Attendance: Andy Kassel, Eoghan Miller, Joe Hayes, George Gale, Bruce Klaus, Ben Trachtenberg

Profundity-intellectual depth, something profound or abstruse, the quality or state of being profound or deep.

If anything this gathering of brothers is profound and thanks to Brother Klaus for our word of the day.

Business was light and the air was cold as this band of brothers gathered against the elements to share a meal and good
conversation. Brother Kassel reported on the newest installed undergraduate chapter at Florida International University bringing
the active chapter number internationally to 237, the highest number ever for Sigma Chi. The local XiXi chapter initiated 32 new
brothers on January 15th and the chapter at Westminster will host its spring initiation ceremony on Saturday, March 5th. All
alumni are invited to atend the ceremony in Fulton.

2011 International Awards Applications are due on March 15. Go to www.sigmachi.com for more information.

Alumni Chapter business conducted included the reelection of all chapter officers and nomination of Brother Kassel to attend
Grand Chapter this summer in Dallas. Brother Klaus reported on the state of the treasury with a bank balance of $158.75 at the
beginning of our dues collecting year. Brother Gale reported on ongoing construction updates at the XiXi house in Columbia.

Brother Klaus' wallet provided another literary exercise:

"Some day, in years to come, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life.
But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or
temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long continued process."
-Phillips Brooks

See you all in April!

Respectfully Submitted,
Joe Hayes