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June 01, 2004

The Start of Summer

No price is set on the lavish summer;
June may be had by the poorest comer.
- James Russell Lowell, The Vision of Sir Launfal, 1848

Today marks the last day of registration for the 2004 Conclave in San Francisco. AKL celebrates 90 years, and that's a good long time's worth of tradition and history. This year's Conclave will be the best one yet, and will the first that most of our guys will be attending. It's set to become a classic.

I take it we will be billed to our matching funds account later, so none of us have to pay right now. I think that's right on, as most of the guys are busy working hard enough to save up a decent amount of money for the school year. Save one or two, most of the guys here have to come up with money for school by themselves.

Most of the guys are here in the summer, but a few go home or away. Blaise Exon is back home in Richfield working for his parents, while David "Flounder" Dickman is off in basic training for the Air Guard. Both will be back for the fall semester. There might even be a few old inactive guys like Kyle and Drew rejoining us as well. It should definitely be a lot of fun. There's a LOT of work to do, and I hope that Conclave will set a fire in our asses to accomplish it all.

The Leadership College starts Wednesday August 4th, and the Conclave starts right after, ending Sunday. There's plenty to do in San Francisco, and I think an extra day to see the sights and go hit the major attractions will be a great time together.

The only thing to do now is to organize some summer activities for all the guys and the rush guys. We have contact information for somewhere around 16 high school and other guys that are interested in AKL. Our problem is organizing them into activities geared to interest them in our organization. You can't join a fraternity if you don't like the guys, or if you don't fit in. That's why there's different fraternities. The rule is, if you don't think you would hang out with them, then there's no point in rushing them. Numbers don't count if you've got 15 douche-meisters running around with our letters on. Quality versus quantity is the rule. Now, we just have to set up some of these events, like boating, cliff jumping, barbeques, and river floats with the AKLs (and the Alpha Phis too). Jeremy Rasmussen, the Recruitment Chairman, is in charge of setting these all up. We'll see if he can put anything down in official writing so all of us can hang out.

Posted by Danny on June 1, 2004 12:02 PM