G.D. FIJI Volume CXI June 9, 2019 In This Edition: Three Knox Fraternity Awards Revived House Corporation FIJI Athletes Campus Involvement Pledge Class Senior Class New Executive Board A Special Thank You! New Beginnings We would like to give a The Gamma Deuteron Chapter is on an upturn in these last special thank you to couple of years. From rebuilding a bridge of communication graduate brothers Steve with the campus, the college, and the town of Galesburg; to Malecha ('81), Ben Shakman ('90), and reestablishing the house corporation and setting up goals to David Brackman improve our chapter. In this year's edition of the G.D. FIJI ('81). During our time you will be able to find the evidence of a chapter that is writing this edition both looking to continue the trend of improvement that was set graduate brothers gave us up by this year's graduating seniors. With the help of Flynn very helpful feedback in Hersh ('22) (Publications Chair) and George Gilligan making sure that we ('22) (Alumni Relations) we have made it our goal to be able could accomplish the best to thank all of our brothers for the hard work and work that we could do. This goes without saying dedication that they have given for our common goal of that Phi Gamma Delta, improvement. truly is not for College Days Alone. - Oscar Sanchez ('22) (Corresponding Secretary) P! Emerging Fraternity Best Fraternity On Campus Leader (From left to right) Zane Huffman (20), Nick Piller (21), Davin Conway (21), and Tianna Cervantez After holding the position of Recruitment Chair in the Inter For this year's Knox College Greek Life Awards, the Gamma Deuteron Fraternity Council (IFC), our chapter was named as the Fraternity of the Year. Much work was done chapter's Vice-President/Treasurer for this award, such as the improvement of philanthropy activities that Nick Piller ('21) made huge was made possible through the help and leadership of brother Brady progress for the council's goal of Sember ('20). Brady has rebooted the role of Philanthropy Chair and expanding fraternity life on campus. service hours are now higher and more consistent. During his time, Knox College fraternities saw an increase in the Most Outstanding Social Media Presence number of students that pledged for From the revitalization of the Corresponding Secretary role that was the year. Over 50 students pledged done by brother and now president of our chapter, Jason's work was set during winter term, a number that on making sure that communication and presence of our chapter with had not been seen in the last four campus and International were one of the main priorities. As a result of years. During his time on IFC our his work and election, Jason White ('21) and the Executive Board have chapter's Time Keeper, Davin created a Publications Chair SO that our presence on social media can Conway ('21) also held a position. continue growing. Davin's work on community engagement lead to the increase of Advisor of the Year fraternity involvement in the town of Galesburg. As a chapter our work alone can do SO much on campus and in our community, but with the help of our Faculty Advisor we have been able to do much more. Tianna Cervantez has worked as our main advisor on campus and was well deserved on receiving this award. We hope to continue working hard together to achieve more goals. 2 House Corporation Revived (From left to right) Russ Crawford (72), Steven Malecha (81), Ben Shakman (90), Joseph Morrison (79), and David Brackman (81) (Not shown in picture are Steven Czerwinski (82), Jack Templeton (87), and F. Randall Cox (88)) The House Corporation was revived on October 11th, 2018. The founders of the new association were Russ Crawford ('72), Steven Malecha ('81), Ben Shakman ('90), Joseph Morrison ('79), David Brackman ('81), Steven Czerwinski ('82), and Jack Templeton ('87). The reestablishment of the house corporation was achieved through the help of these graduate brothers that were also assisted by graduate brother Tom O'Neal ('77). We thank them all and look forward on working hard with them in the future. We would like to mention that graduate brother J. Randall Cox ('88) is our Purple Legionnaire. The Purple Legionnaire is an ex-officio member of the House Corporation and does not vote as a director of the House Corporation, but provides valuable input and linkages with the Chapter and International. 3 FIJIs in Sports Baseball K FIRE IE FIRE KNOX KNOX 7 E.F. Roncone (22) - Newcomer of the Year Andrew Ponce (20) All Conference K FIRE E FIRE KNOX KNOX 4 29 Kobe Shutter (20) - All Conference Dalton James (19) - All Conference The 2019 Prairie Fire Baseball season was full of ups and downs, but it is needless to say that none of those successes throughout the season would have occurred without members of the Gamma Deuteron Chapter. Freshman newcomer, E.J. Roncone ('22), won Midwest Conference Newcomer of the Year by posting a I.92 ERA and striking out 43 batters throughout the season. Three Gamma Deuteron members also were named Midwest Conference South Division All-Conference Team. Those members were: Andrew Ponce ('20), Dalton James ('19), and Kobe Shutter ('20). Ponce was a key member of the pitching staff and posted a 2.01 ERA and struck out 27 batters. James led the team with a .359 batting average and also led the team in stolen bases with 19. Shutter led the team in homers with 3 and runs with 24. Among new members of the Gamma Deuteron chapter, seven of them are also on the baseball team. This gave the chapter a total of 20 Knox FIJI baseball players for this year. 4