The lion’s lore A PUBLICATION OF THE KANSAS BETA CHAPTER OF SIGMA ALPHA EPSILON SPRING 2005 INSIDE: Kansas Beta Launches Web Site Focused Alumni Support Provides Foundation on Recruitment for Chapter Success 2 reetings Brothers, allowing us to analyze key information about traffic G Kansas Beta has launched a new Web site on our site. This valuable data provides information, Alumnus Spotlight designed to assist the chapter with recruitment. This including the number of visitors to our site, how they 2 Web site provides the fraternity with a tremendous were directed to our site, what pages they viewed, prospecting tool and greatly assists in disseminating and how long they spent on each page. I expect this Thank You valuable information about our fraternity to high information to prove extremely useful in identifying Loyal Alumni school seniors and their parents throughout the country. areas of future development. 3 Furthermore, visitors are able to complete online scholarship applications and contact our recruitment Please take a moment to visit the Web site and be ΣΑΕ Alumnus chairman via e-mail with questions or requests for sure to share our Web address with any prospective Honored additional information. member in your area. 4 The ΣΑΕ Web site is hosted by Kansas State Phi Alpha, Undergraduate University and may be accessed by a link from their Mike Widman ’93 Achievements Web site or directly by using the following address: Chapter Advisor 6 www.ksu.edu/sigalph. Upon request, the KSU [email protected] Webmaster will provide “Web trends data” to ΣΑΕ, Kansas Beta Open House Kansas Beta entertained about 150 incoming students and their families, mothers of current ΣΑΕs, and alumni with a cookout during K-State’s Open House in April. It was estimated that nearly 20,000 prospective students and family members attended the campus-wide event. The lion’s lore page 2 Alumni Support Provides Foundation for Chapter Success ansas Beta continues to rely on the • The second option is to send your gift K support of alumni in order to finan- directly to the Kansas Beta House Kansas Beta cially stabilize the chapter, due to necessary Corporation Board, using the return Campaign Status renovations to the chapter house several envelope enclosed in this newsletter. years ago. Total Pledged One way to ensure that Kansas Beta ΣΑΕ $824,865 There are two methods in which maintains its tradition of excellence at alumni may make gifts to Kansas Beta: Kansas State is by providing for the chapter Contributors in your will. If you are interested in making 169 • The first option is a gift sent directly to an estate gift to Kansas Beta to be directed the ΣΑΕ Foundation, specifically for the chapter house or scholarships, Total Received earmarked for the Kansas Beta Building please contact Charlie Hostetler ’60 at $596,091 Fund #841. The gift will then be [email protected] or (785) 537-1600. forwarded to Kansas Beta and is tax Total Pledges Outstanding deductible. Gifts should be addressed to In order to receive the ΣΑΕ quarterly mag- $228,774 the attention of Don Sourhada, assistant azine, The Record, and stay in touch with ΣΑΕ Current Mortgage executive director of the news from the Fraternity Service Center, $800,000 Foundation, 1856 Sheridan Road, send an e-mail to [email protected] with your Evanston, IL 60201-3837. Don’s phone name, chapter, and graduation year. number is (800) 233-1856, ext. 225. Alumnus Spotlight Ernie Barrett ’51 ho has a larger-than-life statue in for the NCAA championship. Ernie’s #22 jersey Wfront of Bramlage Coliseum? ΣΑΕ Before his days at K-State, was retired this past Ernie Barrett ’51. He is recognized as Mr. Ernie was a high school star in season and now K-State for his many contributions to his his hometown of Wellington, hangs in Bramlage alma mater over a lifetime of service. Kansas. Coliseum along with two other All- Ernie is best known as the 6’ 3” All- Following graduation, Ernie Americans, Bob American guard on the 1950-51 K-State played two seasons with the Boozer and Jack Parr. basketball team, finishing second to Boston Celtics. He returned to Kentucky in the 1951 NCAA basketball K-State as an assistant basketball Ernie’s present project tournament. This team opened Ahearn Field coach, beginning his long asso- is a $5 million six- House and is the only K-State team to play ciation with the K-State athletics phase renovation at department. the Vanier Football Complex north of Ernie was the K-State athletics KSU Football Stadium. director from 1969 to 1971 and It includes improving has been a major fundraiser for the training room the past 20 years. During this facility and adding time, he was involved with space to the equip- every project to upgrade K-State ment room and athletics facilities: the Dev weight room. Work A larger-than-life statue of Ernie Nelson press box at KSU will begin after the stands to honor the great basketball Football Stadium; the expansion player and ΣΑΕ alumnus. 2005 football season. Ernie Barrett ’51 receives a few tips from of the baseball stadium; indoor Coach Jack Gardner. Gardner took K-State football practice facility; renovation of the Ernie and his wife, Bonnie, lived in Wichita to basketball prominence following track and field facility; and development of for many years but now reside in the Colbert World War II and is a member of the Colbert Hills Golf Course. Hills area in Manhattan. College Basketball Hall of Fame. page 3 sigma alpha epsilon Thank You Loyal Alumni hank you to the following alumni who have generously total to Kansas Beta, beginning in 1996. If there are any errors in Tcontributed $824,865 to Kansas Beta. The support that Kansas this list, we sincerely apologize. Please contact Charlie Hostetler ’60 Beta has received from the alumni listed below has allowed us to at [email protected] or (785) 537-1600 with any corrections. renovate our chapter house and helps ΣΑΕ remain competitive at K-State. Without alumni support, our chapter would not be as Thank you, again, for your ongoing support of Kansas Beta—your successful as it is. Alumni are listed according to their lifetime giving interest and involvement in the chapter makes a difference! Founders Society Jerry Prather ’66 Timothy Robertson ’88 Korb Maxwell ’73 $50,000 & above Daniel Fankhauser ’67 Mark Lacy ’89 Gregory Hattan ’74 Bruce Johnson ’43 Rodney Nicholson ’67 Kollin Knox ’92 Terrance Garvert ’77 Charles Chandler ’49 Terry Crofoot ’69 Mike Widman ’93 Robert Bernica ’79 Charles Hostetler ’60 William Dillingham ’70 Bret Vondemkamp ’00 Gregory Trempy ’81 Joseph Galichia ’64 William Shaw ’75 Matt Thompson ’01 Gregory Shamburg ’82 Dixon Doll ’64 Stephen Lacy ’76 Chad Charlton ’02 Shawn Brantingham ’83 Kansas Beta Society Alan Stetson ’80 Bill and Julie Dickerson Darald Hough ’84 Clayton Headley ’90 James Schmidt ’85 $25,000 to $49,999 Brotherhood Scott Dalgleish ’86 Robert Campbell ’50 Archon Society Society Pelham Adams ’55 Mathew Farris ’86 $1,000 to $4,999 Up to $999 Craig Schultz ’87 John Stack ’55 Robert Zebold ’32 Fay Whiteside ’30 William Braddock ’57 Curt Coffman ’90 Ernest Swanson ’43 Matthew Betton ’36 Curtis Crawford ’90 James Graves ’57 Kenneth Stewart ’46 J.W. Linn ’41 Mikel Stout ’58 Mark Schmidt ’92 Frederick Kramer ’47 Robert Alexander ’42 Reid Skinner ’92 Joseph Downey ’59 Robert Muirhead ’48 James Colt ’42 Joseph Stout ’67 Trent Wanamaker ’93 Willis Hart ’49 J.D. Durham ’44 Donald Yeakel ’97 Violet Society Daniel Phillips ’50 Everett Stephenson ’48 Shawn Lanter ’98 $10,000 to $24,999 Ralph Skoog ’52 Henry Deal ’49 Alex Judd ’98 Raymond Bert ’39 John Costello ’52 John Pierce ’49 Nick Scherzer ’98 Paul Martin ’43 Paul Arnold ’54 Garland Lichty ’50 Michael Gower ’98 Dale Reed ’55 Robert Landon ’54 William Morgan ’50 Jim Boomer ’98 Larry Coffman ’65 Wesley McMillen ’55 William Hull ’51 Gregory Fendler ’99 Charles Myers ’66 John Tangeman ’57 Charles Weathers ’53 William Burns ’99 John Morgan ’75 Chadeayne Sims ’57 Vernon Imes ’53 Mark Keogh ’99 Todd Hansen ’93 Donald Taylor ’58 Edward Giffin ’55 Casey Kershner ’99 Charles Wingert ’59 Charles Hill ’55 Marc Whitmore ’99 Purple & Gold Madison Jones ’60 Terence Murphy ’58 Joshua Steging ’99 Society John Whittier ’61 Milan Borota ’58 Matthew Lavery ’99 $5,000 to $9,999 John Barlow ’62 Norman Bressler ’58 Randy Dible ’99 William Dunn ’28 John Dial ’62 James Vader ’59 Michael Tuttle ’99 William Beezley ’40 Richard Mistler ’62 Frank Chrisbens ’59 Matthew Bleything ’99 Bruce Hughes ’50 Roger Coulter ’62 Stanley Peterson ’60 Matthew Krull ’99 Ernie Barrett ’51 Thomas Mistler ’63 Stephen Lester ’60 Andrew Krull ’00 Cleve Humbert ’52 Darrell Volz ’67 Robert Reid ’60 Tanner Woolsey ’00 Robert Allison ’54 Robert Judd ’67 David Chelesnik ’61 Christopher McCurdy ’00 Edwin Wingate ’54 Mark Marling ’69 James Breneman ’64 Craig Devitt ’00 Franklin Houser ’55 Stephen Burris ’69 Brian Minturn ’66 Adam Wilkey ’00 John Jung ’57 Curtis Bock ’72 James Latimer ’66 Derek Stanley ’00 Jerry Goss ’58 Steven Brewer ’78 Kenneth Underwood ’67 Travis Davis ’01 William Sinderson ’58 Charles Elsea ’80 Carl Schwab ’69 Eric Hintz ’01 Robert Kissick ’58 Paul Lacy ’81 George Miserendino ’69 Mike Hopper ’01 Joe Wilcox ’58 Brian Calovich ’82 James Brock ’69 Michael Davenport ’01 James Grier ’59 Michael Daniels ’82 Michael Debold ’72 Chris Esquibel ’02 Chester Wilcox ’61 David Calovich ’83 T. Mark Anwander ’72 Spencer Puls ’64 Michael Beck ’83 Russell Bishop ’73 The lion’s lore page 4 ΣΑΕ Alumnus Honored APARTMENT by Capitol Area Alumni Club LIVING IN MANHATTAN oward Liebengood ’64, former funny and make it into an event, when it HSenate Sergeant-at-Arms and lobbyist, really wasn’t much of an event.