Officers and Other Directors

The Corporation is managed generally by the Board of Directors.  The Bylaws establish nine Directors seats, each with a three-year term.  The terms are staggered so that three expire on June 30^th of each year, which is the last day of the Corporation's fiscal year.  Directors are elected at each Annual Meeting of the Corporation in the spring for terms that begin on July 1^st, which is the first day of the next fiscal year.   

Four Officers are elected at each Annual Meeting from among the Directors who will serve during the next fiscal year.  These are the President, Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer, each of whom is elected to a one-year term for the next fiscal year.  The four Officers constitute the Executive Committee of the Board.

Descriptions of the responsibilities of the Board of Directors, the Officers and the Executive Committee are in Sections 4 and 5 of the Bylaws.

The early Directors of the Corporation have brought a significant breadth of experiences – both in Chi Psi and in the working world to their work.  Collectively, their Chi Psi experiences include the following:

• The 12 past and current Directors are alumni of 10 Alphas of all sizes and longevities – Phi, Sigma, Omicron, Alpha Delta, Epsilon Delta, Psi Delta, Theta Delta, Omicron Delta, Sigma Delta, and Omega Delta. The five current Directors include one alumnus from Omega Delta and four alumni from four other Alphas.

• Two Directors have served while also being on the Chi Psi Executive Council, including the current Chairman of the Council and the current Chairman of the Finance Committee of the Council.   

• One Director was a former Chairman of The Chi Psi Educational Trust.

• Directors have served as #6s, Parliamentarians, Host Committee Chairmen and Chairmen of various Committees of several Annual Conventions of Chi Psi Fraternity.

• One Director is Secretary of the Capital Area Alumni Association of Chi Psi.

• One Director has received the Stanley J. Birge Award as the most outstanding graduating senior in the whole Fraternity. 

• One Director has received the Fraternity's Distinguished Service Award.

• As actives, two Directors served as #1 and one served as #4 at their Alphas.  Many Directors also served as #2, #3, #5, Pledge Educator, Recruitment Chairman, Social Chairman and in additional offices. 

• As actives, two Directors were elected to the Executive Council when the Constitution first allowed one undergraduate representative to be elected from each of the five regions of the Fraternity.

The four current Officers and four other current Directors are listed below, with brief biographical sketches on each man.     

President/Director:  Edmund M. Amorosi, YD `87, is serving his third full term as a Director, after being elected to fill a vacancy in April 2006.  Ed's term runs through June 2009.

Vice President/Director:  Dennis E. Whitfield, AD `71, is serving his third full year as Vice President, after being elected to the office in January 2006 to fill a vacancy.  Dennis was elected a charter member of the Corporation in December 2003 and became the ninth Director in March 2004, thereby filling out the first Board roster.  He is now in his third term as a Director, and the term runs through June 2011.

Secretary/Director: Roger A. Hood, S `54, was an original incorporator of the Corporation and, therefore, is a charter member.  Rod was also an initial Director.  His current term as a Director runs through June 2010.

While an active at Alpha Sigma at the University of North Carolina, Rod served two terms as #1 and also served as #2 and #5.  He was the Chi Psi representative to the Interfraternity Council.

Rod is an active participant in the Capital Area Alumni Association of Chi Psi.

After serving in the U.S. Navy, Rod returned to the U.N.C. Law School and, after receiving his degree, joined the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation where he served in various positions including Assistant General Counsel, Deputy to the Vice Chairman, Deputy to the Chairman, and Chief Operating Officer.  Since retiring in 1999, Roger has served as a consultant to foreign central banks and deposit insurance programs on banking regulatory and deposit insurance matters.

Treasurer/Director: Mark D. Armour, WD `05, is serving his first full term as a Director, after being elected to fill a vacancy in July, 2009.  Mark's term runs through June, 2012. 

While an active at Alpha Omega Delta at George Mason University, Mark served as Academic Chairman, Alpha Historian, Philanthropy Chairman, and started the Alpha Omega Delta Library Collection.

Director:Michael T. Cunningham, QD `85, is serving his first full term as a Director, after being elected to fill a vacancy in April 2006.  Mike's term on the Board runs through June 2009.  Mike served as President for FY 2008.

As an active at Alpha Theta Delta at the University of Washington in Seattle, Mike served as #1, #3, and as chairman of various committees including Social, Rush, and Little Sisters. Mike was in the second pledge class after Alpha Theta Delta was re-founded in 1983.

Mike is a Commander in the United States Coast Guard. In his years with the Coast Guard, he has served in a variety of field units across the country, including Seattle, Los Angeles, Chesapeake, VA, and Pensacola, FL. Mike became an attorney in 1999, and is currently assigned as the Legal Advisor at the Coast Guard’s Deployable Operations Group in Arlington, VA.