From moorec@u.washington.edu Thu Dec 9 13:36:17 2004 Received: from mxi3.u.washington.edu (mxi3.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.176]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.13.1+UW04.08/8.13.1+UW04.12) with ESMTP id iB9LaHiP050640 for ; Thu, 9 Dec 2004 13:36:17 -0800 Received: from mxout2.cac.washington.edu (mxout2.cac.washington.edu [140.142.33.4]) by mxi3.u.washington.edu (8.13.1+UW04.08/8.13.1+UW04.09) with ESMTP id iB9LaGsd022967 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 9 Dec 2004 13:36:16 -0800 Received: from hymn03.u.washington.edu (hymn03.u.washington.edu [140.142.12.169]) by mxout2.cac.washington.edu (8.13.1+UW04.08/8.13.1+UW04.09) with ESMTP id iB9LaFei004337 for ; Thu, 9 Dec 2004 13:36:16 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hymn03.u.washington.edu (8.13.1+UW04.08/8.13.1+UW04.12) with ESMTP id iB9LaFOe013908 for ; Thu, 9 Dec 2004 13:36:15 -0800 Received: from [146.129.37.66] by hymn03.u.washington.edu via HTTP; Thu, 09 Dec 2004 13:36:14 PST Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 13:36:15 -0800 (PST) From: "Christopher R. Moore" To: Alpha Phi Omega Subject: APO: Happy Anniversary! Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, Report='__C230066_P5 0, __CT 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __FRAUD_419_LOC 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 0' Hello everyone, Well unfortunately we did not get to do our Founders Day dinner, but as Historian I would like to wish Alpha Phi Omega a happy anniversary. Yesterday we inducted new pledges, forgive my spelling, Irina, Nichole, another Nichole, Barbara, Tay-eng, and Jonathon. Congratulations to them. So now onto a short(very) history lesson about the founding of our chapter 65 years ago today. On December 9, 1939, Our chapter was chartered. The efforts of Albert Weissberg, a transfer student from the university of Texas and Alpha Rho chapter. Al convinced H. Roe Bartle, then the National President of Alpha Phi Omega, that the University of Washington needed a chapter even though the required number of students had not yet been found. By the time the Spring of 1940 had arrived, the chapter had grown to 25 active members. Thats the basics. If you are interested in knowing more about how our chapter started out, please hit me up on the flipside. Email works best, though my cell works just as good. 206 817 5100. Now for fun...What has happened on December 9th? 536 Having captured Naples earlier in the year, Belisarius took Rome. 1793 Noah Webster establishes New York's 1st daily newspaper 1851 1st Young Men's Christian Association in North America (Montréal) 1878 Joseph Pulitzer buys St Louis Dispatch for $2,500 1889 President Harrison visits opening of Chicago Auditorium commission on the Congo 1907 1st Christmas Seals sold (Wilmington DE post office) 1941 1st US WWII bombing mission in the Far East, Luzon, Philippines 1953 General Electric announces all Communist employees will be fired 1958 Robert H W Welch Jr & 11 other men meet in Indianapolis to form the anti-Communist John Birch Society 1963 Frank Sinatra Jr is kidnapped 1965 "A Charlie Brown Christmas" premieres 1967 Lyndon Johnson's daughter Lynda marries in the White House Jim Morrison, arrested on stage for disturbing the peace 1971 Lewis F Powell Jr appointed to the Supreme Court 1974 Dow Jones index hits 570.01 1978 Pioneer Venus 2 drops 5 probes into atmosphere of Venus 1st game of Women's Pro Basketball League (WBL), Chicago Hustle and vs Milwaukee Does 1983 Att Gen Edwin Meese says people go to soup kitchens "...because food is free & that's easier than paying for it" 1985 Phoenix AZ, gets 3" of snow 1998 It was reported that scientists in Japan had cloned several calves from an adult cow. It was the 3rd mammal duplicated after mice and sheep. 2004 The Alpha Phi Omega- Gamma Alpha chapter of the University of Washington celebrates its 65th anniversary of being chartered. Again, Congrats! In LFS, Chris Moore Historian Alpha Phi Omega Gamma Alpha Chapter 206 817 5100 .