Dusting Off the Bricks by A. Dust Bunny

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by A Dust Bunny (as told to Dixie Mosier Greene)

Every so often, a whole bunch of kids show up from some chapters for a “work weekend.” Their enthusiasm and dedication is incredible! They spend hours on the road just to help out.

They dust and file and stuff envelopes. They water the grass or mow it. They wash windows and paint shelving. They laugh a lot and take photos of each other. Then they bring out the Red Devil and vacuum up a storm! That’s when I go scurrying for cover!

Usually they all go to Eskimo Joe’s for cheese fries and burgers and maybe a T-shirt. Or they go to Hideaway for pizza (No one has ever invited me to go along!). Lots of times they buy some ΚΚΨ or ΤΒΣ stuff at Chris’s University Spirit store.

Before they leave, they go by the OSU Classroom Building to see the Kappa Kappa Psi Shrine or maybe out to the cemetery to visit Boh’s grave.

Then they pile into their cars and vans and pickups and head home to Nacogdoches, Texas, or Wichita, Kansas, or Boone, North Carolina, or wherever.

But they have to come back if they want to see their BRICK! Every chapter that comes for a workday gets a brick (but only one per chapter). There’s an area by the Time Capsule that is set aside for workday bricks. It’s a special place because it commemorates the members of Kappa Kappa Psi and Tau Beta Sigma who sacrificed their time to come and help out.

If I hop up on the window sill in the Conference Room, I can see all of them:

Alpha, ΚΚΨ, and Alpha, ΤΒΣ, from Oklahoma State Beta, ΤΒΣ, and Alpha Omicron, ΚΚΨ, from Texas Tech Delta, ΚΚΨ, and Delta, ΤΒΣ, from the University of

Oklahoma Xi, ΤΒΣ, from West Texas A & M Rho, ΤΒΣ, from Indiana University Psi, ΤΒΣ, from the University of Arkansas Alpha Eta, ΚΚΨ, and Beta Xi, ΤΒΣ, from the University of Florida Alpha Rho, ΚΚΨ, from Northeastern State University

Beta Zeta, ΤΒΣ, and Gamma Phi, ΚΚΨ, from Stephen F. Austin State University

Beta Eta, ΤΒΣ, from the University of Maryland

Beta Omicron, ΚΚΨ, from Arizona State University

Gamma Zeta, ΤΒΣ, and Delta Xi, ΚΚΨ, from Emporia State University Gamma Theta, ΚΚΨ, from East Central University Gamma Tau, ΤΒΣ, and Epsilon Beta, ΚΚΨ, from the

University of Central Arkansas Delta Alpha, ΤΒΣ, and Delta Alpha, ΚΚΨ, from Langston

University Delta Kappa, ΤΒΣ, and Epsilon Pi, ΚΚΨ, from Kansas State

University Delta Upsilon, ΤΒΣ, and Zeta Beta, ΚΚΨ, from Howard

Payne University Epsilon Lambda, ΚΚΨ, and Epsilon Phi, ΤΒΣ, from Western

Carolina University. Zeta Alpha, ΤΒΣ, from Illinois State University Eta Pi, ΚΚΨ, from the University of Northern Iowa Theta Theta, ΤΒΣ, from Henderson State University Iota Xi, ΚΚΨ, from Norfolk State University Iota Omicron, ΚΚΨ, from Appalachian State University

If your chapter has come to the Stillwater Station and worked for a day or two but you are not on my list, you need to call Di at Headquarters and let her know so she can order your chapter’s workday brick.

By the way, anyone can order a brick for himself or herself, for a Big Brother or Sister, for a special Chapter Honorary member, or for the Chapter itself. Bricks are $30 for one line, $35 for two lines and $40 for three lines. Call the National Headquarters for more information – just don’t ask for me; I’ll be hiding under a desk from the Red Devil! }