-■ PHI GAMMA DELTA NEWSLETTER ^^EcrKXfS. W£' MfSS you, PLSAS Campus News: Peter Starkweather *"70 WRirei Editor: John Calender '75 Graduate News: Steven Pierce ';71 We would greatly appreciate any information from our graduate brothers. Please mail all summer correspondence to; John Calender 918 Franklin St, Watertown, New York 13601 m \r\nGRADUATE NEWS CAMPUS NEWS Alumni help is desperately needed for the 69-70 dues appeal. The mortgage was met in large In spite of Union College's notable apathy toward things other than itself; in spite of the part due to Tom Dempster's ('^3) gift to the College, part of which Union man's m3'-opic world view was allocated to the fraternity which perceives little but eco mortgage reduction. books §.nd the nearest bar, the College did participate in the William U, Light ('30) has been serving as Historian of the Xi Graduate Chapter in New York City, Xi Chapter was founded in Student Strike of the last few 1898 and currently has 66 active brothers in its membership, entailed, rather than a shutdown Ltd, of Cleveland, E. Paterson, to provide alternatives for com N.J., and New York, N.Y. pletion of the academic year; weeks. The Union "Strike," which was handled responsibly, openly and non-violently at all stages, of classes, the assumption of ad ditional physical and mental bur dens by the participants. The Junius W, Stephenson ('4^) has become a member of the engin students, faculty and administra eering firm of Havens and Emerson, tion acted swiftly and in concert Edmund P, Henk ('49), who has been named manager of re cruiting and placement for the Mobil Oil Corp., is pictured in the January Journal of Collegb including reduced class loads and pass-fail options. The Strike Committee coordinates activities including DITDO (a draft resis tance movement), campaigning for lo9al peace-oriented candidates, a speakers' bureau, a regional Pladement, apolitical short-wave information The President has nominated David Anderson ('58) for promo tion to Class 3 in the Foreign Service of the United States., The promotion resulted from the recommendation by the 23nd For eign Service Selections Board, He is presently assigned to the U.S. Mission, Berlin, as a Poli tical Officer, Capt, Louis G. Bruhn, Jr, ('64), has been decorated with net, a Washington lobby, a peti tion and letter writing campaign directed at the Administration and! Congress and an information center on repression and civil liberties. More conservative elements on campus have contribu ted to community dialogue by es tablishing a newsletter "View point" to counter the Strike Com mittee's "Union Press." The pro- Nixon group (SCAV; Student Com mittee for an Alternative View the U.S. Air Force Commendation point) has also initiated a ser Medal at Otis ilFB (Mass.). ies of forums on international He received the medal for meritori questions. ous service as a personnel offi cer at Richards-Gebaur AFB (Mo.). of the last three weeks has wanec The furious activity the passing of two Chi Fmjis. Henry Sears Brown, Jr. ('2?) and John Earle Vaughn ('21), earlier. but there seems to be continuing at Union a more active political "The Phi Gamma Delta" records dialogue then could be detected \r\nCHAPTER NEWS We are proud to announce that Chi Chapter is ranked fourth in the 53-69 Brown Cup Standings. The Brown Cup is awarded to the best all-around fraternity on cam pus. With sixteen fraternities in the running, Chi FIJI earned a third place in scholarship, a fifth place in athletics and a seventh place in activities to give us an over-all rank of fourth place. Delta Phi was ranked number one, but txiere is a very go^'d possibil ity that our standing will improvefor the 69-70 academic year. THE HAWLSY AvJARD Richard M. Adams ('70), for mer .president of Chi, was awarded the Frederick B. Hawley Jr. Me morial Cup for "outstanding con tributions in the fields of Schol arship, Activities and Fraternity Participation" at the College's Prize Day activities on Saturday, May 2. Besides being president of the house, he has also served as treasurer, assistant treasurer, publications chairman and public relations chairman within the chapter. He has served as pre sident of the IFC and chairman of its Goals Committee, president H. Reid Schv^enk ('71) was e- and treasurer of the IFC Purchas lected to Tau Beta Pi, a profes sional engineering society, and is currently serivng as treasurer of that organization, ing Association, and is a member of the golf team and Block U So ciety. As a delegate to the FIJI Academj'" in 1969 he was chosen as one of the five participants on Robert Herron ('>70) was elect the Model"Initiation Ritual Team, ed to Eta Kappa Nu, an honorary engineering society. a position he also held at t se Installation of our "Vermont Chap ter last October. Steve Pierce ('71) has been elected to Phi Beta Kappa, Walter Hennings ('70) has Tv/enty-five members of Chi Chapter recently spent a day cleaning YHCA's Camp Tippecanoe. Award for being" the senior in en We swept and craned the camp's lodge, raked the grounds, and emp gineering who exhibits the great tied and cleaned the pool. est potential for social serivce through economfc methods. hope to build and improve rela been awarded the Shankar Gokhale V/e tions betv;een students and the community through efforts such Robert Teittinen ('71) is cur rently serving as President of the IFC (Inter-Praternity Council). as this one. For Parents' Weekend this year, Chi Chapter held a cocktail Paul Pfingst ('73) was elected party and a dinner. Many of the Secretary of the Student Senate, parents who attended were very impressed with the house and its Ten members of Chi Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta will be gradu ating this year and we all v;ish members. them the best of luck in the fu ture. To all our graduate brothers; HA"VE A HAPPY SUMFiER I !! Needless to say, every one had a real good time. Please mail all rushing in formation to: John Robbins 645 Hyslip Ave. Westfield, N.J. 07090