Brothers,

It is with much regret that after serving as Chapter Advisor from
1997 – 2003 and House Corp President from 2002 to the present that I
formally announce my resignation from the office and from the Board
of Trustees for the House Corporation. My resignation will be
effective either on February 1, 2004 or upon the election of a new
President at the next House Corporation meeting to be held this month.

With the continued delinquency of the Active Chapter in the matter of
finances and with a division within the House Corp on how to deal
with this matter I feel that now is the time for someone else to
stand up and try their hand.

It has been my pleasure to work on behalf of all of us on these
matters these past many years and to work with an astonishing number
of really good undergraduate members and a few truly exceptional officers.

I have tried to do my best to see that the tradition of Sigma Chi
remained at ASU and to retain our location on Alpha Drive. Even to
the point of straining my marriage by being the largest personal
guarantor on the note that enabled the purchase and renovation of the
House and loaning unrepaid monies (along with others) to the Chapter
to cover past debts.

If an ASU Alum living within the Greater Phoenix Area would like to
try and be “that guy” that wants to step up and see if he can make a
difference please do so as I am sure the other House Corp members
could use some fresh perspective. Or if you would like to nominate a
Brother please do that as well. I will send out a notice in the next
day or so as to when the next House Corp meeting is and you are of
course all invited to attend to help elect some new officers.

The current officers with terms expiring in 2004 are Tom Hobbs and
Ted Brookhart. The guy that assumes my term will see it run to
2005. The remainder of the House Corp members are Shawn Bellamak
(also until 2005) along with Bill Harris and Derek Kneadler whose
terms run to 2006. Marshall Christy, as current Phoenix Alumni
Chapter President is also a Board member.

I do not know if someone will be maintaining and updating the ASU
email listserv or not but I have also enjoyed trying to open these
lines of communication to make both ASU Alums and Alums from other
Chapters who now reside within the Greater Phoenix Metro Area aware
and to provide them a sense of participation with the local Chapter.

In hoc.

David Riddle (ASU ’87)

THE RITUAL MARKS THE DECEMBER MEETING

Brotherhood will be celebrated Wednesday night December 10th with the
semi-annual Ritualistic meeting when the Phoenix Sigma Chi Alumni
Chapter gathers.

The location will be at the Epsilon Upsilon Chapter House at ASU–606
E. Alpha Drive in Tempe. Directions are: Rural Rd. (Scottsdale Rd.)
south from the 202 to 6th Street (second traffic light). West two
blocks to Alpha Drive (You can’t miss the House with the Letters and
Insignia on the side of the House.) The Sig House is on the northeast
corner across from the Basketball Arena.

Parking: Pull into the parking lot directly behind the House.

Dinner and beverages will be provided at no charge by the Epsilon
Upsilon Housing Corp. Cocktails at 6pm, dinner at 6:30 and the
meeting will start at 7:00. See you there!
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Brothers please make your calendars for the upcoming Alumni Chapter
events for 2004:

Sweetheart Valentine Party on February 11th

Founders Day Classic Golf Tournament on June 19th

Western Barbecue on October 16th

ALUMNI SIGS WILL LEARN ABOUT THE INNER WORKINGS OF THE ARIZONA STATE
LEGISLATURE AT OUR NOVEMBER MEETING

Brother Marcus Dell’Artino (Beta Phi Chapter, 1992) of the lobbying
firm of Public Policy Partners, who also was the State Political
Director for U.S. Senator John McCain, will speak at the November
meeting of the Phoenix Sigma Chi Alumni Chapter.

The meeting will be held Wednesday, November 12 at the Phoenix City
Grille Restaurant, 5816 N. 16th Street (southwest corner with Bethany
Home Rd.) in Phoenix. Cocktails at 6pm, followed by dinner at 6:30
and our speaker at 7:00.

Announcements:

1. As many of you know, this Saturday is initiation at ASU. With a
pledge class as large as the current one (about 40 pledges!), we will
need as many brothers as possible to help out with Interviews. They
will begin at around 7:30am with investiture to follow around noon.
Contact Chapter Advisor George Grombacher: grombac@netscape.net if
you are able to assist – some training happily available for those
for whom “it has been a while”.

2. BROTHERS, PLEASE MARK YOUR CALENDAR FOR DECEMBER 10TH, our Alumni
Chapter Meeting will be a ritualistic meeting held with the Active
Chapter at ASU.

3. The Phoenix Sigma Chi Alumni Chapter website is back up (and under
“some” construction) at http://www.phoenixsig.org. We hope to add
additional content to the site over the coming months. Anyone care to
volunteer to help?

SIGS WILL HEAR ABOUT CHILD ABUSE IN THE STATE OF ARIZONA AND WHAT IS BEING
DONE TO PREVENT IT AT OUR OCTOBER CHAPTER MEETING

Brother Mark Stanley, Executive Director for Child Abuse Prevention Arizona
(CAPA) – the organization that sponsors the license plate program “It
Shouldn’t Hurt To Be A Child”, will speak.

The meeting will be held Wednesday, October 8 at The Phoenix City Grille
Restaurant, 5816 N. 16th Street (Southwest corner with Bethany Home Rd.) in
Phoenix. Cocktails at 6pm followed by dinner at 6:30 and our speaker at 7:00.

A new site for the Phoenix Alumni Chapter is being developed and will
soon be up at http://www.phoenixsig.org.

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Brothers and Friends of Sigma Chi,

I am pleased to announce the 2003 Sigma Chi and Friends of Sigma Chi Fall
Golf Tournament – October 31st at Starfire at Scottsdale Country
Club, http://www.starfiregolfclub.com, (this is a better (and
cheaper) package deal than we initially announced!). This will be a
great event and a fun way to kick off the Homecoming Weekend at ASU
and for non-ASU Sigs to enjoy the Bonds of Brotherhood.

Proceeds of the tournament will go towards additional renovations on
the ASU Chapter House like the conversion of the large old mechanical
room into a Rec/Pool room (We will name this new room the “Alumni
Room” with a plaque in honor of the Brothers and Friends that helped
contribute to its construction) and property landscaping for the
Brothers of Epsilon Upsilon Chapter at Arizona State University.

Please do everything possible to help promote this event and insure that we
sell out the Fall Tournament. The more players the merrier!

You can get the entire flyer and registration forms here:
http://www.asusig.org/Alumni/SigmaChiGolfTournament.pdf

In a nut shell here are the details.
Event: 2003 Sigma Chi and Friends of Sigma Chi Fall Golf Tournament
When: Friday, October 31, 2003
Where: Starfire at Scottsdale Country Club
11500 North Hayden Rd.
Scottsdale, AZ 85260
480-948-6000
Time: 11:30AM Registration and Lunch
1:00PM Shotgun Start

Format: Four-man Best Ball
COST: Alumni and Friends $85.00/Actives $55.00
Price Includes greens fees, cart fees, lunch, awards,
bag handling, two (2) drink tickets and all gratuities!

Finally, we are looking for a Tournament sponsor for the event. The Title
Sponsorship Fee will only be $1,500. Hole Sponsorships are available for
$250.00.

Let’s do everything we can to make this tournament and Homecoming a great
Celebration of Sigma Chi Brotherhood.

In hoc,
Bruce Sedlak

PS. Information will be following shortly regarding House Homecoming
activities for Saturday, November 1st. I promise that will be a GREAT time
as well!

We just got word from Evanston that we now have an officially
recognized an “Interest Group” at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical
University in Prescott! Bill Scott has been working on this for a
while now and this is good news. There is a Sigma Chi Chapter at the
Embry-Riddle campus in Florida and their campus in Prescott has about
1600 students with 80% of them being male. I believe that there are
already two other Fraternities up there as well as a colony for a Sorority.

Most of the guys in the Interest group (I think it is about 20) are
in Air Force ROTC and are studying some type of Engineering or Global Security.

The process the group of guys at Embry-Riddle Prescott will now go
through is to assemble an Advisory team and to prepare a formal
application to become a Colony. Once that process is concluded
(around 18 months minimum) they will be voted on by the other Houses
in the Province and that recommendation forwarded to Headquarters.

So far we have a small group of Alum’s willing to help in the
Advisory role (mostly the “usual suspects”) and we are asking for any
others Alums, especially those in the Prescott area – either living
or with second homes – to lend a hand to ease the burden for
everyone. Plus it is not often that one gets to help with the
Founding of a new Chapter!

Additionally the Greek Advisor at Embry-Riddle is an Alpha Phi and
she would really like to see an Alpha Phi Chapter be started up
there. She has been a tremendous help in getting the University to go
along with our starting a Chapter up there so we would like to assist
her too. If anyone is married to an Alpha Phi or has a friend that
is an Alpha Phi that would be willing to help the Greek Advisor at
Embry-Riddle look into starting a Chapter please let us know.

Oh, and by the way the answer is yes the Riddle in Embry-Riddle is a
distant relation from the same side of the Family as the Samuel
Riddle that owned Glen Riddle Farms that produced Man-o-War and War
Admiral the horse beaten by Sea Biscuit as shown in the Movie. That
branch of the family is from North Carolina and my branch came out of
Virginia with both branches coming to America from Scotland.

THE HARLEM GLOBETROTTER’S MATTHEW SCHMITZ IS SIG SPEAKER FOR SEPTEMBER

Brother Matthew Schmitz, Assistant General Manager for the Harlem
Globetrotters International, Inc., will talk about the storied organization
and it’s players when the Phoenix Sigma Chi Alumni Chapter meets.

The September meeting is set for Wednesday, September 10 at the Phoenix City
Grill Restaurant located at 5816 N. 16th Street (Southwest corner of
Bethany Home Rd.) in Phoenix. Cocktails at 6:00pm, dinner at 6:30 and our
speaker at 7:00.

SIGS WILL LEARN ABOUT THE EFFECT OF THE “BROWN HAZE” OVER THE VALLEY,
THE CURRENT STATUS OF THE “TOBACCO” CONFLICT AND MUCH MORE AT THE
AUGUST ALUMNI MEETING

Bill Pfeifer, President and CEO of the American Lung Association of
Arizona and New Mexico will speak at the August meeting of the
Phoenix Sigma Chi Alumni Chapter.

The meeting will be held Wednesday, August 13th at the Phoenix City
Grill Restaurant, 5816 N. 16th Street (Southwest corner with Bethany
Home Rd.) in Phoenix. Cocktails at 6pm, followed by dinner at 6:30
and our speaker at 7:00.

SIGS WILL HEAR ABOUT LAST WEEK’S SIGMA CHI GRAND CHAPTER IN ORLANDO AT OUR
JULY CHAPTER MEETING
Our own, Former Grand Quaester Mike Dunn, will speak on
who the new national officers are, new legislation past and
fraternity rules that were changed during the biannual Grand Chapter
that just ended at the July meeting of the Phoenix Sigma Chi Alumni Chapter.

The meeting will be held Wednesday, July 9 at The Phoenix City Grill
Restaurant, 5816 N. 16th Street (Southwest corner with Bethany Home
Rd.) in Phoenix. Cocktails a1 6pm, followed by dinner at 6:30 and our
speaker at 7:00.

Greetings,

The Battles with ASU over our ability to remain on Alpha Drive look
to be coming to a long period of Truce. Bob Hobbs and Bruce Sedlak
lead our side in negotiating a settlement that should see the Houses
safe for another twenty years. We are just working on the final details now.

That said there is a very real risk that all of this effort will be
for naught if we do not get some Alumni Volunteers to step up. As
you know the Consul this last year at the House lead them into a
direction they had not gone since 1996. That was into a membership
review which has seen the House cut down in size from a 120 man
chapter to about 65 right now. They appear to have some good new
young leaders poised to put the House right along with some good
direction by a new Chapter Advisor and his group of assistants.

The problem lies in that the lender (Constantine Capital, Sigma Chi
run group tasked with making loans to Sigma Chi Chapters) we have the
loan from that allowed us to purchase the House has a policy of not
loaning money to chapters not in good standing. The House at ASU is
currently on probation and will not be back on good standing until next May.

We have gotten CCI to agree to extend the balance of the pledged loan
(the amount used to buy the building was $162,000 and the balance is
about $200,000) for needed and required renovations to the forty year
old building. They have placed a requirement in front of us that we
need to meet however. The original loan (the entire $362,000) was
original covered by a group of alums that agreed to act as loan
guarantors in the amount of $33,000.00. CCI is now going to require
that the entire loan amount be covered by loan guarantees. The
addition $329,000 in notes would be required only until the Chapter
returns to Good Standing at which point those guarantees will expire
and the original $33,000 will suffice. So far we have gotten a small
group to step up to the plate to assist in trying to meet this new
requirement but we are only about half way there. If you can help
please contact me directly. Here is you has stepped up to help so
far and the amount that we are short. If we cannot get this done in
the very near term we run the risk of losing the war since the House
would not be able to be occupied and/or ASU could condemn the House
since we would be in breach of the settlement agreement.

Guarantee Balance
$329,200.00
David W. Riddle $50,200.00 $279,000.00 ASU
Mike Dunn $50,000.00 $229,000.00 Utah State
Marshall Christy $25,000.00 $204,000.00 UofA
Bill Scott $25,000.00 $179,000.00 UofA
Bill Harris $ 5,000.00 $174,000.00 ASU
??? $50,000.00 $124,000.00
??? $50,000.00 $ 74,000.00
??? $50,000.00 $ 24,000.00
??? $24,000.00 $ –

If you can help with one of the recommended pledges above or any part
at all please let me know ASAP.

FYI, We have a letter from ASU indicating they are willing to buy
the House for the Apprised value (their appraisal while seriously
flawed in undervaluing the House by not being accurate as toward
construction etc..) of $580,000.00. So even in the worse case event
that the Chapter for some reason does not follow through on the items
they are working on to return to Good Status and result in the
Chapter being lost the value of the property as Established by ASU
more than covers the entire note so nothing is really at risk for the
loan guarantors. In fact the House Corp which holds the title to the
land and house will extend a lien in the amount of the loan
guarantees to offset the loan liability that your pledge would result
in for your own personal financial position.

If you have questions please call me at 480-610-8234

ASU’S FRATERNITY COORDINATOR WILL BE OUR SPEAKER FOR THE JUNE MEETING

Mike Najor, Greek Life Coordinator at Arizona State University, will speak on
the current condition of Fraternities on campus and the exciting plans the
University has for enhancing their presence at the June meeting of the Phoenix
Sigma Chi Alumni Chapter.

The meeting will be held Wednesday, June 11 at our regular location at the
Phoenix City Grill Restaurant, 5816 N. 16th Street (Southwest corner with
Bethany Home Rd.) in Phoenix. Cocktails at 6pm, followed by dinner at 6:30 and
our speaker at 7:00.

BROTHERS, DON’T FORGET THIS SATURDAY’S FOUNDER’S DAY GOLF TOURNAMENT

LOCATION – Starfire at Scottsdale Country Club (11500 N. Hayden Rd.)
TIME – This Saturday, June 7 at 7:30am
FORMAT – 4 man scramble
COST – $100 per golf entry, entry fee includes:
Golf, cart, lunch, a drink and a sleeve of Nike Super Soft golf balls with
Sigma Chi logo
HOLE-IN-ONE PRIZE: a set of new Nike Pro Combo Irons

All proceeds go to Sigma Chi National Charity – The Children’s Miracle
Network

Guest are welcome!

E-mail questions to sigmachigolf2003@cox.net