The Society congratulates our Granite Affiliate, which was awarded the University of New Hampshire Greek Life Award for Outstanding Values-based Recruitment Program. This Award recognizes our Granite Affiliate for its selection process, which best embodies the values of its National and UNH Greek Life in its recruitment, selection, training, and retention of new members. It is further recognition of the success that our Granite Affiliate has had becoming not just a part, but an example of the best aspects of Greek Life at the University of New Hampshire.

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We are very pleased to announce that on January 12, 2010, the Board of Governors of the Alpha Delta Phi Society voted to grant affiliate status to a group of students at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

The next Board of Governors/Executive Council conference call will be held on Tuesday, April 20th at 8:00pm Eastern/5:00 pm Pacific.

Please contact Craig Cheslog, Bowdoin 1993, at president(at)adps.org if you have any suggested agenda items or would like the conference call code.

The Samuel Eells Literary and Educational Foundation has launched a new web site at samueleells.org. The web site includes information about SELEF's mission and purpose, Literary Contest, and Seward Scholarships. If you would like to make a tax deductible donation to the Samuel Eells Literary and Educational Foundation's Chamberlain Fund to support the Society's educational and literary-related efforts, please click here.

Delegates to the 2009 Alpha Delta Phi Society Convention and Leadership Training Conference adopted two proposed Constitutional Amendments for distribution to the Chapters for possible ratification. Under the Society's Constitution, Constitutional Amendment votes must be held prior to October 12, 2009, deadline.

Delegates to the 2009 Alpha Delta Phi Society Convention and Leadership Training Conference passed a series of resolutions about Society operations. Under the Society's Constitution, the Convention is the supreme legislative body of our organization.

The Alpha Delta Phi Society is given the opportunity to publish a page once a year in the Fraternity's Xaipe newsletter. This option exists pursuant to the negotiated agreement that resulted in the separation of the Alpha Delta Phi Society from The Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity in 1992.

The Society's page is included below in pdf format. To read the entire Fraternity Xaipe newsletter, click here to go to the Fraternity's Xaipe archive.

Michael Roth, Middletown 1978, reviews Geoffrey Nunberg's latest book, The Years of Talking Dangerously, in the June 16, 2009, edition of the San Francisco Chronicle.