Countdown to Showdown Phi and Former Senator Sam Nunn and the NTI Are Working to Avoid a Nuclear Attack
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The Magazine of Phi Delta Theta Fraternity Fall 2007 Countdown to showdown Phi and former Senator Sam Nunn and the NTI are working to avoid a nuclear attack. Join the club! Alumni clubs are giving Phis more ways to connect with old friends. Keeper’s brother Phis rally to support their cook and friend. Pack your bags! Convention ‘08 is coming! www.phideltatheta.org Fall 2007 1 Editor: Rob Pasquinucci (Ashland ‘93) Fall, 2007 Volume CXXX, Number 2 Editor Emeritus: Bill Dean (Texas Tech ’60) Business Manager: Robert A. Biggs (Georgia Southern ’76) Editorial Assistant: Cover Story Barbara Cotterman Contributors: 10 Sam Nunn Says “No” to Nuclear Jay Langhammer Making the world a nuclear-free zone one D.A. Fleischer Christi Sarge weapon at a time. Jennifer Taber CG Marketing Communications We’re in a race between GENERAL COUNCIL President: cooperation and catastrophe. Rudy M. Porchivina (San Jose State ‘89) Treasurer: “Our job is to make it as “ Mark Ochsenbein (Eastern Kentucky ‘77) Reporter: hard as possible for a nuclear M. Scott Mietchen (Utah ‘84) Member at Large: explosion to occur. We’ve got to Christopher A. Lapple (CA State-Northridge ‘80) Member at Large: have multilateral cooperation. Photo Courtesy: Nathan Feder Richard E. Fabritius (Kent State ’94) GENERAL HEADQUARTERS 2 South Campus Avenue Oxford, Ohio 45056 (513) 523-6345 Features (513) 523-9200 fax [email protected] www.phideltatheta.org 4 Alumni Clubs Alumni Clubs provide a personal connection to the Fraternity while Executive Vice President: Robert A. Biggs (Georgia Southern ’76) Associate Executive Vice President: Marc S. Mores (Iowa State ’95) creating a social outlet and opportunity for service and involvement Director of Chapter Services: Jesse R. Moyer (South Dakota ‘03) within the organization. Director of Alumni Services: Sean S. Wagner (Widener ‘02) Director of Expansion: Steven J. Good (Iowa State ‘04) Director of Housing and Insurance: Melanie Clayton 12 Emerging Leaders Institute Leadership Consultants: Looking back at 20 years of a summer Leadership College tradition. Kenneth J. Colby (La Verne ’06) Benjamin J. Dictus (Lawrence ’06) Johnathan T. Talcott (South Dakota ’06) 14 Educational Foundation Scholars Dustin Strubble (California State-Chico ‘06) Kevin Bazner (Robert Morris, ‘06) Another record-breaking year for scholarships. Daniel Holman(Nevada-Reno ‘07) Keith Wysocki (Nebraska-Lincoln ‘07) Jacob Kingdom (Lawrence ‘07) 17 Phi Sports San Diego Padres pitcher Trevor Hoffman is the 2007 Lou Gehrig EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION Award recipient. 2 South Campus Avenue Oxford, Ohio 45056 (513) 523-6966 (513) 523-9200 fax 25 Georgia Tech Cook [email protected] Richard Johnson dished out advice as well as food for Georgia Tech Phis. President: William “Rusty” Richardson (Tampa ’76) Vice President of Development: Conrad Foster Thiede (Colgate ’90) Director of Development: Eric Schimmoeller(Ashland ‘00) Director of Development: Adam Cegavske (Nevada ‘04) The Scroll (ISSN 0036-9799) is an educational journal published Departments continuously by the Phi Delta Theta International Fraternity since 1876. It is published three times annually in Greenfield, Ohio. Third class postage paid at Greenfield, Ohio, and at additional offices. The Scroll is distributed free of charge to 3 Letters members of Phi Delta Theta. Subscription rates: $5 issue/$15 per year. Subscriptions must be sent to the editor at General Headquarters. Phi Delta Theta is not respon- 5 Club News sible for unsolicited material. 7 Phi Footnotes Postmaster: Please send form 3579 for undeliverable copies to Phi Delta Theta 22 Chapter Awards General Headquarters, 2 S. Campus Ave., Oxford, Ohio 45056. 26 Chapter News Deadlines: Spring: Feb. 1; Fall: July 1; Winter: Oct. 1. Copyright © 2007 by Phi Delta Theta International Fraternity. Nothing herein may be 28 Chapter Grand reproduced without prior permission. Printed in the USA. 2 Fall 2007 Letters to Remembering the Sage of efforts of my relatives, the neighbors and friends, it Emporia reminded me of the brotherhood of our Fraternity the Editor and the responsibility to act. I am not asking our Brothers to donate, but to spread this story with a Reading that William Allen White’s home is being reminder of what we have learned as members and restored in a recent Scroll article, reminded me how we can contribute in the future, whether it be of the afternoon in 1936 when I met the “Sage of to ALS directly or by enriching the remaining time Emporia.” As a high school autograph collector, of its victims. I found myself on the porch of the Governor’s —Bryce Larson, Mansion in Topeka one morning when Gov. Ohio Wesleyan ’08 Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania was there to meet with Gov. Alf Landon, Republican candidate running against President Roosevelt. In the group Brother Brother was Roy Roberts, editor of the Kansas City Star and Brother White. After Landon had responded In response to our communication for recruitment recommendations, to a question posed by Pinchot, a strong advocate we received the following response from Noah Mclellan who has entered of the environment, White interrupted to explain a Convent preparing to take vows as a Franciscan Friar. to the Pennsylvania govern that “What Governor Landon meant to say was …”—this was my first Although I cannot donate to the Fraternity exposure to the art of politics. because of my Vow of Poverty, I would still like to remain in touch, and through my very way of life In the same Scroll issue, while reading the Phi I will continue to support the cause by offering up Sports column, I am reminded of my good friend, my prayers for you. The Franciscan rule follows the late Dr. John Davis, Kansas Beta ’38, who was a strong fulfillment of our Cardinal Principles: the Sports Editor of The Scroll for 43 years. In my Friendship (a complete devotion to trust in my opinion, there will never be another sports editor brothers and to be there in kindness and support the likes of Brother Davis. as they are to me); Sound Learning (we study —William Smith perpetually for the sake of higher knowledge); and Moral Rectitude (a life devoted to the betterment DePauw and Washburn ’40 of man by service to the poor and unfortunate on the principle that God created all men equal). Please update my address and continue to send By the Help and Society of Others The Scroll. —Noah Mclellan My aunt and uncle have a neighbor, Greg Borters, Dalhousie ’07, Postulate, Franciscans of Halifax who was recently diagnosed with ALS and is also a Lambda Chi brother of my dad’s. When my aunt asked Greg if there was anything else he would like to do in his life before he couldn’t anymore, his response was a trip to Hawaii. My aunt set up free plane tickets and six nights lodging, and she organized donations of spending money for their trip. When my dad told me all of this and the Upcoming Events January April Presidents Leadership Conference, Chapter Advisory Board Summit— Kansas Epsilon’s 40th Anniversary— St. Louis, Missouri—January 3–6 St. Louis, Missouri—January 4–6 April 12 Contact: Marc Mores, Contact: Sean Wagner, Contact: Matt Brillhart, [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Recruitment Boot Camp— Halifax Alumni Club Holiday Party— For more information on an alumni club St. Louis, Missouri—January 3–5 January 12 near you, please view the following link: Contact: Jesse Moyer, Contact: Michael Dunn, http://www.phidelthatheta.org/alumni [email protected] [email protected] www.phideltatheta.org Fall 2007 3 Alumni Clubs Phi Delta Theta’s best, and oldest running, program for keeping in touch with your brothers he Fraternity’s continuing Celebration. Brother John Mahaffey, rededication of itself as the Missouri Beta ’44, and Brother Samuel T“Fraternity for Life,” has led to a C. Oliver, Missouri Gamma ’47, were number of new initiatives and programs. both recognized for their dedication to While many of these new programs like Phi the Fraternity. As part of the Founders Delta Theta Circle have changed the way Weekend, the club partnered with the we as alumni connect and communicate, Missouri Epsilon chapter to put on the best alumni program going is our oldest, the annual Jeffrey R. Nieman Golf Alumni Clubs. In order to maintain and Tournament, an event that brings in over further develop this tradition, a number of 50 Phi Delt alumni and their families for dedicated alumni and volunteers devoted a day at Rivercut Golf Course. This was a themselves to creating nine new clubs in the record-setting year with nearly 80 golfers on Michael York (Union ’85,) Philadelphia Alumni Club last year. With the help of these alumni and the course. President, shakes the hand of Frank “Tank” Montgomery Director of Alumni Services Sean Wagner, (Widener ’96). these new clubs will continue to maintain Similar to the Southwest Missouri Alumni The Western Michigan Alumni Club that famous mantra and to ensure that Phi Club, the Athens, Green Mountain and was born out of one of the longest running Delta Theta continues to have an active, Southwest Indiana Alumni Clubs were alumni traditions within Phi Delta Theta, alumni presence in communities all over the created to provide a social outlet for local the Holiday Luncheon, in Grand Rapids, world. These new clubs are: Athens (Ohio), alums while maintaining a very close Michigan. The leadership of the annual Green Mountain (Vermont), Philadelphia, connection with the local chapter. Ohio event decided to “spin-off” the luncheon Southwest Indiana (Evansville) Southwest Gamma, Vermont Alpha and Indiana into a full fledged alumni club. Missouri (Springfield), Southernmost Lambda have all greatly benefited from (Florida Keys), Twin Cities (Minn.), this relationship, bolstering their alumni General Officers of the Fraternity have Upper Cumberland (Tenn.), and relations due to the clubs.