Over 10,000 Greek Alumni
742 Greek Undergraduates
4 National Pan-hellenic Chapters
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc., Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc.
5 Panhellenic Chapters
Alpha Delta Pi, Alpha Sigma Alpha, Phi Mu, Sigma Kappa, Sigma Sigma Sigma
7 Interfraternity Chapters
Alpha Gamma Rho, Alpha Kappa Lambda, Delta Sigma Phi, Pi Kappa Alpha, Sigma Phi Epsilon, Sigma Tau Gamma, Tau Kappa Epsilon
One Greek Community
Panhellenic Council experienced record setting retention during their Fall Formal Recruitment Process and welcomed 222 new women into their chapters.
Former Panhellenic Vice President of Recruitment - Internal, Erica Brade (Sigma Sigma Sigma) is pictured to the right checking out capital improvement projects in Roberta Hall. Summer 2019 Renovations included new showers, updated bathroom fixtures and roof improvements.
Former Vice Presidents of Risk Management, Senior Mackenzie Baker (Sigma Kappa) and Senior Johan Senda (Sigma Phi Epsilon) are seen (left) being interviewed after successfully proposing and passing the new Greek Life Risk Management Policy at the Board of Regents meeting on December 12, 2019.
The updated policy may be found in the Northwest Policy Library at the following link: https://www.nwmissouri.edu/policies/student/Greek-Life-Risk-Management-Policy.pdf
This fall, Greek Life welcomed Jim Gulbranson into the Coordinator of Greek Life role. Jim, a native of Stuart, IA, is an alum of the University of South Dakota where he was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha. Prior to joining the Greek Life Office at Northwest, he earned his Masters in College Student Personnel Administration at the University of Central Missouri. In his role, Jim's primary focuses will be Interfraternity Council and Order of Omega.
Jim is pictured to the right with Megan DeShon-Runge, Assistant Director of Greek Life, at the 2019 Association of Fraternity / Sorority Advisors Annual Meeting in Anaheim, CA.
Northwest Missouri State University Greek Life Office is excited to announce that we will be hosting the first ever MIAA & Friends Greek Executive Leadership Retreat on February 6 - 8, 2020.
We will welcome Greek student leaders from MIAA and neighboring institutions to participate in dialogue and collaboration to ensure a bright, safe and sustainable future for our Greek communities.
Speakers include Evelyn Piazza and Rae Ann Gruver, the mothers of Tim Piazza (Penn State) and Max Gruver (Louisiana State), respectively, who tragically lost their lives to hazing in 2017. We will also welcome Dr. Lori Hart of the Catalyst Agency and Lizz Carter Clark of College Moxie as featured keynote speakers.
Pictured left are Fraternity and Sorority professionals from the MIAA and partner institutions at the 2019 Association of Fraternity / Sorority Advisors Annual Meeting where they met to go over logistics for the inaugural MIAA Greek Executive Leadership Retreat.
Rho Theta Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.
The Rho Theta chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. helped with 2019 Move-In Day.
Represented NPHC at 2019 Organization Fair.
Crowned Miss Black and Gold 2019.
President, Kylan Harrell, became Co-chair of the Student Engagement Committee for Northwest Missouri State University Black Alumni chapter.
Celebrated Founders’ Day by partnering with the Noyes Home located in Saint Joseph, MO, for their first ever “ICE COLD Winter Clothes and Toy Drive”.
Nu Gamma Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.
Nu Gamma kicked off the school year hosting their 2nd Vision Board Party themed “First Things First.” Getting peers engaged and focused on the school year to come.
Nu Gamma Hosted their 2nd Annual All Pink Breakfast for Breast Cancer Awareness this October. The banner was signed by attendees from the breakfast with their names and motivational quotes That was then taken to the Kansas University Cancer Treatment Center.
Nu Gamma held a day of community service on Walk Out Day at Lettuce Dream.
Kiana Harvey (Spring 2019 Initiate) Presenting her Senior Research Science Project at Career Services - Professional Based Learning event.
Alica Trotter (Spring 2019 Initiate) Presenting Scientific research at The American College of Sports Medicine Regional State Conference in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma
Alumna Highlight
Breeana Harron
Spring 2013 Initiate
Graduation Year 2016
BS in Psychology with an emphasis in Child and Family Studies
Breanna has since written and published a book of Poetry with a correlating playlist of original songs Titled Her Favorite Playlist. Recently Breanna came and performed at Take Back the Night an event hosted by C.A.R.E to take a stand against relationship and sexual violence.
Iota Theta Chapter of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, inc.
Hosted our first Achievement Week since our reactivation where we recognized outstanding students and citizens that displayed the upmost of service, scholarship, and involvement within their community.
Hosted a campus wide trash cleanup called Dawg’s Day Owt
Health initiative Wednesday to inform the community about safe sex practices
Helped students get registered to vote
Awarded/recognized students and alum on their superior service and outstanding academic achievement among other peers
We are looking forward to hosting a talent hunt which provides exposure, encouragement, and financial assistance to talented young people participating in the performing arts. Winners are awarded recognition and may be given college scholarships.
Panhellenic Council
Carmen Miller
Panhellenic Council President
Alpha Sigma Alpha
Omaha, Nebraska
Double major in Early childhood Education and Early childhood special education
Prior to election, served as Alpha Sigma Alphas VP of membership education
Currently a member of student senate
Student Ambassador
St. Jude up til Dawn Executive Board
This spring semester, five members of the council will be traveling to the AFLV conference in Indianapolis. “ We look forward to developing our leadership skills there and bringing what we have learned back to the Greek Community”.
“As a council, we look forward to working closely with IFC, NPHC, and the chapters we serve to continue to build the Greek Community and lead it in the right direction”
Alpha Delta Pi
PiHop was our fall philanthropy event, and all the proceeds went to the Ronald McDonald House Charities in Kansas City. We sold tickets for people to come and get all you can eat pancakes.
Date Party was decades themes, where members and their guests all dressed up from different decades.
Mallard Ball is our themed informal, when everyone wears hunting camo.
Our new members got their Big Diamond Sisters, making everyone's’ families a little bigger.
We invited our dads to come to Maryville and bowl for Dad’s Day.
Member Spotlight
Emily Haberer
Emily is a great leader academically, in our sorority, and in the community. She won the Dorothy Shaw Leadership award, and was our 2019 President. She has also received many scholarships such as, the Haines Pre Pharmacy Scholarship, the Doug & Lisa Foster Scholarship, and the Homer Lemar Jr. Scholarship. Outside of Greek life she is involved in Order of Omega, SAACS, Gamma Sigma Epsilon, symphonic band, Bearcat Marching Band (section leader for flutes), and she works at HyVee as a Pharmacy Tech. She will be attending pharmacy school next fall, and we cannot see all that she will accomplish.
Alpha Sigma Alpha
Started the year off by inviting 43 new lovely ladies into our chapter. Our bid day theme was NASCAR with a slogan of “Winning Races Since 1901.”
Brooke Dougherty and Taylor Dorrel came up with the amazing idea to sell puppy chow to raise money for Matt Mason. He was a Navy seal who was killed in combat. Before he became a seal he went to Northwest and married an Alpha Sigma Alpha from Northwest. We raised around $670 for him!
We traveled to Kansas City again to attend Girls on the Run
Our newly elected social chairs Bailee Urban and Brooklyn Nordhues planned our informal in late November which was held at the Legion in Maryville. The theme was “Welcome to Fabulous Maryville.” We dressed out in our Vegas clothes and hit the town.
At our Founder’s Day brunch, we welcomed about six alumni back to celebrate and reflect on the past year. The men of Pi Kappa Alpha also attended with flowers and congratulated us on our successful semester.
Phi Mu
Initiated 42 new members (95% retention rate for new members)
First Place for Panhellenic Study Night (we had the most study hours/members attend Panhellenic study nights)
First Place in Rockin’ for Robby
Another successful annual Run4Jen Philanthropy event
Renovated our chapter room in Roberta with all new furniture, paint, flooring etc.
Member Spotlight
Katie Imhoff
Senior pursuing a double major in Agricultural Business and Communication - Public Relations
Served the Missouri FFA Association as a State Vice President, getting the opportunity to travel the state putting on workshops, delivering speeches, and interacting with stakeholders in agriculture
Student Ambassador
Junior year helped plan homecoming events by being on Homecoming executive board.
Third generation Bearcat and Greek woman
Sigma Kappa
Welcomed 38 new members following formal recruitment
As a chapter, raised over two thousand dollars for our national philanthropy, the Alzhiemers association
Sigma Kappa had the opportunity to participate in the walk to end Alzhiemers walk in Kansas City and volunteer at the St. Joseph walk
Sigma Sigma Sigma
We welcomed 38 women into our chapter through formal recruitment,
Participated in homecoming receiving many awards, and our very own Taylor Felz was crowned homecoming queen!
Hosted our annual Robbie Page event, raise over $1000 for the Robbie Page Foundation!
Over Thanksgiving break, a group of sisters went to Kansas City to participate in a service event with the organization Sleep in Heavenly Peace. They spent part of their break delivering and building beds for 20 kids
Thanks to our alumni, we were able to renovate our chapter room with new furniture and features for our members to enjoy!
We spent a week hosting a cutest baby contest leading up to our Kindergarten Dinner
Member Spotlight
Mary Muir
Junior - Elementary Education and Special Education Double Major.
Mary served on our officer board as Vice President of New Member Education
Works in the Student Success Center of the library.
One of seven students on campus who participated in St. Jude’s Colden Pond Plunge.
Interfraternity Council
Garrett Richie
Interfraternity Council President
Sigma Phi Epsilon
Junior Biochemistry Major
Plans on attending dental school in the Omaha area
Prior to my election as IFC president, I was the VP of Judicial Affairs for IFC
Looking forward to trying new events that incorporated all IFC chapters to increase a sense of community
Council revised the By-laws and Constitution that were proposed to chapters and passed which was a big step forward and will allow for future progress
Plans to continue to strive for community outreach, chapter relationships, and inclusion for all
alpha gamma rho
During celebrate Agriculture week, co-hosted annual canned food drive with the rest of the agriculture department, raised over 3,000 pounds of canned food for the ministry center!
Last semester we were able to take first place in the Greek Challenge that the bowling alley put on!
After that, our executive board will be traveling to St. Louis for our leadership conference with Sigma Alpha.
During spring break, we will be having our annual Green and Gold Classic Steer Show in Chillicothe, Missouri.
Planning to send our barbecue team to Alpha Gamma Rho’s National Barbecue Competition where we placed top-10 overall and took 3rd place in the chicken category last year!
Member Spotlight
Jonathan Bladt
Served on the staff of the United States Senator Chuck Grassley in his Washington D.C. office
Vice Noble Ruler of Finance- 1 term, Co-head of the Steer Show Committee- 3 terms, Chairman of the Constitution Committee- 1 term, and I have served on the IFC Judicial Board for 2 terms
alpha kappa lambda
Welcomed 14 new members in the fraternity
Family weekend football game/dinner with families in the Union Ballroom.
Philanthropy events such as Egg an AKL, and These Hands Don't Hurt promise wall to pledge against domestic violence.
Alumni Spotlight
Ethan Brown
Graduated with Bachelor degrees in Psychology and Sociology from Northwest in 1999.
After college, he managed and improved several Red Lobsters until 2006.
He started his real estate career in 2006 during the middle of the recession.
Last summer, he played a realtor on HGTV's House Hunters Family.
Consistently in the top 1% of all realtors in Nebraska for number of homes sold annually
Lives in Papillion, NE with his wife, and three children, living his best life.
Delta Sigma Phi
One of our members, Cooper Finnicum, was elected to IFC VP of Philanthropy
Won the homecoming recycling contest, with over 1300 lbs of recycling turned in that week. Dedicated a tree for winning the contest
Held the most philanthropy events we have had in recent years, raising money for Breast Cancer Research, Red Cross, Alzheimer's Research, and the Children's Hospital.
Pi kappa alpha
Participated in first Fall Recruitment, 12 new members
Early in the semester, Joined Sigma Society in picking apples in Bedford, Iowa
Apples were donated to the ministry center in Maryville. Donated about 1,000 apples
Hosted our first ever Mom’s Day. Kicked the day off with a 5K event, the Turkey Trot, took them out to brunch, made holiday crafts, and ended the night with some bowling.
Member Spotlight
Kevin Nguyen
Sophomore studying Criminology with a minor in Psychology
Student Coordinator of Diversity and Inclusion on campus
Involved in Student Senate, serving previously as the Freshman Class President, and currently as the Inclusion Committee Chair
Competes on the university Speech and Debate Team, The Speaking Bearcats
Sigma Phi Epsilon
Added 21 new members during fall recruitment
Raised $1000 for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Nodaway County from annual Teeter Totter Event
Two members of IFC, Including Incoming IFC President Garrett Ritchie
Alumni Spotlight
Byron Willis
IFC President '91-92, VP Student Senate '92-93
Homecoming King '93
Belonged to a few University & Greek Honor Organizations
Byron began his career in 1994 at Union Pacific after receiving bachelor degrees in Marketing & Business Management from Northwest Missouri State University. His first Union Pacific Railroad assignment was in the Market Development & Sales Center where he was an Account Representative in the Metals, Minerals, Forest and Automotive Groups
Byron was the 2019 President of Union Pacific’s Black Employee Network (BEN). The mission of BEN is to work with senior leadership to retain and advance diversity with a key focus on the careers of black employees within Union Pacific.
Sigma Tau Gamma
Hosted a volleyball tournament to raise funds for the Children and Family center
New Members hosted a hot chocolate fundraiser for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Nodaway County
In the summer of 2020, will celebrate 100 years since our fraternity was created at national conference in Kansas City
Alumni Spotlight
Nick Smith
Graduated in 2016, BS in Mathematics
Currently a Data Engineer III at Principal Financial Group primarily working in technical design for data integration/warehousing focusing on retirement data for reporting and analytical purposes.
Nick is a founding father of the re-chartering for Theta chapter of Sigma Tau Gamma. He is also a former chapter president for Sigma Tau Gamma
Tau Kappa Epsilon
Toss for a Cause-Cornhole tournament for St. Jude
Had four members attend National Conference in Orlando in early August
Regional Leadership Conference in Chicago in early February
St. Jude Up Till Dawn in February
Meet the Interns
This newsletter would not be possible without the hard work and dedication of our Greek Life Interns! These Greek Leaders volunteer their time and talents to collecting information from each chapter and designing and assembling the newsletter so we are better able to share all of the great things happening in the Greek Community at Northwest.
