Alumni News and Notes
Founder’s Day is May 18 at the Rosemont Hilton!
CLICK HERE to register now to attend this year’s Founders’ Day Banquet! This year’s event will take place at the Hilton Rosemont/Chicago O’Hare on Saturday evening, May 18, 2024, from 5:00 – 10:00 p.m.
The Founders’ Day Banquet is Zeta Delta’s preeminent event every year. It provides alumni and undergraduate Brothers, and their guests, an opportunity to gather and reconnect with one another, enjoy a nice dinner and some drinks, and celebrate the passing of another year. Seeing that one of the reasons we all joined Chi Psi was to help each other be just a little stronger, just a little happier, and just a little more sensitive to the finer things in life, we like to hold our annual celebration in a more formal setting.
This year’s banquet will be especially momentous, as we plan to celebrate the conclusion of the Zeta Delta Lodge Campaign. Helping us do so will be our keynote speaker, Jim Hastings, ZΔ, ‘74. Brother Hastings played a crucial role in helping us achieve our fundraising goal during Phase 1 that allowed us to complete the Lodge purchase in 2019. He has been a stalwart member of our alumni body, we could not be more excited to break bread with him and hear what he has to say on May 18.
As always, the Founders’ Day Banquet will also provide an opportunity for us to recognize alumni and undergraduate Brothers who have gone above and beyond for our beloved Alpha. This will include giving out the H. Seger Slifer Award (formerly known as The Senior Award), which was established in 1924 and is awarded annually in memory of Brother H. Seger Slifer, E 1912, who served as #7 from 1961 – 1967. The award is presented to a senior brother in the Alpha based upon his scholarship, activities, fraternal service and exhibition of Chi Psi conduct.
We sincerely hope that you join us on May 18 for this momentous occasion. For more information, or to register, please visit www.AZDChiPsi.org.
Alpha Zeta Delta is honored to receive sculpture from the estate of Brother Will Harrington, AZD '64
William "Will" Charles Harrington was the embodiment of a Chi Psi. He was an artist, a Vietnam veteran, educator, author, and loving husband, father, and grandfather. When he passed away in 2020, his wife Diana wanted to donate one of his sculptures to the Lodge.
The sculpture in the Chi Psi Lodge was carved by Will and was selected and donated by Diana to be placed in our Lodge as a remembrance and tribute to him. It is with much gratitude that we thank Diana for this work of Will’s art and we also thank John Mottern, the owner of Gallery 55 in Natick, MA for packing and shipping the sculpture.
Read more about Brother Will Harrington here.
Thank you to Brother McKinney
The alumni board celebrates Brother John McKinney who is stepping down as Trustee. He has been a fixture on the alumni board for the past several years, and his contributions to the Restoring Excellence Capital Campaign and regarding the maintenance and upkeep of the new Lodge have been invaluable. We are grateful for Brother McKinney's service, and look forward to seeing him down at the Lodge again in the not-too-distant future.
Brother McKinney (center) with other of 70s alumni including George Cartinos, Mike Welch, John Mckinney (center), Bill Swick, and Harry Kiriluk at Palmers in LaGrange, Illinois.
Welcome new alumni board members!
The alumni board welcomes our new slate of officers to help guide the Alpha over the next year including incoming President Captain Jeremy Doser (right), shown with other alumni and undergraduates at the unveiling of Brother William Harrington's sculpture.
Upcoming Events
May 18, 2024 – Founders’ Day Banquet
Hilton Rosemont/Chicago O’Hare
5550 North River Road
Rosemont, Illinois 60018Registration for Alumni and Guests: $125 Per Person
Registration for Undergraduate Brothers and Guests: $60
April 19-20, 2024: Spring Initiation
Zeta Delta Lodge
710 West Ohio Street
Urbana, Illinois 61801August 24-25, 2024: Temple Hoyne Buell Memorial Scholarship Interviews and Alumni Board Meeting
Zeta Delta Lodge
710 West Ohio Street
Urbana, Illinois 61801September 14, 2024: Homecoming
Alumni Corporation Meeting – Zeta Delta Lodge (either before or after the football game, depending on game time)
710 West Ohio Street
Urbana, Illinois 61801Illinois vs. Central Michigan
Tailgate Party – Location TBA (likely Memorial Stadium’s West parking lot)
Parthenon Archives
Alumni Corporation Board
PresidentJeremy Doser, ZΔ ’97 |
Vice PresidentSteve McFarlin, ZΔ ’96 |
SecretaryMatthew Hess, ZΔ ’00 |
TreasurerRandy Mason, ZΔ ’96 |
TrusteeChip McConville, ZΔ ’89 |
TrusteePaden Thomas, ZΔ ’21 |
TrusteeRobert Ennesser, ZΔ ’04 |
TrusteeCameron Wall, ZΔ ’12 |
Undergraduate TrusteeChristian Hausman, ZΔ ’26, #1 |
Undergraduate TrusteeAshley Brodnansky, ZΔ ’25, #2 |
Undergraduate TrusteeAlec Loessy, ZΔ ’25, #3 |
Undergraduate TrusteeRiku Kanzaki, ZΔ ’25, #4 |
Corporation Resources
Jeremy Doser joined the Lodge in the fall of 1993 after being recruited by Chris Pounds. It was a tough time since there was no actual Lodge that year and the actives were all spread around campus in apartments. But he really liked the brothers he met and pledged along with one other guy who dropped out halfway through. So he initiated by himself, at the Epsilon Delta Lodge at Northwestern University. He left Illinois in January 1996 and moved to Brownsville, Texas to become a flight instructor. By March 1997 he had accumulated enough flight time to get his first airline job at Continental Express Airlines, where he flew ATR-42 turboprops and Embraer-145 regional jets out of Houston and Cleveland. In 2005 he was hired by Continental Airlines and began flying the 757 and 767 out of Newark, New Jersey. With the merger of Continental and United Airlines he was able to get based back in Chicago. He has been a 737 Captain for United the last nine years. He has been a trustee on the alumni board and, for the past three years, vice-president. He enjoyes staying involved and getting to know the actives each year and also help plan our yearly Founders’ Day banquet.
Matthew Hess, ZΔ `00, is originally from the South side of Chicago but now lives in Plainfield with his wife, Laura. He is an attorney focusing in the areas of estate planning, probate, and contested estate and trust litigation as owner of 
Colin Johnson lives in Chicago, IL in the Edison Park neighborhood with his wife Amanda and their two sons Carter (4) and Keaton (2.5). Today Colin is Category Sales Director at Verizon Media, leading a team tasked with providing advertising solutions for the country’s largest CPG manufacturers across the suite of Verizon advertising and publishing solutions.
I am glad to be back for my third (or fourth) stint on the Corporation Board since graduating in 2003. After undergrad, I went to Chicago-Kent for law school, and then moved for New York City, where I was a state prosecutor from 2006 through 2013. In May 2013, my family and I moved back to Chicago where I took a job as a federal prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney’s Office, focusing on internal misconduct at the Postal Service. I am currently an in-house counsel for a Fortune 500 company in Chicago. I am married with two kids and live in the western Chicago suburbs.
Chip McConville, ZD ’89, served as #2, social chairman and scholarship chairman during his undergraduate days in the Lodge. In the early 1990’s, he served a term as a trustee of the Zeta Delta Alumni Corporation and was a contributing editor for the Purple and Gold. A native Ohioan, Chip was a founder of the Columbus Area Chi Psi Alumni Club which came into existence about 20 years ago.