Blue White Weekend
Date: April 24, 2010

Arts Fest
Date: July 08, 2010 to July 11, 2010
Book a hotel room now for next year's Arts Fest before they sell out. Find available rooms at www.happyvalley.com.

Click here for more information on Arts Fest.

Homecoming 2010
Date: October 09, 2010
It's not too early to start planning for Homecoming 2010! The Nittany Lions will face the Fighting Illini.

Stay tuned for more details.

Alumni Rundown
Every month, we will recognize an alumnus in our e-Letter. In March, we get to know a little more about Jason Birdsell...

Name: Jason Birdsell
Phi Tau Nickname: Gilligan
Pledge Class Year/Semester (Spring/Fall): Spring 1995 – “The Lost Boys”
Hometown: Mt. Pleasant, PA
Occupation: Manager – Business Process Outsourcing
Marital Status: Married
Children: Daughter Emily, 2.5 yrs.; Son Owen, 1 yr
Hobbies/Activities: With two young kids, there’s not much time left for hobbies after the workday/week is over. But, I still love to travel and I’m a sports nut, though I’m resigned to mostly watching these days.
Last visit to the Chapter House: Homecoming 2009
Favorite Phi Tau Memory: It’s terribly hard to pick just one. I genuinely loved so many memories. A favorite thing for me was the sharing of stories from the night before during lunch the next day. Some of the funniest stories ever told took place during lunch after a party night. I also have to mention parties with the band Steel City….The chants of “social” with brothers thrusting arms in the air to tap one another’s can…covers like ”Low Rider”, “Brown-eyed Girl”, “Blister in the Sun”….and the brothers really just partying together and ignoring the 700-800 other people in the house. It was pure euphoria and brotherhood…it was a Phi Tau party at its finest.
What do you miss most about your undergrad days?: The stories that were made and experienced. It was a once-in-a-lifetime experience to have so many fun friends in one place where “anything goes”.
Best advice for the undergraduate brothers: Live in the house and soak up all of the atmosphere that you can. You will never again be able to share a place with so many young, fun and like-minded people. It’s the perfect recipe for memories that will last a lifetime!
Any message for your fellow alums: Stop by the house to see all of the improvements to the physical structure and to get to know the undergrads who are transforming the chapter and making it a place of which we can all be proud.


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Undergraduate Rundown
And getting to know an undergraduate member...

Name: Brian Gu
Hometown: Hillsborough, NJ
PKT Nickname: I forget the latest one, Donkey Kong, Leroy Jenkins, Candy Man
Pledge Class (Semester/Yr and Nickname): Fall/06 Misfits
Major: (Business) Economics
Chapter positions you have held: Assistant MOO, Philanthropy Chair, Maxwell Chair, Vice President
Hobbies/Interests: Going to the gym, watching sports
Favorite thing about Phi Tau: The brothers
Favorite chapter tradition: Formal :)
Favorite Quote: "I'd like a milk steak, boiled over hard, with a side of your finest jellybeans...raw, of course"
Something we would all be surprised to know about you: I never thought I'd ever join a fraternity coming out of high school
What you’d most like to know about the alumni or Phi Tau's history/traditions: How long did Phi Tau table manners last?


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Thon 2010 Raises Record $7,838,054.36
The Penn State IFC/Panhellenic  Dance Marathon raised a grand total of $7,838,054.36 at this year’s 46 hour event held Friday, February 19th through Sunday, February 21st.  The annual event raises funds and awareness for the fight against pediatric cancer.

Click here to read the full story in Centre Daily Times.

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Remember When?
Thank you to Ira "Giggles" Somers '93 for answering our recent call for memories.

He writes, "During pledging (Fall, 91) we had the bright idea to purposely leave the Phi Tau flag flying past 5:00...making it open season to be stolen by neighboring fraternity's pledges. At 4:45 p.m., the 20 or so Phi Tau pledges hid in different spots within an egg's throw of our flagpole, because we each had 1/2 dozen eggs and were prepared to thrown them. At 5:01, when the unsuspecting neighboring pledges attacked our flagpole, we attacked them, firing eggs from every direction. The plan was executed perfectly. Until the NEXT day when we forgot to take our flag down at 5:00 and Pi Kapp's pledges stole it. They made us drink raw eggs to recover it."

Read more great Phi Tau memories and share your own on the message board. 


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From the Archives...


Thank you to Wayne Myers '68 for submitting this picture from the Phi Tau 20th Reunion in 1987.

(Click on the Continued link to view a larger image).

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