Summer 1998 PHI GAMMA DELTA July 22, 1998 A 1 9 9 8 E k kle s i a C e l e br a t e s 1 5 0 th The 1998 Ekklesia, celebrating Phi Gamma Delta's 150th anniversary, will be a special event. Plans are already under way to hold the largest, greatest, and most significant event in our Fraternity's history in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The event will be held on August 12-16 at The Westin William Penn (site of the 100th Ekklesia). Special sesquicentennial events include a visit to the Alpha Chapter at Washington & Jefferson College and a trip to the log cabin where the Immortal Six first met in 1848. Anyone interested in attending, please contact Joe Weist for information. You can also find information and registration forms on the international home page. PHI GAMMA DELTA 150 1848 1998 Carl Hartmann Nominated for Wilkinson Award As you may remember, every year an award is given to the most outstanding senior member of Phi Gamma Delta. It is called the Wilkinson Award and the competition starts on the chapter level. Each chapter holds a vote to decide who is the most outstanding senior in the chapter. The candidate then competes with other brothers on the regional level. The regional representative advances to the international competition where the final winner is selected. Each chapter's candidate must submit three letters of recommendation from their peers and fraternity and school officials, a transcript, color photo, and a formal application. This year the Rho Phi chapter nominated Carl Hartmann III and, though he did not win the award, Carl was a worthy candidate. Carl was very active at RoseHulman and with FIJI. He graduated from Avon High School in Avon, Indiana and entered Rose in the fall of 1994 majoring in Chemical Engineering. At Rose, Carl was active in the Student Government Association where he was a student representative and served as the director of the Club Relations Committee. Carl was also a member of the Blue Key Honor Fraternity and Honor Key. In addition to school activities, Carl was very involved with FIJI. This devotion was shown by his attendance at the 148th Ekklesia as a chapter representative and his involvement with the Scholarship and Activities Committees as Chairman. In addition this, Carl was always enjoyable to be around and knew how to have a lot of fun. Through his four years at Rose, Carl gained some valuable real world experience. He spent a summer interning for Reily Industries in Indianapolis. The summer before and during his senior year he worked for Tredegar Industries in Terre Haute where he was involved in developing products for Proctor and Gamble. After graduation, Carl moved to Anderson, South Carolina and is currently working for Milikin & Company as a Process Improvement Engineer in their Pendleton Finishing Plant in Pendleton, South Carolina. We would like to congratulate Carl on this nomination for the Wilkinson Award and wish him the best of luck with his new location and job. http://www.rose-hulman.edu/Users/groups/PhiGammaDelta/Public/HTML/index.html 1 \r\nPhi Gamma Delta A Letter from the Chairman.... Last February, Bill Linstaedt, Joe Weist, Aaron Weishaar and myself discussed ideas about how to keep graduates of the Rho Phi chapter of Phi Gamma Delta interested in Fiji. We talked about several things that we felt could have been improved with graduate relations within the chapter while we were in school, as well as ways to bring graduates back together after school. It was agreed that the best events for bringing graduates back to the chapter were the standard events that have been held for years but that other events could be held in regional areas to keep brothers in contact with each other. We felt that graduate brothers did not drift apart because they wanted to, but they didn't go out of their way to plan to see each other. As our lives continue past college, it is to easy to not keep in contact if there aren't easy avenues to do so. With this in mind, we felt that if a group of people planned events and opened new doors of interaction, brothers would attend and enjoy some of the old times that they shared as a Fiji. All of this led to the Rho Phi Graduate Association. Aaron and I agreed to chair this committee and plan some events for fellow graduate brothers. So far, we have held two events and have planned a few others. Graduate Picnic Notice!! Make sure you look at the enclosed flyer discussing the upcoming Rho Phi Graduate Picinic in Indianapolis. This is our first big event and we hope to see as many people there as possibe. This event should be a good time for all graduates. See you there. We have also sent out a survey to get other brothers involved and hear what it is that graduates would like to see from a Graduate Association. This survey has helped us to think of new ideas and put some focus on what we are trying to accomplish. This newsletter is one of the things that many of you felt would be a good start. While it does not contain all of the ideas that were shared with us, it does capture some of them. We are working on some other things and hope that we will be able to incorporate all of your ideas in the future. The number one response to the survey dealt with the chapter’s web page. For those of you that have not looked at it lately, it has changed considerably. Joe Weist has spent hours editing and changing the web-site and it is much improved. It also now contains an online Fiji finder for those of you that requested it. Joe plans to turn the site back over to the chapter, and we will make sure that they keep it as up to date as possible in the future. We are also planning a summer picnic. The plans for this are set for the 12th of September at Eagle Creek Park in Indianapolis. The times for the picnic are not finalized, but we do have the pavilion all day. We hope that many of you will set this date aside and plan to attend. We will be sending out more information soon on this event. Brothers, I hope that you will accept the new Graduate Association and share your ideas with us. Anyone that is interested in helping with an event or has ideas to share, please feel free to contact us. You can reach me at 317-889-5281 or via e-mail at HubbsT@AOL.com. The new Rho Phi Graduate Association is not just a few brothers committee, but it is every graduate Fiji's committee. I realize that not all of you will be able to help plan events, but please attend some events. The more of you that participate, the more enjoyable it will be for everyone. Please help us make Fiji not for college days alone. Fraternally, Todd Hubbell Perge! Chapter Update The Rho Phi Chapter is still keeping busy as the year comes to an end. We have had about $17,000 granted to the house by the House Corporation for some much needed repairs. Some of the repairs are already taking place such as replacing the concrete in front of the basketball hoop and miscellaneous repairs around the house. This summer we will get new furniture and carpet in the living room, new tables and chairs in the dining room, and new carpet in the bedrooms. We have also kept busy volunteering in the community. Since State Day, we have given nearly 1000 hours to activities like highway clean-up and the Mother's Resource Program. Mother's Resource has asked us to watch over the young children of battered mother's, while their mothers attend parenting classes. We are all looking forward to next year's 30th anniversary, and hope to see many Graduate Brothers back for the festivities. Fraternally, Todd Melby, Corresponding Secretary 2 \r\nUpcoming Graduate Relations Events The 30th Anniversary of the founding of the Rho Phi Chapter will be celebrated the 1998-1999 school year with special events scheduled at Homecoming and Pig Dinner. Please mark your calendars now for the following gala events. September 25, 26, 27, 1998 (Homecoming 1998) Friday, September 25, 1998 - There will be a Hospitality Suite for early arrivals at the Boston Connection. This suite will be open from 6:00 p.m. until midnight. A cash bar and food will be available. Saturday, September 26, 1998 Catered Tent at Noon Football Game - There will be a catered tent at the football field. All brothers, families and friends are invited. - The Fighting Engineers will host Kalamazoo at 2 p.m. - This dinner will kick off a one-year celebration of the chapter's 30th anniversary on November 22, 1999. Special guest speakers will remember the colonization of the soon-to-be chapter and recall time leading up to the chartering. Families are encouraged to attend. Anniversary Dinner Sunday, September 27, 1998 Sendoff Brunch - There will be a sendoff brunch at the chapter house for graduates and their families at 9:00 am - Noon. This is one last time to relive the brotherhood. Saturday, March 20, 1999 Pig Dinner - The chapter's 30th Pig Dinner will once again be held on the campus of Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. A cash bar will start at 6:00 p.m., and the dinner will start at 7:00 p.m. Make plans to attend now. To encourage more brothers to attend, we are planning to post the names of those that are returning to these events. The posting will be available via the web page or by contacting the Graduate Association. Please let us know that you are coming so that we can share the information with other brothers that may be interested. Of Interest to Graduate Brothers! The chapter's homepage has been redesigned with Graduate Brothers in mind. A graduate Fiji Finder has been added that includes home addresses and phone numbers of all graduates. Additionally about 250 e-mail addresses are listed on the homepage. Please take a look at the new site at: http://www.rose-hulman.edu/Users/groups/PhiGammaDelta/Public/HTML/index.html If you would like to be included on the graduate e-mail distribution list, please send an e-mail to Joe Weist at JWeist@Iquest.net. Addresses: Chapter House 1121 S. 6th Street Terre Haute, IN 47802 Ph: 812-235-6113 Headquarters PO Box 4599 Lexington, KY 40544 Ph: 606-255-1848 Fax: 606-253-0779 3 Graduate Brothers: If you have any ideas, comments, or would like to submit any information or articles for the next newsletter contact: Todd Hubbell HubbsT@aol.com. Aaron Weishaar YZ75@aol.com Chip Bradway CBrad18776@aol.com Joe Weist JWeist@Iquest.net Contributors: Joe Weist Todd Hubbell Aaron Weishaar Chip Bradway Todd Melby Section Chief Chariman Co-Chairman Newsletter Editor Cor. Secretary \r\nNon-Profit Organization U.S Postage PAID Permit No. 707 Terre Haute, IN Phi Gamma Delta 1121 S. 6th Street Terre Haute, IN 47802 FORWARDING & ADDRESS CORRECTION REQUESTED MAILING LABEL GOES HERE 4