The Sigma Omicron Ghapter of Phi Gamma Delta January 16, 2001 Sigma Omicron jt New PL Inside this issue: Wooslg 4-5 Pig Dinner Missing Brother List Secretary for two years. I had a great time and My goals in the short learned much more Brothers, about our wonderful Fra 6 Rush term are few. I want to ternity and grew to ap get to know as many un dergraduates (+100 in cluding pledges) as best I preciate it and our be can as soon as I can. from Phi Gamma Delta, I am volunteering for the Fraternity as Purple Le gionnaire. I am very happy to be doing this loved chapter much more. I look back very fondly of my time and memories as an under Selfishly, I also want to engage more graduates in the Fraternity. This will only help me. I do graduate in Stillwater. I not want to bum out! As and have looked forward have been in OKC for I began spending more to the opportunity to serve Sigma Omicron almost three years now, time with the under have established a career graduates, I heard a cry and Phi Gamma Delta as and am ready to give of help. They want to back to Phi Gamma see us, meet us and learn Delta a portion of what it continues to give me! from us. With the help of some graduates After a brief hiatus Presidents Keport Keating From the Purple Legionnaire... a volunteer. Upon graduating from OSU in 1995,1 served as a Field Homecoming 2000. Fiji and KA team up for the OSU pep rally Homecoming 2000 was an awesome experi ence! We had the privi lege of working with the the hardest working girls and we filled in our own and we appreciated the theme with "One Giant time and effort that they Leap for OSU." The put into Homecoming. house decoration not Kappa Delta sorority and The overall OSU Home our houses had a great coming theme was "In time. They are some of Pursuit of Legends..." only pertained to the outer space theme we selected, but it also \r\nSigma Omicronicie Page 2 NewPl^^ Continued. ; Wc want to do moi e than just an annual !Nonxs Pig Dinner. We Iwant more graduates to 1be involved. -'T?" already, we are estab lishing a Board of Chap ter Advisors. Our goals are few and simple as I hope you will con sider giving some of your of how to preserve the success and improve fur time & financial re ther. I welcome your comments, questions and mostly your help. Feel sources back to Sigma well. We want to make Omicron to make our an effort to be seen indi outstanding chapter even better. I hope you take vidually and collec tively. We want to get the time to read more in to know them. We want this issue and learn about spend time with them socially, not just in a structured meeting or chapter meeting. We the wonderful things Sigma Omicron has been doing. In our brief his tory of 38 years, I am want to do more than told and believe we have just an annual Norris Pig Dinner. We want more graduates to be never been a better chap involved. free to contact me at any time by phone (405) 947-5922 or by email at ryanbbee @aventis.com. Fraternally, Ryan Bebee ter. This is a new frontier for us. And we are going to have to learn together ¥iomecoming2000, continued. . We placed in every event except one and the results are as foUows: commemorated OSU's house deck had an intri lunar lander and a satel place in the Football Frenzy Flag Football tour Bringing Dreams to Life cate backdrop with a lite with spinning panels. Campaign by way of a large spinning panel that three dimensional moon We look forward to next coming out of the center as well as a Big XII solar system with an OSU sun year and we hope to see nament 2"'^ place in Harvest Carni val 3rd place in yard sign was pomped to look like the campaign's logo. The 4"r in bouse decoration many more of you dur ing Homecoming 2001! as the center, a rocket, a (tied the AGR's) 2""^ place in spirit banner I'd place in pep rally cbant 1®' place for blood drive with the most points out of all living group pairs cdwt -'jjfffc-(nPut5u?tofleger.dj._PneG!onfLebpfp^r.j r- The points helped us to tie the AGR's for 2"'' place overall in OSU's Homecoming. Pig Dinner Saturday, February 17th \r\nSigma Omicronicle Page 3 Presidents K.eport My brothers; I would like to begin my address to you by using the opening line from our Since you last for mally heard from the un dergraduate body, Sigma Omicron has persisted in experience of this collec tive body, but we also find a source of inspira esteemed President Coo- the traditions set before tion and motivation. The lidge's inaugural address us by our predecessors. Aware of the dynamic society around us, we next year could be cru to the nation on March 4, do we benefit from the cial for the establishment We are at a place that side out of the house as of this relationship. Perhaps the most dif ficult portion of address ing this topic has been to honestly portray the state of the chapter while try ing to maintain some sense of humility. Over all, the chapter seems to be moving along the fa miliar path of excellence. few have seen before, in the house. The reality Each day members forge yet the potential seems that exists is simply that new memories that will create those cherished 1925. "No one can con template current condi tions without finding much that is satisfying and still more that is en strove to be leaders and innovators. The house membership is at an alltime high. Unfortu nately, this comes at a price. The days of living couraging." I am de lighted to have the op portunity to write regard ing the state of the Sigma Omicron chapter years have disappeared for most. Today, equal of Phi Gamma Delta. amounts of members re in the house for four almost electric. This there is no land available chapter has achieved to expand and grow. much and looks to con While some note this as tinue receiving honors in a disadvantage, it may the future; however, our true strength grows from the common bond of brotherhood. A force not be ideal, but it is simply different than in the past. With the addition of life-long friendships. Together, we hope to re alize the potential of this chapter. I wish to close iWitti iho iulditi\)n of the A... .Not OJily ilo we henefit from Ihc cxpeneiico of ihis , i.collecUve hiHiy, but \\ c afso find a source of iti.spiruiittii ' 1and niolivaiion.-- f"v Phi Gammay f Delta is Number 1 in grades for this discourse with an other line from President the 2000 school that only a select few have the privilege to re the B.C.A., we have a Coolidge's inaugural ad much-needed perspec dress. "We should not alize - those men that tive that will add an ele let the much that is to do ♦ FIJI = 3.2355 I can claim the name of ment of consistency to our ever-changing face of leadership. Not only obscure the much which ♦ FH = 3.211 Phi Gamma Delta. Pig Dinner has been done." Saturday, February 17th year!!! U- ArP=3.123y| \r\nSigma Omicronicle Page 4 Graduate Spotlight. . . ]im Keating Jim Keating '74 is the President of Pro Quality Consulting in Oklahoma City. His company specializes in facilitating strategic planning, improving processes and personal tive in school, church and sports programs. In July 1999, Libby was diagnosed with Huntington's Disease, a started the Keating Fam ily Research Fund to sponsor scientific re search. The national Huntington's Society matches all contributions genetic neurological dis order that affects the pa tient's ability to walk, dollar for dollar with all talk and reason. Because find a cure for this dev Drew, their older son, is it is relatively rare, the family was slow in at taining a diagnosis. Cur rently there is no treat astating disease. If you are interested in partici pating, Jim can be reached at jkeat@swbell. a senior at Edmond Me ment or cure for the dis morial and Zac is a sixth ease. To find out more, grader at Cimarron Mid log on to hdsa.org. In August 2000, the family developing training for area businesses. Jim and Libby, his wife, have one daughter, Katie, at OSU. dle School. Both are ac proceeds used to help net. Graduate Spotlight, . . PAatt Wooslej Did you know? Matt Woosley is now the president of the newly formed Board of Chapter Advisors (BOA) Brothers, I was a member of the landmark Fpsilon pledge class of the newly recolonized Sigma Omicron chapter of Phi year questioning my de cision. Part of my dis median and struck my car head-on. If not for my seat-belt and air bag, I would have died that day. My injuries in content probably had cluded a closed-head in Gamma Delta. I was ini much to do with the fail jury, multiple facial frac tiated at the beginning of 1990 and graduated in 1994. Immediately after ure of my engagement at tures, a shattered patella, an d a collapsed lung. the time. In the summer My pledge brother. Brad medical school at the of 1999, during the hia tus between my first and second year of residency, University of Kentucky. I returned Oklahoma to I graduated from UK in visit family and friends. On the twelfth day of my suffered a concussion and some broken ribs. graduation I attended 4 not find surgery to be a fulfilling career choice and spent most of the 1998 and traveled west Austin ('93), was my passenger that day and Another pledge brother, to initiate a five-year sur gical residency at Cedar visit I was involved in a Steve Andregg ('92), was serious auto accident in in the car ahead of me Sinai Medical Center in Tulsa. A speeding mo torist had jumped the and was responsible for keeping my compro- Beverly Hills, CA. I did Pig Dinner Saturday, February 17th \r\nPage 5 Sigma Omicronicle Woosley continued. . . mised airway patent until motivation and strength the EMTs arrived. I to overcome my injuries. spent one week in a coma and a total of four weeks as an inpatient at St. Francis hospital in Tulsa. The head injury was significant enough to put my future as a physician in question. I had great difficulty with short- and long-term memory, as Currently, I am six I am excited about the teen months out from opportunity to serve Phi I was part of an ag gressive neurorestorative rehab pro gram and managed to be gin interviewing for new residency positions by December, 1999. Due to my dissatisfaction with my accident and feel that I am virtually fully recovered. I am glad to Gamma Delta in a more be back in Oklahoma and have reinitiated my involvement with Sigma era of graduate involve ment. I will see you all at Pig Dinner 2001. God Omicron. I have re Bless. surgical residency, I de cided to change special ties and in February of tion of chairman of our well as degenerate physi 2000 I started a new resi cal stamina. The love dency program at the OU and support of family and friends gave me the Health Science Center in the specialty of Anesthesiology. active role. I look forward to the new cently assumed the posi BCA. Matthew M. Woosley ('94) PIG DINNER 2001 This response form pertains to Pig Dinner2001. please take a momentto fill it out and mail back to tt>e address listedat the bottomof this page. Do You Plan To Attend Pig Dinner 2001? • Yes • Yes. with guest Cost: Brothers = $50 Guests = $12 Amount Enclosed: r~| No, butdonation included Not attending SOHA debt retirement plan as of 11/27/00: Cash Con tributors: 22 $10,835.00 Checking 12 $11,400.00 Contributors: Credit Card Contributors: Information on Graduate Brother Whereabouts: 8 $7,250.00 Name: Address: TOTAL 42 $29,485.00 Phone Number: Any questions or comments, contact Jason Turner TV Guide Networks Director ofFinance work (918) The Sigma Omicron Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta 499-6335 fax (918) 488-4594 jason.turner@tvguide.com P/;/ Gamma Delta Phone: 405-372-1699 112} W.University On-IJne: mvw.osujiji.org Stillwater, OK 74074 Pig Dinner Saturday, February 17th \r\nSigma Omicronlcle Page 6 Missing Brothers We currently do not have ad dresses for the following broth ers. If you have information of Douglas R. Herrick their whereabouts, please con tact us with your reply forni. Whole Name '69 '69 '69 Staunton A. Baker Michael E. Colley Grad Year Martin E. Giasser '64 Daniel L. McCarty '64 Frederick J. Mostrom '64 Allen C. Neimeyer '65 Robert B. Persson '66 Ra^ord T. Reid William F. Ross, Jr. '66 Ralph T. Rogers Mont A. Smith James E. Mayden, 111 '67 George E. Melton, Jr. ' 68 Christopher L. Stotts Thomas A. Varner Randall L. Whittaker Max A. Pischel, 111 '68 Michael E. Chieppo '69 Rickie C. Feddersen '69 Walter H. Greenwood, '69 '69 '70 Jay W. Roberts '70 Gary A. Markus Stephen F. Pontesso Steven D. Bell Victor A. Dodge, Jr. Ronald L. Harp '70 John R. Flood William D. Fowler David L. Jones Ronald D. Perkins David 8. Powers Jeffrey D. Ruiz '70 Robert H. Thomas '70 Scott A. Guysi Tony D. Swinney '70 '70 '70 '70 '70 '70 '70 '70 Dennis Collins Ted K. Allison '71 '72 R. Mark Dettle '85 Brian K. Spurrier '85 '72 Adam F. Sutton '72 '72 '73 '73 James D. Dyer, Jr. '88 Timothy E. Brown '88 Brian R. Danker '88 '88 '75 Ronald Q. Wilson '75 John D. Fleeger '76 Michael S. Mears '92 '77 '77 Chester Boyd Smith Speer Gregory Bassett James M. Watt '77 Matthew Aaron Walker Christopher S. Whitfield Kerry Lee Bowden Christopher D. Day '80 Robert Nathan Rose Charles J. Hill '71 Aaron L. Hillhouse Richard L. Adams '81 '82 Samuel C. Bingaman IV 96 '96 Bryan John Morris '79 '82 Brian D. Smith '82 Ricky Lane Torix '84 Spike C. Henderson •a W fi O a> o Pig Dinner '96 '97 John A. Romano, Jr. Marc A. Wynn '84 Brian W. Sheehan '99 been the key to the indi ances have lead to a total vidual success. Phi fraternity effort in Intra mural sports this year. Gamma Delta has found Steve Foster won the bers. Ball Billiards while Matt Austin made it to the Semi-Finals. In Pitch 'n' 1