The semester will soon be wrapping up here at Montana State University. It is currently pretty quiet inside the AGR house as brothers are busy studying for upcoming finals next week and finishing up projects for their classes. Last weekend did offer the brothers an opportunity to have some fun, however, before studying had to set in. Last Friday night was the annual Stag-party where the brothers close the house and have an evening with just the active brothers as they reminisce about the accomplishments of the past year and look forward to the year to come. Saturday morning saw many members of Alpha Gamma Rho at Bobcat Stadium for the second round of the FCS playoffs against North Dakota State University. Unfortunately, our Bobcats made some errors down the stretch and were not able to overcome the Bison. Putting the loss out of their minds the brothers carried on as they held the annual Winter Formal, Christmas Party on Saturday evening. A good time was had by all and Santa Claus, Mrs. Claus, and a couple of elves were even witnessed at the event. Overall, it was a good weekend, but it is back to work as usual here at 1707 Greekway.
Fraternally,
VNR Public Relations
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Elections Continued and Two Brothers Receive Alumni Status
This last week saw officer elections completed at the house. Positions that were up for grabs were: Alumni Relations, Philanthropy, Activities, Public Relations, Scholarship, and Membership Development. The new officers who will also sit on the executive board are:
Alumni Relations - Sam Walton
Philanthropy - Danny Pratt
Activities - Russell Quinlan
Public Relations - Chisholm Christensen
Scholarship - Clinton VanVoast
Membership Development - Jason Pluhar
Last week also saw the election of two brothers to the alumni association upon their graduation this Fall. Brothers Lane Gobbs and Dylan Klasna were unanimously elected to this honor by the active chapter. Congratulations to Both Lane and Dylan as well as to all of the new officers who were elected over the past two weeks. Finally the active brothers hope to see some alumni in town this weekend to cheer on the Bobcats to victory over North Dakota State University in the second round of the FCS playoffs.
Fraternally,
VNR Public Relations
Alumni Relations - Sam Walton
Philanthropy - Danny Pratt
Activities - Russell Quinlan
Public Relations - Chisholm Christensen
Scholarship - Clinton VanVoast
Membership Development - Jason Pluhar
Last week also saw the election of two brothers to the alumni association upon their graduation this Fall. Brothers Lane Gobbs and Dylan Klasna were unanimously elected to this honor by the active chapter. Congratulations to Both Lane and Dylan as well as to all of the new officers who were elected over the past two weeks. Finally the active brothers hope to see some alumni in town this weekend to cheer on the Bobcats to victory over North Dakota State University in the second round of the FCS playoffs.
Fraternally,
VNR Public Relations
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Officer Elections
This last week at AGR saw the beginning of officer elections for the 2011 officer team. Noble Ruler, Risk Management, Recruitment, Finance, and House Operations all had new officers elected with 6 more offices next week. The results of the elections are:
Noble Ruler: Colter Brown
Risk Management: Ethan Schaff
Recruitment: Jim Woodring
Finance: Tyrel Obrecht
House Operations: Ben Lynn
Other happenings at the house include a small get together last saturday as the guys cheered on the Bobcats to victory over the much hated Grizzlies in the 110th brawl of the wild. If you do not know the bobcats have the #4 seed in the 20 team playoffs that begin this weekend. The bobcats may have a bye this weekend, but that has not stopped the guys at the house from getting playoff fever as the majority of the house has already purchased their tickets for December 4th.
Also last Friday the house helped the Montana FFA Foundation put on a spaghetti feed for 800 students who were attending MSU Ag Days. Brothers Neil Mauws, Colter Brown, and Jon Sheehy spent over four hours in the kitchen cooking noodles for the event. Montana FFA Foundation Director Ramey Lunceford extended a special thankyou for the brothers of the house for both their help in cooking and serving at the event.
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone and if you are driving anywhere, be safe because the roads are looking pretty rough right now.
Fraternally,
VNR Public Relations
Noble Ruler: Colter Brown
Risk Management: Ethan Schaff
Recruitment: Jim Woodring
Finance: Tyrel Obrecht
House Operations: Ben Lynn
Other happenings at the house include a small get together last saturday as the guys cheered on the Bobcats to victory over the much hated Grizzlies in the 110th brawl of the wild. If you do not know the bobcats have the #4 seed in the 20 team playoffs that begin this weekend. The bobcats may have a bye this weekend, but that has not stopped the guys at the house from getting playoff fever as the majority of the house has already purchased their tickets for December 4th.
Also last Friday the house helped the Montana FFA Foundation put on a spaghetti feed for 800 students who were attending MSU Ag Days. Brothers Neil Mauws, Colter Brown, and Jon Sheehy spent over four hours in the kitchen cooking noodles for the event. Montana FFA Foundation Director Ramey Lunceford extended a special thankyou for the brothers of the house for both their help in cooking and serving at the event.
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone and if you are driving anywhere, be safe because the roads are looking pretty rough right now.
Fraternally,
VNR Public Relations
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Great Turnout for Ag Appreciation Weekend
This weekend saw Alpha Gamma Rho Alumni from all across the state come to Bozeman to celebrate Montana State University's Ag Appreciation Weekend. This years ag appreciation weekend had special meaning for the brothers of Alpha Delta as they celebrated the 85th Anniversary of the fraternity here at Montana State. On Saturday evening the fraternity celebrated this occasion with a social at the new animal bio-science building. The evening saw a short program emceed by Bill Perry, music done by a local string group, and a social complete with hors d' oeurvres and cocktails.
Also being honored at this social were the brothers of Alpha Delta who donated money for the construction of the new animal bioscience building. In total the brothers of Alpha Delta donated $262,000 to the cause. Brothers and family who donated to the animal bioscience building were:
James and Mary Ross ... Jim Peterson ... Harold and Shirley Tutvedt ... Bruce Tutvedt ... Randy Smith ... Keith Stevenson Family ... Will Staudemeyer ... Ken Walsh ... Sam Phares ... Sky Anderson ... Sheill Anderson ... Taylor Brown ... Reeves Brown ... Lyle Hodgskiss ... Turk Stovall ... Steve Gilpatrick ... Jaye Johnosn ... Don Becker ... Larry Thayer ... Paugh Family ... Ed and Barb Malesich ... Carl and Carol Malesich ... Robert Brekke ... Kevin Curry ... Sam Rose ... Gene Thayer ... Rob Fraser ... Floyd Thompson ... Justin Heupel ... Bruce Glennie ... Leroy Luft ... Scott Seilstad
Thanks to these brothers donations Alpha Delta was awarded the honor of having a room on the first floor of the new building named after the fraternity.
Also being honored at this social were the brothers of Alpha Delta who donated money for the construction of the new animal bioscience building. In total the brothers of Alpha Delta donated $262,000 to the cause. Brothers and family who donated to the animal bioscience building were:
James and Mary Ross ... Jim Peterson ... Harold and Shirley Tutvedt ... Bruce Tutvedt ... Randy Smith ... Keith Stevenson Family ... Will Staudemeyer ... Ken Walsh ... Sam Phares ... Sky Anderson ... Sheill Anderson ... Taylor Brown ... Reeves Brown ... Lyle Hodgskiss ... Turk Stovall ... Steve Gilpatrick ... Jaye Johnosn ... Don Becker ... Larry Thayer ... Paugh Family ... Ed and Barb Malesich ... Carl and Carol Malesich ... Robert Brekke ... Kevin Curry ... Sam Rose ... Gene Thayer ... Rob Fraser ... Floyd Thompson ... Justin Heupel ... Bruce Glennie ... Leroy Luft ... Scott Seilstad
Thanks to these brothers donations Alpha Delta was awarded the honor of having a room on the first floor of the new building named after the fraternity.
People in attendance at the social
A picture of the sign outside of the new AGR Technology Transfer Room
Brothers in attendance who donated to the new animal bio-science building
On a final note, I would to thank Bill Perry, Daniel Gaugler, Neil Mauws, and Jon Sheehy for all of their hard work in organizing the event.
Fraternally,
VNR Public Relations
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Noble Ruler Report
Well it has been a great semester/year here at Alpha Delta. As my term is coming to an end, I would like to review some of the accomplishments we have seen this year.
First off, it was wonderful to have such a great representation of our chapter at the national convention in St. Louis this August. Six Alpha Delta’s, Neil Mauws, Logan Hodgskiss, Colter Brown, Danny Pratt, Jason Pluhar, and David Ratzburg, attended the convention and took full advantage of all the opportunities that it had to offer. One highlight was when Colter Brown and myself got the chance to sit down with the housing committee and discuss issues about how to go about remodeling in the future and how we can get the money to do so. If you attend the Alumni meeting this Sunday, I will explain this more in depth.
Due to the efforts of Alumnus Bill Perry and active members Steve Moodie and myself, we were able to put into effect GreekBill. This helps us to better manage our finances and if the situation is necessary, we have a company to back us if we ever need to collect outstanding bills on anyone. This will help to recover delinquent payments in the future. So far it has been a great asset to the house.
Risk Management has run very smoothly with very few incidents. Logan Hodgskiss has done a great job, and we can’t thank him enough. Due to his good judgment, he has kept us in check and out of trouble.
Cole Johnson has continued to excel at keeping all members focused on grades. Last semester was very successful with our GPA being above 3.0 once again. We hope to continue this again this semester. A new addition for our members to excel with their academics is that any member who’s GPA is below a 2.0 is required to have there professor for each class sign a sheet of paper that says the individual has been coming and talking to them throughout the semester and is making an attempt to increase their grades.
Philanthropy was very successful this fall. Due to a well budgeted Testicle Festival, we profited a great deal more money than the last few years. We are looking for a new vendor to host this event for next year, so if you know of anywhere around Bozeman, please let us know.
Since it has been since 1998 when our chapter constitution was last looked over and amended, we had a committee look over the whole thing and bring it up to speed with our chapter today. This has been an issue of discussion for about four years now, and it is finally done. Thank you to all the brothers that helped with that.
As of activation this fall, we have 40 active members in Alpha Delta. This is the most that we have had in a long time, and hope to continue the trend.
These are just a few of the accomplishments that we have done this year, but hopefully it gives you a good idea of where are chapter is headed in the future.
This year marks the 85th anniversary of Alpha Gamma Rho at Montana State. This weekend, on November 6th, we are having a reception at the newly completed Animal Bioscience Building. We hope that many of you can attend. On Sunday the 7th, we are having our Alumni Meeting as well. We hope to see you there.
Fraternally,
Neil J. Mauws
Noble Ruler
First off, it was wonderful to have such a great representation of our chapter at the national convention in St. Louis this August. Six Alpha Delta’s, Neil Mauws, Logan Hodgskiss, Colter Brown, Danny Pratt, Jason Pluhar, and David Ratzburg, attended the convention and took full advantage of all the opportunities that it had to offer. One highlight was when Colter Brown and myself got the chance to sit down with the housing committee and discuss issues about how to go about remodeling in the future and how we can get the money to do so. If you attend the Alumni meeting this Sunday, I will explain this more in depth.
Due to the efforts of Alumnus Bill Perry and active members Steve Moodie and myself, we were able to put into effect GreekBill. This helps us to better manage our finances and if the situation is necessary, we have a company to back us if we ever need to collect outstanding bills on anyone. This will help to recover delinquent payments in the future. So far it has been a great asset to the house.
Risk Management has run very smoothly with very few incidents. Logan Hodgskiss has done a great job, and we can’t thank him enough. Due to his good judgment, he has kept us in check and out of trouble.
Cole Johnson has continued to excel at keeping all members focused on grades. Last semester was very successful with our GPA being above 3.0 once again. We hope to continue this again this semester. A new addition for our members to excel with their academics is that any member who’s GPA is below a 2.0 is required to have there professor for each class sign a sheet of paper that says the individual has been coming and talking to them throughout the semester and is making an attempt to increase their grades.
Philanthropy was very successful this fall. Due to a well budgeted Testicle Festival, we profited a great deal more money than the last few years. We are looking for a new vendor to host this event for next year, so if you know of anywhere around Bozeman, please let us know.
Since it has been since 1998 when our chapter constitution was last looked over and amended, we had a committee look over the whole thing and bring it up to speed with our chapter today. This has been an issue of discussion for about four years now, and it is finally done. Thank you to all the brothers that helped with that.
As of activation this fall, we have 40 active members in Alpha Delta. This is the most that we have had in a long time, and hope to continue the trend.
These are just a few of the accomplishments that we have done this year, but hopefully it gives you a good idea of where are chapter is headed in the future.
This year marks the 85th anniversary of Alpha Gamma Rho at Montana State. This weekend, on November 6th, we are having a reception at the newly completed Animal Bioscience Building. We hope that many of you can attend. On Sunday the 7th, we are having our Alumni Meeting as well. We hope to see you there.
Fraternally,
Neil J. Mauws
Noble Ruler
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
The Crescent Goes Out
The last week saw things relatively quiet here at 1707 Greekway. The major happening at the house last week was finishing, printing, and mailing out of the Chapter's semesterly crescent. I want to give a special thank you to our Alumni brother Daniel Gaugler for all of his help in getting the crescent printed and mailed out. If you are an alumni of the Alpha Delta Chapter you should have received a crescent Thursday or Friday of last week. If for some reason you did not receive a crescent, please email me at alpha_d_news@hotmail.com and I will get you on our mailing list.
Other highlights from last week included a mixer with the Alpha Omicron Pi Sorority on Friday night, as well as many brothers cheering on the Bobcats to their 37-35 victory over Northern Colorado on Saturday. Last week also saw the first opportunity for our 13 brand new brothers to experience a full monday night meeting and better understand what it means to be a brother of Alpha Delta.
Moving forward with the blog in the weeks to come I hope to start having a different officer report at least on an every other week basis so they can tell you what has been going on in their world and keep you up to date on the happenings of the house. On a final Note I want to remind everyone of the Alpha Delta 85th anniversary celebration on November 6th at the new MSU Animal Bioscience Building. The festivities start at 5 PM and will include a short program and a no-host social. On Sunday morning, November 7th we are having an alumni board meeting and alumni are encouraged to attend. If you have any questions please call the house phone 587-4251 or email me at alpha_d_news@hotmail.com.
Fraternally,
VNR Public Relations
Other highlights from last week included a mixer with the Alpha Omicron Pi Sorority on Friday night, as well as many brothers cheering on the Bobcats to their 37-35 victory over Northern Colorado on Saturday. Last week also saw the first opportunity for our 13 brand new brothers to experience a full monday night meeting and better understand what it means to be a brother of Alpha Delta.
Moving forward with the blog in the weeks to come I hope to start having a different officer report at least on an every other week basis so they can tell you what has been going on in their world and keep you up to date on the happenings of the house. On a final Note I want to remind everyone of the Alpha Delta 85th anniversary celebration on November 6th at the new MSU Animal Bioscience Building. The festivities start at 5 PM and will include a short program and a no-host social. On Sunday morning, November 7th we are having an alumni board meeting and alumni are encouraged to attend. If you have any questions please call the house phone 587-4251 or email me at alpha_d_news@hotmail.com.
Fraternally,
VNR Public Relations
Monday, October 18, 2010
Alpha Delta Welcomes Thirteen New Brothers
This last weeked the Alpha Delta Chapter of the Alpha Gamma Rho Fraternity activated 13 young men into its order. These men possessed the traits that the brothers of Alpha Delta were looking for and were granted a bid at the end of last week to become a member in Alpha Delta. Throughout the weekend the brothers strengthened their bonds of brotherhood as they learned what it truly meant to be a brother of Alpha Gamma Rho...
Congratulations to our 13 newest brothers:
Paul Wichman from Moccasin, MT. '1227'
Tom Bonogofsky from Belfry, MT. '1228'
Adam Heggelund from Deer Lodge, MT. '1229'
Clay Bott from Miles City, MT. '1230'
Brent VanVoast from Geraldine, MT. '1231'
Colton Hammond from Hardin, MT. '1232
Drew Gaskill from Volborg, MT. '1233'
Ben Johnson from Sidney, MT. '1234'
John Nesbitt from Belgrade, MT. '1235'
Max Grier from Gig Harbor, WA. '1236'
Brian Nelson from Victor, ID. '1237'
Chase Younkin from Glasgow, MT. '1238'
Cody Fulton from Glendive, MT. '1239'
To any alumni out there, remember that you are always welcome at the house. Please feel free to swing on by and welcome these new brothers into our fraternity.
Fraternally,
VNR Public Relations
Congratulations to our 13 newest brothers:
Paul Wichman from Moccasin, MT. '1227'
Tom Bonogofsky from Belfry, MT. '1228'
Adam Heggelund from Deer Lodge, MT. '1229'
Clay Bott from Miles City, MT. '1230'
Brent VanVoast from Geraldine, MT. '1231'
Colton Hammond from Hardin, MT. '1232
Drew Gaskill from Volborg, MT. '1233'
Ben Johnson from Sidney, MT. '1234'
John Nesbitt from Belgrade, MT. '1235'
Max Grier from Gig Harbor, WA. '1236'
Brian Nelson from Victor, ID. '1237'
Chase Younkin from Glasgow, MT. '1238'
Cody Fulton from Glendive, MT. '1239'
To any alumni out there, remember that you are always welcome at the house. Please feel free to swing on by and welcome these new brothers into our fraternity.
Fraternally,
VNR Public Relations
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Recent Highlights
Now that Alpha Delta has a blog it should be a lot easier to keep everyone updated on the recent happenings of the chapter.
A few recent highlights of the chapter are:
- Alpha Delta received three campus awards at the end of last spring semester. These awards were Montana State University Fraternity of the Year, Fraternity Philanthropy award, and an award for the most campus involvement of any fraternity.
- The house also received a green award this summer from the Alpha Gamma Rho national organization for the chapters excellence in academics, recruitment, community service, etc.
-The cumulative chapter G.P.A from last semester was a 3.13
- This Fall has also seen the Alpha Delta's annual testicle festival. Testicle Festival this year was a great success as the chapter was able to make $10,000 in profit. Some of this money will go back into the account to pay for Testicle Festival next year but the chapter looks to give away at least $5000 to charities this academic year.
-Just last week the house had 20 guys live in for live-in week and we hope to activate many of these men this semester. It is an exciting time for our recruitment as this the is most interest the house has seen in years.
Fraternally,
VNR Public Relations
A few recent highlights of the chapter are:
- Alpha Delta received three campus awards at the end of last spring semester. These awards were Montana State University Fraternity of the Year, Fraternity Philanthropy award, and an award for the most campus involvement of any fraternity.
- The house also received a green award this summer from the Alpha Gamma Rho national organization for the chapters excellence in academics, recruitment, community service, etc.
-The cumulative chapter G.P.A from last semester was a 3.13
- This Fall has also seen the Alpha Delta's annual testicle festival. Testicle Festival this year was a great success as the chapter was able to make $10,000 in profit. Some of this money will go back into the account to pay for Testicle Festival next year but the chapter looks to give away at least $5000 to charities this academic year.
Brothers Learning how to properly cook Rocky Mountain Oysters
The Crowd during Testicle Festival, The band is all the way in the front
-Just last week the house had 20 guys live in for live-in week and we hope to activate many of these men this semester. It is an exciting time for our recruitment as this the is most interest the house has seen in years.
Fraternally,
VNR Public Relations
Welcome to the New Alpha Gamma Rho Alpha Delta Chapter Blog
Hello,
I have decided to create a blog to keep all alumni up to date on current happening at the house as well as to provide potential new members with some information about Alpha Gamma Rho here at Montana State University. This blog is meant to replace the Recent News Feature on the current house website www.montana.edu/agr . I hope to be able to put up a new post by Tuesday of every week so check back often and inform anyone you know who would be interested of the new blog. If you have any questions or concerns feel free to leave a comment or email me at alpha_d_news@hotmail.com.
Fraternally,
VNR Public Relations
I have decided to create a blog to keep all alumni up to date on current happening at the house as well as to provide potential new members with some information about Alpha Gamma Rho here at Montana State University. This blog is meant to replace the Recent News Feature on the current house website www.montana.edu/agr . I hope to be able to put up a new post by Tuesday of every week so check back often and inform anyone you know who would be interested of the new blog. If you have any questions or concerns feel free to leave a comment or email me at alpha_d_news@hotmail.com.
Fraternally,
VNR Public Relations
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