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05/13/2013
The purpose of the Beta Leadership Fund is to provide the financial resources that staff and operate the Men of Principle initiative, the Fraternity's award-winning leadership programs, the educational Foundation and important alumni outreach activities.
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The Bridge Builder Society is reserved for Betas of Friends of Beta who have chosen to leave a legacy for the future of Beta Theta Pi through their will or estate plans. Nearly 200 Betas and Friends of Beta have made the Beta Foundation beneficiaries of estate gifts such as bequests, life insurance policies, charitable remainder trusts, charitable gift annuities, living revocable trusts, or various retirement plans.
If you have included the Beta Foundation in your will or estate plans, or would like more information for doing so, please contact Foundation Director Jonathan Brant, Miami ’75 (link to directory page) at 513-523-7591.
The essence of The Bride Builder Society is best summarized by The Bridge Builder poem:
The Bridge Builder
An old man going a lone highway
Came in the evening, cold and gray,
To a chasm vast, both deep and wide,
The old man crossed in the twilight dim;
The swollen stream was as naught to him;
But he stopped when safe on the farther side
And built a bridge to span the tide.
“Old man,” said a fellow pilgrim near,
“You are wasting your strength in labor here;
Your journey will end with the closing day,
You never again will pass this way.
You've crossed the chasm deep and wide
Why build you this bridge at eventide?”
The laborer lifted his old gray head,
“Good friend, in the path I have come,” he said,
“There followeth, after me today
A youth whose feet must pass this way.
This chasm which has been naught to me
To that young man may a pitfall be.
He, too, must cross in the twilight dim.
Good friend, I am building this bridge for him.”
~Miss Will Allen Dromgoole
Bridge Builder Society - Leaving a Legacy for Those Who FollowThe Bridge Builder Society is reserved for Betas and Friends of Beta who have chosen to leave a legacy for the future of Beta Theta Pi through their will or estate plans. Nearly 200 Betas and Friends of Beta have made the Beta Foundation beneficiaries of estate gifts such as bequests, life insurance policies, charitable remainder trusts, charitable gift annuities, living revocable trusts, or various retirement plans. For a membership list of The Bridge Builder Society, click here. If you would like to join The Bridge Builder Society, simply complete the Planned Gift Verification Form and mail it to the Beta Theta Pi Foundation. Below is suggested language when naming the Beta Foundation in your will: "I give, devise and bequest to the Beta Theta Pi Foundation, 5134 Bonham Road, Oxford, Ohio, 45056 _______% of my estate. The Federal Tax Identification Number of the Beta theta Pi Foundation is 80-0296934." If you would like sample language to use in your will for other options when benefiting the Beta Foundation, click here. If you would like more information about The Bridge Builder Society, please contact Foundation Director Jonathan Brant, Miami ’75 at 513-523-7591. The essence of The Bride Builder Society is best summarized by The Bridge Builder poem: The Bridge BuilderAn old man going a lone highway |
