the REVIEWST. ANTHONY HALL • Spring 2021

COVER ART: “FISTORY” BY BRO. WESLEY UWAEZUOKE, A’18 FROM THE EDITOR

reetings from 2021! It’s hard to believe that 2020 is over, because that year felt interminable. Most of the world is approaching just under or just over a year of living in lockdowns and G social distancing at some level. A year ago, picturing my life under lockdown and socially distant was hard, and it was terrible to con- front the fact that I might not get to see my family, my friends, and my colleagues. But one thing remained clear throughout the year, and that is how grateful I am for Delta Psi. My siblings, brothers and sisters, got me through the year in so many ways, as I hope did yours. When there is not much in the way of physical closeness or camara- derie, I feel confident that we can still maintain our bonds. But it is also with great sadness and frustration that I think about the ways that my and other siblings’ experiences have been shaped by racism this year. In a time when we are all worried about our loved ones, whether they live near or far from us, some of us feel the added strain of navigating violent and vile aggressions against our communities on racial or ethnic terms, the stress of being unable to cross the borders we need or want to, and the difficulty of facing extended separation from our families of origin or, in some cases, unsafe proximity. Whatever the case, one thing that living through a pandemic is teaching me is that sur- vival has many applications and many meanings. Sometimes, surviving means doing the least possible to make it through. Sometimes, surviving means relearning our relationship to work and play, to family and friends. Sometimes, surviving means doing what makes you happy or the happiest you’ve felt lately. And yes, sometimes, surviving even means stepping back from commitments to evaluate what you need for your own well-being. We’ve strengthened our bonds in the past year, reminded ourselves of the order’s ability to endure and of our dedication to supporting each other through unprecedented challenges. But we should acknowledge the brothers, sisters, and siblings who have stepped down or back from their activity in the fraternity too, who have had to make difficult decisions to survive their current realities. Are they any less dear to us for that choice? I submit, my siblings, that they are not. Constancy and fidelity are jointly held by all of us, but they are not contracts. As members, we choose this order, and more fundamentally, we get to choose what that choice means to us. As an order, we have to be able to hold each other with love, even when that love is at a distance, and even when that love looks like accountability. I hope we can keep this in mind as we carry on through this year. It is with excitement, humility, and gratitude that I begin my term as H.Fpop alongside my wonderful fellow G.C. officers! I am honored to get to facilitate and amplify your voices as editor of The Review. I hope that you enjoy this issue and find something that speaks to you in its pages.

Respectfully submitted and LITB, L.M., Σ’21

2 A LOOK INSIDE THE REVIEW • Spring 2021 VISIONS FOR THE HALL Inaugural Remarks of Incoming H.D. E. Bro. 4 Geoffrey Kenly Walker, Σ’67, E’21 Inaugural Remarks of Incoming H.D. M.H.&E. 7 Bro. Nicholas Brent Hammond, Φ’99, I’10 AWARD WINNERS L.D. Award Winner Sis. Antonella Masini Ortiz, T’17 8 “Centimeters to Inches” L.D. Award Runner-Up Sis. Anna Kothuis, A’18 8 “‘Bahala Na’” MacNelly Award Winner Bro. Wesley Uwaezuoke, 10 A’18 UNDERGRADUATES 11 Spring 2021 Undergraduate Reports St. Anthony Hall The Fraternity of Delta Psi SAEF GRANTS SAEF Is Ready To Help Active Chapters 15 ALPHA – Columbia University Α DELTA – University of Pennsylvania Δ INSTITUTIONAL ADVANCEMENT EPSILON – Trinity College Ε Fostering Alumni Support and Financial Health THETA –Princeton University Θ 16 IOTA – Rochester, New York Ι KAPPA – Brown University Κ ALUMNI XI – University of North Carolina Ξ Health/Care: A Community Issue SIGMA – Yale University Σ 19 Interview with E. Sis. Dr. Mary I. O’Connor, Σ’76 TAU – Massachusetts Institute of Technology Τ UPSILON – University of Virginia Υ NECROLOGY PHI – University of Mississippi Φ 21 Deaths Recorded Since Fall 2020 Remembering Bro. Charles Hill, E’66, The Man 23 Who Found “The Scream” 2021 Grand Chapter Officers St. Anthony Hall Nicholas B. Hammond, Φ’99, I’10, H.D. National Headquarters Ellen F. Sweeney, K’00, Φ’07, H.S. Phone: 607-366-0555 Richard E. Cleary, E’82, H.Dncq. Fax: 607-533-9218 Email: [email protected] Sweyn M. Venderbush, Σ’15, H.F.W. L.M. Σ’21, H.Fpop. The Review is funded by the St. Anthony Angelica M. Vielma, Θ’16, H.Ebul. Educational Foundation and St. Anthony Hall. 3 VISIONS FOR THE HALL

Inaugural Remarks of Incoming H.D. E. Bro. Geoffrey Kenly Walker,Σ ’67, E’21, to the 173rd Annual Convention of the Fraternity of Delta Psi on January 11, 2020

Excellent Sisters and Brothers; First, I learned from my year as H.S. that really good things Honorable Sisters and Brothers; happen every time we talk and work with one another, espe- Most Noble Sisters, Brothers, and cially across chapters and across generations. Our bylaws pro- Siblings; vide that the H.D. is supposed to appoint specified standing Worthy Sisters, Brothers, and Siblings; committees at the annual G.C., along with ad hoc committees. Sisters, Brothers, and Siblings All I know I will need a lot of help from a lot of people, and good things will happen when lots of us get involved, so I decided it I ask you to imagine what strong emo- would be smart to make those bylaw-mandated appointments. tions I feel being entrusted with stewardship of The Hall, and And I will do that right now! This committee information will how difficult it is to find the right words. Who am I? I joined all be posted on the website, but I want to use this opportunity the Sigma Chapter in the fall of 1967, my junior year. When to ask each of the people I am about to name to stand up and be I graduated in June 1969, I had been admitted to Yale Law recognized. And I urge you to follow up with them, in person School and felt good about my future. I got married that sum- or through the website, as you are interested and able to partici- mer and found an apartment. Then, in August, I got drafted. pate—the more the better! The next two years knocked me down—hard. The Vietnam era • The H.D. appoints two ex-H.D.s to the Executive Com- was a fraught time to serve in the military. My wife left me for mittee, and (please stand) Excellent Sister Tildy Davidson someone else. It’s a long story, and this isn’t the time to tell it, and Excellent Sister Sandy Carielli have agreed to serve but trust me; at the end of my two years in the Army, I felt next year. Tildy will also serve on the Policy Committee. utterly alone, angry, alienated, and depressed. Thank you both! When I returned to New Haven, I took to stopping by The • The chair of the Grand Chapter Organizing Committee for Hall for coffee on the way to classes—Yale Law School is only next January’s G.C. at Xi is Sister Fiona Matthews. The H.D. a block away. I came by St. A’s some afternoons to shoot pool is supposed to appoint the chair of this committee two years with Sigma’s retired janitor and later admitted brother, Armand in advance. The chair for the 2022 G.C. at Tau is Honor- Dupre. Welcomed by Bt. David Wilk and other active mem- able Brother John Yazbek, at least until he finds a successor. bers, I found myself going to Thursday meetings. I began to Please stand, both of you. Thanks Fiona and John. feel back at home in The Hall. I began to recover. In October • The Volunteer Support Committee, whose report we have 1972, I danced with Ann Kennedy at a Hall party. We have heard, will be chaired by Sister KJ Garner. Thanks, KJ! been together ever since. I am deeply, deeply grateful for Delta • The Archives Committee—many snaps for the new Psi. I love The Hall. My heart is in it. archives, please!—will be chaired by Excellent Brother Jim The purpose of this address is to tell you my goals for the Wilson. Please stand. Thanks. coming year. To do that, I must start by saluting the work of my • The Communications Committee’s functions will be folded immediate predecessors. Excellent Brother Gary Stahlberg is the into a new ad hoc committee I will describe in a minute. most organized person you will ever know, and, at the end of his • The Finance Coordination Committee will be chaired by tenure a year ago, there were no dangling threads. Excellent Sister soon-to-be Honorable Brother Peter Wender. Please stand. Tildy Davidson’s genius has been to focus on our undergraduates, Thanks. communicating in a deeply personal way that the essential work of • The Law Committee is primarily responsible for internal the G.C. officers and the essential purpose of the whole National fraternity documents. It will continue to be chaired by infrastructure is to help each of our unique chapters to be the best Excellent Brother Gary Stahlberg on an interim basis, but possible version of who and what that chapter wants to be. we need a successor, as Gary will be serving as vice presi- Unlike Gary, I cannot keep a fully thought-through dent of 1847 this year. Thanks, Gary. agenda in my head for an entire meeting. Unlike Tildy, I can- • The St. Anthony Fund Committee will be chaired by Brother not remember everyone’s name and all the details of our prior Dan Oldham (please stand), and will include Brother Mar- conversations. In fact, I have a dreadful inability to call up cus Cox, Sister Julieta Gruszko, Lady Brother Whitney Gul- names—it’s a learning disability called dysnomia; I looked it den, Sister Rebecca Harless, and Brother Eric Simpson. up. Fortunately for the order, I don’t need to do what Gary and • The Ceremony Committee will be chaired by Sibling Peter Tildy did, because they already did that. Pendergrass—many snaps for all their work, please, as I ask Thinking about how best to help our individual chapters and all of the committee to stand—and includes Brother Spen- how best to further the supportive work of our National institutions cer Brody, Brother Marcus Cox, Sister Miriam Klein, Sister during my term as H.D., I have come to two main conclusions. Ace Lane, Excellent Brother Liam Murphy, Sister Rebecca 4 Price, and Brother Matt Wood. I also want to thank all the An anniversary like that is too precious to squander, and I Sigma undergraduates for their outstanding work as hosts, am elated to say that Alice Rha (please stand) has agreed to guides, and Dw.s for the 173rd G.C.: Sister Brandi Rich- chair new committee number one, our 175th Anniversary ardson, Sister Phyllis Mugodza, Sister Sofia Menemenlis, Committee. Beyond planning great celebrations in 2022, Brother Carlos Guanche, Sister Mina Lezairli, Brother Xan the central purpose Alice and I envision for the 175th Anni- Minan, Brother Jack Huang, Sister Tereza Podhazska, Sis- versary Committee over the next two years will be to make ter Samar Allibhoy, Sister Veronica Sosa, Sister Cerys Hol- that 2022 anniversary the target date for bringing our insti- stege, Brother Kofi Bulluck, Sister Carrie Zhou, Brother tutional resources, networking capabilities, and website Jake Thrasher, Brother Fernando Tejos-Suarez, and Sister functions into 21st-century mode. For the next two years, Chie Xu. Thanks, and I’m sorry if I failed to name anyone. the 175th Anniversary Committee will incorporate and be • The Graduate Organizations Support Committee will be the Communications Committee and a lot more. Here are chaired by Brother John Yazbek. Thanks, John. some specifics: Institutional Resource Materials: At the chapter I am also reappointing four of last year’s ad hoc committees: level, hand-offs can be iffy, and new officers can waste time • The Census Committee will be chaired by Excellent and energy trying to track down precedents or figure out on Brother Tad Tharp. Thanks, Tad. their own what they need to do and when. The Tau Chap- • The Insurance Committee will be chaired by Brother ter has digitized manuals and timelines so their new officers Brewster Perkins, and will include Excellent Brother Char- can instead focus on creating more fun, value, and success lie Ingersoll and Brother Emily McLean. in their positions. Brother John Yazbek (please stand) has • The Leadership Education Committee will be chaired by offered to coordinate making these Tau resources available Honorable Sister Jordan Price. to other chapters as templates for their own needs. Thank • St. Anthony Against Sexual Assault will be chaired by Sister you, John. At the G.C. level, I task myself and each of the Fiona Matthews, joined by Lady Brother Whit Gulden and other G.C. officers to organize, digitize, and preserve in me. Thanks! a properly protected corner of the National website the manuals, calendars, policy statements, and other resource A year as H.S. clarified in my mind how important but materials our successors will need. difficult it is to keep our unique, complex, and wholly vol- Member Data: Our 175th anniversary is a great oppor- unteer-dependent infrastructure functioning well. My second tunity to develop a much more robust member database. conclusion about what I should do as H.D.—beyond getting Every chapter makes its own efforts to keep in contact with lots of help—was that I should look for ways to streamline our alums and to update personal, professional, and contact processes and to provide readier and more reliable access to data. So does National. The 175th Anniversary Committee the resources that new leaders and members need every year, will assist these efforts, as well as efforts to supplement them or even each semester. I want us to make it as easy as possible with resources available from colleges and from Elevate. Our to participate in St. Anthony Hall and to accomplish our best 175th anniversary will likewise be the rallying point for a work for the order. With this in mind, I am appointing three concerted and multifaceted effort to get alumni and under- new ad hoc committees. grads to go to the website and fill in or update their pro- • The G.C. at Xi next January will kick off our 175th year, and files. In addition to the digital data base, Excellent Brother the G.C. at Tau in 2022 will mark our 175th anniversary. Tad Tharp (please stand) has agreed to chair new committee

G.C. 2020 5 number two, our 175th Anniversary Blue Book Committee, Maintenance of the National Archives: I ask SAEF to which will capture a snapshot of all this data and publish the work with the Archives Committee and the ATA to set up most thorough, up-to-date, and history-packed Blue Book and fund an annual summer internship for an undergradu- ever, available to those who, like me, find a physical book ate or recent graduate member to work on our archives. compellingly useful. Thank you, Tad. • Thank you, Liam and Justin. Networking Capabilities: Undergraduates and recent • Following up on Excellent Sister Karen Caswelch’s report graduates need and are keen to access the career and com- on behalf of 1847, Inc., I ask 1847’s president and vice munity connections and resources of our roughly 9,000 president, Excellent Sister Karen Caswelch and Excellent living members. Many older graduates are happy to help Brother Gary Stahlberg (please stand), to request that the and even mentor our undergraduates and recent graduates. 1847 board consider how 1847 can help all of our chap- The 175th Anniversary Committee will prioritize network- ters meet the costs of being fully represented at our annual ing tools and information for all our members. G.C. meetings. Website: The heart of the 175th Anniversary Commit- To frame that discussion, I propose that 1847 adopt tee’s work will be our National’s website and, hopefully, a a program to underwrite the registration costs of the four National St. A’s app that young people will love and even delegates and two alternates that our bylaws say each I can use. But don’t ask me about digitization and web- undergraduate chapter should send to G.C. And I ask that sites. As a Jefferson Airplane song of my generation (called 1847 determine the specifics of its program in time to be “White Rabbit,” not “White Claw”) put it, “Go ask Alice. discussed at 1-2-3 in September and implemented so that I think she’ll know.” our undergraduates can take full advantage of the program Which is a slick (pun intended) segue to new commit- to attend the 2021 G.C. in Chapel Hill. tee number three, the 175th Anniversary Songbook Com- • Thank you, Karen and Gary. mittee, chaired by Brother Eric Simpson (please stand). Our I will sound one final theme in closing these remarks: songbook is overdue for a refresh. We will add pieces debuted privilege and the ethical obligations that attend privilege. Fifty since the last songbook was published, and I know Eric will years ago, when I was an undergraduate, the word “exclusive” solicit new songs from every chapter! Thank you, Eric. was widely used and accepted as a positive descriptor for many I said “Ask Alice,” and I hope you will approach her and organizations, including I suppose St. Anthony Hall. I was a join others who have agreed to serve with Alice Rha on the scholarship student, but I got to go to Yale, which was a great 175th Anniversary Committee, including, as of a couple hours privilege. I got to join St. Anthony Hall and entered a greater ago: Sister Laura Seide Bishop, Brother Vince Chamblee, Excel- bastion of privilege. The Hall was a blessing to me, but it wasn’t lent Brother Edge Coble, Excellent Sister Tildy Davidson, Lady fully open and available to everyone. That felt off, somehow, Brother Whit Gulden, Brother Sterling Haig, Sister Cerys Hol- and made me uncomfortable. stege, Sister Anna Lipin, Brother Jacob Neis, Brother Dan Old- Today, we prize diversity and “inclusiveness” and would ham, Sister Caroline O’Neill, Sister Cherise Pabia, Sibling Peter not wish to be called or to be “exclusive.” Our undergraduate Pendergrass, Sister Cecily Polonsky, Brother Adam Stanford, members inhabit environments that challenge privilege as ineq- Excellent Brother Gary Stahlberg, Brother Andrew Wildman, uitable. Excellent Sister Barbara Thornton noted in her report and Brother John Yazbek. Again, information about all these that the Policy Committee will focus this year on the issue of committees will be posted on the website. Your participation fairness in participation in The Hall and, in particular, will be is warmly welcomed, and the more of you who participate, the looking at ways to remove racial disparity, financial disparity, better the results will be. and alumni organization strength as barriers to a full and mean- ingful Hall experience. Every one of our undergraduate chap- As H.D., I have pretty broad authority to push these objec- ters is seeking ways to lower or eliminate racial, financial, and tives in the fraternity. But St. Anthony Educational Founda- other barriers that keep some worthy and desired candidates tion, Inc., (SAEF) and 1847, Inc., are separate and independent from becoming members or that prevent some members from corporations, governed by their own members and boards of realizing the full benefits of being in The Hall. Individually and directors. Still, I can ask them to consider actions I believe will organizationally, we must do the conscientious work necessary aid our efforts to make it as easy as possible for members to to deal ethically with our privileges, our presumptions, our participate and accomplish their goals. unintentional micro-aggressions, and the ways those limitations • I ask SAEF’s president and vice president, Excellent Brother block us from achieving fairness. Liam Murphy and Brother Justin Zaremby (please stand), Just like their respective colleges and universities, our chap- to put two items on the SAEF board’s agenda: ters feel an ethical call to make access and full participation Visits to Other Chapter Meetings: I ask SAEF “need blind” and “racially impartial.” In the long run, I believe to make available a simple form that up to four or five those objectives are also central to the purpose and future of undergraduates from one chapter can use to obtain grants St. Anthony Hall. I hope everyone who agrees will help Uncle to cover transportation to visit another chapter’s meeting, Tony achieve that vision. Personally, I am committed to work- requiring only the names and transportation costs of the ing toward that goal, not only this year but as long as reason traveling undergraduates, approval of the visit by the Bt. holds sway. of the host chapter, and approval of the grant by an officer Respectfully submitted as Yours In The Bonds, 6 of SAEF. Geoffrey Kenly Walker, Σ’67 Inaugural Remarks of Incoming H.D. M.H.&E. Bro. Nicholas Brent Hammond, Φ’99, I’10, to the 174th Annual Convention (via Zoom) of the Fraternity of Delta Psi

National presiding officer and all your meetings and L.D.s and seeing how we can get better ideas members of this Grand Chapter meeting: for doing this virtually. It means encouraging you to share suc- I first want to thank everyone watch- cesses with other chapters and seeing what interchapter resources ing for tuning in and for keeping the faith we have that we could provide. I have started conversations with by taking a chunk out of your Saturday to some graduate members but would like to broaden the scope of “attend” G.C. by Zoom this year, even if it this idea (with the help of our reappointed national alumni offi- is nice to not have to get up so early after cer, H. Sis. Angelica Vielma, Θ’16) to have hosted talks, chats, a long night of carousing to attend early and Q&As with graduate members on their fields of specialty. meetings. I want to try to convey how incredibly humbled I am Maybe it’s about self-publishing books, or maybe it’s about medi- thinking about the men and women who came to this position cal or law school and what the insider information on those looks before me. Particularly daunting is coming after Geoffrey and the like, or maybe it’s a deep-dive analysis into August Wilson’s Pitts- job he did leading us through a—to put it mildly—surprising burgh Cycle plays. The important point is that these could be year. Leading The Hall is to be asked to be an example of leader- attended by any sibling of any chapter for free. In the end, The ship to the leaders from the best institutes of higher education, Hall is here to try to make sure that you can still get that feeling and I would be lying to you if I said I did not have a swell of you got when you first joined, however many years ago that was. impostor syndrome around taking on this role. But something As an exercise, I’d now like for each of you watching this to I have learned is that authenticity and vulnerability bring good think for a moment about your most welcome time in The Hall, people closer to you; they see that you are genuine and that your that moment when you knew this was that “chosen family” so love and care are worth supporting and aiding. many of us talk about. Just go back to that for five seconds or It is in that spirit of vulnerability that I start with a little about so right now and let yourself feel whatever comes to you in that me that I hope can serve to make a bigger point about us as an sense of belonging. Those feelings you get—maybe it’s a rush, or organization. I have no legacy in The Hall or in any of the elite a warmth, or even bittersweet nostalgia—I want to acknowledge colleges and universities we inhabit. My parents did go to col- that not everyone feels that welcome in St. Anthony Hall. Not lege but were quite anti-Greek. My dad played baseball with the even some of our own siblings feel that welcome, and we know Ag-Hill team against the slick frats who had brand new, match- with empirical evidence that our siblings who are Black, indig- ing uniforms and shiny, new, white cleats. He took pleasure in his enous persons, and persons of color are very likely to be missing blue-jeans-wearing team of animal science majors beating the pants that sense of belonging in The Hall. What does it say that my off of those frat boys. I honestly had second thoughts about joining parents and grandparents, who were never members, felt so wel- this organization simply because of what I thought my parents and come with us in The Hall while some of our own siblings cannot grandparents would think, how they would react. But I also want share in that same warmth? I believe it says that we are failing one to tell you that I saw real joy on their faces in the Grove at the Delta another and that we have a duty, based on the oaths we have all Psi tent on Saturdays in Oxford. They were welcome because they taken, to closely, honestly, and carefully self-examine and begin were important to me, and that made them important to the other listening to the advice, requests, and pleas that our Black broth- Phi ’99s. I have warm, vivid memories of all of them talking about ers, sisters, and siblings have been giving us for decades. how much they loved the experience they got when they visited us. We have, for the last half of 2020, been collecting the thoughts And what a love it must have taken! To get my dad, who gradu- and experiences of brothers, sisters, and siblings with respect to ated from Auburn, to wear an Ole Miss baseball cap is noteworthy. institutional and personal racial prejudice in our Hall. I want to While they never knew what it really meant for me to be a St. A, I especially thank Sib. George Friday, Ξ’81, for her work and guid- know they got to feel that closeness and love by proxy. ance through this. George does this very work as her career, and It is exactly that kind of love and belonging that will have she has been doing so for practically my whole life. She and Sib. to get us through this period of anxiety and yearning brought Dallas Hopkins, Ξ’15, gathered responses to a questionnaire and on by a year in this pandemic. We have all lost so much: loved also performed interviews with a number of siblings who are part ones to this virus, last hugs with grandmas, time with friends and of the leadership structure of The Hall: that is, members of the family, the experiences that would have made wonderful memo- Policy Committee, the Executive Committee, the leadership of the ries. When we are all once again able to meet in close company, chapters and graduate organizations, or who are on the numerous able to take one another by the hand and then embrace, able to committees that run The Hall. She has generated a final report that again whisper promises in one another’s ears, then we will again has been shared with the Policy Committee and that will be shared be there for each other, and we will continue to grow and share in with the chapters’ and grad orgs’ leadership soon. our bonds as we did before. For now, no one can gather to share The report’s recommended next step, based on the informa- our knowledge and our curiosities, and certainly no one can get tion gathered from Hall leadership, has been approved by both close enough to others to give a much-needed hug. My fellow the Policy and Executive Committees; that The Hall develop a G.C. officers understand that this is our top priority: that we help Change Committee to closely examine The Hall and its struc- you (our graduate organizations and our chapters) get through tures and also to engage in train-the-trainer workshops, which this. This means collaborating and communicating with you on 2021 Inaugural Remarks: continued on page 23. 7 L.D. AWARD WINNERS Centimeters to Inches By L.D. Award Winner Sis. Antonella Masini Ortiz, T’17

Peering out of the plane’s window, a shy, tanned girl arrived Distance is to have your brain in one country looking from left to right and leave your heart kilometers behind. trying to find something she’d recognize. It is to acknowledge that you’ll be that friend that’s never there, But the “hola”s from home, the kisses on the cheek, And that now you are the invisible daughter for your they were all gone. mom. Replaced by grey handshakes and “how are you doing”s lacking response. Distance is to gradually lose your accent, And those words that you used to love. The shy, tanned girl stepped down from the plane Replacing them by “lol”s and “omg”s, and learned how to laugh That’s what kids say nowadays, no? Typing “h”s instead of “j”s so that they could finally understand.1 Distance is the birthdays through Skype, She spoke in centimeters but got used to the imperial The long voice notes through WhatsApp, inches The one million “I miss you” through texts, and screwed up a recipe or two… And the longing for that eternal summer you left. How could she know what an ounce of milk was supposed to look? Distance is to learn how to live on your own, To become stronger and independent. But as days passed, the shy tanned girl learned It is to have some incredible days, and some really that measurements mean much more than that. bad ones too, that’s also okay. “The amount of space between two points” was not enough to describe It is to feel completely lonely but to suddenly realize the excruciating pain that she felt in her heart. That your people are still there, only a few texts apart. Which means that you will never be alone, Distance is much more than being far away, Because sometimes the heart can travel where your It is to know how a welcome hug tastes, voice can’t go. Turning it into your favorite flavor And doing the impossible to not forget. Because distance separates bodies, it doesn’t separate hearts. Distance is learning not to say goodbye Because for a few weeks a year Because it tastes so bitter and sad, the now-not-so-tanned girl will return, So instead you mutter a “see you later”, And with tears in her eyes she’ll say: Grab your bags and try not to look back. I’m home.

1 In Spanish, a laugh is typed as “jajaja” instead of “hahaha.” ‘Bahala Na’ By L.D. Award Runner-Up Sis. Anna Kothuis, A’18

I spend a portion of every school holiday in the the one hand, the convenience of modern-day travel, Philippines. I’m lucky enough that Hong Kong, where my as we knew it before March of this year, is part of what parents currently live, is only an easy two-hour flight makes my circumstance ‘lucky’, I’m fairly certain that away from Manila, and that by 11 years-old, travelling if my parents lived in the US, Europe, or somewhere 8 had already become second nature to me. While on much further away, I would still spend a portion of every school holiday in the Philippines. The truth is, I’m and struggle are integral parts of our culture, or that really lucky that instead of worrying about the financial corrupt dictatorships might be the best way to govern, burden of travelling to see family and friends, I am able or how fatalism and determinism are combined with and encouraged to explore the literal half of me that I, strong Roman Catholicism, how Filipinos put their for some reason, feel closest to. The concept of ‘luck’ families before everything else to an almost tribalistic and how it’s played out in my life is something that extent, how using reusable straws or combatting eating I’ve spent much of my adolescence grappling with. I disorders are alien phrases because many, many people often question the life I happened to be born into, the still don’t have the necessities to survive the next day. family I find myself to be a part of, the education and It will be a lifelong task to cohesively organize my social growth I am able to undergo. I tried to affirm thoughts and experiences about this matter, and I’m the validity of my ‘lucky’ world in hopes of repressing a not even certain I will be able to come to a conclusion persistent guilt and conviction that I am undeserving of about what I believe should and can be done to bridge all that I have, and, to some degree, I’ve accepted I will the gap between the ‘lucky’ and ‘unlucky’. On one never quite be able to shake this off. level, I think it all begins with an awareness that these Cooped up in my bubble of a boarding school, problems exist, and that these problems exist for I felt as though I had a sense of worldly awareness, people, who are, at the core, just like you and me, of suffering and despair, that nobody else in my who need basic things, who desire to be loved, who school could even begin to understand – all because I sing, who dance, who cry and rejoice, who love their would spend a portion of every school holiday in the friends and family, who are lazy, who have aspirations. Philippines. And to give my friends credit, it was easy But even more than that, an acknowledgement that to forget that the real world even existed outside of the ‘other’, by virtue of being the other thing, has those red brick walls and tall green gates. We’d spend some relation to you, the subject of your narrative. An all of our time absorbed in the moment with one acknowledgement that this relationship is a hierarchical another or with the books we were reading or with one in some respects, but a lateral one in other all of homework we were set for the following day. respects. This requires empathetic eyes and a proactive Our only glimpse of normalcy was at chapel, which mind. Suffering should scarcely be viewed as if looking we went to three mornings a week. Every fortnight through a microscope, because in the end, in one way or so we would pray for a significant world event, or another, it all boils down to luck. I am lucky because disaster or catastrophe, if there even happened to be I am able to improve my circumstances, and change one worth mentioning. My disappointment with our the course of my future. So, as the Tagalog saying goes exposure to ‘the real world’ is not to say that I wished ‘bahala na’, which translates into something like ‘let it we were constantly bombarded with news of suffering be’ or ‘whatever happens, happens’ and cherish what or pain, but that I wanted people to grapple with the you have, and embrace whatever comes your way notion that instead of wasting £50 on cigarettes or because there’s only so much luck that goes around. alcohol, there are many people who would be lucky to To illustrate what I haven’t been able to say, make that much money in a whole year. But hearing here is a short story about an experience I had a facts and statistics about how much of the world’s few summer’s ago while working for our educational population is hungry, or how many don’t have clean foundation in the slums of Manila. drinking water, have little to no effect on the majority I mistook them for coins, the small pot-holes of people, let alone that bunch of people. It moves spattered across the stretch of pavement ahead you for a second or two, but without seeing a child’s of me. Some of the holes were empty, others still ribs or their hungry bloated stomachs, or their cracked had residue of some brown opaque liquid. They and flakey lips, you would hardly be able to visualize seemed to infest the ground. Not in an offensive or the scale and intensity of suffering in the world. And destructive way, but in a commanding one. in an attempt to empathize, the people I went to My bare, relatively white arms were sticky from school with, and still do surround myself with, would a combination of my sweat and the humidity common donate money to a notable charity, and feel somewhat to summers in a cramped and dense city. Occasionally absolved of the fact that they live within their own my skin would cling to a passerby for a few extra ‘lucky’ world. But, ironically, in doing so they widen moments, and we would experience a momentary union the gap between the ‘lucky’ and the ‘unlucky’, as if to and mutual awareness. I was a spectacle to some, a make the two worlds mutually exclusive, that money spectator to others. The five story houses on either will somehow address structural and fundamental side caved over me, allowing only a slither of light to problems and that it will, fingers and toes crossed, illuminate the path. They looked like lego blocks and change the organization of a society that does not each one could not have been more than 8 feet wide. perfectly align with a Western conception of justice. It was unusually dark for midday, and everything had a In reality, to take the Philippines as an example, grey tinge, perhaps from the aftermath of the typhoon few Filipinos, let alone foreigners and foreign that had hit landfall a few days ago, or perhaps from the organizations, understand that national suffering helplessness of the atmosphere. The mist that appears 9 the day after heavy rain often seems magical to me, and Agnes. It was then, some three steps away from her, here it still had the same effect, as it rose from the dark that I saw the child lying there. I gathered that she ground, sticking around the area above my head, almost had just turned six years old from her date of birth and floating like the incense a priest offers during Mass. date of passing, found in printed text underneath the I synchronized the tempo of my walk with Sister portrait on the wall. Her white dress, smooth brown Agnes, and Atoy, my driver, so as not to make myself skin, and straight hair made her look almost angelic. stand out, because after all, I had specifically put on Her slender arms were crossed over her chest. My legs a plain white T-shirt and worn-out denim shorts that went numb, my chest became tight, my hearing started morning. But any attempt at fitting in was futile. I made to fade as I joined in with Sister Agnes who was praying more than the amount of eye contact I was comfortable the rosary. By the second prayer, I had lost my hearing, with, mostly with groups of men huddled around a but was still speaking. Tears rushed down my cheeks television, sitting on plastic white stools, smoking like a heavy rainstorm. The child’s mother appeared cigarettes and drinking San Miguels. Groups of women next to me and held my hand. We chanted in unison. stood by their husbands, engaged in a card game or Then, silence. A current flowed between the three of us a chismis, the Filipino word for a gossip or catch-up. through our joined hands. Something I enjoyed too, I thought to myself. The I learned later that the child was named Gloria, and women were also smoking, and their bellies protruded that last week she was playing in the street with her out of their stained tank tops, swollen from an only-rice siblings and neighbors. It was the first day the weather diet, and not pregnancy, or so I hoped. The air was not showed symptoms of a brewing typhoon - there were suffocating, but it was flavorful and rich. The street scattered showers and strong gusts of wind. Streams of was not loud, instead it was alive. And my senses, were rainwater rushed down the street, picking up dirt and not excited, but were observant. Each experience was rubbish along the way, to the point that the street was not novel, but this particular combination of them was flooded with brown liquid, her mother said. It got so nothing like I had ever felt before. high that it reached her mother’s knees. I could only Sister Agnes paused outside a blue house, where imagine how high this would have felt for Gloria. She a woman, no older than 30 years old, sat outside brought all the kids indoors, for fear that their abusive cross-stitching a massive image of the Virgin Mary. She father would get angry the kids weren’t doing chores, was more than half-way through completing it. Atoy not for fear they were in danger. Later that night, conversed with her in Tagalog, and she pointed out Gloria started to have diarrhea. “There was nothing I how lovely my hair looked and said I looked mestiza. could do, it continued for three more days”, her mother I thanked her, commented on how we had the same relayed to me with a crackling voice. “It was the dirty mole on our left cheeks, and complemented her on her water in the street, she must have drunken it. But it cross-stitching. Large droplets of water fell from the was my husband’s fault, it was my fault. We didn’t help wet laundry hanging out of the window on the second her; we couldn’t help her”. floor, a few droplets even fell into the small potholes Gloria was unlucky. It was unfathomable that by her feet. I told her that when I was younger my mum something so simple to remedy took the life of an and I would cross-stich on airplanes together, and joked innocent child. There is something so human and that I would beg my mum to let me cross stich instead so universal, so unifying about what I felt standing of going to school. She cackled, and I cackled too. before her casket, listening to a mourning mother. I From the corner of my eye, I saw Sister Agnes was harrowed by the reality that children play, that standing over a box at the far wall of this woman’s they suffer illnesses, that people grieve over a lost living room, which happened to also be her dining room, one, that a mother loves her child. kitchen, and perhaps even where a few of her children I once again tread past the small brown potholes on slept. She was illuminated by candles, which gave the street, waving goodbye to Gloria’s mother and their her white tunic a yellowy tinge. There was a singular quaint blue house. And each time I glanced down at the picture hung up on the chipped wall. My inquisitive potholes, small remnants of Gloria’s life and death, now gaze turned into an inspection as I walked over to Sister offensive and destructive, I would hold my breath.

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MacNelly Award Winner Bro. Wesley Uwaezuoke, A’18 10 View Wesley’s works on the front and back covers of this newsletter. SPRING 2021 UNDERGRADUATE REPORTS

DELTA CHAPTER seventy-one donors, all of which will be used to help Angel pay UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA for tuition, books, and college expenses. Δ As we begin this next semester, we will continue working as Report by Bro. Eric D’Angelo, Δ’19 a brotherhood to better the community and the world around Most Noble, Brothers, Sisters, and Siblings All: us. While we hope to have more in-person philanthropic events While the past year has certainly been difficult and testing, in the near future, we intend to do all we can to continue work- the Delta Chapter has continued to uphold the character and the ing as a team to help those less fortunate, especially as we navi- values of the brotherhood. We continue to strive toward ongo- gate these difficult times. ing goals that have previously been set, such as philanthropy and Last semester, we brought twenty-one of our brothers back diversity. In addition, we are also looking to face the challenges to the house in hopes that we could maintain a COVID-safe immediately before us. First, we are focusing on ensuring that our environment, while still allowing brothers to interact and to be members can safely live on-campus while adhering to the guide- together within the house. However, we did not obtain the out- lines that Penn has set forth. Second, we are looking for ways come that we wanted, and ultimately, our members were forced to safely and effectively meet as a brotherhood, whether this be to vacate the house for the semester. We recognize that mistakes in-person or virtually. Third, we are committed to taking a pledge were made by the chapter, and there are certainly things we could class to perpetuate the traditions of the brotherhood. have done differently. However, we also felt that this was a great The brothers of the Delta Chapter believe philanthropy is learning opportunity for us, especially as we bring brothers back a driving force of our fraternity. We understand that lending a for this semester. It is more clear than ever that the actions of a hand, especially during tough times, is a defining characteristic few individuals can have large, lasting effects on the entire broth- of a noble brother. Over the last few months, as our community erhood. As a brotherhood and as individuals, we are committed has struggled through the many challenges brought on by the to bringing our brothers back to The Hall this semester with a COVID-19 pandemic, we have continued our philanthropic mutual respect for COVID and school protocol, which will allow efforts to provide assistance to those most in need. members to interact without participating in unsanctioned activ- Beginning in February, we launched a shoe drive for Help- ities or events. We are excited to open the house to brothers and ing Hands. Helping Hands is a non-profit that provides sup- to have the entire brotherhood on campus once again, and we port and mentorship to underserved communities in the city of will make sure we maintain a better relationship with the school. Philadelphia. Together, our brotherhood was able to collect over With the majority of the brotherhood being forced to sixty pairs of shoes to donate to the children of Helping Hands. return home, the Delta Chapter found various ways to maintain We had a handful of brothers personally deliver the shoes to our meetings and relationships throughout the semester. Utiliz- the Helping Hands community members, and our brothers ing platforms such as Zoom and GroupMe, the brotherhood ended up speaking and playing games with the kids for hours. remained in close contact, which we intend to do throughout After seeing how grateful the children were for our donations, the spring semester as well. We are not yet certain about the we knew we wanted to continue supporting this organization. restrictions of the house and non-resident brothers abilities to In March, the Penn campus was evacuated due to the spread come and go. However, we will make sure to sustain weekly of the coronavirus. While it was difficult to hold in-person phi- brothers’ nights and to uphold the values of St. Anthony Hall. lanthropy events, we still searched for ways to engage with our We also expect to continue our engagement in philanthropy community. In the past, we have held a number of in-person efforts for the West Philadelphia community and to help to charity events. We held a silent disco at a local restaurant to raise sustain families throughout this crisis. Further, we will look over $400 for hurricane relief in the Bahamas. For a couple years, to engage freshmen through Zoom and very small socially dis- we held annual events at a bar in the city, offering discounted tanced lunches or dinners to develop relationships and to put drinks with a portion of the profits going to the Semper Fi Fund, together a great pledge class for the spring. We thank you for a non-profit that assists wounded veterans. We have also engaged your continued support and look forward to another great year. with other on-campus Greek-life organizations to hold philan- thropy events. In the beginning of the year, we partnered with a sorority to hold an event supporting therapy dogs. EPSILON CHAPTER Most recently, in June 2020, we launched a fundraiser in TRINITY COLLEGE support of the members of the Black community to combat rac- Ε ism, injustice, and prejudice within society. With this mission Report by Bro. Katrina Angelucci, E’19 in mind, we chose to raise money for Angel’s college tuition. This semester, the Epsilon Chapter has seen a lot of posi- Angel is a student from the Helping Hands community, and tive changes and forward momentum toward a healthy culture. we wanted our brotherhood to band together in order to give Trinity allowed students to return to campus for the semester him the opportunity to go to college with less financial stress. for ten weeks of in-person and hybrid learning. We had twenty- Within just a few weeks, we were able to raise $11,590 from eight active brothers on campus, and three at home. One of 11 those three learning from home was a full-time student, doing different majors, and many have made distinctions within their remote learning. We held weekly chapter meetings every week, fields. We also have members on seven varsity teams and one with the exception of the night before Thanksgiving, and con- club team. These teams include wrestling, soccer, squash, ten- ducted our business as usual in an informal manner. L.D.s were nis, lacrosse, field hockey, and club rugby. Of these members, still given, but we are hoping that we will have the opportunity three are captains of their respective teams: Katrina Angelucci to have in-person chapter meetings in the spring so that seniors (lacrosse), Ryan McGarvey (tennis), and Kendall Brown (field are able to give their reflections. As of now, there is a virtual rush hockey). In addition, Kendall Brown was also recognized as an planned for the spring semester. We will be appointing rush All-American for the 2019 season. Our entire 1-2-3 executive chairs in our next meeting and reaching out to potential new board is part of a varsity sports team on campus as well. The members throughout the winter break. Epsilon Chapter also has members in many different groups The Epsilon Chapter has experienced a great deal of leader- and clubs on campus. These groups include the Tri-Beta Bio- ship changes, many that are firsts in the history of our chapter. logical Honors Society, Venture Capitalists and Investment Epsilon elected the first female #1 in the history of our chapter, Club, Contemporary Poetry Group, Investment Management along with the first black #2 in the history. Additionally, our Team, and DJs for the WRTC Hartford radio station. Lastly, newly-established Internal Honor Council saw the addition of the Ogilby Eating Club, of which a majority of our members three new members: Kit Epstein, Bailey Irwin, and Ben Essensa. are a part, welcomed a wonderful new chef, named Don Pinger, Two of these members replaced Katrina and Nigel’s positions on alongside some Delta Psi and Trinity College banners to hang I.H.C., and the third added was another member with the high- in the E.C. Over the winter break, the E.C. will also be seeing est GPA in The Hall for the past spring semester, Ben Essensa. some minor changes in appearance, such as the staining of all The Epsilon Chapter also has three members sitting on Trin- the wood tiles on the wall. ity’s Inter-Greek Council (I.G.C.). Maxwell Toczydlowski sits Most importantly, despite COVID-19 restrictions, the as vice president, Katrina Angelucci is the secretary, and Ryan Epsilon Chapter has agreed that the brotherhood feels much McGarvey is alumni relations. Additionally, the Epsilon Chap- closer, and the relationships are much stronger this semester. As ter revised the past philanthropy chair position to include a full always, the love for the brotherhood prevails. community-service committee in order to reestablish our com- munity volunteering efforts as a chapter. Over the fall semester, the philanthropy chair, Katie Wha- THETA CHAPTER REPORT len, along with Nigel Gustave and the rest of the committee, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY worked to organize fundraising and volunteering efforts with Θ the Hartford Knights. The Hartford Knights is a non-profit Report by Bro. Andrew Kaneb, Θ’19 organization focused on academic enrichment and mentor- Theta has been enduring the challenges brought on by the ing for at-risk youth in the Hartford community. The Epsilon pandemic quite well. After a long hiatus, we resumed meetings Chapter will be working closely with the Hartford Knights in through a virtual format in November. We have maintained the future in order to increase our volunteering efforts and to weekly meetings for the entirety of second semester and have had give back to the Hartford community. strong attendance from active members. Theta members continue Additionally, the Epsilon Chapter worked tirelessly through- to contribute to various different aspects of the Princeton com- out the semester toward a positive cultural change. Seven of our munity, such as visual and performing arts and literary publica- members attended a summit on racial inequality to educate tions. Theta also has numerous athletes who continue to train but themselves on how to create an antiracist community at Trinity whose competitions have been put on hold during these times. and beyond. This helped to further our conversations on racial, With the return of all students to campus at the begin- sexual, and other biases that plague the world around us and the ning of February, we carried out our rush process to bring a efforts that we can take to combat this narrative as allies. The new class of pledges into The Hall. We conducted rush entirely Epsilon Chapter’s social censure was also lifted this semester, and through Zoom and used a mix of one-on-one chats and small the deans praised and thanked our efforts toward positive change group chats. Fourteen sophomores received and accepted bids. within our chapter and within the Trinity community. We have been carrying out pledging through a mix of virtual Epsilon also has some positive attributes and news to share and in-person activities. We have always maintained strict social as well. Our chapter GPA was 3.5 for the spring semester, the distancing and complied with university regulations to ensure highest GPA that The Hall has had during our time at Trin- the comfort and safety of both pledges and members. We plan ity. In addition, many members made the Dean’s List, as well to incorporate the pledge class into the membership within the as making faculty honors. We also had a handful of members next several weeks, thus allowing them to witness our final three as teaching assistants, and one was named a 2019 Presidential to four meetings this year. Scholar. Many members also participated in research, one was Looking forward to next fall, there is a strong chance that Bloomberg certified, and one was certified in mediation with a Theta will lose a good deal of institutional memory, as this year’s social-justice focus. Tying these achievements in with our lit- graduating class is the last one to have experienced a full year erary duties, our chapter has moved forward with our efforts of in-person meetings complete with ritual. But, there are two to transform our chapter’s library into a fully-functional study seniors returning from time off from school who we hope will space in which members will be able to continue to strive for be able to help re-establish the decorum and gravity associated 12 academic excellence. Our members are studying within ten with in-person meetings. Theta is strong! IOTA CHAPTER SIGMA CHAPTER Ι ROCHESTER, NEW YORK Σ YALE UNIVERSITY Report by Sis. Laurette McNabb, I’19 Report by Bro. Jake Thrasher, Φ’15, Σ’18 The 2020–2021 school year has been pretty uneventful for It has been an incredibly tough year for the Sigma Chapter the Iota Chapter. Our weekly meetings have been reduced to because of COVID-19. The pandemic has made it extremely Zoom check-ins that occur roughly every two weeks, but some- difficult for us to spend time with each other and to do the times only once a month. Communication between chapter activities that make The Hall such a special space. It has been members has been difficult, but we’ve managed to stay in touch hard to stay positive, and the morale can be low at times as with STAAR. a result. Although the circumstances are not ideal, the Sigma Some good news is that all new member fees have been Chapter has done an amazing job persevering, growing, and covered by an anonymous donor. However, recruitment for new strengthening our bonds in such a harsh environment. members has been highly unsuccessful. We’ve tried multiple times I have been acting as the interim #1 for the Sigma Chap- to reach out to potential recruits via email and to invite them to a ter after Noble Sister Whitmal stepped down. She is doing this Zoom meeting, but only one or two people have responded. It’s a semester online and is not in New Haven, and she thought it bit disheartening, because two out of the three current members, would be best for someone in New Haven to fill her position. It including me, are graduating in May. I’m not sure how the Iota has been truly an honor to take on this role during such a dif- Chapter will recruit members in the future, but hopefully, it turns ficult time for not only The Hall but for the entire world. out to be more effective than our current efforts. Luckily, we have been able to create very effective safety We haven’t been writing or submitting any L.D.’s this year, protocols, which allowed us to meet at a reduced capacity safely. because it seems that we’re all burnt out from online classes. Since we cannot all convene in The Hall at the same time, due Overall, not much is happening for the Iota Chapter. to restrictions and some siblings being remote, we have been doing a mix of all-virtual and hybrid meetings. With the vac- cines rolling out, we are hopefully that we will be able to return KAPPA CHAPTER to our normal meetings and traditions by the fall semester. BROWN UNIVERSITY We have 24 active siblings and are currently initiating a new Κ class of 18 siblings, which is on par for class size pre-COVID. Report by Bro. Keith Richie, K’19 Normally, our tap season, called “the Process,” happens dur- As I’m sure many of our siblings will understand, the ing the fall semester. We would distribute flyers for our lecture Kappa Chapter has had a challenging year. We all dearly miss series and information on the Process in person to all sopho- our lovely abode at the intersection of Hope and Benevolent mores, but our lecture series and the Process were impacted by streets, and we are all anxious to return to an in-person form COVID-19. Rather than trying to recruit new members during of community building. Yet, despite the challenges we’ve faced, the fall semester, which was filled with uncertainties, we pushed the Kappa Chapter has made great strides in the past year. We’ve the Process to the spring semester. This year, we targeted the built a virtual community and, with it, a virtual meeting struc- sophomores by sending virtual tap letters, inviting them to take ture from the ground up. We’ve had a regular meeting schedule part in the Process. Even though we were not able to send out since the beginning of this pandemic, including, for the first the letters in the same manner, we still had over 70 candidates time in our history that I’m aware of, regular meetings over our take part in the Process, which is also on par with previous in- summer and winter breaks. Moreover, as I’m sure those who person years. Once the pandemic is over and restrictions are have been able to make it to one of our meetings would con- lifted, we will go back to doing the process in the fall in the firm, we have translated many of the most important features same manner it has been done in the past. and feelings of our in-person meetings into a Zoom-friendly Although these have been challenging times for the Sigma format. These meetings have been incredibly important for all Chapter, I have been so inspired by the care and love the siblings of us over the course of this pandemic, and I believe I speak for have shown to each other. Seeing all the siblings for each other the whole chapter when I say that this would have been a far during the pandemic has been an immense source of inspira- darker year had we not all had the companionship of our sib- tion, hope, and joy. lings to guide and to support us. The Kappa Chapter has also had an immensely successful rush season. Despite not being able to hold any rush events in UPSILON CHAPTER person, we currently have an astonishing twelve pledges with UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA whom we’ve been meeting virtually. By the time we all come Υ back to campus, which we are hoping will be this fall, we expect Report by Bro. Gresham Walmsley, Υ’18 to have a full house, which has been a rarity for us in recent Greetings from the Upsilon Chapter of St. Anthony Hall at history. Though more challenges will lie ahead as we transition the University of Virginia. Despite the challenges of the ongo- back to in-person meetings, I am confident that the community ing pandemic, I am happy to report that the Upsilon Chapter that we have maintained and built upon will be able to meet has maintained its good standing here on grounds. The univer- these challenges and to usher Kappa into one of the most excit- sity began the semester with a spike of COVID cases as students ing periods of our history. returned to the grounds. As a result of the spike, the school 13 implemented a ban of all social gathering, encouraging stu- roster currently stands at 118 undergraduate brothers, and we dents to avoid common areas of their own apartments. With the expect to initiate as many as thirty-nine of our pledge brothers entirety of our chapter living in Charlottesville, taking predomi- by the end of January 2021. nantly online classes, you can imagine the frustration our actives The COVID-19 pandemic has placed significant burdens endured for those few weeks. Since the end of February, UVA has on the brothers of Phi Chapter and the university community seen a dramatic decrease in positive cases, and the cap on social as a whole. The impacts of the pandemic on our chapter and gatherings has increased to ten people. We hope the conditions its members have been nuanced and far reaching, with many continue to improve as the end of the semester approaches. brothers having their educational progress, financial means, and Despite the above-mentioned challenges, we had a suc- personal lives dramatically altered. In spite of this, through the cessful year of rush, adding an exciting class of nineteen new hard work of our brothers and the support of our alumni, Phi members. The new pledge class brings us to a healthy number extended its streak as the top fraternity by GPA at the Univer- of sixty-six current actives. A majority of our incoming class is sity of Mississippi to forty consecutive semesters. Virginia natives, with others coming from Tennessee, Georgia, Our brothers continue to hold a wide range of leader- Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and California. In our ship roles and honors on campus, including several members short time together, I am confident we have a solid group of of the Columns Society, senior class president, Mr. Ole Miss, young men who will carry on the strong legacy of our chapter. vice president and senators of the Associated Student Body, IFC A major bright spot of the semester is attributed to the cap- executive board, IFC recruitment advisors, Engineering Stu- ital improvements we have made to the house. To update from dent Body Leadership Council, Undergraduate Research Lead- last semester, we have completed the renovation of our previ- ers, president of the Catholic Campus Ministry, president of the ously non-functioning kitchen, retiled the basement floors, and Ole Miss hockey club team, and student ambassadors. have begun the plans for renovating all three bathrooms. We The Phi Chapter is especially grateful for the Saint Anthony hope construction on the bathrooms will begin this summer, at Club of Mississippi for their continued support and guidance of the conclusion of the spring 2021 semester. We are extremely the undergraduate chapter. The continued growth and prosper- excited about these improvements; they will make a significant ity of our chapter is due in large part to the hard work of broth- difference for both the current brothers living in the house and ers Billy Rhodes, Vince Chamblee, and Rodney Richardson. for alumni visiting with their families. In 2020, SACM worked to further develop its junior execu- Looking ahead, we have been forced to postpone the tive board, chaired by Brother Channing Lansdell, Φ’12, to help celebration of our 160th anniversary for the second year in a bridge the gap between the chapter and its recent graduates. We row. Although we are disappointed with the current situation, look forward to continuing our work with this board and an my pledge class could not be more excited to return to Char- increased level of engagement with our expanding alumni base. lottesville as a group in the future. On a brighter note, UVA The chapter and the Saint Anthony Club of Mississippi recently announced its intention to host some form of in-per- worked together closely to remain true to our core values as son graduation this spring, due to the change in Virginia state we work to navigate the evolving circumstances of our chapter, law regarding social gatherings. This is great news for both the both within our walls and outside of them. We also wish to graduating members of Upsilon and our fellow classmates here extend our gratitude to Brother Vince Chamblee, who has been on grounds. With just a short eight weeks left of the spring instrumental in these efforts, having been asked by the Office of semester, the Upsilon Chapter is hoping to finish the year Fraternity and Sorority Life to chair a Greek-life advisory com- strong. As always, we wish everyone well and hope to see you mittee here at the University of Mississippi. soon in Charlottesville. The Phi Chapter remains in good financial health, thanks in part to the diligent work of Brother Anderson Martin, Φ’20. Despite the challenges presented by COVID-19, the chapter has PHI CHAPTER continued with routine maintenance and home improvement UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI projects, and we remain in good standing with our creditors. Φ In conclusion, we would like to thank the national chapter Report by N. Bro. Drake Logan, Φ’18 for making itself available to us for support during these uncer- Brothers, Sisters, and Siblings all: tain times, and we look forward to continued close cooperation On behalf of the brothers of the Phi Chapter, I am pleased to further advance the Phi Chapter and the fraternity as a whole. to report another fruitful year in Oxford. In January 2020, we We are confident that the chapter is healthy and remains a initiated the fifty members of the Phi ’20 pledge class who have unique and important part of both Saint Anthony Hall and the contributed significantly to the culture of The Hall and have University of Mississippi, and through the collective efforts of worked to continue our tradition of excellence. Our active our brothers will continue to do so for years to come.

14 SAEF IS READY TO HELP

By Sib. Serena Puang, ’19 to people I might not talk with otherwise. By soliciting inter- Σ views, articles, and help from friends, friends of friends, or even complete strangers, I’ve created a resource that has helped the Around this time last year, I started my blog, dearyall.net, high-school class of 2021 with their college-application process as an open letter home to my community in Arkansas. I was and students at Yale navigate the “hidden curriculum.” My blog just starting to think about changing my future career plans to is used as a resource by students from my high school, and it journalism, and an SAEF grant that funded a freelance travel- provides a platform to write the stories that might not find a writing course and blogging essentials was the push I needed to home in a different publication. It gives me the freedom to take start investing in myself as well. risks with my writing, because I know that I have the freedom In my hometown, most people go to the community col- to publish whatever I want to write. lege or the state school in the next town over, so when I was One of the most fulfilling instances of this was the ability applying to Yale, there were very few resources available to help to turn all my final projects into blog posts after classes moved me navigate that process. So many college applications ask pro- online last spring. At school, I study linguistics, and I’m par- spective students to articulate what they’ll be like once they get ticularly interested in the code-mixed languages of the Chinese/ in, but I honestly had no idea what life in college would look Taiwanese diaspora. I tweaked the format and published my like, especially at a place like Yale. Since I was lucky enough to research online, which opened up the dialogue between me and get in and had already navigated the anxiety of imposter syn- the Asian American community more generally. Not only was I drome, I wanted to learn how to write about places so I could able to get detailed feedback to confirm or deny my intuitions, share my experiences. I was also given new ideas and suggestions that will further my In hindsight, it seems funny that my travel-writing grant research and writing. proposal would result in me sitting in my childhood bedroom Receiving the SAEF grant has allowed me to invest in my alone, thinking about traveling while a global pandemic ren- writing and my career. I used the lessons from the travel-writing dered most travel impossible. My study abroad plans were can- course as a springboard into freelance writing, and my blog is celed. I didn’t get to go where I wanted to over the summer, but still a place where I experiment and hone my craft. In the spirit my writing has allowed my ideas to travel farther than I ever of my blog’s mission, I’ll confess that I was intimidated by the could. To date, my blog has been read by over a couple thou- application process at first, and I’m so thankful for the older sand people in over sixty countries. Hall members who answered my questions. I encourage other In a time when it’s so hard to stay connected with old friends, siblings to apply for SAEF grants in the upcoming application much less make new ones, my blog is a point of connection cycle—you never know where it might lead.

15 St. Anthony Hall Institutional Advancement Embracing alumni relations, public relations, marketing, internal and external communications, and fund rais- ing, the committee for St. Anthony Institutional Advancement is established to advance the long-term outreach and financial health of the three organizations that comprise St. Anthony Hall: The Grand Chapter, 1847, Inc., and The St. Anthony Educational Foundation (SAEF).

Brothers, Sisters, and Siblings All: chapters to seek new ways to pursue projects that heighten the Amid the adversity of the COVID-19 crisis, St. Anthony educational experience. We must be prepared to support them Hall endures, as we have through wars and epidemics, unrest, with our generous, tax-deductible Hall Fund gifts to SAEF. and uncertainty for nearly 175 years. Our devotion to our order This year, the Fraternity of Delta Psi has been called upon and our values of love and honor have weathered many storms to provide unprecedented support to our undergraduates as and will outlast this latest emergency. campuses and other communities responded to the pandemic Our undergraduates have mostly been denied their classrooms with lockdowns, reopenings and reversals, and shifts to virtual and laboratories, and most of our chapter halls stand empty. In spite learning. Add this to the usual operational demands of our dis- of this, our bonds are showing their strength through the many con- tinctive national organization, and it’s not hard to see we need tacts our national office has received, through networking at our your help there as well. Gifts allocated to fraternity operations, website, through social media, and through countless emails and while not tax-deductible, provide critical discretionary funds we calls you have made to your beloved brothers, sisters, and siblings. can use for both budgeted and emergency situations. Our institutions are still strong, despite economic challenges You can make contributions by check to P.O. Box 876, and volatility in the market. Even so, we need your help as we all Ithaca, New York 14851. Credit card contributions can be made work to repair our futures and our fortunes. When you feel you at our website at stanthonyhall.org or by calling 607-366-0555. can do so, please give as you always have to support our missions. Please call or email us at [email protected] to discuss A gift of any amount is welcome and will be spent with care. gifts of stocks and securities. Travel restrictions and campus displacements in response to The Hall, as you know, is a remarkable organization. Our COVID-19 have had a considerable and as-yet-unmeasurable response to these current challenges continues a long and illustri- impact on the St. Anthony Educational Foundation’s grants pro- ous tradition of adaptability and forward-thinking. Together, we gram. SAEF is maintaining grant funding at the same level as will see our order through the vicissitudes of our time. Please, when in previous years for our undergraduates, recent graduates, and you are able to do so, help us move forward as resolutely as ever.

Planned Giving There are several other ways to give that will have lasting Life Insurance impact on St. Anthony Hall. Some of the most common Existing policies may name the St. Anthony Educational and popular strategies for making a planned gift to the St. Foundation as a beneficiary. You may also consider purchas- Anthony Educational Foundation are: ing a policy with the foundation as the beneficiary. Donors may deduct the premiums for policies purchased for the Bequests benefit of the foundation. Bequests can be added to your will at any time. Adding a bequest to your estate plan can be as simple as creating Charitable Remainder Trusts a codicil in your will. A codicil directs your estate to give Your trust is donated to the St. Anthony Educational Foun- something specific to the St. Anthony Educational Founda- dation, but you continue to receive income from it while tion without rewriting your entire will. Here’s an example living. Alumni donating a trust avoid any capital gains tax of language that might be used in your codicil: on the donated assets and also receive an income tax deduc- tion for the fair market value of the remainder interest I bequeath to the St. Anthony Educational Foundation the earned by the trust. In addition, the asset is removed from sum of $ or percentage of my estate (or specific securities the estate, reducing subsequent estate taxes. or other property). Said Foundation is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) corporation (Federal ID number 13-6103940), with adminis- If you would like more information, please contact: trative offices at P.O. Box 876, Ithaca, NY 14851. This gift is Heather Cobb, Executive Secretary; 607-366-0555; unrestricted for general foundation purposes. [email protected] 16 2020 DIRECTORY OF GIVING This list acknowledges those who gave to the 2020 Hall Fund, which comprises donations to the Fraternity of Delta Psi and the St. Anthony Educational Foundation. Your donations support projects run by brothers, sisters, and siblings around the world, fraternity operations, educational grants, and much more. Visit www.stanthonyhall.org to make your donation today.

Richard M. Adams, Σ’50 Alexander J. Campbell II, E’52 William Jenkins Foreman, Φ’07 E. Polk Kellam Jr., Υ’62 Tariq Issa Adely, K’11 David P. Campbell, Δ’55 Richard S. Francis III, E’60 Ann Kennedy, Σ’71 Fred Thomas Aden, T’68 Sandra E. Carielli, K’95 Michael Freedberg, Σ’69 Elizabeth Ann Kennedy, Σ’71 Paul N. Adkins, A’81 Eugene M. Carr Jr., Σ’47 J. Brooke Gardiner, Ξ’52 Heber Kennedy Jr., Φ’62 John L. Ahlgren, Δ’64 Thomas L. Carroll Jr., Ξ’50 Richmond Gardner, T’54 Robert A. Kennedy, Φ’68 Arshad N. Ahsanuddin, K’89 John F. Carter II, Σ’64 KJ Garner, Ξ’95, I’14 Adam Russell Kenney, K’01 Austin Bruce Alexander, Φ’08 R. E. Anne Casscells, Σ’78 Erik S. Gaull, A’81 Edward Richard Keogh, A’52 Paul Joseph Alexander, Ξ’84 David C. Castillo, K’08 Joseph A. Giallanella, E’00 J. Alden Keyser Jr., Ξ’62 David F. Allen, Φ’75 Arthur D. Champlin III, T’67 George Y. Gillespie III, Φ’62 Clara S. Kiely, K’09 Robert E. Allen, Υ’64 Eugene M. Cheston Jr., Δ’57 Sally G. Gillespie, Σ’83 Jana Kirkman, K’86 Robert Landau Ames, K’06 Hannah E.E. Chute, I’12 Dixon F. Gillis, Δ’95 Miriam Rebeka Klein, K’06 Edwin H. Amidon Jr., Λ’53 Eugene H. Clapp III, Δ’69 Lawrence R. Glenn, Δ’57 Daphne Konstantinides, E’01 Lillian Saldinger Axelrod, K’07 Geoffrey L. Clarkson, Ξ’66 Loren Godfrey, T’56 Francis J. Koppeis Jr., T’67 Samuel F. Babbitt, Σ’47 Christopher Cluett, Λ’60 Gary J. Goodman, Υ’64 Leslie C. Krusen Jr., Δ’47 Jordan R. Bain Jr., E’82 Bradford Landon Cole, E’82 Frank Goodpasture III, Υ’69 Max Allen Salzillo Ladow, K’12 John J. Baker, Σ’63 Alexander T. Cook, Δ’74 John A. Goodrich, Δ’58 Douglas T. Lake Jr., E’99 John B. Baldwin, Δ’74 Stephen A. Cook, Δ’65 Jesse E. Graham, Υ’57 John R. Lane, Λ’63 Mark H. Baldwin, Ξ’75 Alexander W. Coombs, T’42 Benjamin H. Gray, Υ’69 Alexander M. Laughlin, Σ’47 S. Douglas Baldwin, Ξ’94 Garth Coombs, T’47 Robert H. Gregory, Δ’55 L. Peter Lawrence, E’68 Donald C. Ballou Jr., Ξ’66 Allen Brinton Cooper, E’63 Julieta Yael Gruszko, I’10 J. Patterson Lawson, Υ’66 Charles M. Barclay, Δ’55 Ross B. Corotis, T’63 Whitney G. Gulden, E’13 Sarah Jo Leader, Ξ’19 Malcolm B. Barlow, E’57 Theodore Stafford Coxe Jr., E’82 Benjamin Lambert Hall Jr., Δ’80 David M. Leahy, A’77 Malcolm Lloyd Barlow, E’86 Harden L. Crawford III, A’56 James R. Haltom, Φ’72 Brian Joseph LeBaron, Φ’06 Edmund S. Bartlett, E’65 Alissa N. Crevier, E’00 Nicholas B. Hammond, Φ’99, I’10 Hoxie Robert Lind, Δ’64 Melissa Batavia, Ξ’74 Sherman E. Crites Jr., Ξ’65 Charles E. Hance, E’62 Peter G. Linde, T’84 Robert R. Batchelder, T’53 William F. Crozer, Υ’04 Frank B. Harris, T’70 Anna Lipin, Σ’15 Jacob Gerard Bava, Φ’15 Peter C. Cunniff, Σ’77 James G. Harrison III, Υ’77 Angus C. Littlejohn Jr., Δ’70 Jeffrey B. Bean, Υ’71 Margaret A. Custer, Σ’71 John L. Harrison Jr., Σ’55 Henry H. Livingston III, Δ’65 Emily A. Beck, E’95 Adam Vincent Daland, Ξ’00 Samuel S. Hartwell, Σ’80 Thomas B. Lovejoy, T’55 David Booth Beers II, E’54 Jonathan E. Daniszewski, A’99 Bryan D. Hauptfuhrer, E’86 Sharon Rebecca Lubkin, K’83 David Booth Beers III, E’75 Henry Darlington Jr., A’46 John Brock Heffernan, A’75 Douglas S. Luke, Υ’60 Rodney B. Berens, Δ’64 John S. Darrell, Υ’61 George H. Helmer, Λ’64 Peter E. Lukowitsch, A’87 David Giles Berliner, K’06 Nathaniel P. Dean, E’87 Douglas L. Hill, Φ’80 Babcock MacLean, Σ’64 Donald S. Blair, Σ’49 Eric A. Debeus, T’79 Albert P. Hinckley Jr., T’56 Christopher R. Maden, K’91 William McL. Bloomquist, T’64 Anthony Dewitt, Λ’65 T. Denny Hoag, E’56 Timothy Joseph Malieckal, E’94 H. Andrew Boerstling, E’89 William C. Dick, E’99 Robert W. Holland IV, Ξ’64 Mitchell D. Marks, Σ’68 George H. Booth II, Φ’73 Morris Disston, E’66 John F. Holzinger Jr., Ξ’68 Herbert E. Marth Jr., A’75 Christopher T. Born, Ξ’68 F. Jay Dougherty, Σ’68 John C. H. Hooff Jr., Υ’68 Melinda Hickman Massi, Ξ’74 Charles C. Bowen, E’51 Nancy B. Douglas, T’79 David Horton Jr., Φ’10 Frederick M. Mayer, Σ’82 John William Bowlin, Φ’73 Guy O. Dove III, E’58 Mark F. Hughes Jr., A’50 Stanley R. McCandless Jr., E’50 John H. Bradley, Ξ’66 Ellason Downs, Δ’26 † Adaam Bryant Hukins, Ξ’01 Ryan Patrick McClelland, Φ’99 Eric J. Brockman, Φ’83 Frank E. Driscoll, Ξ’52 Clifton Clarke Inge Jr., Υ’83 G. Peter M. McCurrach, E’59 Adam H. Broome, Φ’76 John S. Dryman, Υ’71 Edward C. Irvine, Ξ’80 Richard G. McKee, T’50 Walter Brown, A’68 Beverley C. Duer, T’46 William B. Irvine III, A’79 William G. McKnight III, E’59 Thomas F. Bundy Jr., E’59 Alfred Dunn Dillard, Δ’71 John P. Isenburg, Ξ’64 Alexander P. McKown, Δ’62 Walter E. Bundy III, Υ’66 James D. Dunning Jr., Δ’67 Charles E. Jackson III, Φ’78 Rounsaville Smith McNeal, Φ’04 I. Townsend Burden III, Δ’64 Mariah Erlick, K’09 James Wylie Johnston, E’08 Susan L. Mendleson, T’81 F. Andrus Burr, Λ’63 Mariah Kimberly Evans, Ξ’17 Bryan Jones, K’86 Charles Merriman III, Υ’53 Gilbert Eugene Butler Jr., Υ’72 John L. Fagelson, Ξ’69 Thomas C. Jones, T’63 Zoe Nicole Miller, E’16 Lee S. Butterman, K’03 Albert E. Fairchild, Ξ’62 William E. Kaye, Υ’75 Donald D. Mills, E’59 Jarrett Edward Byrnes, K’99 Alexander A. Fallone, E’16 Paul J. Keeler Jr., A’66 Frank P. L. Minard, Ξ’64 Gordon E. Cadwgan Jr., Ξ’64 John Noble Fiske Jr., E’82 Thomas W. Keesee III, Δ’73 James F. Mitchell III, Δ’57 Continued on next page. 17 2020 DIRECTORY OF GIVING (CONTINUED)

R. Alan Moak Sr., Φ’78 Cynthia Bellman Rehm, Ξ’95 Peter Railey Taylor, Υ’77 D. Read Moffett, T’54 William Weber Reid, Σ’16 Sava Ivan Tchok, A’50 Carrington Montague, Υ’69 Julian Sargeant Reynolds Jr., Υ’81 Paul Thompson III, Δ’68 Deaderick C. Montague, Υ’65 Alice Desdemona Rha, K’07, Ξ’12 Barbara J. Thornton, T’77, K’91 Jason Z. Moore, Ξ’98, K’03, & Lela Urquhart Robert L. Rich, Λ’49 Peter Cabell Thorp, Δ’55 Charles Schuyler Morehouse, Δ’76 Rodney C. Richardson, Φ’80 Sidney Randy Trevillion, Φ’81 Kenneth A. Moselle, Σ’72 William F. Rienhoff III, Υ’43 William Laurence Tribble, Φ’16 J. Anthony Mountain, A’57 Ted Robb, Δ’50 Carrington C. Tutwiler III, A’72 Frederick L. Muller, Δ’57 Albert Samuel Roberts Jr., Δ’64 John Lewis Tyree, Δ’14 Liam G.B. Murphy, K’83, I’14 Richard H. Robinson, Ξ’68 Eugene Massie Valentine Jr., Υ’79 William M. Myers, Φ’66 Arden Rodgers, T’78 Michael W. Vanik, K’88 Ronald M. Nash, Υ’58 William A. Rodriguez Jimenez, T’15 L. John Vassalotti III, K’01 Albert P. Neilson, Σ’49 Axel E. Rosenblad, T’52 Sweyn M. Venderbush, Σ’15 J. Eric Nelson, A’80 Mason G. Ross, E’63 Richmond Viall III, Δ’63, K’84 Joseph R. Neuhaus Jr., Υ’66 Jennifer Hill Ruff, Ξ’10 Philipp Von Türk, Σ’67 Richard Edwards Noble, E’77, T’11 Benjamin Louis Russell III, A’02 Julian R. Vulliez, A’93 Amy Lee Norovich, T’08 Isaac D. Russell, Σ’51 Geoffrey K. Walker, Σ’67, E’21 G. Ogden Nutting, Λ’53 Anthony R. Saccomano, A’92 Michael A. Wall, T’47 Charles John O’Byrne, A’80 Sally A. Sanford, Σ’72 Christopher G. Wallace, Δ’73 Mary I. O’Connor, Σ’76 Winthrop W. Sargent Jr., Ξ’62 White McK. Wallenborn, Ξ’49, Υ’52 Dan Freeman Oldham, Ξ’81, Φ’06 Robin Michelle Satty, K’06 Robert C. Wallis, E’63 Dorothy Josephine O’Neil, A’14 Anthony Lee Schaeffer, E’75 William M. Waring, Ξ’61 Ulrika L. Oster, T’80 David S.S. Schaff, Σ’62 Matthew C. Weisman, Ξ’62, Δ’64 Daphne Oz, Θ’05 David L. Schweizer, T’54 Peter J. Wender, T’68 Elise B. Packard, K’85 William Andrew Scott, Φ’12 Stephen F. Weston, Φ’64 Michael Parent, A’85 Jonathan B. Scoville, Σ’64 John Paul White, Φ’76 William Ravenel Peelle Jr., E’68 Christian D. Searcy, Υ’66 P. Gerald White, Δ’53 † Peter C. Pendergrass, Ξ’07 Laura Ellen Seide-Bishop, I’10 Olivia Wicki, Θ’16 Áron Ricardo Perez-Lopez, T’16 Debra Michelle Seidell, K’95 David W. Wilk, Σ’69 Brewster B. Perkins, E’62 John Stevens Sharp, A’76 F. John Wilkes Jr., Ξ’63 George Peterson III, Δ’53 Irving C. Sheldon Jr., A’73, K’84 Joseph H. Williams, Σ’53 Michael J. Petrucelli, E’87 LeAnn Spradling Sherman, Ξ’96 Michael George Williams, Ξ’96, I’14 Anthony V. Phillips, T’56 Donna Shestowsky, Σ’93 Peter Wilmerding, Δ’66 Brian L. Phillips, A’92 William M. Shettle II, Ξ’62 John Winthrop, A’60 Peyton R.H. Pinkerton, Λ’51, A’51 John Terry Shively, Ξ’62 Han C. Wong, E’00 Ivan S. Poutiatine, Σ’51 Edith M. Sifford, Ξ’80 Grahame Wood III, Δ’60, Ξ’99, I’10 Jordan M. Price, Ξ’06 Eric Charles Simpson, Σ’08 Benjamin T. Woodruff, T’89 Jennifer Pruett, Σ’75 Craig L. Slingluff Jr., Υ’77 Theodore Kennedy Woods Jr., Υ’53 Robert W. Puffer III, T’58 Paul L. Sloan III, Λ’64 David C. Wright, Ξ’77 Merjema Purak, I’17 Andrew M. Smith, Λ’54 David G. Young III, Δ’69 Emily A. Purdie, Ξ’01 Henry B. Smythe Jr., Σ’67 Robert C. Zaglin, Σ’72 John Sloane Pyne, Ξ’65 James M. Snowden Jr., Δ’62 Justin Scott Zaremby, Σ’03 Charles P. Quarterman, Φ’67 Adam Lee Stanford, Φ’10 John Fox Zerner, A’55 James C. Randle, Φ’64 Michael Harrison Swetye, Θ’99 E. Fairfax Randolph Jr., Υ’58 Edward T. Taws Jr., Ξ’53 † now deceased 2020 GIVING BY NON-MEMBERS Several St. A’s made creative use of Facebook to inspire donations from a number of non-members. We’re grateful to them for their stewardship of the Hall Fund. Thus, we are honored to recognize the following non-member donors for their support. St. Anthony Hall would also like to extend its appreciation to an anonymous benefactor for their generous donation to the 2020 Hall Fund. Kevin Angle* Malaika Faciane* Ann Hunter David McKenzie* Richard Currin Charlie Farmer Randy Jones Stefan Persson* Chip & Debby Dewing Brian Gannon Laura King Teresa Rowe Laura Creech Downs* William T. Hight, III. Ryan Krog Monique Tann Judy Earl* Valencia Hudson Michelle Bolhuis Loth* Ben Taratoot* 18 * repeat donors ALUMNI INTERVIEW Health/Care: A Community Issue E. Sis. Dr. Mary I. O’Connor, Σ’76, March 21, 2021

Life has changed so much during this ongoing coronavirus there are multiple challenges with how hospitals and healthcare pandemic that it now almost feels meaningless to definitively providers are reimbursed. One particularly troubling issue right name what is “normal,” old or new. Our lives, as well as physical now is the closure of hospitals. A lot of people think that health- and mental health, are still being shaped in profound ways by care systems are very profitable, and there are some healthcare the harsh realities wrought by COVID-19 and by the ways that systems that make a lot of money, but lots of hospitals, which we ourselves have changed in the past year. While it’s important are not in big systems, struggle to make a 2% or 3% margin. not to romanticize the difficulties of living, working, learning, That’s a slim margin, and there are many hospitals, particularly celebrating, and grieving in this pandemic, it’s as important to in less affluent urban locations and in rural America, that finan- remember how we got through, what we worried about, and cially can’t make it. We’ve seen a record number of hospital clo- how we imagined the future. Over the next four months, we sures recently, and that’s bad. People need hospitals, and people will be bringing you a series of interviews with siblings who have need access to acute emergency services. I think that hospitals been thinking about health and healthcare during and after the should be viewed as an essential service. pandemic. These portraits are only some among the many that we could draw of our fraternity at this moment. My hope is NP: Absolutely. that, when we are ready to look back on this time, we can stand MO: Medicine is extremely siloed, and this is a huge prob- to remember the ways we survived and dreamed through. lem. We could do a better job taking care of patients if we were Below are excerpts of a conversation I recently had with E. far more integrated and viewed patients in a more holistic man- Sis. Dr. Mary I. O’Connor, Σ’76. E. Sis. O’Connor currently ner. So our company—we are just starting and are working on serves as co-founder and chief medical officer of a musculoskel- our name—is a virtual integrated care-delivery model that will etal medical startup company focused on innovative and inte- also partner with primary-care groups to embed some of our grated care. She is professor emerita of orthopedics at the Mayo providers in their office space. How do you make the delivery Clinic and past professor of orthopedics and rehabilitation at of healthcare more patient centered, more effective, and cost Yale School of Medicine. E. Sis. O’Connor was the first female less? Because, honestly, medical costs are out of control. Insur- member of the Musculoskeletal Tumor Society (MSTS), the ance companies are just making more money. The people that International Society of Limb Salvage (ISOLS), the American are getting hurt by rising healthcare costs are patients. Medical Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons (AAHKS), and The Knee bankruptcy is a real issue. Society. The interview has been edited for clarity and length. – National publisher NP: What are some issues you’d want to address for a patient? MO: The important thing is what matters to you. Does National publisher (NP): Thank you for making time to anybody even ask you that? Our company’s focus is to really speak with me! What do you see as some of the major issues we create a “wow” experience for our patients. It will take us a little are facing in American healthcare today? time to get there. Why can’t your experience be really engaging? E. Sis. Dr. Mary O’Connor, Σ’76 (MO): We need to view So now I have the privilege of basically pursuing my dream health differently. We tend to think about health in the con- and what I think my professional life purpose is. Somebody has text of doctors, hospitals, and medical care, but most of our to try to make the system better. Why not me? I have a vision, health and well-being is created outside the doctor’s office and and I know how it can be better. So instead of just talking about influenced by our own behaviors and where we live and work. it, now I can do something to try to achieve that. I like to say, “Sick care belongs in the doctor’s office, but well- ness belongs in the community.” We simply have to reverse the NP: Is this a vision that started for you in medical school, failing health of our nation; even before the pandemic, we were in your time as an undergraduate, or even earlier? getting sicker and sicker: epidemic levels of obesity, immobility, MO: This is a vision based in equity. The experience [of diabetes, mental health issues. Thinking about how we can all healthcare] is bad, but the experience is not equally bad for every- influence our own health and that of those around us, how we one. Women and individuals of color have greater health dis- can each be “health promoters” is important. I recently gave parities than white males, and I’ve been very dedicated to equity a TEDx talk on this, “Promoting Health: Your Secret Super- work in my career. Part of that is because I am a minority in power” (youtu.be/J7FGUF0AncM). Would love for my sib- my profession. I am one of the 6% of women in orthopedics. lings to watch it and promote health! When I was in residency, it was 5%. The profession still has a very Another major issue is the “business of healthcare.” And long way to go, and I’ve always worked to improve diversity in 19 the profession. The reason why I feel so strongly, so passionately I’m in a psychologically safe space, because there is trust. That’s about it is because that diversity impacts the care patients receive. what people need in their lives. We are, as humans, social crea- All of this—I guess you could frame it as an overriding tures. This is one reason that the pandemic has been so hard. We concern with equity or injustice—started back at Yale. When I have been isolated in very very small groups of people whom we was a freshman, I started rowing at Yale, and then we had a lit- have physical contact with, and while we can have social contact tle demonstration in 1976 regarding the lack of facilities at the with people through Zoom or [Microsoft] Teams, it is still not boathouse for women. Nineteen of us from the team went up the same emotional connection. And so, my “aha” moment in to the women’s athletics department, and we walked up to the our Operation Change program was this realization that “Mary, director’s office and stripped. On our bare chests and backs we health and wellbeing is not about you as the doctor. You think had written “Title IX” and our captain read out,“These are the that you are so important, but it’s not about you.” It’s not that bodies that Yale is exploiting.” Our demonstration has been doctors are not important; there are times when the doctors hailed as the first call toward equity in college sports. Our are essential, but we have become so focused on health being demonstration really caused a stir because it was reported in healthcare instead of health being linked to community. the New York Times. We embarrassed [Yale] and had an addi- Honestly, we had women say [Operation Change] had saved tion on the boathouse with a locker room for us the following their lives. They are women of lower socioeconomic means. They spring. [Editor’s note: this event was covered by the March understand that there is opportunity to improve their health. They 4, 1976, issue New York Times.] understand that they should make changes, but those changes are So I have been focused on equity from an early age. And so hard for them. I don’t live paycheck to paycheck. Many of these clearly, we have much further to go in many areas. It was so women and [their] families do, and the wealth gap has unfortu- disturbing to me: the whole NCAA women’s basketball disaster. nately increased in this country instead of decreased. Our demonstration was 45 years ago, and such blatant inequi- I feel strongly that we really have to focus on how we are ties are still occurring in college athletics. Simply unacceptable. going to have a healthy middle class and how we are going to work to bring the lower class up to be middle class. We will NP: That’s how things get done, shockingly. Embarrassing always have differences in income. We need to focus on health institutions. as a nation. One thing we know with certainty is that the cur- MO: The fundamental question is why do you have to rent delivery has not improved health in the nation. The current embarrass an organization to do the right thing. It shouldn’t be healthcare system has not improved health. If healthcare were that way. We should have leaders committed to doing their best so great in this country, why are we so sick? Why is the country to treat everyone fairly. so sick? Because the system doesn’t work. Hence my going off into the entrepreneurial world to try to make the system better. NP: And we should be able to have equity incorporated into our goals and metrics and practices without protests or NP: That recognition of growing income disparities feels so demonstrations. key to our broader discussion of healthcare. MO: Yes. On so many levels. Look at the social determi- MO: There is a fundamental thread through this, and it’s nants of health. I chair a national coalition called Movement is basically equity or addressing disparities. Why is one group Life, and I’ve done so since the inception of the group eleven treated differently than another just because of who they are? years ago. We’ve focused on how to address disparities. We cre- Why does a woman’s team get fewer resources just because they ated a community-based program for women with knee pain are women? Why do physicians interrupt women more than called Operation Change. Of course, we had to put it on hold men? There are a ton of questions. There are bigger issues. We in the pandemic. Between forty and fifty women would come all have conscious and unconscious bias. There are a lot of big- together every couple of weeks for three hours. The first hour ger societal issues. It’s not like our new company is automati- would be education, the second hour would be movement, like cally going to fix these things, but we are committed to shaping yoga or line dancing, depending on how limited your ability is to our company in the context of social justice and equitable care. move, and the third hour we really focus on motivational inter- viewing to assess what a participant’s goals are and what her abili- NP: I wanted to say that too: that it’s not just that we need ties are. And what I learned from these women was that it wasn’t to shift our unconscious biases. It’s also that we need to shift the health education that we provided them or the movement where we put resources. classes or even the motivation interviewing (although that was MO: We need to start understanding that health and wellbe- important); it was the emotional connections that they formed ing are the result of multiple factors in an individual’s life, and the with one another that supported them on a journey toward delivery of healthcare is one factor, but it is not the only factor. health. And they made remarkable improvements in their health. Were we should do a better job is addressing the social determi- nants of health and improving health in our most at-risk com- NP: Absolutely. munities. What we should have learned from this pandemic, if MO: If you think about The Hall, it is our bonds and we didn’t already know, is that we are all connected. We cannot the emotional connections that we have with each other that completely isolate ourselves. So if we want our parents, partners, support us. It’s the bonds that I know, where I can reach out and children to be at low risk of being exposed to a deadly virus, to some of my close siblings and share with them a challenge. we need everyone to be healthier. Let’s all be health promoters! 20 NECROLOGY (deaths recorded since fall 2020)

The national fraternity office has been notified of the deaths of the following siblings since the lastReview . Some of these deaths occurred some time ago, and we have only just been notified. Please let us know right away if you learn of any fraternity deaths, and provide us an obituary if possible for our permanent records. (Listed by chapter and then chronologically.)

ALPHA of Petroleum and the Royal Geographic Society. World Joseph Paul Meredith, A’46, Los Gatos, CA. Veteran of the traveler, sailor, and painter. Major Delta Psi benefactor. U.S. Army; served in the Korean War. High school English Michael N. Wood, Δ’60, South Hamilton, MA. Veteran pilot in teacher. Editor of the Saratoga Weekly newspaper. Longtime the U.S. Navy. Airline captain for Delta Airlines for thirty years. member of the Los Gatos Catholic Church. World traveler, pianist, environmentalist, dog lover, avid tennis George E. Economakis, A’50, Athens, Greece. Banker and ship player, and philanthropist. Legacy: son of Bro. Dr. Horatio Cur- owner. Horse lover. Opera aficionado. Polo player. tis Wood Jr., Δ1922. Predeceased by his brother, Bro. Theodore Monte “Stewart” Manee, A’51, Stamford, CT. Former vice E. B. Wood, Σ1949. Survived by his brother, Bro. H. Curtis president of Trainer, Wortham, and Company Investment Wood III, Σ1951, of Naples, FL. Delta Psi benefactor. Counselors in New York, NY. Delta Psi benefactor. Died March 12, 2018. EPSILON John O. Newell Jr., A’51, Brooklyn, CT. Formerly of West Michael A. Sienkiewicz, E’58, Carlisle, PA. Representative, Hartford, CT. M.B.A. from Cornell. Banker, lifetime career C.H. Masland & Sons, carpet and rug manufacturers. in management positions with the Hartford National Bank Major Delta Psi benefactor. and Trust Company. Maker of miniatures and avid genealo- Patrick Charles “Charley” Landon Hill, E’66. London, gist. Died November 10, 2019. England. Veteran of the U.S. Army paratroopers, Viet- Warren Nash “Renny” Ponvert, A’53, West Palm Beach, FL. nam War. Art detective. Metropolitan Police, London, for Member of the New York Stock Exchange. Club Man. Dog twenty years. Member of elite undercover division in Scot- lover. Died May 31, 2017. land Yard called the Art & Antiques Unit, better known George H.C. Lawrence, A’56, Vero Beach, FL. Veteran of as the Art Squad. Famous for recovering “The Scream” by the U.S. Army. President of Lawrence Properties, Bronx- Edvard Munch, which was stolen from the National Gallery ville, NY. Civic Leader for many years in Bronxville and of Norway in Oslo in 1993. Also recovered other valuable Vero Beach, FL. Outdoorsman and golfer. Patriot. Family paintings by Vermeer, Goya, and Titians (see story on page founded Sarah Lawrence College. Former trustee of Alpha 23). Fulbright Scholar. Died February 20, 2021. Chapter. Major Delta Psi benefactor. Died June 18, 2019. Charles A. Pfeffer III, A’58, South Portland, ME. M.B.A. from LAMBDA the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Corporate Paul Edgar Shorb Jr., Λ’48, Bethesda, MD, and Tenants Har- businessman. Avid lifetime sailor. Member of many yacht bor, ME. New England wrestling college champion in 1949, clubs, including in the Caribbean. Completed a solo cross- ’50, and ’51. Veteran of the U.S. Army, Hospital medical ing of the North Atlantic. Died June 3, 1999. staff, Stuttgart, West Germany. M.D. from Johns Hopkins Edward Francis Weeks, A’59, Jacksonville, FL. Fine art con- Medical School. Long time surgeon at George Washing- sultant. Former art curator for the Birmingham Museum of ton University Hospital, Washington, DC. President of the Art, Birmingham, AL. Died November 20, 2019. Metropolitan Chapter of the American College of Surgeons. Physician teacher. Scuba diver and underwater photographer. DELTA Brother of the late Bro. Robert H. Shorb, Λ’50. Daniel Garrison Brinton Thompson, Δ1920, T1920, E’65, Robert Henry Shorb, Λ’50, Bethesda, MD. Harvard Law Bloomfield, CT. Professor and chairman of the history School graduate. Longtime prominent Washington, DC, department, Trinity College, Hartford, CT. Authority on lawyer. Life fellow of the American Bar Foundation. Former the history of the mid-Atlantic states. American history chairman of the governing board, St. Albans School. Trustee author. Local civic leader. Died July 30, 1993. and board member of several schools and clubs. Avid golfer. Charles M. Meredith III, Δ’54, Quakertown, PA. Former owner Legacy: brother of the late Bro. Dr. Paul E. Shorb Jr., Λ’48. and publisher of the Quakertown Free Press. Lifelong civic leader in Bucks County, PA. Wharton graduate. President of PHI the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association. Raconteur, singer, Russell Douglas Thompson, Φ’56, Ocean Springs, MS. Veteran and rower. Philanthropist. Environmentalist. Survived by son of the U.S. Air Force, Vietnam War. Recipient of Bronze Star Bro. Charles M. “Ty” Meredith IV, Δ’80 of Gulph Mills, PA. medal for valor. Judge advocate in U.S. Air Force from 1966 Thomas Darragh Mullins,Δ ’55, West Tisbury, MA. Longtime to 1976. In private law practice for more than thirty years. corporate officer of Gulf Oil Co. Former associate director Active in local Presbyterian church. In retirement became of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard. Mem- pastor of First Presbyterian Church, Lucedale, MS, for a ber of many international societies, including the Institute decade. Civic leader and yachtsman. Delta Psi benefactor. 21 SIGMA Earned several advanced medical degrees. Lifetime spent in Peter White, Σ’49, Toledo, OH. Veteran of the U.S. Air Force, cancer research. Medical professor at several universities. For- captain. Hematologist. Professor and chief of medicine at mer trustee of Drexel University College of Medicine. Presbyterian University, Philadelphia, 1977–1985. Founder Edward “Ed” Wilson Merrill, T’45, Belmont, MA. Professor of and guiding force behind Medical College of Ohio (MCO) chemical engineering, MIT. Specializing in polymer chemistry. in Toledo. Deputy chairman of the Department of Medicine. Chemistry consultant and award winner. Family man. Gar- Professor and clinical researcher. Watercolorist and birder. dener, book, and music lover. Major Delta Psi benefactor. Major Delta Psi benefactor. Died November 16, 2019. David B. McLeod, T’46, Appleton, WI. Engineer and archi- Edwin T. “Ned” Blake, Σ’52, Pittsboro, NC. Veteran of the U.S. tect. Established company for industrial cleaning and asbes- Army. Lifetime career at IBM. Master computer program- tos abatement. Died September 1, 2019. mer. Great outdoorsman and sailor. Civic volunteer. Legacy: Joseph Ranger, T’54, Hong Kong, SAR, China. Businessman. predeceased by his brother Bro. T. Whitney Blake, Σ’49. Former director, Center for Asia Private Equity Research. Jaquelin T. Robertson, Σ’52, East Hampton, NY. Architect Died August 2, 2019. and urban planner. Rhodes Scholar, Oxford University. Eric O. J. Salbu, T’59. Norwegian. Los Altos, CA. Died May First director of the Midtown Planning and Development 29, 2012. Committee, NYC (1960s). Dean of the University of Vir- Charles W. Deane IV, T’61, Glastonbury, CT. Former senior ginia, School of Architecture (1980). Author of In Search research engineer, United Technologies Corp. of an American Urban Order. Partner architecture firm of Andrew Sturgis Harris, T’62, Manchester, MA. Served as Cooper/Robertson. Classicist. officer on the Grand Chapter as H.F.W. (#4) in 1970 and Courtenay “Court” H. Haight, Σ’55, Blue Hill, ME. Veteran 1971. Architect. Co-founder of Harris, Miller, Miller, and of the U.S. Navy. Long career in international banking with Hanson (HMMH) acoustics consulting company, focusing Morgan Guarantee Trust, spending several years overseas in on transportation noise. Sailor, skier, pilot, entrepreneur, Japan and Australia. Established Haight Farm in South Blue community volunteer, and town board member. Earned Hill, ME, in early 1990s. Artisan in basketry and wood- doctorate from Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, working. Member of local steel-drum band. Survived by his MA. Died July 5, 2019. younger brother, Bro. Peter V. Haight, Σ’56, of Los Angeles, Walter Daniel “Dan” Stiehl, T’98, Haverhill, MA. Master’s CA. Major Delta Psi benefactor. degree in mechanical engineering from MIT. Mechanical engi- Hugh C. Macgill, Σ’58, West Hartford, CT. Former dean of neer and machinist. Family man. Hiker and museum goer. the University of Connecticut School of Law (1990–2000). Founder of the Meskill Law Library. Served in many leader- UPSILON ship roles in professional and civic organizations. Advocate Frank P. Christian, Υ’45, Santa Fe, NM. Veteran of the U.S. of social justice. Lover of books and poetry and classical Army, language school. Attorney. Active for many years in music. Oenophile and outdoorsman. theatrical productions in drama and musicals. Baritone, Stephen Todd Anderson, Σ’59, Mystic, CT. Episcopal Church recitalist, and ballroom dancer. Linguist, including Latin. music director for five decades in churches in CT, AZ, DC, and Died January 5, 2012. NC. Composed significant choral and organ work in classical, Frank O. Meade, Υ’49, Charleston, SC. Formerly Danville, gospel, and jazz genres. Tennis player. Died August 26, 2019. VA, and Hilton Head, SC. Veteran and first lieutenant of David Lewis Plimpton, Σ’51, Brooklyn, NY. Earned graduate the U.S. Army. Attorney. Civic leader. Champion tennis degrees in writing, chemistry, and clinical psychology. Psy- player and avid golfer. Predeceased by younger brother, Bro. chologist in private practice. Worked at South Beach Psy- Edwin B. Meade Jr., Υ’47. Died December 28, 2019. chiatric Center (NY) for 32 years. Lifelong commitment to public service. Coast Guard captain and fishing guide. Wind- XI surfer and fly fisherman. Marathon runner, mountain biker, Paul Coe Clark Jr., Ξ’59, Southern Pines, NC. Veteran of the U.S. and skier. Book and opera lover. Died February 7, 2019. Army, Vietnam War. Winner of several combat medals, includ- Robert Benson Trukenbrod, Σ’65, Atlanta, GA. Longtime ing the Bronze and Silver Stars and Purple Heart. College pro- career in health nutrition companies. Senior brand man- fessor. Latin American expert. Breeder of Tennessee Walking ager, The Nature’s Bounty Co. Church goer and family man. Horses. Author and world traveler. Died July 27, 2019. Patricia Sobol McDermott, Σ’87, Westport, CT. Longtime Kathleen Noelle Ocon, Ξ’86, Durham, NC. Served as officer career in financial industry. Managing director in private on the Grand Chapter as H.Dncq. (#3) in 1999. Senior banking. Music lover and bagpiper. Volunteer for charitable conservator of paintings, North Carolina Museum of Art. causes. Died May 1, 2019. A memorial is being planned for Sister Ocon at the Xi David Johannes “Hans” Schoenburg, Σ’07, Albuquerque, Chapter. For more information and to contribute, please NM. Economic anthropologist. Founder of many economic contact former H.D. E. Bro. Liam Murphy K’83, I’14, at opportunity ventures for the under privileged, including Free [email protected]. Store Co. , the Last Mile, and the Gift Economy. Bicyclist. The St. Anthony Hall website has full TAU obituaries for some of the members listed above. 22 Earle F. Wheelock, T’44, Naples, FL. Veteran of the U.S. Army. Please visit www.stanthonyhall.org/necrology to view. Remembering Bro. Charles Hill, E’66 The Man Who Found “The Scream” “From that point on,” he related, “I was a made man.” He further boosted his reputation when he recovered Ver- Finding himself inside a house in Asgardstrand, Norway, meer’s “Lady Writing a Letter With Her Maid” in 1993, seven Scotland Yard detective Charles Hill found what he had been years after it had been stolen from a mansion in Ireland. Posing searching for, Edvard Munch’s 1893 masterpiece, “The Scream.” as a middleman for a Middle Eastern tycoon, Charles dealt with As he told Garage magazine in 2018: “I unwrapped it from a gangster who had come into possession of four of the paint- a blue sheet and saw first where Munch had started painting on ings. In the parking garage of the Antwerp airport, he saw the what’s now on the back. The picture is painted on heavy card- gangster take one of the paintings, Goya’s “Portrait of Doña board, which surprised me, but I turned it over and there was Antonia Zárate,” out of a sports bag in the trunk of his car and the famous image, including the original splatter marks where unroll it like a cheap poster before the Belgian police arrived. Munch blew out a candle on it. I said something like ‘Holy The other three paintings were in the trunk as well, including mackerel’ while I admired it.” The painting had been stolen the Vermeer, which had been in a trash bag. three months earlier in 1994, and Charles, a leading specialist “I’ve held a Goya, a Munch, and a Vermeer in my hands in recovering stolen art, was assigned the case. that I personally helped to recover,” he once said. “There’s noth- Earlier, in 1980, Charles was assigned to recover a painting ing else I want to do.” stolen by two veteran thieves. He posed as an art dealer and told In 2002, one of Mr. Hill’s most noted recoveries as a private them that the painting was a forgery. “It took them aback,” he investigator was Titian’s “Rest on the Flight into Egypt.” It had told Garage, “but they were happy enough to pour cognac down been stolen in 1995 from Longleat House in Warminster, Eng- my throat and took me back to Park Lane, where I was staying. land. The Titian was found at the bus stop in a plain brown They were soon raided by the Flying Squad from Scotland Yard.” wrapper, next to an old man. His estimate that the painting was worth only a few thousand pounds turned out to be true; an auction house determined that Read the full story from The New York Times on their web- it was a forgery of a 16th-century work by Parmigianino. site: www.nytimes.com/2021/03/10/arts/charles-hill-dead.html.

2021 Inaugural Remarks: continued from page 7 would begin meaningful, measurable change across our fraternity no exception to that. This week has been especially joyful, but in order to make it safer and more equitable for our Black siblings. also traumatic for you, and The Hall should be a place you feel Initial sketches of this work have it starting in early April and con- safe coming to, a haven where your existence and your voice are tinuing for most of this calendar year. The G.C. is coordinating celebrated on your terms. We will get there one day. with graduate organizations and chapter leadership to start this I have no illusions of doing this job by myself. I have an amaz- work; local leadership will be deciding who among each chapter ing team around me, and we will lead together. And, of course, are the folks who can be leaders who are listened to, respected, there are thousands of St. As all over the world, and each of you has and trusted, who have the bandwidth and appetite to engage in a role you can—and I hope will—play in this next year. I implore what will assuredly be a very difficult conversation, and who are each of you to seek out where and how you can plug in to doing ready to see this change in our Hall. And in these difficult conver- the work The Hall needs. Growing up on a beef cattle farm in rural sations, let’s listen to one another and learn from one another, but Alabama, my granddad would admonish that, “if you see some- let’s also (those of us who are white) think carefully about whether thing that needs doing, no matter how small or mundane, then do our words are negating the lives and experiences of Black siblings. it and make it right. There is no task that’sbelow you.” Reach out This will be a massive effort. Each of these groups sending to your graduate organization and see what work there is to do. two change agents means we will have dozens of people on this Talk to brothers, sisters, and siblings you haven’t heard from in a initiative, and all of this being done virtually at the start. Being while and come up with a way to contribute. Engage with an area even more clear: we are endeavoring to move St. Anthony Hall organization—they’re listed on the website! In the directory there, toward being an antioppression and antiracist organization. This look up and talk to your chapter’s leadership or any of these folks will not happen, and assuredly will not be done, during my tenure I’ve mentioned. Contact the chair of a committee that does what as presiding officer; this is an effort for the next ten years,as a start. you’re interested in and ask, “What do you need?” I am saying that I am committed to listening and guiding The Hall Now is the time for all of us to re-engage with our Hall and to for the next one year and that my successors will have to do the help shape it into the order we want it to be: better than it was and same. If any of you have questions, ideas, concerns, fears, or even looking toward a future where we all belong and grow together. As just well-wishes, I would love to hear them. Please reach out to me. one of my favorite superbands, The Highwomen, put it, “I want To Black siblings and others who are from marginalized a house with a crowded table and a place by the fire for everyone.” and oppressed groups: I ask you to talk to me and to call me There is room for all of us in our Hall. Let’s get to work. out when I deserve it. We are each on our own paths to under- Respectfully Submitted, standing our role in systemic and institutional racism, and I’m Bro. Nicholas Brent Hammond, Φ’99, I’10 23 St. Anthony Hall The Fraternity of Delta Psi P.O. Box 876 Ithaca, NY 14851-0876

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24 “Puzzling Past” by 2021 MacNelly Award winner Bro. Wesley Uwaezuoke, A’18.