges to get through the process with flying colors not

only in the eyes of the university, but by the much higher standards that we as Theta Delts expect of our own.

Josh Rohrer,Pledgemaster

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