Text Box: Volume 1, Issue 4 Text Box: Page 3 Text Box: Fire Truck Frenzy Text Box: Lou Popovitch Text Box: So there I was...cruising around eBay one afternoon and just for curiosity sake I typed in the keywords “Fire Truck”. I wasn’t expecting to find much but to my enjoyment and surprise people actually sell fire trucks on eBay. Who would have thought? This chance eBay encounter quickly grew into an obsession. Not a day went by for over a year that I didn’t search for fire trucks. However, most of the trucks I found were way out of my modest co-op price range. But I was determined to find a truck that I could afford in the condition I wanted. So, finally, this last work term I found the truck for me on eBay. She is a 1959 Mack C85 pumper with only 35,000 fire fighting miles. The truck is in near perfect water spraying, attention attracting, gas sucking condition. Which was a must considering the truck was residing in West Palm Beach Florida. Only a mear 1200 miles from my co-op job at Mack Truck in Allentown, PA. I enlisted the help of brother Ken Blecker to help me make the voyage to Florida via rental can and the return trip on the truck, which went off without a hitch I’m proud to say. Text Box: I have received many questions from the fire truck but the one questions that everyone seems to ask is why?. There is many answers but the most logical is the actual purpose for my fire truck. The truck has a load capacity of over 2 tons, a built in air compressor, a generator, two very bright work lights, and tons of compartments for storage. It is an excellent race car hauler for an ME student and a Fiero. I plan on doing a body conversion that will involve removing the water tank and pump next zero section, which will allow me to pull the car right on the back of the truck for easy transport. Come this time next year instead of seeing a bright yellow fire truck full of bells and whistles, it will turn into a black race track ready hauler fit to be called a mobile repair shop. *Special thanks to Brother Ken Blecker and various oil producing countries for making the trip from Florida possible.

The Fire Truck sitting itself in front of the house.

Chicks dig guys in fire suits.
Text Box: A word from the Alpha

Greetings!  This is my first Alpha Address since taking office.  I hope all the alumni, recent and otherwise are doing well.  We’re a couple of weeks into the term at this point and already tests and projects are starting to pile up for everyone.  Our 11 new members, initiated last term, have brought new enthusiasm and eagerness into the house, and we now wonder what it was like without them.  Rush is going well, considering the small freshman class (around 200).  Our 72 Hours volleyball fundraiser event, organized by High Theta Dan Martin, is coming up and looks to raise a lot of money for St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital (we are looking for sponsors if any alums are interested in throwing in a  

few bucks).  We’re also trying to start a yearly campus-wide party tradition.  Our High Epsilon (and High Boozemaster), Scott Garabedian, along with others in the house has come up with the Happy Hour theme, in honor of the late-great-bar across from the dorms.  We’re also doing well in sports, having won the 4-man volleyball tournament and currently in the playoffs for softball; we hope to be bringing some trophies to the house.  Our High Phi, “Bitter” Pete Maher, has recently returned from the Lambda Chi Alpha General Assembly in Denver, CO with a great deal of ideas and enthusiasm for the chapter. He even brought back some t-shirts from other chapters across the nation.

I’d really like to see more alumni at the house (not just for alumni beer!).  And I hope you all can make it to the Alumni barbecue.  Thanks for your support

Here is our Vegetarian Alpha….what a goofy guy.
Text Box: Jason Snyder