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Phi Psi History Ideas and Resources Checklist For Your 2012 Founders Day Celebrations

The document provides a checklist of ideas and resources for celebrating Phi Psi Founders Day in 2012. It includes suggestions such as including photos of the founders in printed materials, giving toasts to honor them, remembering deceased brothers, and documenting the event. The checklist aims to help incorporate traditions and history into the celebration.

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Phi Psi History Ideas and Resources Checklist For Your 2012 Founders Day Celebrations

The document provides a checklist of ideas and resources for celebrating Phi Psi Founders Day in 2012. It includes suggestions such as including photos of the founders in printed materials, giving toasts to honor them, remembering deceased brothers, and documenting the event. The checklist aims to help incorporate traditions and history into the celebration.

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PHI PSI HISTORY IDEAS AND RESOURCES CHECKLIST FOR YOUR 2012 FOUNDERS DAY CELEBRATIONS

(Choose the ones fitting your event.) Include photos of co-founders William Henry Letterman and Charles Page Thomas Moore on your printed event program. See the graphics page included in the 2012
Founders Day Starter Kit available from Kevin Marks, Director of Alumni Services,at [email protected] or 317-632-1852 (phone) or 317-275-3448 (fax).

Honor the Phi Psi Tradition by referring to the Master of Ceremonies at banquets as the Symposiarch. Toast our two co-founders either separately or together. Include a few sentences about them in the toast. Include a Moment of Silence to remember other Phi Psis, known and unknown to those present, who have died in the past year. Depending on the size of the event, you might ask for Brothers to stand and identify by name those Brothers to be remembered. Chapter representatives making any reports on their activities might be asked (ideally in advance) to identify any of their deceased alumni. Briefly recap our founding story in any remarks or in the printed program. A
copy is attached.

Ask the following to stand for recognition: The alumnus with the oldest initiation year All present who have served in the armed forces The person present who came the greatest distance All attending by Chapter Recruit an Alumni Association Historian if one not already selected for overseeing your Founders Day and year-round event documentation. Document your Founders Day. Recruit a photographer and videographer. If making a video record, pick a prime camera spot in advance to insure quality recording. If unable to secure a videographer, consider using a digital audio recorder. Ask the AA of Chapter Historian to interview (using a digital audio recorder) some of those present about their Phi Psi experiences, memories of past Founders Days or other Phi Psi memories, good Phi Psi stories, etc. (Some alumni with more to say might
be asked to continue the recorded interviews on another date.)

Ask a week or more in advance the representative of each Chapter to be present to prepare a written statement about the state of the Chapter that can be given to the AA Historian after the information is shared orally with those present.

Include the Alumni Induction Ceremony in your program, either as part of or as a pre-event activity. Look in the Alumni Resources container (section) of your Phi Psi
Connect dashboard page for a copy of the ceremony and guidance on its use.

Recognize Chapter chartering and re-chartering anniversaries in 2012.


Heres a guide to help you spot them: 2002 10th; 1992 20th; 1987 25th; 1962 50th; 1937 75th; 1912 100th; 1887 125th; 1862 150th.

Incorporate the two-volume set of The Centennial History of Phi Kappa Psi into your activities. Have a drawing for a free copy (or copies). Present as a gift to your main speaker and as a gift to the Chapter making the best report. Order for $30 a set
from Phi Kappa Psi Archivist Tim Tangen at Phi Kappa Psi Headquarters at 1-800-486-1852. All proceeds go to support the Archives.

Include a group or individual reading of The Creed of Phi Kappa Psi into your program. A copy is included In the 2012 Founders Day Starter Kit available as explained
above.

Provide a table for the display of Phi Psi memorabilia from the Chapter (or Chapters) and encourage alumni to bring items from their own collection for display. Have a guest register book to provide a historical record of attendance at this and future Founders Days. Make sure its protected between events and passed on to successor planners. More than one person should know where it is located. Include the singing of Noble Fraternity and Amici If possible, identify in advance someone who can provide the tuning note. Use Founders Day as a good time for alumni to get back in touch with the Chapter, regardless of the time that has passed since the last contact. See some ideas in the appendix section, An Idea for Founders Week. Is there any particular Phi Psi buried in the area whose grave a delegation might visit and place flowers upon? This may be done the day of or in the days before your Founders Day event. (Be sure to record with photos and/or video.) Report on your event at Phi Psi 150 (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/phipsi150) or email it to the Historian of Phi Kappa Psi at [email protected] Prepare for Founders Day by reviewing, updating and expanding your online Chapter or Alumni Association history (or add your history to your Web site). Use at least your main Founders Day event to announce this accomplishment. Seek their contributions of stories, memorabilia, etc., in the announcement and on the history Web page. What ideas do you have to improve this resource? Jot down your ideas on the next page and then if you think others could benefit from the same idea email [email protected]

YOUR OWN IDEAS LIST


(Please share with the Historian of Phi Kappa Psi if you think others might do the same.)

Prepared by Michael H. McCoy, Historian of Phi Kappa Psi [email protected]

ANOTHER IDEA FOR FOUNDERS WEEK The week in which your Founders Day is held can be designated Founders Week and also is as good a time as any to urge Brothers to get back in touch with those from their past and with their Chapters. Suggest to them maybe there was a conversation never finished or perhaps there will be an opportunity in the coming months to get together or celebrate a life event with a marriage, birth of a child, new job, etc. One good way to start is to suggest they check Facebook or LinkedIn to see who they can find, then use that way to reconnect and send best wishes. If life has led to their becoming disconnected from their Chapter, search for the Chapter on the Internet, Facebook, Twitter, etc., and get back in touch. Use Founders Day as sufficient reason to share a message of support with those in the Chapter and/or at any Founders Day event which they can celebrate from afar. Perhaps they might want to add one or two good memories they each have of their undergraduate days and your hopes those they in the Chapter will be at least as memorable. After all, those memories also are part of your Chapter's history.

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