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All Options Considered.
The Smartest One Advanced.
O
n the following pages, you'll learn about a plan for a new
Shelter at 1306 West University Avenue. It's a plan that:
Will keep us competitive with other fraternities and with
enhanced university living facilities.
Has been carefully researched and developed by our chapter's
alumni leaders for the Delta Tau Delta collegians of today and
tomorrow.
Benefits from extensive input from representative alumni
nationwide, along with professional architects, engineers,
fundraising counsel, financial advisors, and the university.
Knowing that the Shelter was behind the times and in need of
extensive upgrades, your chapter leaders advanced two options:
one involving significant remodeling and modernization, and
the other building new at the same site. After working through
these concepts with engineers and architects, developing detailed
estimates, and testing ideas with members, it's clear that the latter
option—building new—makes the most sense. It's simply not
financially feasible to sink even more money into a place with
significant structural problems.
But in building new, our members offered this clear advice: It's
time to build a Shelter that has the look and feel of a true fraternity
house. Affordability is also important. We don't want to lose great
prospects because they and their families can't cover the cost.
So that's exactly the charge we issued to our architectural team:
Build on the same lot. Redesign the exterior look of our building.
And while designing a building to today's safety standards,
collegiate expectations, and affordability, incorporate some of the
touches that make us who we are as a fraternity and as a chapter.
I was clueless when I pledged ΔΤΔ—
I didn't know what I didn't know. I soon
became immersed in an experience that honed my
leadership and scholastic skills. I'm thankful
for what I learned, and I appreciate the lifelong
friendships that I gained. This is why I'm
supporting the Pledge Delt Again campaign. "
– Paul Pixley '72
