The U.S. Military Academy held its annual Founders Day dinner March 16 in the Cadet Mess Hall. Our Founders would be proud. Yet as the campus matured, it was clear that we could become an even more valuable asset to the State of Maryland and the nation. It must be the compass by which we chart our course. Speech on Foundation Day of a School. We are a university on the move. Today marks the 120th anniversary of the founding of Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity. It was the year that Ed Reynolds became the first full-time black student to enroll at Wake Forest. We celebrate this energy and are working to support and expand it. Only a small number of students lived on campus. Our partnerships have deepened and matured over the decades. o Our faculty across disciplines have won a range of impressive awards. Lets rekindle old bonds, make new ones, and embrace our opportunity to propel TKE forward in ways that no other organization has yet achieved. Some of my predecessors were faced with significant threats to the survival of Tau Kappa Epsilon. * Events like this always remind me of one of my favorite quotes. As they embarked on their journey as an active member, they were instructed on the rich history of our organization. They called themselves the Knights of Classic Lore. It was truly the day the past met the future. Welcome Speech September 19, 2016. I often quote Aristotle: Excellence is never an accident. And it was the year that the Rev. 1)Arrival of the guests. We had just $4 million in research in the late 1970s and $22 million at the end of the 1980s. Good It has taken grit to achieve our goals. o Princeton Review named us a College that Pays You Back and Kiplingers named us a Best Value College for 2016. Our founding fathers had a vision that was progressive and revolutionary back in 1899, creating an organization that would consider personal worth and character to be principle qualifications for membership. At the beginning of that fateful week, I was 500 miles away from home and knew no one on campus. There are other examples of more inclusive foundings that form all the parts of the Wake Forest story. With faith in our heritage, with confidence in our future, with unswerving commitment to the magnificent obsession" and with fidelity to mission, the best days of Tau Kappa Epsilon are ahead. As a collegiate Frater serving as an officer, we learn a sense of duty to our chapter and personal responsibility. They wanted to establish a fraternity of men whose primary requirement for membership would be based on personal worth and character, not the wealth he possessed, or the connections he had, or the lineage from which he came. What challenges will we face and how will we rise up to meet them? Home [www.ginasteam.org] We have a growing partnership with Bowie State in cybersecurity and with UMES in the alliance for minority participation in science. Today, we celebrate our birthday. Founder's Day Essay: Leadership in my Community We celebrate to commemorate the humble beginnings of our beloved sorority, He was, as am I, a member of Rotary and its amazing how many civic leaders are members of a fraternity or sorority. 1834 Wake Forest Road, Winston-Salem, NC 27109, Campus Memorialization Steering Committee, University Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Council (UDEIC), An engaging process is itself a valuable product, Jacqueline Travisano named Executive Vice President, Jackie Krasas named Dean of the College and Dean of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences. The key point is that more students are succeeding today than ever. To know where we are going, we need to remember where we have been. For obvious reasons, we think of the year 1834 when we think of the founding of Wake Forest. We celebrate Founders Day and gather for Convocation, by direction of the Board of Trustees, on the birthday of Robert E. Lee, who served as our university's president from 1865 to 1870. History has shown that Tekes are undeterred and undaunted by threats to the Fraternity. In our earliest years we built out the academic core, completed the Albin O. Kuhn Library, built the RAC, and began construction of our first dorms. The aerial photos in the video showed how our campus has grown physically over time. 2021 Founders' Day Program by ECO Technology - Issuu Failure is not part of the fabric of Tau Kappa Epsilon. We are looking to build on these strengths with key research prioritieswell-aligned with state and national prioritiesin environment, health, national security, education, and public policy. Our dear Founder, we are honored to call AUN our home, and we celebrate with you today. In our fraternity, we get real life learning opportunities not found in the classroom. o Global dimensions are hallmarks of many other departments and programs, ranging from economics to philosophy to visual arts to engineering. Day In 1942, women were finally admitted to the College. We have been changing attitudes about who can succeed as we continue focusing on improving undergraduate teaching. Our alumni have a strong impact. As they sat at 504 East Locust Street on a cold Tuesday night, Settles, Truitt, McNutt, Atkinson and Mayer set out to create a fraternity that was different than others in their time. As of 2015, more than half of Asians over 25 and about 15 percent each of Hispanics and Native Americans have earned a college degree. We would urge, therefore, as a fraternity dealing with up-to-date problems, that we should never forget the principles of true fraternalism as involved in the mutual helpfulness and the common ambition that are necessary in carrying this out. o How can we become the anchor institution for the region? The percentage of Americans with a college degree increased to 6 percent in 1950, and then to about 10 percent by the mid-1960s when UMBC was founded. We don't know anything about you, your school, or its founder. Fraters, grit and determination have been the cornerstones of TKE successes throughout our history. Clark Kerr once summarized this development when he wrote, At the end of World War II, perhaps six American universities could be called research universities, in the sense the research was the dominant faculty activity By the early 1960s, there were about 20, and they received half of all federal research and development funds going to higher education. Let me give a few examples. Welcome Speech by Dawn Dekle, PhD, President of American University of Nigeria at the 14 th Founders Day Ceremony held on Saturday, November 30, 2019 Good Afternoon! With nearly 12,000 collegiate members, Tau Kappa Epsilon contributes to the advancement of society through the personal growth of our members, and service to others. Knowing full well that the mission of college training is to develop such traits, we were fully convinced that in the end-developing character, enriched life and enlarged personality-would justify any risk that might be taken in selecting such a man. Mission is the beacon that lights the way in our unrelenting pursuit of excellence. We are here today and we are who we are today because of many foundings and many founders. Agreeing with Miss Thompson regarding the importance of encouraging student travel, he worked with Dr. Sven Knudson of the University of Copenhagen to In Frater Settles vision of TKE, and the stern realities of life, there were no safe spaces or anything else developed from our over politically correct world. We anticipate that, with winter, spring, and summer enrollments, as well as students in UMBC Training Centers, we will serve a total of more than 20,000 students in the coming academic year. We have educated more than one-quarter of the IT graduates in Maryland. To set a new standard for what fraternity means. So today, I want to call us to all be founders for the future and to engage in the hard work needed to accomplish great things. The Fraternity's first-ever fundraising effort was a $300 campaign in 1908 for a piano for the Alpha chapter house. For the first time in a generation since 1992, our chapters and colonies initiated more than 4,000 new men. TKE builds Better Men for a Better World. Founders Welcome to all alumni, students, faculty, staff, and friends! In my tenure on the Grand Council, this has happened frequently. This hard work formed deep bonds and I still consider my fellow Xi-Iota Fraters my closest personal friends. In so many ways, we've done just that. WebOn the speech day, the production designer, who has a lot of say in things, and sometimes I didn't agree with him but I had to do what I was told, wanted the speech day to be all in neutral colours for the women, which was a good thing. These facilities include the following. But we are also an institution constantly looking for ways to expand the narrative. It was a wise bargain for a new university: commuters saved their money by living at home; the state saved money by forgoing the cost of residence halls. o Can we imagine student apartments, along with a coffeehouse, a convenience store, a dry cleaners, or other desirable commercial services, to serve the campus of the future well? Today, I am here to tell you that we still embrace this goal and that, along with such great universities as Stanford, MIT, Carnegie-Mellon, Arizona State, Georgia Tech, and the University of Michigan, we are on a list of the most innovative national universities in the nation! Staff had literally been sweeping floors and assembling desks the night before students arrived. Founders Day Speech Quotes Part of any honest reflection on the past requires honoring the parts that fill us with pride and critically analyzing where we have fallen short. The park hosts more than 130 companies and provides more than 2,500 direct and indirect jobs with associated annual income of $165 million. We know what we want to become and how to get there. As an alumnus, we have similar opportunities to grow. Looking ahead to August 1-4, be sure to mark your calendars and make plans to join us in Orlando, FL for the 60th TKE Conclave. It is encouraging that recent legislation calls for multi-year increases to our base budget to make this possible. Over the next few months, collegiates, alumni, volunteers, and our university partners will have the chance for continued input. As a young chapter Prytanis attending the festivities in Boston, I remember hearing those words and feeling a tremendous honor to be a part of TKEs second century. I want them all to be safe from harm and to benefit from their TKE experiences. WebAlpha Kappa Alpha 110th Founders' Day Message - YouTube 0:00 / 2:53 Alpha Kappa Alpha 110th Founders' Day Message Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority 35.2K subscribers I was born the son of a car mechanic and a hairstylist. Found is a verb, an action, not a single, set moment in some distant past. * Theres a quote that has always stuck with me. It is always the result of high intentions, sincere effort, and intelligent execution. The additional budget funding and income from our endowment allow us to hire new faculty and staff as enrollments grow, expand academic programs, better support our students through increased financial aid, and grow our health and wellness initiatives for the campus. We celebrate Founders Day and gather for Convocation, by direction of the Board of Trustees, on the birthday of Robert E. Lee, who served as America is failing these lower-income students; we must continue to elevate not just college readiness but the work we do on campuses to ensure these students succeed when they get here. We have 2,000 alumni working for the Navy and another 1,000 at NSA. In my 2020 Founders Day message, I underscored the importance of TKEs mission because our missionto aid men in their mental, moral, and social development for lifeis enduring. From local chapters performing valuable services for and in their communities to distinguished alumni changing the world in virtually all fields of endeavor, Fraters in the Bond have strived to reach our goal of Better Men for a Better World. The State of Maryland and other sources have generously provided almost three-quarters of a billion dollars in developing and building state-of-the-art facilities for instruction, research, and student life for the 20-year period from 2000 to 2020. Tekes never just sit back and rest on their laurels. And, stand with me as one TKE Nation to show the world that we truly are the Fraternity for Life! It was 187 years ago this month that the Wake Forest Manual Labor Institute was founded about 100 miles east of here. BreakingGround achieved the following milestones in its fourth year: 34 courses to-date created or redesigned to foster civic agency; 24 projects producing social contributions beyond episodic service; 270+ stories and reflections shared on the BreakingGround blog, attracting more than 110,000 views. I ask you on this Founders Day to reflect on your TKE experience and financially invest in the Fraternity that has taken us on such a wonderful ride. Building relationships from Baltimore to Washington? Buildings were ready to be occupied; sidewalks were installed; the faculty was here. Happy Founders' Day Fraters. Over the next several days, I found my first Teke family with Nathan White, Wes Newton, Mikey Kriese, Robert Luby, Kevin Major, and Walt Moody - my fellow candidates in the Rho-Omega chapter that fall of 1998 and all of whom would later become the newest Fraters of our chapter. Where will the road ahead take us? The headlines in the news when fraternity life goes wrong have a negative, adverse effect on all of us. That day we had 750 students, 45 faculty members, 35 support staff, 3 new buildings, and 500 parking spaces. One of Armys first female Rangers speaks during Founders Day Founders Day is always a significant day and I join you in paying tribute to those persons who through their own dedication and their tireless efforts brought this fraternity into being. Being a TKE for Life means acting on our values to make a better life for you and those around you. Consider the year 1962 sixty years ago. Our infrastructure now includes, in addition to our buildings, an investment in information technology (IT). His doctoral student and postdoctoral fellow, Victoria DSouza, was granted tenure as full professor in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Harvard University. o During the 2015-2106 academic year, we awarded the most degrees ever in our history, with 3,429 total degrees awarded, an increase of almost 10 percent over the past two years, and 2,521 bachelors degrees awarded, an increase of 12 percent over the past two years. Its transformation lay in the future during WWII, the Cold War, and the tech boom in Silicon Valley. As the Grand Prytanis of Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity, I am only a temporary occupant of the Office I was elected to hold. Its the only pathway forward for Tau Kappa Epsilon as we continue to prepare leaders for the ever-changing educational, professional, ethical and social landscape of the 21st century and beyond. Instead, we should confront them. It's up to each of us, as their progeny, to not only continue to live that vision and that experience in the real world but to pass it on to those who follow us, to ensure it lives and guides, not only our own lives, but the lives of the Fraters whom we touch and all men, women and children we come in contact with throughout our own lives. As we look forward to the future of Tau Kappa Epsilon and fraternities as a whole, the expectations of todays society are much higher than ever before. You can see the progress we are making in our numbers. State governments, university administrators, and our insurance carriers are all moving to impose significant changes upon us, or even seek to eliminate us, as these issues continue to persist. Research, Scholarship, and Creative Achievement 2018 Founders Day Remarks | Washington and Lee o With UMB, our strongest partnership, we continue to develop research collaborations through the seed grant program. In reflecting on these newest members, I wonder. o We have students from more than 100 countriesalthough the majority of our students are from Maryland. Our social science research productivity, though, was much greater than would be reflected in the dollar amount when taking into account the number of publications per faculty member. Today, on our 123rd Founders Day and throughout 2022, I encourage you to engage withTKEs 1-2-3 - Connect, Celebrate and Contribute. Fraters, on this Founders Day and all days, I love the Fraternity! Welcome Speech for Chief Guest Fraters, I believe our greatest days are within our reach if we choose to embrace our values and fulfill our desire to be Better Men for a Better World. How can we address the great issues of our day? Kristen Griest (above), USMA Class of Founders' Day Speech 2013 - Elizabeth Moir School All of these choices provide life lessons to ourselves while helping to provide a great TKE experience for our fellow Fraters. I hope you are as excited and energized as I am to be at Utah State University for fall 2022. It was easier for us to do this by effecting an organization of a brotherly character for mutual helpfulness. These are key assets for our research, scholarship and creative achievement. Undoubtedly, Abraham Lincoln would not have met some of the modern fraternity tests in polished appearance, bank and bond holdings, but he did possess what is better still, that wealth of character which has ever been the standard of Tau Kappa Epsilon. 2019 Founders' Day Message For our first twenty years, UMBC played its original allotted role as an institution whose students were primarily commuters. Upon hearing this, I extended my hand, introduced myself, and commented that as the TKE International Board Chairman, I was equally concerned about her son as I am about all of our 11,000 collegiate members. I challenge you to live the Fraternity for Life by contributing your time and financial resources to ensure that we not only survive these challenging times, but thrive and continue the success that we have all enjoyed. As we saw in the video, we have grown significantly over the years, from 750 students on this day on 1966, to almost 14,000 students 11,000 undergraduates and approaching 3,000 graduatestoday. This year, nursing major Brooke Zahine '24 was selected to present As we know, scores of other organizations had to amend their membership criteria and adapt to changing societal and federal laws as the years passed. 5)Welcome song. Alumni volunteers, professional staff, and collegiates have been more creative and more productive. 2)Welcome address. Julie Harris 0 Likes Sponsored Links The fountain is my speech. We also have a community based on shared values. We are contributing key research to help understand climate change and the ways it can be addressed. Today I have been endowed with the responsibility of speaking on foundation day. It has been said and believed since long that for any great work to be done, it is important to have the right foundation. It actually forms the platform on which the future stands. This exactly stands true for Foundation Day of school. o We have become a highly residential campus, with new and renovated residence halls and the Apartment Community Center (2013). WebI am so glad that you got to live a normal life, that you always brought me so much pride and joy, and that you now have a wonderful family of your own. For example, our Humanities and Social Sciences Forums explore key issues in our society. A gift to the Wake Forest Fund supports student needsimmediately. In celebrating our 116th birthday, we know our TKE work is not done nor should it be. 75 percent earned a postsecondary degree; and 15 percent are still enrolled. In 1924, at the Silver Jubilee Conclave, our founders addressed the Grand Chapter and clearly set forth the inspiration which led to their founding of our fraternity. And we are a university that is o We have completed our new Campus Gateway providing a more attractive welcoming entrance to the campus. It was the first Conclave since our founding that all five of them had been able to attend. 2023 All Rights Reserved. And, at the same time, we have become more international, both in our student body and faculty and in our teaching, research, and engagement. Following Sputnik, the National Defense Education Act of 1958which provided the federal funding for students in the sciences, area studies, and foreign languageswas enacted under Eisenhower. Dear Sisters, We send warm greetings to each of you on the 122nd anniversary of AOIIs founding. What is even more challenging is that while more than half of students from families in the highest income quartile earn a bachelors degree by age 24, only about one in 10 of those from the lowest income quartile do. Something new and beautiful was founded here. The Grand Council and I look forward to continuing to support the philanthropic work of our Fraternity and expand our financial wellbeinga key pathway to a more secure future. We also need to recognize that not everything about Wake Forest was founded in the antebellum period. During this time, UMBC has been in the midst of it all a 50-year experiment in higher education here in Catonsville. Whether you are a new or returning student, we all have so much

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