B.I.L. Initiation Ceremony 1983

B.I.L. Initiation Ceremony – 1983 Chapter CD, Manitowoc

1. As President I call to order the first, last, and only meeting of 1982-83 for Chapter SEEDY Manitowoc B.I.L.s.

2. Opening Ode (John)

Our Opening Ode appeared as the theme for last year’s B.I.L. meeting and went un-noticed by our membership to the great glee of our sisters.

I am told that the following description was published with help and sanction of one of our own members. QUOTE (Macbeth from Macbeth, I, 3)

“What are these so withered and so wild in their attire

That look not like the inhabitants of the earth, And yet are on it.

You should be women and yet your beard forbid us To interpret that you are so.”

3. The GUARD is requested to pass the word and call the roll. (Steve)

4. A treasurer’s report for 1982-83 will now be received. (Jon) (Treasurer’s report included)

(Candidates now leave room) – wigs and robes or dressed up in some unusual manner

Steve Dvorak Wife – Melanie David Gratz Wife – Linda

5. Membership Report (Steve) (B.I.L.s to be initiated)

1 6. Balloting by membership (Steve, Jon, John)

Results of the balloting are as follows:

Members absent _____ O’Leary, Fuhs, and Drohman ate their jelly beans Two members were in the powder room Black Beans 0 White Beans – Put in by Gib Stannard, suspected of being color blind One Orange Bean from Randy Blake labeled “For distemper or BIL maladies 7. Initiation (Jon)

A. Wife Identification Candidates’ wives, along with several others, stand behind curtain, but legs from knees down are exposed. Stocking feet only. Each initiate identifies his own wife’s feet.

Melanie Dvorak Linda Gratz Jim Fuhs (A BIL) Bev Hamann Susie Miller

B. String Measurements: Candidates guess how large wife’s waist, ankle, etc measurements are.

8. Pin and Tree Presentation (John)

A. B.I.L. pin was daisy with sunflower seeds in center. Guard was picture of a Margarita (cocktail)

B. Telephone tree was a branch of a tree with all B.I.L.’s names and phone numbers on tags hanging from the “tree”

9. Song (Jim) (words included) All B.I.L.s (To the tune of the Wiffenpoof song)

John Westerberg, Jon Dalton, Steve Hamann, David Fanta—CD Manitowoc B.I.L.s 2 B.I.L. Treasurer’s Report May 20, 1982

Income: Bake Sale at the jail $ 648.50 Rubbish Sale 2,837.00 Item sold: Gary Drohman’s antique Manitowoc Crane 5,000.00 Charity Basket 4.95 (It didn’t move from Gib Stannard’s)

Total Income $ 8,490.45

Disbursements: BIL dues to International $2,450.00 BIL dues to National 450.00 BIL dues to State 400.00 Catered dinner with entertainment 3,638.00 Cottey College annual dues 5.00

Total Disbursements $5,993.00

Cash in check book $ 5,000.00

Cash in Money Market Fund $ 15,000.00

Manitowoc Co. Stock $150,000.00

Total Assets of Chapter Seedy BIL treasury $170,500.00

WE DO NEED A FUND RAISER SOON!

3 B.I.L. SONG (To the tune of the Wiffenpoof song)

To the auctions at each meeting And the bake sales at the mall,

To the pies and cakes and cookies we love so well;

Sing the B.I.L.s assembled With their checkbooks raised on high,

While the bidding of our sisters drain us dry.

Yes, the lateness of their meetings And conventions loved so well,

Cottey College and the rummage and the rest.

We will stay home every Monday while our strength and patience last, Then we’ll pass and be forgotten with the rest.

We’re poor little boys who have lost our way, Baa, Baa, Baa.

We’re home in the basement where we’re told to stay Baa, Baa, Baa.

Gentlemen songsters off on a spree Doomed from here to reciprocity

Lord, have mercy on such as we. Baa, Baa, Baa.