i/;j ^KuraJP }li[ OF PHI GAMMA DELTA VOL. 10, NO. 5 UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA MAY 1977 i%.l |^SS3 yt-iESfSs. V.ffS The idea that a quality product can only improve with age was borne out with this year's Pig Dinner. With over 75 graduates agreeing that this year's was one of the best, "Not for college days alone" was a phrase that seemed to ring true. The activities actually got un derway about 24 hours before Pig Dinner was supposed to start. On Friday night, several brothers had already arrived back in A.thens and II There was even a "special" movie later that night for those graduates with more "earthy" tastes. The actual events of Pig Dinner got started Saturday afternoon with a meeting of the House Corporation and all graduates. Jim PurcelL('73) pointed out the work that had been done to improve the Lodge and make it more structurally sound. Also during the meeting Sam Richwine('73) was elected to take the place of Lanier Orr('68) on the House Corpor a couple of friendly kegs were on hand to greet them. (Have you ever ation. He tried to protest being e- seen an unfriendly keg?) lected, saying Med School would take (cont. page 7) \r\nMAY 1977 FIJIUGA PAGE 2 Through the efforts of Summer Rush Chairman Steve Nail ('79), the summer of '77 should really be super. T Several rush functions have been set up, with a wide variety that should make everyone happy. June 24 is our first shot at How is Kappa Deuteron doing financially? This question is heard often, because the fiscal area of the chapter is a concern of gradu ates of any fraternity. As many of you know, we main tain separate accounts for the kit chen, house and chapter. This divi tahoochee River. (Actually the only sion facilitates analysis as well as planning. race will be to see who can down the most beer.) There'll be a cookout The kitchen will turn a moder ate "profit", even though the qual ity of the food has improved over the last year. This was the first rushees (and their first at usJ), with an evening of spiked water melons and dates planned at Brother Nail's Atlanta home. July 16 brings with it the an nual "FIJI Raft Race" down the Chat- afterwards and of course you can bring a date. Then July 30 is a strictly a "guys only" night since we'll have year that a brother has served as a block of 45 seats for the Braves- kitchen stev/ard so we will have a type of food we can afford. Despite the fact that the'" chap Pirates baseball game. In August, there will be a piz za party on the 19th, probably at Jocko's in Atlanta. And on the 27th, ter spent almost $1000 on repairs and $1800 on improvements, the house account should show a slight profit. (cont. page 7) your favorite beer. Graduates are always welcome,so for more information, contact Steve better idea next year about the head for Lake Lanier with a date and Nail at (404) 394-1911. v^raiEFS BITS OF NEWS FROM The Athens City Coun FIJ IUGA City Attorney to tell clity UGA & ATHENS utilities to move their The new $100,000 Henry S. Field Tennis poles away from the curb on Lumpkin Street. A move welcomed by motorists. Stadium was dedicated in May and with it came a Dogs win over power There had been talk house Southern Gal. The new stands added a EDITOR: great deal to the NCAA Walker Campbell CONTRIBUTIONS: Judson Bibb Arts and Sciences at UGA showed that over Bob Cheeley 80% of those responding Ken Murphy had a lack of confidence Steve Nail in President Davison. of converting Milledge Hall into a girls dorm and changing two floors of Creswell over to men's housing, put those plans tournament held in A- thens this year. A poll of the fac ulty of the College of cil voted to instruct the Tom Draffin Jim Kelly fell through. U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance made his first major address to the public at the UGA's Law Day ceremonies at the Co- lesium. Over 500 people were present. \r\nPAGE 3 FIJIUGA MAY 1977 a WELCOI^IE TO THE a B B Three more names have been added to the ever-growing list of brothiers in the Fraternity of Phi Gamraa Delta. In the early part of Spring Quarter VJarren Ragsdale, Mike DiBlasi, and John Hull were initiated into our chapter. Brother DiBlasi is a Junior from Lilburn, Ga. and is majoring in Ac counting. Since he has been at UGA he's served on the Russell Hall Coun cil and the Mell-Lipscomb community counci].. Home for Warren Ragsdale is Mar ietta. He started at Georgia this year as a Business Law major, and has been active on campus serving as a student assistant for the Admis sions Office and a student senator. John Hull also lives in Marietta, Ga.',is a Pre-Journalism major and L to R: Jim Kelly (BB) & Warren Rags dale; Pete Stoddard (BB) & Mike Di Blasi; John Hull & Dave Kraebber (BB) "(BB) denotes Big Brother. .BB Ai I FAREWELL TI^E OLD. Just as eve.ry quarter brings also a freshman. Schoolwork takes with it more new blood for the up a good deal of his time, but he's chapter, sadly it always takes away a few older brothers. This still found time to help out in ath letics, especially on the fraternity spring was no exception, with 12 Softball team. Seniors saying farewell. Since the start of Winter qtr., the chapter has also picked up 12 for three brothers who will go 3 pledges and two affilisfces.Ten of separate ways: Tom Draffin at UGA, the pledges are in the midst of Monty Allen at Mercer, and Fred Bentley to the Emory School of Law. their pledge program. They are: Gary Plumer, Atlanta; Wen Brown, Atlanta; Anthony Cook, Savannah; Tom Strate, Morristown, Tenn.; David Pass, Buford; Steve Hathorn, Atlan Law School will call next fall Two other brothers have been accepted at two different Med Schools. Dave Kraebber will be pre paring(?) for Augusta this summer by doing construction work, while ta; Donnie:Chapman, Atlanta; Tim McElhannon, Atlanta; David Brazeal, Allan Tucker will head for Vander- Atlanta; and Tim Jett, Atlanta. bilt (and hopefully their M.D.-Ph. The two affiliates are the first for our chapter as far as our re cords show. Greg Weddle joined us from the Gamma Sigma chapter, while Jeff Rambo transfered his membership from the Delta Kappa chapter at Da vidson. Greg is a junior from Calhoun and Brother Rambo calls Edison, Ga. home. D. program) in August. Frank Childers will be looking for work with Delta, hoping to get into their management training program, while Bob Schoonover will be working for Six Flags until he can land a job with Ga. Power as an account supervisor. (cont. page 7) \r\nPAGE 4 FIJIUGA MAY 1977 ORTS tility by playing in three sports and teaming up with pledge Bob Chris topher to shine in doubles tennis, finishing in second place. Rounding out the spring sports Twenty points.' One win in any game played during the year would have made the difference in who won this year's intramurel trophy in the Governor's League. That was the mar gin that Phi Kappa Tau edged out FIJI in the final totals. It was the Phi Gam'-s first year in the Gov— , ernor's league and af' ter having an unbeliev- ■ able Spring quarter was Track and Field. Wins in the 880 and 220 by Brother Ham and Fred Bentley respectively helped put FIJI in a fourth place finish in that sport. Adding points to the ef fort were Ed Applefield, second in the 110 low hurdles; and Billy Dellinger, third in the 100 yard dash. point-wise, falling just barely short was particularly hard. The final totals put FIJI in third place with 1715 points behind the Phi Tau's with 1735 and AEPi with 1720. Because of weather : and a busy spring qtr., j the deciding contests s came down to the last week of school with i the final matches of horseshoes. After Dave Kraebber hands off to David Reddick in the mile relay of the Track & Field competition. knocking off the TEP's and Sigma Nu's, the team of Jim Kelly, Jim Boyles, Mike DiBlasi, Kessel Stelling, and David Day advanced to the third round FIJI ■» IS 11 SOFTBALL CHAPvlPS before losing to the TKE's at the home pit. The loss ended an unbelievable 700 point spring performance that saw the Phi Gam's win no less than three sports. The #1 spots came in Softball, cross country, and archery. Two-thirds of the chapter ran in When the Phi Gam Softball team began practice for the 1977 season, they were given orders to bring the championship home, or suffer the consequences. As it turned out the team did not disappoint the chapter, even though there were only five the Cake Race (cross country) as Bro ther Billy Ham set the pace for the starters from the 1976 team return win by finishing sixth overall and second among fraternity runners. Ken Murphy, Brad Greenway, Rick Jordan, and Larry Johnson teamed up The FIJI'S raced to a 4-0 record and became the undisputed Governor's FIJI'S displayed an awesome offense • to tie the ATO's for first in arch backed by a stingy defense that out- ery. And Jim Kelly showed his versa- ing. League champion. In the process, the scored opponents 62 to 22. (cont.) \r\nPAGE mY 1977 FIJIUGA 5 The "heroes of the diamond" in 1977 featured three stars from the BATTSPIG STATS last FIJI Softball champions of 1974. The obnoxious loudmouth, Fred Bentley, was still behind the plate after four years, and was still blasting away either at shy batters or runners who dared to try for home. The awesome A1 Martin was moved Player AB MARTIN, A. HATHORN, S. HULL, J. ALLEN, M. REDDICK, D. from his usual position at third base to take his experience to the outfield where he played right-cen ter. And Monty "Humble" Allen v/as WATSON, D. KELLY, J. YOUNKER, R. BENTLEY, F. still around improving with age as he blossomed into the power man of DRAFFIN, T. KRAEBBER, D. DENDY, M. DELLINGER,B. GREENWAY, B. the lineup and chased down fly balls from rightfield. Other seniors on the squad in H AVG . HR RBI 0 7 10 7 3 2 .667 0 2 3 2 .667 0 2 15 9 .600 4 13 16 9 .563 1 6 12 6 .500 1 9 10 5 .500 0 4 6 3 .500 0 0 16 7 .438 1 6 8 3 .375 0 1 11 4 .364 1 5 14 5 . 357 0 1 14 4 .285 1 3 9 2 . 222 0 1 147 68 .464 9 60 cluded Dave "The Beast" Kraebber, who pitched outstanding ball; and Totals Tom Draffin, who sometimes coached and sometimes played shortstopOther starters included SOFTBALL Jim Kel ly in left-center, David Reddick at second base, sluggiag*. David V7atson at first base, fly-trap Mike Dendy in left field, and Billy Dellinger, Chi Phi 6 Sigma Alpha Epsilon 5 27 Phi Delta Theta 5 16 Chi Psi 6 FIJI 13 who slapped down balls left and right at third base. Brad Greenway and Ronnie Younker FIJI 6 v/ere sometime starters; they proved FIJI FIJI to be invaluable because of their versatility and ability to make the "big" play. John Hull and Steve Hathorn rounded out the team, turning some heads with their hitting abil ity when called on to play. Although the season was charac terized by a great team effort, a few players deserve special credit. Monty Allen carted the MVP award home by leading the team with four HR's and 13 RBI's to go with his .600 batting average. A1 Martin saved the first game against the SAE's by throwing out the tying run at home to end the game. David Reddick hit a torrid .563 pace from the lead-off position, and had a 5 for 5 day in the cham pionship game with the Chi Psi's. And Dave Kraebber gave up only 22 runs during the season while his I— pyiuKE o o ; EVENTS June thru August Summer Rush September 10 U.Ga. Football September 17 U.Ga. Football Sept. 25-Oct.l I.F.C.'s Rush Sunday Monday Open House Kegs Tuesday Putt-Putt Tourn. Wednesday — Social Thursday Beer & Pizza ERA was only 3.00, a spectacular Friday Open Bar & Bingo mark Saturday Bar-B-Que & Bar for softball. \r\nPAGE 6 MAY 1977 FIJIUGA FrH«Si! 1 mil Take two FIJI's that are good athletes from each of six different chapters in the Southeast, add eight events that takes most of the day to complete, throw in a band party and the Bud Man afterwards, and liberal ly tap 22 ke^s during the day, and what have you got? Why, the GREAT SOUTHEASTERN FIJI-BUDWEISER SUPER STARS CONTEST, that's whatl Beginning as a "hair-brained" idea a year ago on the part of Fred Bentley, the Kappa Deuteron chapter pulled off a very unique combination service-social project during the first weekend in May. The idea got its start after our chapter had its own Superstars comp etition two years ago. Brother Bent- ley figured other chapters might en joy such an event, so why not compete. The result on May 1 was two bro- Fred Bentley winning the softball hitting competition; 1st place #3! r- thers each from Ga., Ga. Tech, Ala bama, Emory, South Fla., and Clemson competing in eight events: one-onone basketball, a raft race, softball hit, football throw, 100-yd. dash, an obstacle course, bowling, and beer chugging. The two brothers that represen ted our chapter were Al Martin ("The Big Guy") and Fred "Blow-em Away" Bentley. Why a"one man show", you might ask? Well, maybe it was be cause we had had some practice with the Superstars concept, but Brother Al Martin shows his style in the •beer chugging contest. Bentley captured four firsts in the ; eight events to walk av;ay with the ! individual av/ard and help bring the overall trophy to rest in our chap ter's display cabinet. (cont. next page) \r\nPAGE-7 FIJIUGA TPIEASUREil MAY 1977 PiG (CONTINUED) This is possible because we have maintained near-capacity occupancy in the apartments, and have had a greater amount of parlor fees than budgeted due to membership being somewhat higher than expected. The fraternity has had a very active year in many areas, and our committee spending reflects the activity. The chapter account will thus show a slight loss. Overall, the chapter has had a good year financially. Future plans call for continued improve ments to the Lodge and apartments, which would help increase the val ue of our investments. Ken Murphy (CONTINUED) too much time, but v/hen Brother Pur- cell pointed out that the meetings would be in Augusta, he lost the argiiment Following the meeting was the traditional cocktail hour, that real ly lasted for an hour this time. Then it was on to the Ga. Center for the DINNERI Not even the fact that the parents of the Campus Criiaade for Christ members were having their own banquet in a room next to ours seemed to slow down (or quiet down!) the brothers. With Bill Bracev/ell serving as symposiarch, there v;as some joke or anecdote about just about every bro ther there. Even during the av/ards, the merciless banter continued. The only thing that slowed him down was the fact that he had been chosen as SyPE^STA (CONTINUED) other winners in the other events were Jim Durrance of South Florida in the raft race(it figures); A1 Martin in the football throw; the the Graduate Brother of the Year by the undergraduate chapter. Terry Sullivan('72) delivered the address this year stressing the need for graduates to stay in touch with the chapter and each other. Clay Stoddard('70) once again deli Emory team of Mike Durtz and Jim Van vered the Exile's Toast, and it was Gelder in Bowling; and Jack McMillan back to the Lodge to drink, party, and sing away the night. Two other things that were ac complished this year was the setting up of a Graduate Advisory Committee for the Chapter and some initial plans for the Chapter's 10th anni of Ga. Tech in the beer chugging. The final standings for the team trophies were UGA - First, Emory Second, and South Florida - Third. The trophies were presented during the band party that night by Carl Calender and Bob Cheeley, the co ordinator of Superstars and P.R. chairman. The success of Superstars was largely the result of the efforts of the local Budweiser distributer, Leon Farmer. Donating over $2200 worth of beer, equipment, and personnel to this project and also "Pitch-In"(FI JIUGA, APRIL '77), Mr. Farmer truly helped make the project a tremendous success. He also stated, "I have never,in my career and association with the college community, had the pleasure to work with such a dynamic and un ique association of men." versary Pig Dinner next year. If you've missed all the others, do plan now to make next year's 10th anniversary Pig Dinner! GRADUATES (CONTINUED) John Crowers will be helping at a baseball camp this summer and hopes to be back in Ga. coaching this fall. David Day is interested in a job with Ralston Purina trading commodities, but hasn't decided on a job yet. Also undecided about their future are Ray Moses, Mark Capallo, and Da vid Quin. \r\nPAGE 8 FIJIUGA MAY 1977 GAMMA DELTA magazine. He's working as a programmer in the computer ser vices department of Delta Airlines in Atlanta...FIRST COMES MARRIAGE: this summer should really be busy wedding-wise with at least six that we know of...June 25 will be the To those of you who missed Pig Dinner and wished you hadn't...re solve now to make it next yearl It day for Fred Bentley('77) and our sweetheart of last year, Kathy Sarajian...July 9 should find Bill McKenzie('75) walking down the aisle with Mary Connally at the St. James Methodist Church in At should really be a big event the lanta. The wedding will begin at way plans are going now (especially 4:30...August 13 will find Tom if plans go through for a whole Blackwell('76) marrying another former sweetheart of the chapter, Patti Stover...On August 20, Gene Waites('77) will say "I do" to weekend of activities). It will be early in May, and as soon as the date is set, we'll let you know. In the way of explaining the Graduate Advisory Committee that was set up at Pig Dinner (see Pig Dinner story), the job of keeping up with Cathy Mays, a former Little Sister ...Rick Krueger will have his shot on August 6 with Christie McCuen, another Little Sister from AOPi... all of you had simply gotten too-big. and as mentioned in March, Phil' So a graduate brother v/as selected from each graduating class to act as a "correspondent" for that group. He will help us keep up with address changes and news for his particular Reddick will tie the knot with Ann Floyd of Monticello, Fla. in her hometown on Sept. 3rd...THEN THE BABY CARRIAGE: two brothers have new additions to the family...Bill group, and you should be hearing from Bass and his wife now have a little' him sometime this summer. girl, Charlotte Anne...and Rick Berta and his wife Susie say that they may have a legacy for us now that Scott Andrew has joined this On to the news...We finally caught back up v/ith Gene Weeks('75) who's still in Houston, but has a new ad dress. It's now 5840 Glenmont, #187, Houston, TX 77081. His home phone is (713) 661-5279. Sorry it took so long Gene...Charles Cone('70) was mention ed in the latest edition of THE PHI PHI GAMBIA DELTA KAPPA DEUTERON QiAPTER 3 CLOVERHURST CT. ATHENS, GEORGIA 30605 world...STORY OF THE MONTH: we've found out that being an Assist. D.A. may not be too safe either..."Grits" Bodenheim let us know that Brother Jim Purcell may be facing a $200 fine or 20 days in jail for contempt of court. We'll keep you posted.'