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Color Wars!
Issue 2, spring 11 In this issue:
Meet Your Advisors: Part 1 Service Week 2011 Preview
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By Carly Damman This year, Color Wars took place May 1 on the Rugby fields near South Green. Approximately 130 brothers showed up to compete. Although the tension among teams was high, everyone remained brothers in the end. The teams were randomly selected and each team was assigned a color, which they represented with headbands and other clothing. The teams competed in four different events including: tug-of-war, dodgeball, magic shoes and garbage. Each event played toward a certain teams strengths, allowing different teams to win each event. With sufficient smack talk and strategy, the Color Wars teams learned the keys to victory. This event wouldnt have been possible without the help of fellowship chairs, Liza Lieberman and Kelsie Shortridge and the rest of the fellowship committee. They put hard work and commitment into making the event a success. Liza and I, as well as our committee, put a lot of time and effort into color wars. It took a really long time to figure out what kinds of games everyone would enjoy playing as well as dividing everyone into teams, said Shortridge. Overall, we were very satisfied with how the event went. I think next year we need to make sure that we have a bull horn or something that will make it so that everyone can hear what we're saying. Each Color Wars event required a different strategy and each brother had their favorite event. When fellowship chair, Kelsie Shortridge was asked her favorite event she said, My favorite part of the day was the magic shoes game because it seemed like everyone was having a really good time while playing it and there was a lot of really funny stuff that took place. Magic shoes proved to be the most challenging event for many teams but also provided many laughs along the way. The official winner of this years Color Wars event was announced at the awards banquet
Awards Banquet & Senior Superlatives New Membership & Rush Ideas
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Alpha Phi Omega-Delta Gamma Awards Banquet & Honoring of the 2011 Senior Brothers
Most Likely to Elope: Cory Harrington and Laura Hopkins Most Likely to Move Out of the Country: Gaby Swisher Most Likely to Never Leave Athens: Jen Lin Most Likely to be Arrested on Court Street: Leigha Kristoff Most Likely to Own Their Own Business: Andrew Morris Most Likely to be Extremely Late: Britney Gedeon THE Loudest: Leigha Kristoff Biggest Flirt: Kris Bader Most Likely to Have Their Name Mispronounced/ Misspelled: Mike Teplitzky and Noelle Dobrowolski Most Adventurous: Katie Devlin, Gaby Swisher, Andrew Morris Biggest Heartbreaker: Kris Bader Best Personality: Angela Schedler and Noelle Dobrowolski Most Likely to be a Millionaire: Andrew Morris Most Likely to be an Alpha Phi Omega Advisor: Laura Hopkins After being awarded with their superlatives, every APhiO senior stepped up to the microphone to acknowledge their future endeavors. We wish you all the best of luck in whatever it is you do and you will be truly missed by our Chapter! Always in LFS.
By Cleo Stoll The First Annual Alpha Phi Omega Awards Banquet showcased the best and the brightest of our dear fraternity. Many of our outstanding bros were recognized for going above and beyond their requirements for service, fellowship, fundraising, and committee participation. The peak of the night, however, came in the form of Sending Off the Seniors. A few bros got on camera and devoted their love to their favorite seniors (especially Chris Brantley, Liza Lieberman, and Monica Ruscher). Included in the celebration of our incredible senior class, was the homage to the standard high school tradition of awarding Senior Superlatives. The winners are as follows: Best Smile: Noelle Dobrowolski Best Dressed: Renee Schultheis Best Hair: Meghan Tinker Chapter Clown: Jayna Pappas Most Gullible: Megan Roberts and Angela Schedler Best Laugh: Renee Schultheis Most Likely to be President: Laura Hopkins
Brothers come together in the fight for more wishes & birthdays
By. Katie Sweitzer On May 13 and May 14 approximately 100-150 Delta Gamma brothers participated in the annual Relay for Life at Pruitt Field.
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The fraternity fell short of its initial $20,000 goal, yet still managed to raise an astounding $13,000 in the pursuit of Relay for Lifes campaign of more birthdays. Leading up to the event, members of the fraternity helped to raise funds during moms weekend through t-shirt sales, Chippendales, and a brunch at Union Street Diner. A car-smash, benefit concert, letter writing parties, and an auction of various members skills and services also contributed in raising awareness and funding. Of these fundraisers moms weekend t-shirt sales, which raised a total of $1400, and letter writing parties proved to be the most successful.
During this years Relay for Life, 510 brothers could be seen continually walking the track in remembrance of the victims and survivors of cancer. In the middle of the track many other events, such as Miss Relay and American Idol were held to keep energy up and spirits high as the night progressed. Miss Relay is a Miss America inspired drag show pageant in which men from each participating relay team answer questions and show off their finest talents while sporting their most exquisite female garb. Our own brother, and Relay for Life Co-Chair, Eric Horton won the coveted title of Miss Relay. Pat Van Horn, fellow brother and Relay for Life Co-Chair was named Miss Relay for the Relay Planning Committee. The American Idol competition t involved three contestants all vying for the title of number one. In the end, fellow brother, and VP of Fellowship,
Liza Lieberman took first place. Members of the fraternity could also be seen playing corn hole, playing Frisbee and rugby, competing in a root beer pong tournament, participating in Zumba, and socializing with their fellow brothers, as well as various other Relay teams. Reflecting back on the night, Relay for Life Co-Chair Meredith Woods explained, My favorite part of Relay were the parts that go unnoticed. Julie Suhr our advisor walking the track for 6 hours straight in honor of the 6 people close to her that have struggled with cancer or Andy Schmitt walking 60 laps to beat his last years goal. He says he walks all of these laps because he couldn't when we had cancer and was in the hospital for months on end. Seeing how much Relay truly means to so many people is my favorite part of Relay without a doubt and it makes the hours and hours of work more so incredibly worth it.
participated and there were different "challenges" to complete, for example tug of war, APO history, etc. Dani Garfield, interchapter relations chair, was in attendance at this years conference, and had nothing but good words to say about this years event. I love conferences. It's a good chance to attend great workshops that help not only our chapter, but also you as a person. I've learned so much and gotten insight from other chapters to help improve how our chapter works. It's also great to make connections and to meet brothers from all over the place. Many memories were created the weekend of Sectionals, Starting from arrival, when eating dinner at Applebee's the night of arrival, Dani says, Everyone was so excited, hyper, and obnoxious together and it was just awesome to bond with my bros. When asked about improved relations with other chapters, Dani said, I think we have formed a pretty close relationship with Mount Union. We rode a bus with them to
Nationals this year and then also attended sectionals at their school, so it's nice to recognize faces and names. She also added, I think the more conferences we attend and the more effort we put into inviting other chapters to things like relay and our 5k, the more relationships will improve as well. She plans to start communicating more closely with OSU since they are making the switch to semesters as well. It's nice to have other people going through it and see what they're doing to adjust. We also got some really good ideas about improving chapter moral from an open discussion at a workshop. The regional conference will be taking place this fall, the weekend th of November 11 . It will be held at the University of Kentucky and the theme it is the same as it was for sectionals (Band of Brothers) but on a larger scale. At next year's sectionals, which will be held at Miami, our chapter plans to put in a bid for sectionals the following year to be held at OU! Get ready for a busy year of planning! this quarter was the Cinderella Prom event. The Cinderella Prom allows underprivileged girls to wear gently used prom dresses for free. Alpha Phi Omega brothers donated dresses to the charity, and then helped the girls find their perfect dresses among the large selection. Alpha Phi Omega brothers have the ability to make a difference in the lives of Athens youth with their generosity and dedication in great numbers. I love being co-chair because I get to experience the joy of the kids firsthand. I love seeing exactly where our hard work goes, Kovack said.
By Kelsey Morrow-Fox
Youth Service
Service is one of the three principles of Alpha Phi Omega, and fraternity brothers can give back to the community by serving its youth. Co-chair Alyssa Kovack said service dedicated to the kids of the community is important because there is such a large opportunity in Athens to affect the lives of children. Youth Service chairs had to work diligently this quarter to find
service for the fraternity brothers to help Athens youth. I wanted to try a leadership position, and since no one else was stepping up, I felt that I should. I have a real passion for working with kids, so I thought it would work out really well, Kovack said. One of the major events for youth service this quarter was the fundraiser for West Elementary School. The school held a carnival with indoor and outdoor games in order for kids to have fun while still raising money for the school. Alpha Phi Omega brothers helped set up, monitor and clean up carnival games. Another youth service project
This Newsletter is brought to you by the Spring 2011 Public Relations Committee, chaired by Kathryn Lathrop. Members of the committee are Jenna Miller, Cleo Stoll, Kelsey Morrow-Fox, Carly Damman, Jasmine Garcia, Abby Feldenkris, Becca Reif and Katie Sweitzer. Photos are courtesy of the Alpha Phi Omega-Delta Gamma Facebook page, run by Historian Melissa Pennington and the Historian committee.