This spring semester has been one of great achievement for Zeta Psi in Canada, and it will be even more prominent this summer.  As many readers of the Canadian Quarterly are aware, Zeta Psi will hold its 161st annual convention in one of North America's great cities, Montreal, August 13-16.  I am looking forward to greeting many of my Canadian Brothers at our annual social gathering, which is also the venue of the International Fraternity's business meetings and the Capozzoli Leadership Institute.
 
Because of our commitment to improve Zeta Psi's standing as the first fraternity in Canada, the Fraternity's Executive Committee authorized retaining the services of Brandon Gurley of our Tau Theta Chapter to visit all our Canadian chapters and to spearhead a revitalization of our Alpha Theta Chapter at the University of Waterloo.  With much assistance from Rob MacMullen, the President of the Zeta Psi Foundation of Canada and former Canadian Development Director, their recruitment efforts in Waterloo have helped save that chapter, which was in danger of becoming dormant due to decreased membership.  And an offshoot of their recruitment programs was to renew our attempt to establish a Zeta Psi chapter at Brock University.  Also of note was that two of Zeta Psi's longtime chapters in Ontario-the Theta Xi and Theta Phi chapters-recruited and initiated spring pledge classes (adding to their fall pledge classes) for the first time in recent memory.  All in all, it has been a great year for Zete in Canada.
 
Canadian Zetes also played a major role in Zeta Psi becoming the first intercontinental fraternity, as Zetes from our chapters in Toronto, Montreal, Winnipeg, Edmonton and Halifax, plus a handful of Canadian Zetes living in England, all had a hand in the initiation and installation of thirty charter brothers of the Iota Omicron Chapter at the University of Oxford on May 3rd.
 
My first Zeta Psi convention was in Halifax in 1971.  As I end my term of office as Zeta Psi's 131st Phi Alpha, I will come full circle by attending my 38th consecutive convention in another great Canadian city!  I can't be more proud to be the leader at that event for what has been the first International Fraternity since 1879 (with 125 years in Montreal), and now the first and only intercontinental fraternity.
 
I hope to see many of you in Montreal in two months!
Always in Tau Kappa Phi, Greg McElroy, Phi Alpha CXXXI.