As we talk about having a large trailer back up in the chapter parking lot, to be loaded with fraternity house contents and then drive a few tenths of a mile to the FIJI parking lot, it occurred to me that moves are stressful and difficult events.

I read once in USA Today that the top three stress inducers in life are moving, changing jobs, and changing marital status.  Final exams at Wabash aren’t a picnic on the patio, either.

And so on this first week in May, I ask you to think of our undergrads, who face finals, a shift to summer work, a move to the old FIJI house and the concomitant uncertainty about what life will be like during the fall semester in a place that isn’t really home.  Will the temporary house be clean and safe?  Will we be able to study?  Will we be able to have fun?  Can the pizza guy figure out where we are?

Throughout the life of this project, we have always known that some group of men would have to slog through that difficult time when the chapter house was not available to them.  This group is those men.  Their determination, maturity and patience will show well for the next seven months until Phi Psi returns home.  And until then, for a while, they might have to order the pizza for carry out.
-Terry Hamilton '89