Weigh to Go!

“If you build it, he will come,” whispers a disembodied voice in the hit 1989 movie, Field of Dreams. The protagonist proceeds to construct a baseball diamond in the middle of his Iowa cornfield to summon a wondrous event.   

“If you send it, they will come,” declares Society headquarters about its own momentous gathering. Last week staffers prepared 91 corrugated cardboard boxes of supplies for a freight truck headed to St. Louis for the 2012 Phi Kappa Phi Convention (taking place on Friday, Aug. 10 and Saturday, Aug. 11), plus Partnering for Success workshops preceding it (on Thursday, Aug. 9) with chapter officers, board members, and headquarters personnel.

The contents, mostly packed in 20 x 20-inch containers, weighed approximately 600 pounds and filled four pallets, held secure in shrink wrap.

Here’s an alphabetical list of many of the items:

Ballot boxes

Ballots

Board of Directors books

Chapter recognition certificates

Convention bags

Convention books

Council of Students manuals

Easels

Expense forms

First-aid kit

Flash drives

Fliers

Flip charts

Gifts for the outgoing Board of Directors (no spoilers here!)

Goodies for the convention bags (nope, not telling here, either!)

Hand sanitizer

Nametags

Office supplies

Packing tape

Partnering for Success binders

Phi Kappa Phi budget reports

Phi Kappa Phi merchandise (e.g., backpacks, caps, key chains, letter openers, license plate frames, onesies, paperweights, pens, shirts, ties, umbrellas)

Phi Kappa Phi signage

Pralines

Programs

Seating charts

Shrink wrap

Special T-shirt giveaways

Stationery

Tickets for events

Tylenol

Wrapping paper

Headquarters also air-mailed two boxes: one comprised of three laptop computers and a projector (39 pounds) and the other of a second projector (eight pounds).