We are almost halfway to our service hour goal for the school year! We’ve completed 14,664 hours of service. Let’s make a final push to get to our goal of 30,500 hours!
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Both Epsilon Mu and Alpha Alpha Delta have featured service projects on the National APO website.
Take a look! http://www.apo.org/show/Service_Projects/Featured_Projects
Keep up the good work!
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Mu Alpha’s National Service Week Project is Featured on apo.org
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Check it out!
http://www.apo.org/show/Service_Projects/Featured_Projects/Project_Details?project_id=6517
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Zeta Phi Chapter’s National Service Week Project featured on the National APO Website
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Check it out!
Great job to all of the chapters on your National Service Week projects!
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Section 85 Chapters Receive Chapter of Excellence and Pledge Program of Excellence Awards
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At the Region III Conference in October, chapters in Section 85 were the only chapters to receive Chapter of Excellence and Pledge Program of Excellence Awards.
Join me in congratulating the following chapters…
Theta Chi- Pledge Program of Excellence, Blue Level
Zeta Mu- Chapter of Excellence, Blue Level
Zeta Phi- Pledge Program of Excellence, Diamond Level
Mu Alpha- Pledge Program of Excellence, Diamond Level and Chapter of Excellence, Blue Level
Epsilong Mu- Pledge Program of Excellence, Diamond Level and Chapter of Excellence, Diamond Level
Keep up the good work and let’s work together to get all of our chapters to qualify for this award!
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The Trick-or-Treat for Service event that was hosted by George Washington University collected 7,452 pounds of nonparishable items!
Thank you so much to all of the brothers from the various chapters around the section that supported this event.
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Welcome back to school and to what promises to be a great semester for your chapters! On behalf of the Section 85 staff, I’m sending you important information to kick off your semester. Please take the time to read through everything – there’s a lot to cover!First, you should all be planning your CAPS meetings for early in the semester. This meeting is crucial to setting up the semester and for getting all Brothers informed on the events you’re planning for the semester. Once you have completed your CAPS meeting, you need to fill out a report on the national website. CAPS is also a requirement for the Chapter of Excellence Award so make sure your report it at http://www.apo.org/show/National_Programs/Leadership/ !CAPS/Report_Form We also want to inform you about the upcoming APO Impact Webinars, which are as follows: (all at 9pm eastern)Sept. 6 – Chapter of Excellence and Pledge Program of Excellence
Sept. 14 – RecruitingSept. 22 – Conference Planning
Oct. 4 – Stress and Time ManagementWe’ll send the Oct./Early Nov. Webinar dates in the October monthly e-mail, but if you’d like to see the complete Webinar schedule please visit http://www.apo.org/pages/show/Training_and_Events/APO_ Impact/Live
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Section 85 is now on Twitter!! We strongly encourage you to follow us at APOsection85. Also, if you haven’t done so already, join the Section 85 Facebook Group - both of these will be valuable resources in finding out what other chapters are up to during the semester and for getting information from the Section 85 staff in between monthly e-mails.National Office Reminders:
*Reaffirmations and AAMD’s are both due on November 15th – Presidents, keep a look out for Reaffirmation Packets and Same Page Manuals in mid-September.
*Fall Pledge Class Namesake: Charles P. Zlatkovich, Ph.D, Alpha Rho ’64. To learn more about him, please visit: http://www.apo.org/articles/
show/31 Calendar:
Section 85 has a google calendar. The calendar can be found at https://www.google.com/
calendar/embed?src= or by searching APO Section 85 in google calendar. This calendar will have all Section 85 events as well as chapter events so it will be a great resource for inter-chapter relations!bu7839n4eih5anm1hj690km6ao% 40group.calendar.google.com& ctz=America/New_York
Thank you all for your attention! If you have any questions, concerns, etc., please e-mail Beth at bterroni1122@gmail.com. We hope to hear from you soon and we wish you good luck as you start your semester!
In LFS,
Kelly
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Kelly King
M.A. Early Modern Europe ’12
Alpha Phi Omega
Section 85 Communications Chair
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Section 85 Service Hour Goal: 30,500 hours! Make sure you report all of your service hours, and we can definitely make this goal!
**If you’re interested, and are able to get the commitment from your chapters and specifc members within them, you can email gwtrickortreat@gmail.com
We want your feedback!
National Information:
October/Early November APO Webinars:
October 19: Interest and Petitioning Groups
November 1: Fraternity Life
Thanks for reading everything!! If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Beth Terroni at bterroni1122@gmail.com.
In LFS,
Kelly
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Feb 17-19 SERVE Hartford! (Windsor , CT) - This course is full but there is a waiting list
SERVE LA!
SERVE Knoxville! (Alcoa, TN)- I’m one of the presenters for this course so sign-up!
June 22-24 SERVE Milwaukee!
June 29-31 SERVE KC!
This is a weekend experience giving participants the opportunity to learn skills needed to develop chapter management skills. The course will focus on small group process where participants develop an actual project plan that can be used by chapters and APO.
COURSE OVERVIEW:
· Meeting Management — Learning about different types of meetings and how to best run them as well as making meetings more manageable and effective.
· Project Management — Focus on the SPEED model to develop and execute successful projects. Developing Time Management through Project Management.
· Delegation — Learning the art of having others help with a task you are responsible for and using delegation strategies to utilize the whole Chapter.
· Marketing — Developing and managing a positive Chapter image and learning how to let he world know what you are doing.
COURSE AND REGISTRATION DETAILS
The course starts at 7 p.m. Friday and runs through noon Sunday. Unlike a sectional or regional conference, attendees are expected to participate the entire time of the event.
COST: $55 for Student Members and $75 for Alumni. A $5 discount is provided to Life Members. The cost includes lodging for both Friday and Saturday night, 3 meals on Saturday and breakfast on Sunday. (Please note that the National Fraternity subsidizes the costs of the SERVE courses costs).
Interest & Petitioning groups may send one member to one SERVE for FREE!
Register NOW… Serve Registration at http://bit.ly/nzUyDM Registration deadline for the February SERVE weekends will be Jan 25
Remember Launch is a perquisite for Serve but there are plenty of opportunities to take that course before these weekends.
MORE INFORMATION OR QUESTIONS:
Please feel free to contact Howie Barnes at vicechair.leadership@apo.org if you have any questions.
We look forward to seeing you or someone from your Chapter at one of the February SERVE weekends.
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