Alpha Phijj News ALPHA PHI CHAPTER of PHI GAMMA DELTA UNIVERSITY of MICHIGAN Volume XXXIV, Number 1 April, 1968 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN OPENING OF NEW ADDITION HIGHLIGHTS 1967 PIG DINNER With a special feature like the new ad dition and a speaker like Alpha Phiji Jack Vaughn ("43), this fall's Pig Dinner could hardly go wrong; and the week end lived up to the high hopes many of us had for it. When Sunday morning ar Jack Vaughn, Peace Corps Director, rived and the graduate brothers were on their way home, everyone involved, both undergraduates and returning grads, real Welcomed As ized that it had been a special event. Featured Speaker The annual poker game on Friday night started off the week-end's activities ITiis year we were very fortunate to with several alumni enthusiastically court- have Jack Ffood Vaughn ('43) speak at ing Lady Luck and testing each other's Pig Dinner. As you know, he is Director nerve. The game was so inspiring that a of the Peace Corps. fTe has held manv few less affluent undergrads couldn't re governmental posts overseas and traveled Jack Vauglin Speaks at Pig Dinner sist the temptation to set up their own extensively. His remarks included refer ices, and through .American tourists; and it's sickening. The dialogue between game, for slightly lower stakes, across the ences to his work in Panama, the Domini .American and the world, if it can be called room from the big money. Whatever the can Republic, and west .Alrica. Brother stakes and whatever the final outcome, Vaughn drew from these and many other though, participants and spectators alike experiences in speaking on the need for enjoyed this traditional prelude to Sat a better realization of the meaning of fra urday's busy schedule. ternity in the world, as well as the de velopment of those roots shown in Phi Saturday morning the house came alive with activity. As the pledges got the house into top shape for tfie day's events, Gamma Delta. frightening absence of fraternity more paduate brothers arrived, some with in The the world is evident everywhere, he their families. Brothers living in the house said. Men are unable to solve their prob were busy giving guided tours of the ad dition. lems without ctitting their brother's throat. This fact is on a world wide scale, The Alpha Phi Board meeting before from the riots in our own country to lunch provided a practical reminder of the problems in .South America, .-\frica, the ties binding undergrad and graduate and Asia. The cause he cited brothers. After lunch most of the group extreme lack of communication among went out to see Michigan lose to Navy those involved. by a touchdown but not even disap pointment over the action on the field could detract from the beautiful after- (Cont'cl on Pg. 5) was the Spending seventeen of the last twentyfive years overseas. Brother Vaughn has seen the American image flow out through Hollywood, the A.P. and U.P. News serv- th.it when channeled through these me dia, is immediately oppressing. But, he says, this lack of true communi cation is not only confined to interna tional relations. The relation.ship of those in authority to those they serve is not good. This is especially true for the younger generations who liad previously looked to their elders for leadership. Bro ther Vaughn said that it is impossible to be a diplomat in the common sense when it is associated with double dealing and double standards. New generations alf over the world are crying, "Say it as it is. Dad." E\en the many, many university presi dents he has spoken wdth, who are sup posed to be aware of the individual's val ue, seldom mention anything but politics and the legislatures. He cites Bud Rea (Cont'd on Page 2) \r\nPage Two April, 1968 ALPHA PHIJI NEWS of money replace the iiiudi needed per sonal touch. Financial assistance is neces sary and can be applied in many bene ficial ways. But, he adds, only when fra ternal ideals are bound to it can this aid be effective. The loss of technical aid, he contin This fall has been one ol the most eventful ever for Alpha I'hi I'hi-Gams. The most prominent achievement is, of course, our Iteautiful new addition. The pledges and active brothers worked hard during Help Week painting, paneling, and constructing bookshelves. The first weeks of school were a bit difficult due to delays in plumbing, carpeting, and other finishing touches. However, patience was more than amply rewarded by the new carpeting and furniture. This year marks the first time in many years that Phi Gamma Delta has been united under one roof. This has had many psychological ramifications for the chapter. We have realized our expanded potential and esteem by dint of our increased physical size and unity, .Although many fraternities would be satisfied with this and iDecome complacent, the attitude at 707 is to press ahead with these new advantages and to better ourselves. .Scholarship, graduate relations, intramurals, and campus activities are our immediate aims for achievement and we feel that progress is being made. To me personally, the greatest accomplishment of our chapter this fall has been the beginning of better rapport with our graduate brothers. The Pig Dinner, ues, is accompanied by the loss of per sonalization, which required Americans to work with foreigners in their strange land. Thus dialogue has been reiilaced by dollar signs, and few tilings are more imjiersonal or corruptible. From Brother Vaughn's capacity in charge of the Peace Gorps, he said with understanding that it is a great effort for a young person to go overseas alone, under the glare of publicity, and to take the responsibility for his actions and those of his country directly on his shoulders. Each volunteer, Vaughn added somberly, must attempt in his own way to repair the gaping holes in the strange country's social fabric, while at home his own coun Jack Vaughn, the .Alpha Phi board and the brothers who stopped by the house try's social fabric is being torn apart by on football weekends have given us many enjoyable experiences. We invite all our riots, burning and killing. graduate brothers when in the vicinity to drop by and let us show you the house Sometime, someplace, the tmderstandthat PHI G.AM.Af.A DELT.A built. I'd like to take this opportunity on behalf of ing of nation to nation, person to per the active brothers to extend our deepfelt gratitude for the new opportunities you son, will have to come. We are almost have given us all. It's great to be a Fiji! cynical about what cannot work before A Jack Vaughn Featured (Gont'd from Pg. 1) He said further that the era of fra alone as one man who has never forgotteri that people exist as unique human Injecting many notes about the Peace Published three times yearly by the Alpha Phi Chapter dialogue can be effective. The Peace Corps enables, indeed forces, this to be the case when a lone volunteer is placed Editor ^ strange culture. He noted that the Peace Corps takes the "hick" out of peoStaff EDiTOR - ALPH.v PHIJI NEW.s Phi Gamma Delta, 707 Oxford Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104 Ann .Vrbor, Mich, crence point in many unexpected situatioilS. need a reference point—not a restraint but a focus. All generations need mutual guidance and understanding through efi* i 0 Volunteers all over the world to help understanding. We President- ^'one. He mentioned that India Ottawa, Ont, TreasurerKarl Buz Brenkert '69 ^ gToup to Appalachia to work on the abundant filth and corruption that Oxford, Miss. they found there. Recording SecretaryChristopher G. Parker '68 , ' . SerretaryCorresponding Richard A. Herrington '68 large influx of money, or rather Toledo O rmtao, u. Ft. Collins, Colo. Historian— Stephen B. Br.aden '69 felt." Jack Hood Vaughn dosed his remarks with this thoughtful qtiote from "The Labyrinth of Solitude," by Octavio Paz; "Anyone wlio has looked Hope in the face will never forget it. He will search for it everywhere he goes, among all kinds of men. And he will dream of finding it again someday, somewhere, perhaps among those closest to him." Brothers, wherever our star is shining in the sky, the flag of Hope may brave ly fly. How long has it been since you clasped a Fiji Brother's hand? ^he United States has thousands of Birmingham, Mich, UNDERGRADUATE OFFICERS .Scott G. Paris '68 0 Ann Arbor, Mich. Secretary— Robert j. Foukal '49 pie—the "hick" is the panic. A volun^as adapted to finding a ready refThe young generations, he went on, ALPHA PHI BOARD OFFICERS PresidentDuanc A. Renkcn that Phi Gamma Delta has been one of the most hopeful signs I have seen and seventy Peace Corps volunteers who are University of Michigan TreasuTer— Frederic M. Schcrer '54 has hardly begun. In his words, "I think impersonal materials. Each person must now giving their service on the Fiji Isl have a specific reference point before a ands in the South Pacific. PHI GAMMA DELTA Ken Hosto, .Sherm Drew Address all corres^ondeace to ternity and the ideal of "a" fraternity Perhaps with this in mind, it is ap Corps into his remarks. Brother Vaughn propriate to extend our thoughts to the commented that people need to work with other people, not with dry facts or ,^lphA PHITI NETVS Volume XXIV No. I Omer Voss it's even been tried. This was a difficult stumbling block to starting the Peace Corps. Bioomington. ind. r gjjj t • i o „ • r . i many i i countries from the United States has led to a desperate state Two Alpha Phiji Peace Corpsmen Will Irwin, '65, has just returned from a Peace Gorps tour in Afghanistan. Dick Wingfield, '67, is now finished with his Peace Corps training, and he has gone to join the Corps in South of corruption in many of them. Jack America. We wish "Wing" all the best of A'aughn has seen this dramatic infusion luck. \r\nALPHA PHIJI NEWS FALL, 1967: Twenty Fine Men Pledge Phi Gamm Eflort given to this hill's rush program has been well rewarded. We are proud of a d ding a pledge class of twenty -j I A MODEL OF THE ADDITION IN 1961 men to initiate into Phi Gamma Delta. We have never made it a policy to take a predetermined number of pledges. We found, however, that this ru.sh had good men in good numbers. The class size is indicative of our continued selectivity considering over 230 men, including rec ommends, came through the house. Now meet the Freshmen: David ,\. Brook, Wilmette, 111.; Gilbert M. Gardner, Ypsilanti, Mich.; J. Thomas Gelder III, Terre Haute, Ind.; Willard F. Huss, Niles, Mich.; Douglas E. Keats, Evanston, 111.; Thomas G. Kuzma, Jr., Birmingham, Mich.; Robert G. Martens, Rochester, Minn.; Douglas P. McLaury, Wilmette, 111.; William H. Olds, Jr., Mar ion, Inch; W. Terry Patrick, Youngstown, O.; Gary G. Smith, Ypsilanti, Micli. THE HOUSE AS IT LOOKS TODAY AT 707 Long Years of Planning Are Fulfilled .And the Sophomores: This year's football season as well as our outstanding Pig Dinner brought William manv old fates to 707 Oxford to view the R. Barr, Kalamazoo, Mich.; fierald L. Christrnan, Deshler. ().; Stephen I.. Evans, Northville, Mich.; Roger .-\. Keats, Evanston, 111.; Mark A. Knep])er, finished product of a long, hard strug gle. Fijis young and old had joined ef forts in one ])urpose and contributed to Svlvania, O.; Mark .\. Mrozek, Glimax, the "new" look at .M]jha Phi Ghajtter. Mich.; Daniel E. N;itali, Pittsburgh, P;i.; .As our dretun neared completion, and Gary S. Uiiring, \lbuc|uer