ABOUT THE IOTA KAPPA CHAPTER
The Iota Kappa Chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia was founded on May 15th, 1960 at
Lebanon Valley College in Annville, Pennsylvania. Since then we have been providing quality music service to both Lebanon Valley College and the surrounding community.
At the college, our chapter is involved in such groups as the Pride of the Valley Marching Band, Jazz Band, Concert Choir, and Wig and Buckle. Our chapter is accredited with the founding of the jazz band on camps, which is still in operation today. Also along with the Sisters of the Delta Alpha Chapter of Sigma Alpha Iota and Wig and Buckle, the colleges theater company, we help put on the annual fall musical. Other events include the Annual Reynaldo Rovers Recital, the Walt Smith music concert and other music events around campus.
Who We Are
The Current Chapter
Our chapter has 26 active members. Listed here are the current officers of the Iota Kappa Chatper:
Adam Rabenold - President
Julian Gerace - VP/Music Director
Nicholas Harman - VP/Fraternal Education Officer
Samuel Porter - Treasurer
Joshua Hartman - Secretary
Zachary Sheppard - Warden/Chaplin/Parliamentarian
Kevin Gane & Dean Howey - Province Interaction
Joseph Swartz - Alumni Relations
Dean Howey - AFEO/Social Director
Kevin Gane - Historian
Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia is the world’s oldest and largest secret national fraternal society in music. Sinfonia was born on October 6, 1898, at the New England Conservatory in Boston, when a group of thirteen young men under the guidance of Ossian Everett Mills "to consider the social life of the young men students of that institution [and] to devise ways and means by which it might be improved." Sinfonia became a national fraternity on October 6, 1900, with the admission of a group of men at the Broad Street Conservatory in Philadelphia. For over a century, Sinfonians in nearly every field of study and professional endeavor have transformed music in America. The opportunity of becoming a Sinfonian is offered to as many men as possible who, through a love for music, can assist in the fulfillment of the Fraternity’s Object and ideals either by adopting music as a profession, or by working to advance the cause of music in America.
- From Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia National website. For more information about Phi Mu Alpha, please visit our links page.