Grove City College’s annual Homecoming is Saturday, October 9th and is really only a short 4 weeks away. Make your plans to attend this weekend and participate in the EP festivities. The EP Tent will be located on lower campus right behind the football press box. We will open at 10:00 AM and a buffet lunch will be served following the Homecoming parade. Shortly after the conclusion of the Homecoming football game with Thomas More College, EPs and their guests will gather at 6:00 PM at the Legacy Banquet Center near Grove City for the annaul EP Homecoming Dinner and presentation of the Guthrie-Nivison Scholarship winners for this year. More details will be forthcoming and a dinner reservation form will be e-mailed to you four weeks in advance of Homecoming. Make your plans now to attend.
Marcus Magister Wins Guthrie Family Scholarship
Each year the Guthrie Family Scholarship, established by Julia and Dwight Guthrie, is awarded to the EP and the Gamma Sig senior who has achieved the highest GPA. This year the Guthrie Family Scholarship has been awarded to Marcus Magister '11 for his outstanding performance in the classroom. In addition to his academic achievements, Marcus is a former EP pledge master and was recently named to the Division III All-America Baseball Team as a catcher. A graduate of Hampton High School just north of Pittsburgh, he has been a great leader in the Epsilon Pi Fraternity. His future plans include medical school to begin his career as a surgeon. Congratulations, Marcus!
Jim Keefer Memorial Golf Tournament
The 2010 Epsilon Pi Alumni Golf Outing will be held on Saturday, July 31, 2010 at the Pine Grove Golf Course on Barkeyville Road and Rt. 28 in Grove City. You may call the course at (724) 458-8394 or visit them on the web at www.pinegrovegolf.com for directions if you are making the trip for the first time. Tee times begin at 8:40 am and go off every 8 minutes after that. We should have everyone off by 10:30 am at the latest. That means you can have a wonderful day playing golf with old friends and still make it home by 7:00 pm for some quality family time. Please indicate your tee time preference when you call or email your RSVP. We will try to accommodate everyone’s desired starting times. The cost this year will be $60.00 per participant. This covers your golf, carts, prizes, lunch at the turn, beverages and dinner afterwards. We will collect the entry fee that morning when you sign in. We will also collect dues if you choose to them pay them at that time. Also, please remember the driving range as you turn into the course off the main road. I would recommend arriving 45 minutes early to stretch and hit a bucket of balls before the round.
Please RSVP to me, Steven Hamel, at (412) 561-1065 or my cell phone at (412) 310-2730 by July 24th or e-mail me at steven_hamel@msn.com. Please let me know if you are able to donate prizes when you RSVP. Thank you and I look forward to seeing you that day.
EPs Conclude Another Highly Successful School Year
EPs Win Fourth Consecutive IF All-Sports Championship
May 8th was Parents Day at Grove City College and a big day for Epsilon Pi as the fraternity was awarded the IF All-Sports Trophy for the fourth consecutive year. During the year, the EPs won the IF Football and Basketball Championships and placed in three other IF sports to secure the championship. In addition, this spring the EP Softball Team won the championship which is counted toward next year’s IF All-Sports Championship, so we are off to a great start for making it five in a row.
Additional individual recognition came to Andrew DIDonato during the ceremonies on May 8th as he was named GCC Sportsman of the Year. While playing quarterback for the past four years, DiDonato broke virtually every offensive record in Grove City football history at his position. Congratulations to Andrew on a truly great college career. In addition, DiDonato was a finalist for Senior Man of the Year. He did not win that award, but being a finalist speaks volumes about the quality of the man, as well as his fellow nine EP who seniors who will graduate this month. Andrew graduated with Honors in Business Management along with Mark Scriven, outgoing EP President, who graduated cum laude with Honors in Accounting. To all the senior EPs, thank you for your leadership and leaving the fraternity in a better place because you were a member of Epsilon Pi. Well done!
Finally, and somewhat predictably, the EPs did participate in the All Campus Sing (formerly known as Greek Sing), but did not place.
Guthrie Scholarship
Nine EP juniors and seniors applied for the Guthrie/Nivison Scholarship for the next school year and three were selected to receive a scholarship award. A committee of three EPAA Board Members interviewed each of the nine applicants and the winners are: Marcus Magister, Tyler Nichols, and Zach Summy. They will be formally presented their scholarship awards at the EP Homecoming dinner this fall. The Guthrie Scholarship has become highly competitive and this year’s list of candidates was most formidable. All nine candidates are most worthy and Dr. Guthrie would have been extremely proud of each one of them and their respective achievements.
The total Guthrie Endowment has now passed the 100,000 dollar milestone. The current on-going campaign, which began in late December of 2008, has resulted in contributions of $57,802.14 from 96 individual donors (quite a few have made more than one donation) for an average gift of $602.10 per donor. It should be gratefully acknowledged that three EPs have made a contribution in excess of $5,000.00. Thanks to them in particular for their great generosity and to all who have stepped up to increase the size of the Guthrie endowment.
The 96 individual donors, however, represent just 12.8% of our total estimated EPAA database. For the year 2010, we have received 13 gifts totaling $7,917.50 as of April 30, 2010. Bottom line—we need more participation meaning we need more EPs to step up and increase the percentage of donors. If we could increase the number of donors to 25% of the total database, it would be another record year of giving. Give it a shot! Many, many thanks to all who have donated and for your generosity. A Guthrie Scholarship Gift form is included with this letter for your convenience.
Golf Outing
Remember, the annual EP golf outing is Saturday, July 31st at the Pine Grove Golf Course in Grove City. Gather your foursome and get it on your schedule. Many EPs have turned this event into a weekend golf outing playing both Friday and Saturday. For those arriving early, we are thinking of having a Friday evening reception/activity. More on that later and more details will be forthcoming from Steve Hamel.
EPAA Dues
Dues are always readily accepted and can easily be paid on the EP website using PayPal. This is the most efficient method of collecting dues and the EPAA Board urges you to use this cost effective, convenient way to pay your dues. Dues are $25.00 for one year, $60.00 for three years. Directions and the options are clearly spelled out on the EP website and easy to follow. Each time we do a mailing via the U.S. Post Office, it costs over $300.00 to mail the entire database an invoice. Speed, ease, convenience—try it—go to epsilonpi.com. Dues are very important this year, as the college has decided to invoice the EPAA for the EP tent rental on lower campus for Homecoming. Everyone seems to agree this is a premier location and we should continue with the plan as a central gathering point for Homecoming. The tent rental is $1,000.00, so we need your assistance. We are certain the tent space we have adopted would be quickly claimed by other organizations should we not be able to fund the rental.