CHAPTER NEWS

Alpha GammaU.S. Military Academy.

Timothy Clements, recently elected president of the new associate chapter, reports: The brothers at the Alpha Gamma Chapter at the United States Military Academy have made great strides in restarting the chapter. We have already rostered 41 brothers in the less than two months since restarting the chapter. We have set a recruiting goal of 30 brothers in each graduation year.

We hope to continue our successful recruitment season by highlighting the excellence of the brothers in our chapter and the alumni network of service to our nation that will be set up if we continue to maintain a notable size.

We have established our culture and promoted leadership within the Corps of Cadets for our Brothers. Alpha Gamma members have already taken on roles of leadership at the academy, several serving as Cadet Platoon and Cadet First Sergeants and hundreds of cadets in their chains of command.

We hope to show DKE International and the USMA administration that the brothers in our chapter set a standard above the average USMA cadet – which is already set very high. Our current GPA is 3.27, nearly 0.3 higher than the corps as a whole.

DKE and USMA both have long histories of excellence and service and the parallels between the mission statements of both institutions were the deciding factor in choosing to restart a chapter of DKE here. We believe the success of DKE at USMA highlights both the character of the Corps of Cadets as a whole and that of the larger DKE organization. GO ARMY!

Beta Tau-Victoria and Tau Beta-Simon Fraser

Dekes visit Dekes! The DKE HQ staff highly encourages chapters to visit other chapters and Canadian chapters Beta Tau and Tau Beta have blazed a bright trail in response. Here are photos from three chapter-chapter rendezvous in September.

In the photo below left, Beta Tau members are visiting

Tau Beta chapter at Simon Fraser. Appearing horizontally is Brother Beta Reeve Henderson; behind him, l to r, are Keigan Claus, Shawn Batti, Ethan McCullagh, Matt Darmohray, Daniel Wheaton, Colby McAusland, and Joey Cohn. In the photo (above right), Beta Tau men slipped into the U.S. to visit our new Kappa Epsilon chapter at University of Washington; pictured in presidential purple is the elite entourage of current president Henderson; Tom Howard, 20/21 president; Evan Guildford, 21/22 president; and Evan’s younger brother, Alex Guildford.

The accompanying pic was taken by Tau Beta Dekes the final week in September, moments before 25 rushees arrived for the last gathering of Open Rush on the Simon Fraser University campus. Front man here, Kyle Tadeo, soon helped president Jon- athen Eng launch the party that Tau Beta hosted and welcomed Dekes visiting from UVic as well as Kappa Beta Gamma sorority women from both UVic and SFU.

Lambda-Kenyon.

Chapter members were thrilled with taking home some special hardware from the DKE Convention in Charlotte last summer – and posted about it on Lambda’s social media pages when they arrived on campus for the fall semester. “We took home multiple awards—first, as most improved chapter. Here at Kenyon, we went from borderline extinction (having to recover from sanctions imposed on us in 2018-2019) to a thriving and passionate group of 22 active members.”

Another honor at convention was awarded to Andrew Kotler ’22, who won the Napolitano Award for most outstanding chapter president. Andrew led the way for the Lambda chapter to experience such growth over the past year with his dedication and love for the brotherhood.

Special thanks to Aymeric Mauvais ’25, Reily Scott ’25, and Andrew Kotler ’22 for representing the Lambda chapter at the convention.

The fall semester also saw Lambda pick up steam in operations, including a strong return to philanthropy