Meet Jared Buese, our member spotlight for the month of February 2019! Jared is currently a sophomore studying electrical engineering, and he’s both our Activities and St. Pat’s committee head. Some of his interests include building useful things, physical or otherwise - in fact, he even used an Arduino to build a Quiz-Bowl button system.
As activities head, his main goal has been to help increase the brotherhood within the chapter and to create and plan fun events for all members of the chapter. Keeping with a “Game Night” theme, some of the activities he’s planned include a Jeprody-style game and Bowling marathon. Jared has also been planning our biannual brotherhood retreat, taking advice from our former Prytanis Michael Taylor. Ultimately, he’s been active in bringing together the interests of members of the chapter and helping to get people together for fun brotherhood-building events.
Thanks to his initiative as chair of St Pat’s - Overall committee, TKE is currently in first place for St. Pat’s 2019! Similar to his goals as activities chair, Buese has been bringing together the house with the common goal of winning St. Pat’s. He always wanted to see strong house participation in all manner of St. Pat’s events - and since we’re all working towards a common goal, he’s helped strengthen our brotherhood as well. So far, TKE has performed in every Green Friday, gotten first place in Trivia, aced the shamrock hunt, and gathered plentiful shallegilies to gather snake heads with. We’ve even been recommended to build the Queen’s Float!
Jared has also been active with Parent’s Club. During his freshmen year, he enjoyed seeing the parents have a good time and see what our brotherhood is like. His own parents have even given a number of suggestions for increasing participation on Parents’ Days, which he’s started to help implement.
Jared’s favorite memories of TKE are when the whole house gets together for an event. During our first Green Friday this semester, he noted “it was so good to see so many of us participating and having fun - one of the St. Pat’s Board members even commended on how high energy we were!”. He can’t wait for our upcoming TKE Trivia Night to see all of our brothers working together to raise money for St. Jude.