The Iona College community lost Class of 2015 member Andrew Gregg April 13.

Gregg, a native of Albany, N.Y., was a member of the fraternity Delta Upsilon. He joined the fraternity after he transferred to Iona from SUNY Plattsburgh in his junior year. He was a Finance major. Gregg was 25 and would have turned 26 on April 19.

Junior Alex Fasano, who completed new member education with Gregg, acknowledges the difficult time the fraternity is experiencing with the loss.

“It’s been rough,” Fasano said of the process the fraternity has gone through in grieving.

Senior Jerimy Taylor, also a member of Gregg’s new member education class, echoed Fasano, adding, “I was with him every day for so long.”

Because he was so involved, Gregg’s passing has had an immense impact on the fraternity.

“He loved DU with all his heart,” senior Akil Cardoza said.

“He loved to come back and meet the new guys,” Taylor said.

Cardoza was incredibly close with Gregg, as Gregg helped him through the process of joining the fraternity as his “big.” Though Cardoza only knew Gregg for a semester before he graduated, they spent as much time together as they could. Every time Gregg came to Iona to visit, Cardoza and he would spent time together. Every Friday night while Gregg was still at Iona, Gregg would invite Cardoza over to watch the TV show “Drunken History” with him.

Gregg also loved to work out, and once convinced another fraternity brother to work out as well.

“He was always there when we were hanging out,” Fasano said.

Cardoza noted that, while he never held an executive board position, Gregg would help in any way he could and would volunteer for anything a brother needed. Gregg was not involved in many groups on campus; he dedicated all of his time to his fraternity brothers.

“Whatever he set his mind to, he did,” Cardoza said. “He was a role model to me, not just me, but everybody.”

“He is the only kid to wear designer clothes and drive a station wagon,” Taylor said. “Andy was never someone who cared what people thought.”

Taylor also described Gregg as “a great kid, great friend, great brother.”

Gregg was visiting New Rochelle for a brother’s birthday and passed away in the house of other graduated fraternity brothers. The current fraternity brothers found out about his passing the following morning. Later that day, current and former members of the fraternity got together to remember Gregg. The brothers made a small memorial to Gregg, which included pictures and some things to remember him by.

Gregg had been offered a job on Wall Street and was looking for places in New York City to live and commute to work from, as he was living upstate before his death.

The funeral was held April 18 in Albany. Many of the current brothers of DU made the trip upstate to support Gregg’s family. A memorial service is scheduled for April 26 near the Ginkgo tree on the campus quad, and will be hosted by Delta Upsilon and the Office of Mission and Ministry. The memorial will have all the rituals that brothers of Delta Upsilon across the country use to honor their brothers.

 “We’ve gotten so many prayers and condolences,” Fasano said.

The brothers expressed their thanks to Greek life as a whole as well as Br. J. Kevin Devlin and Mission and Ministry for their support in this time of grief.