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Annual PIKE Now Event
The annual PIKE Now fund-raising campaign is back. The campaign runs from September 3 to September 27, 2024, and gives donors the opportunity to provide scholarships to PIKE University, enable more undergraduate brothers to attend the annual PiKA Convention, and perhaps enable Beta Pi undergraduates to receive complimentary hotel accommodations. Beta Pi undergraduate brothers are already being reimbursed for convention registration fees.
Organized as a friendly competition among all PiKA chapters, if Beta Pi Chapter finishes among the highest grossing chapters, undergraduate brothers will be entitled to a limited number of free hotel rooms.
In the previous three years since the PIKE Now Chapter Challenge, generous donors have enabled Beta Pi to have finished second, third, and third, in comparison to the over 200 chapters of Pi Kappa Alpha.
Last year, PIKE Now has paid some of the expenses for 1550 PiKA students to attend PIKE University.
If you wish to contribute to PIKE Now, you can use this link.
Condolences to Dr. Gary Sachs, Beta Pi ‘74
The September/October 2024 issue of The Pennsylvania Gazette reports that Stuart L. Sachs, Penn ’83, brother of our dear fraternity brother Gary S. Sachs ’74, passed away on March 22. At Penn, Stuart was the recipient of the Thouron Award. May the love of your friends and fraternity brothers bring you comfort today and in the days to come.
The Pennsylvania Gazette Class Notes
The September/October 2024 issue of The Pennsylvania Gazette takes special note of one of the many accomplishments of Roy Vagelos, Beta Pi ’48, The recognition given to him is reprinted here:
“Dr. Roy Vagelos C’50 Hon’99, the former CEO of Merck and former Penn Trustee chair and longtime donor to the University, and Professor Zhao Kai of China are the recipients of the first Legacy Awards from the Coalition for Global Hepatitis Elimination. From the press release, ‘These awards recognize their groundbreaking partnership to facilitate a transfer of necessary technology from the United States to China for producing high quality vaccines to protect newborns and children from hepatitis B virus infection.’”
New Chapter House Officers
The new officers, all Beta Pi ’23, for the 2024-25 academic year for the undergraduates are:
President: Ernesto Baci
Internal Vice Presidents: Jan Rossner and Alan Hong