Category: Fundraising

  • The House Tour from Fall 2024

    Take a quick video tour of the Alpha Tau chapter, with the current leaders as your guides.

  • New Front Doors & Summer Repairs

    New Front Doors & Summer Repairs

    After each school year, the House always needs a few repairs and renovations. The minor work involves patching holes (go figure), painting, trim work, water leak prevention, and other exciting topics. Our big project for the summer of 2019 is replacing the front doors of the Alpha Tau house. Nearly one hundred years of students…

  • “Name a Room” Fundraiser

    What follows below is our latest letter to Sigma Chi Alpha Tau alumni, penned by House Corp President John Ruocchio. In the letter he shares: The $250K raised thus far has led to significant tangible improvements, and the students taking more ownership and pride in The House We’re raising an additional $50K to renovate the…

  • The “Why” Behind Our Fundraising

    Brothers, The Jordan Standard. The Sigma Chi Creed. To some they are just words. To others they are something to be memorized, regurgitated at pledge meetings and written on pledge tests to be forgotten later in life. To others, those words seeped into our subconscious to either guide our lives as undergrads or resurface decades…

  • Kick Off Meeting with Architect

    Kick Off Meeting with Architect

    We had the kick off meeting with the Architect today to begin the objectives evaluation and schematic design phases of the renovation.  We walked through the house with the engineers to review the current condition of the house and the core objectives for the renovation.  The architect will then come back with two or more…

  • Architect Meetings

    Architect Meetings

    We have started the interview process for design architects.   John Ruocchio and I met at the house with one candidate last week to go over several issues with the house and some design considerations.    We meet next week with another firm at the house to get their opinions and quote also. Both of these firms…

  • Take the EX Alumni Event Poll

    Take the EX Alumni Event Poll

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  • Capital Campaign Progress Report

    Capital Campaign Progress Report

    Progress Report for Capital Fundraising Campaign The capital fundraising campaign is off to a start as of November 23rd, 2014.  We will post progress and updates here in the blog section of the website.  Stay tuned! [sdprogress]1[/sdprogress]