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| First Time to Visit Our Website? |
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Welcome brother, and thanks for visiting! If this is your first time to visit our website, please take a moment to register as an alumnus. It only takes a few minutes, and it will greatly assist us in keeping you informed about chapter news and upcoming events. Once registered, you will have access to the private, alumni-only area of this site, including:
- Your own, personal Texas Gamma profile page
- An alumni calendar to keep you informed of upcoming events
- Alumni and undergraduate message boards
- Email updates on the chapter and upcoming alumni reunions
- Access to our private photo galleries, with almost 40 years of pictures
- An alumni search page, for finding those long-lost pledge brothers
If you have any questions regarding registration or use of the website, please consult our Alumni FAQ or contact us directly. Live Ever, Die Never!
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| ATTENTION: All San Antonio Alumni! |
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 The Central Texas Alumni Association is planning on expanding south and is looking for new alumni members in the San Antonio region.
This new group will be an official part of the CENTEX Phi Psi Alumni Association, but will hold its own meetings in and around greater San Antonio. Our first meeting will be December 11th at 7:00pm at the Lion and Rose in Northcross Mall. We will be establishing all future meeting dates at our initial meeting on the 11th.
For more information, contact George Dixon, gdixon5@austin.rr.com
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| Texas State Homecoming Weekend 2009 |
Please join us in San Marcos this October 30- Nov 1st for the 2009 Texas State Homecoming Weekend! After a very successful Homecoming celebration last fall, we're hoping for an even better turnout in 2009. Listed below is the tentative schedule of events for the weekend:
 Friday, October 30th
Back by popular demand, we present the second annual Homecoming Bowling Tournament!
We welcome all chapter alumni and undergraduates to join us at 7:00pm at Sunset Lanes in San Marcos. If you attended last year’s “tournament,” you’ll understand that we use the phrase a bit loosely – no bowling skills are necessary and everyone can play.
The cost is currently undetermined, but it should be less than $10/person including shoes and bowling for the night. Feel free to bring your families, wives, girlfriends, kids…it should be a great time for all.
Saturday, October 31st
The Homecoming festivities will be starting early, with the Phi Psi tailgate at 10:00am. There will be a full day of food, fun, and activities for the entire family. In addition to all that we have planned, Texas State will be hosting a live concert, a climbing wall, and numerous giveaways. We’ll be serving a variety of pork and beef ribs for the day, as well as the only whole roast pig at Texas State.
The Texas State vs. SFA! game will be kicking off at 2:00pm, and is expected to be one of the most exciting games of the season. Tickets for the game are $13 and can be purchased on-line or at the Texas State box office.
CLICK HERE TO RSVP FOR HOMECOMING!!
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| Becoming an Involved Texas Gamma Alumnus |
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Serve as the Chapter Advisor
 The Chapter Advisor fulfills the most active alumni role in the chapter. He is the day to day supervisor of Texas Gamma and all its officers and chairmen. He acts as a mediator between the chapter and other outside entities such as the national headquarters or the university. He carefully oversees and manages the transition of new officers and ensures the forward progression of the fraternity.
The role consists of regular meetings with not only the chapter itself, but also the campus Greek Advisor and other members of the university and Greek community. Any brother who wishes to take on the role of Chapter Advisor should live within commutable distance of San Marcos, and will be expected to attend at least two chapter meetings per month, as well as other chapter functions. Additionally, he will serve as the de-facto chapter alumni representative to GAC and other national conferences. The Chapter Advisor is nominated by the chapter, appointed by the Executive Council, and serves for a two-year term beginning in June of each odd year. This is of course an amazing way to become involved, but make no mistake: anyone serving as Chapter Advisor will be taking on a full-time responsibility.
Serve as the Finance Counselor
If you are a Certified Public Accountant or at least have some experience working in the field of finance/accounting, then perhaps you should consider serving the chapter as a Finance Counselor. As such, you would help secure the financial future of the chapter by training and advising the chapter’s Treasurer to better perform his duties. You will help give advice to the fraternity regarding the creation of a fiscally sound annual budget, maintain correspondence with the national fraternity concerning their financial interests, and annually examine the books of the chapter. This is an indispensable position that the chapter desperately needs fulfilled in order to insure its future and financial security. You do not need to live in the San Marcos area to serve as the Chapter Financial Advisor.
Serve on the Chapter’s House Corporation
If your professional expertise is in the real estate, legal, or financial fields, then your skills would be more than welcome on the Chapter’s House Corporation. Obviously the House Corporation’s primary purpose is the research, paperwork, and ultimately the fundraising that is required to purchase a permanent house for Texas Gamma. The House Corporation typically meets 2-4 times per year, usually in conjunction with other chapter alumni events. (i.e. Founder’s Day, Homecoming, etc.) You do not need to live in the San Marcos area to serve as on the Chapter House Corporation.
Serve on the Alumni Relations Committee
 As a permanent member of the chapter’s Alumni Relations Committee, you will assist the undergraduates in the planning and implementation of the very programs which are designed for you and your fellow alumni. (i.e. Founder’s Day, Homecoming, tailgating, Summer Float Trip, etc.) This committee will be headed by the chapter’s Alumni Relations Chairman, and will consist of approx. 3-6 undergrads and 6-10 alumni. This is an extremely hands on way to become involved in improving the alumni programming at Texas Gamma. It is also perhaps the most rewarding opportunity for alumni, since you will have the most influence over what kind of alumni events we'll ultimately host.
While the undergraduates will still be carrying out the greatest share of the committee’s work, the alumni may be called into town for meetings several times a semester, to offer their insight and resources to the chapter’s alumni programming endeavors. Because of this, it would be preferred, though not required, that a majority of the committee’s alumni members live in or around the San Marcos / Austin / San Antonio area and would be willing to meet in San Marcos 2-4 times per semester.
Become a Decade Captain
In an attempt to bridge the gap between alumni and active chapter members, the chapter is enlisting the help of several representatives from each era of the fraternity in order to aide in communication. These “decade captains” are trusted to help keep up the lines of communication between the chapter and the members closest to themselves in age or year of initiation. Most alumni, if given a choice, would prefer to recieve information about alumni events and other Phi Psi news from their own pledge brothers, rather than an undergraduate they have never met. By using decade captains, we'll be able to follow up our initial invitations to alumni events with personal phone calls encouraging our alumni brothers to attend. The responsibility of organizing pledge class reunions (i.e. 10 year, 20 year, etc.) will also fall largely on these men. We are currently looking to fill the following decade captain positions for the chapter:
- from the 1960’s: someone involved in the original chartering group.
- from the 1970’s: someone from ’70-’75 and another from ’75-‘80
- from the 1980’s: someone from ’80-’85 and another from ’85-‘90
- from the 1990’s: someone from ’90-‘93
This system of communication has the potential to greatly increase the level of alumni involvement with the chapter. You do not need to live in the San Marcos area to serve as a Decade Captain.
Donate to the Chapter Scholarship Fund
 The Chapter Scholarship Fund (CSF) is an account within the Endowment Fund of the Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity. Each Chapter Scholarship Fund is set up to receive gifts and restrict them for the benefit of their specific chapters. The money can’t be used for any other chapter, or for the general Endowment or Fraternity. The Trustees of the fund will make available 5% of the end-of-year balance of each CSF for scholarships. So, if you have a balance of $100,000, Texas Gamma can expect to award $5,000 in scholarships during the next academic year, and each and every year after that. In addition, all capital raised by the Endowment Fund may be loaned back to the chapter for the purchase of a house at a later date. All gifts to the Chapter Scholarship Fund are tax-deductible to donors, so do your part to help the chapter and help us build our CSF!
Attend Rush Events / Initiations / Chapter Meetings
Perhaps the simplest way to be involved is just showing your face! Attend a pledge class initiation; share some experiences with a rushee; pop in to the occasional chapter meeting. Attendance at each and every one of these things helps show our newer members that being a Phi Psi does not have to end after college and that the bonds of brotherhood which we form here are truly eternal.
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Wednesday, September 08, 2010 
