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THE PETITION No local fraternity had been able to get an John Pinkerton was appointed Petitioning Chairman. He had planned a career in advertising and
made a connection with one of the inherited alums, which had an advertising
agency in Cincinnati. Some creative
ideas came out of that connection and helped us formulate the brochure we had
printed to advertise ourselves to every chapter of I think we sent visitations to every campus in the province for overnighters, meeting most every member of each of the 12 chapters. This was all done in the very short period from late spring of '52 and early Fall of that year. We were impressed, had some great fellowship and apparently impressed our hosts, most of whom decided a visit to Athens wasn't necessary. One visitation we did get was from the I called John Moseley at National on Monday and told him of
our concern that the "visitors" would oppose us but he just said,
"Not to worry". We soon
learned the renegade chapter had been put on probation by both their university
and We particularly enjoyed attending the Province Delta
convention at East Lansing Michigan. We
had a nice welcome from the well-established By December of 1952 we had another visit from John Moseley
with Jack Harris, a chapter rep, and had been given the go-ahead for a mail
ballot to take place in the spring of 1953.
Now, we had to complete and mail the brochure to each and every A final letter went out just before balloting was ending: Please see the
remaining Pages of the brochure as follows for many photos and the story of the
Tri-Gams presented to INSIDE COVER Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 WGAM Pledges Composite Photo of Chapter There was also a map comparing all the fraternity houses on campus but detail would not be clear enough for the website.
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