2008 Community Service Award for Greek Life Recipient Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity In a tribute for an outstanding commitment to community service, the Rensselaer Alumni Association (RAA) recognized Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity with its Community Service Award for Greek Life at center ice during the first intermission of the Rensselaer vs. UMASS hockey game on Tuesday, October 21, 2008 during Greek Night.

Members of Lambda Chi Alpha

Members of Lambda Chi Alpha have spent over 3,500 hours in community service and in philanthropic activities over the past year. Their activities included:

• Organizing a food drive to benefit the Unity House of Troy.

• Participated in volunteer activities at School 14 in Troy, ranging from mentoring students to helping support the school’s “Back to School Night” for parents and students.

• Created a new philanthropy event called “Rock-a-thon”— 36-hours of continuous rocking in chairs — to raise money for the North American Food Drive, the Unity House of Troy’s Abuse Counseling Program, and the Alpha Gamma Delta Foundation for Juvenile Diabetes.

• Lambda Chi Alpha was able to collect approximately 1,300 pounds of food. Their fundraising efforts throughout the year, from events such as Watermelon Bash, where student organizations, Greek and non-Greek alike, compete in watermelon-themed competition, raised nearly $1,000 for the same cause, an amount equaling a donation of approximately 10,000 pounds of food to the Unity House of Troy in conjunction with the Albany Food Bank in time for Thanksgiving.  Over the last 10 years, the fraternity has collected and donated over 110,000 pounds of food to charitable organizations in the local community.

Lambda Chi Alpha members also have volunteered extensively on the Rensselaer campus, participating in the Institute’s annual “Relay for Life” event, and sponsoring multiple Red Cross blood drives.

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2008 RAA Student Community Service Award Recipient Tamer Khattab '08 The 2008 recipient of the RAA Community Service Award is Tamer Khattab ’08,a senior with a dual major in civil engineering and in science, technology, and society. Tamer has chosen to donate the cash award to Habitat for Humanity. Highlights of Tamer's community service work include:

Tamer Khattab ’08 - Winner of the 2008 RAA Community Service Award

• Current president of Habitat for Humanity, Rensselaer Student and County Chapter.  He has raised nearly $8,700 as fundraising coordinator, helped to coordinate the NRB program, built gingerbread houses for children to decorate at Troy’s Victorian Stroll, and personally volunteered at builds since his freshman year.
• Member of the Red & White Student Organization, where he has been Vice President for Alumni Activities for the past two years and has participated in a great majority of the organizations programs and events.
• Worked with the Arts Center of the Capital Region – Troy in their fundraising department, and help to coordinate Rock Fest!, a one-week summer camp for musically inclined community teens.
• Participant in Rensselaer’s Community Service Days.
• Student Orientation and Navigating Rensselaer and Beyond volunteer for the Office of the First-Year Experience.
• President of Phalanx Honor Society
• Regular blood donor for the American Red Cross.
  
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