Alpha Delta Phi – BC Chapter

A new section has been added to our website – the composite pictures under the “About Us” tab, which can be found here. Since our founding in 1926 our chapter has taken a yearly composite photo of all members, and occasionally the house dog. Unfortunately, due to neglect, theft, and a flood, many of these priceless photos have been destroyed or lost to time. This section contains all remaining composite photos for the history of Alpha Delta Phi – BC chapter.

An integral part of Alpha Delta Phi’s existence does not come from within the brotherhood; there are some exemplary women (inside of sororities and out) who dedicate much of their time to furthering our fraternity. The long list of how these women further our fraternity is endless, but without them we could not have produced our winning Gammies video, we wouldn’t have rushed all of our current members, and we certainly wouldn’t have some of our closest friends. A long standing tradition of the brothers of Alpha Delta Phi is to award these commendable ladies the Alpha Delta Girls award, a title reserved for the most selfless female companions of our fraternity. This year’s Alpha Delta Girls award goes to, from left to right, Robyn Kimberly, Zoë Neary, Jenni Murdoch, Mackensie Lintz, Erin Templeton, and Miranda Thorne. Congratulations girls! Thank you for your dedication!

While toasting all the friends we love,

Oh let us not forget,

The lovely ones whose memories,

are ling’ring with us yet.

Old Horace wrote of rosy lips;

Bright eyes and sunny curls.

He could have had no fairer text

Than the Alpha Delta Girls.

The biggest rec event of the year, Storm the Wall, has come and gone, and has now been won THREE years in a row campus-wide by the brothers of Alpha Delta Phi! These athletic Alpha Delts won first and third place in the Hindmarch division, and then the A Team, the Phiolators, went on to win campus-wide, having an incredible best time of 13:18!! Not only did we win Storm the Wall, but this victory secured the Hindmarch Division Sports Trophy to be at Alpha Delta Phi for the 2012/2013 year! This coveted trophy is won by having the most sports points of the year, which are obtained by participating and winning in sports and rec events. Lets keep these achievements stacking up!

Pictured above, from left to right: Matthias Kempe, sprinter, Seth Tigchelaar, swimmer, Luka Bogdanovich, biker, Mario Mendez, runner, and Connor Morgan-Lang, wall guy. Congratulations on this incredible display of athleticism!

Storm the Wall is a relay race consisting of a 9 length swim, 400 meter sprint, 9 lap bike race, 2km run and finally, the biggest challenge, the 12 foot wall that all members must scale.  100% of the members of Alpha Delta Phi participated on 26 mens and co-rec teams, where almost all of them advanced at least to the second round. Luka Bogdanovich and Justin Locke participated in the Super Ironman and Ironman, respectively, which means that they did the entire race by themselves. The difference is that Ironman gets one person on top of the wall to help them up, where Super Ironman gets up the 12 foot wall by themselves. More pictures of the event can be found on the Alpha Delta Phi – BC chapter’s facebook page.

Pictured above, Alpha Delta Phi’s team that came third place in the Hindmarch division. From left to right: Kyron Harvett, swimmer, Martin Matusiak, sprinter, Scott Macdonald, biker, Kevin Lagewag, wall guy, and Shomai Cohen, runner.

Pictured above: Luka Bogdanovitch successfully completes the Super Ironman by scaling the wall, subsequently scaring everyone else away from the event.

RUUUUUUUUUUUUUULLLLE BRITAAANIIAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!

Congrats to the Phiolators, Alpha Delta Phi’s soccer team, for winning the men’s 11 A side soccer REC league! Through dedication and perseverance, the 16 team members laced up and took home first place overall.

Pictured left to right. Top row: Shamai Cohen, David MacFayden, Lenox Yim, Michael Moll, Matt Campbell, Sunil Suvarna, Federico Ziza, Justin Locke, Connor Morgan-Lang. Centre row: Alan King, Chris Hill, Kurtus Hancock, Matthias Kempe, George Toews. Front row: Vivaswan Venkat, Rudra Bajpal.

Way to go guys! Keep up the Alpha Delt spirit!

Rule Britannia!!!!!!

A team of Alpha Delta Phi entrepreneurs was announced the winner of the University Mobile
Challenge at the GSMA World Mobile Congress in Barcelona on March 1, beating out student
teams from around the world with their mobile app that could change the future of event
ticketing.

The goodnights app provides a convenient paperless event ticketing solution. Users can buy
tickets on their phone and then use the phone to gain access to events. The app further helps
fans, artists and promoters by addressing the resale of tickets in the same mobile platform,
allowing the simple and safe transfer of tickets between people. Capitalizing on the inherently
social nature of events, the goodnights app also allows fans to co-ordinate their social activities
as well as promote their favorite artists by sharing ticket purchases directly on their social
networks.
The team consists of Sauder School of Business Commerce student Michael Moll, Commerce/
Computer Science student Jeff Blake and Justin Locke also a UBC student in the Faculty of
Arts and a member of the same UBC fraternity who saw the vision, joined the team and provided
funding to get the venture incorporated and off the ground. The trio has known each other for a
number of years and Blake and Moll met at commerce orientations in their first year and hit it off
right away. They all share a deep passion for tech, people and entrepreneurship which is a key
driver for their success, and already have a few start up attempts under their belts.

They were selected as the UBC entry in the competition run by the Berkeley Mobile International
Collaborative (BMIC) after winning the entrepreneurship@UBC Hackathon event with their
goodnights app at the start of the year. They were then selected by BMIC as one of the 14
teams from countries including France, Egypt, UK, India and the USA to compete in Barcelona
at the World Mobile Congress. After a two-day bootcamp, competitors pitched their apps to a
panel of 3 judges, from various industries connected to mobile, before being announced winners.
After winning the entrepreneurship@UBC Hackathon, the company is also now occupying office
space in the new entrepreneurship@UBC facility and is receiving support from the Start-up
Services Voucher program offered by the UBC University-Industry Liaison Office through the
entrepreneurship@UBC initiative.

The team recently formed Good Nights Entertainment to bring the app to market and have now
launched their first iPhone and Android versions of the app. By providing a paperless system
with low overheads and a simple mechanism for promoters and artists, and by serving the
significant ticket resale market, the company is now looking to attract additional venues,
promoters and ticket buyers who can all benefit from the smaller transaction fee being charged.
Blake closed the goodnights pitch in Barcelona with “We do it for the creators, the artists, the
athletes and performers. For the celebration of that pure experience of human ability. Live. And
that’s what’s good.” And with that goodnights is set on its mission to change the world of tickets.

The elections for the IFC, the Inter-Fraternity council, were held today. The IFC is the body that sets in place an agreed set of rules and standards that the fraternities at UBC adhere to. Three members of Alpha Delta Phi have been elected to the IFC! From left to right, brother Yaniv Pereyaslavsky was elected as second vice president/rush chairman, brother Scott MacDonald was elected as treasurer, and brother Federico Ziza was elected as third vice president/public relations chair. As members of this fraternity we all strive to be the best men we can be, in all social, political, and intellectual aspects, and these three show exemplary qualities in all these categories. Let’s make this a great year!

RULE BRITANNIA!!