A Publication of the Rho Phi Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta, Rose–Hulman Institute of Technology Fifty Years Ago... Upcoming Dates for 50th Anniversary Celebration: Football Tailgate - Sept 8 Homecoming - Oct 6 Brewery Tour - Jan 19 Pig Dinner Gala - May 4 Organizational Meetings and Selecting a Fraternity For the next 15 months, we will be celebrating the process which led to the Rho Phi Chapter Chartering on November 22, 1969 - just eighteen months from the first organizational meetings in April 1968. One of the first important events was the August 10 dinner meeting between the Core Group and the Terre Haute Graduate Chapter. Don Mighell, Frank Guthrie, Bill Miller and others, at this meeting, offered to support the Core Group as the sought permission to colonize Phi Gamma Delta at Rose Poly. 1848 Club Committee Wes Bolsen, chair David Steinbock Ed Fain Jake Whitacre Joe Weist Rho Phi House Corporation Ed Fain, president Chip Bradway, secretary Doug Collier Nate Richter Rob Bunch Andy Horton Matt Baber Randy Ridgway August 1968 was an important month for the colony as some members of the Terre Haute Graduate Chapter would be attending the Grand Bahama Ekklesia eleven days after this organizational meeting. Most importantly, Don Mighell was chairing the Charters Committee at the Ekklesia. This committee - while convened at the Ekklesia - had the authority to cut months or even years off the process to colonize. In our next “Fifty Years Ago” publication we will discuss the coincidence of who was on a plane to the Bahamas and a telegram which changed the lives of 15 young men.