WAR EAGLE FIJI ALPHA UPSILON . . . PHI GAMMA DELTA Phi Gamma Delta, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama YOUNG CABINET TAKES OFFICE Alpha Upsilon has chosen its new 1971-72 cabinet during the past quarter. This year's cabinet is uni que because all officers chosen, ex cept the president, are sophomores. With fraternity problems, national requirements,and personal academic pressures this cabinet has its work cut out for it, but the men elected for the cabinet positions seem well qualified for their leadership posi tions. Elected as president for 1971-72 was Ken Farmer who is the only junior elected to an office. Ken is in Pre-Med and has been very active in chapter and campus activities. In the first few weeks of his tenure. Ken has shown good leadership abil ity and with the full cooperation of the brotherhood,he should prove to be one of the best presidents yet. The members of the 1971 cabinet pictured here are (from left to right) first row, Tommy- Dick, Corresponding Secretary; Danny Lowery, Recording Secretary;(second row) Johnny Crawford, Treasurer; Mike Murray, Historian; Ken Farmer, President. AT IFC CONFERENCE DR. HAUSER, GUEST SPEAKER Dr. William Hauser, national Archon president, was special guest For the post of treasurer, the chapter elected Johnny Crawford. Johnny is in Business Administra tion and has already put his business speaker at an inter-fratemity leader ship conference held at the S.A.E. know-how into effective use. He has each fraternity a deeper insight into what fraternity means and to em overhauled the fraternity's account ing system and improved the finan cial dealings. Brother Crawford is house. The meeting was organized the good that the Greek system has done such as contributing one bil lion dollars each year to social ser to give prospective leaders from vices projects. phasize the need for alert and ef fective leadership. his shoulders and has dedicated him The evening began with a dinner at which everyone was introduced self to his position. Danny Lowery, a Business major, and ideas were exchanged. After aware of the tremendous load on day if the fraternity system is to continue to survive. He pointed out was elected to the office of record the meal, everyone adjourned to the living room where Dr. Hauser ing secretary. Brother Lowery has already as a part of his job taken time during the Spring break to be gin a revision of the By-Laws and spoke. Dr. Hauser outlined the history of fraternities in the U.S. He pointed out that despite the enormous pres Dr. Hauser emphasized the im portance of brotherhood in the fra ternity system. He also made it clear that each member of each fra ternity should strive to live the ritual of his respective fraternity. He ended his speech by urging each fra ternity to unite and cooperate in every way possible to secure the House-Rules and his dedication to sure against the Greek system,it has this task is noteworthy. Also, he is working on the compiling of all the old minutes of past chapter meet ings. (cont. pg. 4) survived. He attributed this to the survival of the Greek system. After Dr. Hauser's speech, infor mal discussion was carried on by members of each fraternity repre sented. A great deal of insight was gained from the meeting and every effective leadership offered in the one present went away with a strong past. He emphasized the need for a er dedication to the Greek system. concerned and effective leader to \r\nSpring, 1971 JACK RILEY, TEACHER ALPHA UPSILON AND BROTHER The Secretary-Treasurer of the newly founded Greater Auburn Graduate Chapter has been closely connected to Alpha Upsilon since its early growing years. This Fiji, Jack RUey, who is a 1967 graduate of Auburn, was a member of the undergraduate chapter between the years 1963-67 and has been closely WAR EAGLE FIGI Editor: Dave Thombury associated with her ever since. Jack is now living and working in Verbena, Alabama. He is a teacher of social studies and English at Contributors: Wayne Garret, Tommy Dick, Ken Farmer, Robert Price, Scott Morrow Verbena Senior High School. Along with his teaching job. Jack is work ing towards his masters degree in history. With this degree. Jack one day hopes to teach at the college level, maybe at Auburn. The War Eagle Fiji is published three times yearly for graduates and friends. On his time off. Jack is involved in several different areas. FOR ALPHA UPSILON stician for the football team and 1971, A TIME OF TRIAL As many of you graduates know. Alpha UpsUon is in somewhat of a perilous situation financially, in numbers, and in other areas. Since February 3, our new trea surer, Johnny Crawford, has re duced liabilities from $13,000 to the present figure of $9,000. On realize a good rush, both in quantity and quality is vital. Any organization must have its ups and downs, even one which is among the top of its class, as Alpha UpsUon has always, and stUl is, among the best of the Auburn fra ternities. I feel that this chapter has February 1, the chapter was operat ing at a yearly profit of $299.57; during the month of February Bro ther Crawford raised that profit to been sliding for about a year and a $1625.35. We have cut head table boy this quarter and have cut social half, but I also believe that we are uate brothers to be used for our re cords and for information in the future editions of this newsletter. Only SIX of our 201 graduates re sponded. We want to hear from you. We pects appear rather bleak, most of recommendations for rush. During the first week of March, Senior Field Secretary, Phil Wil liams visited the chapter and was posed of the few undergraduate rent and a $5.00 per quarter fee for men here in Auburn. It is also com those living outside the house. So as you can see, we are trying to meet a challenge - but we have a long way to go. initiated into it. Thomas RUey Marshall's statement, "not for col But this chapter is not only com posed of every man who has been lege days alone" has some meaning for some graduates, but not for men will graduate in June and six more in August. We need more nearly enough. There are many graduates who I see once a year usually at the Pig Dinner. There are many others who I've never seen men. But Rush chairman, Mike and never heard of. And then there Murray, is facing the task along are a very few who I see and hear from regularly. with the rest of the chapter. We In the last issue of the "War Eagle Fiji" there was a short questionaire asking for information on the grad the chapter now realizes the urgency passed a $5.00 increase in room Thirteen an area such as rush. the finance and membership pros of the situation. (as of April 1, 1971). the clock operator. In the frater nity, he is helping to get the Auburn Graduate chapter organized so that it wUl be able to give the under graduate chapter more assistance in want your help and advice. And of much importance, we want your finally beginning to climb. Although by $600. At the last chapter meet ing of winter quarter, the chapter Alpha Upsilon's membership now stands at 66 brothers and 11 pledges At Ver bena High School, he is the stati very well received by all of us, as friend, brother, and advisor. His critique of the chapter was very good, especially on the morale and pledge program,and as expected his only real concern was rush and fin ances. His assistance in setting up a budget was invaluable to Brother Crawford. Scholastically, the chapter placed first for fall and at press time win ter quarter's results were not in but are expected to place us again num ber one. (cont. pg. 4) \r\nSpring, 1971 Page 3 FIVE FOR FIVE PHI GAMS TAKE STEP SING TITLE Fifty-two brothers and pledges of Alpha Upsilon upheld the Phi Gam domination of Step Sing by capturing first place in this year's competition. Under the direction of brother Bill Bright, Phi Gams wowed the audience with their presentation of "The Weight." The audience was ecstatic in their reaction as they gave us an ovation after the first verse and they gave us a standing ovation as we decended the stage. No other fraternity came close to equaling the Fiji's performance, in this, the fifth victory out of five appearances. Phi Gamma Delta was excluded one year, but the exclu sion rule has been dropped, so you can look for further victories in the coming years. The members of Alpha Upsilon in winning form at the 1971 Step Sing. GRADUATE NEWS This issue of the WAR EAGLE is dedicated to those brothers who made generous contributions to our chapter for the purpose of keeping Alpha Upsilon number one. We, the brothers of Auburn, would like to thank one such graduate, James L. Reuel (AU '67) who sent a small donation with his last note. He is TEN RECEIVE BADGES Winter quarter 1971 saw the init iation of ten new brothers into the fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta. These ten were the select few who were part of the spring and fall pledge class of twenty-two members. The enormous potential and strong character of these ten new initiates contributed greatly to the tremendous success of this initiation both for the initiates themselves and for Phi Gamma Delta. The winter quarter initiates are: Skipper Woodham, a sophomore in Pre-Engineering from Opp;Bob Capell, a sophomore in Chemical Engin eering from Mobile; Jimmy Valece, a freshman in Pre-Vet. from Bir mingham; John White^a freshman in Pre-Engineering from Springfield, Mo.; Bob Caruthers, a freshman in Pre-Engineering from Lanett(young er brother of John Caruthers, AU '67); George Allen Moon, a fresh man in Pre-Dentistry from Leesburg; Pat Rankin, a freshman in Agricul ture from Faunsdale (cousin to Pete Rankin, AU '70); Billy Waters, a freshman in Biology from Auburn; Mike Smith, a freshman in Pre-Med. from Birmingham; and Gary West, a freshman in Business from Huntsville. presently a captain in the United States Army and has recently re turned from Korea. Also, in answer to your question, Jim, Don McKay is still alive and kicking in Auburn. Jimmy Duke (AU '63) has re cently moved to UnadUla, Georgia, where he is preacher and pastor of the United Methodist Church. He is also district youth director and was blessed with a new daughter on November 23. Bill West(AU '63) was separated from the Navy in December, 1970, and has become plant I.E. with Bemis Bag Company. In Mobile, Bill and his wife Connie and young son Layne plan to stay until relo cation, and Connie plans to get her These ten new brothers increased the chapter membership to a total of seventy actives, five of which will graduate at the end of winter quar ter, forty of which will be gone by the beginning of next fall quarter. It is quite evident that the chap ter needs a sufficient number of rushees, a choice selection of poten tial pledges. Once again we ask for your assistance in this endeavor. Please send us any recommenda tions of potential rushees that you may have or know of. degree in education at the Univer sity of South Alabama. Jim Thomas (AU '64) and his wife Beth had a new addition to their family,John Madison Thomas, on September 12, 1970. The three some lives in Raleigh, N.C. where Jim is preparing his thesis to ful fill his requirements for a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering at North Caro lina University. Daniel Woodfin now makes his home in Nashville where he is an architect. During the past year Daniel has worked on two hospitals and several housing developments and was advisor to a redevelop ment project in Lexington, Ken tucky. He enjoys working on his one and a half acre landscape gar den, and "with his family ~ wife and two children. Daphne and Chris topher. Brother Robert Rodell (AU '70) is presently working towards a doc torate in metallurgical engineering. Charlie Northington(AU '70)is now at Fort Bliss, Texas, playing "rat patrol." Steve Sheffield(AU '68) is currently flying for the Navy at Moffett Field, California while Jim my Hill is at Scott Air Force Base in Illinois. Brother Mark Brown (AU '69) is now working for Robbins Engineering and Doug Brown is in graduate school at Alabama working towards a master's in ^history. Also, Russell Cunningham has been made vice-president and general manager of German Auto in Binningham. \r\nSpring, 1971 Page 4 MAN OF ACTION rWV Being active seems to be the way to live for graduate brother, Walter Rush. Rush, an Auburn graduate of June, 1968, found no problem staying busy while at Auburn either. As a business administration major. Rush found the time to be president of his pledge class and then rush chairman for the brothers of Alpha Upsilon Chapter. Walter now divides his time a- The members of the pledge class of Alpha Upsilon enacting their version of the **Great Fire*' at the annual Fire Party with the KATs. FOR SECTION CONVENTION FIVE TRAVEL TO BATON ROUGE During the weekend of February 5 and 6, five Auburn Fijis attended the annual Section XIV Convention at Beta Rho Chapter (Louisiana State.) From Auburn,Brothers Tom Dick, Ken Farmer, Hub Harrington, and Dave Thombury, and Pledge mong a number of activities includ ing membership in the Birmingham J.C.'s, president of the membership mile trip in what was to be a most The convention opened shortly after breakfast at the L.S.U. Student Union. Immediately following the opening address by the Dean of Fra dent of the Greater Auburn Grad uate Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta. For relaxation, Walter likes to sport parachute, to fly sail planes, and to canoe as he has canoed every major river in Alabama. Oh, yes, there is still one activity left for Walter to enjoy. He is currently serving time in a Special Forces Unit of the Alabama Army National Guard. (Time of Trial cont. from pg. 2) In the Spring Student Govern ment election, we have one brother committee of the Birmingham area chamber of commerce, member of running fof President of the Student the board of directors at the Five for a school vice-president, and all stand a good chance of winning. We finally filled the housemother vacancy created when Mrs. O. re turned to England last Thanksgiving. Mrs. Georgia Taylor, from Cussitta, Ala., is our new housemother for Spring quarter. Finally, we at Alpha Upsilon re alize that a number one chapter (Cabinet cont. from pg. 1) Elected as corresponding secre tary and historian were Brothers Tommy Dick and Mike Murray. Brother Dick is a Law Enforcement major and is a member of this year's BPC. Brother Murray is Alpha Upsilon's rush chairman and has shown good qualities in both posi tions. He is in the Pre-Med cur riculum. Brother Mike Smith made the 700 meanin^ul experience. Points Y.M.C.A., and steward at the Highlands Methodist Church. Last year, Walter was elected vice-presi Later that afternoon, the repre sentatives of Beta Rho, Alpha Up silon, Mu Sigma (Mississippi State), and Gamma Tau (Georgia Tech) discussed the growing drug problem, particularly Marijana and its effect upon the fraternity. The day was Government, four for senators, one must be well rounded.It must main tain high scholarship, a good social program, sufficient numbers,sound financial status,campus leaders, and social service. But, of utmost im portance,this must be held together by that intangible brotherhood. And this brotherhood must be supple mented by a good graduate rela ternities atL.S.U., the delegates had discussions on finances, rush, pledge finally capped off with a retreat to training, public relations, and on the a near-by lake where the men from graduate support. Whether it comes the representative chapters, shared some brotherhood, beer, and several cajun stories. in the form of money, rush recom mendations, or advice, we ask for your support. Ritual. The discussion on the Ritual was lead by the Archon Presi dent, Dr. Hauser. The Fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta General Headquarters 1757 N. Street, N. W. Washington, D.C. 20036 THIRD CLASS Return Requested tions program and blessed with Non Profit Org. U.S. Postage Pd. Permit No. 82