December 2010-7 Edition r DUT im i.AST T|i>|tiiiriiTig f 'l»i> '■• ■'■I The Lambda Omega Colony of Phi Gamma Delta after Delta Class Pinning QF mim mmm \r\n Paul Macklin Chairman of the Lambda Omega Chartering Committee on behalf of the Lambda Omega Colony of the International Fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta at the University of Western Ontario cordially invites you to attend The Lambda Omega Chartering Weekend Friday February 4, 2011 - 7:00PM — Reception and Pledge Ceremony Ivey Spencer Leadership Centre - UWO- a light meal will be served Saturday February 5, 2011 - 9:00AM - Chartering Ceremony and Initiation Ceremony Location to be determined - a light lunch will be served Saturday Evening Frank Norris Pig Dinner - 6:00PM Reception; 7:00PM Dinner Ivey Spencer Leadership Centre - UWO $125 Please RSVP stating which event or events you will be attending Byron Alfaro byron.alfaro@hotmail.com — Phone 226 — 374 - 5544 Please Note: More information to be sent out once it becomes available to us. Mail out invitations will also be sent out soon. \r\nAPOLOGIES - UPDATE | would like to apologize personally for not sending September, October and November issues of the Lambda Omega E-Newsletter out. After returning from Ekklesia in the summer it has been non-stop work academically and fraternally. We have had many successes this semester and | will gladly recount them all in this issue. Also, this will be the last issue that | send out. New Corresponding Secretary will take over my duties as of January 1". | hope to see all of you at Chartering Weekend! CHECK OUT OUR WEBSITE WWW.FIJIUWO.COM FOR REGULAR UPDATES ON OUR COLONY! SEMESTER UPDATES- THE DELTA CLASS After two weeks of recruitment efforts, the Lambda Omega Colony managed to recruit a pledge class of 15 gentlemen to join the rest of the colony members OF Lambda Omega. The Delta pledge class was the last colony pledge class before the colony's chartering this February. The pledge class consisted of twelve first year students, one second year, one third year and one fourth year. Pictured on the top row, from Left to Right are Brad Seskin, Jason Grossman, Michael Peros, Jon Tse, Nate Wise, Chris Balkos, Kaho Kan and Andrew Ross. On the bottom row from left to right are Peter Chehade, Josh Rock, Andrei Irimia, Shane Nightingale, Josh Stiller, Josh Sonshine and Ben Baxter. On Saturday November 27", 2010 the 15 pledges were initiated into the colony and are now colony brothers awaiting Chartering Weekend like the rest of us! NEW CABINET President- Wil Witkowsky Treasurer — Alan Neal Recording Secretary — Byron Alfaro Corresponding Secretary — Santiago Campo Historian — Brent Kennish Anew cabinet for the 2011 school year was elected in late November. Congratulations to the new cabinet that will begin duties Jan 1 and good luck! \r\nFIJ| FASHION SHOW Along with the Fl Campout for Mental Health, the gentlemen of Phi Gamma Delta decided to put on another philanthropy event that this time involved a little competition! On Tuesday November 2nd, 2010, UWO sororities competed to be the winners of the first ever annual FIJI Fashion Show. Sororities designed outfits that fit the description of four categories and presented them to a panel of judges in form of a fashion show. Phi Gamma Delta raised roughly $1,000.00. Some of the proceeds from the event went to winning sororities charity of choice. Alpha Gamma Delta came out on top for the win and therefore proceeds were given to them to distribute to the charity of their choice. GET SWABBED WITH FIJI + AGD On November 16", 2010 from 8am-6pm AGD and i FUI held “Get Swabbed” a bone marrow drive for 2 the Canadian Campus Wide Bone Marrow Drive Competition! Alpha Gamma Delta sorority and Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, the respective Greek organizations of Jessica and Jason Grossman who lost their father due to not being able to find a match quickly enough, teamed up to run this drive on campus not only to get more people on the national registry to help those in need, but to help their father’s legacy live on. We ended up coming in 3 place in all Ontario for Universities with the most amounts of swabs. Thank you to everyone who helped! Photos taken at the Get Swabbed event inside of the UCC \r\nMr. Greek and Airbands The Brothers of the Lambda Omega colony DOMINATED in inter-Greek competitions this past semester. Brother Francis Beuron (pictured left) came in SECOND PLACE in Alpha Phi’s annual Mr. Greek competition. With his impressive break dancing, he danced into the judges and crowds hearts and gave an impressive performance! Also, the Delta pledge class competed in Kappa Alpha Theta’s annual fraternity lip-synch dance competition and came out with an impressive FIRST PLACE winning the trophy over most other fraternities on campus. Below are pictures of the celebration that occurred when the winners were announced and most of the pledge class holding the trophy the next day at pledge education. Fil Academy! : | Like always, Lambda Omega will be V5 ig) Piet SSM sending delegates to St. Louis, Missouri iad | to represent the colony at the FIJl Academy on January 7-9, 2011, More news and a full update about events that occurred at the Academy will be coming in next month’s issue of the E- Newsletter. \r\nFinal Message/ Call to Action Thank You! | have finally received stories and comments about the Chartered times of Lambda Omega. The stories will be posted and sent out in the Chain Newsletter, so expect those when that is sent out. Also, older articles that have been in past “Chains” will be re-sent so that flames of old memories can be ignited. Please continue share with us an experience you had during your time in FIJI, or send us pictures of you and the rest of the FIJI brother’s during your time in FIJI and we will be sure to include them in an issue of the Chain or in an E-Newsletter. Please send all comments/concerns/photographs/stories to balfaro@uwo.ca. We wish you the best during the upcoming months, and we hope to see you at Chartering Weekend and Pig Dinner. It has been a pleasure relaying Fiji updates and news to you for my term as Corresponding Secretary. PRESS ON! Byron Alfaro — Corresponding Secretary 2010 Not For College Days Alone