GRADUATE NEWSLETTER Dear Graduate Brothers, The 1977 Norris Pig Dinner promises to be both exciting and fun-filled. On Saturday, May 21 at 4:30 pm. the refreshments will begin flowing at 218 South Cedar. more The dinner will start at 6:00. Girl freinds and spouses are than welcome. Congressman Railsback, as has been previously mentioned, will be our guest speaker. He holds important committee positions and was a prominant figure in the 1974 impeachment trials. He represents a district with a great diversity of interests including industrial, agricultural, rural, urban and suburban constituents. He promises to be an extremely interesting speaker. He represents the 19th District which includes the quad cities. Master of ceremonies will be Dick Neumiller ('53). in industry and politics in the Peoria area. He is involved A golf outing has been planned at the Soangetaha Country Club for graduate linksmen. Several of the undergraduate brothers ha^e expressed an interest in playing with the graduates so that they could get to know them better at the same time as getting a free lesson. Tee-off times will be between 9:00 and 9:30 am. Green fees are $7.30. The Knox tennis facilities will be available for anyone who wishes to use them. For those brothers who wish to stay overnight in Galesburg, arrange ments have been made for reduced room rates at both the Holiday Inn and the Sheraton Motor Inn. At the Sheraton a single will cost $19.00 and a double will be $20.00 (children under 17 are free). The Holiday Inn will charge $17.00 regardless of the number of occupants. Please be sure to tell them that you are with the Phi Gamma Delta group if you make the reservations yourself. The cost of the dinner will be $6.50 which will include as a main course the finest roast beef obtainable. Pershing Gooselaw, our caterer has assured us that the dinner will be superb. Gold and Silver owl awards will be given to fifty and twenty-five year initiates. An award will also be presented to the graduate brother who has travelled the farthest to attend. This year we will greatly appreciate your attendance at this annual event. We think that it will be a good time for everyone who makes the effort to come. Sincerely yours. JUN 101977 I'uj Pig Dinner ^Chairman Graduate Relations Chairman ' r \r\nGAMMA DEUTERON MEMORIES In an attempt to spark memories of those good old college days we have canvassed .old Knox Students in the archives to recreate some of the .atmosphere of the campus fifty and twentyfive years ago. Many things have changed very l i t t l e . Wesincerely hope that you will come back and see for yourselves. Not many'of us can remember the roaring twenties but it seems to have been an era much like our own. The Fijis were fired up then as they are now. Fifty years ago Knox played many of the same schools in athletics. The football schedule included Augustana, Monmouth, Beloit, Coe, Cornell and Bradley. Jim Witte was president of the Fijis and Dr. Albert Britt was the president of the school. There were obviously many differences then, however. Parties were chaperoned and refreshments usually included iced tea, cookies ans ice cream. The Fijis did a lot of entertaining. Smokers or orthophonic victrola parties were the norm. "Frenchy and Campus Rounders" usually played when a live band was hired. He normally played eight dances evening. and two extras during the For the "Hard Times party dates were brought from Whiting in wheel barrows and entered the house by climbing a ladder and crawling through a window. Only one date was dropped from the wheel barrow, the Student reported. Fifty years ago Seymore Library was being completed. A l i t t l e over 700 students attended Knox. The Fijis finished fourth in the premier fall intramural sport, horseshoes. They did not fare as well in the winter, finishing last in basket ball. They came back, however, in the spring with a strong kittenball team. Homecomi^ng and Pig Dinner drew over 70 graduate brothers each. Graduate support has not changed in fifty years and we are looking for a big turnout. Twenty-five years later the nation had been through a depression and a major world war. The Fijis were going stronger than ever. At Knox in the year 1951^52 the faculty—student ratio;, was 11:1. The student radio station began broadcasting, and the old quad was being completed. The Siwash football team finished third in the conference with a final game tie to Monmouth. The "Geep," a short order hangout next to Blanchard House, was sold to enterprising students Ward Nipper, Don Padgitt, and Arch Wright. Senator Paul Douglas spoke at comencement.