Name all 14?

naraht · #1 09-28-2004, 09:35 AM

Without checking any external references, can you name all 14 of the student founders of Alpha Phi Omega? Last names are good enough, first names spectacular, and if you can do middle names, you are expected to go online (on line?) at Zeta Phi next week.

I'm not looking for reponses with what you can remember, just see if you can write down the 14 names.

Randy

PS, I couldn't (only got 9) but strangely enough I *could* come up with the last names of the 6 founding advisors

Attractive#7 · #2 09-28-2004, 03:12 PM

*LAWD please forgive my spelling...I know they finna be flippin in they graves right now*

i posted 9 founders and then made this note...before posting the rest of them

***my chapter would KILL me right now. this is not the order that i learned them in and i'm spelling them wrong!!!***

then i read that he didnt want us to post them!!! opps

so i removed them!!!

naraht · #3 09-28-2004, 03:26 PM

Attractive, my question is can you name all 14 without looking. (Mispellings are fine especially on Terwilliger

)

Randy

Attractive#7 · #4 09-28-2004, 03:29 PM

i got to 9 with no problem
the other 6 i can stumble thru

all in all it might take about 5 mins *LOL* but i could do it

naraht · #5 09-28-2004, 03:36 PM

Other 6? by 6 do you mean the remaining undergraduates or the 6 advisors?

Attractive#7 · #6 09-29-2004, 03:52 PM

undergrads
it'll take me another 5 mins to stumble thru the advisors

sweete81 · #7 09-30-2004, 01:43 PM

[QUOTE]Originally posted by naraht
[B]Without checking any external references, can you name all 14 of the student founders of Alpha Phi Omega? Last names are good enough, first names spectacular, and if you can do middle names, you are expected to go online (on line?) at Zeta Phi next week.

I am laughing my tail off because I come from Zeta Phi and I know all 14 undergrad brothers and 6 advisors in like under a minute !!! But then I was an AD for two lines, too! But I knew it as a petitioner too and can spit it faster than a dying match light! And I am pretty sure that other chapters are just as anal!!!

As a matter of fact, everyone should know at least the 20 founders and the purpose if you don't know anything else because that is why APO is what it is!

News at Nine
9-ZP-03 A
24...Survivors of the APOcalypse

Leading our Friends to Serve since 1925!!!

xtc · #8 09-30-2004, 02:15 PM

Frank Reed Horton, Thane Sanford Cooley, William Taylor Wood, William Highberger, Donald H. Fritts, George Axel Olsen, Donald Terwilliger, Lewis Blair, Everett W. Probst, Gordon M. Looney, Robert Green, Ephraim Detweiler (misspell), Ellsworth Dobson, Herbert Heinrich.

no particular order.

skizzeet,

x

Virtuous Woman · #9 09-30-2004, 03:40 PM

I was waiting to read a few posts before I posted my response. It really saddens me that such pertinent information isn't engrained into every brother of this fraternity. That is just basic info, the tip of the iceberg. It's sad that people would learn something just to get through pledging and then forget. I think actives need to revamp their pledge processes so that pledges know WHY they should learn and retain the information.

Stepping back into pledge trainer mode:

It's never too late to (re) learn something, so get to work!

Attractive#7 · #10 10-01-2004, 04:48 AM

I don't think anyone of us learned it just to get throught the process. The only person that said that they forgot some of them was Randy and I said I could stumble through mine. You have to realize that different people put importance on different things. To one brother knowing the founders may be the single most important thing to being in the organization, to another brother it may be the purpose and yet another brother may feel it is having to the spirit of the fraternity...it just depends on who you are speaking to. I haven't even looked in my pledge manual in a very long time and our last line crossed in the spring so i havent heard the founders since the spring. If you are not constantly refreshing it's easy to forget things.

naraht · #11 10-01-2004, 09:38 AM

Yes, its true that I don't remember all 14 of the founders, *but* I know where I can find that information in the places that I spend the large majority of my time. At work I have net access to the National web page, my 75th anniversary CD and my National History book. At home I have pledge manuals from 6 or 7 different 2 year cycles and a couple of other places with the info.

I timed myself from lifting my hands from the keyboard to getting the names, it was about 8 seconds and some of that was making sure another book didn't fall off the shelf when I pulled out the History book.

Pledging for me was 18 years ago, (I'll have been a brother for half of my life this coming December 5th). Anyone who feels that I'm less of a brother for not remembering them off the top of their head is welcome to that opinion, but I don't agree with them.

Randy

Virtuous Woman · #12 10-01-2004, 11:52 AM

I had a more eloquent response but it got erased so here's the short and sweet version: I never would never insinuate that any brother was less of a brother based on that info (especially not one who pledged 15 years before I did). I was just saying that it's sad that the info isn't engrained in us as brothers. We expect it from pledges who aren't in this organization but we slack on it ourselves. There are people in other orgs who couldn't forget their founders' names if they tried. I think the emphasis on retaining this is info is missing in our pledge processes and beyond.