K N O THE ! £i'' 0,1MMA delta -CiiARTEPn G.A Volume XLIX Galesburg, Illinois 1977 CABINET Winter, 1977 No. 2 PIG DINNER DATE SWITCHED TO May 21 Due to a change in Congressman Railsback's spring calendar, we have had to reschedule the 1978 Norris Pig Dinner. The new date will be Saturday, May 21st. Please make sure to put a note on your calendar right away. As reported in the last edition of the G.D. FIJI, there is a plan ned golf outing and any tennis enthusiasts will be more than welcome on the Knox courts. Gold and silver owls will be awarded to 50 and 25 year initiates. There will also be a prize for the graduate brother who travels the farthest to attend the dinner. More specific information will be given in a Pig Dinner Notice that will be published within the next few weeks. Front row: John Sherrick, Paul Brauer. Back row: Joe Nichols, Dave Schramm, and Tom Bannos. This year's Cabinet is headed by Paul Brauer '78, our new president. Paul will be bringing plenty of experience and know ledge to the position. He has been an IFC Representative for two years. Last year he was the chapter's Recording Secretary and acted as our Rush Chairman. Besides these campus activities, Paul was in attendance at the 1975 Academy and the 128th Ekklesia. Helping Paul with the red tape of the Fraternity will be John Sherrick '78 (Treasurer), Joe Nichols '79 (Recording Secretary), Tom Bannos '79 (Corresponding Secretary), and TREASURERS REPORT Dave Schramm '78 (Historian). AFFILIATE MEMBER Master Sargeant Kenneth Roberts was pledged and activated by Gamma Deuteron during winter term. MSG Roberts, a member of Special Forces is the senior NCO in the KnoxCollege ROTC cadre. In Vietnam, he was a company commander of montenarde and served in the first nationwide Mobile Reaction Force. A much decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, MSG Roberts aided the Fijis to a considerable degree during rush and accepted our invitation to affiliate. Recently, MSG Roberts was selected for the highly competitive Sargeant Majors School and will be leaving Knox this summer. Gamma Deuteron is currently in good financial shape. Chapter dues were increased from $100 to $115 per year, in an effort to have a balanced budget. Right now, we are either at or below budgeted expenditures in all areas except Miscellaneous Chap ter Expenses. This overbudget spending is due to the outlay for a new television and a Kirby vacuum cleaner, both in excess of $300. At theendofFall Term 1976, weshowed a netgainof$450, butas our budget shows, our largest expense, besides Room Rent, is Gas and Electricity. This totaled over $2900 lastyear and may very well diminish any total gain we have this year due to the severewinterwe haveexperienced thusfar. All in all. Gamma Deuteron isinthe best financial condition ever, forthelasteight years, and we hope to keep it that way! \r\npage 2 RUSH K N O X f/^/ PUBLISHED BY GAMMA DEUTERON CHAPTER OF PHI GAMMA DELTA KNOX COLLEGE The '76-'77 rush program went very well. Through the efforts of many of the brothers here at the Fiji house, we were again able to pull off a successful rush. Our many rush functions included everything from "cattle drives" (burgers, pop, and beer) to a night at Alfanos Pizzaria, a local pizza parlor. Attendance at all of these events was good and much rushing was accomplished. Galesburg. Illinois winter edition 1977 Editors: Glen Thompson and Joe McNamara Contributors: John Pritchard, Bill Jones, Dave Bates, Paul Brauer, Mark Reardon, Mike Wiggen, Joe Nichols, Jim Mocogni, Bob Voss, Tom O'Neal, and Bill Hurley. The highlight of the program was the 2nd Annual Boxing Night at the Fiji house. After a beer or two, the brothers were in the proper state of mind to participate and watch the bouts to come. The head referee, because of his ability to maintain some sort of actual boxing, was Mark Reardon. The main event of the night was Brain Cox vs. Jack "the Bleeder" Huskisson. Only two punches were thrown in the bout, one by each boxer, and then each was forced to stuff his nose with cotton. Other interesting bouts were Brent "Doc" Peterson vs. Dave''Brain?'' Bates and Tad "Claude" Daley vs. Dave "the Greek" Lymberopoulos. The boxers displayed little technique but provided many laughs. president of active chapter faculty advisor Paul Brauer '78 Harry Neumiller purple legionnaire Bob Lindsey Jr. Field Secretary Bill Johnson SPOTLIGHT FiJiS ABOUT THE CAMPUS The Gamma Deuteron Chapter has several athletes which have become involved with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes on the Knox campus. The FCA is a nationally recognized organiza tion devoted to challenging the athlete to lead a Christ centered life. The Brothers involved are Bill Jones (captain), Paul Brauer (secretary), Fred Heger, Brian Cox, Glen Thompson, Doug Duff, John Sherrick, Joe McNamara, Tom Bannos, Dave Lymberopoulos, Kevin Keith, and Brent Peterson. In a growing state, the organization endeavors to become involved in com munity services in the coming months. Mark Reardon '77 was awarded an army ROTC one year scho larship. This grant covers full tuition, books, and lab fees. Reardon is currently the Operat* ns and Training Officer for the ROTC Cadet Corps, which has grown to 66 cadets. He will attend law school next year on an educational delay and plans to enter active duty as a Judge Advocate General. The fabulous Fiji Singers took the stage Saturday, February 12th, as Knox College transformed itself into Las Vegas. Las Vegas Night was sponsored by the Union Board and the enter tainment was provided by the students. Brain Cox, our song leader, got the brothers together for three sm^sh hits. We sang "Heres to Good Old Delta" to get the crowd warmed up. Then we featured a solo by "old golden throat" Cox as we sang "I want a Beer" which was the highlight of the evening. Capping off the performance, the Fabulous Fiji Singers finished with "When the Saints Go Marching In". Take that you chump!!! When pledging actually come around we were quite successful as we got 19pledges. Five of these pledges were upperclassmen. Our pledge class was the largest at Knox, but not only did we get quantity, we got individuals of high quality. Barstow, Charles Russell Cheesman, Steven Miles Czurylo, Joseph Anthony Glazar, Richard Joseph Matthew Glickman, Martin Eliot Galesburg, 111 79 Galesburg, 111 80 Chicago, 111 80 Evergreen Park, 111 78 Heretik, Mark Joseph River Forest, 111 Oak Brook, 111 80 80 Holmes, Steven Ross Keith, Kevin Brent Oneida, 111 Freeport, 111 80 80 LaMore, Stephen Edward Lofgren, James Gordon Bourbonnais, 111 Des Plaines, 111 80 80 Maxey, Philip George Panczyszyn, John Michael Pogue, James Bernard Smith, Bradley Alan Galesburg, 111 Glenview, 111 Galesburg, 111 Joliet, 111 Sullivan, Daniel Patrick Toriumi, Dean Michael Williams, Kent Edward Workman, David John S Milwaukee, Wis 80 Glenview, 111 80 Kewanee, 111 79 Youngvorst, David Scott Moline, 111 79 Eagle Grove, 111 79 79 80 80 80 \r\npage 3 RULING ON "CO-ED" FRATERNITY GAMMA DEUTERON HELPS BRING THE BRONZE TURKEY BACK TO KNOX A few weeks ago, the Interfraternity Council voted to allow the Alpha Delta Epsilon Fraternity to remain in the organization after it had pledged women with the full intention of activating them in violation of the IFC constitution. The constitution re quires that members of the IFC must be "men's social organi zations." The decision was made with the understanding that the IFC would review the coed status of the ADE Fraternity after the end of the pledging period of 1978.The representatives of Gamma Deuteron voted against the decision believing that it would be detrimental to the long term interests of the fraternity system as a whole. This article is devoted to explaining our view on the issue. It is our belief that by allowingthe ADEs, a local fraternity in dire financial straits, to remain in the IFC as a coed fraternity even under their current one year probationary status, the very existence of the five other national fraternities which make up the IFC will be threatened. This belief stems from understand ing that one of the prime functions of the IFC is coordinating fraternity rush programs. We contend that if the IFC sanctioned a coed rushing format of any kind it would allow the OnJanuary 29th, the Bronze Turkey, commemorating the win ner of each year's Knox-Monmouth football game, was pre sented to Knox College at the half time of the Knox-Monmouth basketball game. This marked Knox College's first possession of the prized turkey since 1965. On November 6th, Knox,of course, had defeated Monmouth 32-28 to top off a 7-1-1 recori Prior to the game, the rivalry had been built up tremendously by the media. Articles featuring not only the turkey but also the importance of the game (the division championship was on the line for both teams) appeared in the Chicago Daily News and the Chicago Tribune. In the picture (left to right), team cap tains Steve Baumgartner '77 and Fran Paradise '77 receive the Bronze Turkey from Rick Hintze and Topper Steinman '71. Fran, Steve, and Topper are all Phi Gams. student body-men and women alike-to falsely perceive the fraternity system as a whole as receptive to coeductional frat ernal living, which it decidedly is not. In fact, it was agreed by virtually all of the IFC representatives that the IFC should continue to primarily consist of members of men's social or ganizations. The decision to allow the ADEs to remain members was jus tified through reasons of expediency; if no men pledged ADE the house would fold. Since no men pledged the only solution to remaining solvent was to pledge women. Therefore, the IFC must not punish a fraternity for trying to stay alive. We feel that this wrongly emphasizes expediency over principle. If nothing else, this decision allows for the possibility that 1) young men will wrongly perceive that they have no chance to enjoy tradi tional fraternal living and 2) young women will be unduly led to think that they may join any fraternity or sorority they wish, causing a sense of false rivalry between fraternity and sorority systems that cannot do anything but weaken both systems, and 3) national fraternities will become more lackadaisical in their financial responsibilities because they can be assured that all their problems can be solved by "going local and turning coed." However, we at Gamma Deuteron do not believe that the ADEs should be denied continued existence despite charges leveled at us in the IFC meetings to the contrary. To be more specific, it was brought up that thosewho would bar the ADEs from mem bership in the IFC were not unlike those who attempted to bar blacks from fraternities in the fifties. To be blunt, this is just not true. We believe that the ADE solution to their problem is an admirable, respectable, and viable alternative to traditional fraternal living. Our only complaint is that by being so closely affiliated with such an alternative in the IFC we endanger the vitality of our own local and national conception of what frater nal living shouldbe. Webelieve that the ADEsshould beallowed to make it or break it on their own without the problems IFC sanction poses for them and us. For his performance in the Monmouth game, Fran won the Tom Dean Award, given to the most valuable Knox senior in the Knox-Monmouth game. Fran threw three touchdown passes in the game and convinced any doubters that he was the Midwest Conference's best quarterback. After the season, Fran was elected All-Conference for the second straight year. Perhaps Steve Baumgartner has accomplished just as much. As a sophomore, Steve was elected All-Conference as a middle guard. He was the Most Valuable Defensive Player for the Siwash in his sophomore, junior, and senior years. When pre sented the Bronze Turkey, Steve's acceptance speech was: "Isn't this great. Get a bunch of young men together... and look what you can do!" Perhaps all this sounds like a modification of the separate but equal doctrine. But the differences is that the original doctrine was used to justify the continuing belief in the superiority of the white race. We make no claims here that our way of life is superior for all men. We do, however, claim and vigorously defend our right to maintain the existence of our own way of fraternal life; we state our position not out of prejudice but out of the right to our own self preservation. We remember that Phi Gamma Delta is not for college days alone and it is because of this that we voted in the minority on this issue. Topper Steinman was a defensive back for Knox when the school's football was almost cancelled. However, Topper's par ticipation with just sixteen other players kept the program in existence. His class never defeated the Monmouth football team, but if it wasn't for Topper Steinman and sixteen other men who,like him, didn't want to see the Knox College football program disappear, Knox College's 1976 football team's 32-28 victory over Monmouth would not have taken place. \r\npage 4 GAMMA DEUTERON INTRAMURALS This winter we continued our highly competitive ways but we could not attain the same degree of success that we enjoyed last term. For the swin meet, we had trouble finding swimmers. My strategy was to arrange Fred Heger, John Sherrick.Phil Maxey, and Chuck Barstow in the weaker events and hope for some miracles. The only problem was that there were no slow races and we could manage no first place finishes. When the points were totaled, we ended up in fourth place by half a point. In the wrestling meet we had the same problem as in swim ming. Nobody wanted to wrestle. With only a few entries we came out very fortunate. The wrestlers we had did their best and brought home third place points. The Fiji champs were Dean Toriumi at 128,Dave Bates at 142, and Steve Baumgartner at 177. The last intramural sport of the winter was bowling and we weren't quite sure just how this would turn out. We had been competitive the last couple of years but all of the bowlers had graduated. As luck would have it, we pledged two freshmen who were good bowlers (Brad Smith and Steve Holmes). These With swimming now out of the way we turned to basketball. We gathered our team and were ready to go. Our shortest man was 6 foot even and our tallest man was only 6 foot 2 inches. Knowing our limitations we set out on our way. How far can you go with 6 foot basketball players you may ask. Well, we figured to go all the way to the top. You see, even though we were short, we had it in the bucket as far as experience. This experience came in the form of four former Knox ball players. These four players, John Sherrick 78, Doug Duff 78, Paul Brauer 78, and Glen Thompson 78, formed the nucleus of the team. To fill out the line up we shuttled in Norm Hillner 79, Mike McNamara 79, and Joe McNarhara 79. Throughout the year we had moments of greatness. Against the ' 'All Stars" (the team to beat this year) we had only five players and were in trouble when brother Brauer picked up his fifth foul at the end of the third quarter. Being calm and bullheaded enough to believe that we could still win, we turned a three point deficit into a ten point lead and coasted home to a three point win. After the game, Brauer said, "If I had known that I would pledges teamed with Fran Paradise and Glen Thompson to average 155 per game. Our scores were good enough to wrap up the first place spot. Having wonthis first place helped up to stay atop the all-sports race. During the winter we had dropped a few points but we are still out ahead. PLEDGE EDUCATION On the whole, pledge education has started off on the right foot. The pledge class is a large one but a very good one. The many different personalities seem to make this pledge class very interesting. They started out by attempting a couple of pimps which, of course, fell flat on their face. The second pimp was pretty well organized, but one of the boys forgot to come back and play a prerecorded cassette tape which was to wake up the actives. have fouled out by half time." Two weeks later we played the "Quad" and our fastbreak really began to click. The game, an Coming off pledging, they were again faced with the prepara tions for Rose Formal. As usual it appeared that not all of the decorations could possible by finished. But, through a gallant victors, 103-78. effort by the social chariman, John Scarano, and many others the house shaped up and looked better than it had for years. The party went over very well and by the end of the night we saw many severely intoxicated people. offensive display by both teams, ended up with the Fijis as fe- Duff gets two of his thirty nine points against the Quad. However, the season was not all roses. We committed numerous defensive errors and got killed under the boards as we lost to the Phi Delts (the eventual champs) by one point. The same thing happened against the Betas where we grabbed defeat out of the hands of victory by blowing an eleven point lead and lost by one on a last second shot. When all the games were over we found ourselves in a tie for second place with a 7-2 record. Our whole season was summed up by one referee when he said, "Geezus, you guys play clean!'' To which I replied, "Yeah, that's our whole problem." We may have to change that next year. John Scarano makes the final check on the waterfall. This year, the pledge education program is stressing the impor tance of the Purple Pilgram. My assistant, Doug Duff, and I feel that this has been lacking in the past few years. Most of the remaining pledge meetings will be devoted to instruction and discussion of important facts related to Phi Gamma Delta. We are hoping that by stressing its importance the tradition will again come back to its full vigor and continue onward. \r\npage S FROM THE EDITOR I hope that you have been pleased with the last two issues of The Knox G. D. FIJI. We are making a very conscious effort to improve our publications and graduate relations, two areas which have been real shortcomings in the past. Your time taken Charles A. Gibson 1902 William W. Stewart 1945 Gordon D. Stuart 1902 John C. Langen 1947 Hurff C. Flanegin 1925 William W. Fox Jr. 1949 Elmer W. Byers 1926 Wilber G. Wedan 1949 Kenneth A. Milligan 1928 William C. Felber 1950 Earle J. Ward 1929 George E. Krull 1951 Arthur L. Anderson 1930 Jack H. Hagopian 1952 Walter E. Button 1931 Albert Deahl Jr. 1953 Albert C. Frederick 1934 Walter R. Harbutte 1953 Stanley E. Wolkenheim 1936 Robert A. Alig 1954 Patrick B. Kraphel 1939 Denis G. Cain 1959 John R. McKinney, Jr. 1939 Scott A. Benson 1962 Dr. Winfield W. Scott 1942 Thomas W. Collins Jr. 1967 Fred A. Wahl 1944 Stephen P. Goldenberg 1967 to give a few candid comments on the last two publications will be greatly appreciated. To further improve our graduate relations we are cooperating with the National in trying to bring our address list up to date. Currently there are 6682 Brothers classified as lost and this presents a financial burden when tracking the correct addres ses. The Fraternity Headquarters has proposed a "Lost Brothers" contest among the undergraduate chapters. The Chapter finding the greatest percentage of correct addresses for their "lost brothers" will be the winner. Our Chapter, have- ing over 75 "lost brothers", is in Division III for the contest. From our mailing list and the alumni office files we have been able to obtain 46 new addresses. We would like your help in tracking down the remaining Brothers on our list: Carl V. Ullman 1970 SILVER OWL AWARDS nh« panting t mkk. \r\n*» s ' i ^ t DO YOU REMEMBER THESE MOMENTS AND YOUR OLD FRIENDS ? WHY NOT WRITE AND SEE WHAT YOUR BUDDIES ARE DOING NOW. iSk m . h: . ; 'i's-> \r\npage 7 PHI GAMS IN THE SPOTLIGHT HOCKEY Fijis made up the back bone of the Knox hockey team this year. The team played against schools with much larger enrollments but were very competitive. The highlight of the season was a 5-1 win over Eastern Illinois University. Throughout the season, the home games were broadcast over WVKC radio for Galesburg and the Knox community. The two announcers, who became known as the "Sound of the Siwash", were also Fijis. Brian Cox did the play by play while Dave Lymberopoulos acted as the color man. This team traveled to Lake Forest to broadcast the conference play-offs and received numerous compliments on a fine job from faculty and staff members. Senior John Lange was the captain and inspried the team from his position as a defenseman with his Bobby Orr style of play and hard checking. He had 2goals and 6assists for the year. Left winger Dave Bates led Fiji scorers with 4 goals and 4 assists despite missing half of the season with bruised ribs. Wingers Greg Mendrek, Dave Schramm, and Brent Peterson were also HOUSE IMPROVEMENTS tough and improved greatly over the course of the year. Brain Cox was tough on defense all year and was often paired with Lange. Behind this stout defense was Fred Heger, the starting goaltender. He was quite impressive in his first year with There have been no major improvements undertaken since the Siwash. last newsletter. However, several of the smaller items listed have been taken care of. Composites from the last seven years have been hung in the pong room. Soap and paper towel dis- BASKETBALL pencers were also instiled in the washrooms for our guests. Our second floor shower, which is notorious for its ability to leak at will, was again recaulked in the hopes of stopping the leak. This season the Varsity Basketball team approached its full potential. The Siwash posted a 17-6 season record (including a 13-game winning streak) which is the best in the last seventeen years. Besides individual records that were broken this season, the 76-77Siwashers broke sevenall-time team records. These include: Most points by a single team (2029); highest average points pergame (88.2); the most field goals in a single season (804); best field goal percentage for a single season (49.1 per cent); best field goal percentage for a single game ( 70 per cent); the longest winning streak (13 games); andthe highest combined total of points for two opposing teams (221). The Fijis contribution to the Varsity team was Joe Morrison. As a sophomore, Joe was a second year team member. In the past two years, Joe has started a few games, but he has been used mostly in a substitute role. In this role, Joe has been a consistent contributor to the teams success. This year's Siwash Junior Varsity, under the guidance of the first year coach Tim Hiemann, was well represented by Fiji pledges and actives. The JV team was composed of twelve players, of which six were Fiji pledges and one active. The pledges were: Dan Sullivan-South Milwaukee, Wis., Steve Holmes-Oneida, Jim Pogue-Galesburg, Jim Lofgren-Des Plaines, Dave Youngvorst-Moline, Dave Workman-Kewanee and the active was Jim Mocogni-Lake Bluff. Proposals for the purchase of new lamps and end tables have been presented to our Board of Chapter Advisors and approval is expected shortly. Restoration of the coat room, being viewed as a long term project, was put aside since other items had higher priority, but there are several items connected with it that are possible Help Week projects. In the last month, the house also inherited a washer and dryer from Rockwell Corp. (Admiral line). These machines were in stalled as part ofa field test program which in affect provided these machines free for the brothers use with no charge for repairs. When the programwasterminated the machineswere donated to the house. Now that the machines are ours, however, we have been having problems with the washer which has been successfully kept running with some creative mechanics by Bill Hurley and Mike Wiggen. How long these efforts will be successful depends mostly on the availability of parts for the now discontinued line. Probably our biggest immediate concern is the condition of the windows in the house. Age and sometimes neglect has taken its toll. Now some of the windows are unable to hold glass. The cost of replacing all these windows, needless to say, is very high. In this newsletter, 1 am making an appeal to any graduate brother who would be able to obtain windows at a reduced cost to please get in touch with the house. Also, if any brother has experience in replacing window frames and could give us a couple quick lessons it would be appreciated. Thoughthis year's JV records wasn't impressive, 2-8, the team did accomplish many of its goals in the short season. The two wins we did have, were probably the two most important games of the season, because they were victories over our arch rival Monmouth College. There could have easily been a few more victories for the year, for there were a few one point loses and others in which we were leading throughout the game, but lost in the end. These Fijis played a strong role in the success of the team this year and should continue their contributions next year on the varsity program. GRADUATE NEWS We are sad to report the deaths of Hubert Goltra Heren of San Antonio and Arnold Louis Klein of Downers Grove. \r\nGOLD OWL AWARDS THE Sl KNOX Non-Proflf Organization G.ft U.S. POSTAGE PAID — FROM — FRATERNITY OF PHI GAMMA DELTA 218 S. Cedar GALESBURG, ILLINOIS 61401 (address correction requested) Permit No. 68 Galesburg, III. 6l401