Omega's In The News - The Rattle, Jan. 1939
The below stories about Omega, its brothers or by a brother appeared in the Jan. 1939 Rattle
Injured in Opening Game
Omega's athletes do not swing into action until Penn State's winter sport season. Wodock, '40, picked by Coach Bill Jeffries as a sure starter for his championship squad, suffered a severe leg injury in the opening game with Gettysburg and was out of the play for the remainder of the season. The soccer team was undefeated for the sixth successive season, amassing a total of 35 points to the opposition's 6. Their undefeated string now stands at 54 games.
Omega Groups Visit Twelve Other Chapters
By SAMUEL S. COBB, Penn State
In line with its chapter revitalizing campaign at Penn State, Omega decided that in order for the brothers and pledges to cultivate a broader and deeper understanding: of the words Theta Chi Fraternity it was essential that they 'come into contact with those words beyond the confines of our Nittany Mountains.
To initiate our program, a flying squad consisting of Flagler, Korn, and Genther left the chapter house at 6:30 p.m., October 14, and returned 29 hours later, after traveling 1230 miles. The chapters visited numbered seven, Cornell, Colgate, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the University of New Hampshire, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and Massachusetts State College. The trio slept eight hours, giving them a visiting and traveling time of 21 hours.
The same weekend three other brothers and two pledges visited Pi Chapter at Dickinson College. Subsequent visits have been made to the chapters at Cornell, Syracuse, Ohio State, Pittsburg, and Pennsylvania, while visitors from the Syracuse and Lafayette chapters have been entertained at the chapter. In the near future we are anticipating visits from members of the Pennsylvania, Pittsburg, and Dickinson chapters.
In view of the success of our activities along these lines, and of the pleasure, the valuable social contacts, and the interesting and useful information on chapter management that our visits have yielded, we are planning to extend our program to include all those chapters that are within reasonable distance. We hope that the idea we are adopting meets with a responsive chord among brother chapters, and we extend to them a hearty invitation to visit us at any time. We will see that they are entertained to the best of our ability.