DKE extends a warm welcome to new Virginia Tech students, returning Hokies and visiting alumni. We’re gearing up for an exciting year – our 67th at Virginia Tech – filled with football tailgates, social events, alumni reunions and the usual DKE House scene.
Over the summer our new active leadership and our Alumni Board have been working together to position the fraternity for aggressive growth and a busy calendar of events.
As we gear up for fall recruitment, we’d like to invite all new students to come see what makes DKE special. Come visit the house – we’re the big house on the right side of Roanoke Street, with the big white columns. There’s sure to be something going on.
Stay tuned for more information about fall Rush.
Congratulations to DKE’s 2008 graduates:
- Sam Dibert (Political Science)
- Elliott Fouts (Computer Science)
- Dan Sexton (Biology)
Best of luck!
Congratulations to the 10 new brothers initiated to DKE for Spring 2008
- Christopher Brice Barrett is an engineering major from Mount Lebanon, PA
- Aleksander Vladimirovich Drozdetski is a physics and mathematics major from Kimry Russia
- Alex James Maier is a computer science major from Rockville, MD
- Anthony Michael Palumbo is in university studies and is from Dillsburg, PA
- Cameron Matthew Percia is a political science major from Orlando, FL
- Samuel Adam Rose is a life sciences major from Fairfax Station, VA
- Jake Alexander Rutstein is a political science major from Burke, VA
- Jason Michael Spooner is a chemical engineering major from Marshfield, MA
- Gabriel Clavijo Williams is an engineering major from Aandale, VA
- John Cox Wood III is a management major from Richmond, VA
We are all extremely proud to have initiated these guys and look forward to their contributions to the fraternity.
We’ve just corrected an error in our Update Records form. If you tried to use it earlier and it did not give you a confirmation message, please submit it again. We apologize for the inconvenience. Thanks for helping us build our contact list!
We’ve just finished and sent the latest Alumni newsletter, containing news about the Capital Campaign, house renovation project and other upcoming events. Look for it in your mailbox shortly, or download the PDF.
If you’re not receiving our newsletter, please submit your current contact information using our Update Records form.
Mark your calendars for Saturday, April 19: We are arranging an Open House/Alumni Association Gathering before and after the VT football Spring Game.
We will be showing off the completed attic and second floor renovations. The contractor and architect will be present along with the House Committee members to give tours and answer questions.
Please take the time to visit for some refreshments, to view the renovation progress and see brothers. Families are welcome. We had a large turnout for the Alumni Meeting last fall and hope to repeat it!
We currently have a lot of missing brothers in our e-mail list. One of our 2008 goals is to increase e-mail communications to reduce expensive print mailings.
This will allow us to refocus funds on priorities like events and house renovations.
We’ve sent two e-mail newsletters thus far and will soon send a third. If you’re not getting these e-mails, please update your records so we have the right e-mail address!
Help us find lost brothers: please tell all brothers you keep in touch with about the newsletter, and ask them to visit this website to update their records using the link at the top.
And don’t forget, any time your contact information changes, please let us know using the Update Records link.
VT DKE alumnus Dave Calhoun (Spring ’76) picked up some more press coverage in the latest issue of Fortune magazine.
You can read the whole article at Fortune‘s website by clicking here.
The article, “Made to Measure”, describes his management successes as CEO of The Nielsen Company, which he took over in 2006.
Dave is just another example of successful DKE alumni… check out our list of Famous Dekes.
Open fraternity rush begins Wednesday, January 30. Delta Kappa Epsilon invites interested men to meet the brothers and learn about the fraternity at a variety of events over the coming weeks.
More information can be found on our Join DKE page. An introduction to the Fraternity, the Chapter and the brotherhood can be found on our Fraternity and Chapter pages.
With DKE you can develop enduring friendships throughout your college years and beyond. We look forward to meeting you. Email us to learn more.

Rush Chairman Patrick Mellonas (mellonas@vt.edu) with BC Moose.