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Alumni News and Notes
Congratulations to the New Alumni Board!
We had a great turnout for the annual Alumni Corporation membership meeting this past Saturday at Homecoming. The motion to adopt the proposed new bylaws passed unanimously. You can find the new bylaws posted on this site under “Corporation Resources.”
Additionally, elections were held and the following Brothers will serve as officers and directors on this year’s Alumni Board:
VP – Paden Thomas, ZD ’14
Secretary: Colin Johnson, ZD ’06
Treasurer: Chris Pounds, ZD ’96
Trustee: Jeremy Doser, ZD ’97 (2nd year of 2-year term)
Trustee: Jonathan Lester, ZD ’18 (2nd year […]
Alumni Board Nominations Update
The Alumni Corporation’s annual membership meeting will be held at 9:00 a.m. this Saturday, October 19, and a new slate of officers and directors will be elected at that meeting. To date, the following Brothers have been nominated to fill the following positions:
President: Paul Parks, ZΔ ’03
Vice President: Paden Thomas, ZΔ ’14
Secretary: Bill Novak, ZΔ ’03; Colin Johnson, ZΔ ’06
Treasurer: Chris Pounds, ZΔ ’96
Trustees: James Bridgewater, ZΔ ’95; Chip McConville, ZΔ ’89; Colin Johnson, ZΔ ’06; Bill Novak, ZΔ ’03; Jon Lester, ZΔ ’17; Andrew Salazar, ZΔ ’16; Matt Chesner, […]
Annual Meeting set for 9:00 a.m. on Homecoming Saturday
Because the Illini-Wisconsin homecoming game kicks off at 11:00 a.m., this year’s annual membership meeting will be held at 9:00 a.m. on Saturday, October 19 at the Romoser Lodge located at 710 West Ohio Street in Urbana, Illinois. At that time, elections will be held to select a new slate of officers and directors and a proposed set of revised bylaws will be voted on. The proposed, revised bylaws are posted below for your review. For easy reference, the current set of bylaws are posted as well.
The purpose of the bylaw revisions is to modernize […]
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Alumni Corporation Board
PresidentPaul Parks, ZΔ ’03 |
Vice PresidentPaden Thomas, ZΔ ’14 |
SecretaryColin Johnson, ZΔ ’06 |
TreasurerChris Pounds, ZΔ ’96 |
TrusteeJeremy Doser, ZΔ ’97 |
TrusteeJonathan Lester, ZΔ ’18 |
TrusteeChip McConville, ZΔ ’89 |
TrusteeBill Novak, ZΔ ’03 |
Immediate Past PresidentMatt Hess, ZΔ ’00 |
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Undergrad Trustee#1 – Evan Fouts |
Undergrad Trustee#2 – Charlie Gordon |
Undergrad Trustee#3 – Nick Chomko |
Undergrad Trustee#4 – Arjun Thakkar |
Cameron Wall, ZΔ `11, currently lives on the north side of Chicago with his girlfriend, Lindsey. He is a litigation attorney employed by the law firm of Kralovec & Marquard, Chartered.
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.
Chris Silchuck, ZΔ `13, grew up in Mount Prospect and currently lives in Chicago. He works as an Associate Financial Representative and Paraplanner in the Financial Planning Department at Northwestern Mutual in Skokie.
I 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 I really liked the brothers I met and pledged along with one other guy who dropped out halfway through. So I initiated by myself, at the Epsilon Delta Lodge at Northwestern University. I left Illinois in January 1996 and moved to Brownsville, Texas to become a flight instructor. By March 1997 I had accumulated enough flight time to get my first airline job at Continental Express Airlines, where I flew ATR-42 turboprops and Embraer-145 regional jets out of Houston and Cleveland. In 2005 I 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 I was able to get based back in Chicago. I’ve been a 737 Captain for United the last six years. I’ve been a trustee on the alumni board for the past three years. I enjoy staying involved and getting to know the actives each year and also help plan our yearly Founder’s Day banquet.
Paden Thomas lives in Chicago, Illinois with his wife Amanda. He is currently a Senior Financial Analyst for Breakthru Beverage Illinois’s supplier accounts receivable department.
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.
Tommy Herrell is a freshman who was born and raised in Orlando, Florida. He’s majoring in Computer Science but is currently undecided on his area of specialization and what he wants to do after graduation. Some of his interests include lacrosse and competitive programming, both of which he participated in throughout high school. Her serving as caption of his lacrosse team for a year as well as president of the programming club.
Matthew Hess, ZΔ `00, is originally from the South side of Chicago but now lives in Wheeling with his girlfriend, Laura. He is an attorney focusing in the areas of estate planning, probate, litigation involving contested estates and trust disputes, and small business services, as owner of 
Josh Samson was born in Virginia and moved to Mount Prospect at the age of three. He currently serves as the #1 and had previously served the Alpha as Risk Manager and Alumni Relations Chair.
Romeo Basa-Denis is originally from in Mundelein, Illinois, but he spent the first few years of his life growing up in the Philippines. After coming back to the United States, he eventually graduated from Warren Township High School in Gurnee, Illinois. He previously served the Alpha as the Fundraising Chairman and the #3 before being recently elected #2. He’s studying Geography with a concentration in Geographic Information Sciences. Within the next two semesters he plans on declaring a second major in ESE (Earth, Society, and Environmental Sustainability). He works at Campus Recreation as a Facility Assistant at ARC and CRCE, and enjoys watching movies or listening to music in his free time to relax. He also likes to work out most days so he can stay in shape.