Kinsmen/GSP Alumni Event

The next event will be held on Saturday, August 6th at 11:30 am, at Pappa's BBQ in Irving (Loop 12 and 35).
Hope you can join us for food, fellowship, and loads of fun.
-mo

Summer 2007 Update

Gentlemen-
How are you? How is summer for your families and jobs?
I know of no outing planned anytime soon, although I hope we can throw something together before we get hectic with fall and football and hunting!
I did want to mention in case you haven't heard, that pledging will begin to take a new look beginning this fall. The pledge period will now contain two parts: the first of which is 2 weeks of real pledging, physical, etc and Bid Night; the second part has the siblings listed as "conditional members", and during this time they get visits, build the float, etc. Somewhere after Homecoming, the members would have final say as to who gets in, etc and then those siblings would become full-fledged members.
Should be interesting to say the least, and probably good this happened now instead of when Chad Cummings was there.
Thanks guys!
mo

2007 Sing Song Champions

2007 GSP KINSMEN Sing Song performance

If you guys didn’t make it to Abilene this weekend for Sing Song, you missed a heck of a show. In typical Kinsmen fashion, GSP brought the house down and slaughtered the competition for the 6^th year in a row. Note the 25’ Fire Pole in the stairwell on the right. Just as the camera zooms in, the 3 guys running up the stairs slide down the pole.

Sing Song

Sing Song is this coming weekend I'm hoping to see many of you on Saturday night. Any over/under bets on first or second place?

Need eMail Addresses

We need to get all the email addresses we can and start getting others involved. I'd be happy to coordinate the list so please send your email address and any others you might have. Let me hear from you!!!!!!!

Ideas?

I want to suggest 3 things to the alums here in DFW and elsewhere, one is club-related and the other two relate to us.
First of all, several of us (Clinton, Ivey, Shanks, JVoss, Ed, and me among others) have met a few times to discuss CONTINUITY in club. For instance, this year and in previous years the current members of GSP have no idea what to do about Homecoming Breakfast. No invitations, no news, nothing is thought out or prepared in regards to this event. This is OUR homecoming and thus the current memebrs should be doing all sorts of things, as we did in the past; and so the thought is to create a Continuity Team that acts as a club sponsor abroad, to remind and to encourage activites, etc.
Would you be willing to this and if so, would you be willing to meet via email or this blog or in person soon to discuss it?

Secondly, is there any interest in creating a GSP Sing Song weekend alumni breakfast? The group of guys listed above have met for breakfast, Sing Song weekend off and on for the last 4-5 years to discuss club and ways in which we could be supportive from afar, but the idea of having 2 breakfasts seems a logical one. There are a lot of guys from around the state of Texas and elsewhere who attend Sing Song, who may not make it for breakfast every year.
We could look into prices of something on-campus or we could book the big room in back at the Towne Crier?
Whose game for our 1st Annual GSP/Kinsmen Sing Song Breakfast?

Finally, is anyone interested in creating a nationwide/worldwide GSP alumni page? I spoke with some old-school fellas over the weekend, and they requested a nationwide site...or maybe a nationwide blog?

Alumni Participation

Over the years several people have talked about ways that alumni can assist the active members and sponsors back in Abilene. I really think we should open the book to new brainstorming and implementation of these ideas. For many years I didn't really feel like I owe anything to club as did pay my dues, most of the time, when my loan check would arrive.

Some big ideas that have been discussed in the past are:

• Scholarships, but this will require a lot of work. There would have to be an over-site committee, rules would need to be established about what criteria for who qualifies for the scholarship(s). Not impossible but will require time.
• Another alum activity would be to help sponsor breakfast at a real facility like the Abilene Country Club or Fairway Oaks Country Club.
• How about an alum sponsored social, I know we always struggled to afford a nice social and we never hosted a formal so why not have alum sponsored formal? We could even open it up to alums and their spouses?

Post some additional ideas and get some of your buddies to join our blog so they can comment as well.

GSP Alum Activity Soon?

Cody T. says we should plan on something sooner than later, before we all get to busy and Wade becomes a daddy. How about BBQ and whoever can meet at the Spring Creek in Grapevine?
Or the original Babe's in Roanoke?
When?
Speak!