To the Mem­ber­ship of Tau Epsi­lon Phi,

As quoted by Exec­u­tive Direc­tor Sid­ney S. Sun­tag (who served our fra­ter­nity from 1946–1979) in The His­tory of Tau Epsi­lon Phi, 102 years ago today “eight men in all, met dur­ing the lunch hour on Octo­ber 10, 1910 in a deserted lec­ture hall and sealed their amal­ga­ma­tion as a fra­ter­nity. Time was short dur­ing this lunch-hour meet­ing for any real progress to be made and the eight men agreed to meet at 5 o’clock that same after­noon in Cen­tral Park, at the foot of West 68th Street, a favorite for Col­lege of Phar­macy Stu­dents”. While this day was the first offi­cial meet­ing of these eight (8) men, they agreed to meet the fol­low­ing week with the entire group of Found­ing Fathers. There­fore, after receiv­ing per­mis­sion from the Chair­man of the Prop­erty Com­mit­tee, the entire group of Found­ing Fathers met for the first offi­cial meet­ing on Octo­ber 17, 1910 in the Col­lege library.

While we cel­e­brate the first meet­ing of the fra­ter­nity on this spe­cial and his­toric day, we ask you to take a moment to reflect on what TEP has meant to you dur­ing your time in col­lege and the place it remains with each of you as you con­tinue through life. Please keep this mem­ory in your mind as you con­tinue to read below.

Since our incep­tion this orga­ni­za­tion has ini­ti­ated more than 45,000 mem­bers from 135 chap­ters across the United States and Canada. Through­out our his­tory, TEP has pro­vided count­less sto­ries that will be told and re-told over and over again recount­ing those days at the chap­ter and the fra­ter­nity house. TEP has cre­ated life­long friend­ships and last­ing mem­o­ries that will be cel­e­brated at wed­dings and at funer­als.

While each one of you have your own story and expe­ri­ences of your under­grad­u­ate days in the fra­ter­nity, we all share a com­mon bond of broth­er­hood in Tau Epsi­lon Phi both as a mem­ber of a local chap­ter and of a national orga­ni­za­tion. And when you think your days in col­lege, many of you will imme­di­ately quote the last sen­tence of our Creed…“To Prac­tice each day, friendship—chivalry—service, thus keep­ing true to these—the three ideals of the founders of our Fraternity—this is the Creed of Tau Epsi­lon Phi.

Last year, our orga­ni­za­tion had a time where the Creed and the name Tau Epsi­lon Phi were almost silenced for­ever. Led by a pas­sion­ate group of vol­un­teers com­mit­ted to the ulti­mate goal of ensur­ing the con­tin­u­a­tion of the fra­ter­nity, I am proud to inform you that the orga­ni­za­tion is back on a pos­i­tive path to the future. For the first time in our his­tory, we have a full func­tion­ing National Web­site (www.tep.org), we have under­grad­u­ates excited and pas­sion­ate to be a mem­ber of TEP and have oppor­tu­ni­ties for Expan­sion to new Col­leges and Uni­ver­si­ties. And to wel­come back Alumni, we have orga­nized Alumni Events in seven (7) cities through the Meet and Greet Series. And with the numer­ous accom­plish­ments too many to note, please under­stand and appre­ci­ate that these efforts have been due to the efforts by a 100% vol­un­teer group, our twenty-two (22) mem­bers of our Grand Coun­cil.

Due to this his­toric week which begins today and con­cludes on the 17th, in honor of cel­e­brat­ing TEP and wel­com­ing you back to the orga­ni­za­tion, we will be post­ing spe­cific and tar­geted requests and needs of you, our TEP Alumni and var­i­ous accom­plish­ments we wish to share. Please take a moment to read and spend a moment to respond. We would greatly appre­ci­ate it!

Again, please think of TEP today and cel­e­brate with me in wish­ing Tau Epsi­lon Phi a Happy 102nd Birth­day Week. On behalf of our entire orga­ni­za­tion, we thank you again for your mem­ber­ship in Tau Epsi­lon Phi

Fra­ter­nally,

Lane B. Koplon
Inter­na­tional Con­sul
Tau Epsi­lon Phi Fra­ter­nity

The Tau Omega (Uni­ver­sity of Rhode Island) Chap­ter of TEP char­ity golf out­ing is com­ing up on Sep­tem­ber 15th. This year marks the 4th annual tour­na­ment and we’re excited to open up the reg­is­tra­tion to area alumni of other chap­ters. We’re hop­ing to have 75+ guys out this year and blow away our dona­tion amount last year.
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The reg­is­tra­tion form for the 2012 National Pres­i­dents’ lead­er­ship con­fer­ence has been posted.

The Grand Coun­cil of Tau Epsi­lon Phi will meet in Philadel­phia on August 3, 2012 – August 5, 2012. This meet­ing shall be open to all Grand Coun­cil and Foun­da­tion Mem­bers as well as our entire under­grad­u­ate and alumni mem­ber­ship of Tau Epsi­lon Phi.
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Over the recent years, many of you have heard me dis­cuss the impor­tance of wel­com­ing back our Alumni to the Fra­ter­nity and to our Foun­da­tion. The oppor­tu­nity to tell the TEP Story has now come in many forms. For the moment, let’s focus on the Meet and Greet’s. The cre­ation of our Meet and Greet’s across the coun­try has been a tremen­dous oppor­tu­nity to recon­nect to our mem­ber­ship. I am proud to note that I have just con­cluded the Los Ange­les Meet and Greet prior to my return to Atlanta.
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Our Con­sul of Tau Epsi­lon Phi, Lane Koplon is cur­rently in Los Ange­les and would like to have a Meet and Greet for any TEP’s liv­ing in the LA Area. Please join Lane at the Four Points Sher­a­ton at the LAX Air­port this Thurs­day July 12th at 7:00 pm at Brusters Bar and Grill. Appe­tiz­ers will be pro­vided. Lane has been work­ing dili­gently to restore our National Fra­ter­nity and would to meet as many TEPs as pos­si­ble.

TEP alumni and under­grad­u­ate broth­ers through­out the New Eng­land area will gather to meet each other and our Inter­na­tional Con­sul, Mr. Lane Koplon, on Sat­ur­day April 14th in Prov­i­dence RI. This is a pri­vate, 18+ free event with free park­ing pre­sented by Tau Epsi­lon Phi Omega Alpha Alumni Asso­ci­a­tion.

Sat­ur­day April 14, 2012
7:00 — 9:00 PM at Club Plat­forms
165 Poe St. Prov­i­dence, RI 02905

I hope that you will attend as the Con­sul will be address­ing the state of our national fra­ter­nity and how we as broth­ers can play a role in its future. Please feel free to for­ward this infor­ma­tion to any broth­ers in the New Eng­land area.

To reg­is­ter for the event (rec­om­mended), fill out the form below.
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To all Epsi­lon Tau Broth­ers (Bradley Uni­ver­sity) Broth­ers liv­ing in the Las Vegas Area:

On Fri­day March 16, 2012 – Sun­day March 18, 2012 the Broth­ers of Epsi­lon Tau set off to their Alumni Week­end in Las Vegas. Led by Brother Bob Berger (Epsi­lon Tau 134), the classes from 1965 –1980 will be cel­e­brat­ing in style while rem­i­nisc­ing about their days in col­lege. Should you wish to reach Brother Berger, his e-mail address is bbeppo12@aol.com. We look for­ward to dis­play­ing your pic­tures and an update from your reunion upon your return. Have a great time!

To all Broth­ers liv­ing in the Las Vegas Area:

Our Con­sul, Lane Koplon will be attend­ing the Tribefest Con­fer­ence rep­re­sent­ing ΤΕΦ at their annual con­fer­ence in Las Vegas March 23–28, 2012.

Located at the Venet­ian Hotel “Tribefest” is sched­uled to have over 1,500 Jew­ish com­mu­nity lead­ers ages 22–45 from across North Amer­ica.

Any and all ΤΕΦ alumni are invited to par­tic­i­pate in a meet and greet at the Venet­ian Hotel with the time and loca­tion to be deter­mined.

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Pro­mot­ing the ΤΕΦ brand across the coun­try, recon­nect­ing with our alumni and cre­at­ing won­der­ful and last­ing part­ner­ships are of the up most impor­tance for our fra­ter­nity. It is with this per­spec­tive that the Tau Epsi­lon Phi Fra­ter­nity is pleased to announce its part­ner­ship with the Jew­ish Fed­er­a­tions of North Amer­ica for their upcom­ing event titled “Tribefest”. Now in its sec­ond year, “Tribefest” will take place March 24 – March 27, 2012 at the Venet­ian Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. The event is sched­uled to have over 1,500 Jew­ish com­mu­nity lead­ers ages 22 to 45 from across North Amer­ica.

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