
Founders Day 2016
Founders Day 2016 Dear brothers and friends: Our annual Founder’s Day dinner was held April 8 at Spirito’s restaurant. We had 42 attend the event with 8 members representing our own undergraduate RI Beta colony. Thank you to Bruce Tavares as master of ceremony and Pat Rossoni for the video presentation. The RI Beta Colony reported the current colony stands at 70, Bruce Tavares and his advisor team have been meeting weekly with the colony in sustaining the growth effort needed to re-establish our chapter status with National. If anyone is interested in helping Bruce please reach out to him at tavaresfamily2@gmail.comt Thank you to Team Tavares for your efforts and keep up the good work! During the annual AHC meeting of the evening’s festivities, Br. Conti delivered the AHC year in review status update. The AHC is close to completing the sale of our beloved 4 Fraternity Circle with the plan to build a smaller facility using the concept of a meeting house and not a dormitory. In the mean time we continue to lease 4 Fraternity Circle to Zeta Tau Alpha with a mortgage owed of $650,000. The University continues to develop a Fraternity Circle improvement plan. Thank you all around to the brothers who served on the AHC over the past year. Elections for the AHC were held and once again I am honored to write this letter on behalf of the new board of directors of our house corporation. The following brothers were elected and the selection of officers held at our first meeting on April 28; Chris Conti #400 – President, Tom Linhares #142 – Vice president, Joe Hart #431 – Treasurer, Walter Augustyn #258 – Secretary, Bruce Tavares #250 – Chapter advisor, Ray Marshall #171 – Member at large, Patrick Johnson #979 – Member at large, Glenn Stratton #168 – Member at large, Eric Hall #1005 – Member at large, Patrick Rossoni #260 – Historical committee chairman, John Spagnolo #126 – Member at large, Dennis Pelletier #170 – Member at large, James Norman #8 – Honorary member at large, William Bowers #15 – Honorary member at large, Lee Arnold #28 – Honorary member at large. Please congratulate each of these brothers for their willingness to serve our brotherhood. For all those that attended this year’s event thank you and for all those that missed out please watch for the announcement for next year’s event in April 2017. Thank you all for your continued support for the mission of your AHC and R.I. Beta. I look forward to seeing you all at GAC in New York on July 5 or better yet at the Pop-top golf event September 10, 2016. Fraternally, CC#400…