Congrats to our esteemed Brother Scott Andrews, who’s recently joined the national Sigma Pi Executive Office staff!
His job: regional director within the Member Services Department, meaning he’s tasked with supporting the needs of chapters, colonies and alumni clubs.
Scott started his new role in mid-August and he has 23 chapters and one colony (as of now), and his job gives him the chance to travel throughout the Midwest to his various schools — including the Detroit area chapters and his own Zeta-Pi Chapter!
This is exciting news, to have one of our own local guys elevated to the National level as a staff member. He joins the roster of our Zeta-Pi Brothers who’ve worked for national through the years, including Brother Rob Pankau who served as Grad Herald for three years.
Of course, this new role means Scott will be moving to Tennessee where our Sigma Pi HQ is based.
Though we’re sad to be losing him locally, he’ll still be in the Midwest and won’t be far off. Not to mention that part of his job will involve returning to Michigan every so often.
Based on Sigma Pi’s Executive Office Staff listings online, it appears Scott is one of 5 regional directors at the national level (and it’s pretty awesome to note that two of those guys are from Michigan — as Brother Scott Courter from U-D Mercy was also named as a regional director the same day as Scott).
In the official press release announcing this news, Sigma Pi Executive Director Jason Walker (Georgia ’96) offered this statement:
“After a long search, Scott Andrews and Scott Courter stood out as the best candidates to add to the Executive Office staff. Both bring great passion and drive for our organization and will work hard to help Sigma Pi further its quest for excellence with both our undergraduate and alumni members. We look forward to their contributions to the Fraternity.”
Scott also offered this statement in that same PR announcement:
“This opportunity to work for the Executive Office of Sigma Pi is not only an honor, but it has been a lifelong dream,” he said. “To build and strengthen our undergraduate chapters while assisting in the development of character, diversity and leadership in our membership has been a longtime passion. I am beyond thrilled to apply my energies to the Regional Director position of our amazing brotherhood for many years ahead.”
Anyone who’s been a part of our OU chapter during the past 20 years or so knows Scott — he’s a fixture for our Brothers. He initiated in March 1994 as part of the Rho pledge class.
His National ID: #66665.
During his years at Oakland, Scott studied political science and many of the Brothers who followed him in the Zeta-Pi Chapter have fond memories of him being a man of good conversation, quick-wit and a trivia-tuned mind. Many hold Scott in high regard as a “historian” of sorts, given his passion to connect the dots in our Chapter’s history and just sharing stories from throughout the years.
Professionally over the past 15 years, Scott worked primarily as a retail security supervisor at places like Somerset Mall in Troy. He notably obtained his EMT license, and works specifically with geriatric patients.
As to Sigma Pi, he’s been an alumni volunteer and advisor for many years — for our own local Zeta-Pi Chapter and beyond. Scott served as Chapter Director of the Gamma-Omega Chapter at Wayne State University for three years, and he also had previously been on the Advisory Board for our Zeta-Pi Chapter.
Personally, I have to say this: I’m so incredibly proud of Scott, who is my Big Brother.
He’s one of the first to introduce me to Sigma Pi back in my new undergraduate days in 97, and without him I probably wouldn’t have connected with or joined this Fraternity. I owe a lot to this man, and I consider him a good friend, and it’s straight from the heart that I congratulate him on this accomplishment.
All of us within the Zeta-Pi Chapter and beyond are lucky to have you working for Sigma Pi, Brother Andrews!
