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First Annual Gamma Omicron Golf Outing

On June 21st 2008 the First Annual Gamma Omicron Golf Outing was held in Columbus, Ohio.
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Spring Meeting in Vermilion, Ohio

Brothers attending the Spring Meeting in Vermilion, Ohio, l to r: Art Marinelli, Bob Scott, John Mccullough, Marshall Miller, Tom Wurz, Bill Bonds, Ray Asik, Hal Buchert, Jack Fakan.

Welcome to the 2008
Pi Kappa Alpha,
Gamma Omicron Alumni Association
Web Site.

A word from the president

I want to thank the brothers who attended the fall meeting for electing me as your president for the next two years. It is truly an honor to be elected and be able to serve. I follow in the footsteps of Hal Buchert who has dedicated a great amount of time, fortune, and effort to do a superb job as your president for the past three years. His shoes will be difficult to fill but I promise to do the best that I know how.

We do have problems and I will be approaching many of you over the course of this year to come to our assistance. We have a house and property that is worth conservatively $700,000.00. That is pretty impressive considering that when the alumni association was formed in 1985 Gamma Omicron, although silent, had roughly $12,000.00 in total assets.

The house is the property of the house corporation whose members are elected by the alumni association and all are selected from the active alumni association membership. Due to advancing years, our membership is dwindling and we sorely need brothers to step into the breech and serve the alumni association and the active chapter.

One of our major problems is the 12 year void when Gamma Omicron was silent. That void represents alumni who would now be of an age where they would have the time and the means to give something back.

The post 1987 initiates are simply not available at this point in time. That is understandable. They are too busy with their careers and raising families to dedicate time to the alumni association and the chapter. That is also understandable. We have all been through the same thing. Their time will come and I am sure that when that time arrives they will be there in force.

In the meantime there is a group of brothers out there who have reached a position in life that will permit them to come to our assistance. You know who you are. I would ask each of you to think about your days as an undergraduate member and what those experiences mean to you and have meant to you in the ensuing years. My brothers, it's time to give back.

In 1985 we lost the 8 Church St house that was worth at least $100,000.00 at that time. It was lost because there was no alumni association and no house company to see that it did not happen. It was lost because there was no one to negotiate a very small balance on the mortgage. We cannot let that happen again. Some of the greatest memories of my life are associated with that house. My heart cries a little every time I think about the parking lot that now stands where the house stood.

I'm not asking you for your money. I'm asking you for your time. And, in the greater scheme of things, very little of that. Can I count on you? Give me a call.

Phi Phi
Mert Simons
merlin528@msn.com
mert