Sigma Sigma Phi
Tau Chapter
2007 Report
Sigma Sigma Phi-Tau is in its second year of being a chapter. As with all chapters we aspire to hold a high academic standard and an even stronger mission toward community service. While we were until recently small in numbers we managed to do great work given the short time that we have been established. The class of 2010 has made it a personal mission to go out in the community and do our community service as a group. We believe that many hands make light work and that our impact on the community will be better serviced as a cohesive unit. We are fortunate to attend a school that has numerous clubs and organization still within this environment we aspire to bring SSP to the forefront of the student body organizations. Currently most of our community work has been outside of the medical community, with the addition of our new members we aspire to broaden our involvement to encompass more medically related volunteer work.
Current Projects
On April 21st of 2007 the class of 2010 Sigma Sigma Phi members went to a park in the historical area of Vallejo to help in the city's effort to renovate the park. We chose this event because we wanted to do something that would have an impact on the community around our school. Tom, our contact person, coordinates Vallejo service projects and had held a neighborhood clean up day that we had been unable to attend so he help us organize our own day. He was highly impressed with how much we got done and said that the 13 of us got as much done in six hours as 50 people had at the previous day he had organized. We spent six hours pulling ivy and weeds out around the building at the park. This had to be done before they could repaint the building. All of this work was done in order to make the park safer for children to play in an area which previously had graffiti and gang problems. The community planned on lighting the park at night and putting in a new jungle gym. It was a great event for the newly accepted members to bond and work together as a team outside of school. During this event we had lots of people who lived in the neighborhood around the park come and thank us for helping make the park safe again. This particular park also had specific trees that were the oldest of their species west of the Mississippi so removing some of their competition for water and space was done to help them survive.
This fall we decided to pursue a park clean up at Angel Island. Angel Island’s history, amazing views and recreational facilities make the island a point of interest for tourists and bay area residents alike. Like all parks, preservation of park history and beauty is a necessity and volunteerism is always welcomed and much needed. Therefore, volunteering to clean up a historic landmark in order to maintain a clean and beautiful facility for visitors to enjoy mirrors Sigma Sigma Phi’s mission to provide community service to local communities. Moreover, with San Francisco’s Fleet Week just around the corner, clean up on the Island after the events will be more important than ever.
Angel
Island’s rich history dates back to a time when the Miwok Native American tribe
inhabited what is now Marin County. The Miwok’s resided on the land for
thousands of years before the Spanish laid claim to the island in 1775.
Following years of Spanish control the island eventually served both as a
military base and as a quarantine and immigration station. In between the end
of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th
century, millions of people immigrated to America with the dream of attaining
wealth and prosperity. Immigrants including Australians, New Zealanders,
Canadians, Mexicans, Central and South Americans, Russians, and in particular,
Asians of Chinese decent faced extensive examination and grueling
interrogations upon arrival to the San Francisco Bay. When the Administration
building burned down some years later, the Immigration Station was used by the
U.S. military as a World War II prisoner of war processing center. However,
after the war, Angel Island was abandoned and the traumatic experiences the
Chinese community endured were rarely ever mentioned. After rediscovery of
ancient artifacts and the strong will of preservationists, Angel Island was
declared a National Historic Landmark. Currently, Angel Island not only serves
to promote public education and appreciation of Angel Island’s long history,
but additionally encourages recreational activity.
We recently finished our application process for 2010 members we look forward to getting to know them better and working with them on new community service project. Furthermore we have our application and interview process scheduled for mid January for the class of 2011.
Website
Since Sigma Sigma Phi is a relatively new organization on our campus, we felt that it would be wise to create a website where other students can find out about our projects and Sigma Sigma Phi philosophy. It is also a great way for our members to keep in touch with each other. The website includes our grand chapter mission statement, calendar of events, pictures, contact information, qualification for membership, and other related information. The website was started using a free host but due to excessive advertisements that came along with the service under the advisement of our website manager we eventually upgraded to a paid server that provided us our own domain (http://www.tourossp.com).
Financial
We have been granted a sum of money from the student government organization a portion of which will finance our community service projects. Unto date we have not done a fundraiser for the organization or the community but this is something that we look forward to expanding on in the spring.
Membership
2010 Officers
President: Cristina Muresanu
Vice President: Meghan McClymont
Treasurer: Maura Iezzi
Secretary: Dustin Lopes
Communications: Jedediah Wheeler
Admissions: Joshua Smalley
Admissions: Katrina Dominguez
Admissions: Puja Thakkar
Admissions: Bonnie Chang
Website Manager: Billy Le
Judicial: Justin Virojanapa
Judicial: Lindsey Demetral
2010 Members
Alice Gray
Nasim Gorji
Mary Hung
Steven Leto
Timothy Litwin
Morgan Marcuccilli
Amy Motamed
Derek Orchard
Coral Peterson
Nicholas Sanchez
Diana Sepehri
Ellen Shen
Edward Verceles
2009 Officers
Pin-Chieh Chiang
Annie Lim
Aaron Centric
Kevin Lin
Holly Olivier
Heather Hyun
Jenny Tran
Kien Phung
Bob Kelley
Ian Lee
Alisha McCon
Ryan Brewer
Krystin Cheung
Sarah Fong
2009 Members
Joelle Donofrio
Daun Chung
Jason Comfort
Katayoun Edalat
Brian Fields
Jessica Lehosit
Nhan Pham
Miko Rose
Mike Rozenfeld
Moxie Stratton