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PSUSIG - Yearly Dues (Voluntary) Please remember your past!!
Zeta Iota Alumni
Brothers,
the 2026 alumni dues of 60 dollars or any more amount you would like to donate are due!
Options for payment: Psusig.com (Donate)
mail check: Zeta Iota Alumni Association P.O. Box 7194 Overland Park, KS 66207
Brothers,
We are having a Happy Hour baseball game event. Tom Ross was kind enough to secure a suite for us.
The cost will be $20 & donations. The alumni association will pay for some food and drinks
Date: Thursday Aug 6, 2026
Tom and I need a head count for food and drinks.
Please email or call me if you are interested in coming so we
the 2026 alumni dues of 60 dollars or any more amount you would like to donate are due!
options for payment:
Psusig.com (Donate)
mail check:
Zeta Iota Alumni Association
P.O. Box 7194 Overland Park, KS 66207
What's NEW!!!
It’s a Great Day for the Zeta Iota Sigs! Our chapter received, for the third year in a row, Fraternity of the year. Along with the New Member education award and Outstanding Philanthropy/Community Service award.
Brother Owen Mall received a national award from the NIC being named the only D2, Outstanding IFC President for the 2025 school year, along with leading the whole IFC Exec to receive Outstanding IFC for the 2025 school year.
Myself, the current IFC president, lead our fraternity community into winning Organization of the year as well as Collaboration of the year. To top it off I received the $1000 Jack William and Mary Clyde Newman Wintle Scholarship, it is a prestigious award recognizing undergraduate students for exceptional leadership ability and significant contributions to campus life.
Thank you for your continued support for this amazing chapter!
Upcoming Events - BROTHERHOOD WORK DAY
Please Help!!
Brothers,
On Saturday July 25th from 8-5 pm we are asking if you can come and help with projects around the chapter house in Pittsburg to get the Fraternity ready for the upcoming school year.
We will have Burgers, Brats and Beer for all who come.
For any questions reach out to
Greg light
(816) 709-7904
About ZETA IOTA
History of Our Chapter of Sigma Chi Fraternity
Xi Omega Fraternity was founded in the fall of 1960 at then Kansas State College of Pittsburg with the primary intention of becoming a chapter of Sigma Chi Fraternity. There were fourteen founders—Charles Barnes, James Bartelli, Jerry Bonewitz, Warren Bradfield, Henry Buscher, David Crockett, Cecil Deel, Bill Hawkins, Ken Ladek, Tom McCourt, Pat Poole, Charles Shell, Jon Solomon, and Don Wilson—many of whom were in their mid-20s, several having already served four years in the U.S. military. They were a mature group of young men who set maturity and respect as baseline tones of Xi Omega Fraternity, and they rented the fraternity’s first house at 811 S. Broadway.
Xi Omega then purchased its first chapter-owned house at 1714 S. Broadway in the early summer of 1963. The original “1714” was located at what is now the Pi Kappa Alpha house, but that specific address moved next door when the fraternity purchased that property and built a new home a number of years later.
Zeta Iota Chapter of Sigma Chi Fraternity was chartered on December 13, 1964. There were 60 Charter Members, and John Bumgarner served as the chapter’s initial Consul.
From its inception, the fraternity was strongly supported by John and Berndette O’Rourke. Mrs. O’Rourke was the secretary to Dr. Denmar Cope, the college’s Dean of Administration and the first Chapter Advisor to Xi Omega Fraternity, serving as our Chapter Advisor for nearly six years. The O’Rourkes were a wonderful couple with no children, and they supported the chapter in numerous and generous ways until their passing, John in November of 1980 and Berndette in November of 1984. In many ways, our fraternity had become their surrogate children.
During the fraternity’s early years, there were few alumni, and the function of “alumni relations” was basically performed by the Zeta Iota House Association, a corporation legally formed when the first home was purchased in 1963. In the fall of 2003, the Zeta Iota Alumni Association was formed, with George Lampe serving as the first president.
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