Sic^ma, OmccnMic^ News of PHI GAMMA DELTA at OKLAHO/AA STATE Oklahoma State Uni\ersity, Stillwatcr, Oklahoma Vol. II, Nc February, 1965 ^40,000 New House Drive Starts OkLAUOMA g4 fro' Jo yo go go' t-o S TATE s* Completes Plans UM 1 V E k Hold on to your hats! By Febmary 1, 1965, the ball will be rolling as the OSU Fiji's launch their drive to ob tain property and a new house. S IT Y TTT\ UWIVCRS/Ty In a series of meetings this fall, Sigma Omicron's Housing Corpora AVEWt^ /go- /30' Ki -0 ? TTKA AAA KA ^ • KAS i S / 3»* /SO' AAir e ACACIA 2AE S /so' z«' • 30f, 4' ISO' /so' 1/1 TRIAMGL& . \ /SO' ISO' xa 5 owo "o 6 X. ISO' FOURTH IftAiPTrtT { 1 14-t' TW/RC> Housing Corporation /so' /SO' JSo' 4 sj /SO' 0 0 ISO' (j/ ISO' STREBT New""®' ISO' ALL QUESTION MARKS REMOVED—That is the ijoal of the Housing: corporation as it begins its efforts to raise ^40,00(1 and buy one of the sliaded lots for the OSU Fijis. Richard Lloyd Jones, Jr.^ to Speak at Pig Dinner in Tulsa, March 6 with a 5:30 p.m. cocktail hour and lahoma '52) who will introduce Joe Ellis, president of the Housing Cor poration and Art Black, chairman of the Board of Chapter advisors. Hall will make the presentation of both graduate and undergraduate awards. The Pig Dinner address will then be delivered by Richard L. Jones, Jr. followed by the Pig Dinner at 6 p.m. who is a 1982 graduate of the Univer at which a menu of roast prime rib will be ser\'ed. Tlie evening's program will inculde emcee David Hall (Ok sity of Wisconsin. Jones presently Richcird Lloyd Jones Jr. heads tire list of notable Oklahoma Fijis who will make the March 6 Noms Pig Dinner at Tulsa's Trade Winds Motel the most successful ever in Sigma Omicron's history. The evening festivities will begin of the campaign which will be headed by eight area chairmen and co-chairmen. XA w fso' tion has drawn up plans for a $40,000, 3 month fund drive, starting February 1 and tenninating April 2. Corpora tion president Joe Ellis (Nu Omega '50) will act as co-ordinating chairman Continued on page 2 Ellis made clear at the January 28 meeting in Stillwatcr that the initial step will be to acquire a lot suitable for building witlr tire $40,000 in cash and pledges. Help from National HeadquiU'ters is expected to be in strumental in canvassing the larger cities of the state, but Ellis and tire Oklahoma State Phi Gams are relying heavily on volunteer support from the smaller towns. Tlrerefore, Ellis and Section Chief Louis Trost have strongly urged that everyone contact them—Joe Ellis, 115 NW 6, Oklalroma City; Louis Trost, 1406 Camden Way, Oklalroma City—so that definite support can be lined up. The chainnen all agreed tlrat it vvould be necessary to contact all Fi ji's in Oklahoma, since the young Ok lahoma State chapter does irot even have 10 graduates, and therefore hopes that everyone will be prepared, cooperative, and \ ery generous! \r\nPage 2 EDITORIAL IKE SMITH VISITS OSU FOR GREEK WEEK SPEECH Brother Rollin B. (Ike) Smith (Neb raska '21) clesei"ves all the credit for a successful Fiji contribution to the 1964 February, 1965 THE SIGMA OMICRONICAL Greek Week dinner ex change. Brother Smith spent Novem ber 17, in Stillwater visiting with the brothers at the house. Later he re presented Phi Gamma Delta and spoke at the KA house during an ex change dinner; each fraternity sent a delegation of undergraduates and a graduate brother to another frater nity so as to make all gi'ceks more aware of the entire fraternity picture at OSU. Ike has served Sigma Omicron as legate to the chapter's founding. As a past Archon, and officer of the Okla homa City graduate chapter, he has been very instrumental in the pro gress of the OSU Fiji chapter. The Phi Gams at 1224 salute Ike Smitli and hope all the Fiji graduates in Ok lahoma follow his helping example. The editor of The Sigma Omicronical has invited me to occupy the editor ial chair this month, which is indicative of a lot of courage on his part. Most of us have, at one time or another, had a strong urge to writfi an editor with whom we have taken strong exception to a particular issue. However, this is my op portunity to express my views on a subject and I only hope that you will be sufficiently motivated by what you read to write me and give me the benefit of your thoughts on tire matter. My skin is thick so don't spare the invective. Many of you have visited our house at 1224 University Avenue in Stillwater; more of you have not. The chapter has 60 active members and pledges, which is an impressive growth record from the 15 men who were granted a charter at tlie 1962 Ekklesia in Dallas. This kind of growth is the end result of a lot of hard work by the actives in rusli, chapter house administration, and academic pursuits. It's taken time and effort on their part and tliey responded to the situation in an admirable manner. -At tliis point, we enjoy a good rating on an excellent campus but the next question is "Where do we go from here?" Nothing stands still, it either moves forward or backward and our chapter has yet to take a step to the rear. A review of the balance sheet, and I don't mean only the financial one, brings tlie picture into focus. We have a group of fine young men wearing the badge or pledge pin. Chapter affairs are handled by a capable and hard working group of officers. Rush goes on all the time and a good job is being done in the classroom and on the campus. We even have a little money in the bank and particuhupraise is to be given to Pat Gallagher, the flinty-eyed treasurer of Sigma Omi cron for the fine manner in which chapter finances are being handled. The pic ture is very rosy up to this point, but now let me acquaint you with tire debit side of the ledger. Pig Dinner in Tulsa To function properly a fraternity needs an adequate physical plant. At the present time, we have a private home under lease that accommodates 19 Continued from page 1 serves as president of the Newspaper take care of anotlier 16 men. In desparation, the Housing Corporation leased a small house about four blocks from the principal residence in September for men if they don't breathe too deeply. A small annex adjacent to the house will Printing Corporation in Tulsa. A dance for all graduates and un dergraduates will start in the banquet an outlandishly high price diat will house 12 men. We had to have some ad ditional space after last fall's fine rush results and this residence was our only room of the Trade Winds at 9 p. m. and last until midnight. chance have you got? It's akin to making a deal with a knife in your ribs and though the landlord used oirly a peneil, it was just as shai-p as a knife. To sum it up, we've got an acute housing problem that has only one solu The Sigma Omicron Board of Chapter Advisors and social chairman Marshall Persson assure all Oklahoma Fiji's that this will be the greatest and longest remembered gathering of Phi Cam brothers in this state for some time. Make reservations right now by sending your check for ST..50 to Art Black, Jr., 4607 S. Delaware, Tulsa. MARCH 6, TRADE WINDS MOTEL, SOUTH PEORIA at 51st, U.S. 66, TUI.SA. DINNER 5:.S0-S::10. DANCE 9-12. The Sigma Omicronical Foi)ruary, 196 5 Vol. 11, No. 2 Freil Coriiish R