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Consul – Steve Kontos
Senior Tribune - Eric Hermes
Junior Tribune – Kevin Degrood
Praetor – Kevin Kijewski
Quaestor – Chris Gazdag
Risk Manager – Ben Rexroat
Propraetor - Steve Bardelline
Pontifex – Ben Borowiak
Historian – Eric Hornik
Centurion – Joel Harris
Over the holiday break, brothers rang in the New Year
together at Dan Judge’s party. Some brothers and their girlfriends
traveled for 3 days to Blue Mountain in Ontario, Canada, where they hit
the slopes to ski. Rush consisted of the usual events. Four bids were
handed out and all four accepted. They crossed over as brothers on
April 6,2002 and went to dinner at Pizza Papolis.
Throughout the term
brothers stayed active by helping out at campus events like the
Homecoming Carnival and Casino Night. We sponsored a campus-wide
tailgate barbecue near Calihan before a basketball game and a faculty
advisor dinner at Nikki’s in Greektown. We continued to help at Selma’s
Home, donating time and money. Red Rose Formal this year was held at
the Holiday Inn of Troy. Dinner was excellent, and attendance was the
highest ever. Following dinner, Jamie Leckvarcik was named the new KDR
sweetheart.
Oh yeah, KDR got a
house!! Aaron McLean and his parents were generous enough to purchase a
house at 16546\16548 Fairfield. They are allowing us to pay rent that
goes toward the mortgage. It is located across from the baseball fields
and next door to the Sigma Pi’s. The duplex has 2 kitchens and living
rooms, 6 bedrooms, and a huge basement.
Greek Week was a
memorable experience for the brothers. Executive Director Ben Willis
came for a visit to discuss issue with starting a house and was able to
participate in the festivities. Not only did we do well in many events,
we won Air Band for the second year in a row! This year’s show was a
compilation of Saturday Night Live’s musical skits such as the Blues
Brothers, Spartan Cheerleaders, Tenacious D, Jingleheimer Junction, and
the Roxbury guys. The week ended with KDR as the new GREEK WEEK
CHAMPIONS, stealing the long-lived throne from Sigma Phi Epsilon! That
night, brothers, friends, and alumni celebrated by going to see
VanWilder at the movies on it’s opening night.
The weekend after school
ended, brothers took their annual trip to Toronto while others moved
into the house for the summer. Throughout the summer, so much work went
into the house to fix it up, make it the nicest on the block, and
prepare the basement for parties in the fall. We even bought a pool
table. In July, all the parents were invited to the first annual Family
Barbecue and the brothers were eager to show off the new house. They
continued to fundraise at car washes, and they worked a weekend at the
Michigan International Speedway selling concessions.
The William’s Leadership
Academy and National Convention was held in Washington D.C. over the
summer. Alpha Gamma was representing with extra delegates. We came
home with 7 chapter awards and Marc Miles took Pledge of the Year (Alpha
Gamma’s second year in a row). Kevin Clinton also won 2 scholarships
from the foundation.
Dr. Harold Osborn Award –
Intramural Sports (2nd)
Donald C. Wolfe Award –
Chapter Newsletter
Gino A. Ratti Award –
Alumni Relations (2nd)
National Staff Award –
Risk Management
John L. Blakely Award –
Philanthropic Projects
George E. Kimball Award –
Social Service (3rd)
William I. Myers Award –
Chapter Scholarship
The second annual Alumni
Banquet was held at Pasquale’s in Royal Oak. There, Eric McGrath
presented awards to the first 8 members of the Alpha class of The
Order: Blue and Orange, a recognition program for brothers going
above and beyond their call of duty in the fraternity and across the
campus. This was also the summer of the first Excursion 2.0.
The 2002-2003 school year got off to a great start with
Mike Natale coming to visit. He painted letters on the basement wall in
time for the first party at the house. For some reason, this was the
year for many freshmen to go Greek. KDR handed out 16 bids to a group
of excellent men and 13 crossed over as brothers in the fall.
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