Tau Beta Sigma Alumni Association

The Tau Beta Sigma Alumni Association Executive Council will be having its annual summer meetings in Stillwater, Oklahoma, the week of July 21, 2014.  The E.C. is meeting to review past, current, the future projects, as well as begin formal planning of the 2015 TBSAA National Convention in Lexington, Kentucky, during July 2015.  Also, this will be a chance for the E.C. to formally welcome new member Gwyn Fox Stump to the council.

The meetings are being held in conjunction with the summer meetings of the Tau Beta Sigma National Council and Board of Trustees, as well as the Wava Banes Henry Memorial Rose Garden on the grounds of the National Headquarters of Kappa Kappa Psi and Tau Beta Sigma.  The TBSAA is a major donor of the rose garden project, having made the initial $5,000 donation to the project on behalf of the thousands of Tau Beta Sigma alumni around the world to thank Wava for her fortitude and courage in forming Tau Beta Sigma.

All TBSAA members who have ideas for the Executive Council, or topics they would like the E.C. to discuss can email tbsaa@tbsigma.org to submit their thoughts, ideas, questions, or more.

All TBSAA members who renewed their membership or joined up by July received an email from TBSAA Executive Council chairperson Amanda Dickson on July 1 (and repeated July 9) regarding some jurisdiction changes for the TBSAA Constitution.  Included in the email as a .pdf document with the proposed changes and a link to where members can go online to vote.

If you didn’t receive the email, check your junk mail folder to make sure it was delivered there.  If you still don’t see it, email tbsaa@tbsigma.org and we will assist you.

Thank you for your continued support of the TBSAA!

The TBSAA is currently taking submissions for the summer issue of The Rhapsody newsletter.  The deadline is July 1st.

We are looking for submissions from alumni members and local TBSAA affiliate groups.  Submissions can be narrative articles, announcements of upcoming events, and notices of wedding, births, adoptions, promotions, graduate degrees, etc.

Please email tbsaa@tbsigma.org with your submissions!  If you have questions, you can contact Executive Committee Communcation Chair Chris Foster at bandchris@tbsigma.org.

In accordance with the Tau Beta Sigma Alumni Association Constitution, the Board of Trustees has appointed Gwyn Fox Stump, an alumna of the Epsilon chapter at Butler University to fill the open position on the TBSAA Executive Council.  Gwyn will fill the remaining unexpired term through the summer of 2017.  For the remainder of this biennium, Gwyn will fill the role of Service Committee Chair, focusing on professional development opportunities.

Gwyn Fox Stump was initiated into Tau Beta Sigma in fall of 1999. While an active member, she served a variety of offices on a chapter level, ranging from Chapter President, Vice-President, Service chair, and Uniform chair. Gwyn graduated from Butler in 2003 with a Bachelor of Arts in Integrated Communications, and completed her Master of Science in College Student Personnel at the University of Dayton in 2010. Currently, she is the Associate Director for Student Life at the University of Dayton in Dayton, OH. She lives with her husband, David, a software developer, and their two cats, Ziti and Jenkins.

TBSAA members will have the opportunity to meet Gwyn in person in Stillwater, Oklahoma, on July 26th as part of the dedication of the Wava Memorial Rose Garden and the Kappa Kappa Psi Caboose.  The TBSAA Executive Council is having is biannual meeting in conjunction with the dedication ceremony weekend.  Messages of congratulations can be sent to Gwyn at gwyn.foxstump@gmail.com.

It’s that time of year again!  Time to renew your members in TBSAA for the 2014-15 membership year.

This will be an exciting year for the alumni association as we will have the Wava Memorial Rose Garden dedication in Stillwater in July, plus our first 5K run in 2015!

Click here for the individual membership form.

Alumni & Friends of Tau Beta Sigma,

The newest issue of The Rhapsody has arrived!  I hope you enjoy this update.  We look forward to seeing many of you this summer at the Wava Memorial Dedication in July!

As a reminder, Rhapsody submissions can be made at any time to tbsaa@tbsigma.org.

In the Bond,

Chris Foster
TBSAA Communications Chair
Life Member, Tau Chapter, Univ. of Houston

The TBSAA is currently taking submissions for the Spring issue of The Rhapsody newsletter.  The deadline is March 1st.

We are looking for submissions from alumni members and local TBSAA affiliate groups.  Submissions can be narrative articles, announcements of upcoming events, and notices of wedding, births, adoptions, promotions, graduate degrees, etc.

Please email tbsaa@tbsigma.org with your submissions!  If you have questions, you can contact Executive Committee Communcation Chair Chris Foster at bandchris@tbsigma.org.

Kappa Kappa Psi and Tau Beta Sigma have started the process for selection the next National Executive Director.  Please share the position announcement to all interested parties.

http://kkytbs.org/forms/NatlExecDirectorJobPosting-Jan14.pdf