PIKE LARGEST WORLD'S CIRCULATION ALPHA ETA GATOR A MAGAZINE FOR ALUMNI SPRING QUARTER 1979 GIVE 'EM HELL CHARLEY PELL! By Brian Stack The alumni activities began Friday afternoon with a 'lawn party' in front of the Pike house. The fire truck, the same one Alpha Eta alumni from around the state returned to the Pike house for the first an- driven up from Key Largo by Bill Phifer, was nual Spring Alumni Weekend on April 20- in operation as usual carting energetic broth- 22. ers around campus, with occasional stops at rival fraternities to give the 'Pikes once, Pikes twice cheer. The celebration, attended by 20 alumni and their wives, was the first in a long series of events designed to bring older brothers Saturday afternoon, under a blazing sun back to their alma mater and active once with a cooler full of beer, brothers and pled- again in the fraternity. Nineteen seventy- ges took on the alumni in a challenge soft- nine marked the 75th year that Alpha Eta ball game. The alumni rallied in the last inn- chapter has been in existence, with such dis- ing to win the game. Any ill competetive tinguished and famous men as Richard Pitt- feelings were eased somewhat at a Happy man, Jr., Vice-President and General Man- Hour following the game. A barbeque, The highlight of the three-day weekend ager of the Tampa Tribune, and Colonel 'Early style,' for those remembering Alpha was the Sunday afternoon banquet, featur- Sanders (of Kentucky Fried Chicken fame) Eta's cook, followed that. ing guest speaker Charley Pell, Head Coach filling the alumni roles. Saturday night saw the likes of one of the of the University of Florida football team. year's best band parties. While spring pledges Pell was hired three months ago to replace 'The weekend was a real success,' stated tended bar downstairs in the basement, the Doug Dickey who resigned his head coach- Robert Bash, Alumni Chairman, and organ- band 'Topez' got things rolling in the jam- ing position last fall. Pell, who most recent- izer of this year's get-together. 'It gave the packed living room. The party was so pop- ly led the Clemson University Tigers to 8-2-1 alumni a chance to have an extended stay ular that it outdrew a Sigma Chi Derby and 10-1 seasons and two Gator Bowl ap- at the Pike house and really see what's going party, that fraternity's biggest event of the pearances, emphasized that 'the will to win on with their chapter.' year. was not enough' to make the UF foot- ball program a success. 'The will to pre- pare must come first.' He also reiterated that the entire university community, from players to students to alumni, must all be active for a successful season. These two points made by Pell, according to many alumni, can be applied to establishing and maintaining a successful fraternity. According to Bash, there are already plans to hold Fall Alumni Weekends which will coincide with Gator football games. He said, however, that 'alumni are always wel- come at the Pike house. There never has to be a special occasion.'