New Member Education Week is held every semester after
candidates for membership are chosen. This week started on February 3rd
and lasted until Friday February 7th. The purpose of Candidate
Education Week is to teach perspective brothers the importance of teamwork to
accomplish a common goal. The candidates are presented with a series of
challenges in which they must learn about agriculture, find out information
about the fraternity’s history as well as current activities, get to know
current brothers, introduce themselves to alumni, and come together as a team.
Candidates find out how close brothers are, and brothers have an opportunity to
get to know candidates. The candidates are given opportunities to show their
individual knowledge, talents and creativity. The week concluded on Friday at
the farm of alumni and current brother, Brother Scott Sr. and Brother Franklin
Scott Jr. When everyone arrived, we ate a wonderful dinner of pork chops
tenderloin, potatoes, baked beans, and bread. For desert we had apple crumble
and peach cobbler, all made by Mrs. Scott who is also an alumni of the
fraternity. This week is very important to growing our chapter and all active
brothers participated regularly. About forty alumni came back to visit
throughout the week. We finished the week by welcoming fourteen very strong and
dedicated new brothers into our Brotherhood!