m rttAUKi-iITt OF PHI GAMMA DELT/S rn![?Rf7nD nipnri MAY 5 Volume 6970 #4 il 21, 1970 [LtistE PIG DINNER I97Q ' fSH ERAt MEADOUARTERf MtA^HiMGrON. U. C. 200111 Saturday, April llth, will go down in the history of Chi Fiji as the date of one the most successful Pig Dinners ever held. All of those present who survived this occasion will attest to the fan tastic amount of amusement and gaiety everyone experienced. Our graduate brothers started arriving Friday night and con tinued coming in all day Saturday. The Chi Association meeting was held at two o'clock with President Dave Case presiding. The minutes of the meeting will be published in the next "Chi Tama." A cocktail party was held at five o'clock and everyone eager ly started putting themselves in the proper state of mind for the festivities and feasting which would soon occur. By the time six o'clock rolled around, everyone was more than happy. Now all the Fijis present, graduates and undergraduates, united in a common state (or dis-state) of mind as will as in brotherhood, marched en masse to Hale House, their voices echoing throughout the campus, and prepared their stomachs to receive some solid food for a change. After the turkey dinner, the Pig was brought in and the members of each class present individually paid their compliments to the Pig, Tom VanNorstrand, our Purple Le g:ionnaire, did an excellent job as Master of Ceremonies and Steven Pierce presented the awards. Senior Richard Adams of Duluth, Minnesota, received the Hothckiss Award and Sophomore William V/erner of Torrington, Conneticut, re ceived the Ed Seitz Award. Our Wilkinson Award nominee this year is Walter Hennings of Croton-on-Hudson, Ne\w York. VJally has a 3.2 index, is a member of two engineering honor societies, RGTC, the Yearbook Staff, and the Rugby team. He also was a delegate to the Fiji Academy, and he has served as house Scholarship chairman, "Chi Tama" editor and \-jas a member of the Wrestling team. The Library Award, a monetary award which is presented annual ly to the Union College Library for the purchasing of books, was accepted by Dean Malloy, Dean of Students, on behalf of Union Col- Stan Krejci (Northwestern, '5A), our Guest Speaker, delivered a very enlightening and entertaining talk. Stan discussed what he has observed in Chi Fiji and what should be done to improve our graduate relations. Stan, who was our guest for three days and who entertained us constantly, was so impressed with Chi Fiji that he wrote a letter to the Executive Secretary in which he enthusiasti cally praised our house. Although the dinner itself was over around seven, (con't p. 2) \r\n'festivities continued into early Sunday morning. Almost all the graduate brothers returned to the house and everyone had a grand time, 'The fantastic fingers of Jerry "Bake" Baker flew over the keys of the Fiji piano as thirty or more undergraduates and gradu ates gathered 'round and sang tunes long into the night. And we must admit that our graduate brothers taught us a few verses which we had never heard, Sverj^one really had a great tiiue and we sin cerely hope that many more or our graduate brothers will join us in the fun and festivities of Pig Dinner 1971» Those present were: David Plummer Chip Noe '56 '69 Robert Pike Donald McKibbin MD '55 Livingston Coulter '55 Jerry Baker '67 '58 Peter Skeffington (Rhode Is.) '64 Kenneth LaBarge Cliff Bowdish Don Smith Bob Farnum '42 '52 A1 Bangert '58 '69 '68 John Seay '67 Ed Grover Dave Case '55 Roy Hershey '68 '66 Stan Krejci (Nl/U) '64 Dave Fitzgerald Tom VanKorstrand Richard Fitzgerald Tom Dempster Bob Gresham '59 Anthony Condi '45 Marston Ames '68, '71, ' '56 '56 '38 GAMr:A SAYS: STAFF Editor: Richard Adams '70 Co-Editor: John Calender '75 Graduate Nev/s: Steven Pierce Wf-i/iT A Pi6 '71 Campus Hews: Ed Calamai ''73 Undergraduate Hev/s: John Calender Contributors: Garry Ljmch '75 'Jilliam Kuchta '7^ All correspondence should be mailed to: W. . I 14 ' Editor-Chi Tama Phi Gamma Delta Union College Schenectady, Nev; York 12308 '57 \r\nGRADUATE NEWS The Union College Chronicle of March 1970, records the passing rolled up cloths, Dan's remark on viewing this mess was typi of two Chi Pijis, cal of our brother: 'Boys will Robert Blair Davis, H2, served our chapter as sometimes be Little Little Historian, and Wiley C. Wilson, boys!! '" '43, better known as "^y," held the position of Treasurer, We "Big Ed" adds that he has a mourn the loss of these two Eijis. few more choice stories inclu George Buckbee, '50, past Pre sident of Chi Association, has table fiasco" which he will send ding one about "the ^600 pool been mamed manager of the White Plains (N.J.) branch of the Burns International Detective Agency, Congratulations, George! upon request. Many thanks to Brother Seitz for this example of his continuing interest in Chi! Brother Davee Parnsworth David Hall, '67, was wed March 28 to Miss Linda George, Best of luck, Dave and Linda! ('61) could not answer our trivia-question-of-the-month of hov; Albany got its name, but he did offer this interesting tid Two undergraduates recently bit: "An old man once told me spent a pleasant afternoon at the how Schenectady was named. home of Leroy P, Collins, '05, Brig, Gen,, USA^ret,), Brother v/as there at the massacre and at that time an Indian who was Collins, who lives with his wife on their pecturesque farm in Pow— hatan, Virginia, takes an active interest in Chi Chapter, lifting a scalp said, 'This guy had a skinny-neck-didn't- In response to the recent re quest for anecdotes from "ancient times" at the Piji house, Brother Edward P, Seitz, '32, sends this amusing taTeT "Circa 1928-32. Brother Daniel Weeks (professor emeritus) owned an ancient Model A Pord touring car, recently painted dove gray. Being a loyal alumnus, he parked the car nearby the walk to our old Piji lodge. Some naughty brethren moved the car up five steps on the front porch while he was teaching clas ses. These same brothers — me, "Ken" Cermak, "Squeak" Watson, "Little Duke" Knight, "Prango" Gates, and another prankster took assorted cans of paint - pur ple, fire red, light green, orange and black - and gave his car the measles treatment with sponges and he.' He Somehow the name was adop ted in memorial to either the Indian, the scalped white man, or my friend," We do not have up-to-date addresses on the following bro thers: John H, Mirschel Jr. '53 Vincent P. Russo '66 Paul J. Canton '50 Joseph H. Cerrone '57 Arnold Gray Holden '64 Ulysses Grant Warren II '30 Richard Kellock Rosa '22 We would much appreciate any assistance in' locating these Pijis, \r\nThe Field Secretary Report On February 10-15 of this year v/e were visited by Field Secretary Carl R. Sahlberg from the General Headquarters. Brother Sahlberg was well re ceived and many of his recom mendations and criticisms have already been acted upon. Our chapter here at union has ex hibited improvements in so many areas that we may well be in the running for the Condon Cup this year. (If you do not have your trusty Purple Pilgrim handy, the Condon Cup is awarded annually to the chapter showing the most improvement.) The strong points of our chapter in order of their res pective strength are: l)Hospitality, 2) Care of house and grounds, 5) Chapter administ ration and organization and 4-) the pledge program. ie were also praised for our excellent financial bookkeeping. Rugby Rugby, a dormant club sport at Union College, is experien cing a rude awakening. It began with the fall season turnout of 25 men although one team of 15 was kept. The potential was there even though its record was one tie and 4 losses. The spring season, starting this week, received an overwhelming outcome of 45. This season will open with a 4 club tour nament on April 18 at home. On Pay 2 the team hosts another tournament to help entertain Parents' leekend. Our last bout is at the University of Mass, on May 23. , at FIJI, are proud to see that 30/^ of this team is composed of Fiji's, The range of participation has been; 1 senior, ialt Hennings; 3 juniors. Bob Teittinen(captain) However, the only weak point that Carl Sahlberg cited in his summary of strengths and Dave McKoewn,Drew Hamelink; 2 sophomores, Doug Tosh, Paul Spurgas; and 4 freshmen, Garry Ljmch, Charlie -ells, John Witherspoon, Dave Benko. This and other campus activities weaknesses is the absence of fill the schedules of the strong graduate relations. ie've already taken steps to all eviate this problem and we hope that you will feel the effects FIJIs' at Union College. of this soon. Yet no matter how INTERESTING INFO hard we work, nothing can be accomplished unless our grad uate brothers respond. We urge axi. of -jou to stop in and visit Louis A. "Bud" Mangels (In diana, '56), Fraternity Ritual ist, participated in the initia us, especially those of you who live in and around ck>iiQtigctady tion ceremony of our new brothers. In the February issue of "The and are able to journey with ease. Phi Gamma Delta" he discusses If you cannot visit us, drop us a line; v/e'll be more than happy to hear from you. Or if you have a tale or story concerning your drop here at FIJI, send it to us and we'll publish it for the rest of you brothers. This is a fraternity of graduate and under graduate brothers, ^-^"^lember "Phi Gamma Delta is not foj. n, ''Allege days alone." the Ritual and presents his ob servations as gathered from ex perience and from conversations with other brothers. Ed Grover ('68) asks us to announce that he and the little lady are the proud parents of a three month old baby girl, Miohele Marie. Happy family build ing, Ed! \r\nNEW CABINET INSTALLED INITIATION On April 5? 1970, Chi chap ter welcomed fourteen members into the Brotherhood, The new initiates are; David A. Benko (Chem) Binghampton, N,Y. Dennis F. Dodds (EE) Hillsdale, N.Y. Paul T. Kabb (Chem) class with a 5.95 index. The nev; Treasurer is Roger Springfield, Mass. Michael F, Raab Elections were recently held for the I97O-7I year and the newly elected officers have already ta ken office. Not only are o\ir of ficers active in fraternity func tions, but they also participate heavily in campus affairs. Steve Pierce of Westfield, Mass., is our new President. A member of the class of '71» Steve is vying for valedictorian of his (Psych) Wappingers Falls, N.Y. Davi^ C. V/illiams Rochester, N.Y. (EE &. LA) Edward G. Calamai (Phys) Anderson of Fishkill, N.Y. Rog, also a member of the class of "71» has already had much experience in bookkeeping since he is rooming with some of the past and present officers of the house. Historian Drev/ Hamelink, Wycoff, N.J., is one of the most Pleasantville, N.Y. industrious and versatile bro John G. Calender thers in the house. Drew, v/ho is a member of the class of '71» was unanimouslj'" elected to his posi (Pol. Sci.) Watertown, N.Y. tion. Garry R. Lynch (EE) Bill Kuchta of Westfield, Plieasantville, N.Y. Paul J. Pfingst (Pol. Sci.) Babylon, N.Y. be.: of the class of '72 and has Kenneth G. Schwenk (ME) East Hampton, N.Y. Charles C. Wells (EE) Pittsburgh, Pa. John M. Witherspoon (Pol. Sci.) Austin, Texas already contributed a great deal of time and energy to our cam pus and our fraternity. Correspohding Sedretary is Mike McCarthy of Hazlet, N.J. Mike, also a member of the class of "72, is one of the more active brothers in the house and devotes much of himself to our college and our fraternity. Michael A. Perrino (Bio) Schenec-tady, N.Y. Douglas S. Tosh Mass., is our new Recording Se cretary. Bill, who has just com pleted a service stint, is a mem- (Pol. Sci.) Nevj Hartford, N.Y. Tom VanNorstrand, '59» was elected as our Purple Legionnaire. Our IFC representative.is Bill Thurston of Fairfield, Pa., and George Geer of South Portland, Maine is our representative to the Student Senate, \r\nUNION BLACK STUDENTS SUBMIT GRlEv.a'Ur.6 The Black Alliance of Union College took a bold step forward last month when they submitted to President Harold Martin a list of four major grievances and their possible remedies. The four grievances concern the problems of Housing, Activities, Transpor tation and Attitudes, According to President Martin, the first three grievances are already being dealt with by college agencies, but he expressed a strong concern over the black student's alien ation from other students. This problem of campus racism was put before the faculty and a policy statement was unanimously adopted to make all. efforts to rid Union of racism. This can only be done, however, by the students themselves for their attitudes will deter mine whether Union will have a serious racist problem. In the past few years. Union College, as is characteristic of institutions of its type, has been moving toward what it feels are better and more realistic ideas about integration. As an example, the College has recently instituted an Upward Bound program to aid college bound students. It is the hope of everyone that a racial problem can and will be avoided at Union and that all minorities will come to feel more a part of the college community. RUSHING HELP NEEDED! If you knov/ of a friend or relative who has a son entering Union this fall, p'lease try to contact him and tell him about Phi Gamma Delta, Try to interest him in Fiji so when he comes here he will have some familiarity with us and he more responsive to our rush. Also, kindly fill out the form below and tell us your im pressions of the rushee. We would greatly appreciate your active aid and we will report to you the results of your information. Thanks a Lot! Mail to: JOHN ROBBINS, 643 HYSLTP AVE., WESTFIELD, N.J. 0W(5 Name of rushee; Home address: Age in September; YOUR NAME: ADDRESS: Impressions or remarks; 1 recommend him: YES NO