By Dalton Lee, Baldwin Wallace ’11

*Executive Office Staff on Founders Day 2022*

Following March of 2020, nearly all aspects of life had changed, including the long-standing art of office culture. Cracking jokes around the water cooler and popping into someone's office to catch up was replaced by fun slack channels and zoom hangs. Now, over two years later, life and work are finding their way back to normalcy. Outside of the restrictions that the COVID-19 pandemic posed, the Phi Kappa Tau Executive Offices don’t often get to operate at full capacity. With the constant need for employees to travel to various conferences, campuses, and events, our staff can be like ships passing in the night. In a proper celebration of Phi Tau’s 116th birthday, the Fraternity’s full-time staff worked their schedules around to spend a week working together and celebrating our organization.

With all hands on deck, the celebration of our Founders Day felt a bit more special. Working together as the week ramped up to the second annual Founders Day of Giving—on the hallowed ground where our organization came to life—was a leap forward in the route to life and office culture returning to normal. Complete with a lunchtime potluck of all the best traditional St. Patrick’s Day foods, our staff was truly thankful for this opportunity to celebrate this organization and its founding together.