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THE PHI GAMMA DELTA VOL. 135 NO. 2 SPRING 2014 Our Literary Heritage p. 36 TheThe PHI PHI GAMMAGAMMA DELTADELTA Spring 2014 Volume 135, Number 2 Editor William A. Martin III (Mississippi State 1975) [email protected] Director of Communications Melanie K. Musick [email protected] Circulation 27,229 176,563 men have been initiated into the Fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta since 1848. Founded at Jefferson College, Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, on May 1, 1848, by John Templeton McCarty, Samuel Beatty Wilson, James Elliott, Ellis Bailey Gregg, Daniel Webster Crofts, and Naaman Fletcher. Phi Gamma Delta Web site www.phigam.org For all the latest information, updates, and anything you need to know about Phi Gamma Delta. Change of Address Send any address changes to the International Headquarters by email to [email protected], by phone at (859) 255-1848, by fax at (859) 253-0779 or by mail to P.O. Box 4599, Lexington, KY 40504-4599. At Right Brothers of the Tau Nu Chapter at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, New York, stand in front of the church that the house corporation recently purchased and will convert into a chapter house. OnOn thethe CoverCover One of the bookshelves in the Library/Boardroom of Phi Gamma Delta’s International Headquarters. The Phi Gamma Delta is published by The Fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta, 1201 Red Mile Road, P. O. Box 4599, Lexington, KY 40544-4599, (859) 255-1848. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to: The Fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta P. O. Box 4599, Lexington, KY, 40544-4599. Publications Mail Agreement No. 41752521 Return undeliverable Canadian addresses to: PO Box 875, Station A Windsor, ON N9A 6P2 2 THE PHI GAMMA DELTA www.phigam.org Friendship, the Sweetest Influence COVERCOVER STORYSTORY Our Literary Heritage 36 2013 Honor Roll of Donors 50 FEATURES 25 Fall Expansion Results 26 Recruitment Chairmen Contacts 28 Fall 2014 Expansion Plans 29 DePaul Chartering 30 Union Rechartering 31 UMass Charters 32 Fiji Academy Wrap-up 34 2013 Distinguished Fijis 45 Restoring Zeb Vance Monument 49 Dean Smith Honored DEPARTMENTS 4 President’s Message 5 GammaGram 6 On Campus 39 Graduate Almanac 46 Spotlight 68 Ad Astra 71 Fraternally Speaking MISSION OF PHI GAMMA DELTA Phi Gamma Delta exists to promote lifelong friendships, to reaffirm high ethical standards and values, and to foster personal development in the pursuit of excellence. Phi Gamma Delta is committed to provid- ing opportunities for each brother to develop responsibility, leadership, scholarship, and social skills in order to become a fully contributing member of society. Member of the North American Interfraternity Conference Member of the Fraternity Communications Association connect with Phi Gamma Delta Not for College Days Alone SPRING 2014 THE PHI GAMMA DELTA 3 RESIDENT’S Archon President P MESSAGE Scott J. Mikulecky (Colorado State 1982) “Youth is wasted on the young.” ith apologies to George Bernard – and, consequently, not fully utilized – and professional goals and learning how WShaw, the author of that quote, while we are undergraduates. to plan to achieve them is a wonderful it needs to be slightly modified for my gift from our fraternity that often is not purposes: Fraternity is wasted on under- Phi Gamma Delta provides to every appreciated until we graduate, when we graduates. undergraduate brother an extraordinary find, much to our surprise, that these opportunity to learn, in a supportive skills we have learned and enhanced as I am not singling out our current un- environment, how to plan, how to lead, undergraduates serve us well as graduate dergraduate brothers; rather, I believe how to achieve, and even, and perhaps brothers in our personal and professional it applies to most of us when we were most importantly, how to fail and how lives. undergraduate brothers. It is a corollary to gain the courage to try again – how to to the well-known axiom that we often persist. But these skills and benefits are available don’t realize how good something is until only to those who accept the challenges it’s gone, specifically the opportunities For those undergraduates who accept and responsibilities of participation. So provided by Phi Gamma Delta to under- responsibilities and the mantle of leader- to our current undergraduate brothers: graduate brothers. ship, whether as an officer, commit- seize the leadership opportunity you have tee chairman or even as a committee been provided and take advantage of this The overwhelming majority of us are well member, the benefits are incalculable. unique gift our fraternity offers you to aware of and cherish the most obvious In their chapter, brothers can learn the transform your life, to serve and lead with opportunity and benefit of our fraternity skills of setting goals, planning, delegat- the best that is in you. Set your personal membership – our brotherhood. ing responsibilities, monitoring progress, goals and your chapter’s goals high. No, encouraging, cajoling (and, on occasion, set them impossibly high, because if you The bonds formed through our fraternity threatening) brothers who fall behind don’t occasionally fail to achieve your over the past 166 years – across chap- in their tasks, reevaluating goals and the goals, you have not aimed high enough. ters and countries, doing community methods to achieve them, and, finally, Remember, as Thomas Edison said, failure service projects, studying, participating sharing the joy of achievement or accept- is an event, not a person; don’t fear it. in intramurals or helping each other ing the lessons of failure. through difficult times – these frater- Pity the doubters, the naysayers who nal bonds that Phi Gamma Delta has Brothers who undertake these responsi- try to get in your way. Because although been forming since 1848 are strong and bilities learn that in the fraternity, as in you know that you may face adversity, unyielding to time. As graduate broth- the “real world,” there are some days for struggles and even failure, you know it ers, most of us have found that these accomplishment and some days merely will pass. What will not pass are your cherished bonds of brotherhood endure for survival. And on those survival days, character, your principles and your broth- through college, through the highs and when it is difficult to press on, we learn erhood. Strengthen all of these now so lows of life, through being groomsmen when and how to pick ourselves up, that when you look back at the difficult at each other’s weddings, to celebrating and when and how to turn to brothers times you will inevitably face, whether in the birth of children and grandchildren, for support, often finding that support college or throughout your life, you will and, finally, to being pallbearers at each comes from not just one brother but two, see that you did not cower or crawl until other’s funerals. We have been and will five, ten or even scores of brothers. Most the difficult time passed; you stood tall, remain brothers always. importantly, the support born from our maintained your principles and character, brotherhood and nurtured during trying withstood the difficulties, and persevered. But it is a second opportunity that our times endures as long as life lasts. And as we know better than anyone else, fraternity provides that is often com- nothing in the world can take the place of pletely missed or not fully appreciated Likewise, the skill of setting personal persistence. 4 THE PHI GAMMA DELTA www.phigam.org Friendship, the Sweetest Influence GAMMAGRAM NEWS, EVENTS, FEEDBACK Headquarters’ Staff Updates s of June 1, Derek “Duke” Murphy and pledge educator and served as Purple A (Coastal Carolina 2011) will take Legionnaire after graduating. “With his over as Director of Chapter experience as a colony founder and his Development from Josh work this year with many of our colonies, Laufenberg (Illinois 2008), Duke is a natural choice to succeed Josh Archives Weekend who has been in the posi- Laufenberg and maintain our outstand- tion since 2010. Duke is ing record of colony development,” says Wins Laurel Wreath coming off the road after Executive Director Bill Martin. n April 6 at the annual meeting of two years as a Field Sec- O the North-American Interfraternity retary. As an undergrad, In addition to serving Conference in Atlanta, Director of Chapter he was a colony founder, colony president, as Director of Chapter Services J.B. Goll accepted the Laurel Wreath Development over the award on behalf of Phi Gamma Delta for our past four years, Brother Archives Weekend. The Laurel Wreath is Laufenberg was Field presented in recognition of unique programs, Secretary #155 from community outreach, or influence within the mile 2008-2009 and fraternal world. stones Director of Expan- FIJI sion from 2009-2010. He has coordinated Archives Weekend, held this year on March 26 charterings and led eight colonization 14-16, has become an annual pilgrimage that 2014 is a year for milestone anniversaries projects, in addition to organizing IHQ’s allows brothers to engage with the history of for the chapters below, as well as for summer Recruitment Workshop since the Fraternity while volunteering and explor- brothers who initiated in 1964 and 1989 2011. Bill Martin says, “As Director of ing Phi Gamma Delta’s ritual. and will receive their Gold and Silver Chapter Development for the past four Owls respectively. Congrats to all! years, Josh has played a critical role in the Shown above, brothers who donated their Chapter Founding Yrs success of the Fraternity’s growth initia- weekend to preserve the Fraternity’s his- Bowling Green 3/31/1984 30 tive. He has made a great contribution and tory included: Curator of Archives Towner Central Florida 2/19/1994 20 will be missed.” Blackstock (Davidson 1994), Jonathan Bott Delaware 10/17/2009 5 (Indiana State 2001), Keith Councell (Ket- Drake 11/5/1994 20 Josh Wiseman (Western tering B 2003), Neil de Bruyn (UNC Wilm- ington 2014), Andrew Dettmer (Wabash Florida International 11/20/2004 10 Kentucky 2012) will as- 2015), Eric Drumheller (Nebraska 1998), James Madison 11/19/1994 20 sume the role of Assistant Ritualist Ed Gabe (Hanover 1990), Director of Kettering 11/7/1964 50 Director of Expansion after Chapter Services J.