w Hamboa Hu otabag PHI GAMMA DELTA SPRING 1981 NEW BROTHERS INITIATED NEW INITIATES This year we octivoted fifteen pledges into the fraternity and had the best average of fresh men making grades in many years. Only two pledges failed to moke grades and we had one pledge, Tim O'Keefe, achieve a 4.0 grade point overage for his first semester. Tim will get financial compensation on his initiation fee because of his performance. Mike Jenny was our outstanding pledge and will have al l of his octivotion fee paid by the house. Of interest to all Phi Gams is the pledge class project: rais ing the publishing fees of 80 Years of Lambda Nu, which will update Lambda Nu history. First row: Jim Blue Lincoln Southeast Bill Edwards Omaha Burke Civil Eng. Don Parsons Poli. Sci. Ben Morris Ogallala Omaha Westside Lincoln Southeast Lincoln Southeast Terry Larson Oakland Arts & Sciences Don Floen Tom Wendelin Business Business Undeclared Second row: John Moreland Bloomington, III. Kevin Sullivan Omaha Mt. Michael Greg Westphal Lincoln Southeast Tod Ochsner Grand Island Tim O'Keefe Hastings Pig Dinner Civil Eng. Architecture Business Undeclared When: April 24, 1981 Where: University Club, Lincoln, NE Chemical Eng Marketing Jack Jesson Omaha Westside Business Jim Von Esson Oakland Agriculture Mike Jenny Norfolk Bus. Ad. / Pre-Law Other details to included later. \r\nPRESIDENT'S HOUSE IMPROVEMENT MESSAGE provement and restoration of the hallways and The Chapter has decided to undertake im The first semester of the 1980-1981 school year went by fast as they ail seem to do. We emerged with fifteen fine new initiates and we took giant steps toward making Lambda Nu the best. With the new semester upon us, we ore aiming at continuing these steps. The new cabinet got off to a good start with a chapter retreat, which took place in February. This re treat, which was organized by the board of chapter advisors, brought out many excellent ideas and served as an inspiring force for al l the members of the chapter. Concrete goals included a new cost-efficiency committee, a re vitalized Graduate Relations committee, and many renovation plans; including new win dows in the old-port of our structure, and reseeding the front yard. With spring just around the corner. Pig Din ner and Rush are on the minds of all the broth ers. This years Pig Dinner promises to be big, OS golfing and the Red-White game will be part bathrooms in the old section of the House, to be completed by next fall. This work and the financial backing for it wil l be handled entirely by the undergraduates. This will be an added rush tool in hopes of filling the house to capac ity with quality men in the up and coming new school year. WEDDING BELLS Our chapter historian for 1980, Brian Jen sen, was married January 3, 1981, to Karen King, a member of the Pi Beta Phi sorority. Karen and Brian are both in the engineering college and are both planning to continue their studies. Brother Jensen is the Engineering-week board chairman. News Editor for Blue Print, on engineering magazine and a member of the of the weekend. The Rush committee is also American Society of Mechanical Engineers working hard planning an exciting rush with goal of pledging thirty-five young men. (ASME). All in all, the outlook for the next year is great. Hope to see many of you at Pig Dinner, and remember the doors ore always open so feel free to stop by and visit the brothers. LOST PICTURE Fraternally, Joe Skrodski Perge! Brother Joy Motzke, who is compil ing 80 Years of Lambda Nu, is looking for anyone who would hove any infor mation about the picture of the Fiji man that used to hong in the Diamond room. The picture is signed by Pepper Bruce, SPECIAL THANKS The undergraduate chapter would like to thank brothers Pot Ash, Jim Childe, and the rest of the B.C.A. for their help in the under graduates retreat last February. Their contribu tions show that Phi Gamma Delta is not for col lege days alone. '49. Anyone who knows the where abouts of Pepper please write Brother Motzke because he is interested in put ting the picture on the cover of 80 Years. Brother Motzke's address is: Jay Motzke 3855 Dewey Ave. Omaha, NE 68105 \r\nNEW 80 YEARS The Lambda Nu Chapter, through the work of a graduate brother and fund raising projects of the 1980 pledge class is producing a new history education manual for its upcoming pledge classes. Recently the history of the Lambda Nu House has been presented to pledges using a lecture method in which the pledge trainer, using the enormously outdated "50 years of Lambda Nu", gives important history facts on our house. This entitles the pledge to only one week of study in this chapters his tory. The Active Chapter viewed this method inadequate to thoroughly teach the pledge about our house. Therefore the chapter decided to update this book, producing enough of the new edition so each pledge can receive a Purple Pil grim in addition to a new "80 Years of OFFICERS Joe Skradski President Omaha Mike Dingwell Treasurer Omaha John Blue Rec. Sec. Lincoln Jon Sekutera Corr. Sec. Loup City Clark Robertson Historian Tekemah ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The newsletter chairman would like to thank the following individuals for their contri bution to the newsletter that made this publica tion possible: John Blue, Jon Sekutera, Clark Robertson, Steve Kleinschmidt, Curt McConnell, Bob Harley, and Kevin Withee. These men contributed articles that helped make this pub lication possible. The newsletter chairman would also like to thank Bill Harley for his help with the newsletter. Lambda Nu", for history texts. Joy Motzke, a graduate brother cur rently attending the University of Ne braska Medical Center, has gathered the material for the book and is compiling it for the final printing as soon as possible. Head pledge trainer of 1980, John Blue, has helped the Freshman coordin ate their fund raising projects to help pay the $600 cost of "80 Years of Lam bda Nu". The pledges used two schemes to raise the money. One route they took was to clean the Bob Devoney Sports Complex after events in that building, the other was staging all campus parties with an attendance charge. Both were quite successful in meeting the $600 cost of publishing the RUSH Dear Graduates, It is time once again for the under graduate chapter to start gearing up for rush. This year the signing date has been moved up to the date after gradu ation for high school seniors. So it will be of the utmost importance for us to get an early start on rush if we want to ful fi ll our goal of pledging 35 outstanding young men this summer. If you have any rush recommenda tions of high school seniors who would make great Phi Gams please let me know. Fraternally, book. Our chapter has taken a great step to update the education of our pledges. "80 Years of Lambda Nu", will enhance our pledge training program, but we must keep in mind new innovations for the education of our pledges. Bob Kostkan Rush Chairman Pergel Bob Kostkan Bob Kostkan 1425 R Street 10322 Boyd Street Omaha, NE 68134 (402) 493-2598 Lincoln, NE 68508 (402) 476-8366 \r\nINTRAMURALS LEADERS Intramural started well this year. Fijis are IN currently ranked 7th out of 30 organizations and not for behind the leaders. Participation has been well rounded this year. The B vol leyball team received third place in the B-C LAMBDA NU Several of the members of the Lombdo Nu league, with the A and C team making the ities ronge from clubs to holding student of playoffs. Ed Siffring placed second in the al l Univer sity .22 caliber rifle shoot. Eagle Eye, as his brothers col l him, credits his shooting to his Na fices. tional Guard training. chopter hove shown their stuff not only within the house but outside of the house by porticipoting in mony compus octivities. These octiv- One of Lombdo Nu's outstonding ochievers is Moybord Krontz, '82. Moynord wos elected Between the strong freshman and high participation the Fiji's could finish in the top five this year. President of the Union Boord for the second yeor in o row. ASUN He is olso the president of the Credit Union Boord of Directors. SOCIAL He serves on the College of Business Administra tion's Student Advisory Boord, is o member of Phi Beto Lombdo, ond one of the founders of the Administrotive Monogement Society club on the Lincoln compus. Clork Robertson, '82, is o member of Phi Beto Lombdo, the Finonce Club, ond is ASUN Credit Committee secretory. Scot Glup, '82, wos president of the IFC Judiciory Boord for the first semester of the 1980- 81 school yeor ond is currently on the Univer sity Judiciory boord. Scott is o member of the Wildlife club ond wos on the Wolpergischnot This semester. Lambda Nu Fijis had a lot to look forward to on their social calendar. The Fijis started the semester off with the second annual Jefferson Duo Party. We followed that party up with a Pajama party in which the pajama clad party-goers watched cartoons and comedy classics on viewing screen. Next, we had a 50's party, involving the Phi Delts, DG's, Kappas, Thetas, Phi Psi's, and Chi Omegas. That was followed by a punk rock party with the Phi Delts. Since then we had a raquetball party with the AOPi's which turned out to be a "smashing" success. We still have Islander to look forward along with other parties scattered throughout the year. Winter Festivol Committee. AAorty Jensen, '81, is the 1981 Business Week choirmon. AAorty is olso o member of the Administrotive AAonogement Society. AAike Dingwell, '82, is o member of the Beto Alpho Psi Accounting Honorory ond the Administrotive AAonogement Society. Social Calendar AAarch 13th - Shot-a-AAinute party with Alpha Chis April 10th - F.A.C. with Thetas, Alpha Brod Ross, '82, heoded up the Reogpn Phis, Betas compoign on compus os he led the Students for Reogon group through o victorious campaign April 11th - Shoot the Rapids against incumbent Jimmy Carter. April 24th - Pig Dinner AAike Decker, '83, hos been elected to serve on the College of Business Administra tions Student Advisory Board. April 25th - Fiji Islander \r\nPhilanthropy Projects The fal l semester of '80 was a time of work and recognition for the Phi Gams of Lambda Nu. The Nebraska Human Resources Research Foundation displayed their appreciation for the time and effort put forth by the chapter on the 600 hour pole sit last spring by awarding the house with a beautiful plaque. Doctor Galen Dodge and Michael Phillips were guests at din ner on February 2 of this year to present the chapter with the plaque and they commended the chapter on their work done which greatly benefited the foundations cause. Receiving the plaque from "Foundation' The $4200 dollars pledged was an endeavor well worth the effort for such a great organization. The yearly Halloween party for the under privileged children of Lincoln took place last fall. The Phi Gams haunted the halls as the children trick or treated room to room. The children later gathered in the dining room and played gams with the Phi Gams and the ladies of Kappa Alpha Theta. The brothers went to work for a few after noons for the people of Cerebral Palsy to help relocate their office into another building. Ed Siffring headed the moving crew which pro duced positive results. After the back-breaking work was over, the Phi Gams were treated to Dear Alums, It's hard to believe that my class will be leaving, and I end my fourth year at Phi Gam ma Delta this spring. They have been full and good years. The house Historian, Clark Robert son, and I wish to update the scrap book that Mom Minier helped the men collect. We would greatly appreciate you sending pictures and clippings and information about the men and the house dating from 1960-1980. Thank you and my best to all. Mom Simmons all the pizza and beer they could eat and drink by the Cerebral Palsy organization. The main public relations activity of the fall semester of 1980 was the Fiji-Hinky Dinky Shopping Spree Raffle. The brothers of Lam bda Nu sold chances on the spree for a one dollar donation. The lucky winner. Barb Dupps of Lincoln, was given two minutes to sprint through the store and throw all the grocery items she could into her cart. The activity was definitely a sight to see. The brothers netted a $3200 with the spree and all monies went to the Nebraska Lupus Foundation. Last semester the brothers of Lambda Nu showed great initiative towards helping others. Philanthropy activities are now in the planning stages so we can make others paths more pleasant and fruitful. 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