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April 15, 2002
Tim Birner To Be Sigma Chi Leadership Consultant
The Sigma Chi International Fraternity has announced its new Leadership Consultant staff for the 2002-2003 school year. Valparaiso Sig Tim Birner (’02) was one of seven chosen out of over sixty applicants to join the ranks of the staff at Headquarters in Evanston, IL.
Sigma Chi Leadership Consultants spend the year travelling the country, sharing the message of Sigma Chi with each of the undergraduate chapters. After completion of a 12-week training program, each LC is assigned approximately 30 chapters with which he is to work with throughout the 2002-2003 academic year. Most of their time will be spent traveling throughout North America, sitting down with undergraduate chapters to talk about improvement, obligations, and overall relations between the local chapter and the international fraternity.
Tim begins his term as a Leadership Consultant on June 17, when he will move up to Evanston to live with the other LC’s to undergo an intensive 12 week training program. Their first responsibilities will be to help with the planning and execution of the Balfour Leadership Training Workshop (held at Murray State, Kentucky this year) as well as preparation for Grand Council, both to be held this summer.
“I feel that a role as a Leadership Consultant would give me an opportunity to help to facilitate improvements in the fraternity that I love, while allowing for personal growth,” commented Birner. “I believe that I have acquired the skills necessary to help undergraduate brothers across this country lead their respective chapters into the future of Sigma Chi. I can only imagine that such an experience will yield more personal growth than I could ever imagine, as I look forward to further involvement as a Sigma Chi alumnus.”
Tim joins Frank Dale (’99) as the only Iota Sigs to serve the fraternity as Leadership Consultants.
Tim is a senior Political Science major and History minor, with plans to graduate this May. He hails from St. Louis, MO, but was born and spent a great deal of his childhood in Papua, New Guinea. In March he will be taking the Foreign Service Oral Exam in Washington, D.C., after first passing the written exam. If he passes that hurdle, he hopes to enter the U.S. Foreign Service after his one-year term as an LC expires, possibly returning to his native New Guinea.
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