Category: Alumni News

Congratulations, Graduate!

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The DZAA would like to recognize and extend our most heart-felt congratulations to our Association’s President and fellow Alumnus, Brother David Ebner, who graduated this month with his Master’s Degree from the University of Tampa. Brother Ebner obtained his MFA in Creative Writing, and he plans to pursue a career teaching Creative Writing (and quite possibly go on to get his PhD!).

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Congratulations on this great accomplishment, Brother Ebner – we wish you great success with all your future endeavors!

2015 is Election Year!

No, not THOSE elections (although, they are only a year away). We’re talking about the DZAA elections for the Exec Board.

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As you may recall, in 2013, a new Board was elected – President David Ebner, Vice-President Kyllan Purdon, Secretary Todd Latoski, and Treasurer Ryan Suarez. Over the past two years, these Alumni have worked hard to breathe new life into the Delta Zeta Alumni Association – under their watchful eye, the By-Laws for the DZAA have been updated, the corporate status for the DZAA has been brought current, the annual Scholarship Scramble was successfully created, a number of social events have been organized (including the on-going Third Thursdays), a Technology Chair, an Archivist, and a Chapter Advisor have all been appointed, and they are currently working to bring back the Man-cation!

It has been a great two years, ???????????????????????????????but this is only the beginning! And now is your opportunity to step up and take a part in the future success of the DZAA. At the Spring Bi-Annual meeting in April, the DZAA will be holding elections for all four positions: President, Vice-President, Secretary, and Treasurer.

You will be the next leaders of the DZAA, so start thinking now about the position for which you would like to nominate yourself (or perhaps you have someone you would like to nominate). As April draws close, we will begin taking nominations and will send out the ballots just prior to the meeting.

Remember – the DZAA is YOUR Alumni Association – so who do you want leading it?

The Alumni Directory is Coming!

In case you may have forgotten, we are still hard at work on the DZAA Alumni Directory. Plans are in place to have the directory completed by the Spring Bi-Annual Meeting of the Delta Zeta Alumni Association.

alumni-directoryHowever, in order to complete the Directory, and to ensure that we have the most up-to-date and correct information about our Alumni, it’s important that you provide us with the necessary information. In the coming weeks, we will be reaching out to you to confirm what information we already have and to ask that you provide us with any information we may be missing.

The Directory will be a single source for our Alumni to be able to locate and reach out to our Brothers within the DZAA, providing you with the names, addresses, telephone numbers, e-mail addresses, and professions of our distinguished Alumni. The next time you need an accountant … or an attorney … or a computer technician … or just a Brother that you haven’t seen or spoken with in a while, the DZAA Alumni Directory is going to be your new source!

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The Directory will only be provided to our Alumni, and once the “Members Only” section is up and running on the website, the Directory will be made available online as well.

So, don’t ignore those e-mails and messages that you receive in the coming weeks – help us have the most accurate information for this Directory, and you’ll be helping us draw the DZAA closer than it’s ever been!