Brother9 Wella we made it through midterms, survived Homecoming weekend b and successfully -tssmpifeted the first round of rv.ehc, Our rush program finally got It all together this Pall as a result ©f several faeteir®o To "begin with.,. Jeff Patch (Arixona 7k) our latest Field Seoretaryc decided to pick r-^sh we ok to visit our chaptere In addition to Jeffg another Fiji graduate,, Paul Gernl (Perdue e?0) was staying at our house* Paul Is a professional billiards playera Between the field secretary and the "hustler"3 we learned some new tips on rushing and ssrne general public relations techniques „ If that was net enough, 3111 Mauser (Deniaon 850) cam« down from Roanoke and conduotedFa session on rushing techniques* This j, by fai'r, was the greatest factor to our success this fall* It was quite apparent by us that there was mu^h to be learned before we eculd master the art ©f effective rushing0 With only 20 brothers returning to schools all juniors ami seniors,, we realised that time was running out,, We bid for 10 quality Freshman and Sophomores and pledged '?, Winter quarter9 we plan on bidding 20 good men ahS pledging- no less than i5* We re not shooting for the stars-=this is what must be done t© keep our chapter In existence whan all of n® ? 'oldies1 are gone-, On the financial sideg we aren t doing t?-o badly* We managed to obtain a 6 month moratorium on the house payment to Boatman°s Bank of St«, Louis « This means w® pay enly the installments to the bank In Blacksburga With the ,f/ added capital Wfc*v0 done some minor repairs to the hause» We managed to make the upstairs bathroom look like it isn't really crumbling apart,, and put some new tile down in the first floor bathroom., A email miracle appeared when Ed Merwln and Rabbit Dunn attempted to install a new water heater and the thing actually worked c I regret to inform you that we lost the beloved picture tub® on the color TV,, After a record number of hours of uninterrupted service,? the bj teh finally called it quits* Along with fixing the TV« the pledges are insulating the room under the $$$/ porch,, By winter it be paneled and two brothers will be living there. I c m most .happy to annunce that the t*^ old refri|gerators that have been being stored in the pit have been relocated in fche eity dump,. , , ,;howevei.% their place was refilled by the old water heater, (another headache for the house manager) I'd sineerely like to thank Rick Pine,= Ron Ghe«n5 Efe.ve Russells Ronnie Hill9 Rich and Tom Rau« Bill Latane-? MJ,He M&rtirano and Ed Arnold for helping us defray the cosl? of our Homecoming actiwltiesP We had one helluva good time and we even won the football gam«P Thanks go out t© Mike Griffith for coming all the way from Pennsylvania and t© Mike Martinano for coming from Hew York® Thfe new House Corporation offioers were eieetad at the annual meeting— President » Bill Mauseri— Vice President, Brad Ryff•!,,-—• Treasurere Carl Bellas—- Secretary , Mike Griffith, The chapter officers for this year aret President»Phill Jessop Treasurer- Bill Ritchie Historian R«c6 Secretary Rick Coffey Corr, Sfc«3e Bill Eehelberger Doug Painter Just for the Doug Painter was married this summer,, and so did rookie brother Darryl Oakts0 Phil Jesses IB .engaged s; so are Riek Vaden9 Dale Weldon9 Ed Merwin., I tell you ws^re dropping like flies around heref Curt \r\n• tter Allison plans on getting married around .December or Januarys Before I fcrget ft hers°s a short calenda events for PA, VPI home basketball Sat " Dec 18 Farleigh Diokiiwon 3 8 Richmond 12 William & Mary 17 North Carolina West Virginia Norrifl pig > o f^rmA-s Satf pij. Islander Just & few words about the Ncrris Dinner* This year we're finally going all ©uto Formal invitations will be out within th® next few weeks „ The syiapoaiarah is Dr^ William Mauser and the main speaker IB Viator Kainber from the Cfepitol Hill Fiji's in Washington, D 0 C 0 We might eyen give a few awards this y«ar0 To start the night off we will haw® a seektail hour on the patio at the Blaoksburg Marriott Inn, From there its into the dinner and some fun times.? Brush up on yeur Fiji songs because we will be singing som* of them (the one or tw© that we know.!) Aft«r the toasts and speechesB we will adjourn for everyone to go baek and pi ok up their sweetie,, Then its baok t© the Marriott at 9 e'elcsk for a danee until lam., Throughout the danoe thex*e will be a set-ups bar available,, Kent Bathurst Is lining up an excellent band for the ocoaffion0( That's called putting old Kent on the spot?) Donst forget,, the dinner Is stag but the dance sure aint! The price for the cocktail heur0 th«? danee and the dinner is $15» This is the total price for eaeh brother and his date,, This is going to be our best effort of the year* We're extremely organized for this year°s occasion because we are expecsting 100^ participation from everybody, A little reminder—May 3 is also the Ring Dance Weekend— sc if you plan on staying at a motel in town* particularly the Marrfefett* you had better ®ak« reservations early* I WES over at the Marriott yesterday making reservations for myself and for Mr* Kamber and they were already taking reservations for Ring Dance0 WeBre doing our b«st down here* now the rest 5s up to you9the gx-aduates of Rho Alpha,, We finally decided it waa about time that we had somebody on the All Fiji Football team that the PGD magazine puts ou£e You are probably wondering who we could possible nominate „ Well* we thought that It would be pretty eoeky if we nominated Bill Ritehie ,-, 00 -. not for the tearae but for the All Fiji Team Managero After all* Bill was awarded tw© varsity letters f*& his management of the VPI football tea»0 What the hell* why not? Ism also enslosing a form for you to fill out to help us s^art keeping traek $p ®* everybody0 Please return it to John Hughes e/o Phi Gamma Delta 202 Chureh Street Blaeksburga Va0 Fratrnally • 24060 \r\nPlease fill out and return tos John Hugh4