Letter from the “AA”
Founders’ Day 2007 Inside The Quarterly Volume 104 Number 2 Summer/Fall 2007
2 From the “AA” 3 A Letter From Ray 4-5 Cover Story 6-13 Campus Scene 12 Hazing Hotline 14-15 Chapter Luminaries 17 Housing Act 17 Alumni 18 Keeping in Touch 18 Farewell & Parting 19 Campus Classics Delta Chi Quarterly (USPS 152-660) Published quarterly in Iowa City, Iowa by The Delta Chi Fraternity Editorial and Business Office P.O. Box 1817, 314 Church Street Iowa City, IA 52244 Periodicals Postage paid at Iowa City, Iowa 52244 and at additional mailing offices Printed by The Ovid Bell Press, Inc. Fulton, MO Three-year subscription $35 Five-year subscription $50 Address Changes Send all notices of address changes to:Delta Chi International Headquarters P.O. Box 1817, Iowa City, IA 52244-1817 319.337.4811 Fax: 319.337.5529 Editor: Raymond D. Galbreth, MO ’69 E-mail: rayg@deltachi.org Assistant Editor: Karl Grindel, CEMO ’01 E-mail: karlg@deltachi.org Visit our website at www.deltachi.org Layout and Design Drew Dallet, Kent State ’93 Boom Creative, Inc. 1480 Timber Trail, Hudson, OH 44236 330.963.6181 Fax: 216.383.0080 E-mail: drew@boom-creative.com www.boom-creative.com Please Help Delta Chi Save Money! If you would like to receive the Quarterly electronically instead of in paper format, email HQ@deltachi.org and let us know. This will save Delta Chi both printing and postage costs.
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In the hearts and minds of every Delta Chi, October 13, 1890 is a date to be remembered, and on behalf of the Board of Regents of The Delta Chi Fraternity, I am pleased to send along good wishes for the 117th Founders’ Day to Delta Chi members, associates and friends all over North America and the world. I have written that same paragraph to start my annual Founders’ Day message for the last four years. It is hard for me to fathom that this is the last Founders’ Day message I will write as the 49th “AA” of The Delta Chi Fraternity. Term limits (not to mention exhaustion and a loving, supportive wife from whom I have already asked too much) effectively make me a lame duck. Please be assured that I continue to do things to move Delta Chi forward, and I will continue to do that until my term ends next summer in Las Vegas. Lou Holtz is one of my favorite personalities. He is a famous football coach, a fellow Kent State graduate and a fraternity man. One of the things I always liked about him was the way he downplayed the strength of his team, even after it was finished dispatching yet another opponent. If you heard him talk about an upcoming game, you would always think there was no way his team could win. Yet it often did. Years ago I saw an interview with him where he was asked his philosophy of life. His response was, “I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age. Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in.”
Fraternity movement, and I have come across many people over the years who I believe in, many of whom are reading this right now. I continue to search for other ways that I can incorporate that philosophy into my life. On this Founders’ Day, I would like to encourage all of our members, undergraduate and alumni alike, to do that same thing. Imagine a Delta Chi where all of its members chose IT as the thing they wanted to “do” and made a commitment to doing it right. Imagine a Delta Chi filled with brotherly love. Our problems would diminish. Imagine a Delta Chi filled with hope – hope that we can make a difference in our own organization, in our communities and with the V Foundation for Cancer Research. Imagine a Delta Chi where we all believed in each other, where we believed in our new members and our alumni and where we believed in the people trying to build a world class organization. Isn’t that organization one we would all want to be a part of? The academic year has begun and is in full force. Let’s take a moment to recommit to the values of Delta Chi and to working hard in pursuit of those values. In less than a year, we will gather in Las Vegas for what promises to be a monumental event in Delta Chi’s history. I hope you will be there with me to celebrate a phenomenal year at the chapter level and at the international level. For that to happen, we all have to get busy now. Happy Founders’ Day. Vive La Delta Chi.
In the Bond,
I bought into that philosophy. I have chosen to “do” Delta Chi. I found someone to love. There are many things I hope for, not the least of which is a Fraternity that is among the leaders in the
Steven P. Bossart, “AA” Kent State ’90
