In case we did not meet during the Harvard-Yale celebrations, my name is Tony Huang, the Consul of Kappa Eta Sigma Chi for the upcoming year. I want to personally reach out to you and let you know that we, the undergraduate members of Kappa Eta, were absolutely thrilled to share Harvard-Yale Weekend this year with so many Alumni from all over the world! We hope you thoroughly enjoyed the events of the KH 20th Anniversary Celebration, and have fully recovered from the debauchery as well.

  To refresh your memories, we started off on Friday night with a successful banquet with over a hundred brothers in attendance. On Game day, we held what was clearly the best tailgate in KH history and likely in Harvard history as well, topped off with a rocking performance from Mini KISS. At night, we hosted a party with over 350 people until 4:30 in the morning. In total, we consumed around 150 bottles of champagne, 700 cans of beer, 15 gallons of punch, and about 100 cans of Red Bull. This was truly a weekend that I’ll remember for the rest of my life.

  Before we started planning for this year’s 20th Anniversary, the undergraduates were asked to complete many tasks, most importantly getting the House ready for the weekend and the alumni. The actives set out to completely renovate 1124 Mass Ave, a huge undertaking for a group of students. We spent countless hours painting every single interior wall, making cosmetic repairs, mounting curtains, making multiple Home Depot trips, and dealing with contractors who patched up the old walls, painted the exterior of the house, repaired the gutters, carpeted the stairs and hallways, installed new baseboard heaters, performed numerous carpentry projects throughout the House, and provided us with estimates for future projects including renovating the basement. In the end, we made 1124 Mass Ave the finest it’s ever been since we purchased the property.

  However, our work is not yet done. I hope you can take a few minutes out of your busy day to visit www.harvardsigmachi.com/alumni to donate to our chapter and help the undergraduates raise enough funds to proceed with basement renovation plans. As we gear ourselves toward spring rush, we hope we can muster the capital to replace the hot water heater and boiler ($15,000) and renovate the basement ($27,000) under the supervision and personal attention of Eta Sigma Chi founder, Rich Antonino. I want you to know that we are all ready to complete the basement, and the only factor preventing the projects from moving forward is a lack of funds. We hope that you, the alumnus of this Chapter, will give back and directly contribute to completing the basement, which will double the amount of social space we have. Hopefully, when you come back for The Game next time, we’ll have a new and fully functional bar, pong room, and dance floor to help us welcome the return of our illustrious alumni from all over the globe.

  Lastly, I'd just like to say a huge thanks to the worthy alumni who have provided $50,000 in matching funds, to Niki Parekh and Justin Saif for contributing so much to the capital campaign, and to Dan Craig for being a wonderful Chapter Advisor in the past year. The undergraduates truly appreciate all the time and effort Niki, Justin, Dan, and the other members of the House Corp, Andrew Stoll, Mike Sperling, Greg Geronemus, and JP Jacquet, have been committing to make improvements to our Chapter and the House. Also, I’d like to thank the Class Marshals who voluntarily stepped forward to help us in the fundraising process. The undergraduates really had a fantastic time with the alumni during HY weekend, and felt a stronger sense of brotherhood through them that will reverberate throughout next semester and years to come. I also hope you had a great time meeting the undergraduates and now know that the fraternity is in good hands. As Consul, I will do everything in my power to make sure that the alumni and actives continue to work together to make Kappa Eta Sigma Chi a better place for actives and alumni each and every day.

IH & C,

Tony Huang

Consul

Alpha Omicron

Price again is $175 per brother and $125 per guest for the weekend ($300 total) and send payment to kappaetasigmachi@gmail.com via Paypal. Make note of your name and any names of guests in the message box when processing paypal. Deadline for payment is November 10.

Only electronic payment in advance will be taken, and there will be a strictly enforced list at events.

For hotel rooms, I have reserved 20 rooms in a block at the Hyatt Regency. When booking, just mention Harvard Kappa Eta Alumni and you will get the group rate.

Hyatt Regency Cambridge
Rate $149 per room for either one king size bed or two queen size beds
Chris Hemming (Contact)
575 Memorial Drive
Cambridge, MA 02139-4896
Telephone: (617) 492-1234

Safe travels!

IH,

Tony Wang

Harvard-Yale Chair

Alpha Nu

Class of 2011



As a reminder, Dress Code for the Faculty Dinner is Coat and Tie. Also, please submit food preferences to Tony Wang, Undergraduate Harvard-Yale Chair at tonywang2011(AT)gmail.com. The options available are Beef Tenderloin, Chicken, or Vegetarian.

Thanks!

You may submit your payments for Harvard-Yale online through paypal by going through the following steps:

1) Click Here to go to the site

2) Type in the email account kappaetasigmachi@gmail.com for the "To" email box

3) Fill out the rest of the required information and submit the payment.

The fees are as follows:

$175 per alumnus, another $125 for a guest, $15 for a tie, and $30 for a stein

Thank You so much, and looking forward to a spectacular weekend!

This school year has gotten off to a busy start and we've had a
packed first month for Sigma Chi. Between our Social, Recruitment and
Brotherhood events, we have already had tremendous amounts of fun in
the House.
Our Brothers have done a great job already of building up our
reputation for the current year and we will continue to build on that as the
year progresses so that more students at Harvard and around Boston will
know about Kappa Eta Sigma Chi. We've had an amazing social calendar so
far, successfully mixing with the three sororities on campus, several other
groups at Harvard and sororities from other local schools. "Are you going
to Sigma Chi tonight?" is a question being heard more often around
campus. We're even having two community service mixers to benefit
different charities and make new friends. We are still planning our
biannual Habitat for Humanity trip and preparing for our Thanksgiving
Food Drive.
Recruitment has gone very well and we have had a great group of
guys come out to Rush our Fraternity. These last two weeks have provided
us with a great base, but as Pledgeship gets underway we will learn the
true character of those attempting to join our Fraternity.
Our Brotherhood events this semester have also started off
well. The longstanding tradition of Monday Night Festivities has continued
and we have added to it with bi-weekly Brotherhood Dinners cooked at the
House, when different Brothers treat us to the varied cultures of food our
Chapter has to offer. Overall the Semester has started off well and the
outlook for the next few months is great.
We're extremely excited about the Harvard-Yale festivities this
year and the 20th anniversary of our chapter's founding. We're pumped
about the dinner at the Faculty Club and the epic tailgate that is going to
occur. We will also have the only tailgate that is open after The Game starts
at noon due to the laws of Boston, as enforced by the Boston police, by
moving over to the American Legion to continue the festivities. And of
course we will end the weekend with an awesome Alumni Chapter meeting
Sunday morning. Talk to your pledge brothers and coordinate coming
back.

-Matt Vollenweider, Magister, 2011

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