SigEp Returning to Berkeley in Fall 2024
JOIN US IN RESTARTING CALIFORNIA ALPHA
CATCH UP
WITH LLOYD
PEREZ '94
I
n spring 2019, SigEp at the University of California, Berkeley
was closed. The Alumni and Volunteer Corporation has
continued to meet, to maintain the corporate health of the board,
and to safeguard the chapter's physical and monetary assets with
an eye toward restarting the chapter.
We are happy to announce that both the University and SigEp
HQ have approved a restart date of fall 2024! This won't be easy,
but California Alpha has done it before—and we can do it again.
CURRENT MEMBERS
OF THE AVC
SigEp's strategy for chapter restarts—and membership
recruitment in general—now focuses on the Balanced Man
Scholarship and a supporting marketing campaign. All of this is
backed up by an engaged team of alumni and volunteer mentors.
When asked for advice from experience with a similar chapter
restart at Purdue, Norm Nabhan, Indiana Alpha '71, longtime SigEp
volunteer extraordinaire, said, "My thoughts for you on Berkeley
are that it is harder than we thought it would be! It took us a while
to get the momentum to get the manpower going. When we were
in existence, the older brothers taught the younger ones how to
recruit. Absent any older brothers, it takes a while to teach the new
ones how to recruit."
And that is exactly why engaged mentors are crucial to a restart
across every area of chapter operations. We'll need some local
volunteers, especially a chapter counselor and a Balanced Man
steward, but others could use Zoom from anywhere (today's
undergraduates consider a Zoom meeting to be equivalent to
face-to-face).
If you would like to be part of the
team working toward a future restart
or support the chapter in other ways,
please reach out to AVC President Matt
Bunch at matthewbunch@gmail.com.
Fraternally,
Matt Bunch '05, AVC President
matthewbunch@gmail.com
L
loyd has three children: his son (28) graduated with an accounting degree from
UCSB; his daughter (20) recently finished her second year in the bachelor of
nursing program at Penn State; and his youngest daughter (16) is a junior in high
school and verbally committed last November to play softball at Stanford University.
Lloyd lives with his girlfriend, an elementary school principal in San Lorenzo USD, and
her 11-year-old son and 10-year-old daughter. He tries to travel at least once a year to
get his passport stamped. He recently returned from a trip to Iceland. He lives in San
Ramon, Calif. Email: lloydnperez@gmail.com
President
Matt Bunch '05
Vice President of Housing
Steve Young,
Kansas Gamma '80
Vice President of
Alumni Relations
Luke Madera '09
Secretary
Ken Ferrando,
California Theta '15
Director at Large
Lynn Holland,
Idaho Alpha '65
Vice President of Finance
Chuck Stegman,
Colorado Alpha '81
Former Chapter President
Dylan Blackburn '11
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY
SPRING 2023
Updates from California Alpha
