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Jerry Matthews to be Assistant Executive Director
Jerry Matthews, Alpha Eta Chapter at Samford, returned to the National office in June to assume the duties of Assistant Executive Director of Pi Kappa Phi. Jerry has considerable experience, having served two years as a field secretary and one year as Director of Student Affairs for the National Office. Ile left the National Office in 1971 to become Assistant Director of Residential Programs at the University of Oklahoma. In the last year, Jerry has been asgociated with an alumni relations finn in Dallas, Tex. He will essentially replace the dual directorships which were established in 1970. Since early 1972, Director of Alumni Affairs, Jerry CaIlups, has functioned as an undefined assistant executive director due to the departure of Chuck Cummings as Director of Student Affairs. Now it is felt that a two man office (as opposed to three) with a large field staff can best serve the chapters and alumni. Jerry Matthews is the ideal man for this job: He has the depth of knowledge necessary and the dedication to Pi Kappa Phi that will be o great benefit to the fraternity as a whole. Jerry and his lovely wife Sue, who is a former Sigma Kappa field representative herself, will make their home in Charlotte.
CLARK NAMED CHAIRMAN OF SCHOLARSHIP COMMITTEE
Jeff Clark, Delta Alpha Chapter, has been named Chairman of the Pi Kappa Phi National Scholarship Committee. He succeeds- Fluker Stewart, Chi. Chapter— Stetson, who recently resigned. Jeff will be in charge of the Nationill Scholarship Committee and will be responsible for selection of Pi Kapp Scholars for the fraternity. Jeff is a Ph.D. candidate at V. P. I. where he has been Chapter Advisor, since their chartering.
SUMMER 1973
FRATERNITIES BACK?
Taken from the Cincinnati Enquirer 4/3/73 Five years ago, when the campus protest movement seemed to be at its peak, the National Interfraternity Council disclosed a significant and perhaps portentous statistic: the 50 college fraternities affiliated with the Council showed a net loss in membership from the previous year. That datum, combined with the fact that Greek-letter fraternities epitomized to many protesters much of what was wrong with the U. S. college and university system, suggested that the fraternity was on its last legs. More recent surveys suggest, however, that the social fraternity is enjoying a new crest in popularity. Perhaps because the protest movement has exhausted itself or perhaps because the fraternity system has demonstrated a new utility in
today's mammoth colleges and universities, the fact is that fraternities are no longer on the defensive. Dick Benson, president of the student body at the University of Texas, explains the campus mood in these terms: "There is a great big energy void out there. Everybody seems worn out by the volcanic change of the past few years. The mass energy pools just aren't there for any more demonstrations." If the volcanoes of the 1960s left in their wake a new commitment to education, fraternities are taking advantage of it. A recent University of Detroit study shows that members of social fraternities and sororities are scoring higher academic grades, on the whole, than non-members. Even when the fraternity sfstem was
PI KAPPA PHI PROPERTIES EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETS On May 19, 1973, the executive committee of Pi Kappa Phi Properties met at the National Office of the fraternity in Charlotte, North Carolina. In addition to the members of the Pi Kappa Phi Properties Executive Committee, National President Ted Scharfenstein and -National Treasurer Lonnie Strickland were present, along with the national office staff and several visitors from different chapters around the country. Among the items discussed at the meeting was the creation of a new office of paid administrator to Pi Kappa Phi Properties, Inc. It was determined that this administrator was vitally necessary to the future of the corporation and that a committee should be assigned to establish 'criteria for the job and begin a search for a qualified individual. This move will take the administration of Pi Kappa Phi Properties out of the national office and will give Properties its own administrative arm. This will free the national office to better serve the chapters and will, at the same time, give Pi Kappa Phi Properties the much better direct attention it needs.,
In other actions, the executive committee heard reports on assorted property around the nation. It was determined that repairs to the "castle" at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, would be undertaken pending current mortgage negotiations. All the major properties were discussed and direction given by the executive committee to individual members and committees to take appropriate actions. Members from Beta Eta Chapter at Florida State journeyed to the meeting to present their case for the purchase of a new house and after considerable discussion it was decided that Pi Kappa Phi Properties would do all in its power to secure the house in question for these members and a member of the field staff was dispatched with them back to Florida to help the chapter adjust to this possibility. Pi Kappa Phi Properties now holds title to fraternity houses at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Western Carolina, University of Oregon, Memphis State, Florida State, Georgia Southwestern, University of Georgia, Old Dominion, Troy State, East Tennessee, East Carolina, Samford University, North Texas State and Michigan State University.
at its nadir of respectability, its defenders argued with some validity, that in today's complex, often impersonal campus life, the fraternity had something to offer the individual student that he could find in no other quarter. The fraternity itself has changed dramatically during the post-World War II years. Returning veterans were less interested in frivolity than in education, and most fraternities adapted their practices accordingly. Not many reverted to the old fun-filled days. By its capacity to change, the fraternity system has won itself a new lease on life in America, and the young men and women the traditional fraternities and sororities are serving are likely to be the beneficiaries.
NATIONAL TREASURER STRICKLAND TO SHAPE FUTURE OF ALABAMA Dr. A. J. (Lonnie) Stickland III, of the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa's School of Business and Commerce and National Treasurer of Pi Kappa Phi, has been named executive director of the Management Planning Group of the Governor's Cost Control Survey for the state of Alabama. Lonnie is "on loan from the University for the summer months", said Governor George C. Wallace in announcing the appointment. He will report directly to the Governor on the future of the state's economy. A group of state employees will work with Lonnie and will be responsible for investigating the progress made toward the implementation of the survey team recommendations.
IN THIS ISSUE GOLDEN LEGION .
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CAREER WEEKENDS. page 2 NATIONAL OFFICE NIGHTMARE . .
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Members of Delta Beta Chapter at North Georgia College are shown above returning from their 73 mile run from Atlanta to Dahlonega, Ga. They raised $700 for the Third Annual Marathon run for Easter Seals. They collected money along the road and accepted pledges from merchants and individuals along the route. The money went to the Georgia Easter Seals Society. More than 35. fraternity members and little sisters of Delta Beta Chapter participated.
SAN FRANCISCO, HERE WE COME!-- AUG 18-21,1974