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Forum Positive Memories of Phi Mu Delta There were many good things about Phi Mu Delta. Our annual chicken barbeque made tons of money for charity, and we held muscular dystrophy dance marathons. We produced graduates who moved on to executive positions in business and accounting and even in nuclear power operations and engineering. Surely you can look in the records and find something good about Phi Mu Delta to offset the negative paragraph.My years at Phi Mu Delta were truly
great. For the most part, it really was about brotherhood, as hokey
as it may sound. Where I let my brothers down was not being as discerning
as I should have on who I voted in during my senior year and I could
not be as active an alumni as I should have been. The truth is that
in the 1960's-70's, we the active brotherhood did make some bad mistakes.
We let in people we should not have, people who did not care for the
house or the loyalty of brotherhood. We had a core of alumni who were
and are very dedicated, but unfortunately many of the rest of us who
moved far away were not around to help. When you say that we let the
house fall into a bad state of repair and it became a firetrap - not
true. Those alumni worked hard to try to keep it going, but received
no help from the university or Selinsgrove. We were the only house owned
by our alumni and not the school. This always bothered the school a
lot, I think. They had no control over our finances or policies. Carbon Dating I have enjoyed reading Professor Housley's impressive "The Susquehanna 150" in the past couple issues of Susquehanna Today; however, I would like to most respectfully correct item 80. "Phi Mu Delta." Although the fraternity house was definitely abandoned, it did not burn down until 1992, (Spring Weekend to be exact), not 1987 as noted. I know this because I was living directly across the street in the Kappa Delta house that year, and was awoken around 2:00 or 3:00 am Saturday night of Spring Weekend by shouts of "Fire!" and then proceeded to watch the firemen put out the blaze. After that fire, the building was demolished in a couple months' time. Again, I am enjoying the installments-it is
very interesting reading.
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