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Woodrow Wilson Leadership

Conference By: Steven Sanborn This past June; Brothers Giannetti,

King, Minnigerode, Uthupan, and myself

traveled to Butler University in Indianapolis,

IN to attend the Woodrow Wilson Leadership

Conference promoted by Phi Kappa Psi.

After touring the Hinkley Field House and

showing ourselves around the Butler campus,

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IL Delta Newsletter

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Woodrow Wilson

Leadership Conference

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Summer Internships

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Rush Scholarship/

Events

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Club Fishing

Page 11

Sports Preview

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we were graced by many successful guest speakers and Leadership

professionals. While the conference was geared more toward

strengthening universal leadership traits, we all learned many strategies

to bring back to IL Delta and strengthen our chapter.

After three days of

general leadership classes

hosted by professionals from

all over the country, we were

tasked with creating our own

“action plans” to implement

into our fraternity’s operations.

We met fellow Phi Psi’s from

chapters all over the country

through these meetings as well

as through the large-scale service projects that all members contributed

to. I attended the Gleaner Foods project where I and 200 other Phi Psi’s

packaged over 2000 lbs. of food to be distributed amongst the

underprivileged people of Indianapolis. After meeting these fellow

Brother Sanborn at the Gleaner Foods project

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brothers from all over and collaborating to solve problems within our

own chapters, we believe that we are in a great position to influence the

operations of our chapter now, for the future.

The final two days of the

conference were spent meeting

within our district to select the

next Archon that will represent

our chapter to the National

Fraternity. The Illinois Delta

Chapter of Phi Kappa Psi was

recognized as a leading

chapter at the national banquet

on the final night. Taking

home many awards including

Outstanding Alumni

Relations, District Excellence in District IV, Accredited with Honors,

and Meeting Core Standards.

Top: Brother Uthupan, Minnigerode, and King

Bottom: Brother Giannetti and Sanborn

All and all, the brothers of Illinois Delta enjoyed our stay at Butler

University and will continue to encourage younger members to attend

the Woodrow Wilson Leadership School in the future.

Members of Phi Kappa Psi chapters at the Conference

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Summer Internships By: Grant Culp

We are very proud of the great accomplishments each brother is

able to achieve. Being able to intern for a company over the summer is

an achievement that each of the brothers below is very proud of. The list

below of brothers and positions shows the diversity Illinois Delta is able

to offer to the professional world. From investment banking to

architecture intern to management intern to engineering internships as

well as software internships. The great work Phi Kappa Psi at the

University of Illinois has put in recently to professional along with

academic development has had a large positive effect, which can be seen

below and through our 6th highest GPA for Spring 2017 on

campus. Below is a list of brothers who have an internship with a

company and the corresponding position they are holding for this

summer.

Brother

Name:

Company: Position:

Alex

Kimberling

Gilbane Building Company Construction Management

Intern

Alex Sulek Bilow Garrett Group Architecture Intern

Andrew Lee Abbott Laboratories Financial Analyst

Andrew Wabi PwC Core Assurance Audit Intern

Andy

Crawshaw

MB Financial Bank Wealth Management Intern

Andy Geldean S&C Electic Software Developer Intern

Andy Tom Ulta Beauty Services Analytics Intern

Behram Lalji BMO Harris Bank US Independent Controls

Intern

Cal Skiles Unilever Supply Chain Co-Op

Carl Robost Billow Butler & Company Investment Banking Summer

Analyst

Chris Kraemer Deloitte Pioneer Intern

Chris Tetro Smithsonian Institution Policy Intern

Christopher

Grenier

Arthur J. Gallagher & Co Gallagher Sales Intern

Daniel Wood Morgante Wilson Architects Architectural Marketing

Assistant

Dominic Rossi Abbott Engineering Intern

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Drew Klein Billow Butler & Company Investment Banking Summer

Analyst

Erik Jacobson Wichita State University, NIAR Virtual Reality Lab

Programmer

Grant Culp Liberty Mutual Claims Intern

Jack Coutre JP Morgan Chase Technology Analyst Intern

Jack Kaminski Habitat for Humanity Technology Officer

Jack Langen Dick Durbin’s Office Assistant to Staff

Jaidan Ali PwC Technology Consulting Intern

Joe Griffin National Science Foundation

Research Experience for

Undergraduates

Molecular Biology Research

Intern

Kyle Styve Rolls-Royce Corporation Engineering Operations

Analyst Intern

Matt Colletti Ingersoll Rand Manufacturing Engineer

Nick Flowers Pepsi Operations/Production Intern

Ryan Hoffman Ingredion Research and Development

Stephen

Hawthorne

Sterling Bay Intern

Steven

Jackson

CME Group Recruiting and Project

Management Intern

Tom

Crawshaw

Citgo Petroleum Corporation Process Safety Intern

Trevor

Giannetti

Bombardier Flight Test Systems

Engineering Intern

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Rush Scholarships/Events By: Austin Koukol

I am a recruitment chair for the Illinois Delta chapter of Phi Kappa

Psi and would like to share with you our plans for the fall. One of the

biggest things that we are trying to spread the word about is the new

Johnny “Red” Kerr scholarship for incoming freshman. This is given to

the person deemed to have outstanding leadership throughout their high

school careers. At Phi

Psi, we are always

looking for the best

leaders who can bring

success to our chapter.

This scholarship offers

$1,000 dollars for the

first-place winner, and

$250 for each of two

runners-up. We also The Johnny “Red” Kerr Scholarship form

have many events planned for the rush schedule to shed light on our

beautiful new house. Something that worked very well last spring that

will work even better with our new floor plan on the first floor is house

tours and wings. On September 6th, we will be having this event from

6:30-8:30pm. Something every rush wants to see is a brother who shows

pride in their house, and by giving them tours, I believe we can show

them what our brotherhood is about. Not only are we having the tours on

that day, but we will be having barbeques on the porch at least twice a

week during rush, where the brothers will be open to give full-house

tours. We are excited to find the next great class of men to be initiated

into the Illinois Delta chapter of Phi Kappa Psi.

Brother Koukol, one of the three recruitment chairs

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Club Fishing By: Daniel Hanson

The Carhartt College Series Bassmaster Classic is considered one

of the Heartland’s most prestigious collegiate bass fishing competitions,

making it one of the top destinations for the Illini Bass Fishing Club

(IBFC) every year. This year’s Midwest Regional tournament brought

eight anglers and four boats representing the university to Lake of the

Ozarks located six

hours to the southwest

in the unfamiliar

territory of Central

Missouri. Uncharted

waters, inclement

weather and

unorthodox fishing

styles took their toll on Brother Hanson with the fish he caught

our club’s turnout, but the trip was a learning experience and great

source of exposure nonetheless.

Lake of the Ozarks is a 54,000 acre, man-made reservoir in Central

Missouri known to be a large and consistently productive fishery. After

two full days of practice, bites were few and far between, coming most

often by way of natural-colored jerk-baits suspended in 10-15 feet of

water off of secondary points north of the launch.

On the first morning of competition, we motored ten miles to the

north touching speeds just under 60 mph regardless of news of incoming

weather systems. The change in weather flipped on the switch we’d been

waiting for all week and set the jerk-bait bite on fire. We culled around

20 fish and had four over 16 inches in the box before noon when storms

pushed us off the water early. We ended day one with 4 fish for about

8lbs. Storms parted before day two, but left the water stained and

eliminated any chance of the jerk-bait bite we were banking on. We

ended day two with only 2 fish over 15 inches for roughly 4lbs. We

placed in 86th of 130 teams, only 2 ounces behind teammates Chris

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Burwell and Miles Kopplin who placed in 84th. Nick Schnieder and

Jordan Wolf led the IBFC leaderboard finishing in 74th.

Teammates Ethan Fitzwilliam and Zach Hingson won 2nd place in the

big bass competition by boating a largemouth that weighed in at a barn-

burning 7 lbs. flat, only five ounces out of 1st. Despite our club’s

lackluster performance on the Ozarks this year, big plans for the 2018

Spring Regional are the works in hope of securing top 50 finishes from

all boats competing next year.

Sports Preview By: Roger Blanco

Don’t worry Illini fans, sports looks to be on the rise this coming

year and in the future. First, with basketball. The Illini basketball team

decided to fire head coach John Groce and agree to terms with former

Oklahoma State coach

Brad Underwood.

Underwood is known as

a winner and led

Oklahoma State to a

winning record and an

invite to the NCAA

tournament in his first

year. Prior to the head

coaching change, the Illini had one of the best recruiting classes in the

country, which headlined Jeremiah Tilmon. Tilmon decided to open his

recruitment and ended up choosing to attend Missouri. That didn’t stop

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the Illini as they were able to land Mr. Illinios Basketball, PG Mark

Smith a 4-star recruit. The class also consists of two other 4-star recruits

PG Trent Frazier and SG Da’Monte Williams.

As for football, with year one under Lovie Smith complete, Lovie

continues to rebuild this program after a 3-9 season. The Illini will play

in two night games

and will open the

season up at home

against Ball State on

Sept. 2. Their Big Ten

schedule consists of

matchups at Iowa and

Ohio State and will

play Wisconsin and

Nebraska at home.

Lovie spoke to the

media about the upcoming season and the future at The Big Ten Media

Days. He announced that dual threat QB Chayce Crouch will be the

starter after coming in last year for an injured Wes Lunt and WR Mike

Dudek will also be ready to go for the season after sitting out the last

two years with an ACL injury in his left knee. The team will have 9

returning starters and will look different on the defensive side of the ball.

Last but not least, the school and Lovie mentioned that there are plans to

add new facilities that will reach up to par with the other programs in the

Big Ten and around college football.

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