[16831] in APO-L
Toast Song privacy/openness
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Finder)
Tue May 6 10:49:29 1997
Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 10:47:17 -0400
Reply-To: Randy Finder <naraht@DRYCAS.CLUB.CC.CMU.EDU>
From: Randy Finder <naraht@DRYCAS.CLUB.CC.CMU.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
In APO-USA (Can't speak for APO-Phil here), the toast song is not
private. While changes do require the same 2/3 (or 3/4 can't remember)
vote that changes to ritual require, it is because it is sung as part of
the ritual. However the Toast Song lyrics are in the Pledge manual, which
is an open document.
When the toast song is done at the end of the awards banquet at
Nationals there is no attempt made to verify membership for all of the
people in the room. I've seen the toast song done at the end of service
projects, at dinners after initiations, at chapter anniversary dinners
(with non-APO spouses) and many other places. Most interesting places
I've heard of the toast song being done...
1) In the back of a moving van type vehicle dropping volunteers off at
points on the Race-for-the-Cure(Breast Cancer) course. (32 people in the
van, about 25 were brothers.) (I was there for this)
2) In a graveyard, honoring the brothers who were buried there.
3) On the grounds of the Lincoln Memorial.
YiLFS
Randy Finder
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Leadership, Friendship and Service - Alpha Phi Omega
