volved in a dance marathon." Easter Seals has asked Pi Iota to make the PI IOTA RAISES RECORD AMOUNT FOR EASTER SEALS Dance-a-thon an annual event. Each year the^ sophmore class will be in charge of organizing the affair with every brother donating his time and effort to the cause. Next year we hope to set another record in helping the Easter Seals Last year Pi Iota became associated with the Easter Seals Society when the Society was looking for an organization to heln with a fund raising event that they were going to Societ^^o^the^jcharitabl^wOTk^^^^^^^^^^^ii^^^ hold for the first time, A member of the Society happened to be a relative of a brother at Pi NF1/J OARINT^'.T INSTALLED The new cabinet of ^i Iota Chapter of Phi lamma Delta was installei on March 7, 1979. Iota and she suggested that the two groups join The new cabinet members are President, Richard forces for the event. It proved to be a suc A,. Goulding, Jr., Class of'BO, Athol, Mass.; cessful venture as Pi Iota with help from the Treasurer, Paul J. Guth, Class of 'Bl, Fairhaven, IFC held the first Disco Dance-a-thon for the N.J.; Recording Secretary, David E. Huhtala, Easter Seals Society of Worcester at Alden Hall. Class of '80, East Temnleton, Mass; Corresnonding In fact, it was so successful that the Secretary, Steohen A. Gilrein, Class of '80, Society asked us to run the show again this year Ludlow, Mass.; and Historian, Mark F. Lefebvre, It was determined that the dance-a-thon would be run much more efficiently if we did not have to try and co-ordinate the other fraternities. It was also felt that in running it ourselves with a minimum of outside help would cause the Class of '80, Leominster, Mass. President Rick Goulding is finishing up his stay on the Hill as a resident advisor in ' Daniels Hall. This year he was also involved brothers to contribute more effort and have as the social chairman at Pi Iota and has greater pride in the jobs we were doing, A few other changes were also made in the hopes of greater success, the major one being a change of location to the Rendez-vous Discotheque in overseen many a good party at the Gam. the Worcester Center Galleria. Paul Guth is taking over the books from outgoing treasurer John Hopkins. "Arlo" is a sonhmore majoring in mechanical engineering. Sophmores Greg Glod and Bob Segarra were Paul spends much of his free tome playing back appointed chairmen and they ouickly put the bro gammon, a new craze here at the Gam, and hopefully thers to work in soliciting prizes. As a result, someday he'll actually win a game, scores of prizes were given away with the two lucky grand prize winners recieving a $1200 waterbed and an $800 stereo system. Dave "Hoots" assumes his duties of taking the minutes at all house meetings. He has a With radio station IUQ donating advertising tough road to follow as the last three Recording time and DJ's to run the marathon and the Fred £ecretaries(as far back as this vrriter can re Astaire Dance Studio providing two instructors member), Mel DeCarvalho, Bob Brown and Larry for a demonstration. Things looked very promising Marino all did excellent jobs of nroviding for great success. The women of Phi Sigma Sigma leadershin for the house. also donated their time to help run the conces Steve '"A^ombat", '^rotably the ugliest mem ber of the cabinet(actually Steve, or the girls Approximately forty dancers strutted their stuff for the entire twelve hours with only a few at Becker, don't really think he's that ugly) sion stand. short breaks for nourishment and personnal re pairs. It was fewer dancers than what we had is a Civil En-ineer hoping to follow in the foot steps of fellow civil and local Ludlow resident, hoped for but the Rendez-vousJ* ideal location in Tony "Ant" Fernandes. (By the way Ant keep those letters coming I the shopping mall drew dancers in to dance for a few hours at a time. The combined efforts of all the brothers Mark "Favey", respondsible for keening tthe national up to date with Pi lota's yearly act proved to make the marathon a success. The Easter ivities, is an electrical engineer. As the softSeals Society were so grateful that they felt compelled to write the International Headquarters ball season begins we all hope Mark will continue of Phi Gamma Delta which stated in -ipart: his solid play in lejPt field for Fiji-A, who "Over $2100 was raised...a record amount by the efforts of a single fraternity...to benefit lost in tne finals last year to Rap. Faster Seals. That's about it on the nevr cabinet, hopefully they will be able to keep up the Gam tra iition and help the house run smoothly again next year. The quantity of hours soent was matched by the quality of work as these men displayed un usual organizational ability, competence and sincerity in earring out the many details in Perge \r\nXT ¥ ii^S^^^piiBliiite P 11 \ 1 r ^ ABOVE; Doc Atwood receiving the Durrance award for excellence as a Purple Legion naire in 196U. ' i^ ABOVE RIGHT: Dancers doing it up on the dance floor at the Rendez-vous Disco, raising money for the Worcester Easter Seals Societyo MIDDLE RIGHT: The basketball team in a action during the playoffs on their way to the finals. LOklER RIGHT: A few of the brothers who went to Florida on their Spring vaca tion pause to have their picture taken at Disneyworld. - •-4% - \r\nGraduate firothers: BASKETBALL TEAM GOES TO FINALS This year's Fiji 'A' basketball team once again finished the regular season defeated and were the champs of their league. The team rolled through the first three rounds of the playoffs,having problems only with a slow start in one game which they overcame with a good second half effort. This put the team into the finals sgainst lYF, ami independent team who we de feated in last year's championshipo 1^ was out to take revenge for their loss last year in which they felt that our team playyd above their ability while their team played below their ability. Last years game was never really close. Unfortuneatly history was not to repeat > itself this year assthe two teams swapped roles. The Gam opened the game with two un answered baskets,but from there things just \ Remember, you are a vital'source of prospective oledges. If you know of someone who is planning to enter WPl and you think that he majr/have the qualities that weJre looking for, please let us know. Your leads on incoming freshmen are very helpful during rush. We want to keep this chapter strong and it all starts with rush. Dave Lamborghini Rush Chairman pergeI Brothers: This paper's existence is solely to keep you informed as to what is hapnening in the- chapter house and to fellow graduate bro thers. The first objective is relatively e«sy but the second is impossible without some input from our graduate brothers. We went downhill. At times we couldn't even buy welcome any and all comments, suggestions and a basket,,while lYF couldn't miss one. At half time we were down by ten. In the second half things went from bad to worse, and the * Gam lost by a wide margin. Hopefully next year we'lllbe the ones to get revenge. Three seniors will be lost to graduation; Lou Frascotti, Larry Marino and Tom McClure, Lou and Larry have been 'A' team members for four years while Tom wassa member have in mind to make this paper more interest ing to you and your fellow graduate brothers. Please address all correspondence to the edi /or criticisms you may have. We are more than willing to print any articles, letters, stories, messages or anything else you might tor of Pi Ides, 99 Salisbury St. ,Worcester, Ma, 01609. for three years. These will be big shoes to replace but several candidates are eager for their shots. cmiy evetft' j^'j ^jslafd i'S jfmecmiM Weeimd Ocukf IZ~I3 PI IOTA of PHI GAMMA DELTA 99SAL1SBURY ST. WORCESTER, MASS OI609 asr.s!*''' O" P M ^ WENDELL LMES , 'erzt'i' L tcS .y•lb- APR 2 0 1979 fSATEfifJITY SF PH! INT®MTieKAL HEABS'JAiTEES . 3/3 / - fh'b^ SU tTB ^0( ^ t/05Dc/