n A PUBLICATION OF THE EPSILON ALPHA CHAPTER OF THE FRATERNITY OF PHI GAMMA DELTA AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA FALL 1981 Our chapter did a lot of growing last year - both in the size of our member ship and in the quality of program we are well on our way to becoming the best chapter of any fraternity at the University of Alberta. ming. We decided to set some basic goals for succeeding years. We have rededicated ourselves to the pursuit of scholarship. We expanded our athletic program and developed a fine community service effort. INSIDE And yes, above all, we shared some great - New Members Introduced times with our brothers. - Rush, Scholarship, Social, Sports and House Committee Reports We're sorry to have some terrific guys leave us as they graduate - Calgary Colonization and we certainly wish them well. We know that they will be active - Pig Dinner Plans grads. Over the year we have - Plans For a New House really appreciated the advice and support of our graduate members. Truly, our fraternity is not for college days alone! We think that you will agree that our fellowship is strong and that - President's Report. \r\n- 2 - New Members Introduced Each year, our chapter begins by ^showing the benefits of the frater nity to some selected students at the university. We succeeded in pledging 12 and initiated 11. We hope Bob Feuning, one of last year's pledges will be back with us in the fall. We'd like to introduce them to you. BOB ALONEISI BERWIE BRINKMAN DOUG BILINSKI DALE ELLIOT PAUL FITZGERALD TIM GRAHN EUGENE FALCONE BOB FEUNING KEN SAWYER WES SAWATSKY DAN SUCHOWERSKY BRIAN THOMAS ARTS BUSINESS SCIENCE ENGINEERING ARTS ARTS BUSINESS SCIENCE COMPUTING SCIENCE ARTS ARTS BUSINESS Bob Aloneisi was a delegate to the Acadeiny held in Ohio in August. He was joined by Brian Thomas and Paul Fitzgerald. Brian Thomas was elected to the Vice-Presidency of the IFC and Paul is on Student's Council as an Arts Representative. Bernie Brinkman is a native of West Germany and plans to make Alberta his home. He serves as our treasurer. Doug Bilinski has been an active sports chairman and has an interest in politics. Dale Elliot is an engineering student, our outgoing social chairman and a Southern Alberta farm boy. Tim Grahn won an Im perial Oil scholarship and is going to be affiliating with our U.B.C. chapter in Vancouver. Tim was a great house manager for us last year. Eugene Falcone did very well academically and transferred to the Business program. He's our Italian connection. Bob Fuening, a pre-med student from Calgary, decided to wait until this fall to decide about initiation. Ken Sawyer is another Calgarian in his third year. He brings a lot of maturity to a young chapter. Wes Sawatzky is a spring initiate who studied in Quebec this summer. We are looking for some real leadership from him. Dan Suchowersky is another fine spring initiate. Dan has been studying in the Ukraine this summer and has some great experiences to tell us about. \r\n- 3 - Scholarship Rush 1981 Our chapter is very serious about encour Randly Dawson is our rush chairman again. He's putting together a well-organized summer effort to aquaint about 75 freshmen with our fraternity. Randy will be planning a number of activities in September so prospective members appreciate aging members to do well academically. We're proud that our year-end average was above the university men's average. Mike Ford, our scholarship chairman did a great job for us. He presented several talks to suggest ways to improve study skills and habits. that we are trying to develop fellowship through scholarship, sports, socials, community service and informally. He sat down with each brother at the beginning of a term to discuss academic goal setting and arranged for tutoring if that might help. It should be noted that this year we expanded our scholarship awards program. Internally, we offer two, $100 awards to Rush will be built around flag football, a few parties, several guest speakers at Monday Chapter second and third year members who achieve the most that year. As well, we offer two, Dinners, a "How to Study" seminar given by a faculty member and a few more parties. If you think $200 awards to freshmen. The Major Hooper of someone we should invite out Award recognizes an individual who is to our rush activities give Randy a call at the House accomplished both academically and athletically. This year we were honored to have Dean Smith (Dean of Students) agree (432-1162). to let us name a second award after him. It recognizes academic achievement and The Rush Calendar community leadership. Activities and grads are encouraged to participate. Scott Thorkelson is heading up this committee for '81 - '82 and promises an active year. It's important because our members are active in the university community. Being well rounded - mentally and physically active, and being sociable are marks of good education. Most events are at the house. SEPTEMBER 1981 SUN MON TUE WED THU PR I 1 2 3 4 SAT 5 ■So-r iJiTe 6 9 Foot bo. 1 1 12 CKi 11 i' 10 11 17 18 19 25 26 oli T) Vir\r\ jFooibail D;vMf\e.r j?raci\C€_ 21 Roocircls IPoUWl l 15 Cp£A 5erA ir\(Xr 22 23 30 \ 24 "Pbr 'Dant e Wi Kvaf.ir I 27 HoaS€_ I \r\n- 4 - Social Roundup Boy, did we have some good times last year! And this year should be great too. Dale Elliot and Kirk Hancock are two uncivil engineers who lined up a super social cal endar. The year started with a "Western" theme party, several great exchanges with the woman's us in better shape though. Our super jock (Doug Bilinski) plans to spur us on to newer and greater heights. Over the summer a few of the brothers have been getting together for some football and burgers. We expect to fraternities on campus (although pledge a few freshmen to make up for our graduating "athletes." By the way, there could have been more ladies Terry Connelly (Alberta '75) has been at one) Friday afternoon socials out to coach our football squad. (He's and the like. a funeral director so on the other hand he could be scouting for business too.) Dale and Kirk put on a great formal with a good band and good food at the Edmonton Inn during the spring term. And the year closed with an "end of exams" blow out to forget the suffering caused by too many exams and papers and lab assignments. Planning for the fall of '81 is underway and Kirk Hancock, our chairman, promises many more good times. Almost makes studying bearable. Good Sports Our chapter was a lot more active in intramural sports last year. We fi elded teams i n f1ag footbal1, I.P.O. hockey, university hockey, soccar, volleyball and co-rec innertube water polo. At the chapter retreat we all agreed that we could have done a little better on the points side of things. It did keep \r\n- 5 - The House Committee We have our present house for another year! The house at 11003 - 90th Avenue is slated for demolition to make way for higher density student housing in 1982. Chuck Mewhouse (Alberta '75) is working with Gerry and will be our contractor. Chuck says that if the financing is lined up we could be pouring concrete in the spring and have the house ready for the fall of 1982. The present house has been our home since 1974 and offers comfortable Randy Atkinson, Dave Hancock, Murray furnished accomodation for ten men. It's also the site of our Dorin and Chris O'Brien and Rollie Cook fraternity activities. We should thank Tim Grahn and Ron Hill who managed it for us last year. It was always clean and in good shape. And the rent is much better than at "res." When the house is demolished after this school year is over, it will take with it some great memories. Scott Thorkelson was our summer house manager this year. He made a good profit and organized a work week. Brothers will see a better kitchen facility and a lot of new paint. Thanks Scott! are working to raise the money for the down payment and line up a reasonable mortgage. So far the grads have held three fundraisers and have pledges and cash for about $30,000. The construction costs have been estimated to be around $400,000. and we will need around 10% as a down payment. It won't take much more to line up an outstanding home for the chapter for many years to come. We appreciate the great work of the grads. The plans call for the house to have 4,500 square feet of space plus a full basement. It would comfortably house 20 - 25 brothers in a gracious building. Later, the attic could be developed and accomodate an additional 7-8 men. Phi Gamma Delta should soon have one of the largest and most attractive houses on campus. New House Planned The grads in Edmonton and Calgary are working to design, finance and build a new house for the chapter on university land in North Garneau. It would see house capacity go from ten to about twenty brothers in a modern, attractive and well insulated building. Gerry Kennedy (UBC) has put together a couple of stunning proposals for the house corporation. Gerry is a well-respected architect in Calgary and has given the house design a great deal of thought and time. \r\n- 6 - ipiin rs:-: • Kssr ei^»'^ow, ■ These are artists drawings of a design for the new house. Gerry Kennedy and Chuck Newhouse are working to finalize plans. i Z4 P.f / \r\n- 7- Calgary Colonization Our new Section Chief, Rollie Cook (Alberta *75) says that the inter national fraternity is looking seriously at expanding the frater Saturday OCTOBER s M T W T F S 1 2 3 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 nity to the University of Calgary. We have a solid graduate core there. An executive was recently elected 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 and Sheridan McVean is the President, Ron Isaac is Treasurer and Kerry Philley is the Secretary. Dee 24 4 October 8.00 Pollock and Jim Prentice are heading up a special committee to develop a Calgary colony. 10.00 The chapter at the University of Alberta would be glad to help in any way to establish the fraternity at the University of Calgary. Calgary has a well-respected university of about 11,000 stu 10.30 t 11.30 12.00 12.30 dents. A chapter there would help anchor the chapter in Edmonton and provide some healthy competition. A meeting of the Calgary grads will be held Friday, September 18 at the 3.00 Commerce Club, 12:0Q noon. 3.30 2.30 Contact Sheridan McVean. PiMt "h 4.30 Community 5.00 297 1297 68 Service The fraternity teamed up with the Dean and circumstances even more. of Students office to assist several handicapped students at the university. Fiji's taped course material for blind students on a weekly basis and pushed Community service in our fraternity has always been important. We're trying to several wheelchair bound students to than when we arrive as students. class. a small thank you. We'll be discussing As a service project, it was a lot more rewarding than raising dollars we had invested something of our selves in helping individuals. Fred Vanderzee, our chairman makes the point that we also appreciate our own health leave the university in better condition It's our plans for this committee early in September and suggestions from the grads are always welcomed. It's worth noting that four Fiji's served on Student's Council, Scott Thorkelson was the Inter-fraternity Council President and others are members of university governing commitees. That's leadership! \r\n- 8 - Random Notes We're including an updated address and phone list for the Alberta grads as an insert. If your address is out-of-date, please let us know. ... The undergraduate chapter is in good shape. Grads are encouraged to serve as advisors to the com mittees. Brent Murray is the new P.L. Congratulations. ... Let Randy Dawson know if you know of someone coming to the U. of A. that might be a good rushee - we also have a couple of spots in the house still - it's a friendly home style environment, lots of food, Ron Hill Bernie Brinkmann Brian Thomas Bob Aloneisi Fred Vanderzee President Treasurer Recording Secretary Corresponding Secretary Historian At the spring retreat, chapter goals were discussed and plans for the future were made. Each member volunteered to serve on several comnittees. The chapter enjoyed a good year and 1981 - 1982 should be better. We have more members and are better organized. Our treasurer even reported a modest surplus at the end of the year. close to campus and about $700. less than residence costs. The fraternity's prospects for the future are exceedingly bright. A great deal of And remember to mark down October grad support and a new house should 24th for the A.F.S. Annual Meeting establish a Phi Gamma Delta Dynasty for (1:00 o'clock) and book the evening years to come. for the PIG DINNER!! FraternalJIy yours. President's Report The chapter is beginning to run smoothly and we have a new executive and commit tee chairmen. One of the results of fraternity experience is to develop organizational and leadership skills. We'd like to thank outgoing president Mike Hartwig and his cabinet. The chapter is certainly better for their efforts. The new cabinet was elected in the spring and irranediately organized a chapter retreat at Mike Hartwig's cabin. The new cabinet is: Ron Hill Presid^t^ \r\nAPLEASE FILL OUT AND RETURN TO:.f4(^/iiG£|$?«r^^Graduate Relations, c/o 1 l00