Super Bowl Squares to Drive Winning Renovation for Chapter House!

Win up to $1000 and help support Chapter Excellence! 

The 2025 edition of the KSTUAA Super Bowl Squares offers a prize pot worth $1000! 

Just $20 per square. Secure your Super Bowl Square today!!!

Helping our Chapter  
The KSTUAA portion (half of proceeds) will help fund the work to complete the brand new Conference/Trophy Room in the Shoe Box. See the write up in the January 12 post and the latest photo here of work in progress.

Thanks to the generosity of alumni over the last year we have raised of $27,500 for this project, but more is need to pay for the project which is expected to cost about $34,000 in total.  (The Commercial grade table, chairs, display cabinets, monito and sound bar/video camera have cost almost $23,000. Additional materials, lighting, security and labor to date have raised the total to $30,000. Additional work will require another $4000)

The room will be/is operational in time for Rush 2025 and the boys are very excited!  

 

The Kappa Sigma Super Bowl Squares Game Format:
The Kappa Sigma Super Bowl Squares is our simple take on a perennial favorite where alumni can pick squares with two numbers that reflect all the possible combinations of the last digit in any score. Pick the square that matches the AFL and NFC teams scores during a quarter end and you are a winner!!! 20% of the prize will be awarded to the winner in each of the first three quarters and 40% of the prize money will be award to the alumnus matching the final score!

Instructions:
Send us the game squares you want e.g. A1, C7, F5, I2, J10 and email to KSTUAA@gmail.com. (Squares are awarded based on the first to reach us, based on email sent times with dues paying Alumni getting priority on ties) Duplicate choices will be assigned nearest open spot by KSTUAA.

The Tables showing available squares will be updated each day: CLICK HERE to see the Table of Available Squares (May need to "right click to download" if it doesn't display)

Make payment with PayPal here. $20 per square for anyone that has paid KSTUAA Dues (so if you haven't paid dues add the $25 KSTUAA Alumni dues) If you already have paid Dues... THANK YOU and its just $20 a square.) You can also use Venmo (@KSTUAA) or personal check. 

Aren't sure if you'd paid your Dues? Check the Donor's page for the list of current donors  and confirm your status (Alumni that have paid KSTUAA dues are highlighted in a light green color). 

Remember extra donations go to pay for this great project. Please be generous!

Grab a beer and see who else shows up when Bracket Master Mikes will pick the column and row numbers Live on Zoom Saturday, February 8 at 1:00 PM ET the day before the big game! 

Then enjoy Super Bowl LIX and win up to $1000 happily knowing you are helping our Chapter!

We will post this years winner here. 

Good Luck and AEKDB

A record Eight Theta-Upsilon members receive scholarship awards from the Kappa Sigma Endowment Fund in December!

Thanks to the generosity of our alumni over the last several years during Stephen Alonzo Jackson Weekend and those alumni that have become Jackson Men our Theta-Upsilon account in the endowment fund has grown to over $80,435.17 which produces one $500+ scholarship for ever $12,500 (six this year) and we have two additional named scholarships for $1000 each.

 

Our members fill in an applications and the process is managed by the Endowment funds with the awards being announced December 10 (Founders Day.) 

Eight very deserving undergraduates from our Theta-Upsilon Chapter received monetary scholarship wards from the Kappa Sigma Endowment Fund this fall.

• Brother Andrew Rossi IC '2, Grand Procurator, Past Scholarship Chair - Winner of the $1000 Clifford Browne II Named Scholarship
• Brother Luke Hastings IC '22, Past Grand Scribe, Past Alumni Relations Chair - Winner of the $1000 Brian P. McDowell Named Scholarship
• Brother Ben Bayler IC '23, 
• Brother Mark Colavita IC '22,
• Brother Ryan Kellogg IC '24, Grand Treasurer
• Brother Patrick Miller IC '22, Past Grand Master, Past AGC Chair
• Brother Zachary Sharpe IC '24,
• Brother Michael Skidmore IC '24,

Alumni are reminded that during Stephen Alonzo Jackson Weekend of Giving 100% of donations go to the designated chapter.  Our alumni have been amazing!  Please check out some of the details. 

If you would like to help get the word out to make sure this year's campaign is another success, contact Wes at KSTUAA@gmail. 

KSTUAA votes to honor Dave Ledman in SAJ Weekend of Giving 2025

The KSTUAA Board voted to submit the name of Dave Ledman '81 who joined the Chapter celestial in December to the Kappa Sigma Endowment Fund as our "Beloved Brother" candidate for the 2025 Stephen Alonzo Jackson Weekend of Giving, Feb 28-March 2. 

The program introduced last year enables chapters to apply all the donations from the weekend to create an annual $1000 scholarship in the brothers name. To create an annual $1000 Scholarship, $25,000 must be raised. Last year 16 new annual scholarships were created through this program in its first year. Theta-Upsilon created two similar $1000 annual scholarships in the name of Brother Browne and McDowell last year but not through the "Beloved Brother" Program.     

Brother Ledman served the Chapter as Grand Master, Grand Master of Ceremonies and Grand Scribe. As an alumnus, Dave also served on the Theta Upsilon Housing Company board for multiple years and was one of the officers that guided the process of paying off the loans for the Withrow Avenue properties.  

Dave was an avid golfer and organized an annual golf trip to Salt Fork State Park for fraternity brothers in the Cleveland area starting in 1992. His brothers fondly remember the beautiful locale which featured ridiculous difficulties and the phrase "get forked" when you have been invariably ambushed by one of its many pitfalls.

It is perhaps no surprise then that Dave was also a winner of the KSTUAA 2016 Fricker Cup (along with Brother Rick Sippola '85) held in Cleveland and appropriate that he become the first ever victim of the Eddie Fricker Switcheroo Card on the first hole! The odd-ball rule forced Dave to play Brother Scott Hamilton's ball that had been shanked and landed 25 feet left of the tee-box behind some shrubbery while Scott was free to play Dave's beautiful drive in the fairway! Such is the love shared by pledge brothers of the 1981 pledge class.  

After graduating from Miami in 1984, Dave went on to complete his law degree from The Ohio State University Law School in 1987. After working for a big litigator in Cleveland, Dave started his own firm handling a wide variety of cases all over Ohio while simultaneously taking on a diverse array of transactional work for countless clients.  

KSTUAA extended its sympathy on behalf of all Theta-Upsilon by sending flowers to his wife Aly. Additional details about Dave and services can be found on legacy's website.  

Work on Trophy/Conference Room Begins 

The KSTUAA Chapter Advisory Council finalized its selections this fall and contracted with the TUHC contractor to complete work on an important amenity to the Chapter House, a small Conference Room/Trophy room designed to promote Chapter Excellence.

In the old formulation of the Chapter House where the Stone House at 404 E. Withrow was recognized as a Fraternity House, there was a room with a trophy case and a large room at the back of the house that prompted KSTUAA to raise money to create a conference room in 2012.  However the loss of the Charter and later the Oxford property designation of the facilities as a "fraternity" when the Stone House was renovated into two apartments and Shoe Box was leased to Crossroads Church resulted in these common areas being lost.

The new Trophy/Conference room will be located in the Shoe Box in an old "triple" near the TV Lounge that Alumni helped furnish in 2022.   The room will support small meetings and studying, video conference meetings between the EC and advisors and alumni. It will also be used to to display the Charters from 1967 and 2022, the Hall of Fame Plaque, other awards and memorabilia etc. One of the trophy cases will hold more historical artifacts like the original Star & Crescent Fraternity pin, early documents and awards etc and the second display case will include current day chapter awards from Kappa Sigma and Miami. The room will feature a combination lock and security camera to discourage theft and vandalism.     

Alumni have been asked to make donations to help finish the project which will be about 90% done before 2025 Rush. and the KSTUAA Board designated funds raised in the 2025 Super Bowl squares and Cossa Challenge to fund this project and the work of the CAC. Donation of any amount are welcome and may be made as directed on the Dues, Donations & Funding page.

To date several alumni have been very generous and have donated or promised donations to help us close the gap on the funds needed to complete the project. (see list below) 

Images: (Top) Slide documenting the plan for the project. (Middle) the rendering of the Executive committee conference table, two display cases. The room will also display the Charters and other awards. (Bottom) Work in December including newly painted walls (same color green used in Charlottesville.) 

Thank you to the following alumni for their recent donations to fund this project:

• Chuck Hess '67 HOF 2024
• Alan Higgins '67 HOF 2022
• Tom Wenning '67 HOF 2012
• Jim Lewis '74  HOF 2022, KSTUAA Board, Treasurer, Housing Company Board
• David Ciochetty '78 HOF 2022
• Charles Wonderlic '83 HOF 2017
• Wes Bren '85 HOF 2017, KSTUAA Board, CAC, DGM
• Mark Heppner '87 
• Chris Broome '89 HOF 2024, CAC

New HOF Nominating Committee Begins Work for 2025 

The 2025 HOF Nominating Committee has begun work processing nominations submitted by December 15, 2024 for consideration for election for induction into our Hall of Fame. 31 Alumni have been inducted since it began in 2000. 

The while the criteria remains the same to focus on contributions to their profession, community or to the Kappa Sigma Fraternity and Theta-Upsilon Chapter as alumni (not as undergraduates) the process was updated in 2022 so that the HOF Nominating committee now collects nominations and creates comprehensive profiles for use by the inducted members of the Hall of Fame to vote on. 

Annual recognition will be scheduled for Homecoming weekends except during the 5 year reunions. A plaque displaying these inductees has been created will be displayed in the Chapter house as a reminder to undergraduate members that their oath to live by the ideals of the Star and Crescent extends beyond college.  

KSTUAA in an effort consistent with its first Great Aim: Inclusivity-Engage All of our Theta-Upsilon Alumni worked hard to recruit members from multiple decades resulting in this years committee representing six decades!  It is our aspiration that this will promote more nominations from all our alumni of those deserving recognition.  To date alumni from 1967-2002 have been inducted.      

Thank you those that volunteered to serve as HOF Nominating Committee members for 2025: 

• Rick Sippola ’85 Chairman,
• George Duffield ’67,
• Dave Vuicich ’72 
• Christian, Essman '92 
• Thomas Grusecki Jr. '08
• Gabe Johnson '22
• The Alumni Relations Chair: Evan Love '24