PHI GAMMA DELTA ginia Tech's Rho Alpha Chapter 2001 Newsletter This Issue: Graduate Updates: State Of Chapter: Pig Dinner Status: Local Graduate info: Homecoming Brief: Graduate Update As our summer winds down, we prepare for the long winter full of work. At the same time, our chapter is preparing for a new school year, full of challenges. A new cabinet will be taking over the reins of the undergraduate chapter, and it is our duty to support them. In this spirit, the Graduate Association has made the following initiatives. A new committee has been created to assist the undergraduate chapter in its planning of the Norris Pig Dinner. The upcoming Pig Dinner will be the chapter's 30lh, and we have created this committee to make sure that this year's Pig Dinner will be one to enjoy and remember. However, this is a permanent committee, and will provide continuing support to the chapter. Brother Pete McDevitt has volunteered to head this committee, but I encourage all interested brothers to take part. Please feel free to contact Brother McDevitt (soko@radix.net) if you are interested in helping out. Additionally, the Graduate Association is pursuing the creation of another annual scholarship award. Currently, brothers achieving outstanding academic performance are eligible for an award from our chapter's scholarship fund. by House Corp. President Glenn Kinnear by President Christopher Almond by Graduate Relations Chair Cory Curtin By Purple Legionnaire Brent Holoviak by Graduate Brother Dan Chen 1 1 1 I I However, there are many brothers who provide outstanding service to the chapter, but are unable to meet the qualifications for the current scholarship award. This new 'Chapter Service Scholarship' would reward such brothers for their hard work. There would still remain certain academic requirements, but the primary focus of the new scholarship would be chapter service and financial need. This new scholarship award will be finalized at the upcoming Graduate Association meeting at Homecoming. Again I encourage all interested brothers to attend the meeting. As one final note, I'd like to remind all brothers that the term of office for the Graduate Association Officers is coming to a close. Elections for the next two year term will be held Pig Dinner weekend. If you're interested in continuing support of our chapter, start thinking about running for office, or talk to Brother Jeff Scattergood about becoming an appointed advisor. Glenn Kinnear House Corporation President Beta Gamma ('94) Perge! \r\nState of the Chapter | Brothers, April was a busy month for our chapI ter. I want to thank all of you who attended Pig Dinner. I felt like it was a big success. I enI joyed meeting more brothers that have all sorts 1 of stories to tell about your times here. I hope you all enjoyed it because we are already starting to look at dates for next year. We will be sure to keep you updated about that. If you have any suggestions or comments, please let me know (calmond@vtedii). Also, in the beginning of April, most of the brothers and almost all of the pledges took a trip to the FIJI Islander at Georgia Tech. It was a lot of fun and their Islander was incredible. This spring our pledge class did very well, and we would like to congratulate our five newest Brothers from the Beta Psi pledge class: Ryan Cavey, Kris Dugger, Jimmy McKittrick, Jason Miller, and Jordan Wood. These Brothers were initiated May 2. We are very proud to welcome them as a part of Phi Gamma Delta. The chapter, as a whole, also closed out the year very well. Once again, we were recognized by the InterFraternity Council for outstanding scholarship for both our chapter and our new members. The chapter tone is very high, and we were number one in grades once again. I would also like to congratulate Brothers Brandon, Budicak, Burger, Chen, Fitzsimmons, Gravatt, McMurrer, and Reisig on graduating. We wish them luck as they continue in the workplace or graduate/law school. We are going to miss them, but we are hoping to have a strong rush next fall and spring and gain more gentlemen of quality. Our goal as a chapter is to have fifteen pledges over the next academic year. We know rliis caii.be done, and we are working towards this goal. The InterFraternity Council is starting Rush on September 10, and we would be very appreciative if any of the Graduate Brothers could come down during that time for the Rush events. It would make a good impression on the Rushees if they could see a lot of the brothers attending these events and get a glimpse of the brotherhood after graduation. Please consider coming down during the middle of September and get in touch with me if you can. Also, the date for Islander is September 14, so if you are interested in coming down, just let us know. Chris Almond ;|? President of Rho Alpha Chapter Perge! To contact anyone featured in this newsletter please contact the FIJI house @ (540)552.3047 Or check us nut on the graduate web site @ vtfiji.com or ungraduate site @ www.filebox.vt.edu/org/PhiGammaDelta/(case sensitive) \r\n3O™ ANNIVLK5AKY 2002 Annual Frank Norris Pig Dinner: Brothers this year Pig Dinner will be held at Ramada Inn on April 20th, 2002. The undergraduate brothers would be extremely pleased to have all of our many graduates attend this our 30* Norris Pig Dinner. We have been diligently planning and we are hoping to make this our best one yet. We are planning to have all the same great events, which have become ritual to this weekend including the graduate party on Friday night and the backyard BBQ on Saturday, and even the grad v. undergrad football game on Sunday. Hopefully, we will be adding some new events such as a tour of our beloved campus, which has changed quite a bit since you have all been here even if you just left. Also a Saturday brunch for our lovely dates, wives and children, while we hold our House Corporation meeting. Along with planning the events this year we are also trying to get some information to you early. Included in this newsletter will be a self addressed post card with a couple of questions involving Pig Dinner, whether you are interested in coming this year and if so the amount of T-shirts and glassware you would like. The pictures below are similar to glassware we will be getting, and the prices are listed below. This is not an invitation; this is inly a supplement to the Pig Dinner invitation that will be coming to you sometime in early January. Also, this will help to minimize the amount of wrong addresses we encountered last year. There will hopefully be an electric copy of this postcard going out to you so please forward it along to brothers who might not get information we send out. We hope this newsletter reaches you in good health, and we look forward to hearing from you. Cory Curtin Graduate Relations Chair Perge! Executive Glass w/ silver trim: Tumbler Glass w silver trim: Price: $#each ; $lbtogether T-Shirts $14 per person Not shown to scale To contact anyone featured in this newsletter please contact the FIJI house @ (540)552.3047 Or check us out on the graduate web site @ vtfiji.com or ungraduate site @ www.filebox.vt.edu/orx/PhiGamrnaDella/ (case sensitive) y \r\nLocal Graduate and Homecoming Info Homecoming Brief Purple Legionnaire Address Brothers, Brothers, Another year has started at Tech bringing with it new challenges both fraternal and academic. Rush is foremost in all our minds to introduce young men to Phi Gamma Delta. This year has great promise with a given strength of having the most local graduate support to be around in recent years. There are 10 graduates within the Blacksburg area, five of which are pursuing post graduate work. Many other recent grads are furthering there education in the field of law and we wish them the best of luck. More houses have been added to special purpose housing, moving more and more of the Greek System to campus. With new houses brings higher standards of fraternity living. To compete with the "new and shinny" we need to be able to update our house to better than average standards i.e. kitchen cabinet replacements. The brothers want to show off the benefits of off campus fraternity living and can use what ever support possible to achieve this goal. The undergraduate chapter Jooks forward to this the 30th Pig Dinner a^pd enjoying the air of brotherhood. Homecoming is once again upon us. This year, we hope to attract more grads to come back to Blacksburg and see why Phi Gamma Delta is "Not for College Days Alone". The graduates and undergraduates are working hard to create a great homecoming for our graduate brothers. Activities will include a bar night at Champs sports bar the night before the game as well as a tailgate the day of. This year we have acquired two tailgate spots for brothers enjoyment, and there will be plenty of food and beverages for everyone. For tickets to this year's game, please contact the chapter. We look forward to seeing as many of you there as possible. Best wishes. Daniel Chen Class '01 Perge! Brent Holoviak Purple Legionnaire Rho Alpha Chapter Perge! you Jbzow To contact anyone featured in this newsletter please contact the FIJI house @ (540)552.3047 Or check us out on the graduate web site @ vtfiji.com or ungraduate site @ www.filebo.ivt.edu/org/PhiGummaDelta/ (case sensitive) 4- \r\nFiji House 202 Church St. Blacksburg, Va. 24060 ©om°uyiM" IT'S H O B B V FD I S 9 9 » f. T I 0 C O l L t C T I N C Dana W. Hesse 9531 Kings Grant Road Laurel, MD 20723 _^ -,