AO § jyw ^ inrnn November 11, I96I Brothers, This Is the first of many newsletters which you will be receiving from time to time this year. Their purpose is to give you a better picture of Alpha Iota as it is today. Pardon our boasting, but Alpha Iota of Phi Gamma Delta now stands as one of the leaders in the Greek system at Iowa State. In the past year, we have made substantial improvement in almost every area upon which the worth of an imdergraduate chapter is judged. Scholastically, the house ranked l6th out of 32 fraternities for the 1960-61 school year. The pledges were 3rd, yth and ^i-th for Fall, Winter and Spring quarter, respectively. While this represents a definite improvement, we are working for an even more impressive record this year. Push this year was the best ever. At the end of formal rush, we had 33 pledges, the largest and best class on campus. They are a fine group of young men, and we are expecting great things from them in years to come. In activities. Bob MacDonough was recently selected to be co-chairman of Veishea —probably the most important single position in activities that an Iowa State student can hold, and Tcsn Foster was made Veishea publications chairman, also a Veishea Central Committee position. In other activities, Dick Fickey and Nelson Wheaton were recently initiated into the Knights of St. Patrick, engineering honorary; Jack Gellerstedt and Dan Paul are co-chairmen of the IFC standing committee on scholarship; and Jack Gellerstedt and Bob Green were active in Homecoming events. In athletics, we have three men on the varsity football team, and two on this year's undefeated freshman squad. We also have one varsity and one freshman cross country man. Our social chairman. Ken K\ihles has once again come up with a fine program. We started the year with a party at Gordie Smith's house in Des Moines after the Drake game. Following this we had a hayride, a clash party, numerous informal firesides, and our big fall party, a semi-formal dance at the Nevada country club. The FIJI'S were also the only fraternity at Iowa State to charter a full bus for the brothers and their dates to Kansas University for the annualr-migration game. These are but a few of the things we are pro\ad of. Another is our fine graduate members. We are enclosing a return addressed card with the hopes that you will take a few minutes to let us know what you're doing these days. Please use it, we'd sure like to hear frcan you. Also, start making plans now to attend the best Pig Dinner ever-- the date is April T^h, I962. PergeI Fraternally,