DELTA VOLUME VII I DOIN'S APRIL, 1965 OLIVER A. KING TO RETIRE by AL PASSWATER May 31, 1965, marks the retirement of Brother Oliver A. King from his position as Director of Purchasing for General Motors Institute. Brother King has served as Senior Faculty Advisor for this Chapter since 1934 and has spent countless NUMBER 2 hours above and beyond the call of duty helping Alpha Gam attain the status it now possesses. It is difficult for us as undergraduates to compre hend such a tremendous amount of service to the house since we have been here, at the most, brothers. Ollie joined GMI in November, 1933, as Supervisor of Tool Cribs. This position later included the supply stores and related areas. As the Institute grew, Ollie was responsible for training men to supervise these various areas. In 1946, Brother King became a pur chasing agent and in 1950 was promoted to Director of Purchasing, the position which he has held to date. Brother King took an interest in the struggle of a group of students just starting a chapter of Alpha Gamma Upsilon at GMI, and in 1934, he became Delta Chapter's sole faculty advisor. As the chapter grew, more faculty advisors were added and Ollie was named Senior Faculty Advisor. The group of seven men that initiated Brother King has since grown to over 700 graduate and undergraduate brothers. Brother King has been a substantial influence on this growth. Brother King presently resides at 1601 North Chevrolet Street. He has a wife and a daughter Pat. One of Oliies biggest pastimes is the sport of bowling. He has been involved in the sport since 1920 and is currently Assist ant Secretary-Treasurer of the Flint Bowling Association, President of the American Junior Bowling Congress in Flint, and a member of the 700 Club. Ollie plans to open an office at 1361 Dupont St., Flint for the purpose of organizing senior bowling and a Quarter Century Club. His other interests include most spectator sports and traveling, so he doesn't plan to spend an idle retirement. Alpha Gamma's First Annual Norris Pig Dinner will be held May 22, 1965 and all Alpha Gam and FIJI alumni are cordially invited. Details have not yet been worked out, but we would appreciate knowing how many brothers can four years. The Brothers of Alpha Gamma, therefore, feel it a fitting tribute to hold our first annual Norris Pig Dinner in honor of Brother Oliver A. King as a token of the appreciation felt by us and our graduate attend the dinner. A letter will be sent to you shortly listing the schedule of events for the weekend and where these events are to take place. We need all the brothers we can get here for this dinner to make it the fitting tribute to Brother King that it should be. \r\nPage two April, "1965 PHI GAMMA DELTA GRADE POOL INITIATED TWO BROTHERS BECOME ROBOTS by JERRY TIPMORE Scholastics at the Alpha Gamma Chapter of by Dave Baugh Phi Gamma Delta is becoming more Two of our brothers, Ronald E. York and Peter J. Perona, recently finished Initiation into the Robot Society. This society, GMTs most important every semester. We are all aware select organization, is restricted to men who have been active in student government and practice of this ideal becomes somewhat activities With the accreditation of the school, mass combination of serveral courses into one, and while maintaining a reputable scholastic average. FIJI is very proud that two new of the seven initiates were our brothers. of the fact that we are here at GMI first to make our gp'ades and second to participate in extra-curricular activities. However, actual difficult. semester finals, GMI is becoming more diffi cult each semester. Because of this increased difficulty, it is Ron York, a Senior II sponsored by Allison Division, has a long list of credits to his name. As a freshman, Ron was a member of the Junior Inter-iFraternity Council and won a silver award for his work in the Athletic Council. In his sophomore year he won a Gold Key the highest award given for student effort, for his service as Sophomore Representative, and was our Inter-Fraternity Council Rep important that we stimulate a new interest in scholastics to both pledges and members. During the 1964-65 A-1 section, a grade pool was initiated to instill some new interest in scholastics. This pool seemed to accomplish its purpose and it was a general request that one be set up this A-3 section also. The twoman teams vie for the $25 prize by trjdng to gain the highest total point improvement in their grades. Along with the grade pool, study hours are being enforced more than ever to make sure that the pledges have a chance to study in a quiet atmosphere. Also, a complete re-organ ization of the filing system is being planned for the future. This will include a card filing and a checkout system. More specifically for the pledges, this will include a special pledge chart containing weekly test and quiz grades, etc., of every pledge. This chart will be placed on display to enable every member to see how each pledge is doing. Presently being used is a reporting' system in which the pledge reports his weekly grades to his Big Brother, Schol astic Chairman, and Pledge Master. We are hoping to initiate some type of award for the pledge attaining the highest grade average during his pledge training program. This idea is still in the future, but all of these things combined should help improve our scholastics here at FIJI! resentative and Secretary-Treasurer of the Allison Tech Club. As a junior, Ron received a Gold Key for his efforts on the Conference Committee, and was our Treasurer and the President of the Allison Tech Club. This year, he is Chairman of the Assembly Committee and Secretary of our house corporation. Ron is married and plans to get a masters degree in Electrical Systems Engineering. Pete Perona, a Junior II sponsored by Detroit Diesel Engine in the M.E. sales and service option, has been very active to have made Robots during his junior year. As a freshman, he won Silver Key from the Social Council. The next year he moved up to Dance Manager of the Social Council, won a Gold Key for that position, and served as assistant house manager. This year Pete is Social Council Chairman, Tech Club Represent ative from Detroit Diesel, and House Manager of our house. \r\n\ Apfll, 1965 Page three DELTA DOIN'S TWO NEW FIJIS FIJIS ON CAMPUS by STAN IVlUSSELMAN and WALLY WEAKLEV On March 21, 1965, Alpha Gamma Chapter initiated two more FIJIS: Faculty Advisor, Gerald T. "Jerry" Gregg, and Robert Andrew "Ace" Quaid, who has just returned from a six-month stint with Uncle Sam's Marines. Brother Gregg came to GMI in April of 1942 in relation with the War Products Activity as an instructor in Diesel Engines. After the war, this Activity reverted to the Product Engineering Department, of which Brother Gregg is now Section Head. Brother Gregg was initiated as a Faculty Advisor to Alpha Gamma Upsilon in 1949, tjy CHUCK MANKER It.was noted in the last Delta Doin's that B section FIJIS were very active in campus activities at GMI. It seems only proper to give some credit to A section who have also taken an active part in these activities. During this last A-3 section, the student body elected Brother James S. Berish, Jr. (67), Chairman of the Social Council, one of the six GMI student councils. FIJI was paid another high honor when Brother Terry H. Quattro, ('67), was elected President of the Inter-Fraternity Council. With both A and B sections working towards high goals in school activities, FIJI is sure to remain at the top of the list. EASTER EGG HUNT by GENE CARRELL The FIJI'S are planning their seventh annual Easter Egg Hunt for the kiddies. This tradi tion was started in 1959 and has been a grand success ever since. Once a year the children of Flint stream into Ballenger Park in search of the hidden goodies. Not even snow seems to dampen their spirits (as last year will at test). I^ast year over 300 kids were swarming through the park in search of the elusive golden eggs, which are worth special prizes. Of course, the Brothers are on hand to insure Brother Gregg Brother Quaid while his son, Jerry Jr., was being initiated as an active in our fraternity. As far as we know, this has been the only father-son initia tion in fraternal history, and it is certainly an event to be coveted. Brother Quaid ('66) was an active member that each child "finds" his share of eggs. This year, the hunt will be during "B" sec tion on the Saturday before Easter, April !'• On Friday night, there will be the usual egg coloring party, where the men of FIJI wi supervise as their dates do a fine job of color ing and decorating the eggs. We consider of Alpha Gamma Upsilon before he decided to this to be another example of the "Spirit o leave GMI for the Marine Corps in the fall of 1964. The period between his GMI days was FIJI" toward community service. not uneventful as he served in the Marines at Paris Island, South Carolina and Camp LeVerne, North Carolina and following this was married to the former Miss Linda Smith. After completing his service in the Marines, Brother Quaid decided to re-enter GMI so that he might complete his engineering education. He is presently completing his Senior II se mester in the Sales and Service option of Mechanical Engineering. We wish to welcome Brothers Gregg and DELTA DOIN'S published by Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity Alpha Gamma Chapter 1 ■ Quaid as newly initiated members of Phi Gam Denny Malecki ma Delta. Quick Manker .Ediior Assistant Editor \r\nApril, 1965 PHI GAMMA DELTA PROFILES IN SPORTS TEN YEARS AGO ... ATHLETICS AT FIJI by AL BILLIS Well, the catching up is finished and now A section is leaving the going ahead to B section. I'm speaking, naturally, of our athletic point standing in reference to Phi Tau's. The point standings at the end of A-3 section are: PHI TAU ALPHA 303 PHI GAMMA DELTA 302 ALPHA TAU OMEGA 236 Initially, we started off with 79 points in A-2 section, then 52 points in B-2 section, and finally accomplished in A-3 section with 103 points. Of the 103 points amassed in A-3 section, 90 of these points came from first place finishes in basketball (50) and bowling (40). Brothers Corbit and Stewart made the first All-Star team in basketball, with pledge John Carter making the second team. Pledge The men of Delta Chapter were quite active this month in school sports. Two basketball teams, the S.A.P.S. and the House team, entered the double elimination tourney. The S.A.P.S. lost their first game to the Creeps and then were eliminated in their second game by Phi Kap. The team, led by Tony D'Alessio and Ed Ray, put up good battles in both games, and with a few breaks could have gone all the way. The House Team, coached by Bill Kolb, used Jim Mitchner, Bob Kimmel, Rudy Lange, Gene Toole, Ken Myers and A1 Kugler in the greatest part of all the games. The team lost their first game to the Creeps and went into the losers bracket. They proceeded to do well from there, winning four games before being eliminated by a strong Wino team in the semi-finals. During the winning streak, the boys eliminated Phi Kap, Kappa Sig, the Creeps, and Gamma Mu. Our team finished fourth in the tourney and second among the fraternities. i2fe Jim Mitchner went to the finals before losing in the basketball shoot contest. -SKt The bowling team consisted of Gary Pruder, Bob Martin, Ed Ray, Ken Myers and Bill Domick. We all can be proud of this team for their second place showing in this months tourney. EDITORS NOTE: Does any of the above information ring a bell? Well if you were here in March of 1955 it should. The A-3 Section Basketball Champs—FIJI Top Row. L. to R. W. Weakley, J. Bauer, 0. ^ong tournament. As I had anticipated at the beginning of Corbit, B. Quald, T. Kay. Bottom Row: Coach C. Baker, J. Carter, D. Hall, B. Chiaffredd, D. the school year, our freshmen have been a Pertuck, R. Stewart. Doug Fertuck bowled a 254 game and averaged athletics this year. Now, if our B section brothers can make as good a showing in B-3 3-bout 190 for two sections of bowling. as they did in B-2, we'll be on our way to The remaining points were obtained in the ping determining factor in our good showing in wrapping up the Athletic Trophy. \r\nAfjril, 1965 PHI GAMMA DELTA Page Five HAVE YOU HEARD GMI GOES COED Brother Charles Gates ('51) has been pro moted to Quality Control Superintendent at GMI's gij-l, Karen Morman, has received much publicity. Her picture has been found on the front page of newspapers across the Ford's Livonia Transmission Plant. Brother Willard Cox ('49) has been pro moted to Regional Quality Control Manager for Ford's Automotive Assembly Division. Brother Bill McKeel ('56) is President of the Dearborn Jaycees and was active in the recent Michigan Junior Miss Pageant. Brother John Klasener is now with the Norwest Tool and Machine Company located on Grand River at Novi Rd. in the Detroit area. Brother Ben Sweeney ('49) spent 10 days in England for the Ford Tractor Plant. nation. She has received congratulations from friends and GMI students alike. Yet, what is so special about this Karen Morman? She will just happen to be the first co-ed at GMI in 46 years. Unfortunately, the story of Karen Morman has been solely a human interest story—a girl going to an all men's school. However, that is the truth. But what does Karen herself have to say about coming to our beloved alma mater? Three week ago. Brother Centerwall, Brother Manker, and yours truly drove to Oakley and had a nice long talk with Karen and her parents. During the course of our discussion, we found her to be quite honest and straight forward, beset by the anxieties and worries of any typical high school student wondering whether the college they have chosen will meet their expectations. Her parents, on the other hand, seemed to display a great deal of confidence in Karen's abilities and felt that Karen has chosen the right vocation. If anyone knows the present address of the following alumni, please forward to D D Editor. Adair, Bradford '60 Adair, Stuart '58 Benbow, Donald '53 Ebbert, Robert Fedison, Walter '60 Gmirkin, Leonard '49 Greenleaf, Lloyd '37 Henneberry, Paul Kuehn, Rex '60 LaBelle, E. J. Lake, Fred '56 Karen's greatest problem, she believes, when starting at GMI, will be adjusting to the heavy class schedule and its accompanying home work. She doesn't know which particular option she wants to take, but it will be in the mechanical engineering school. She would like to try for a master's degree also. In regard to being the only girl, she feels that most of the students will be quite friendly. The students she will have classes with will already be accustomed to having girls as class mates, for they themselves are just out of coed high schools. She does hope, though, that there will be more girls at GMI in the Leathley, Elwood '49 Lee, Richard 64 future, and, perhaps with her own coming to Macciomei, Albert '55 GMI, she might set a precedent. Maurice, Ronald '59 Troup, Jack '56 Vv^ill she last 4 weeks or 4 years? Will she be a social butterfly or a wall-fiower? Ques tions like these can only be answered by time, because Karen Morman will be constantly viewed by every instructor and student at the Yoder, Allen '59 Institute. Meyers, John '39 Rehm, Carl '56 \r\nPage Six April, T965 DELTA DOIN'S PLEDGEMASTER'S REPORT by CHUCK BAKE^ Pledgeship, for the class of 1969, has run its course and will be culiminated in Help Week and Initiation at the beginning of A-4 section. Gary Alan Cullen Keith William Deyer James Douglas Draper Douglas Ananias Fertuck Philip Allen Gaubis The walkout earlier this section had is usual Donald Edward Hall effect of binding the pledges closer together and making them the indestructable compon Richard Joseph Hammond Jon McKay Holloway Marion Burton Johnson ents of fraternalism. There was a new twist added to the Pledge Program this year, called the FXJI Warrior. The pledges made the warrior and then had to protect him from the membership for a week. The warrior survived the week without falling into the members hands. This is one of the factors which has enabled us to retain 20 of the 28 men that started pledgeship. The men going through Help Week next section are: Derryl Richard Barringer Dennis Allen Black Jerry Richard Blevins John William Carter Robert Joseph Chiaffredo Frand David Murbach Daniel Richard Olive William Crawford Richardson John Joseph Ronayne Myron Frank Tethal Douglas Roy Tupling These men have made definite contributions to the goals of the house. Five pledges have over a 90 average and are potential ATI Men. Our Basketball team that took first place fraternally this section is composed mostly of freshmen. The greatest credit for this fine class belongs to the men who contributed to the Rushing Program last summer. PHI GAMMA DELTA FRATERNITY ALPHA GAMMA CHAPTER 1702 FLUSHING ROAD FLINT. MICHIGAN Non-Profif U.S POSTAGE PAID FLINT. MICH. Permif No. 53 Form 3547 Requested