This is a brief article about the successful 2004 event:
"Fiji Day, foreseen as a possible replacement for Pig Dinner, has been an "Open House" for everyone to visit the House – undergraduate and graduate brothers' family and friends, as well as the Rutgers community. We had a heartening turnout of graduate brothers from the 70's at the event, in addition to the undergraduate cohort. Maybe from that core, and the closeness engendered at the event, will come a feeling of community inspired by shared memory, and facilitated through this website.
"Predominant in the event were the themes of academics and community service. The 2nd Annual Josh Shane Basketball
Shootout took place in the warm afternoon. The Basketball Shootout is an annual fundraising event to benefit the chapter's
designated charity, The Institute for Children with Cancer and Blood Disorders based at Robert Wood Johnson University
Hospital in New Brunswick.
"The Chapter's heart was illustrated by its adoption, as their "little brother", of "little
Lorenzo", a local 5 year old boy with cancer. This new generation of Fijis is characterized by such social consciousness,
and they do us all proud in that regard.
"An Academic and Community Service Recognition Dinner was our shared repast. The driveway was the location of a
buffet style dinner to recognize the academic and community service achievements of individual brothers and the whole
Chapter. The informal nature of this approach enhanced interaction between the generations. During this time, the Nu
Beta Foundation presented scholarship awards to deserving undergraduate brothers, and a number of Brothers spoke."
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| Behot, Pinto and Preble | Tom Donatacchi |
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| Bob Behot, Joe Pinto and George Preble | Kevin Brady, Leo Egan, Richie Green and Dave DiPiero |
| (I plead guilty to not knowing names of undergrads and younger grads in background) |
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 Bobby Feder More photos of Fiji Day 2004 |
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