Alter President's Message and More - The Rattle, Winter 1966
Letter from the National President
With this issue of the RATTLE, we look forward to graduation, and another class of undergraduates joining the alumni ranks. We congratulate those of you who gain this milestone, and wish for you the best that life has to offer.
We ask you to remember that this does not end your responsibilities to the Brotherhood, but actually increases them. Now, from your ranks come the men who, with maturity and judgement, will advise. and counsel the undergraduate chapters. No chapter can be better than the devotion of its membership, and much of that responsibility rests upon the shoulders of the alumni. Now is your time to support your chapter; to be active in its alumni councils, in its housing corporation, in the many tedious and thankless tasks that alumni perform to make a chapter successful.
In reality, you’re years of service to Theta Chi can just be beginning. Give yourself the chance to find out how rewarding they can be.
Howard R. Alter, Jr.
A second forward look is to convention 1966 Our 110th Anniversary Convention in Toronto, August 31st through September 3rd. There should be no need to have to encourage attendance at convention. It was never meant that convention should be just for the delegates; it is for all of us. For all of us to be part of the whole Fraternity assembled in one place to determine our future for at least the next two years.
It is a real fraternal experience to be part of the School of Fraternity Practices and the convention sessions; to gain knowledge and pass on experience in the school sessions to Brothers from Maine to Southern California and from Florida to Alberta. To experience the truly national, or if you will—international, scope of the Fraternity today. This thought should interest and challenge every Theta Chi, undergraduate and alumnus, to do his best to be a part of convention '66.
I urge you to exercise your responsibility to the 15th Objective of Theta Chi, and join us in Toronto.
Fraternally yours
Howard R. Alter, Jr.
National President
Other Omega News
Lt. Michael Lazorchak
First Lieutenant Michael Lazorchak, instructor in the Personnel Officer Course, Personnel Training Branch, has received the Air Force Commendation Medal on the same day that he received his instructor wings. A native of Johns-town, Pa., Lt. Lazorchak arrived at Amarillo AFB on February 26, 1965, by way of Toul-Raieres, France, where he was chief of CBPO. He was immediately enrolled in the Instructor Training School from which he graduated on April 27 with a final score of 92. On the same day, Lazorchak received word from Headquarters that he had been awarded the Air Force Commendation Medal for meritorious service from January 15, 1962, to December 10, 1964.
David G. Bowden
Airman Third Class David G. Bowden, Penn State, has been graduated at Sheppard AFB, Tex., from the training course for U. S. Air Force accounting and finance specialists. Airman Bowden is being reassigned to greater Pittsburgh Airport, Pa., for duty.