1993 Volume 116 No 1–4 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

The General Fraternity
General Officers Conference successful
Officers meet to discuss undergraduate issues
More than 80
province presidents,
commissioners.
Council members,
tixistees, and General
Headquarters staff attended
the 1993 General
Officers Conference in
Panama City, Horida. The
weekend event was held
February 19-21.
The annual conference is
sponsored, in part, by the
Educational Foundation. It
provides education and
training for the volunteer
officers regarding undergraduate
issues.
On Friday, Jim Hoppe,
scholarship commissioner,
offered a seminar on
scholarship programming,
Rusty Richardson, director
of business affairs, presented
the new Crisis
Management Program.
On Saturday, several
educational sessions
offered information on
campus issues. National
Interfratemity Conference
New Phikeia Manual available
representative, Jeff
Cufaude, gave a presentation
on membership
recruitment strategies in
the '90s. Jim Favor of James
R. Favor, Inc., the
Fraternity's insurance
broker, presented a
seminar on risk management
and the Fraternity's
liability insurance program.
The new Manual of Phi Delta Theta is now available to
chapters. The new hardback, 150-page 31st edition
was unveiled at the General Officers Conference.
Material was added to the newest edition including a
chapter on risk management and a new chapter on
scholarship. The Code of Phi Delta Theta was also added as
an appendix to the Manual.
The principle members involved with this project were:
Scott Mietchen, Tau South province president, Dr. Ed
Whipple, General Council president; Martin Taylor,
assistant director of chapter services, Jim Hoppe, scholarship
commissioner, and David Slatton, director of
communications and editor of The ScroU.
The Manual is revised every hvo years after the
Biennial Convention. The next revision will be in 1994.
The staff is now starting to develop a model Phikeia
Education Program as the second phase of the membership
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Scott Mietchen, Tau South
province president,
facilitated a discussion with
the general officers about
working with chapters that
are deling with a crisis.
Leadership College
Ambassadors Kevin Dull,
Eastern Washington, Colin
Reilly, Rutgers, Tim Norris,
Vermont, and Chris
Kuffner, GM7-EM7,
attended the conference as
well. On Saturday afternoon
they addressed
undergraduate issues and
fielded questions during a
panel discussion.
The chapter consultants
addressed the general
officers regarding their
experiences with the
problems and successes of
the chapters they have
visited. Rush, hazing, and
financial management
headed the list of concerns
the consultants obser\ed in
chapters over the past year.
The consultants also
noticed a decline in risk
manasrement \iolntions
regarding alcohol.
The banquet on Saturday
evening was highlighted
by recognition of
George AtweU's entry into
the Phi Delta Theta
Foundation's Founders
Club giving level.
Members of the General
Council.
Kevin Dull speaks during the
I Ambassadors Panel.
"To know that a Phi
Delt undergraduate will
benefit with a scholarship,
or that someone can attend
Leadership CoUege because
of this gift is reward
enough," he said.
The evening closed by
honoring J. Fred Green,
Toronto '30, Alpha North
province president, as the
Fraternity's first Paladian.
Conceptualized by Brother
Green, the award honors
Brothers celebrating fiveyear
anniversaries past the
Golden Legion. Green
celebrates the63"' annixer
sarv of his initiation. • i
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