The Gem State Fiji Mu Iota Chapter Spring 1 998 Mu Iota Gearing Up for Pigger The time is approaching for the 78"' annual Pig Dinner here at Mu Iota. This year's celebration marks the 150"' anniversary for our ffatemity ofPhi Gamma Delta. Nationals have decided to mark the 150"' celebration by developing an added incentive for having a great Pigger this year. They have put together a program called the Pig Dinner Challenge that allows the undergraduate chapters to earn points that go toward scholarships for the chapter. A total of $15,000 is given out with $2750 going to the first place finisher. We have been doing the program and have already scored the base points by sending out a 5 month and 2 month warning notices for our dinner. More points are accumulated by getting the graduate brothers to show up in numbers. The more Scholarship graduate brothers that show up, the more points we get toward scholarships, and if gold and silver owl recipients show up, we get bonus points. As this year's Pigger is a landmark in our fraternity's history, all graduate brothers are encouraged to attend and celebrate our ffatemity. It is the time that Ninth we announce our house awards and also the time to see the fellow brothers of the ffatemity. It is also a great time to meet the undergraduate brothers of the house and see what they have been up to. Our keynote speaker this year is Mike Kramer(class of 1976) and the master of ceremonies is Wallace Hedrick (class of 1970). The aimual golf game is scheduled and will only be canceled due to weather. If you are interested in playing contact us and we will sign you up. We have also planned festivities at Purple Legionnaire Jim Hill's after the dinner. Please send back your Pigger RSVP's so we can plan for dinner. Trophy on Mantle for Semester! Last fall. Phi Gamma Delta once again came in first for grades among all men on campus. Our total G.P.A. was 3.01,.32 points higher than the 2.69 all- firatemity-average, and .33 points higher than the 2.68 all men's The schedule of events is as follows: 7:00 a.m. Golf Toumament(weather permitting) 2:00 p.m. AKE meeting 5:00 p.m. Dinner average. 34 of Fiji's had G.P.A.'s of 3.0 and above, and eight received perfect 4.0's. Post dinner function at Jim Hill's With numbers like this, it's no wonder we Inside THIS Issue came in first for the last nine semesters in a row. PGD Selects Rush Chair Intramural Update Alumni Spotlight and Mu Iota Updates — Andy Carey('99) \r\nPGD Selects Rush Chair The time is here to be looking into the future. Yep, you guessed it, it is and the rest ofthe chap ter. I also have some new ideas for our sum time to recruit some mer recruitment pro new men into the beau gram. tiful Fiji Mansion. I am the man that signed up to head up that great challenge. My name is Sam Goff, I am a junior in the house and I am possibly the man that has had the most training, knowl edge and experience with this thing called rush. I say this because for the last two years I program that will award potential Fijis' scholar ships for outstanding achievements in high school. Some of the lo gistics are still being worked out but I hope to award these scholarships to those rushees that have a high GPA,and any extra-curricular ac tivities under their belt. have served on the Inter- I would hope to see only fratemity Council as As 5 to 10, $100 to $300 scholarships handed out. sistant Rush Chair and this year as Rush Chair. Through the IFC I have gone to San Francisco, Indiana, and I have been it lilii II I have started a new I want to give the iniipression that these kids are being rewarded and not paid offto live here. to TEAM Idaho three Jim Hill is confident times. All of these ex that AKE will give me cursions have helped me $3000 to start with. learn how to recruit and That should be enough rush on the highest to cover next fall's rush. level. I have a lot of I am not sure if they will confidence in myself throw in that much ev- Ifyou would like to get in touch with Brother Goff, he can be reached at (208)885-2964 or through email at: eoff9532(i!^u'dnho.edu. ery year, but we have other ideas on raising money for this new pro gram. One of those ideas, is a raffle that we are having during Pigger for a Home Coming football game package valued at $300-$400. We hope to take the money raised and put it towards this new schol arship program. If you wish to give donations you can through the mail or at Pigger. Finally, if any of you know of any young men that could be a good Fiji please contact me and tell me. We only want the best. And if you have any suggestions, donations or ideas pleas contact me as well. You can make checks payable to: Phi Gamma Delta; with the 'for' line to read: Rush Scholar ship. It is going to be a great second semester and summer and 1 hope to rush both quality and quantity. — Sam Goff('99) Chris Towery('00) and Webb Girard('00) help Sam at one ofhis many Rush meetings designed to keep the house informed about upcoming events like Vandal Friday (March 27th). \r\na The Gem State Fiji iiir:-.- •-vl^ Intramural Update This past fall we par ticipated in a variety of intramural sports. As always, our Fiji teams exhibited great sports manship while repre senting the house. Many of the members and pledges participated in the sports, bringing the house together and bonding the freshman class. Some of the major sports we participated in the fall were flag foot ball, ultimate ffisbee, soccer, and volleyball. We competed with some of the top athletes on campus and did very well. Soccer has been one of our more successful year. In addition, our team ended up placing well in football this year. We had a few problems finding a quarterback but senior Mike Syron stepped up to take us to some great victories. Tyler Roberts said,"We had a great season, I think we really surprised sports in the house the past couple of years. This year we did very well but a few injuries kept us from going all the way. Our team cap tain Teddy Douglass said,"We had a great time and played really well, I can't wait till next year to play again.' Everyone on the team fans who cheered us on had a good time and is each game. ready to win it all next a lot of teams with our unity and team play." One of the key roles was the support of our great playing the fall sports again, but we have a lot more intramurals to play this spring. Our best hope for an intramural title in the spring is bas ketball. We have tradi tionally had a strong team and we have a few of our top starters re turning for the season. Our goal will be to fin ish in the top five this year for intramural though first place is still a possibility. — Brian Gilbert('00) We all look forward to PGD FINDS THE WISE BUYS Once again this year Van Slyke fondly re continue lending a help ing hand at Wise Buys for the rest ofthe year. the men of Phi Gamma members the first time Delta are hard at work giving back to the com he helped out at Wise Buys. "I was sweeping munity. Twice a week the floor when I heard cause that all the men the men lend a hand at music playing from the enjoy working for, espe local thrift store Wise other room. I didn't cially Chris. Buys doing simple, yet to six men lend a few think anything ofit and I finished sweeping. I looked up and saw hours of their day to [Chris] Jarstad dancing necessary, tasks. Four vacuum, sweep, dust, with a vacuum. He had and mop the small store. Wise Buys was chosen his eyes closed and was slowly swaying to the as this year's social ser music. At the end ofthe vice project because, as Sam Goff says,"They song he bent down, and if I hadn't started laugh ing, I think he would needed a lot of help" and it's a lot of help that they get. Freshman Brandon have kissed the vac uum!!" The men intend to It is defiantly a worthy — Adam Green ('01) C-t. Ben Rush C99)and Darrin Melnyk COI)sort and tag clothing to be put on the shelves at Wise-Buys. \r\nThe Gem Non-Profit Org. U.S. POSTAGE State Fiji PAD) Moscow,Idaho Permit #193 Phi Gamma Delta 600 University Aye. Moscow,ID 83843 POD International Headquarters 1201 Red Mile Rd. Lexington,, Ky 40544 liiiiiiisffiiiifiifsnhitnliisiiHiiisllniiilifiiis!!!!!!!! 9' —J.Daniel Tibbltts and crown & bridge restorations. If you're ('55)is currently living ever in Rochester, Min From the Mailbox in Carmel,California where has has recently celebrated his 40th wed ding aniuversary to Vonda(Jackson)Tibbitts who is a Pi Phi. Now retired from being a 28-year stockbroker with Dean AVitter, Daniel is a semi-active realtor. ^Kurt Kulp('78) opened his own com pany,Gulp Dental Tech nics,Inc. in September oflast year. His busi ness is a dental lab that specializes in ceramic 9'- Alumni Spotlight nesota,be sure to stop by and check out Kurt's "pearly whites!" —^Richard D.Seely ('58)ofCarson City, Nevada will be retiring in June 1999 after spending 36 years with the Carson City School District. —John S. Holland ('42)writes to say that he has retired, but keeps busy with occasional consulting jobs around Denver, Colorado. From the Internet —CharUe White('85) writes to say that"the Islander picture brought back great memories,it land, WA. We deal in stocks, bonds, mutual looks as ifsome things advice, Steven's the funds,retirement plans, etc." Soimds like if you ever need investment man to see! never change." We look forward to seeing you at Pigger, Charlie! —Steven Tracy('63) visited the web page and wrote,"I've been in the dropped us a line back in November asking to help in making improve investment brokerage page. As an update, we —Greg Brown ('94) ments to the house web business for almost 30 have a new page site years now. In addition (which will be up soon), and Mike Klein ('01) has assumed the respon to being a Corporate Vice President for A.G. Edwards & Sons,I am manager ofa 17 broker sibilities of webmaster investment branch at for the new page. Thanks for the input Carillon Point in Kirk- Greg! \r\nWHO'S DOING WHAT? Keeping you and your classmates informed Please write legibly Please be sure to check out Phi Gamma Name: Delta on the Internet! 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