[23471] in APO-L
Re: [APO-L] Toast Song Issues
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeremy Licata)
Sun Jan 19 17:09:08 2003
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 14:09:03 -0800
Reply-To: Jeremy Licata <dcnblus_apo@yahoo.com>
From: Jeremy Licata <dcnblus_apo@yahoo.com>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
In-Reply-To: <a05200f02ba4e56a3361b@[207.144.41.64]>
Not only was it written in late 1992, but it was also
brought to the convention floor for the first time in
Boston (1992). The best it could do at that time was
to be accepted as a resolution. As I recall, it didn't
even pass as a resolution, but it did set the stage
for the next 10 years of discussion...
:tanner
--- Henry Marx <henry@henrymarx.com> wrote:
> 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
> http://www.serviceusa.org/ -
> http://www.verylate.com/
> "If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
> Those who profess to
> favor freedom and yet renounce controversy are
> people who want
> crops without ploughing the ground." - Frederick
Douglass
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