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Re: [APO-L] Toast Song Issues
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Henry Marx)
Fri Jan 17 20:06:32 2003
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 20:06:28 -0500
Reply-To: Henry Marx <henry@henrymarx.com>
From: Henry Marx <henry@henrymarx.com>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
In-Reply-To: <3E286C49.1000001@glue.umd.edu>
At 3:49 PM -0500 1/17/03, Kevin Yue wrote:
>Well...I read those few emails coming through about the Toast
>Song...I agree with NOT changing the song at all, for all the
>reasons that my fellow Brothers have presented. However, I know
>that Epsilon Mu Chapter felt that we needed to celebrate the
>diversity among the Chapter, so an EM Brother wrote, back in 1996
>(and Henry Marx, correct me if I'm wrong...), Brother Brian Weissman
>wrote a third verse which sings as follows:
>
> Sing we now both men and women
> Brothers all are we
> Hearts as one we praise together
> Our diversity
> Ever growing, ever learning
> So that we may be
> Joined in Alpha Phi Omega
> For eternity
>
>In fact, at the 2000 Philadelphia National Convention, this verse
>was submitted as an amendment, but was not brought to the floor.
> Now, take this for however you want, but I think that though this
>might extend the song slightly, it only does it in the most positive
>of senses, where we follow the traditions of the first two verses
>and then following through the rest of the song with an
>understanding of the diversity within Alpha Phi Omega.
>
>What do you all think?
I'll go ahead and correct Kevin since he asked me to. =)
The "Third Verse" was written by Brother Brian Weissman. It was
written in late 1992 and went into use at the chapter level in early
1993. Brian was an undergraduate Brother of Omicron Iota at
Worcester Polytechnic Institute who became an Active at Epsilon Mu at
the University of Maryland as a graduate student.
I would also like everyone to know the the second verse of the Toast
Song was also written by a Brother of Epsilon Mu (Robert Northwood)
and was adopted by the National Convention in 1964. Prior to that,
only the first verse of the Toast Song was used. I have yet to hear
a definite date on the origin of the Toast Song, the best I've heard
so far is sometime in the 1940s.
--
Henry Marx - henry@henrymarx.com - http://www.henrymarx.com/
Alpha Phi Omega Region III, Section 80 & 84 Staff - AOLIM: henrymrx
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