Gamman Open House: Get To Know GBE, 11.13.2009
The Gamma Beta Epsilon Fraternity is inviting male medical students to its Grand Orientation entitled “Gamman Open House: Get to Know GBE” on November 13, 2009, Friday, 4:00 PM at Room 219, Medicine Building.
If you are planning to join a professional medical fraternity or would just like to entertain the option of joining one, this orientation might help enlighten you and help you decide. It is in the mind of most male UST medicine student the following questions:
a. Are medical fraternities still relevant in this time and age?
b. Is a medical fraternity for me and I for a medical fraternity?
c. If I am planning to join, why sould I choose GBE?
Get to know our fraternity more. Get to know us more. We might have the answers to your questions.
Light snacks will be served during the orientation.
Dinner and ‘Back to School’ Party to follow at the roof deck of RFS Building corner Dapitan and M. dela Fuente Streets, Sampaloc, Manila.
The Ionic Bonds of Gamman Brotherhood
Tomorrow, September 20, 2009, our fraternity, the Gamma Beta Epsilon will be celebrating its 39th year of existence. Being a Gamman brod in 21 of those 39 years, I look back with both joy and pride of that day when I made that fateful decision of joining a fraternity, of joining GBE.
Everybody has his reasons in joining a fraternity or not. At first thought, I knew that a fraternity was not for me nor was I for a fraternity.
When I was a medical student two decades back, I looked at fraternties in the wrong way. I saw them from the not-so-selfless view of what I could get and how it would benefit me in my quest to be a doctor. I concentrated on what I would gain in joining such a group, if ever. If I would have to undergo such an uncertain (and what i heard, hard) initiation process, it should be for a good cause. It must be worth it.
But I was wrong. Dead wrong.
It was not until an elder Gamman talked to me and changed my perspective. He told me simply that a fraternity was not for anyone who was joining to gain something, but for someone who was willing to give and share. Something akin to medicine – for then, and until now, I believed that being a doctor is not the business of getting, but of giving – one’s talent, time and if needed, treasure.
Right there and then, I signified my intention and underwent the process. At that time, I was already a third year medical student. It did not mater then that it seemed late in a day for a third year med student to be joining a fraternity. I got some sneers, jeers. Some supported, others shook their heads and saw madness.
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