BETA SIGMA PSI National Lutheran Fraternity
	Marty’s Boys
SEPTEMBER 30, 2006	Volume 7, Number 1
In This Issue Delta Colony Chartering Weekend A Success Chapter Homecomings New National Awards Process in Place All Active and Alumni Chapter Forms Available Online Fundraising Opportunity for Educational Foundation Websites of Interest Important Dates · October 7 Home Football Games for Illinois, Iowa State, Kansas State · October 14 Home Football Games for Illinois, Kansas State · October 21 Home Football Games for Purdue, Nebraska, Iowa State, Missouri · October 28 Home Football Games for Purdue, Kansas State, Missouri If you have an event that you would like to have posted in Marty’s Boys please contact Chris Ristich at marty@betasigmapsi.org.	Delta Colony Chartering Weekend A Success Delta Chartering Weekend was a success as actives and alumni from numerous chapters congratulated the members of Delta Chapter on their chartering after four years of hard work by Delta colony members and alumni. Seventeen members of Delta were activated Friday night, with the Annual Beta Sig Golf Tournament following on Saturday. While the weather ranged from a light drizzle to a downpour, the teams completed the nine-hole tournament, with the rest of the day to dry off. The festivities on Sunday began with an inventive church service at the Lutheran Student Chapel, followed by the chartering ceremony, where both Delta alumni and actives were honored. The weekend closed with lunch at the Chapel. Thank you to all the actives, alumni, friends and family members who helped make the whole weekend such a memorable event. More information about Delta’s Chartering will be available in the next Gold Rose. Chapter Homecomings As Fall comes upon us it is again time for Homecoming celebrations, giving alumni a chance to catch up and reminisce about their college days, and giving actives a chance to listen to stories and learn from their experiences. Below are the dates of this year’s Homecoming weekends of the respective universities (with Beta Chapter already having celebrated an early Homecoming). For more information about each chapter’s Homecoming plans, contact the Alumni President (contact info available on the National Website). September 23 – Beta Chapter (Purdue University) October 7 – Alpha Chapter (University of Illinois) October 7 – Alpha-Alpha Chapter (Midland Lutheran College) October 14 - Psi Chapter (Concordia College – New York) October 21 – Epsilon Chapter (Iowa State University) October 21 – Eta Chapter (University of Missouri-Rolla) October 21 – Iota Chapter (University of Missouri-Columbia) October 28 – Zeta Chapter (Kansas State University) November 4 – Delta Chapter (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) New National Awards Process In Place The National Board of Directors is happy to announce a change in the National Fraternity awards process.  Effective immediately, awards applications will be based on work over the calendar year as opposed to the academic year.  This means that awards applications will be due in January, with awards being announced and distributed at the 2007 Membership Educational Forum.  The next round of awards will take this past spring’s work into consideration.  Awards applications will be available later in the semester online.  Only electronic submissions will be accepted.  If there are questions about the new awards process, please contact Kevin Stinn at leadershipdirector@betasigmapsi.org.  All Active and Alumni Chapter Forms Available Online Starting this semester, all active and alumni chapters must submit all forms electronically in order for them to be properly accepted.  These forms as well as the dates for submission may be obtained at http://www.betasigmapsi.org/forms.html.  If you have problems accessing these forms, please contact either Kevin Stinn (leadershipdirector@betasigmapsi.org) or Chad Pfister (president@betasigmapsi.org). Fundraising Opportunity for Educational Foundation Now you can raise money for the Beta Sigma Psi Educational Foundation just by searching the Internet at GoodSearch.com. You use GoodSearch.com like any other search engine - the site is powered by Yahoo! - but each time you do, money is generated for us. Here’s how it works: 1. Go to www.goodsearch.com 2. Type Beta Sigma Psi into the “I support” box and click on “verify” 3. Search the Internet just like you would with any search engine 4. Since GoodSearch shares its advertising revenue with charities and schools, every time you search the Internet at GoodSearch, you’ll be earning money for us. 5. GoodSearch also has a toolbar you can download from the homepage so that you can search right from the top of your browser. Go to the GoodSearch.com Toolbar and follow the instructions on how to download the toolbar to your computer! You can keep track of our estimated earnings by clicking on “amount raised” once you designate us as your organization of choice. We estimate that each search will generate approximately $0.01 for the Educational Foundation. If we can get 1,000 supporters searching twice a day we would receive an estimated $7,300 per year.  Even if we had 100 supporters searching twice a day we would earn an estimated $730. The sky is the limit, though – the more people who use the site, the more money we’ll earn, so please spread the word!! Websites of Interest · The National Board of Director’s blog can be found at http://www.betasigmapsi.org/blog. · The Marty’s Boys Mailing List Information Page can be found at http://lists.betasigmapsi.org/listinfo.cgi/martysboys-betasigmapsi.org · The Marty’s Boys Home Page can be found at http://publications.betasigmapsi.org · The Beta Sigma Psi Discussion Group Information Page can be found at http://lists.betasigmapsi.org/listinfo.cgi/listserve-betasigmapsi.org · The Lutheran Student Movement Website can be found at http://www.lsm-usa.org. · The Lutheran Student Fellowship Website can be found at http://lutheranstudentfellowship.org. Comments on this publication should be directed to Chris Ristich. If you would like to unsubscribe from this list please click here.
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