Springtime in school meant fraternities pairing up with sororities for Greek Week, an annual, week-long custom crammed with events, philanthropy, and numerous competitions.
In spring 1991, on the College of Maryland, Pi Kappa Alpha (?KA) requested Kappa Alpha Theta (KA?) to companion, after which my pledge brother Joe Incaprera and I ran as co-Greek Week chairs to prepare the week’s occasions with Theta.
Joe and I put collectively a few fliers for the Greek Week chair election, and we went on to get elected to deal with the Greek Week festivities.
After the election, we obtained along with our fellow chair on the Theta aspect, Kathleen Gamboa, and began planning. There have been a number of enjoyable occasions like kickball, final, chariot races, and a carnival, in addition to a philanthropy occasion the place members of the fraternity and sorority served as huggers on the Particular Olympics. However, actually, the main focus was on per week of events.
We put collectively a schedule with a number of events every single day for six days. Issues kicked off with a gap bash at a neighborhood firehouse, and continued with four-way and six-way events filled with kegs, reside music, and revelry. The week of events wrapped up with WHFS DJ Neci spinning data on the PiKA home.
All through the week, we might have gained some stuff. I don’t truly keep in mind, however we had a whole lot of enjoyable. I don’t suppose we ever gained general Greek Week within the 5 springs I used to be there. I nonetheless have some seaside scopes from the week – I assume we offered them as fundraisers.
On the Friday evening of Greek Week, I needed to sneak out from a few of the nighttime partying to go see the Useless Milkmen on the Scholar Union. I attempted to persuade them to return again to the home to celebration, however they needed to head on to their subsequent metropolis.
I feel I took this final image through the dance or lip-sync contest at Ritchie Coliseum. I’d wish to say I utilized some type of creative remedy to make some or many of the stuff look blurry and frenzied, however I simply had a crappy digital camera.
These weeks had been a few of my favorites, aside from once I’d commerce a set of letters to some random individual and by no means see them once more. However I at all times gained a Greek Week t-shirt so as to add to my large assortment of frat t-shirts.
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