ITI December, 1971 Delta Colony of Phi Gamma Delta Kalamazoo, Michigan PLEDGING This semester at Western has seen a renewed inte rest in the fraternity system by the incoming freshmen and transfer students. Our Rush proved most successful this semester, having the house as a focal point. We feel that we have come up with the most enthusiastic pledge class that the colony has had yet. Among their many duties around the house, the pledge class is planning several "secret" money making projects to pay for their class project. This is the first time that a pledge class has been so organized as to have the initiative to present a project to the colony. These men are Steve Kuhlman, Jim Dickie, George Felski Jr., Tom Bierman, and Neil Mui-awski. We look forward to having these men as actives when they ai'c initiated in December. These men will make our colony a strong and influential chapter on campus when we are chartered. First Parents Day at the FIJI House, a big successi SOCIAL Our Fall pledge class; a fine bunch of men. The FIJI social life at WMU has really been going strong this first semester. Although our social budget is almost depleted, we've still got some good parties planned for the end of the semester. Coming up in the near future is the "Gay 90's Party." Everyone is firing up for that. Last weekend we had a giant scavenger hunt which involved searching for articles in the whole Kalamazoo area. Everybody thought this was a real different kind of party and added a kind of flare to a party. We are really getting to know the sororieties on campus through our afternoon T.G.s and have a few planned before the semester ends. Even though we are young on campus, we are very involved socially among the students. \r\nDecember, 1971 Delta Colony of Phi Gamma Delta Kalamazoo, Michigan SPORTS Saturday, the 20th of November is our Thanks giving Food Basket Day. Actives and pledges will Football: stand outside Kalamazoo's two largest food stores After the first half of our touch football season, our record was one win and two losses. We finally got things together and won our next two out of three games. In our last game, we needed a win to finish the season at .500. This was our best game of the season as we demolished Phi Sigma Kappa 34-6. We were all happy in our first season as we finished 4th in our Fraternity block wih a three win and three loss season. collecting food and money for a needy family's Thanksgiving Dinner. We have also received the go ahead from the Veterans Visitation program on our selection of a house. The coordinator, Mrs. Mary Hahn, has sent us information on the problems facing the five men in forms of critiques. Both the VA and Mr. Ferryman, the owner of the house, believe that our relationship with these gentlemen can be very beneficial; so do we! In summary, we sincerely believe that our com Soccer: Intramural soccer just doesn't seem to be our game! In our first game, we squeaked out a tie with Phi Sigma Kappa in overtime as we had a little help from our field secretary. Bob Wurzel in a 2-2 mud bath of a game. Since then we have lost three games and won munity service program has been one of the most rounded and up to date program on campus. We hope that it will continue to be so. one. Our record now is I win, three losses, and a tie. Although our record might not show it, we have been playing pretty fair but we just don't seem to get the breaks. All in all, even though we haven't been win ning, we sure are giving the opponents a good game and the FIJIs are making a name in sports around campus. MONEY MAKING As the time for chartering draws closer into view, the colony is putting a concentrated effort into the field of money making projects. Lately we have been working on a variety of projects to obtain capital. Last month we held a car wash and brought a film to campus to be shown by us. This month we worked on the Gilmore's Thanks giving Day Parade. This envolved three eight hour shifts to build the floats and also dressing up as clowns and pulling them in the parade. Very soon we will be showing the movie "Joe" in the East Ballroom of our Student Union. We have been making profit on these acivities and we are always interested in any new ideas. If you could think of any, these ideas would be most appreciated. EDITOR: Gary 0. Dix QB Gary DeLiso lets go with the bomb in one of our intramural games. COMMUNITY SERVICE The colony had 100% participation in the Red Cross Fall Blood Drive, a record acheived by only 3 organizations on campus. We also sponsored a walker in the Youth Kalama zoo Association for Retarded Children Walk-a-thon. The Fraternity pledged 50(1 a mile to the organization and was notified that our sponsoree finished the A 25 mile walk. new house, few of the brothers add a final touch to the