Alpha Phi Omega

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Alpha Phi Omega

• Intro and Primer

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Welcome

• Welcome to the Kate Farrell Westlake Pledge
  Class!
• You Pledge Staff is Very Excited to meet you now
  meet us

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Pledge Staff

• Pledgemaster-Katy Thompson
• Phenochromosytoma_at_Yahoo.com
• 214-537-6164 Cell 254-968-2007 Home
• Pledgemaster Assistant-Seth Griffin
• hawkin05_at_hotmail.com
• 325-647-5503 Cell

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Quick Intros

• Katy
• Member Since Fall 2003
• Favorite Ice Cream Godiva Milk Chocolate
• Favorite Teams Longhorns, Texans, Yellowjackets
• Heros Vince Young, Lance, Gandhi, Einstein, Piet
  Mondrian

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Quick Intros

• Seth
• Member Since Fall 2005
• Favorite Ice Cream Mint Chocolate Chip
• Favorite Teams UT Longhorns, TSU Texans
• Heroes Les Zimmerman, Isaac Asimov, J.R.R.
  Tolkien

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Pledge Notebooks

• Theyre cute and fun
• Carry them with you and collect positive messages
  from actives throughout pledge season.
• If you collect a comment from all actives, you
  will get a reward.
• Thank your Pledge Staff for decorating them for
  you!

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Pledge Manuals

• Reading Assignments from them will be taken
• Bring them to each meeting
• Fill out appropriate areas
• Pg 62 for Actives Signatures
• Pg 61 for Pledge Class Members
• Pg 60 for Chapter History

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Pledge Folder

• Thank your Sponsor for it!
• Keep all handouts given in it, all quizzes in it,
  the pledge manual and interviews in it, notes in
  it.
• Keep it organized, it will be checked at the end

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Teams

• You will be split into 2 teams, Blue and Gold
  (just like the X-Men)
• Earn Points
• Participation in Pledge Events and Meetings
• Knowledge of Chapter and National History and
  Trivia
• Enthusiasm in Pledge Events, Meetings, etc
• Theme adherence, the team with the best theme
  participation will get a bonus each week.

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Meeting Place and Time

• We will be meeting in Room 201 of the Education
  Building every Monday at 700pm

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Meeting Setup

• Quiz
• You get 5 minutes, so be earlyover material from
  previous week
• Review
• Oral Quiz will be given
• Earn Team Points
• Speaker
• Take notes, you will be quizzed on it

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Meeting Setup

• Announcements
• Things important that are coming up, pay
  attention
• Handouts
• Go with power points
• Lecture
• Power Point Lectures
• You will get copies of the PPTs to take notes on
  and review, but you will be quizzed also over
  things said in the meeting, so PAY ATTENTION!

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Not Complicated Enough?

• When we meet again this week we will go over all
  of this and more stuff, so be ready.