The Delta Chapter House hosted a work day this weekend, led by DAA President Jerry Peplinski.

A major milestone happened today at the work day. The KHK Delta Flag and Banner were hung up today in the Chapter Office (Executive Board Meeting Room). Photos of the work day are attached below, with the following caption credits:

Tom and Steve with KHK Banner

1) Tom Irwin (DAA director) Left and Steve Paugh (DAA Treasurer) Right move the banner from Steve’s home to Tom’s van for transporting to Delta House for installation.

File Cabinet 3rd Floor Hallway

2) Filing cabinet making it’s way along the 3rd floor hallway.

Cabinet Moving Crew- Moto, Ben, Aaron, and Drew

3) Filing cabinet movers (Left to Right) Motoya Higashi (Alumnus), Benjamin Lange (Active), Aaron Lang (Active) and Drew Beatty (Active).

Delta Flag

4) Delta Flag Hung on west wall of the Chapter Office.

The 86th National Convention of Kappa Eta Kappa was held this past weekend (23-February-2013) at Beta Chapter in Minneapolis, MN. The Delta Alumni Association submitted a document listing all 141 dues-paying members of DAA to the National Executive Council (NEC). Representing the DAA with six votes were:

Jerry Peplinski (2 votes)
Samuel Hurley (1 vote)
Alex Smith (2 votes)
Scott Woods (1 vote)

In addition to attending the meeting, DAA members Jerry Peplinski, Samuel Hurley, and Scott Woods drove up to St. Cloud, MN to observe the status of the Iota house, which was purchased thanks to a loan from the Delta Housing Corporation and is currently under extensive renovations.

Finally, the DAA would like to congratulate the four new officers of national. A photo is attached.

NEC_Officers

From left to right:
Scott Woods, Treasurer (DAA Director)
Maggie White, Secretary (Delta Active Member & Secretary)
Luke Grigore, Vice President (Beta Chapter President)
Samuel Hurley, President (DAA Director)

I will be representing KHK NEC as acting secretary this year (proxy for Matt Buck), and would like to extend an invitation to the convention meeting to all members and alumni.

**Lunch will be served at the KHK house prior to the meeting**

Coffman Building
Room 324, Feb 23rd at 2pm.

300 Washington Ave. S.E.
Minneapolis, MN 55455

All of those who are looking at parking should Google “East River Road Garage”
Link Here (http://www1.umn.edu/pts/park/facilities/errramp.html)

Here is the layout of the room where we will be having our meeting.
(http://sua.umn.edu/about/directory/coffman/third.php)

The garage is connected to the student union (Coffman). Take the tunnel to the basement, then come up to the third floor.

DAA meeting was held at Union South Madison WI on 2/9/13.

20130209 DAA Meeting Picture

In attendance were:
Standing (left to right)
Mark Van Susteren (DAA Director)
Bud Kehrli (DHC Treasurer)
Tom Irwin (DAA Director)
Matt Buck (DAA Secretary and NEC Secretary)
Steve Paugh (DAA Treasurer)
Sam Hurley (DAA Director)
Ian Powell (Chapter President)
Dale Saari (Chapter Pledge Trainer)
Matt From (Chapter Treasurer)
Alex Smith (DAA Vice President)
Sitting (left to right)
Jerry Peplinski (DAA President and DHC President)
Scott Woods (DAA Director and NEC Treasurer)
Sean Scannell (Delta Alumnus)

You are invited to attend the annual membership meeting in Madison, Wisconsin on:

1:00pm Saturday, February 9th, 2013

The meeting will be at the new Union South (1308 W. Dayton Street), most likely on the second floor in room 216, the Scholar’s Room. Check Today in the Union (TITU —http://www.union.wisc.edu/titu/) for the latest room information in case the Union moves the room.

Parking is available in the basement of Union South, lot 17 (parking ramp just north of Camp Randall Stadium) and lot 20 (1390 University Ave). There is a parking fee to park at both.

The meeting will start at 1:00 PM and should adjourn by 3:00 PM

You are also invited to meet at 11:00 AM for a lunch at Lucky’s Bar & Grille located at 1421 Regent Street.

A meeting agenda will be available when it is ready. Please infrom the president, Jerry Peplinski, if there are any topics you would like brought up at the meeting.

Please respond on the return reply slip in the December mailing with your dues if you will be able to attend this meeting.