The Lambda Chapter of Kappa Delta Rho at UC Berkeley

Calling all KDR alumni: if you're going to be in the SF Bay Area on the weekend of September 3-5, we'd love to see you on Friday night (9/3)! We'll be putting together a rush dinner, and  have a broad representation of alumni there. More details are to come soon, but mark the date. If you think you'd like to come, email leadershipconsultant2 "at" kdr.com (John Reynolds, who is coordinating rush) and let him know.

With the Fall '10 semester almost underway, we are prepping for the school year with some initial renovations of the chapter house. Last night the KDR Lambda Alumni Board voted to allocate funds to:
-repaint the downstairs interior
-repaint the front porch and exterior first floor front walls
-repair and refinish the entire first floor hardwood flooring
-clean and repaint the 2nd floor bathroom ceiling
-thoroughly clean carpets

We're looking forward to seeing the results. It's a great first step in what will be a year-long effort to significantly improve the chapter house. Stop by on September 4th before the Cal-Davis football game to see the results!

I want to update everyone on what is going on at Lambda right now. We're in summer (definitely a slow news season for KDR) but we're doing a lot of behind-the-scenes planning. A couple of weeks ago the chapter house renovation committee met to prioritize the upgrades we want to make on the house. Over the next 18 months we will be making some big changes and improvements to the house, and we're working to make sure that we can complete everything that we want done.

However, we are still very open to suggestions and advice from anyone who has building experience, architecture experience, or has worked on relatively large renovation projects. If you'd like to share your knowledge we'd love to hear from you (and you can use the contact form on this site to get in touch with me.)

Also, you should expect to receive a rather lengthy letter in the mail within the next 10 days explaining in detail the status of KDR and what we are doing going forward.

And as always, we love to hear from KDRs about what's going on in their lives. If you have something you'd like to share, let us know and we'll put it in the next Lambda Lyre.

Thanks and I hope you are all enjoying Summer!

Aaron

I want to give a big thanks to everyone who came out to this years Founder's Day Banquet last weekend. You guys made the night a really good time - I was especially happy to see Bob Lavalle who said was attending his first Banquet dinner!

We talked a lot throughout the dinner about plans for renovating and remodeling the house. Although we have the beginnings of a plan in place, we'd love to hear from alumni who have experience with real estate, construction, and remodels. If you do, and have advice you'd like to share, you can use our contact form here to get in touch with me.

Vitaliy, our secretary took many photos during the dinner and I've posted them up here on the site at Founder's Day Banquet 2010.

Here's looking forward to another great dinner next year. Thanks again everyone.

Well, we are two days away from the Lambda Chapter Spring Founder's Day Banquet. I always look forward to these dinners for a chance to meet up with brothers who I don't see very often, and hear stories from the 50s, 60s... all the way through what brothers have been doing recently. We'll be talking a lot about plans for renovating the chapter house and for rush in the fall.

I hope to see you there!