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Harold White, Chicago-Kent 1901 became the first editor and Edward Nettles, Chicago-Kent 1900 was the first business manager. In an article in the May 1929 Quarterly, White had this to say:

"No doubt in our innocence, we felt the honor compensated for all the work. That's the marvel of being young and enthusiastic. There was no plan, no adequate appropriation for necessary expenses, no business or editorial policy .... There was not even a list of alumni members. We had to start from a point below zero and from the beginning the jobs of editor and business manager so interwove and over-lapped that it was difficult to say who did what. When it came to all the endless worries and sleepless nights that accompany the launching of a frail bark in unknown waters by two inexperienced mariners it was a joint enterprise and the punishment was inflicted equally."

April, 1903 saw the first issue of the Delta Chi Quarterly published for a fraternity of fourteen chapters and fewer than 3,000 alumni.

The Realities of Publishing the Delta Chi Quarterly

Delta Chi Law (since 1973) states: "Undergraduate members shall automatically receive The Delta Chi Quarterly while they are enrolled in college or university, and alumni members shall automatically receive the Quarterly for the first five years of alumni status. Thereafter, alumni members will be requested periodically to fill out and return a brief form indicating whether or not they wish to continue to receive the Quarterly. All Sustaining Life Members and those members who the preceding year contributed to the annual Voluntary Alumni Dues program will automatically receive the magazine." read more...

	Inside the Quarterly From the "AA" The V Foundation Cover Story Did You Know... Campus Scene Alumni News Keeping in Touch Farewell & Parting Delta Chis at War
Winter/Spring 2010 Volume 106 Number 4

The deadlines for the Quarterly are August 1 for Fall/Winter, December 1 for Winter/Spring, March 1 for Spring/Summer, and May 1 for Summer/Fall. Only the Winter/Spring and Summer/Fall issues have Campus Scene. The Spring/Summer issue will contain "Featurettes" which focus on *one* topic of the "E"'s choosing. Only the best submissions will be printed. Send Quarterly submissions to emilya@deltachi.org.

"For our alumni, the Quarterly is one of the few tangibles that they can receive from Delta Chi. So, we are asking them to support it (and the Fraternity) with donations. We now ask for a donation of $35 for a three year subscription, $50 for five years or $350 for a lifetime. The $350 Life Loyal member status has other benefits as well. Such as $100 off of " every" convention attended for the rest of their life! While the combined income (in the range of $30,000/year) from these sources is not what our student members need it to be, it has taken some of the burden off of the undergraduates and helped not just the Quarterly but other areas as well.

It is interesting to note what other fraternities have been doing as well. One fraternity with over 200 chapters has quit printing its magazine altogether and has gone totally electronic. Others have cut back to three or two or even one issue/year. Delta Chi would like to continue publishing four paper issues per year but we (really our undergraduates as they support 80% of our budget and represent only 6% of our membership) simply cannot afford to line waste cans and need our alumni to support the paper version or accept an electronic copy. And we still want them to donate in order to get the electronic copy. Not just to support the magazine but to support the Fraternity's other operations in order to help us take the load off the student members! It isn't enough to effectively say, "I'll accept the electronic version but don't expect me to help our undergraduates beyond that."

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