The Alpha Gamma Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta Housing Improvement Update Formal Living Room Renovation Edward Kiell '02 ago, the roof above the formal Over the past year, several living room had leaked, causing projects have been undertaken to water damage in a few, isolated improve the functionality and area's. Those areas were easily overall appearance of the frater- repaired, and after being painted, nity house. One such project was the water damage was barely the renovation of the formal living noticeable. room. Funding for this project The next stage in the renovation came from two primary sources: project was to remove the worn the Gamma Givers account and out carpet and padding. During the personal donations from Alumni. removal process, there was a "Fiji The first stage in the remodeling finding" under the carpet, close to process was to repair and clean the the fireplace. When seeing this, fireplace. Years of soot had built we decided to leave our own mark up on the mantle and a few of the on the living room floor. bricks had cracked due to aging (Continue on Next Page) and settling of the house. With the help of several brothers, and lots of elbow grease, we were able to remove almost all of the soot, and hired a contractor to repair the cracked bricks. ABOVE: Formal Living Room Looks Great It was now time to repair and DJB with new paint, carpet and furniture! paint the walls. Several years Membership Room is as good as New ABOVE: Current Members leave their mark were few others had before Keith Councell '04 chairs, drop ceiling, and the The membership room Phi Gamma Delta Charter. I has been completely am happy to state that remodeled. Special thanks Gamma, our beloved snowy goes to Don Barefoot '77, white owl, suffered no Robert Burgess, Robert damages. Our Alpha Burgess Jr. '02 for win- Gamma Upsilon charter, and dows and all of the broth- the 1932 Composite did not ers who donated time and suffer major damage. money. As a brotherhood Please feel free to stop by we decided to save money the house at anytime to see and do most of the work the remodeled membership ourselves or contract room and any other projects. certain areas out. These If you have any question included: carpet, win- please feel free to call the dows, curtains, door, house or email me More house improvement pictures may be found at trophy cabinets, table & keithcoundell@yahoo.com. http://www.kettering.edu/~phigam/houseProjects.html The Alpha Gamma Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta Housing Improvement Update ed from Cover) formal living room was he old carpet once again the focal point and the new of the house. called, the room I would like to extend / for the new my special thanks to all of With the assis- the brothers and graduate several able brothers, especially Don others, approxi- Barefoot, whom made this 500 pounds of renovation possible. riture was Success can only be from the deliv- achieved by those who are and carried into dedicated and willing to 1 living room. sacrifice themselves for h hard work, and something much greater e muscles, the than themselves. ABOVE: Goodbye shag carpet and chipping paint! ABOVE: New concrete pad lets water to drain away from house LEFT: The water damaged membership room before refinishing. BELOW: Upbath with a new coat of paint and working Urinals The Alpha Gamma Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta Housing Improvement Update Project Current Members Grad Fund Membership Room $8,800 $1,000 Windows $4,390 $1,610 Living Room $3,150 $5,850 Basement $450 $3,740 Pavement $3,100 $0 Plumbing & Heating $0 $19,000 Total $19,890 $31,200 ABOVE: As the numbers show, our housing improvement projects would not be possible without Grad funding LEFT: Thank You to grad brother Jim Steward '72 for providing photographic proof that our snowy white owl is older that the endangered species act. Jim is Parking lot expansion provides much needed relief standing with Mike Sharkey '72. More Parking Backhall and Stairs have New Tiles Shannon Griffith '05 In the winter of 2001, the Delta pledge Ryan Walters '05 class expanded the parking lot as part of During Zero Section their pledge project. After doing some before the Summer 2002 research, they were informed of the term, Brothers Walters and possibility of cement under all of the dirt Barger undertook the task and rock to the east of the existing parking of retiling the back stairs lot. After some initial digging, this and hallway of the chapter possibility was confirmed to be factual. It house. was decided that the clearing of the dirt Over the course of two would begin in the summer when the days, the two managed to weather was warmer and the ground was cover 95% of the hall that not frozen. did not need repairing. On Labor Day weekend, 2001, the Delta The remaining area was class rented a front end loader (Bobcat) filled in with concrete and began removing the dirt. After 3 days patch and left to solidify. of work, all the dirt was finally removed; N The job is slated to be from the fence near Flushing Rd, North of completed shortly after the utility pole about 45 feet away. The Parent's Weekend cement was in decent condition and the (Saturday, Aug 17th). new lot had room for almost 12 more cars. During the Fall term of 2001, B-Section paved the new parking lot with asphalt, giving it a finished look and completing New backhall tiles make the chore of mopping the project! back hall actually FUN well maybe not