"This stupid* can be nominated as a party manager while I'm sitting here, and you're just going to say welcome home to me? While handing me a beer, the reminded me to remember to donate to the SSD in time? Jason White sat in his brotherhood's meeting room, looked at the fraternity members at the round table, and asked in an unhappy tone.

With Charles and Eric graduating, the newly elected chairman Ian, vice chairman Ted nodded with a smile at this time: "That's right, because your state in the SSD has changed since the moment you took a break from school." ”

"It means that you are a successful person in the eyes of our SSD students, Jason, we are proud of you, you are now worth tens of millions, and you are admired by tens of thousands of people." Tommy picked up a cigarette and lit one, smiling at Jason.

Jason calmed down a little when he heard Tommy's flattery: "Very good, go on, don't stop, Tommy, if you can continue to praise for five minutes, you will receive my forgiveness." ”

Derek, who once partnered Jason and won the beer bowling championship in the rookie competition, then followed Tommy's words: "Of course, apart from the ethereal market value, the biggest difference between you and us in the future is that you don't have the opportunity to participate in the sorority activities. ”

Jason had closed his eyes and was eager to hear more praise, but then his fellow brother shattered his psychological defenses with a word, and at this time he slapped the table hard and scolded Tommy and Derek loudly:

“F*ckYou！ Derek! F*ckYou！ Tommy!! ”

Tommy turned to look at the new chairman, Ian Heywood: "Jason shouldn't be able to donate to us anytime soon." ”

Once the fraternity members leave the school, they will be moved to the list of school leavers by the SSD's internal student list, although they are still the undoubted SSD brothers, but don't expect everyone at Stanford SSD to treat you like a fool anymore*, you can always go back to Spartan House for a beer and a party, but they will never take the initiative to contact you, they will not call you every weekend to call you to come back to participate in club activities, they will no longer let you be responsible for solving a problem for a major party, maybe designing lighting, Whether it's transporting alcohol, or being in charge of contacting the sorority, etc., you can only attend the party, and you don't have the whole party feeling like you're involved in the whole thing.

"The reason why you would rather spend all the time you have available to study like crazy than take a break from school, now I know, I don't know if Holly regrets it, but I regret it now, if I had worked as hard as you did, I could have competed with Derek for the position of outreach manager now, I could still ...... Keep being a fool ......," Jason said with some embarrassment.

Tommy patted Jason on the shoulder, "Don't take it personally, I'm just going to be a little longer with the sorority, not very long, just a negligible three years." ”

"Thank you for sprinkling a handful of delicious salt on my wound, Tommy." Jason glared at Tommy, and then said casually:

"After knowing this brutal truth, I felt that the treatment of my three girlfriends every night would not make me happy, so I decided to add another one, and then send you the video, and donate a big screen TV to broadcast to you 24 hours a day......"

After all the SSD members heard about Jason's debaucherous life every night, they also broke their defenses, and Derek and another brother in the same period grabbed Jason and dragged him out of the conference room at Ian's urging.

The show-off of rich people is so monotonous and intuitive, but the lethality is amazing.

"Counting Jason, we have ten brothers leaving school this year, which means that there will be at least ten new faces joining in the upcoming school week, and the question in front of us is, what big names are we going to use for this year's recruitment night? Last year was Major General Ott, this year you think you should invite a living SSD alumnus who graduated from Stanford to attend? ”

"Did Mr. Gardner step down from the Stanford University Board of Trustees? If you want to invite him to visit again, I guess he should be willing to go back to campus and SSD to have a look. Tommy said a name as if at random.

John Gardner, a member of the SSD fraternity at Stanford University, served in the Italian branch of the Office of Strategic Operations of the United States Marine Corps during World War II, responsible for intelligence work, joined Carnegie Corporation at the end of World War II, sat as president of Carnegie Corporation for ten years, and then received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, served as Secretary of Health and Education in the presidential cabinet during the Lyndon Johnson presidency, served as a member of the Board of Trustees of Stanford University after leaving office, and founded a number of lobbying organizations. The main lobbying direction is focused on how to help the wealthy get tax free.

Everyone in the audience looked at the list of well-known alumni of Stanford SSD graduates in their hands, and Ted was the first to raise his head and give his opinion: "Tommy, I don't think Mr. Gardner is the most suitable person, I don't say that he is not good enough, but for newcomers, he is not cool enough, you know?" Rear Admiral Ott can at least invite us to open our tanks, shoot our guns, and give us military ranks, Mr. Gardner...... I always had the feeling that he was going to check my homework at any time, and he was very strict, and when he was a school trustee before, he would privately call the chairman of the Stanford SSD over every year and intimidate Charles and the previous chairmen, so that they would assure him that the SSD would not cause trouble in their hands, or he would be the first to dismiss it......"

Ian and others also nodded their heads again and again, Mr. Gardner is definitely the shadow of the SSD Stanford chapter, his own alumni are certainly worth showing off as the school director, but the SSD is therefore strictly required The taste is not good, every time the school has any public welfare activities or charity activities, if the SSD's presence is not strong enough, Mr. Gardner will suddenly appear in the fraternity house like a villain and talk to everyone.

"That's right, the rookies walked into our territory and were expecting something interesting to see, and then Mr. Gardner told them with a straight face that he was going to have the SSD members take one day a week to help the illiterate homeless people in the neighborhood take literacy lessons...... I guarantee no noob will find this cool. Derek added.

"How is Mr. David Garder? The roster shows that he updated his address the year before last and moved back from Hawaii to Los Altos, California, and yes, he lives in a small town next to Silicon Valley. Jason, who sneaked back, waved the roster in his hand and gave another name.

Hearing Jason's proposal, everyone turned to David Gard's information page, David Garder, whose real name is Donald David Garder, graduated in economics from Stanford University in 1957, is a member of the Stanford University Chapter of SSD, and is one of the three founders of the famous American folk band Kingston Trio, and the band's guitarist.

For this band, although Tommy, who is a time-traveler, has not heard its album, but he also knows the name of this band, it can be said that its establishment has made the revival of American folk music, and the first album released in 58 sold three million copies, which scared all music companies and directly changed the development trend of American music.

Even at that time, there was a rule in the entire American nightclub industry that if you wanted to make money, you had to have the resident singer learn the band's songs.

“Cool！” Everyone except Tommy gets excited.

There's nothing more appealing to those rookies than getting up close and personal with idols and talking.

Tommy sighed gloomily, it looked like he was going to find another opportunity to meet Mr. Gardner, no way, who made Mr. Gardner seem less well-known than Mr. Garder, although Mr. Gardner had an influence that was not known much higher than Mr. Gardner.

Oh, and by the way, after the end of his first year, Tommy moved out of his dorm room, but instead of living in a fraternity house, he rented a small six-bedroom villa near Stanford University.

Occasionally, Jason, Holly, Mark and Susan would stop by to discuss some issues with him, and if they were too late, they could go straight into the guest bedroom.

Tommy, who has no work schedule, seems to be completely relaxed, and he is in high spirits and delights with his SSD brothers, decorates the venue, designs the party plan, and everything seems to be back on track, and just like that, the new semester has arrived.

Recruitment night, because of the appearance of Mr. David Garder, a well-known alumnus of SSD and a folk revivalist, made SSD the biggest surprise at Stanford University that night, and even many members of other fraternities and sororities couldn't help but run over to see their idols up close.

From the moment the gray-haired Mr. Garder picked up his guitar, sat on a barstool, and sang the Kingston Trio's famous songs "Tom Dooley" and "500 Miles" in a vicissitudes of life, Tommy felt that Mr. Gard was indeed a better choice than the Mr. Gardner he proposed.

He didn't even know before that "500 Miles", a song that was still sung in the previous life until 2022, was actually recorded on the album by the other party as early as 1962, and the monotonous and palpitating guitar melody sounded, which made Tommy have a wonderful feeling that his previous life and this life seemed to be perfectly intertwined because of this song.

The only thing that upset Tommy was when Mr. Gard sang the song "Tom Dooley", and the SSD bastards, led by Jason, directly replaced Tom Dooley with Tommy Hawk in the chorus, on the grounds that if they had chosen Mr. Gardner as Tommy suggested, there would never have been such a dazzling SSD recruitment night tonight.

So the lyrics become: "When the sun rises tomorrow, it will be the death of Tommy Hawke, bow your head, Tommy Hawke, you are innocent of death, Tommy Hawke, you should be sentenced to a palace punishment as a punishment, Tommy Hawke, you should be hanged on a white oak tree, Tommy Hawke ......"

Guy Guy even asked curiously why the brothers sang like this when he took a photo with Tommy, and Ted intimately reported to Mr. Garder, saying that everyone present wanted to invite Mr. Gard you, only the stupid Tommy objected, and proposed to invite the former director of the school, but fortunately, the SSD brothers insisted on their own opinions, so that Mr. Gard and you appeared tonight.

After listening, Mr. Gard plucked the strings and sang with a smile: "You are innocent, Tommy Hawk, I'm going to cut off your Dick, Tommy Hawk ......"

For example, before the start of the new party's initiation night the next day, when Ian and Ted asked Tommy, the party manager, about the cost of drinks and the upper limit of the event fund, Tommy bit his cigar and asked with a domineering face:

"All I can do is promise that as long as there are people who can continue to drink, I'll never have an unlimited supply of alcohol, or rather, what a fucking limit?"

"This is the most generous you've ever been, Tommy, and you mean you're willing to privately support a portion of your drink expenses?" Ian and Ted were very pleased with Tommy's generosity: "We made the right decision to choose you as the party manager. ”

"Of course it's the right decision, but it's not me who paid for it, Jason's stupid* will get the drink bill at the end of the year." Here's Tommy's shameless answer at the time:

"I have to make sure that he has enough presence in SSD for the next three years, that others can not be with his brothers, and his heart can not be with his brothers, but his money must be with his brothers."

"On behalf of all the students at SSD Stanford, thank you for your contributions." Ian said to Tommy politely: "Be sincere when saying thanks, be friendly, remember to help yourself buy accident insurance, SSD is not responsible for any casualties of members." ”

As for the new rookie of SSD, Tommy did not deliberately choose, he is the party manager of SSD, and the successor training of this position is not in a hurry, although the two positions of party manager and outreach manager will basically be easier to run for chairman and vice chairman because of more opportunities to show, but Tommy has little interest in taking care of SSD, and he is not ready to conduct elections and forcibly usurp the throne before Ian voluntarily resigns.

His next focus ......

"SSD Stanford Chapter Veterans Association Fundraising Charity Dinner?" Ian and Ted looked at Tommy, "You mean, we're here this year?" ”

Tommy nodded: "SSD has been established for more than 140 years, and the Stanford chapter has been established for more than 100 years, and our chapter has never hosted it as a host. ”

"But we send people to it every year, and we donate or raise money every year by hosting various other events, and honestly, Tommy, this is California, and my brothers are probably not interested in hosting this kind of event, and we're a private university, not a military college." Ian looked down for a moment, then looked up at Tommy and said.

The SSD held an annual charity dinner to raise money for veterans, and the venue would change depending on the organizer, but after World War II, it was mainly concentrated in Texas, Illinois, Maryland, New York, Connecticut, and even Tommy's hometown of Rhode Island.

West Point in New York, the Naval Academy in Maryland, the Naval Academy in Rhode Island, Texas State University, and other SSD military alumni chapters are the main ones that host such events.

"California has the soil to hold charity dinners, there is Hollywood, there are stars, celebrities, no worse than New York, where West Point is located, why can't it be held?"

"Tommy, we don't have as much money as the other side, and more importantly, we don't have that much influence in the military, so the most we can do is call the commander-in-chief of the California National Guard, Major General Ott, but the other party can get the Secretary of Defense to attend, that's the difference." Ted also spoke:

"When Charles was there before, he had thought about this problem, but after his careful thinking and calculation, based on the calculation of 1,000 dollars for tickets to the charity dinner, Major General Ott can only sell 30 invitations at most, that is, 30,000 yuan, this number can only make us laughing, and the minimum fundraising record at West Point is a fucking 180,000, which is six times higher than ours."

The so-called charity dinner is to sell tickets at a high price and then donate the money earned to the veterans' association.

You have to let those rich SSD living alumni, or ordinary people who want to participate, be willing to buy your tickets, and then talk to the big people attending this charity dinner up close, and take a group photo, which can be used as your capital to brag about it in the future.

For the Stanford chapter, the challenge was to get the big people to buy the tickets, and at the same time, to convince all the alumni who were still alive with the SSD.

For example, you can't invite Jim Carter, a former president who is willing to stand on the stage if he gives money, this guy is a big advocate of racial equality, black suffrage, and even hung a picture of Martin Luther King Jr. in the halls of the parliament.

If a few bigwigs in the computer industry are invited to attend, the SSD branch members of military academies will not send people to attend the meeting, because they are not interested in paying out of their own pockets to learn about the history of computer development.

So every year for this event, Charles Samon takes two or three rookies to the meeting, contributes 35,000 ticket money, and then hands over the money raised by his club through various activities, and finally takes some photos to take a group photo.

"I mean, if you don't object, I'll ask Jason from EFF to donate a $500,000 dinner donation in the name of an alumni, and then design the entire charity dinner plan around the cost of $500,000."

"Jason has a brother and boss like you, it's really lucky Tommy, you said you would have paid 500,000 yourself, and we wouldn't have talked so much nonsense." Ian was stunned for a moment after listening to Tommy's words, and then said to Tommy angrily:

"No wonder before Charles resigned, he specifically told me to take care of Tommy's stupid*, the Brotherhood is like a Troja existence to him, put it on when he wants to use it, and throw it in a drawer when he doesn't use it, what the hell are you doing? Ready to sell the veterans as commodities? ”

Tommy looked at Ian dissatisfied: "Don't sell veterans, I just want to expand some interpersonal relationships, and it's also good for SSD, don't look at me like this, I'm donating a fucking half a million with real money, this kind of dinner scale, not to mention West Point, the White House charity dinner is about the same, and it was held during your tenure with Ted, two stupid*, enough for the two of you to blow to death, which is an honor that Charles didn't have when he was in office." ”

Ted raised a middle finger at Tommy: "First of all, the money must arrive first, and then you write the plan, and we will sign it for you when we arrive, and then hand it over to the general meeting, get out, by the way, remember to write me and Ian in front of your name on the plan, silly*." ”

"That's a good idea." Ian high-fived Ted and said, "Remember to call Charles." ”

Tommy gave them a middle finger and walked out of the room.

……

Sophia drove the Fleetwood Brougham, a Cadillac blue that she bought with her scholarship, and looked through the rearview mirror at Tommy, who was sitting in the back seat and flipping through a stack of old newspapers:

"You broke up with Renee, right? I mean, in this case, you're still prepared...... Ask her father to help you design the overall plan for the charity dinner, and give you some concessions for the sake of your relationship with his daughter? ”

Tommy looked through the dozens of newspapers in his hand, mainly the "Army Times", "Navy Times", "Air Force Times" and "Marine Corps Times" under the jurisdiction of the American newspaper group, and when he heard Sophia's words, he said without raising his head:

"Nobody told me that I couldn't take care of my father's business after breaking up with my girlfriend, uh...... By the way, you remember to call Reni and ask her to remember to take away the clothes she left at my place the other night, and if she doesn't, I'll be the maid she gave to me in the villa. ”

"Didn't you break up? Didn't you say she had a new boyfriend? Sophia's eyes widened in disbelief: "You guys ...... again Together? ”

Tommy found a piece of news from time to time, and then circled it with a marker: "No, it's just that there is a guy from the School of Geology who is pursuing her, and Reni wants me to give her some advice as an ex-boyfriend, based on my performance in all aspects, and make some comparisons with the other party, but when we talk about the back, the topic is a little deeper......"

"Let's change the subject, Tommy, I don't want to listen any more, so what are you going to ask me to do for you at the beginning of the new semester?" Sophia has been away from Tommy for a summer vacation, and she is almost getting used to normal human thinking again, until school starts and Tommy's bastard finds her again.

Tommy always responded: "Go to Mr. Benjamin Moore, express our needs, let him come up with an overall design plan for the charity dinner, and then contact Delia and ask her to call my residence after work, I have some questions to talk to her in Washington, D.C., and call Senator Mr. Pete Wilson's office and ask him when he has time, I want to visit him, and that's the plan for today." ”

"Then you can totally ...... Call me and tell me about these arrangements instead of asking me to drive over. Sophia said, holding the steering wheel.

"Pick me up and take me to class, my accommodation is five kilometers from the school, otherwise why do you think I strongly recommend that you buy a car, and go out of my way to accompany you to choose a car in your busy schedule? Miss Sophia O'Connor? Parking in front of you is OK. Tommy looked up, looked outside, and put the newspaper in his back seat:

"Don't mess with the newspaper, and then we will drive back to my place together after school, and I will continue to read the newspaper, and I wish you a happy day."

Sophia stopped slowly, looking ahead: "I wish you a happy day like me, Tommy Jerk Hawk, I don't have time in the afternoon, I'm going to ......"

"Los Angeles." Tommy, who put down the newspaper, looked at Sophia and suddenly interrupted her by saying the name of Los Angeles.

Sophia didn't react: "Wat? ”

"What do you think about calling out to Susan, Jason, Holly and your other friends for your birthday, let's go to Los Angeles for two days? I remember you once chatted with Holly about wanting to visit Universal Studios, and we can make that little wish come true on your birthday. Tommy gave Sophia an inquiring look.

Sophia took a few deep breaths: "Don't tempt me, I won't be fooled, Tommy." ”

"So what?" Tommy opens the car door, but doesn't rush to get out of the car, waiting for Sophia's response.

Sophia lowered her head: "Yes, I'm actually not very busy in the afternoon. ”

"See you in the afternoon." Tommy got his ass out of the back seat and walked towards the campus: "By the way, when I call Delia, ask her to help me ask Pinkerton, ask those who are ruthless and can stay up late if they can help recommend two good-looking bodyguards and drivers, rotate the work system, the price is not too high, if the salary is too high, you can only continue to work part-time, repeat the employer's requirements." ”

"I can help you get beaten, I can beat people for you, and most importantly, I get the lowest pay." Sophia summed it up succinctly.

Tommy turned and walked away: "It's better to be a retired veteran, I happened to be busy helping the veterans raise donations recently, and providing jobs for two retired veterans is also a plus." ”

In the previous chapter, a reader summarized it too well, the author and the protagonist don't believe in disrespecting women and feelings at all, so they can't write that kind of plot well.

I want to say, that's right, just don't let my daughter-in-law know, okay? I respect my daughter-in-law very much in reality, and I just want to sprinkle a little bit of wildness in the book......

(End of chapter)