BUCKEYE FIJI [Auniffat" Phi Gamma Delta • Ohio State University • Columbus, Ohio • July 1969 PLEDGES Omicron Dueteron Chapter had a very successful rush last September, awarding white stars to 43 undergraduates as the start of a rebuilding program at this chapter. These widely diversified young men have proved themselves an outstanding and unified pledge class and truly have helped the chapter regain its place as a leader on Ohio State campus. DICKEN HEADS NEW CABINET Omicron Dcutcroii recently installed its new cabinet led by President Michael D. Dicken (70) of Dayton, Ohio. He will be supported by Treasurer Joseph P. Borgo (69), Recording Sec'y Henry A. Spain (70), Corresponding Sec'y James S. Dielil, and Historian Timothy Meehan (7(3). The entire chapter is confident that the new cabinet will provide the enthusiasm and leadership needed to put us on top. The brothers have pledged all possible assistance to the new officers who are anxious lo give an all out effort. \r\nPage 2 July 1969 BUCKEYE FIJI NEW PURPLE NEW HOUSEMOTHER Our house is currently in the process of adjusting to our LEGIONNAIRE Brother Joseph Berwanger recently replaced Rick new housemother Mrs. Nancy McSweeny and helping her to Weifihiemmer as Omicron Dcuteron's now purple legion become acquainted with the brothers and fraternity life in naire. Joe graduated from Ohio State in 1960. general, "Mom" McSweeny is a welcomed addition to our He has shown a strong desire to help us work together as chapter and is already extremely popular with all of us because of her outgoing personality and keen interest in our an efficient unit and is supporting us all the way. We feel he is going to do a great job for our house and hope to make house. She is a competent administrator, and has worked in that capacity at Wooster College. Mom M. has also traveled and working hard to make our house number one in all throughout every major country in the world for over nine areas. his job easier for him by carrying out our responsibilities years and can speak five languages! She is working hard in improving our kitchen and says she is looking forward to her new role here as housemother at Phi Gamma Delta. Public Relations ... CHAPTER CONCLUDES EVENTFUL YEAR game and found it to be not only good for campus publicity but also a satisfying and heartwarming experience. Another function for the orphans in Columbus is planned for the near future. We are also working for improved Fall quarter was hectic but gratifying for our chapterer, relations among Greeks on campus. Our chapter has had highlighted by Pig dinner, homecoming, rush week, and a visit by Field Secretary Carl Salzberg. Carl was very three exchange dinners with various sororities and found them very successful. The brothers had to be more careful of their manners than usual but seemed to enjoy having interested in all aspects of our chapter from our social interests to committee structure. He was quite instrumental in offering advice and criticism to our cabinet and members as well. We felt Carl's visit was both a pleasurable and constructive one for the entire chapter. Winter quarter found the pledge basketball team cap turing the 1st place intramural crown to cap an undefeated season. The winter formal highlighted the social calendar along with a suppressed desire party. Spring quarter saw the intramural swim team grab a second place in tbe meet while Randy Click took a 1st in diving and Bill Ford set a new pool record in the butterfly. Once again, the Fijis constructed a May Week booth that was well engineered but this time something went wrong and pies ended up being thrown at our pledges by young ladies instead of a spring-loaded mechanical arm. Of course, finishing off a memorable year was the long-awaited Island Party, held on Graduate Brother Jack Havens' property girls at the house for dinner. We have also planned joint parties with other fraternities on campus in order to get to know more Greeks living around us and promote brother hood and friendship outside of our own house. Brother Wingate is also working hard arranging to have various guest speakers at Monday night dinners. These may range from football coach Woody Hayes to professors answering our questions on vital world issues. We at Omicron Deuteron feel it is important that faculty mem bers have a chance to take a close look at what a fraternity provides for its members. Obviously, the best way is for them to come up to the house and meet the brothers in a casual out of class situation. Faculty support of the fraternity system can prove to be an invaluable asset to every chapter on campus. NORRIS PIG DINNER near a river. This year was one that Omicron Deuteron can look back on as a big step forward in all respects. installation of our new cabinet, we have outlined a new Omicron DeuteroiTs Pig Dinner was held October 18th at Arlington Arms Inn. Chairman of the dinner was Harry Brown '."Sd. The tradition of bringing in the pig was enlivened turtiier when the pledges followed the traditional dressed pig with a live piglet. No one knows wliere they got it, but rumor has it tiiat after dinner the second pig was sent by taxi to tlie .\M house with Fiji blessings. Howard ''Hopalong" Cassidy spoke after dinner and program led by P. R. Chairman Steve Wingate (72). We recently took a group of orphans to an Ohio State Hockey complete a highly successful evening. PUBLIC RELATIONS REVAMPED One of our downfalls here at Ohio State in recent years has been public relations (better known as P. R.). Since siiowed Iilms ot !iis tootball career at Ohio State to \r\nm # July 1969 Page 3 BUCKEYE FIJI I hope to see many of you alumni this year at our chapter house, especially on football Saturdays for brunch at 12:00, and at our Pig Dinner. Fraternally yours, Mike Dicken PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE Dear Brothers, Tlio outlook for liic 1960-70 school year appears to be mucii brighter than anticipated. Tlie 1968-69 year will be reiiicnibered ;is (lie .slarl of renewed fraternity spirit wliieli stemmed from the outstanding efforts of the past cabinet. Our house stands for something more than just a good time since a good time is easily forgotten at the Otiio State University. At pre.scnt, the number of members living in the house is 4 PHI GAMS ON NATION'S NO. 1 TEAM The Fijis were once again a vital role in varsity athletics this year. Football at Ohio State found four Plii Gams rather small, but through extensive rush and full coopera tion from all brothers, we already have twice the amount of leading tire Buckeves to an undefeated ( signed contracts to live here next year. We also plan to move approximately 10 new pledges in the house next fail with a much improved summer rush. As far as intramural over use in the Rose Bowl and the coveted honor of being the nation's no. 1 college team. The brothers are extremely proud of Brad Nielsen, Bill Hackett, Dan Aston, and pledge sports. Phi G. D., at the time of this letter, leads all atliletic Brian Donovan. Brad was named as starting offensive tackle competition, both Greek and non-Greek. The pledge class won their division in basketball and added another trophy outstanding play by coach Woody Hayes. Brothers Hackett to the mantle. In swimming, the brothers won 'the meet, with AU-Amcrican Bill Ford winning ttrree events, and setting a new intramural record. The Fiji football team is and Aston were both active for the Buckeyes this year and are looking forward to next season with great anticipation. Pledge Donovan was a starting guard and also stood out as looking forward to an even greater year after coming in 2nd one of the better interior linemen in the nation. All four of place in the Scarlet Division. the football Fijis will return next season when Ohio State makes another bid for the national championship. We as We have also added another trophy by running Brad Nielsen for May King, he was first runner up and added much needed publicity to the fraternity name. We have revamped the internal working of our cabinet, a job that should have been done years ago. Our treasurer has started collecting debts owed to us from 5 years back and ) season, a national championship, and most exciting of all a victory on the All-Fiji team and was presented (7) buckeye leafs for brothers cannot say enough about the outstanding contri butions these men have made not only to our chapter but the entire university. They are truly to be commended for their accomplishments. more. The chapter meetings have been cut from 2 or 3 hours to usually an hour by having format meetings and minimizing unnecessary talk and disruption. The problem of "deadbeats" using the house has disappeared and the house itself GREEK WEEK We consider our Greek Week effort highly successful although we did not win top place. The Fiji house was transformed into a representation of the Wizard of Oz for the party held at the end of Greek Week by our brothers, is no longer abused. The men of Omicron Deuteron are, for the most part, truly gentlemen and hopefully scholars. Delta Upsilon and Clri Phi fraternities, and Alpha Epsilon Our house has an attitude of change from tradition, the Phi sorority. Visitors entered the front door to the sound of tradition of the past which saw our house placed on a tornado and found themselves in stormy Kansas as Dorothy's house appeared to be ready to be blown from its probation, and a general disinterested attitude, to a new yearning, a yearning to be once ag;un number one. Much work has been done to achieve this new attitude and pride, and it is my firm belief that with tire excellent e|uahty ot the secondary ieadersliip ot Joe Bortto, Henry Spain, Jim Diehl and Tim Meehan, and manv of the otiier upperclassmen in our cliaptcr, our house will continue to rise and make the change final and oompiete. This eliangc from a social club at Ohio Stale '■ mvcxit', • .< a traternitv of Mien 'has increased our awaroia SK ii .aiTiina iVjta :s "not i i :i coiieec uavs aloiie base. They then followed a yellow brick road with the Scarecrow and Lion through the haunted forest to the wicked witch's castle. At the bottom of the stairs, a band was playing in Oz as the Wizard (Brother Tim Meehan '70) hustled about making certain everything was in order. Wc are proud of our efforts in Greek Week, and with tlie experience we gained, we hope next year we may win. It might be added, however that Fiji did in a sense win since vipha Gamma Rlio rook too lionors with 'he 'heme 'F'lii \r\nPage 4 July 1969 BUCKEYE FIJI m HOMECOMING The Fiji homecoming float met with disaster last fall just hours before the completion deadline. A 30' replica of coach Woody Hayes had been built, dressed as Ben Franklin and flying a kite which was being struck by lightning. The brothers were putting the finishing touches on an equal-sized wildcat (mascot of Northwestern University) when the head blew off the wildcat. Although it was 4:30 A.M., the chapter did not quit at this setback and managed EDITORIAL I am a third year transfer student who came to Ohio State this fall and moved into the house immediately. I found it an easy transformation because aU the Phi Gams helped me learn the ropes of a much larger university than I attended. Since then, I have taken an active part in Omicron Deuteron and am interested in helping it any way I can as an undergraduate and also after I leave school. The point I want to make is that not enough graduate interest is being placed in our chapter, partly because we have shown little interest in the graduates. This is coming to an end, however. All of us are rebuilding and are working to make our chapter number one in all areas. It won't happen overnight but we have set a goal for this house and we need graduate support and interest to accomplish these goals. We realize that grads are working and have little time but we want to hear from you or have you as guests at the house whenever possible. Any suggestions or comments you may have for us are welcome. We need and want any and all support you can give us. Our alumni are important to us and we want to make Omicron Deuteron important to them. "Phi Gamma Delta is not for college days alone." It can still be a rewarding experience if you take advantage of it. As a beginning, a questionnaire has been provided so we to get the head back in place, but they ran out of time before it could be repaired adequately. We now are anxiously awaiting next year to prove that we can buHd a winning float. GRADUATE HELP APPRECIATED As we work to improve the chapter, we realize that as active brothers we may be too close to our problems to see them clearly. Therefore, we would welcome your visiting the chapter house and would appreciate any criticisms or comments you may have which might help us. Additionally, although we work hard to find the best men to become prospective Phi Gams, we realize that we miss many qualified entering freshmen. If you know of high school seniors who will be attending Ohio State next fall and who you feel would make worthy brothers, please send us their names so that we may have them for summer rush. Hopefully renewed cooperation and communication be tween the graduate — and undergraduate chapters will make Omicron Deuteron a much stronger organization in this upcoming year. C. R. Ryan Graduate Relations can learn more about our alumni. Please fill it out and return it. Another important area we would like graduate support in is rush. We cannot meet all the good men who come to 1969 NORRIS PIG DINNER Ohio State, so any potential rushees you may wish to recommend to us would be greatly appreciated. The The Norris Pig Dinner wiU be held October 24, 1969, at brothers find this an invaluable aid during rush week. If you the Kings Inn Restaurant. The dinner will precede the know any young men coming to Ohio State that you think Homecoming Game with the University of Illinois. It is would make good Phi Gams, let us know. This is just expected that a large turnout will attend, and the usual another way graduate support can continue to make Omicron Deuteron number one in rush. Dugan good time wiU be forthcoming. The chairman of this year's Dinner wiU be S. Michael Miller, Class of'60. GRADUATE INFORMATION FORM Name (class year). Current Address _ Present Occupation Community interests. Honors_ Hobbies, Recreational Interests Suggestions For Chapter Nevus of any Freshman at O.S.U. Omicron Deuteron requests that graduates fill this out and return it to Phi Gamma Delta, 218 E. 17th Ave., Columbus, Ohio. We want to hear from you so we can put more graduate news in our publications. Thank You