[PhiPsiRuss]

May 8, 2004

Dear Brothers,

Earlier in the week, I had the pleasure to attend the final semester chapter meeting of our Arizona Beta Chapter at Arizona State University. Brother Dud Daniel and I arrived on Tuesday and enjoyed the opportunity with Chapter Advisor Matt LeRoy to tour the beautiful chapter house and landscaped grounds that was renovated six years ago in donation by Brother Jerry Nelson .

Later in the evening we participated in a great attendance turnout of the final chapter meeting of the academic year in which the graduating seniors spoke highly of their undergraduate experience in Phi Kappa Psi. It was an emotional evening of high Phi Psi spirit in which the Arizona Chapter has earned many campus awards and is planning to send a good delegation to the summer Grand Arch Council. I wish to thank Brother LeRoy for his outstanding volunteer efforts in assisting the chapter which is committed to a very successful year ahead.


Following the next day on Cinco De Mayo I drove to Tucson Arizona to visit our Arizona Alpha Chapter at the University of Arizona in which I joined Chapter Advisor Joel Davis Arizona Alpha '85 and the outgoing and incoming Chapter G.P's for dinner. Afterwards we attending an enjoyable reception with the Arizona Alpha Brothers at their newly acquired and beautiful chapter house that is 100 years old and in excellent condition. Past National Fraternity Secretary Phil Davidson Arizona Alpha '59 had lived in the same house as an undergrad when it was formerly occupied by the Chapter. I enjoyed the special opportunity to speak to the Brothers as our Arizona Alpha Chapter continues to make great progress and now has over fifty members. It was originally 30 years earlier that I had come to Tucson upon return of my first Executive Council Meeting in Denver at the Brown Palace Hotel as the District Six Archon and in which our current Attorney General Richard Nelson then Archon of District Five also attended. I flew from that meeting in Denver and visited the Arizona Alpha colony members who were in the process of re-chartering and included colony members Richard Christ Arizona Alpha ''77 and former Chapter Consultant Steven Fowler Arizona Alpha '77. I joined Brother Fowler in the evening as we reminisced about our undergraduate days.

I wish to express my appreciation to Arizona Alpha Chapter Advisor Joel Davis who is doing an outstanding job and who earlier in the year accepted the Hyparchos Director position for the state of Arizona. In February of this year, Brother Davis assisted the Tucson Alumni Association that hosted a special reception at the Pima World War 2 Vintage Air Museum in honor of our Phi Kappa Psi ''Tribute to America's Greatest Generation''

My thanks to the Brothers of Arizona Alpha and Arizona Beta for their warm hospitality and in the special recognition of our Phi Psi volunteers who help served them.

Fraternally,
John V. Ciccarelli...
58th President of Phi Kappa Psi