Spring/Summer 2009 05...... A consultant’s journal 30...... Coaching Millennials 37...... Foundation Annual Report 54...... Facebook Phi Dave Morin
Lead Responsibly Morrison’s philosophy helps guide Delta Connection VP Don Bornhorst contents The Scroll Spring/Summer 2009 Volume CXXXII, Number 1
37 48 52 Foundation Annual Report Lead responsibly, Don Bornhorst Dr. Sigvard Hansen Celebrating 50 years of the Educational Using Robert Morrison as a guide, Delta Lives by the motto of “just fix it.” Hansen Foundation. Thank you for all your VP Don Bornhorst continues to lead by takes other doctor’s “no can do’s” and generous support. Here is to another doing what ought to be done. pushes the medical envelope by operating 50 years! when other professionals think the procedure is impossible.
The Scroll (ISSN 0036-9799) is an educational journal Postmaster Editor General Council published continuously by the Phi Delta Theta International Rob Pasquinucci Fraternity since 1876. It is published three times annually Please send form 3579 for undeliverable copies to (Ashland ’93) President in Greenfield, Ohio. Third class postage paid at Greenfield, Phi Delta Theta General Headquarters, Mark Ochsenbein Editor Emeritus Ohio, and at additional offices. The Scroll is distributed free of 2 South Campus Ave., Oxford, Ohio 45056. (Eastern Kentucky ’77) Bill Dean charge to members of Phi Delta Theta. Subscription rates: $5 (Texas Tech ’60) Treasurer issue/$15 per year. Subscriptions must be sent to the editor at M. Scott Mietchen General Headquarters. Phi Delta Theta is not responsible for Deadlines Business Manager (Utah ’84) unsolicited material. Robert A. Biggs Spring: Feb. 1; Fall: July 1; Winter: Oct. 1. (Georgia Southern ’76) Reporter Christopher A. Lapple Copyright © 2009 by Phi Delta Theta International Editorial Assistant Fraternity. Nothing herein may be reproduced without prior (Cal State-Northridge ’80) On the Cover Barbara Cotterman permission. Printed in the USA. Members at Large Photo copyright ©2009 D.A. Fleischer Contributors Richard E. Fabritius Jay Langhammer (Kent State ’94) D. A. Fleischer Jeffrey N. Davis Jennifer Taber (Southeast Missouri State ’94)
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05 30 60 A consultant’s journal Coaching Millennials Brothers with a passion for Georgia
06…Stats 32…How to: Cut hair-stylin’ & profilin’ 61…Expansion 07…Chapter News 33…Fellowships 63…True Blue Society 14…Club News 54…Facebook Phi Dave Morin 69…Opinion from the Order 16…Phi Footnotes 70…Chapter Grand 24…Phi Sports
General Headquarters Director of Leadership Consultants Foundation Chapter Services Kevin Bazner 2 South Campus Avenue Jacob Kingdon (Robert Morris ’06) 2 South Campus Avenue Oxford, Ohio 45056 Oxford, Ohio 45056 (Lawrence ’07) Daniel Holman (513) 523-6345 Director of Education (Nevada-Reno ’07) (513) 523-6966 (513) 523-9200 fax and Technology (513) 523-9200 fax Keith Wysocki [email protected] Steven J. Good (Nebraska-Lincoln ’07) foundation@ www.phideltatheta.org (Iowa State ’04) Justin Dandoy phideltatheta.org Executive Director of Expansion (Clarion ’07) President Vice President Dustin B. Struble William R. (Rusty) Robert A. Biggs (Cal State-Chico ’06) Benjamin Fair Richardson (Georgia Southern ’76) Director of Housing (Indiana ’08) (Tampa ’76) Associate Executive and Insurance Tucker Lee Vice President of Vice President Melanie Clayton (West Texas A & M ’08) Development Sean S. Wagner Luis Martinez Conrad Foster Thiede (Widener ’02) (Texas-Arlington ’08) (Colgate ’90) Joseph Newland (Puget Sound ’08)
Spring/Summer 2009 3 A virtual chapter
his time of year makes me remember my last days in the chapter at Eastern Kentucky and thinking that it might be a long time before T I’d see many of the guys from the chapter again. For folks from my generation, before even e-mail was available, the only way we’d talk to our brothers was by giving them a phone call or a holiday card. The advent of e-mail, and now Facebook along with other social networking sites, allow you to truly stay in touch with your brothers long after graduation and you can reach out to brothers you haven’t heard from in years. You may not be aware that one of the leaders at Facebook is a Phi named Dave Morin; we profile him in this issue. This new technology has changed our chapters and has changed the way we work at headquarters, and one of the General Council’s goals for this biennium is to increase the learning opportunities for our members through the use of technology. To that end, we’ve started offering Web-based education for our members and volunteers, enhanced Web site functionality and the chance to share our story to a much broader audience. Speaking of good stories, our cover story in this issue is on Don Bornhorst, a fellow Eastern Kentucky Phi who has gone on to do great things in the airline industry, but remains grounded in the virtues of Phi Delta Theta. I also want to point out fellow Eastern Kentucky Phi Rick Robinson has a new book out called Sniper Bid. Read more about it on page 17. We hope you continue to enjoy The Scroll and the information we share with members in each issue. We will continue to mail a printed version of the magazine through next summer (2010). After that time we will mail a printed magazine to members of Phi Delta Theta’s True Blue Society (more information is available on the back cover of this issue and on page 63). Select magazine content will be available online after the summer, 2010 issue, but only True Blue members will receive the printed magazine. There are other benefits to joining your brothers in the True Blue Society, from discounts at Brooks Brothers to a special recognition lapel pin. It’s our goal to make True Blue a way to extend the Fraternity experience beyond the college campus. Thank you, again for your continued support of this great organization. It continues to be an honor to serve you as your president.
Yours in the Bond,
Mark H. Ochsenbein General Council President 2008–2010.
4 Spring/Summer 2009 Spring/Summer 2009 06...... Stats 07...... Chapter News 14...... Club News 16...... Phi Footnotes 24...... Phi Sports
A consultant’s journal Departing Leadership Consultant Kevin Bazner reflects on traveling for Phi Delta Theta
raveling for the Fraternity over the past two years, hopping around 3. Building relationships—Traveling in the same region for two years has from campus to campus and city to city has been nothing short of a allowed me to get to know many of the guys in the chapters where I have T once-in-a lifetime opportunity. consulted. I have had the opportunity to meet hundreds, if not thousands, As I write this, I am sitting in the library at Northwest Missouri State of individuals. I think over half of the friends I have on Facebook are from (Missouri Theta). It is my last visit that I will be making as a Leadership traveling or working for Phi Delt. Consultant, and I think it finally hit me that I’m done. Rather than ramble 2. Making a difference—I would like to think that in my two years I have on about my experiences, I think I will take the list approach. So here it is, been able to make a small difference in someone or some chapter. Every the Top Six Memories of the Past Two Years. semester I would travel to a few chapters and be really impressed with how 6. Getting to know more about myself—With all that time traveling alone in they had completely turned around from my first visit. Seeing that might a car or on a plane, there was a lot of self-reflection. I think more people have helped me get through the two years, knowing that I had at least a need to just slow down, be quiet and take some time to think. little bit of an impact. 5. Learning more about Phi Delt—Obviously, working for the Fraternity has 1. Traveling—With 5 states, 33 chapters and over 45 cities, I have done a lot provided me with many interesting facts and anecdotes that I love to share. of traveling. This job is truly unique for that reason, if no other. I mean I have really enjoyed being able to go through old roll books, copies of The what other job can you be among friends everywhere you go, eat at a Scroll and looking at some very cool pieces of Fraternity history. restaurant only few people experience or hang out and immerse yourself in 4. Working in Oxford—Okay, so what other job will you get to work for that a variety of different cultures? allows you to live and work only yards away from where “It all started.” The Bazner is wrapping up a two-year tour on the road for Phi Delta Theta. He graduated history, the town and the ability to think what it might have been like in from Robert Morris University, receiving a Bachelor’s in Marketing and a Master’s in Instructional Leadership. 1848 were awesome!
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The Ohio Mu chapter welcomes Ashland University President Dr. Fred Finks. In the fall a brotherhood event was our climb to the top of Mount Lassen, an active volcano with a prominence of 5,200 feet.
Creighton University occasions, and participated in the Trick-or-Eat Chapter News Nebraska Gamma Halloween food drive. We had a very successful spring recruitment. As part of our ongoing commitment to Ashland University During recruitment, the Brothers had pizza at improving our chapter facilities, we have Ohio Mu a local restaurant, an event of fun and games, completed the renovations to create a new study 01 | On Sunday, April 26th, we held a special a barbeque, and two formal events. Each event area, complete with several computers and desks. initiation for University President Doctor Fred was well attended by potential new members. Our greatest success so far this year has been Finks. The chapter approached President Finks On the day of bid acceptance, we welcomed 34 that of our recruitment program. During the about this opportunity a few months ago, and new members into the Omega Phikeia class. The summer we adapted the program to be more Finks readily accepted. Finks, a 1969 graduate class is the largest in the chapter’s history and the inclusive of the 365 Recruitment Program that we of Ashland University, was friends with several largest on campus this year. That weekend there had been working with during the past few years. Ashland Phis during his undergraduate experience was a retreat on Friday, a date party on Saturday, As a direct result of this, and with a great deal but due to extenuating circumstances he was and the Phikeia’s first class meeting on Sunday. of work from actives and alumni, NS Alpha has never able to join as an undergraduate. Returning —Dylan Kathol inducted 16 new Phikeia this term, which equals to the University in 2005, he was welcomed back almost 45% growth in our chapter in one term. by Phi Delta Theta with open arms, and he has Dalhousie University This has been our most successful recruitment in attended many of our community service events. Nova Scotia Alpha a single semester in the last 40 years. During the reception that followed the ceremony, The school year was kicked off by our —Keegan Colville President Finks stated that he saw this opportunity participation in our second annual IFC as “a do-over” since being part of a brotherhood sponsored Greek Olympics. Our Brothers Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University like Phi Delta Theta is something he had always showed up in force to participate in events Florida Mu wanted to do during his college years. ranging from athletics to video games. For 03 | The Florida Mu chapter has officially turned President Finks joins the ranks of several the second year in a row, we won the greatest ten years old as of April 17th 2009. The weekend other current university presidents that are number of events allowing for NS Alpha to once of April 17th-19th was very memorable with the members of Phi Delta Theta showing Phi Delta again claim victory and the Dalhousie Greek gathering of alumni and active members of the Theta’s continued commitment to academic Olympics Trophy. chapter. With a total of 167 brothers initiated excellence and the strengthening of the male During the summer we continued to push since being founded in 1999, it was interesting undergraduate experience. our community service program. During the to see how much the chapter has grown and month of August we initiated a project with changed since then. California State University-Chico Churchill Academy, a local school focused on The weekend was comprised of several events California Xi meeting the educational needs of students with including bowling tournaments, barbeques 02 | See photo. learning disabilities. The Brothers worked hard on the beach, golf outings, and a grand formal to renovate and improve the school’s existing celebration. It stimulated a passion and love for facilities. In addition, our members have also our great Fraternity that no retreat or social event assisted the local food bank on a number of could have ever done. The active chapter has
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Florida Mu chapter celebrates 10 years at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Arizona Gamma won the Chapter of the Year award for the second year in row. Brother Alex Propes was awarded Greek Man of the Year and James El Habach was recognized as best to exemplify Living the Ritual. realized the potential that is expected of them titles. The Phis of Hanover have taken part in Andrew Ferguson as the treasurer and Bojan from past alumni. Yet we are prepared to accept both simple and profound community services so Vidosevic, Carson Cowles, and Stephen Peck the challenge and are motivated to surpass the far this year and are planning to do even more. as members. No other fraternity can boast of so expectations of the high standards that have been —Andrew Cole many members in the student government. put forth before us. —Douglas E. Haynes A special thank you goes out to Brother Louisiana State University Jonathan Mento, current social chair, along Louisiana Beta Mississippi State University with the help of Brothers Travis Langham and For the first time since its founding in 1938, Mississippi Beta Jeffrey O’Brien for organizing our Ten Year we won Greek Week. After our re-founding We could like to congratulate chapter Anniversary. The Florida Mu chapter was in 2005, we have made incredible strides in brothers Jonathan Barden, Marshall Jones and honored to have Brother Robert Morrison III becoming another great addition to LSU Greek Harrison Sullivan for their selection to MSU in attendance at our formal. His continued Life. Members hold leadership roles in many Roadrunners—an organization that works closely involvement in the chapter since being founded campus organizations, including athletics, with the Office of Admissions and Scholarships has been essential to Florida Mu’s prosperity. student government, intramural sports and other to recruit potential students to the university. We are also very appreciative of the alumni that student clubs. With the addition of these three members to made contributions to the chapter in years past, this highly selective organization, we now have because without them none of this would have Miami University ten Phi Delts actively involved. Josh Becker is ever been possible. Ohio Alpha currently serving as vice-president. —Chase Richardson We were delighted and honored to entertain members of the Nebraska Gamma Chapter last University of Nebraska-Lincoln Hanover College fall. During Homecoming weekend, we held a Nebraska Alpha Indiana Epsilon Pig Roast at our chapter house which was well This has been another monumental year for us. This past fall, we celebrated our 140th attended by our alumni brothers. We were also One of the biggest highlights was winning the Anniversary on campus. Not only are we the privileged to host two Brothers from Tennessee Overall Top Fraternity award for Homecoming. oldest, consecutive chapter on campus but we Delta that weekend. The float was even featured on ESPN. We are among the oldest consecutive chapters of Our Brothers have been very active around continued to maintain our commitment to Phi Delta Theta. We are on a path to achieve the campus. Hunter Felknor serves as the Vice academic excellence with our GPA placing us greatness at all levels of fraternal life and campus President of both ΦAΔ, the pre-law fraternity in the top half of fraternities on campus. Interest life. Our members are active throughout Hanover on campus, and Miami’s chapter of the Public in community service and philanthropy has College. We have bold and new plans to improve Relations Student Society of America. Nathan grown immensely and so has overall campus the quality of our membership, academics, and McGill is a leading member of Miami’s Men’s involvement. In the spring we hosted our annual the overall quality of our great chapter. This year Rugby Club which was ranked 8th in the nation. House Directors dinner honoring the house we have already claimed the Intramural Football Ohio Alpha is also well represented in the parents from our campus for their commitment and Basketball championship titles and we plan Associated Student Government with Douglas to the flourishing of our Greek system and values. on winning back-to-back softball championship Haynes as the president of the Student Senate, Public relations has been a priority, and
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Indiana Theta would like to thank the Mom's Club for purchasing new furniture for their Texas Tech’s Founders Day included Texas Epsilon’s and NFL sensation, Wes Welker ’04, Larry common area in their chapter house. Anders, ’79, newly elected chairman of the Board of Regents of the Texas Tech University System and Gerald Myers, ’59, former head basketball coach of Texas Tech. we have created an online blog detailing the chapter GPA isn’t the only number on the rise! in the house. It has also served to be a great place happenings of Nebraska Alpha. Check out Aided by deep involvement by the Ohio for weekly Phikeia meetings and frequent card http://unlphidelt.wordpress.com. Gamma Alumni Club and a new sense of games. This beautiful new furniture immediately —Robert Tualaulelei brotherhood and responsibility among actives transformed a once ignored part of the house and alumni alike, the chapter is on track to into a point of pride and a useful common living North Carolina State University shake up fraternity life on campus. Our annual space. All of the Brothers are very thankful for this North Carolina Delta homecoming event at the end of September generous gift and are taking significant efforts to The annual scholarship given by the chapter’s was a great example of this, as many alumni, transmit this room to future Phis for years to come. foundation, The Tony Danby Scholarship some of whom had not visited their alma mater This summer, we hope to add a wood floor to the Award, was received by: Brandon Maynard, Mike since graduation day, traveled to Athens for the room as part of a large re-flooring project. Sullivan, and Joel Dietrich. The chapter also weekend festivities. Friday afternoon saw the first received the Outstanding Financial Management of what is hoped to be many golf outings held Sonoma State University Award and the Outstanding Risk Management on homecoming weekend, and following that, California Sigma Award from the NC State Greek Life Office. NC a chapter meeting was held for all alumni and From April 28 to 30, the men of the California Delta came in second place in the Caldwell Cup actives able to attend. Sigma chapter of Phi Delta Theta held their Award (Fraternity of the Year). Fifteen Phikeia The culmination, as tradition has dictated for annual Teeter-Totter philanthropy event to are enrolled in the Fall ’08 pledge program. The the past decade, was the gathering for all Phi Delts contribute to the cause of Cystic Fibrosis chapter’s annual philanthropy event, the Lee on Saturday morning, held outside the football research by raising money for the Cystic Fowler Golf Tournament, raised $26,000, which stadium prior to the start of the game. Stories were Fibrosis Foundation. is more than all the other fraternities on campus told and new friendships among old and new For this annual forty-eight hour teeter-tottering combined raise each year! members were begun, and all agreed at the end of marathon, Brothers, along with other students, —Joel Dietrich the weekend that this event was the best in years. volunteers and community members, spend each For information regarding the present chapter, day and night riding the 16-foot long, custom Northern Arizona University future alumni events, or how to get involved, built teeter-tooter. On the Saturday following Arizona Gamma please contact Scott Long, Alumni Club the event we contribute the funds raised to the 04 | See Photo. President, at (614) 284-9873, or email at Cystic Fibrosis Foundation at their annual “Great [email protected]. Strides: Taking Steps to Cure Cystic Fibrosis” Ohio University 10K walk in San Francisco’s Ghirardelli Square. Ohio Gamma Purdue University This philanthropy is especially important A renewed spirit and back to basics approach Indiana Theta to our chapter, as one of our own Brothers, at Ohio Gamma have begun to pay off. Spring 05 | Indiana Theta’s Moms Club recently Brent “Woody” Bolin, ’02, was diagnosed quarter 2008 saw a dramatic rise in the chapter purchased new furniture for our chapter house. with the disease as a child, and passed away in GPA, and the result was a second place ranking The furniture pieces came at a perfect time as 2006. In January of 2009, another California in grades among campus fraternities. Additionally, fall semester finals began in only two days and Sigma alumnus, Matthew Nicholson, ’03, with a pledge class of 10 Phikeia for fall quarter, the room quickly became the favorite study area generously announced a scholarship named the
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Kentucky Epsilon DanceBlue members with Corey Strunk. Florida Epsilon has been busy by winning Homecoming, and hosting events to raise money and awareness for both Breast Cancer and ALS.
“Brent ‘Woody’ Bolin Scholarship,” in honor Texas Christian University our very own Texas Epsilon’s and NFL sensation, of his friend, to be awarded to one California Texas Zeta Wes Welker ’04, Larry Anders, ’79, newly elected Sigma member who has been accepted to In September we took a pledge class of 30 chairman of the Board of Regents of the Texas graduate school in the semester following Phikeia and they were initiated in November. Tech University System and Gerald Myers, ’59, his undergraduate graduation. Because this This brought our active chapter roster to 105 former head basketball coach of Texas Tech. philanthropy is so important to our chapter, we making it one of the largest active groups we —Braxton Buckley would like to encourage anyone who would have had since we began at TCU in 1955 and like to donate to this event or participate to solidifying us as one of the top chapters at TCU. University of Kentucky contact our chapter Philanthropy Chairman, Jon The new members are enjoying the benefits Kentucky Epsilon Dougherty ([email protected]) or President of membership in Phi Delta Theta and have 07 | Our chapter has been actively involved with Vince Morrow ([email protected]). We will been active as a class in participating in campus UK DanceBlue, a dance marathon benefiting the be accepting donations for this annual event at philanthropies, sporting events and community UK Pediatric Oncology Clinic, since the inception any time during the year. service. Officer elections were held in November, of the event four years ago. This year we had the —Mike Villeggiante and everyone is extremely excited about the opportunity to adopt a family that had been afflicted new officers and the prospect of a new year. The by childhood cancer. Last October, we met Corey Tennessee Technological University entire chapter has been active in philanthropies Strunk, a five-year old boy that had been diagnosed Tennessee Delta on campus and in community service activities with Burkitt’s Lymphoma. Corey and his two We are proud to announce that we received in the Fort Worth area. In February, 20 Phis other siblings were being raised by their single second place over all in Homecoming this past gathered on campus to read to and mentor Fort grandmother, who had acquired custody of the fall. The theme was “Aloha TTU,” and some Worth area youth who have been labeled “at risk” kids. Seeing the lack of a positive male role model of the events included a canned food drive, skit children. We will also be sponsoring a Froghouse in Corey’s life, our chapter quickly became very night, Hawaiian Olympics, a treasure hunt, and event later in the semester which is a TCU involved in Corey and his family’s life. We made it a a pep rally. We are looking forward to many organization similar to Habitat for Humanity. point to take out either Corey or the entire family to great philanthropies this spring including our Our alumni chair has been working together a night of bowling, ice-skating, movies, Gattitown, involvement in Tech’s Relay for Life, as well as with our social chairs to plan an alumni skeet etc., at least once every two weeks. We have tried a pancake breakfast we are hosting along with shoot in an effort to connect current members to bring joy to this child’s life and some stress relief Alpha Delta Pi with proceeds going to ALS. We with former ones and build relationships with for his grandmother, while showing Corey what it look forward to celebrating our 40th anniversary alumni in the area. means to be a college student and a gentleman. At here on TTU’s campus with our many great —David Morrison the same time, Corey and his family have shown alumni. With their help we have been improving us what it means to have true courage against all our chapter house in many ways including a Texas Tech University odds and have served as inspiration to our entire brand new deck and new living room furniture. Texas Epsilon chapter. Corey is now in remission, and we plan on 06 | On March 13th, at our Founders Day we continuing the relationship that we have built with were pleased have 152 attendees including active this special young boy and his family. members, alumni and wives, and the return of —Aun Munis
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Texas Beta Legionnaire ceremony on April 18, 2009. Vick Pope, Charles Moore III, Architectural rendering of the re-model of the Kansas Beta chapter house that was destroyed Bob Armstrong, Sam Kimberlin and John Worsham were all recognized. by fire.
University of La Verne concert at Stubbs BBQ. The Busby Foundation Silver Legionnaire pin. Charles Moore III California Rho is based in Central Texas and helps the families received his Golden Legionnaire certificate and We have vowed to revive the need to keep our of the surrounding area who are affected by ALS. pin, and Bob Armstrong, Sam Kimberlin, and La Verne community breathing with service by The event featured a performance by artist Bob John Worsham were all presented with their 60 adopting our first community service campaign, Schneider as well as tons of crawfish for everyone year Palladian pins. “Code Blue.” Last summer we explored creative who attended. Over one thousand people —Hunter Lankford community service efforts that would raise showed up to contribute and enjoy the food and the standard of previous campus events, and entertainment. All in all the Brothers helped University of Vermont ventured into the use of our campus, community, the Busby Foundation raise about $60K for their Vermont Alpha and personal resources to make a stand for foundation. Through selling student tickets and With help from the Palmer Foundation, the service, unlike anything seen before in the volunteering at the event, we had a great time green slate roof is finally underway for a long due Chapter’s history. In a matter of months, the while contributing a great deal to the community. replacement and should be completed by the end Code Blue Campaign raised awareness for the We are very proud of how the event turned out. of this spring. The house is under the National current political climate, environmental issues, and next year we would love to see support from Register of Historic Places, and is notable in being personal safety, local traditions and events, and our brothers across the nation. constructed out of all Vermont materials. most relevantly, our national philanthropy, ALS, April 18th marked a another great day for The house interior improvement is currently simply by staying visible with pure intentions. us. Active members of Texas Beta, along with focused on the kitchen and living room. The —Alan Hernandez many alumni from different regions of Texas, kitchen’s range hood was recently replaced, and gathered at the University of Texas Club. Dr. we are looking into purchasing a new stove, as well University of South Florida Bill Dean, former editor of The Scroll and Texas as renovating the kitchen floor. Using some saved Florida Epsilon Epsilon Chapter Adviser for many years, gave funds from the previous semester, the living room 08 | Teamed with Alpha Delta Pi, we won a captivating keynote presentation. Dr. Dean is scheduled to be repainted, and the chapter has Homecoming this year through a series of school spirit stressed the three principles of the Fraternity and purchased a new set of leather couches. and intramural events. We next won the Zeta Tau Alpha how they carried over to the everyday lives of Future plans include a sprinkler system, a philanthropy “Breastfest” raising money and awareness Phis. He continued to talk about struggles in his repaved driveway, and a new dining room table. for breast cancer. We then held a philanthropy to raise life as chapter adviser, and he related these to the Thank you to house manager Scott DeCastro and awareness and money for ALS by having sororities each struggles the chapter has faced over the years. Dr. housing corporation trustee Bill Smith for taking decorate a section of our wall. We are making great Dean encouraged the brothers of Texas Beta to initiative for some major house improvements. progress and having a great time coming together. be remembered as setting the foundation for a —Thomas Martin great chapter in years to come. University of Texas-Austin Along with our keynote presentation, Washburn University Texas Beta there were updates from other alumni about Kansas Beta 09 | On April 16th, the Brothers of the Texas recruitment, and the state of the chapter. The 10 | We have an immediate need to raise money Beta Chapter of Phi Delta Theta teamed up luncheon concluded with the Legionnaire to completely re-model our chapter house as with the Busby Foundation to hold a fundraising ceremony. Vick Pope was presented with his the basement and fourth floor of the house
Spring/Summer 2009 11 Brothers join together to help pre-term infant
The brothers of Texas Gamma chapter at Southwestern University recently joined together to give the gift of life to a premature infant. In late August, Dustin Staloch received a special request from his mother. She told him of her paramedic coworker having just given birth to a premature son who desperately needed blood. Eli Barosh, son of Jana and John Barosh, was born August 19, 2008 at just 27 weeks gestation. Weighing a mere 1 pound 15 ounce and measuring have been made off-limits by the Topeka York University only 12 ¾ inches in length, his life hung Fire Marshall. The Washburn Endowment Ontario Delta in precarious balance through modern medicine. Dustin’s mother, knowing Association (WEA), a 501(c)(3) non-profit is Without a doubt, 2008 can be described as that he and his twin brother, Darrin, supporting our campaign and hopefully the the year of change for Ontario Delta. At the frequently donate blood, asked that remodel can begin this summer. Kansas Beta beginning of the year, the chapter had hit its the next time they do that to designate brothers have raised $1.3 million but are short lowest point with commitment issues, no chapter their donation for Eli. Unknown to her another $.8 million, and we would like all of our spirit and improbable survival even for another and certainly to the parents of Eli, her Phi Delt brothers to consider making a donation semester. At the end of the fall, the Alpha Kappa request would be met several times over. to this tax-deductible opportunity before we lose Phikeia class progressively made its way to Soon word got out to Brother Carlos our house. Pledges may be made through WEA, initiation of four new Brothers. With increased Cardenas who took the request and 1729 SW MacVicar Avenue, Topeka, KS 66604, interest and strong alumni support, the chapter ran full speed with it. He circulated the www.givetowashburn.org or contact Buddy Sims, was able to gain 11 more students interested in special request for blood throughout Washburn or Terri Stringer, WEA, at becoming members of Phi Delta Theta. The their house. Before long, donations were flowing in the form of “donation (785) 670-4483. year finished on the positive note, with one of vouchers” that could be sent to Eli’s the most successful chapter Founders Day, house mother. Encouraged by the response that Western Kentucky University renovations, charity events and most importantly he received from his Brothers, Carlos sent Kentucky Eta initiation of six new Brothers in the Bond. In the request campus-wide to the students We are proud to announce that the size of our the New Year, the chapter is in its best shape of Southwestern University. Fifty-two most recent pledge class is 50 percent larger than and striving. The Brothers of Ontario Delta donation vouchers were received and spring of last year. We held our brand new “Phi truly believe in the success that looms ahead forwarded to Eli’s mother. Delta Theta Croquet Tournament” sponsored and if anyone were to ask any of us—“Can you Following a lengthy hospitalization and by Southern Proper Clothing Company on overcome the challenges?” we would answer numerous transfusions, Eli was released November 12. All proceeds went to finding a proudly—“Yes we can!” to join his sister, Jaci, at home. cure for ALS. We are in the running for WKU’s —Egor Avrutin and Alex Storcheus Eli’s mother, Jana, was moved beyond words by the compassion shown to her “Reed Morgan” award, which is presented to son by the brothers of Texas Gamma, the University’s best fraternity at the end of each We want to hear from you! the majority of whom she will never academic school year. Let other brothers know what your chapter is up to. Write a line (100 words or less) or send us a picture. Electronic submissions meet. Not only did Eli benefit from the should be sent to [email protected]. Digital photos humanity of Brothers but so did many University of Wisconsin should be at least 300 dpi in resolution or on a digital camera’s other premature infants as she was able Wisconsin Alpha highest-quality setting. Hard copies can be sent to GHQ attn: to donate the unused vouchers to other The Scroll Editor, 2 South Campus Avenue, Oxford, OH Wisconsin Alpha Reunion Weekend, 45056. Letters may be edited for clarity, content or length while pre-term infants in need of transfusions. September 25–27. Contact is Paul Garver photos may be edited for reproduction quality. [email protected].
12 Spring/Summer 2009 Chapters need: CAB Chairmen & Members
Want to give back to Phi Delta Theta? Why not help a local chapter by becoming a Chapter Advisory Board chairman or member? The chapters below need your help. Please contact Sean Wagner ([email protected]) if you are interested.
CAB Chairmen needed: Alabama Alpha-University of Alabama Alabama Beta-Auburn University California Nu-California Polytechnic State University Florida Zeta-Jacksonville University Indiana Delta-Franklin College Maryland Beta-McDaniel College Tennessee Epsilon-Univ. of Tennessee-Chattanooga Texas Lambda-Baylor University Texas Sigma-Schreiner University
CAB Members needed: Alabama Alpha-University of Alabama Alabama Beta-Auburn University California Nu-California Polytechnic State University California Sigma-Sonoma State University Kansas Epsilon knows that to have Famous Phi and Shuttle Astronaut Story Musgrave visit is a “once in a blue moon” Connecticut Alpha-Central Connecticut State Univ. Connecticut Beta-University of Hartford opportunity to be commemorated in a group photo. Alumni, undergraduates and Phikeia join Story for this photo. Indiana Theta-Purdue University Indiana Lambda-University of Southern Indiana Iowa Gamma-Iowa State University Kansas Delta-Wichita State University Kentucky Alpha Delta-Centre College Down to Earth with Brother Musgrave Kentucky Epsilon-University of Kentucky By Roger Heineken, Emporia State ’73 Kentucky Theta-Eastern Kentucky University Kentucky Iota-University of Louisville At 73, retired astronaut Story Musgrave Story shared anecdotes from his career in Maryland Beta-McDaniel College Maryland Gamma-Washington College can only be described as a Renaissance Man, space and from his personal life on Earth. He Massachusetts Gamma-Mass. Inst. Of Technology someone born outside the box. The high school talked about how he prepares for challenging Michigan Epsilon-Northwood University dropout who holds numerous earned degrees assignments, how he approaches problem Minnesota Beta-Minnesota State University Nevada Beta-University of Nevada, Las Vegas and even more honorary degrees, is a surgeon, solving, how he incorporates his experiences New Mexico Beta-New Mexico State University a nursery man, a Marine, a consultant, a pilot, a into his career and life. Brother Musgrave’s visit New York Alpha-Cornell University design innovator and, of course, a Famous Phi. was inspiring and a friendly encounter with New York Beta-Union College Ohio Iota-Denison University News leaked that Musgrave would the lead-man who put “glasses” on the Hubble Ohio Kappa-Bowling Green State University be the featured speaker at a seminar for Space Telescope. Pennsylvania Epsilon-Dickinson College Midwestern-based Westar Energy to be held at Through this time with Story Musgrave, the Pennsylvania Zeta-University of Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Omicron-Shippensburg University Emporia State University. Kansas Epsilon CAB brothers of Kansas Epsilon gained insight into South Carolina Gamma-Clemson University chairman, Kevin Pouch, quickly made contact the innovative thinking, learned of the pluck Texas Nu-Texas A & M University with Brother Musgrave and Martin Jones of and character of a real, living, national hero who Texas Sigma-Schreiner University Virginia Beta-University of Virginia Westar to seize the opportunity to have the miraculously touched down in Emporia, Kansas. Virginia Gamma-Randolph Macon College remarkable Phi visit the Kansas Epsilon brothers As darkness fell, the trio headed out for dinner Virginia Zeta-Washington & Lee University in their new house. Both Story and Mr. Jones and a flight the next day to Brother Musgrave’s Virginia Eta-Virginia Tech Virginia Theta-Lynchburg College were enthusiastic to make it happen. much warmer Florida home and palm tree On a late weekday afternoon in January of nursery just seven miles from Disney World. 2009, the chairman of the Fraternity’s True Blue As one brother commented following the visit, Society visited the Brothers of Kansas Epsilon. “For an astronaut, Story is really down to earth!” Story Musgrave, his documentary producer and Learn more: http://www.storymusgrave.com/ Mr. Jones spent about an hour with the chapter in the hometown of another famous Phi, William Allen White.
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Coachella Valley Golden Legionnaires Tom McDermott, Dan Green, Ray Otto and Allan Hurst. Ft. Worth Founder's Day
alumni, guests and Texas Zeta chapter members Foundation. Province President Stan Gilson, Club News enjoyed an evening of brotherhood. Tom Hill Northridge ’70, reported on the state of the Coachella Valley (Palm Springs area) Alumni acted as master of ceremonies and Warren York chapters in the Province. We received a report on Contact: Lothar Vasholz, (760) 345-5052 conducted the Legionnaire ceremony in which the California Rho chapter at La Verne from a or [email protected] 16 honorees received their pins and recognition. chapter officer and the chapter’s CAB chairman, 01 | Pictured at the Coachella Valley Founders Palladian Legionnaires were Arch Gilbert, Jack Luce, Ohio State ’64. Day at the Big Horn Resort are Golden Oklahoma ’55, George Jeffers, SMU ’49, and Two men were inducted into the Golden Legionnaires Tom McDermott, UCLA ’53, and Paul Vinsant, SMU ’46. TCU chapter president Legion: Jack R. Hansen, Iowa State ’62 and E. Dan Green, Washington-St. Louis, ’61, along with Will Bonano presented a very positive and Ted Hirth, USC ’61. Donald R. Knapp, USC Ray Otto, USC ’52, who delivered the ceremony interesting state of the chapter. The alumni and ’52, was awarded the Palladian Legion for his 60 and Allan Hurst, Kansas ’57, club president. their guests enjoyed meeting and visiting with the years as a Phi. Thirteen Phis received their Silver Thank you to Doug Phillips, New Mexico, ’49, members of the undergraduate chapter. Legion pins. for arranging for an informative presentation by Matt Dean, TCU ’00, and Malcolm Louden, The Club will hold its annual Golf Classic this two speakers from ALS. TCU ’03, were named the Tom Hill Most fall and looks forward to supporting the California Valuable Alumni. Their tireless efforts have Gamma and California Theta colonies. First Coast Alumni helped to make our alumni club and Founders Contact: Doug Wiles, (904) 209-3805 or [email protected] Day successful every year. We are looking San Fernando Valley Alumni More than 70 brothers and guests attended the forward to next year’s Founders Day. Contact: Mitch Lane, [email protected] Founders Day dinner and program on March 6 On December 13, 2008, led by club president at Jacksonville’s University Club. The First Coast Orange County Alumni Mitch Lane, Cal State-Northridge ’76, and Alumni Club teamed up with the Florida Zeta Contact: Jim Harvey, (714) 979-7031 or General Council Reporter Chris Lapple, Chapter to sponsor the event, which included [email protected] Cal State-Northridge ’80, we participated in the Legionnaire ceremony and a chapter awards The Orange County, California Alumni Club Operation Gratitude. This project has been ceremony. Inducted into the Palladian Legion as celebrated Founders Day on March 12 with a ongoing for five years. Its purpose is to send a Phi for 65 years was Norman Williams, Florida dinner at the Pacific Club in Newport Beach. packages to our troops overseas. They contain ’43. Winston Radford, Florida ’59, received his Fifty-nine men attended the dinner. Jim Harvey, items such as DVDs, CDs, paperback books, foot Golden Legion certificate and pin. Immediate UC Irvine ’84, served as master of ceremonies. warmers, sport magazines, and a lot of candy. past chapter president Adrian Lohse received the Our keynote address was given by Dustin The troops love to share the candy with the Brother of the Year award by Florida Zeta. Struble, Chico ’06, the Fraternity’s Director of children they meet. While we were working, the Expansion, who reported on the Fraternity’s 400,000th package came off the highly organized 02 | Fort Worth Alumni ambitious expansion plans in California, human assembly line. We are very proud to have Contact: Warren York, [email protected] including the revival of the California Gamma been a part of this endeavor. The Fort Worth Texas Alumni Club hosted (UCLA) and California Theta (UC Irvine) The club also sponsored a hole at the Founders Day on March 26 at Joe T. Garcia’s chapters. Jim Burra, Northridge ’67, reported on Jim Sierra Memorial Golf Tournament last well-known Tex Mex restaurant. Over 100 the fundraising and scholarship initiatives of the September. The proceeds from this event go to
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Gaeel Beaham (widow of Thomas G. Beaham, Arizona '60) and Foundation Trustee George Pictured are legionnaires from the March 15, Valley of the Sun Founders Day at the Mesa Grady, Arizona '53, are joined by Arizona Alpha undergraduates Jim Dennany, Justin White, Country Club. Scott Molos and Christopher Brunk. provide scholarships for undergraduate Brothers from California State University-Northridge. Palm Beach Club meetings Second Thursday | Noon To date, over $70,000 has been raised to endow Crowns Plaza Hotel, West Palm Beach (across from the this scholarship. The club meets on the last Central Florida airport at Australia and Belvedere Roads), First Tuesday (September–April) | Noon Contact: James Lea (561) 848-5200 or [email protected] Wednesday of the month for lunch at the Reseda University Club (150 E. Central Blvd.) Orlando Moose Lodge at 11:30 a.m. Our website is: Contact: Greg Rhodes (407) 273-0938 or [email protected] Pittsburgh First Thursday | 6:30 pm sanfernando.phideltatheta.org. Denton Primanti Bros. Second Saturday | 1:00 pm Contact: Dan DeMarco (412) 722-0220 or [email protected] Location varies Tucson Alumni Contact: Don Halpenny (940) 440-2995 or San Fernando Valley Contact: Jay McKenzie, [email protected] [email protected] Last Wednesday | 11:30 am Reseda Moose Lodge 03 | Gaeel Beaham (widow of Thomas G. Emerald City/Seattle Contact: Mitch Lane Beaham, Arizona '60) and Foundation Trustee Second Friday | Noon [email protected] or sanfernando.phideltatheta.org Rainier Club George Grady, Arizona '53, are joined by Arizona Contact: Lee Miller (206) 463-6433 or [email protected] San Francisco Alpha undergraduates Jim Dennany, Justin First Friday | Noon First Coast (Jacksonville) Schroeder’s White, Scott Molos and Christopher Brunk. Third Thursday | Noon Contact: Dennis Sidbury (415) 902-5834 or [email protected] University Club Each student was recognized with a scholarship Contact: Mike Prendergast (904) 389-5161 or Southwest Missouri check from Tom Beaham Fund at the March 24 [email protected] First Friday | Noon Contact: Matt Raithel (417) 823-8128 or [email protected] Tucson Founders Day. Fort Lauderdale Second Friday | Noon Valley of the Sun Lauderdale Yacht Club First Saturday| 8:30 am Valley of the Sun Alumni Contact: [email protected] Contact: Don Thompson (480) 354-0825 or [email protected] Contact: Don Thompson, [email protected] Houston If other alumni clubs would like their regularly 04 | Pictured are legionnaires from the March Monthly Meetings (October–April) scheduled meetings listed here, contact Sean Wagner 15, Valley of the Sun Founders Day at the Mesa Contact: houston.phideltatheta.org, [email protected], ([email protected]) chris.job@shamrockventuresinc, or (713) 522-9554 Country Club. L-R, Jerry Barlow, Franklin 50 years, Jack Zimmerman, Minnesota 70 years, John Milwaukee Last Friday | Noon King, USC 55 years, Craig Milum, Arizona State Mader’s Restaurant (Old World Third Street) 25 years and Bob Marcks, Northwestern 60 years. Contact: Greg Sommersberger (262) 240-3577 or [email protected] Northern Nevada First Friday | Noon La Pinata Restaurant, Reno Contact: Rudy Calizo (775) 848-7839 or may34th [email protected] Oklahoma City Third Friday | Noon Contact: Ross Brown (405) 359-2970 or [email protected]
Spring/Summer 2009 15 Phi Footnotes: Making beef jerky better A Phi shares his quest By Britt Smith, Owner/President No Mans Land Beef Jerky
ur company was born out of necessity. I was tired of eating bad beef jerky. One day after a pretty good rain, a couple of farming buddies O and I headed to Guymon, Okla., for a day of golf. After a full day, we stopped by a quick stop to grab some snacks for the trip home. Being an avid jerky fan, I grabbed three of what I thought were the best of numerous types of jerky that were on display. After trying each of them, I ended up throwing them out the window and remarking to my friends that I could make better jerky than that. The next day I gathered up my dehydrator that I had purchased off of a television infomercial and headed to my dad's small grocery store in the town of Keyes, Okla. I got a roast out of my dad's meat case, sliced it and marinated it in what I considered to be a recipe that would make the jerky have a good flavor. It took me three tries to finally get the desired flavor that is now our own secret blend. To this day there are only three people who know the recipe: my sister Belinda, my long- time friend and accomplice Gertrude Williams, and myself. Gertrude was even bribed by a tour guide in Branson, Missouri to Dad had been right about the building. It turned out perfect for our new divulge our secret but she didn't give in to the pressure. business adventure. Little did we know there was one small problem. The I let several of my friends sample my new jerky and it was a hit. This is six by eight foot dehydrator we built turned out to be too small. Within two when I decided to introduce it to the public. I placed a jar of my jerky on the years of opening our business, we were building on to the jerky factory. This check out counter in my dad's grocery store. Before the end of the day, the enabled us to meet the increasing production demands of our ever-popular first batch was completely sold out! I knew then that I was on to something. beef jerky. This led me to purchase better dehydrators that would speed up the In its short life, our jerky has reached all 50 states and several countries process of making jerky by cutting the drying time in half. I then contacted by word of mouth. We have even shipped it to the USS Nimitz during the several businesses in three states and asked them if they would carry my Persian Gulf War and to our troops in Kandahar in Afghanistan. jerky. With the help of my sister Belinda, who is also my motivator, we were Our new factory has the capability of producing up to 1200 pounds of able to distribute our jerky in over 20 businesses across the area. Currently, actual beef jerky a day compared to the 400 pounds a week we were making we are in over 130 stores and with plans to add more. originally. This is why we have finally decided to distribute our product in After the response we received to our jerky from these resellers, we knew the world's largest market place, the Internet. We are excited to finally be we were really on to something. We started looking for a place to build a able to offer you our great product online. You can find us online at: beef jerky factory. Our search led us to Boise City, Oklahoma, where we http://www.nmlbeefjerky.com/. We hope you enjoy eating our jerky as found an abandoned convenience store some fifteen miles from Keyes. My much as we have enjoyed making it for you. dad, Marv Smith, being one who can salvage anything, looked the building Britt Smith is a graduate of West Texas, ’83 over and thought it would be a great place. With the help of my family: my brother Brad, his wife Kathy, their two boys Brandon and Justin, my sister Belinda and her two daughters Brenae and Baley, my mother Dee and my father (and chief contractor) Marv, I was able to make my dream come true. With their help, we set out to construct the beef jerky factory and deli I had designed on butcher paper at my parents’ kitchen table. It was in this design that I incorporated the deli to compensate for the extra time we would have while the jerky was dehydrating. To date, we have remodeled three times, and have had to eliminate the deli.
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Arizona Colorado State Lincoln Baker, ’92, is manager of individual sales for Anthem Blue Cross in 02 | Colorado Gamma Brothers Tim Jenkins, ’01, Joe Kitch, ’02 and California for San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura, Los Angeles and Michael Kitch, ’04, recently traveled to Koh Samui Thailand. Jenkins is Orange counties. He has been with Anthem for 16 years. teaching English in Seoul, South Korea; Joe Kitch resides in Denver and is pursuing a second degree in radiology; Michael Kitch has been traveling in Bowling Green China, Vietnam and Lao. 01 | Pictured are Ohio Kappa athletes who attended the 2nd Annual Doyt Perry Florida Classic at the Vinyards Country Club in Naples, Fla., on Dalhousie Feb. 8. Seated left-right: Bill Protz ’66, Jim Hof ’50, Don Purvis ’60, Gene Weber ’59. Canadian Senator Michael Kirby, ’61, has been named Officer of the Order of Standing left-right: Ed Petras ’66, Jerry Machovina ’64, Ed Owen ’61, Ed Platzer, ’71, Canada, one of the nation’s highest honours for a lifetime of outstanding Ed Phillips ’61, Dave Perry ’71 (Doyt Perry's son), Dave Polak ’70, Tom Merlitti ’71, Dr. achievement, dedication to the community and service to the nation. Ed Whipple, Hanover ’74 (Past President of the GC and BGSU VP for Student Affairs), Rick Kappel ’69 and Mike Wilcox ’75. DePauw Arlington Nuetzel, ’68, has published his third novel, Murder in March Butler Commons, which follows the exploits of Steven Burr as he works to solve a Brand Busters by Chris Wirthwien, ’79, is a new addition to our Banta Library. rash of seemingly unrelated crimes. In this he shares how to identify and avoid seven errors commonly made when marketing technical and scientific products and provides new Dickinson ideas for making marketing more efficient and effective. He is CEO of 03 | Second Lieutenant JD Dolan, ’07, is currently serving as an Infantry Platoon 5MetaCom, Carmel, Ind. Leader with the 10th Mountain Division. When he completed Ranger School, he was ranked #1 in a Ranger class that began with 460 soldiers, he California-Davis was designated the Distinguished Honor Graduate, and was presented with J.T. Sullivan, ’01, has signed a two-year contract with the Cincinnati Bengals the General William O. Darby Award. to be the back-up quarterback to Carson Palmer. He is a seven-year veteran who began his NFL career in New Orleans in 2002 and then was Drake traded to Green Bay in 2004. He has also played for the Chicago Bears, Lake Forest Graduate School of Management has honored faculty member Minnesota Vikings, New England Patriots, Carolina Panthers, Detroit John Pappas, ’76, with the School’s prestigious Distinguished Faculty Award Lions and then the 49ers in 2008 where he played in nine games and had which honors one faculty member for outstanding teaching skill and eight touchdown passes. excellence in business leadership. Unprecedented in the School’s history, this is the second time he has received the award. Case Western Reserve Electrical engineer Ken Merryman, ’71, spends his free time searching for Eastern Kentucky shipwrecks that litter the bottom of Lake Superior. He and three friends Rick Robinson, ’80, has come up again with a best seller mystery novel with have already discovered eight of the lake’s long-lost wrecks. Once the the November 2008 release of Sniper Bid. On the day it was released, it wrecks are discovered, they preserve them, working in the off-season to get hit #46 on Amazon’s Top Seller List for political fiction. In this novel a their finds declared historic sites. US Congressman is confronted with the steroid use in sports, the political consequences of taking a stand and the balancing act of maintaining a
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public/private family life. Robinson currently practices law in Kentucky and Florida State has thirty years experience in politics and law. John Crowe, ’69, is chairman and CEO of Buckeye Technologies, a manufacturer and marketer of specialty fibers and non-woven materials Jack Burton, ’84, Bob Hatcher, ’86 and Mark Okruhlica ’82, took home first prize at with facilities in Brazil, Canada and Germany. He is a member of the the inaugural Keith Case Memorial Golf Scramble. The event raised over FSU athletics Hall and Fame and is on the board of directors of the FSU $6,000 for the American Heart Association. Varsity Club.
Eastern Washington The Republican Party of Florida has appointed Delmar Johnson, ’01, as the Adam Harki, ’92, was recently promoted to branch manager of Denali Alaskan executive director of the party during the 2008–2010 election cycle. Most Federal Credit Union in Anchorage, Alaska, just two and a half years after recently he has served as a deputy executive director, covering operations starting his career with them. and finance, and previously he worked on the Charlie Crist for Governor campaign and in the executive office of Governor Jeb Bush. Emporia State Members of the Kansas Fifth Judicial District Nominating Commission Franklin selected Cottonwood Falls Attorney Douglas P. Jones, ’97, as magistrate judge. Jeffrey Kent, ’85, was promoted to the rank of Colonel, US Army in a He received his law degree from Washburn University in 2002 and has been ceremony hosted by the adjutant general, Connecticut National Guard. managing member of the Rayl & Jones LLC law firm since then. He also Col. Kent is an active duty Special Forces officer currently serving has been city attorney for both Strong City and Neosho Rapids. as Inspector General, CTNG. His next assignment will be with the Combined Security Transition Command, Afghanistan. Rueben Perez, ’85, has received the 2008 Sue Kraft Fussell Distinguished Service Award from the Association of Fraternity Advisors. The award Georgia recognizes individuals who have exhibited high professional standards and A new residence hall on the University of Georgia campus has been named achievements in fraternity/sorority advising. Perez is the director of the after Ernest Vandiver, Jr., ’40 (deceased). He was Georgia governor from Student Involvement and Leadership Center at the University of Kansas. 1959–1963 where he succeeded in keeping the University integrated and helped further the prosperity of Georgia. Florida Mark Boyle, ’07, has joined the Orlando Channel 9 (WFTV) Eyewitness Georgia Tech News team as a General Assignment Reporter. He reports live Monday 05 | Pictured at the 1958 Homecoming Reunion are Georgia Delta through Friday on Eyewitness News Daybreak and at noon. Previously he Brothers Pete Brandt, Henry Everett, Paul Vickers, Malcolm Morrison, Mike Balliet, David was a reporter for WWSB in Sarasota. Herbert, John Smith II, Jack Carlin, Peter Solomon, Tom Hall, Clarence Bauknight, Dan Curtis, Charlie Powell and Jean Mori. 04 | Robert Wilcox, ’65, in his new book Target Patton, presents information suggesting General George Patton may indeed have been murdered. He Sam Nunn, ’60, served as advisor to President Obama in the defense unearths and explores new and damning evidence about a multi-faceted transition process, working with the outgoing administration. He is also the assassination plot to kill one of America’s greatest generals. Wilcox has co-chairman and CEO of the Nuclear Threat Initiative. written extensively on military subjects and has appeared on the History Channel and many other television and radio shows.
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Gettysburg Louisville Members of the 1958–1964 classes returned to campus for Homecoming Scott Howard, ’09, is being named the Peer Tutor of the Year for 2009 by the Weekend in mid-September. Thirty-five Brothers and twenty-six spouses Association for the Tutoring Profession. He has tutored biology, chemistry traveled from as far as California, Arizona, Texas, Michigan, South and Spanish since his sophomore year in college and will enter the Carolina, Florida and Maine for the weekend. University of Louisville’s School of Medicine in the fall.
Idaho Maryland Brad Little, ’76, has been appointed to the position of Lieutenant Governor of Bob “Turtle” Smith, ’63, and his family were honored at Shipley Field during Idaho to succeed Jim Risch, ’65, who resigned to become a U.S. Senator. His the Maryland vs. Georgia Tech baseball game for their gift to fully endow term ends in January 2011. Prior to his appointment he served in the Idaho a scholarship for the Maryland baseball team. He also annually contributes Senate where he served as majority caucus chair. two $1,000 athletic scholarships to the Washington County Sports Hall of Fame. While at Maryland on a baseball scholarship, he played three U.S. Senator Jim Risch, ’65, and Idaho Alpha Chapter Adviser Richard Reilly, varsity seasons and was co-captain his senior year. He went on to be vice ’81, catch up at Idaho Alpha’s recent 100th Anniversary celebration. The president of two Fortune 500 companies and for the past 20 years he has Senator has also served as Idaho’s Lieutenant Governor and Idaho’s 31st been involved with commercial real estate. His success he attributes to his Governor. He is a small business owner, a farmer/rancher and a senior education and personal development gained from his scholarship, and he partner in the Risch Goss Insinger Gustavel Law firm. now believes in giving back.
Indiana McDaniel Jack Messitt, ’92, has released Midnight Movie (www.midnightmovie.com), Frank Kratovil, ’90, has been elected as Congressman for Maryland’s 1st his first feature film as director and co-screenwriter. The film recently congressional district. Previously he served six years as State’s Attorney of won Best Feature Film & Cinematography at the Chicago Horror Film Queen Anne’s County on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. When he assumed Festival, and was chosen as DVD of the month by renowned horror film fan office in January 2003, he was the youngest State’s Attorney in Maryland. publication Fangoria. As a cameraman, he has worked on everything from feature films and TV to music videos and reality shows. Mercer J. Ray Markwalter, ’71, retired anatomy and physiology professor at Georgia Kentucky Military College, recently won a seat on the Board of Education of Baldwin 06 | Keeneland is an ideal place to experience Kentucky's rich County, Ga. thoroughbred tradition. Located in Lexington, the race track receives visitors from local residents, University of Kentucky students, as well as Miami-Florida out-of-staters. For the past two springs, the active members of the Kentucky “Hotcakes Ink,” with drummer Lee Leshen, ’00, is an up-and-coming New York Epsilon chapter and its alumni have met at the "Third Turn" at Keeneland City band that has had their original song “Paint the Town Red” chosen as to grill out, play cornhole, and enjoy each other's company before heading the official song of the Cincinnati Reds. It will be played for advertising and to the races. This April, over 30 alumni attended the event, and we look promotional use, and at Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati. forward to increasing the attendance.
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Miami-Ohio Nebraska-Lincoln 07 | Pictured are 1985 graduates at a reunion in Grand Rapids, Michigan. John Olenberger, ’98, left KPMG in 2008 to become the founder of Colorado Top (L to R): Kevin Eastman (Seattle, Wash.), Tom Koestring (Chicago, Ill.), Independent Consultants Network (www.cicn.bix), a growing network of Richard Topper (Houston, Texas). Bottom (L to R): Steve Rex (Alexandria, Va.), independent consulting professionals providing Internal Audit and business Rob Sears (Grand Rapids, Mich.), Rob Young (Seattle, Wash.) consulting services. In his new business, John is currently working on the investigation of a multi-million dollar fraud at a Fortune 500 company. He Fletcher Benton, ’54, has been named the 2008 International Sculpture lives in Denver. Center’s Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture award winner. This distinction is one of the most prestigious in the field of Nevada-Reno sculpture. He is best known for his kinetic metal sculptures, and his work Ryan McGinness, ’99, has launched the website www.HillWho.com which can be seen in the collections of major museums as well as private and provides information on those working on Capital Hill, allowing viewers corporate collections worldwide. to even see former staff of a Member and former positions for staffers. It is updated daily. PPG Industries has announced the appointment of Gregory Wagner, ’83, to the position of general manager, industrial coatings, Americas. He started his Ohio Wesleyan professional career at PPG in 1984 as an industrial coatings sales representative 08 | Kevin Gosselin, ’94, has a new novel published by Demontreville Press. and progressed through various PPG management roles in sales, marketing, Hunt for 901 follows automotive archaeologist Faston Hans across the globe product development and operations. In his new role he will be working at as he tries to find a missing prototype Porsche, and the person last seen both PPG's Milford, Ohio, facility and its Pittsburgh headquarters. driving it, that has been missing for forty years. In real life Gosselin is a creative director, freelance automotive journalist and classic car enthusiast. Michigan With the recent release of the movie Frost/Nixon we are reminded that 09 | Philip Roos, ’60, has received the George Gauthier Award which Fred Leydorf, ’53, was the lawyer to who met with Nixon to review a contract honors graduates of Ohio Wesleyan for exemplary, widely recognized and for the series of interviews. He was originally hired in 1973 to handle the sustained contributions to the athletics department, as an undergraduate on president’s income taxes, real estate, wills, charities and contracts. His firm the playing fields, in the classroom, and as an alumnus providing lifelong agreed to take Nixon as a client as long as it wouldn’t be involved in the support, interest and leadership. He was a three-year letterman in football, president’s political affairs. receiving second-team UPI All-Ohio and second-team All-OAC honors. He also lettered three times in lacrosse. He is a Professor of Physics, Emeritus, Missouri at the University of Maryland. Agape Construction, owned by Kevin O’Brien, ’76, and his wife, received the St. Louis Better Business Bureau award for providing the “highest Oklahoma State commitment to business ethics.” He founded the company in 1985 with Dr. James Hromas, ’66, has received the 2008 Great Plains University the goal “to be the most trusted and ethical remodeler/builder in the Continuing Education Association’s Outstanding Leadership Award. St. Louis area.” He has been a driving force within Oklahoma State Outreach and a catalyst for change, bringing Oklahoma State to international recognition through his efforts.
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Puget Sound Innovation Fuels, a leading U.S. biodiesel manufacturer that is among 10 | Chapter brothers of Kurt Spitzer, ’77, collected money at their 30-year those leading the charge to make the Earth a more sustainable place. reunion to purchase and install a chair lift for him following his back injury. Their commitment will educate generations to come about the need for sustainability and developing new innovations. He is the son of Rutgers Thomas “Denny” Fox, Maryland ’63. On January 29, 2008, Seth Dembowitz, ’01, died in an apartment fire in Hoboken, N.J. The day after his death, his four siblings founded the 243 Texas-Arlington (his Bond number) Foundation in his memory. Some of their long-term John Colligan, ’78, golf course architect for Colligan Golf Design, had the goals include fire safety awareness and scholarships for members of privilege of restoring the Brackenridge Park Golf Course in San Antonio. fraternities, sororities and members of a Jewish youth group Seth was Designed in 1915, it was the first municipal course in Texas and the involved in. They also hope to equip all chapters of Phi Delta Theta with original home of the Texas Open. He has worked on over 300 new courses the appropriate fire safety devices. and renovations across the country.
Saint Louis Texas-Austin Michael Bidwill, ’87, joined the Arizona Cardinals organization in 1996 Knox Nunnally, ’65, has been selected to be part of the Longhorn Football and now serves as president. Among his most prominent roles with the Hall of Honor 40 years after initially becoming a Longhorn. He was Cardinals has been the development of University of Phoenix Stadium, a an All-Southwest Conference end from 1962–64 and a member of the project that he spearheaded from its inception through its August, 2006 Longhorns’ first national championship team in 1963. After graduation opening and which continues today. He has also taken on roles with the he also received his law degree in 1968 from the University of Texas National Football League and the greater Phoenix business community. School of Law and became a prominent Houston lawyer. He has been a law consultant to The University and its athletic department for nearly Southern California two decades and served as the president of the Silver Spurs Alumni John Gobbell, ’59, has written numerous naval thrillers, all set in WWII. A Organization in 1995 and 1996. Call to Colors features the skipper of a destroyer who becomes embroiled in what becomes the Battle of Leyte Gulf–the largest naval engagement in the Texas Christian history of mankind. 11 | Lieutenant Col. Drew Moore, DDS, MS, ’84, is currently stationed in Iraq. The photo shows him next to a rocket crater on the base at Tallil. He was Stephen F. Austin eating dinner when this hit about 600 yards from where they were. The For the past seven years Cooper Castleberry, ’74, has been a football referee in walls hehind are T Walls which are around the living quarters and most all the Big XII Conference. He began officiating 30 years ago, starting with a buildings in Iraq for protection. There were only a few divots knocked out small junior high in Lufkin and progressed to high school games, then the of the T Walls and some windows in a shower building broke. Southland Conference and the WAC Conference before the Big XII. 12 | Brothers of Texas Zeta classes 1968 to 1972 enjoyed a reunion and Syracuse golf tournament this last fall in San Saba, Texas. The annual affair brings John Fox, ’92, and his wife, Carol, have established an endowed professorship together Brothers from as far away as Washington, D.C. to St. Louis in sustainable energy studies at the Syracuse L.C. Smith College of to Evergreen, Colorado to Des Moines, Iowa, including several from Engineering and Computer Science. He is president and CEO of Oklahoma, Arkansas and Texas. This year’s attendees were: Front Row
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(left-right): John Russell, Mark Richards, John Northern, Phil Worth and Rick Olsen. Bowls. He was an integral part of the AFL’s success and has also served on a Second Row (left-right): Lee Tarbox, Rodney Haggard, Sid Fikes, Jack Wilemon, W.L. number of important NFL committees over the years. Gray and Rod Monahan. Third row (left-right): Steve Swift, Byron Gossett, Gary Lee, John Litterer, David Montgomery and Page Dupstat. Wabash Already serving as the Coordinator of Football Officials for the Big Ten, Texas Tech David Parry, ’57, has been named the first ever National Coordinator for Michael McElrath, ’62 (dec), was inducted into the Texas Amateur Athletic College Football Officiating. He will serve as the national spokesperson Federation’s Hall of Fame on Jan. 15, 2009. He lettered in baseball at Tech for college officiating issues and work directly with the college football and still holds the freshman hitting average of .507. He was a star fast pitch community to accurately communicate officiating issues at all levels. He softball player in Fort Worth from 1966 to 1977 and played on teams that will also create and develop national training programs, assign and evaluate won five state championships. postseason officiating crews and coordinate national meetings of the college officiating community. Michael “Mickey” McKenzie, ’66, and his wife, Barbara, have made a major gift for the Merket Alumni Center at Texas Tech in appreciation and Washington admiration for the impact Bill Dean, ’60, has had on their family. Dean was After serving three years as freshman coach, Michael Callahan, ’96, is now the the adviser of the Texas Epsilon chapter when both Mickey and his son, head coach of the University of Washington men’s rowing team. In 2006 his Ryan, were members of the chapter. As a tribute to the McKenzies, the new freshman team was the national champion. He has also been a member of ballroom that will seat up to 600 will be named in their honor. the 2004 Olympic Rowing Team.
Utah Washington-St. Louis Billy Steers, ’84, is the author and illustrator of the popular Tractor Mac Stephen Brauer, ’67, and his wife will have the second building in the children’s book series. He was inspired to write the stories by the bedtime university’s new engineering complex named for them. He is former stories he had been telling his young sons, which revolved around the U.S. Ambassador to Belgium and chairman of St. Louis-based Hunter adventures of their little red toy tractor. Engineering Company.
Vanderbilt The Very Reverend Edson Maxwell Outwin, ’65, has been appointed Dean of Art Demmas, ’41, former Vandy football player and longtime NFL official, the Genesee Deanery of the Episcopal Diocese of Western New York. His has been selected as one of four individuals for the National Football new responsibility is the oversight and convening of the Episcopal parishes Foundation and College Hall of Fame’s prestigious Chapter Leadership in Orleans, Genesee and Wyoming Counties in New York. Awards. He worked for 28 seasons, including four Super Bowls, officiating in the NFL. West Virginia Roy Cunningham, ’93, has been named Partner at Lippes Mathias Wexler Virginia Friedman LLP. He concentrates his practice in the areas of estate planning, Ralph Wilson, ’40, was named to the Class of 2009 Pro Football Hall of Fame. business succession planning and elder law. He has experience in all One of the original founders of the AFL, he founded the Buffalo Bills in aspects of the planning, administration, settlement and taxation of trusts 1959 and has seen his team win back-to-back AFL titles in the mid 1960s and estates and is a frequent lecturer at state and local legal continuing and become the only team ever to advance to four consecutive Super education programs. He has a JD degree from West Virginia University
22 Spring/Summer 2009 College of Law and a LLM in taxation from the University of Denver Wisconsin School of Law. 14 | Pictured are Phis David Huber, Penn State ’48, Paul Commelin, DePauw ’45, and Roy Burks, Wisconsin ’53, who live at the Willow Valley Retirement Western Kentucky Community and meet monthly for breakfast. Western Kentucky University has named Andrew Byers, ’02, its 2008 Young We want to hear from you! Alumnus of the Year. This award is given annually to the most outstanding Let other brothers know what you are up to. Write us a line or send us a picture. Electronic submissions should be sent to [email protected]. Digital photos should be at least 300 dpi alumnus who has graduated in the last ten years. He is president of the local in resolution or on a digital camera’s highest-quality setting. Hard copies can be sent to GHQ, alumni chapter and chairs the committee that has started a scholarship attn: The Scroll Editor, 2 South Campus Avenue, Oxford, OH 45208. Letters may be edited for fund to help a local high school senior attend WKU. In its first two years, he clarity, content or length. Photos may be edited for reproduction quality. has already helped raise over $5,000 towards the funds.
John Harnage, ’94, along with his partner, former Western Kentucky basketball player Ty Rogers, has started a unique business marketing replica basketball arena tables that can be made from the actual floor and basketball rim from the customer’s arena of choice. Check them out at www.hometeamtables.com. Welcome to: Western Ontario Borna Zlamalik, ’02, Portfolio, Brand & Trade Strategy - Prestige, Premium and Sub-Premium Brands Manager, represented JTI-Macdonald at the Mackinac Island! Global Convenience Industry Achievement Awards (GCIAA), an annual competition to present insight, innovation and a clear understanding of Michigan current and future challenges and trends facing convenience retailing. He won the top award in Canada with his innovative presentation entitled An insider’s guide to one of Phi Delt’s convention spots. “Think Global, Act Local: How to leverage your product and service mix As summer rolls in and temperatures climb, a good vacation to increase transaction potential and customer loyalty." His presentation spot with a bit of Phi history is Mackinac Island in Michigan. If aimed to provide a simple and easy to execute tool to help retailers assess you go, park your car, since no personal motorized vehicles are their trade area and better serve their unique consumer base. allowed on the island. The beautiful Grand Hotel on Mackinac As a result of his Canadian victory, Borna will represent JTI-Macdonald Island was the site of the 1954 Convention, with Phis debating and Canada at the North American leg of the Global Convenience the fraternal issues of the day on the resort’s wrap-around porch. Industry Achievement Awards (GCIAA) in Las Vegas during the 2009 The historic hotel is still open today. A short ferry ride from the NACS (National Association of Convenience Stores) Convention. tip of Michigan takes you to the island, where beautiful scenery, cool lake breezes and a classic Widener summer vacation awaits. Make sure to try 13 | The chapter brothers of Paul Augustus, ’92, have bonded together to help some Mackinac Island fudge and take in one defray medical costs of his care following a life changing accident of falling of the many sailing races planned for the area from a ladder that paralyzed him from the waist down. In addition to other this summer. events, on March 28 there was a Pub Night at a place owned by Keith Gallo For more information visit www.mackinacisland.org/. ’94, that was attended by over 80 Phis and friends that helped raise $10,000 for the family. If you would like to support the brothers of Penn Mu in their efforts to help Paul, please contact Chad Collingwood at [email protected].
Spring/Summer 2009 23 Phi Sports: Todd Reesing looks toward the future
ansas QB Todd Reesing had a pretty impressive college career. He’ll graduate in December after breaking many school records. K This season, he completed 329 of 495 for a school record 3,888 yards and 32 touchdowns while running for 224 yards and four scores. Todd was named the school’s offensive player of the year and Nolan Cromwell Leadership Award winner. Among his top games were 32 of 38 for 413 yards, three TDs against Louisiana Tech; 34 of 51 for 381 yards, three scores versus South Florida; and 27 of 35 for 313 yards, four TDs in the bowl game. The Scroll caught up with Reesing as he wrapped up the spring semester. Scroll: What’s next for you after graduation? I am planning to pursue a career in football after I graduate. I had planned on wanting to study abroad but since have decided to try to continue to play football. Obviously I am going to give the NFL a shot but if that does not pan out I am even considering playing in the CFL or whatever opportunities may arise. But I am still going to attend graduate school for business at some point regardless of what happens. Anything to steer away from 9–5 at a desk sounds good to me right now. How did you balance football, school and Phi Delt? It has definitely been a struggle to manage football and school at times in addition to taking part in activities with Phi Delt. The main thing that has helped me is time management. At this level, it is important to set priorities and know exactly what needs to get done and the amount of time you have to do it. I think many people underestimate themselves when knowing the amount of things they can handle and the efficiency with which they can get them done. If you have goals and the determination to complete them, then no matter what may stand in your way, you will find a way to get them done to the best of your ability. I have just never let the amount of things that may pile up on my plate get in the way of my attitude towards success and life. If you have goals and the determination to University of Kansas Todd Reesing, Photo by Jeff Jacobsen, KU Athletics complete them, then no matter what may stand in instrumental to success. Oh, and having a little talent does not hurt either. your way, you will find a way to get them done to The work ethic and commitment that is learned through football is the the best of your ability. same type of attitude you have to take into your post-athletic life in the work force. If you are determined to succeed at your job then there is no one You had some tremendous success this year. How did you do it? who can tell you otherwise. I think the prior answer relates heavily to being a successful QB. You first have to believe in yourself and have strong goals with an even stronger work How has Phi Delt helped you get through college? ethic. If you have the belief in yourself then people around you will see Being affiliated with Phi Delt has taught me a lot about friendship and them and they will want to follow you because if they think there is nothing the way it can empower people to work together to achieve common that can stop you from achieving something then it will motivate them to goals. A lot of the rules and ideals that the Fraternity were built on directly believe the same way. You must be a strong leader to play QB and I believe correspond to success in life, academics, and football. And on a lighter my teammates see how hard I play and how much I care about winning note it teaches you to enjoy life, give back to the society and have fun in that it motivates them to fight as hard as they can. And obviously having a every setting. great understanding of the offense and desire to learn and get better is very
24 Spring/Summer 2009 Phi Sports: Timlin takes Lou Gehrig Award
n September 8, 2008, Brother Mike Timlin of the Boston Red Sox, O Southwestern ’88, became the third member of Phi Delta Theta to receive the Lou Gehrig Memorial Award. The award is presented annually by Phi Delta Theta to the Major League Baseball player who best exemplifies the giving character of Brother Gehrig. On hand to present him with the award was General Council President Mark Ochsenbein, Educational Foundation Trustee and lifetime Boston Red Sox fan Ted Lowrie, Massachusetts Gamma (MIT) Chapter President John Cromwell, and Associate Executive Vice President Sean Wagner. Also at the presentation was Jim Stroud who won the chance to attend the presentation after he joined the True Blue Society last summer. Prior to the game, a reception was held in Timlin’s honor at Phi Delta Theta’s Massachusetts Gamma chapter house, just blocks away from Fenway Park. This reception was attended by the chapter, local alumni, and the presenters. Brother Timlin, best known for his role on the General Council President Mark Ochsenbein presents Brother Mike Timlin with the Lou Gehrig Memorial Award. Also at the 2003 World Series Champion Boston Red Sox award ceremony, Educational Foundation Trustee Ted Lowry, Jim Stroud, MIT Chapter President John Cromwell and Associate team, has had a long career in Major League Executive Vice President Sean Wagner. Baseball that has included stints with six teams and his family vowed to do as much as they During his career Timlin has had the same over seventeen years. During this illustrious could to bring awareness to the forefront and, tenacity on the field as he has off of it to eradicate career, he earned four World Series rings, two with time, ensure a cure. Since then he and his ALS. He became just the 13th pitcher in major with the Boston Red Sox and two with the wife, Dawn, have hosted the annual 5K Sharon league history to appear in 1,000 games and Toronto Blue Jays. Of course long before he Timlin Memorial Race/Walk and Family Fun finished the season with 1,011 career appearances was a member of any MLB team, he was an Day. In total, over $200,000 has been raised and in 2007 and compiled a 2.89 ERA in 40 undergraduate member of the Texas Gamma directed toward research for a cure for ALS from appearances and had his career best, 16 inning chapter from 1985 until 1988 at Southwestern these events. He has also worked extensively with scoreless streak, occur over 11 appearances. He University where he is second only to Bob Stanley in the Red Sox also played baseball. Mike’s fight against Lou Gehrig’s Disease demonstrates a record books in relief appearances. Timlin Brother Timlin tremendous commitment to eliminate this horrible disease that appeared in at least 60 games in 10 straight has long been affected Gehrig himself, Timlin’s own family and so many others. seasons from 1997 until 2007 and has made 44 known as one of career post season appearances, 4th all-time. the most community-minded players in all the Angel Fund, an independent, non-profit “Mike Timlin is the perfect recipient for this of MLB, actively being involved in a variety organization dedicated to support ALS research year’s Lou Gehrig Award,” says Sean Wagner, of organizations. One of the causes closest to at Massachusetts General Hospital. Additionally, spokesman for the Lou Gehrig Memorial Award Brother Timlin’s heart is that of ALS. Personally since coming to Boston in 2003, he has donated Committee. “Mike’s fight against Lou Gehrig’s affected by Lou Gehrig’s disease, Mike’s mother, $500 per appearance to the fund. Timlin was also Disease demonstrates a tremendous commitment Sharon, succumbed in 2002 to the illness at recognized as the 2005 BoSox Club Man of the to eliminate this horrible disease that affected the age of 61. After watching her suffer through Year and has served as spokesman and participant Gehrig himself, Timlin’s own family and so the awful progression of this fatal disease, Mike for the Junior Padre Club and Clinic. many others.”
Spring/Summer 2009 25 Kirk Konert, Davidson Tyler Lemon, Davidson Joshua Kraemer, Ripon
scores while earning All-PFL honorable mention, won the Outstanding Defensive Lineman Award Winter Sports along with guard Mark Iafrate. Key receivers were and was on the All-MWC second team. Wide Andrew Aldrich (52 for 578 yards, four TDs), Mark receiver Brian Felix averaged 16.8 on receptions BY JAY LANGHAMMER, SPORTS EDITOR Hanabury (35 for 400 yards) and Myles Potter (34 for and gained All-MWC honorable mention as 386 yards). Kerry Mantuo ran for 418 yards and 10 did linebacker Adam Firgens. Other key Ripon TDs. Other offensive performers were linemen players included co-captain/defensive back Vince Football Jason Perillo, Shane Purvis and Joe Tabler; fullback Spratte, defensive lineman Paul Braun and wide Kirk Benedict (17 catches for 149 yards); and back receiver Robert Bergfeld. Leading Kansas to an 8–5 record and Insight Bowl Michael Blanchard. The 7–3 Centre squad featured 42 Phis, led by win was quarterback Todd Reesing (see article, pg Named to the All-PFL second team were All-Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference 24). Also playing were defensive end John Larson Davidson linebacker Tyler Lemon (top tackler first team linebackerAdam Hay. After posting and offensive lineman Sal Capra. William Cage saw with 91) and end Will Funderburg (46 stops, team– 109 tackles, he was also on the d3football.com special teams action for the 11–1 TCU Poinsettia high13 for losses). Back Matt Mikrut won All-PFL All-South Region second team. The All-SCAC Bowl winners and fullback Preston Lyons was on mention with 51 tackles. Third with 80 stops was second team included safety Sean Swallen (77 the 9–4 Georgia Tech Chick–fil–A Bowl club. back Matt Easton while lineman Andrew Wohler tackles), safety Alex Uberhart (53 tackles), end Tim Co–captain and defensive MVP Mark Paschal had 41 tackles. Other leaders were linebacker Groh (40 stops) and back Zach Sloan (36 tackles). earned All-Atlantic Coast Conference second Daniel Astrop (39 stops), back/deep snapper John Receiving All-SCAC mention was lineman team honors for the 8–5 North Carolina Meineke Behm (28 tackles), linebacker Patrick Hunt (20 Graham Herron (29 tackles) while other defenders Car Care Bowl. Before a cervical spinal injury tackles), linebacker Gianinni Ricci, lineman Aaron were linebackers Brian Hodge (41 stops), Matt late in the season ended his career, he was the Saltman and back Peter Kidwell. Bo Swanson had 38 Mazzanti and T.J. Lewis. Punter Jeff Collett had 37 top tackler with 103. Also on the squad was kickoffs for a 55.2 average. In his eighth season, boots for a 37.2 average. quarterback Braden Hanson. Handling punting head coach Ralph Friedgen, Maryland ’70, led his Named to the All-SCAC offensive second duties for the 9–4 Mississippi Cotton Bowl alma mater to an 8–5 record, including a win in team for Centre were center Dan Spoelker and winners was Rob Park, who had 54 boots for a the Humanitarian Bowl. Kentucky head coach tackle Brian Coxon. Earning All-SCAC mention 38.9 average. Teammate Justin Sparks had 72 Rich Brooks, Oregon State ’63, led his team to a 7–6 were wide receiver Tyler Hinkle (leader with 27 kickoffs for a 63.5 average. Defensive end Chris season, including a Liberty Bowl win. catches for 378 yards, five TDs) and tackleAlex Berezansky played six games for Arkansas and Honorable mention All-American defensive Becker. Quarterback Grant Conliffe hit 83 of 143 for punter John Thornton was on the Virginia squad. back Joshua Kraemer led 18 Phi Delts on the 8–2 842 yards, seven TDs while running back Chase Wide receiver Kyle Derham led Pennsylvania with Ripon team. He was also on the All-West regional Porter ran for 195 yards and caught 18 passes for 29 catches for 404 yards and teammate Hughes team, the All-Midwest Conference first team 148 yards. Other good receivers were Rob Pope (16 Tipton saw action at offensive guard. and Wisconsin Private College Player of the for 223 yards), Chris Zimmerman (15 for 107 yards, 14 Forty-seven Phis were on the Davidson team. Year. He picked off six passes to run his career punts for a 36.8 average) and Aaron Hay (nine for Offensive tackle Will Nolte won All-Pioneer total to 17. As a return specialist, he had a 28.4 126 yards, two scores). Football League first team honors. Top receiver kickoff average with two TDs and returned Sixteen Phis were on the 11–2 Washington & Kirk Konert led with 53 catches for 692 yards, six punts for a 14.3 average. Lineman Ray Anderson Jefferson squad, which went to the Division III
26 Spring/Summer 2009 Stuart Sitterson, Washington & Lee Michael Spillman, Hanover Tom Gulyas, Washington-St. Louis, Photo by Joe Angeles, WUSTL Photo Services
quarterfinals. Key defenders were All-President’s returning 22 kickoffs for a 36.0 average (including quarterback Buck Smith, who hit 168 of 307 for Athletic Conference honorable mention back a 94 yarder); and averaging 8.9 on 12 punt returns. 1,827 yards, 12 TDs; tight end Miles Chan (10 Mitch Erdley (third with 76 tackles), linebacker Receiver Billy Murray gained All-ODAC mention catches for 120 yards), running back Greg LaChaud John Fahey (55 stops). back Tyler Wilson and after leading with 23 catches for 310 yards. Charlie (16 catches for 261 yards) plus linemen Dan Elliott linemen Matt Ellinger, Chad Boskat, Alex Patterson Westfal hit 117 of 212 for 1,310 yards,10 TDs while and David Mackey. Other key offensive players and Brandon Pfeifer. Seeing action on offense running for 511 yards. Also on offense were Ryan included receiver Kyle Gray (17 catches) lineman for W&J were running backs Josh Linton and Wells (20 catches), tight end Jason Bacajte, receiver Jared Daiber and kicker Tim Johnson (two field Joe Winters plus linemen Brandon Koslo, Jordan Tate Davis and lineman John Thackston. W&L’s goals, 11 extra points). Thompson and Pat Denecke. Seeing action for defense was led by All-ODAC first team back Winning All-UAA second team selection on the 10–2 Wabash Division III playoff team were Chris Prugar, who had seven interceptions for 92 defense for Washington-St. Louis were safety defensive lineman Zach Brock and quarterback yards and made 47 tackles. Back David Sternlicht Tim Machen, the top tackler with 73; back Brandon Tyler Hernly. had 36 stops and was ODAC Rookie of the Year. Brown (34 tackles, 11 passes broken up); and The 6–4 Dickinson defense featured Back Frank Dale was sixth with 49 tackles and was lineman Dan Mulholland (22 stops). Making the All-Centennial Conference first team linebacker joined in the backfield byJohn Kavanagh (21 stops) All-UAA honorable mention list was linebacker Steve Bokron (47 tackles) and All-Centennial and Taylor Malone. Kyle Huber (37 stops) while other good defenders second team linebacker Ben Hargrave (leader with All-Heatland Collegiate Athletic Conference were back Adam Hartzler, lineman Jim Manship, 94 stops). Other top tacklers were linebacker first team linebackerMichael Spillmann of linebacker Nick Diehl and back Bryce Buchanan. Kevin Wood (84 tackles), back Michael Maxwell (66 Hanover had a team–high 104 tackles and 18 Case Western Reserve had Phi 22 players, with stops), lineman Matt Stone (42 stops), lineman Phi teammates. Receiver Adam Miller had 25 defensive linemen Dale English (46 tackles) and Adam Lick (32 tackles), back Paul McNeal (24 catches for 362 yards and Josh Reintjes ran back Gian Genovesi (37 stops) taking All-UAA first team tackles) and linebackers Keegan Ash and Craig nine kickoffs for a 16.9 average. James Dowdy honors. Other good defenders were back Luiz Renitsky. Leading Dickinson’s offense was kicked two field goals and 15 extra points. Good Goncalves (34 tackles), end Rich Doolin (21 tackles), All-Centennial second team quarterback Ian defensive backs were Matt Steward (26 stops) and back Christian Fredericks, lineman Dan Foti and Mitchell who hit 143 of 244 for 1,953 yards, 14 TDs Cord Dorsey. Lineman Grant Wright was in on 14 linebacker Chris Wolfe. CWRU offensive linemen and rushed for 736 yards, six TDs. Also on the tackles for 8–2 DePauw and linebacker Jim Minor Chris Center and Tony Opperman were named to All-Centennial second team was running back led Denison with 62 tackles and earned All-North the All-UAA second team. Seeing action for Greg Lord (727 yards, 10 scores) while center Coast Athletic Conference honorable mention. McDaniel were quarterback Joe Lapkowicz (16 of 22 Andrew Ciukurescu won honorable mention. Seeing action for Lawrence were offensive lineman for 222 yards); running back Sean Urbany and wide Others were back Tim Wells (535 yards, five TDs), Evan Keip, who started eight games; defensive back receivers Nick Bender and Austin Miller. Playing back Tim Smith, receiver Craig Helfer (15 catches) Chris Gallegos (24 tackles) and lineman Brian Dabbs. for Union were linebacker Dillon Betancourt and and receiver Rob Kutner. The 5–5 Washington-St. Louis team had 21 Phi lineman Dominic Centurioni. Sixteen Washington & Lee Phis were led by Delts, with Tom Gulyas winning All-University Thirty-four Phis aided the Puget Sound All-Old Dominion Athletic Conference first Athletic Association first team honors after effort. Leading the defense was All-Northwest teamer Stuart Sitterson. He led with 92 points and catching 51 passes for 632 yards, three TDs. Conference second team linebacker Eric 960 yards while catching 19 passes for 237 yards; Earning All-UAA mention on offense were Borton, who had 85 tackles and made Academic
Spring/Summer 2009 27 Stephen Van Gampleare, Creighton Kyle Holliday, Ohio Wesleyan, Photo by Sara Tincher Corey Dorsey, Gettysburg
All-District along with lineman Brian Walker (34 Don Meredith, SMU ’60, during halftime of the Defenseman Curlee Morrissette played 10 contests tackles). Other key defenders were linebacker mid-October Houston game. Defensive end for the 8–4–6 DePauw squad and Taylor Prescott Phillip Thomas (47 stops); back Cory Dunn (33 Knox Nunnally, Texas ’65, was inducted into the saw action for the 18–5–1 Ohio Wesleyan team. tackles, 19 breakups); linebacker Tyler Vlasak Longhorn Hall of Honor on November 7th. Five Phi Delts played for the 9–6–2 Washington (26 tackles), back Cory Haywood (23 tackles); Quarterback Justin Peery, Westminster ’00, was & Lee squad. MidfielderDrew Crowley had 17 starts and linebacker Peter New. The offense featured inducted into the St. Louis Intercollegiate and scored nine points (four goals, one assist). All-NWC second team back Silas Paul, who ran Athletic Conference Hall of Fame on January Goalie Alex Lambert had a 1.75 goals against for 524 yards and scored nine TDs. Other key 31st. He threw for a Division III career record average with 10 saves. Playing 15 contests for players were fullback Miles Murphy, back Casey 13,262 passing yards and all-division 148 TD passes W&L were Stiles Harper, Chris Burgin and Huntley Larson, quarterback Spencer Crace, deep snapper in 1996–99. Johnson. Defenseman Michael McDonnell played Aaron Badham and starting linemen Alex Nelson, New England Patriots wide receiver Wes in 14 contests for Oregon Tech and defenseman Ben Schau and Vince Ghiringhelli. Welker, Texas Tech ’05, had another great year Zach Fleisher played 18 games for Hanover. The 6–5 Randolph-Macon squad had 19 and played in the Pro Bowl. He had 111 catches Defenseman Skyler Wills was a member of the Phi players, led by All-ODAC second team for 1,165 yards, three TDs. Quarterback J.T. 12–5–1 Washington–St. Louis squad. MidfielderMatt linebacker Chris Stahl, who had 72 tackles. O’Sullivan, Cal-Davis ’02, of the San Francisco Dominguez and goalie Adam Jaime were on the Other defenders were lineman Jaryd Grimsley 49ers and hit 128 of 220 for 1,678 yards, eight LaVerne team. (42 tackles), back Trey Haddon and lineman Chris TDs. Following the season, he joined the Testa. Lineman Morgan Cross was named to the Cincinnati Bengals. Offensive guard Jacob Bell, All-ODAC second team and Ben Keyser gained Miami ‘04, started 13 games for the St. Louis Cross Country All-ODAC mention with 46 punts for a 35.3 Rams and Nick Novak, Maryland ’05, scored 25 average. Quarterback Austin Faulker hit 152 of points (six field goals, seven extra points) in six Stephen Van Gampleare of Creighton ran the team’s 263 for 1,747 yards,17 TDs while running for 283 contests for the Kansas City Chiefs. During the second-best time (27:00) in placing 39th at the yards, five TDs.Spenser Bolen kicked a field goal off season, John Marshall, Oregon ’69, became Missouri Valley Conference 8K meet and had a and 11 extra points. Other players were defensive defensive coordinator of the Oakland Raiders 10K time of 34:30 at the NCAA Midwest regional back Jason Amy of Iowa Wesleyan; wide receiver and Gunther Cunningham, Oregon ’69, joined the meet. His top 8K time (26:33) came at the Slava Prokhorets of Westminster; offensive lineman Detroit Lions as defensive coordinator. Evansville Invitational and he placed 25th (26:56) Brandon Miller of Washburn; and the Central at the San Francisco State Invitational. Stephen Methodist duo of linebacker Mickey Pittman and Mackey of St. Louis placed sixth (27:34) at the 8K lineman Cavelle Cole-Neal. Soccer Bradley Invitational. Chris McCullough of Gettysburg A number of Phi Delt alumni have been was 44th (26:45) at the 8K Division III Mideast honored in recent months. Longtime Buffalo Leading 16–4–2 M.I.T. to the NCAA Division III regional and co-captain Frank Hoban was 57th Bills owner Ralph Wilson Jr., Virginia ’40, was tournament was All-NEWMAC first teamer and (27:03). He placed 16th (26:39) at the Centennial chosen for induction into the Pro Football Hall Rookie of the Year Zachary Kabelac. He was second Conference meet. Corwin Ryck of Westminter was of Fame on August 8th. SMU retired the number in scoring with 28 points on 10 goals and eight 49th at the SLIAC meet. 17 jersey of two year All-American quarterback assists. Teammate Russell Kooistra also saw action.
28 Spring/Summer 2009 Leading 11 Phis at Franklin was Brandon Welti The 24–4 Puget Sound Division III playoff Stephen Mosier, Justin Michaels and James Fitzpatrick. who ran in the Division III meet after placing club had good contributions from forwards Bryce Regulars for Washington & Lee were J.P. Welch. second (25:49) at the HCAC meet. Also at the Lenin (182 points, 6.3) and Conner Gehring (81 Cory Baumgarten and Bear Danley were key HCAC were Sean Kennedy, fifth with a career-best points, 2.9). Guard Nick Caputo was a key player gymnasts for Nebraska and Brett Lazarus was a 26:30; Jacob Holnacki, seventh (26:43); and Kinley for 18–10 Southwestern University squad, scoring regular for M.I.T. Squash player Andrew McReynolds Weber, 24th (27:41). Farley Stephenson of Centre 286 points (10.2) and teammate Ryan Bell played was a member of the Cornell team that finished was on the SCAC All-Sportsmanship Team. in 18 contests. Other players included guard Noah sixth at the CSA national meet. Other winter He suffered an early season knee injury but Hayden of the 20–10 Washington & Jefferson squad; sports athletes competing for M.I.T. were Sean continued to support his squad as they went to the Dickinson guard duo of James Spicer and Mike Vaskov on the hockey team and fencers Rangarajan the NCAA meet. Matt Silovsky of Southwestern Grant; plus the Schreiner duo of forward Francisco Nadadur and Kieran McLaughlin. College ran a personal best 28:05 at the NAIA Avila and guard Chris White. Mid-States Classic and was joined by teammates Jordy Train, Taylor McNinch, Bryce Johnson and Tanner Weeast. Other competitors were Joel Meredith of Swimming Dickinson, Brandon Feller of Hanover, Francisco Avila of Schreiner, Mark Benedetto of Widener and William Earning All-American honors on the seventh Ortiz of LaVerne. place M.I.T. 400 medley relay was Tim Stumbaugh. He was also the NEWMAC Rookie of the Year after a second place finish in the 200 backstroke. Basketball Nine Phis were on the Allegheny squad, led by NCAC placers Colin Gundling and Josh Sesek. Leading 17–8 Ohio Wesleyan was forward Kyle Also doing well at the NCAC meet were Ashton Holliday, who was named to the Academic Kinney and Beau Whiteman. Rob Franciscovich of All-American second team, All-NCAC first Dickinson was on the third place 400 freestyle team and All-Great Lakes Region third team. relay at the Centennial meet and James Ridings He led in scoring (393 points, 15.7 per game), of LaVerne swam on the sixth place SCIAC 800 minutes played (768) and three-point goals (59) freestyle relay. while ranking second in rebounding (157, 6.3 Nicolas Santoro was the top swimmer among per game). Teammate Brent Pleiman was second five Phis on theChicago squad. At the UAA meet, in field goal shooting (55.7%), scored 204 points he was third with the 400 freestyle relay; sixth (8.2) and grabbed 104 rebounds (4.2). Also seeing with the 200 freestyle relay; and eighth in the action for OWU were Andrew Martin, Ryan Willis, 200 breaststroke. Teammates Robert Vanneste was Spencer Meads and Matt Stuczynski. Guard Jake seventh in the 100 backstroke and Erik Wedestrom Inman won All-HCAC mention for Hanover and finished seventh in the 200 butterfly and eighth led with 60 assists, 19 steals and an 85.4 free throw in the 400 individual medley. Other swimmers percentage. He was second in minutes (801) and included Dominic Schlabach of Ohio Wesleyan and third in scoring with 255 points (10.6). Peter Murray of Gettysburg. Guard-forward Corey Dorsey led 18–9 Gettysburg to the Division III playoffs. He led with 199 rebounds (7.4), three-pointers (73) and steals (37); Other Winter Sports ranked second in minutes (920) and was third in scoring (334 points, 12.4) and assists (58). Six Wrestler Kevin Wainscott of Oklahoma State placed Phis on the 16–13 Washington & Lee squad were led fifth at 174 pounds at the Central Missouri by tri-captain Chris McHugh, who led in minutes Open and had a 6–6 record prior to a shoulder (943), assists (65) and three-pointers (51) while injury. Teammate Mike Bizzle was named to the ranking second with 291 points (10.0). Tri-captain Academic All-Big 12 team and competed at 149 Kirk Jones scored 142 points (5.3) and forward Ryan pounds. Jimmy Miller of Case Western Reserve was a Owens had 100 points (3.6). Guard Jason Cimino regular at 125 pounds. Five Phis were regulars for had 21 starts and 34 assists. Also playing were Wabash with Michael Burke (15–11) placing second guards Jonathan Guest and Will Keirle. Guard John at 197 pounds during the Division III Mideast Kinsella was on the All-UAA second team and regional. At the same meet, Stephen Iles placed ranked second with 262 points (10.9), with a high eighth at 133 pounds. Other teammates were of 27 versus NYU.
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Coaching Millennials By Keith Wysocki
hat defined your generation? Was it They’ve been referred to as Gen-Y, Nexters and students. His study determined that in one the thrift of the Depression years? Was Echo Boomers, but they are most often called the semester, the students would, on average, write W it the distrust of the Watergate era? Millennial generation. 42 pages for class and more than 500 pages of What events shaped your generation? Perhaps They are a generation that has grown up e-mails. The average student read eight books in you remember where you were when JFK was entirely in the information age, and most of a year and 2300 web pages during the same span. assassinated, or when Brother Armstrong set foot them have been computer users since before This is the generation that spawned the explosion on the moon, or when the Challenger exploded. they even entered grade school. In fact, more in instant messaging, Youtube and social As baby boomers begin to retire and Millennials said they could do without TV than networking websites like Myspace and Facebook. Generation-Xers find stability with families and said they could do without a computer. Michael While we often think of teenagers and young careers, a new generation is entering adulthood—a Wesch, an anthropology professor at Kansas State adults as challenging of the conventions of generation shaped by the September 11 terrorist University conducted a study with 200 college the previous generation, Millennials tend to attacks and the omnipresence of computers. students to research trends among millennial be respectful of parental authority. They often
30 Spring/Summer 2009 maintain close relationships with their parents, and they are increasingly moving back in with their parents after college. This might stem from how they were raised. Parents of Millennials were, by and large, protective and actively involved in their children’s schooling and extracurricular activities. Then & Now Parents packed their children’s free time with sports camps, music lessons and clubs and would as a result, spend much of their free time transporting their kids to meetings and practices. These kids are growing up to be a civic-oriented and volunteer-driven generation. More than 66% of college freshmen said helping others was “essential or very important” according to a study released by UCLA last year. This was the highest percentage to say so in more than twenty-five years. This generation is entering the workforce, and they have been described as impatient, unequipped to work with difficult people and frustrated by menial tasks. Alternatively, they have been described as optimistic, 1969 2009 goal-oriented collaborators who can work on many different assignments at the same time. How they will truly affect the workplace will become 1969 This was the year when 2009 Although space travel is famous Phi Neil Armstrong, fairly common, there has not evident in the next few years—as baby boomers retire in droves and the walked on the moon. On July been a manned mission to moon Millennials rise to fill their shoes. 20, Armstrong became the first since Apollo 17 in 1972. The While we do not fully know what will define the Millennial generation, man on the moon. Also that year, Pittsburgh Steelers won the we have seen the tremendous impact it is having in Phi Delta Theta. the first Gap store opened in SuperBowl, led by a quarterback The vast majority of our undergraduate leaders are Millennials, and San Francisco. Richard Nixon who graduated from the late was inaugurated as the 37th Weeb Eubank’s college—Miami they continue to build on the strong foundation that has been laid by President of the United States. University. Gas is more than the generations that have come before. We are truly fortunate to belong Unemployment was at 3.6 $2.40 a gallon, a stamp is 41 to an organization in which we have ample opportunities to learn from percent, gasoline was 35 cents a cents and unemployment is those older and younger than us, while enjoying a brotherhood based on gallon and a stamp cost 6 cents. around 8 percent. timeless principles that transcend any generation. Also in 1969, famous Phi Weeb Eubank coached the New York Editor’s note: This is adapted from a Webinar on coaching members of the “Millennial” Jets to a victory in SuperBowl III. generation presented by Nathan Thomas, Southeast Missouri ’94 and Rob Turning, Akron, 94.
Spring/Summer 2009 31 r he c D.A. Fleis Cut hair–stylin’ and profilin’
Steve Good, Iowa State’04, is the director of education and technology Good doesn’t recommend the “self-haircut” approach, but with enough at GHQ. But, to many of his fellow staff members, he’s a barber. Good is mirrors it can be pulled off in a pinch. handy with a pair of clippers, and helps his colleagues shave expenses and In the photos here, Good demonstrates his skills on Associate Executive look good. He taught himself how to use the clippers, testing his skills on Vice President Sean Wagner. some of his Iowa State chapter brothers. “You should usually start at the bottom, and use the guards to get the Do you have a skill you want to share with other Phi Delts? Tell us about it and we’ll consider “fade” effect a lot of guys like,” Good says. “The lower the number on the using it in a future “how to” column. Email [email protected]. guard, the closer the cut.” Keep the blades on the clippers oiled and clean them after use to ensure longer life and smoother cuts. And, if you make a mistake, it eventually will grow back.
32 Spring/Summer 2009 Twenty graduate fellowships go to secretary. He is a member of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars, 20 outstanding Phis Order of Omega, Phi Kappa Phi, the Woodstock Society, Phi Eta Sigma and Alpha Epsilon Delta honor societies. He was one of two undergraduate By Carmalieta Dellinger Jenkins members of the University General Education Committee, the committee that approves new courses. wenty very outstanding graduate and professional students were Stephen N. Ander, Virginia ’05, is the recipient of the William R. “Rusty” selected to receive $3,000 Educational Foundation graduate Richardson Fellowship. Ander is a student of Public T fellowships for 2008–2009. The competition for our fellowships is Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government always fierce, but I believe it was even more so this year. At their meeting at Harvard University. He graduated with Highest last fall, the Foundation Trustees changed our policy that restricted previous Distinction in Economics and American Government fellowship recipients from applying again. from the University of Virginia. At Virginia Beta he As a result of that policy change we wrote to all recent fellowship served as house manager, awards chairman, recipients who had indicated on their original applications that they would scholarship chairman, historian, and as a member of still be in school during the 2008-2009 academic year. We told them of this the Virginia Beta Housing Corporation. He is a policy change and encouraged them to apply for a second fellowship. Many member of Phi Beta Kappa, the Raven Society and Golden Key. He was took us up on the offer! This infusion of talent certainly increased the level named a Jefferson Scholar, a Lawn Resident, a participant in the Honors of competition this year, and I predict it will continue to make a difference Program and a member of the Honors Committee at Virginia. He is in the future. editor-in-chief of Leadership, the Harvard Kennedy School Review. Proving the impact of this policy change and the infusion of talent that Jason A. Curry, Clemson ’05, has been named the recipient of the Robert J. resulted is the fact that eight of this year’s twenty fellowship recipients are Miller Fellowship. He received a B.S. from Clemson in repeat winners. Polymer & Textile Chemistry with a perfect 4.0 GPA. As always, the Foundation is deeply indebted to the Phis who judged the He is now a third-year medical student at the Medical fellowship applications. Dr. Edward G. Whipple, Hanover ’74, served once University of South Carolina. He served South again as chairman of the committee. He was joined in his efforts by George Carolina Gamma chapter as scholarship chairman, R. Porosky, Akron ’64, Dr. C. A. Sandeen, Miami ’60, Norman E. Allen, secretary, philanthropy chairman and was named the Pacific ’88, and serving as a judge for the first time, Dustin M. “Dusty” chapter’s Most Valuable Phi and its Phi of the Year. Johnson, South Dakota ’99, a former fellowship recipient. We thank them Curry was elected to membership in the esteemed for their hard work. medical honor society, Alpha Omega Alpha, as a junior which is a special Let me tell you very briefly about the twenty men the judges selected honor. He is a member of numerous other honor societies including Mortar to receive this year’s graduate fellowships. They are, to be sure, a most Board, Omicron Delta Kappa, Blue Key and Phi Kappa Phi. impressive group of young Phis. Charles A. Rose, Kansas ’07, has received a Jordan L. Haines Fellowship. Steven J. Good, Iowa State ’04, received the Marvin J. Perry Fellowship. Rose graduated from Kansas with a 3.96 GPA in Steve is working toward an M.B.A. at Xavier Finance. He is a first-year law student at Columbia University. At Iowa State his cumulative GPA was University. Rose served Kansas Alpha chapter as 3.86. He graduated with Distinction and participated philanthropy chairman and as a member of the in the ISU Honors Program. He served Iowa Gamma Interfraternity Greek Council which named him its chapter as scholarship chairman and recruitment Outstanding Officer. He was named Phi of the Year chairman. Since 2004 he has been employed by Phi by the Greater Kansas City Alumni Club. He Delta Theta as a Leadership Consultant, Director of participated in the KU Honors Program and Expansion and now as Director of Education and graduated with highest distinction. He is a member of a number of honor Technology. He is a member of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars, societies including Golden Key, Mortar Board, the Owl Society and the Golden Key, Phi Kappa Phi, Order of Omega and several other honor National Society of Collegiate Scholars. He was named to the National societies. Good is one of the founders and the current president of the Iowa Dean’s List. Rose was a staff reporter for University Daily Kansan. State University Alumni Association Club of Cincinnati. Andrew R. Arther, Kansas ’05, has also received a Jordan L. Haines Brett T. Batchelor, Louisville ’08, is the recipient of the George E. Grady Fellowship. Arther received a B.S. in Chemical Fellowship. With a 3.95 GPA, he graduated as an Engineering from KU garnering a 3.45 GPA. He is in Honors Scholar with B.A. in Physics from the his final year at the University of Kansas School of University of Louisville. A participate in the Honors Medicine. He in interested in pursuing a career in Program, Batchelor graduated Summa Cum Laude. academic medicine, and at the present time is He is now a first-year medical student at the University “particularly drawn to studying cancers of the of Kentucky. Kentucky Iota chapter received its gastrointestinal and genito-urinary tract.” Arther served charter while he served as president. He also served Kansas Alpha as scholarship chairman and as internal the chapter as warden, public relations chair, and vice president. He has received numerous scholarships and is a member of
Spring/Summer 2009 33 undergraduate he served California Rho chapter as risk About the 20 fellowship recipients management chairman, Phikeia educator, vice president and president. Lester participated in the Combined average undergraduate GPA was 3.68 University Honors Program, became a member of 9 were members of at least 1 college honor society Order of Omega and was named a Landis Leadership (most were members of several/many) Scholar, a scholarship which recognizes the top 1% of 8 participated in their undergraduate schools’ honors program 9 graduated with honors student leaders on campus. He served as executive vice 15 have been listed on the Dean’s List (most several/many times) president of the Associated Students of the University of La Verne and was 3 were IFC officers co-coordinator of New Student Orientation. 2 were varsity athletes (tennis; cross country, track and field) Brandon R. Mancini, Michigan ’07, garnered a 3.87 GPA at the University of 10 were Phi Delta Theta chapter presidents Michigan where he received his B.S. Today he is a All 20 were Phi Delta Theta chapter officers 4 have been Phi Delta Theta chapter advisers second-year medical student at Wayne State University School of Medicine. At Michigan Alpha he was Their graduate studies:* chaplain, sorority relations co-chair and captain of the Medical School–7 Mud Bowl team. He was very involved in intramural Law School–5 sports. Mancini was named a member of numerous Master’s Degrees–9 (M.B.A.s–4; Public Policy–2; Environmental Engineering; Education–Instructional Leadership; Public Administration honor societies including Alpha Epsilon Delta, Golden and Non-Profit Management) Key, National Scholars Honor Society, Order of *1 recipient is seeking 2 degrees Omega and Gamma Sigma Alpha. At Wayne State he was elected a member of the Aesculapians, an honorary service organization devoted to the city of Detroit and the WSU School of Medicine. He is a member of the WSU several honor societies including Order of Omega, Lambda Sigma, Tau School of Medicine Student Senate and president of the Class of 2011. Beta Pi and the Owl Society. He is a KUMC Student Ambassador and Andrew T. McGuire, Southern Indiana ’08, majored in accounting and during 2005 participated in a medical mission trip to Antigua, Guatemalo. received his B.S. with a 3.36 GPA. He is now studying Donald C. Bowers, Oklahoma ’07, is a second-year law student at the for an M.B.A. at Ball State University. As a member of Dedman School of Law at Southern Methodist Indiana Lambda chapter, he was elected public University. He received a B.B.A. degree with relations chairman, alumni secretary and president. He Distinction from Oklahoma where he majored in was named the chapter’s most outstanding graduating Finance. His undergraduate GPA was 3.95. Bowers senior. He became a member of Order of Omega and served Oklahoma Alpha chapter as president, vice was named to Who’s Who Among Students in president, secretary, alumni relations chair, standards American Universities and Colleges. McGuire played chair and as a member of the Chapter Advisory varsity tennis at Southern Indiana and received a four-year athletic Board. He was named Brother of the Year by his scholarship. He received the University’s Greek Life “Outstanding Chapter chapter. At OU he was named Outstanding Senior in Management and President” award and its “Outstanding Chapter Sportsmanship” award. He became a member of several honor societies including Beta Gamma also received the All Campus Student Achievement Award for 2008. Sigma, Phi Kappa Phi, Golden Key and the National Society for Collegiate Kevin M. Miller, Cincinnati ’08, received a B.S. in Civil and Environmental Scholars. At SMU he has been named to the Dean’s List and to Phi Delta Engineering with a 3.48 GPA. In August he began Phi International Legal Honor Society. graduate work in Environmental Engineering at the Justin A. Kasprisin, Vermont ’06, earned a B.A. with a 3.84 GPA while majoring University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Miller in political science, economics and history. He served Ohio Theta chapter as secretary, community graduated Magna Cum Laude. He is now studying at service chair, director of recruitment, chaplain, Georgetown University Law Center seeking both a Juris Phikeia educator, Pallas chair and vice president. He Doctorate degree and a Master of Public Policy degree. represented the chapter at the 2004 General At Vermont Alpha he served as warden, Pallas chairman, Convention, as a delegate to the 2004 Leadership recruitment chairman, alumni secretary and president. College, and as a peer mentor at the 2006 Leadership College. He is a Since graduation he has served both as Vermont Alpha’s member of many honor societies including Alpha Lambda Delta, Golden Chapter Advisory Board Chairman and as founder and Key, Mortar Board, Omicron Delta Kappa and Order of Omega. During president of the Green Mountain Alumni Club. Kasprisin played the 2007, Miller worked in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates as part of UC’s saxophone with the University’s Band and its Pep Band. He is a member of Phi co-operative education program. Beta Kappa, Pi Sigma Alpha, Omicron Delta Epsilon and Phi Alpha Theta John S. Moran, Virginia ’07, stayed in Charlottesville to attend the honor societies. He was on the Dean’s List all eight semesters. University of Virginia School of Law after he received his B.A. from U.Va. Alex D. Lester, La Verne ’08, received a B.S. in Political Philosophy from the He majored in the Classics and Religious Studies earning a 3.5 GPA. University of La Verne earning a cumulative 3.56 GPA. He is now a first-year Moran was Virginia Beta’s delegate to the 2006 General Convention and law student at the University of La Verne College of Law. As an served the chapter as rush chairman, chaplain, and Phikeia educator. He
34 Spring/Summer 2009 undergraduate he served California Rho chapter as risk now serves it as a chapter adviser. As an house manager, treasurer, vice president and as management chairman, Phikeia educator, vice undergraduate at U.Va., Moran was named an president. He currently serves on the Chapter president and president. Lester participated in the Echols Scholar and was on the Dean’s List 7 of his 8 Advisory Board as Financial Adviser. He was named University Honors Program, became a member of semesters. In law school he has received the Oral the chapter’s Unsung Phi in 2005, its Phi Scholar of Order of Omega and was named a Landis Leadership Advocacy Award which is awarded for top the Year in 2006 and 2007, and its Phi of the Year in Scholar, a scholarship which recognizes the top 1% of performance in the first-year moot court program. 2007. He is a member of Golden Key and Order of student leaders on campus. He served as executive vice He is a member of the editorial board for The Omega. He received the University’s Physiology Prize president of the Associated Students of the University of La Verne and was Virginia Journal of Law and Politics and last fall served as a peer mentor for the top written and oral presentation of a graduating thesis and was co-coordinator of New Student Orientation. for first-year law students. named to the Dean’s Honour List. Brandon R. Mancini, Michigan ’07, garnered a 3.87 GPA at the University of Kyle H. Ochsenbein, Tennessee Tech ’08, majored in Political Science Benjamin A. Swisher, Kettering ’03, received a B.S. degree in Mechanical Michigan where he received his B.S. Today he is a graduating with a 3.9 GPA. He stayed at Tennessee Tech for graduate Engineering from Kettering University, worked second-year medical student at Wayne State University school where he seeks an M.A. in Education - several years as an engineer, and then entered School of Medicine. At Michigan Alpha he was Instructional Leadership. Initiated by Kentucky Theta Harvard University seeking an M.B.A. He was a very chaplain, sorority relations co-chair and captain of the chapter at Eastern Kentucky University, Ochsenbein involved member of Michigan Delta serving as Mud Bowl team. He was very involved in intramural transferred and was affiliated by Tennessee Delta at chorister, awards chairman, athletics chairman, IFC sports. Mancini was named a member of numerous Tennessee Tech. He was scholarship chairman and delegate, scholarship chairman and vice president. He honor societies including Alpha Epsilon Delta, Golden warden at Tennessee Delta before he was elected received the Tom Harmon Memorial Athletic Award Key, National Scholars Honor Society, Order of president twice. He was named the chapter’s for the senior who contributed most to the chapter’s Omega and Gamma Sigma Alpha. At Wayne State he was elected a member 2007-2008 Phi of the Year. He is a member of several athletic achievement. He received the University’s President’s Medal and its of the Aesculapians, an honorary service organization devoted to the city of honor societies including Phi Kappa Phi, Omicron Delta Kappa, Mortar Outstanding Thesis Award. He became a member of Order of Omega, Detroit and the WSU School of Medicine. He is a member of the WSU Board and Order of Omega. On the Dean’s List for eight semesters, he Who’s Who Among American Colleges and Universities, the Management School of Medicine Student Senate and president of the Class of 2011. received the Political Science Senior Award which is the University’s most Honor Society, many other honor societies, and he was named to the Andrew T. McGuire, Southern Indiana ’08, majored in accounting and prestigious Political Science award. Dean’s List every semester. received his B.S. with a 3.36 GPA. He is now studying Christopher S. Platta, Saint Norbert ’05, graduated with honors earning a David M. Trogden, DePauw ’04, received a B.A. in Economics in 2004 for an M.B.A. at Ball State University. As a member of 3.87 GPA. He entered the University of Wisconsin earning a 3.76 GPA. After working several years as a Indiana Lambda chapter, he was elected public School of Medicine and Public Health in 2005 and Business Development Specialist, he entered the relations chairman, alumni secretary and president. He expects to receive his M.D. with Research Honors evening M.B.A. program at Indiana University’s was named the chapter’s most outstanding graduating next May. At Saint Norbert he was a founding Kelley School of Business in Indianapolis. At Indiana senior. He became a member of Order of Omega and member of Wisconsin Epsilon and served as Zeta, he chaired a committee to eliminate all forms of was named to Who’s Who Among Students in scholarship chairman, awards chairman and as a hazing and then revamped the entire Phikeia American Universities and Colleges. McGuire played member of the Judiciary Board. He was on the Dean’s program. He served the chapter as new member varsity tennis at Southern Indiana and received a four-year athletic List every semester and graduated from the College educator, alumni chair and president. Trodgen was a scholarship. He received the University’s Greek Life “Outstanding Chapter Honor’s Program. He was honored as the most outstanding biology student member of the varsity cross country team and the varsity track and field President” award and its “Outstanding Chapter Sportsmanship” award. He in his graduating class. He has received numerous other honors and team. He became a member of Mortar Board, of the honorary for top also received the All Campus Student Achievement Award for 2008. research grants first as an undergraduate and now as a medical student. His student-athletes and the theatre honor society. He was listed on the Dean’s Kevin M. Miller, Cincinnati ’08, received a B.S. in Civil and Environmental current research focuses on radiation treatment for brain metastases, List every semester. He is a member of the DePauw Graduates of the Last Engineering with a 3.48 GPA. In August he began analysis of new treatments for prostate cancer, and the treatment of small Decade Council and DePauw’s Indianapolis Regional Alumni Council. graduate work in Environmental Engineering at the cell lung cancer. Sean S. Wagner, Widener ’02, earned his B.A. in Communication Studies: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Miller Joshua J. Solano, Duke ’08, received both a B.S. and a B.A. from Duke Public Relations and Advertising. He worked as a Phi served Ohio Theta chapter as secretary, community University graduating with a 3.52 GPA with majors in Delta Theta Leadership Consultant in 2002-2003. After service chair, director of recruitment, chaplain, Biology and History. He entered the University of a year working in private business, he returned to the Phikeia educator, Pallas chair and vice president. He Florida College of Medicine last August. He served Fraternity as Director of Expansion. He then became represented the chapter at the 2004 General North Carolina Alpha chapter as librarian, rush Director of Alumni Services and currently is Associate Convention, as a delegate to the 2004 Leadership chairman and president. He was the chapter’s delegate Executive Vice President. He seeks a master’s degree in College, and as a peer mentor at the 2006 Leadership College. He is a to Phi Delta Theta’s Presidents Leadership Conference Public Administration: Nonprofit Management at member of many honor societies including Alpha Lambda Delta, Golden and its Emerging Leaders Institute. At Duke Solano Northern Kentucky University. Wagner served Key, Mortar Board, Omicron Delta Kappa and Order of Omega. During became a member of Order of Omega and was named Pennsylvania Mu as secretary, recruitment chairman, social chairman and 2007, Miller worked in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates as part of UC’s to the Dean’s List. He was awarded a Howard Hughes Medical Institute president. He was named the chapter’s Phi of the Year and the University’s co-operative education program. Extraordinary Research Opportunities Program grant to study immunology at Greek Man of the Year. He has been an adviser at both Pennsylvania Zeta at John S. Moran, Virginia ’07, stayed in Charlottesville to attend the the University of California San Francisco the summer of 2007. Penn and at Ohio Theta at the University of Cincinnati. In 2002, he was University of Virginia School of Law after he received his B.A. from U.Va. Michael Wing Hei Suen, British Columbia ’07, graduated with Honours in named the Cincinnati Alumni Club’s Ohio Theta Distinguished Alumnus of He majored in the Classics and Religious Studies earning a 3.5 GPA. Physiology and is now a second-year medical student at the University of the Year, a rare honor for an individual who is not a member of Ohio Theta. Moran was Virginia Beta’s delegate to the 2006 General Convention and British Columbia. As an undergraduate he served British Columbia Alpha served the chapter as rush chairman, chaplain, and Phikeia educator. He on numerous committees and as scholarship chairman, philanthropist,
Spring/Summer 2009 35 Francis D. Lyon scholarships granted to three graduate film students
By Carmalieta Dellinger Jenkins ery seldom do we have a tie in the balloting for Foundation film a documentary in Laos. The narrative focused on the impact that scholarships. But this year, the judges’ ballots for the Francis D. unexploded bombs left from the Vietnam War continued to have on V Lyon Scholarships recorded a tie. Fortunately the funds were the Laotian people. Shortly after returning from Laos, she continued available, and we were able to present not two, but three, Francis D. Lyon her investigation of post-war countries when she moved to Estonia as a Scholarships this year. The $3,000 first place award went to Jonathan Fulbright Student Scholar in filmmaking. Stewart who is doing graduate work in film at Columbia University. The Valerie writes that television and film have a profoundly strong impact on tying second place scholarship awards were each worth $1,250. Valerie our society and culture. They shape “how we understand the world beyond Bischoff, an M.F.A. student in Film Writing and Directing at Columbia our immediate reality…I hope to invoke audiences with a similar sense of University, and Dana Turken, an M.F.A. Production: Directing student at wonderment, curiosity and excitement that I possess UCLA, received them. for the living world.” Jonathan Stewart is a filmmaker from London, Dana Turken graduated from Brown University England. He graduated in 2003 from the University with a B. A. in Art Semiotics in 2002 and studied of Cambridge with double First Class Honours in film in Prague. She then moved to New York to start Philosophy. While still in high school, he founded working as a camera assistant. “I wanted to be the Defusion, a theatre company now with eight years kind of director who knows where to place the camera of production experience. He has directed and and which lens to use; who could clearly articulate co-produced over twenty successful theatrical visual style and understand how certain looks are productions with award-winning performances in achieved…I gained experience working on a broad range of projects. I London, Cambridge, at the Edinburgh International Festival and on a worked on the lowest of low-budget movies, student films, big Hollywood five-venue tour in the USA. movies, episodic television, commercials, music videos, documentaries; I considered this work my education.” She then decided this was not what Film has the unique capacity to illuminate the she had intended to do, and she stopped answering the phone. challenges and the opportunities that can She decided to go to graduate school at UCLA and to focus solely on directing. “I want to continue to learn and practice traditional techniques confront a wide variety of people; and when of filmmaking, while always working outside of any comfort zone I might we are emotionally compelled to face these have. I plan to use this time in school idealistically; I have already worked realities, there is the possibility for surprising, professionally in the film business, and for my time here I want to focus on my own growth as an artist.” yet substantial, personal change. The Lyon Scholarships were judged again this year by David S. In late 2006 Stewart began developing and producing short and Hartstein, Emory ’00, William R. Richardson, Tampa ’80, Dr. Scott D. feature-length films. He has also been successful working in film. He Goldsleger, Emory ’98, and Carmalieta Dellinger Jenkins who served as came to New York to enter Columbia University last August with the chairman. Many thanks to them. ultimate goal “to write and direct character-driven dramas that utilise intricate narratives to tell stories that grapple with substantive issues in the contemporary world—whether in feature films or through the scope of television drama.” He writes “Film has the unique capacity to illuminate Francis D. “Pete” Lyon, UCLA ’28, was a distinguished the challenges and the opportunities that can confront a wide variety of director, producer and editor of motion pictures and television. people; and when we are emotionally compelled to face these realities, He won 1947’s Academy Award for Best Film Editing for Body there is the possibility for surprising, yet substantial, personal change.” and Soul. Just weeks before his death in 1996, Lyon endowed Before entering Columbia University, Valerie our scholarships in his name for students of filmmaking. At his Bischoff graduated with a B.A. in Film and Digital direction, they are available to Phis and to non Phis, to men and Media in 2004 from the University of California to women, to undergraduates and to graduate students. The basic at Santa Cruz. She graduated with honors in requirements are that the recipients must be talented, and they her major. After working two years as a television must share Pete’s passion for making films. Pete would be delighted photojournalist for local news stations in Reno to see how well this year’s recipients meet those requirements! and Sacramento, she seized an opportunity to
36 Spring/Summer 2009 50years of strengthening men for life
2008 Foundation Annual Report
Spring/Summer 2009 37 “The Emerging Leaders Institute helped me see that the Fraternity is not just something for my college years, but is an experience that will affect me for the rest of my life. I learned things I will take with me in the future, things that will help me be a success in whatever I do.”
1958 —Brian A. Ames, Puget Sound ’08 The Phi Delta Theta Educational Foundation is established at the Biennial Convention in Asheville, North Carolina. The purpose of the Foundation, as 1987 expressed in the organization’s mission statement, is “to provide for the advancement of learning, particularly As a means of training brothers in leadership based in colleges and universities in which chapters of the upon our Cardinal Principles of friendship, sound Phi Delta Theta are active, through the granting learning and rectitude, the first Leadership College is of scholarships or other aid to deserving students… held in Oxford, Ohio. The program is held biennially and through the extension of financial or other aid in until 1992, when it becomes an annual event, held furtherance of educational activities conducted at such every year except for 2003. In 2004, the Leadership colleges and universities.” College is renamed the Emerging Leaders Institute. Targeted toward freshman and sophomore members, the ELI is a learning laboratory that enables participants to develop leadership skills by working with their Other significant milestones: peers and distinguished alumni. To date, more than 8,000 brothers have attended the Leadership College/ Emerging Leaders Institute. The Foundation’s six original Trustees are appointed. 1960 Other significant milestones: The Foundation awards its first scholarships: two awards Widening the reach of its “advancement of of $500 each, plus the Arthur R. Priest award, also for learning,” the Foundation expands its awards to $500. These scholarships were made possible when a include not only scholarships, but also other types of 1962 number of brothers made contributions of $100 or more 1982 educational grants. to create a working fund.
The Foundation establishes its first In only ten years of existence, the Foundation passes the chapter house grant (Illinois Eta). $10,000 mark in total scholarships awarded. 1968 1988
The total in scholarships awarded passes The Foundation selects its 100th scholarship recipient. the $1 million mark. In addition, the 750th 1975 1995 scholarship recipient is selected.
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Phi Delta Theta announces its Alcohol-Free Housing Initiative, and Foundation Trustees pledge almost $1 million toward its implementation. In the time since the policy was implemented, the all-undergraduate grade point average has risen (from 2.77 in 2000 to nearly 3.00 in 2005), and membership has grown. In fact, during this time period, Phi Delta Theta has undergone one of its largest growth spurts in the history of the modern fraternity, indicating a renewed demand for a values-based organization like ours.
The Alcohol-Free Housing policy also enhanced our expansion efforts. A recent study conducted by the Fraternity Executives Association revealed that, since the policy’s implementation, Phi Delta Theta had colonized and chartered the second-most chapters of all fraternities. These expansion efforts have included the University of Southern California, the University of Tennessee, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Indiana University, Vanderbilt University, the University of Kentucky and Louisiana State University, to name a few.
Other significant milestones:
Foundation Trustees announce The Living Bond Campaign, with a comprehensive goal of raising $5 million. The Campaign is successfully 1997 completed in 2000.
“I hadn’t really thought much about joining The Foundation awards its first graduate fellowships: four recipients are granted $2,500 each. a fraternity, but Phi Delta Theta changed my 1998 perception of what a fraternity could be. It had a different reputation from other groups. Because of Ownership of the Phi Delta Theta General Headquarters is transferred to the Educational the Alcohol-Free Housing policy, Phi Delta Theta Foundation. Two years later, an expansion of doesn’t attract people who are just looking for General Headquarters is completed, and the 1998 some place to drink. Our standards are very high.” facility is renamed the Paul E. Martin Building. — Brice J. Fox, Indiana ’10 The Phi Future Fund is created, recognizing the first 1999 members of Phi Delta Theta’s planned giving society.
Spring/Summer 2009 39 Other significant milestones:
The Alcohol-Free Housing Policy is fully implemented. 2000 2000 The Foundation successfully concludes The The first Presidents Leadership Conference is held in Living Bond Campaign. With a total of $6.4 St. Louis, Missouri. Created to develop leadership skills 2000 million raised, the Campaign surpasses its original and provide training for each chapter’s newly elected goal by more than 20 percent. president, the Conference is a three-day event that The Living Bond Society debuts, taking the place of emphasizes organizational management, team building, the Phi Future Fund in recognition of all current and goal setting, motivation and personal development. future planned gifts to Phi Delta Theta. 2002 Attendees also hear presentations from the best speakers in the Greek world and participate in breakout team The Foundation unveils the Trustees’ Roundtable: the meetings facilitated by volunteer alumni and General Foundation’s first annual giving society, recognizing Headquarters staff. Now a staple in the Fraternity’s annual gifts of $1,000 or more. In 2003 this inaugural year of the Roundtable, 121 educational programming efforts, the Conference has been held annually ever since its 2000 inception. members join.
“Through Phi Delta Theta, I learned to maintain high standards, to mentor, to discourage apathy and to be happy about what I do and why I am doing it.”
—Andrew M. Kasprisin, Vermont ’08
40 Spring/Summer 2009 “Throughout all of my collegiate experiences, nothing has had more of a profound impact on my life than joining Phi Delta Theta Fraternity. I have found that the principles of Phi Delta Theta (friendship, sound learning and rectitude) apply not just to the interactions with my brothers but to every facet of my life. Through Phi Delta Theta’s constructive character development, I feel that I have become more prepared to successfully undertake the various challenges in my life.”
—Don Bowers, Oklahoma ’07
2008 Our Board of Trustees Foundation Trustees Emeritus Trustees The 2,000th scholarship/fellowship recipient is selected, and the total amount of scholarships W. L. Gray, Jr., TCU ’70 —Chairman James P. Burra, California State — Northridge ’67 and fellowships awarded since 1962 passes the Stephen J. “Tio” Kleberg, $3 million mark. The far-reaching effects of this Texas Tech ’69—Vice Chairman Roger H. Cerne, Case ’63 support of members’ educational pursuits can be George E. Grady, Arizona ’53 — T. William Estes, Jr., Vanderbilt ’55 summarized in the words of Brett T. Batchelor, Secretary/Treasurer Louisville ’08: F. Ross Johnson, Manitoba ’52 Joseph R. Castiglione, Maryland ’79 Dr. Paul E. Martin, Akron ’35 “Being a member of Phi Delta Theta has allowed Michael J. Fimiani, South Florida ’89 me to develop as a scholar and has taught me the Marvin J. Perry, Maryland ’53 Samuel J. Furrow, Tennessee ’65 importance of moral rectitude. It helped me transition Cecil J. “Pete” Silas, from just a kid in high school to a man of worth.” Daniel L. Kloeppel, Northwestern ’70 Georgia Tech ’53
Frederic B. “Ted” Lowrie, Butler ’71 Joseph D. Williams, Nebraska ’50
Mark H. Ochsenbein, Eastern Kentucky ’77
C. W. “Chuck” Poore, Jr., South Dakota ’61
Rudy M. Porchivina, Other significant milestones: San Jose State ’89 A. Scott Ritchie, Kansas ’54 Trustees announce the Leadership for a Lifetime Campaign, with a $7 million comprehensive goal. 2004 Gary R. Wade, Tennessee ’70
Membership in the Trustees’ The Living Bond Society 2007 Roundtable grows to 233. welcomes its 160th member. 2008 The Leadership for a Lifetime Campaign is The Foundation unveils its GOLD successfully concluded, well surpassing its (Graduates of the Last Decade) program. 2007 2008 goal of $7 million.
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Donor Recognition—Cumulative Giving “I am a piece of history. I am part of something that existed before I did and will go on Sword & Shield Society John McMillan Wilson Association 12,234 Members-$100 to $249 10 Members-$20,000 to $24,999 long afterward.”
Argent Association Arthur R. Priest Association —W.L. Gray, Jr., TCU ’70 5,468 Members-$250 to $499 49 Members-$25,000 to $49,999 Chairman of the Board of Trustees Presidents Panel Paul C. Beam Association 3,808 Members-$500 to $999 35 Members-$50,000 to $99,999 Council Association Robert Morrison Association Donor Recognition 2,423 Members-$1,000 to $2,499 17 Members-$100,000 to $249,999 John Wolfe Lindley Association Robert J. Miller Association 650 Members-$2,500 to $4,999 5 Members-$250,000 to $499,999 Annual Giving Trustees' Roundtable Andrew Watts Rogers Association Oxford Society 177 Members-$1,000-$2,499 226 Members-$5,000 to $7,499 2 Members-$500,000 to $999,999 Silver Medallion Robert Thompson Drake Association Benjamin Harrison Association 15 Members-$2,500-$4,999 66 Members-$7,500 to $9,999 0 Members-$1,000,000 or more Gold Medallion Founders Club 31 Members-$5,000 or more 101 Members-$10,000 to $14,999 Ardivan Walker Rodgers Association Deferred Giving 37 Members-$15,000 to $19,999 Living Bond Society 168 Members
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DonorProfile Bruce Clayton Giving and Getting Something Back
ruce Clayton, Colgate ’89 feels “I had a fantastic experience as an undergraduate. Today, I feel a great appreciation for his like I’m getting something back for my gifts to the Foundation: Bundergraduate years. His fondest the enthusiasm and excitement of working directly with chapter memories include living in the chapter members, seeing what they are made of and watching them get house, working on the kitchen crew excited when they execute well,” he shares. alongside beloved cook and housemother A member of the Trustees Roundtable for four consecutive Winnie MacKay, the leadership years and in his eighteenth year of giving, he’s one of the newest experience he gained as a chapter officer Founders Club members. His reason for giving: so that others could and the lifelong friendships that are have what he had. thriving still today. And to him, it’s all worth it. “Phi Delta Theta has given me a Today, as he prepares to attend his 20th connection to something bigger than just Colgate. Some of my best class year reunion, he’s a director of the friends today are Fraternity brothers. Even with the passage of time, New York Zeta Fund and president of the house corporation. Not when we get together, we’re able to pick up right where we left off,” a day goes by without a phone call or an e-mail exchange with one he shares. of the undergraduates. He says the frequent contact is important to Clayton’s wife, Julie, also a Colgate graduate and a member of truly understand what’s going on at the chapter. “I’ve been lucky Pi Beta Phi, is very supportive of his commitment to Phi Delta enough to connect with hundreds of brothers who have come Theta. They were married in 1993 in Hamilton, N.Y. and held their through the chapter. It’s been really fun over the years to watch wedding reception at the Phi Delt house. them progress through careers and start families of their own.”
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President's Letter As you could tell from the his intellect and enrich his future. Each of beginning of this report, the educational programs we’ve supported 2008 was indeed a very represents a young man’s life changed by the special year for the Phi Delta perspectives he gained and the friendships he Theta Foundation. We formed. Each of the leadership events we’ve celebrated the Foundation’s hosted represents a brother and his chapter 50th year and as the previous improved by our Cardinal Principles. pages have shown…we had a lot to celebrate. These lives—these real, individual lives—are the true reason it is so gratifying to reflect Phi Delta Theta has a rich on our history. Together, we have been heritage of cultivating friendship, intellect strengthening men for life, and we have all and high moral standards. And since 1958, been the better for it. the Foundation has supported these principles by providing scholarships and fellowships as I am immeasurably grateful to every donor, well as the major funding for the Fraternity’s supporter and friend who has assisted the educational programs. For 50 years we have Foundation in its mission to advance the helped sustain the brotherhood of Phi Delta principles and values of Phi Delta Theta. Theta and all that it stands for. We all have a responsibility to transmit the Fraternity greater than it was transmitted to Upon reaching milestones such as this, we us, and we are celebrating this milestone often recognize significant accomplishments by today because thousands of individuals have quantifying them—for doing so makes it easier upheld that commitment. With your continued to grasp the magnitude of the achievement. support, I eagerly look forward to embarking on And indeed, the supporters of the Phi Delta another fifty years of strengthening men for life. Theta Foundation can look to a whole host of facts and figures that demonstrate its history of successfully promoting our most cherished Yours in the Bond, values and ideals.
As important as these numbers may be, however, even more significant are the William R. Richardson, Tampa ’80 individual lives that they represent. Each of the President millions of scholarship dollars we’ve awarded represents a Phi Delta Theta brother realizing an opportunity to further his education, expand
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2008 in Review In addition to celebrating its 50th anniversary, the Foundation can celebrate another successful year thanks to the generous support of thousands of alumni, undergraduates and friends of Phi Delta Theta.
Total number of Contribution Summary for 2008 scholarship and fellowship recipients: 2,050 $1,311,891 Total gifts contributed to the Foundation Total amount of scholarships and 4,044 The Phi Delta fellowships awarded: Donors to the Foundation Theta Educational Foundation: 527 $3,192,972 First time donors to the Foundation Fifty Years Total amount of in Review educational grants 143 provided for programming: Donors who have made gifts to the Foundation for 30 or more consecutive years 6,209 $6,935,428 Total number of gifts to the Foundation Grand total awarded for scholarships, fellowships 212 and grants: Number who pulled up a chair to the Trustees’ Roundtable with gifts of $1,000 or more For a complete list of Foundation donors in 2008, please visit www.phideltatheta.org. $10,128,400
Phi Alumni Build Better Leaders A Name Change Beginning in 2009
Did you ever wonder how many undergraduates benefit from your gifts to the Foundation? Here are some quick figures from 2008 that may interest you: 165 During the fall meeting of the Foundation’s Presidents Leadership Conference Attendees (Each January in advance of Spring Term) Trustees, the Board unanimously approved changing the official name of the Phi Delta Theta 302 Educational Foundation to simply the Phi Delta Emerging Leaders Institute Attendees (Held every summer in Oxford) Theta Foundation. The rationale behind this 212 decision was to broaden the understanding of the Number of Scholarship/Fellowship Recipients Foundation’s mission. Feedback from alumni indicated the perception that the “Educational 270 Foundation” only existed to award scholarships. Undergraduate Convention Attendees (335 additional alumni & guests also attended) As the previous report has clearly shown, the Foundation does so much more than just 1,640 providing scholarships. Individual Chapter Officers who meet with the Leadership Consultants 6,533 This change does not in any way effect the Undergraduates benefiting from Phi Delta Theta member education and development programs Foundation’s tax status as a 501(c)(3) public charity.
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46 Spring/Summer 2009 Flying high Delta Connection VP Don Bornhorst is guided by Morrison’s philosophy By Rob Pasquinucci
plane crashed in Lexington, Kentucky killing nearly all the Loves to fly passengers on board. Hundreds of reporters converged on the As cliché as it may sound, Don Bornhorst seemed destined to work in A airport to cover the worst U.S. airline accident since 9-11. It fell to the airline industry, considering his childhood home stood where a runway Phi Don Bornhorst, Eastern Kentucky, ’87, president of Comair airlines, at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport now runs. As to respond to the crash and go before the phalanx of cameras, lights, and he was graduating from high school, his father bought him 100 shares of microphones. an initial public offering in a local carrier called Comair. “I had a heavily, A tough assignment for anyone, to be sure. But Bornhorst found strength equity-weighted portfolio, all in one company,” Bornhorst said. From that in a philosophy professed by founder Robert Morrison he identified with point on, every college paper and analysis covered the only company he while a pledge from his Phikeia Manual: “To do what ought to be done, had quarterly financial disclosures about and he became a student of the but would not have been done unless I did it, I thought to be my duty.” airline industry. After college, Bornhorst started his career with Deloitte and Touche. Early leadership While he loved his job and clients, he dreamed about working for Comair. Almost from the moment he entered the chapter, Bornhorst took a When a job came open, he interviewed. “The president at the time I leadership role. “I just threw myself at it,” Bornhorst said. “The chapter interviewed said ‘you’re either perfect for the job or you scare me, because adviser told me ‘if you want you know too much about Comair.’” things to change, you’ve I still have all my Fraternity stuff. For me, it all He embarked on a successful career at got to be a leader.’” He was ties back to what I learned when I was 18 at the the airline, from serving running operational president of the chapter by his departments, to CFO, to being named CEO sophomore year. Fraternity house—the accountability and the in 2006. He quickly learned to be leadership, I picked up during that time period. Bornhorst has been successful in effective he had to take a a troubled industry in a challenging position and influence the economy. During his tenure he’s dealt with “middle” group of chapter members to help support changes he wanted to an acquisition of Comair by Delta Air Lines, two emergency shut-downs see in the chapter. Among those changes, to name a few, were the insistence of the airline—9-11 and a computer failure, bankruptcy, and an airplane of efficient chapter meetings, accountability of chapter leadership and crash. In fact, he took over as CFO as Comair entered bankruptcy with practicing ritual every meeting—the common bond of the Fraternity. His Delta and became CEO during bankruptcy in May, 2006. The crash in leadership was recognized by his chapter brothers—he was nominated for Lexington happened 2.5 months after Bornhorst assumed the president’s and won the John L. Ott scholarship from the Phi Delta Theta Educational role. At every turn, the Morrison philosophy and leadership lessons learned Foundation. The plaque he received still hangs in his office. back at Kentucky Theta have guided him. He used Morrison’s philosophy to guide him then, through his The industry’s turbulent times hasn’t dimmed his enthusiasm. undergraduate years and he still has his Phikeia Manual with that passage “Even though we’re in the tough times we are in right now, I still think highlighted. “I look back at that time now and recognize it was one of those the airline industry is a sexy one,” Bornhorst said. “It’s definitely something early, formative moments in life,” Bornhorst said. “Deciding to join that that draws a lot of attention, both positive and negative, but people are fraternity at that school at that time definitely influenced me.” interested. Everyone I meet has an opinion about travel or the industry, so That influence continues today. He walks past the racks of business I am never at a loss for conversation topics at a happy hour once people advice books in airport terminals, relying on the well-worn Phikeia Manual figure out what I do.” for advice. “I’ve never been able to read those [business books],” Bornhorst said. “But I still have all my Fraternity stuff. For me, it all ties back to what I learned when I was 18 at the Fraternity house—the accountability and the leadership, I picked up during that time period.”
Spring/Summer 2009 47 Bornhorst uses his Phikeia Manual to help make business decisions.
To do what ought to be done For days following the crash, Bornhost met with the distraught victims’ Early in the morning of August 27, 2006, Don Bornhorst got the phone families and employees alike as the circumstances about the crash were call that every airline executive dreads—one of the company’s planes had learned. He continued to appear before television cameras as needed. crashed in Lexington, Kentucky while attempting to take off. Although he Bornhorst’s dedication and concern in the face of disaster was noted by dreaded what he had to do, he knew it was a call to leadership and that he industry colleagues. had to travel to the crash site and deal with the crisis. “You know how sincere he looked? Off camera, he was exactly the “It was my duty to do this. It felt like the right thing to do and that I was same way,” Ted Bushelman, former director of communications for the obligated to do it, no matter how hard it was going to be,” Bornhorst said. Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport told the Lexington “I felt I had to be there to communicate what we stood for and what we Herald-Leader. “I saw him sitting in a car and he had his head in his hands. were going to do to aid in the ensuing investigation and to help the victim’s The guy just feels it.” family to assuage their grief. The moral rectitude drilled into me at Phi The airline recovered from the crash, and Bornhorst has since been Delta Theta is what grounds you.” promoted to his current position overseeing all nine regional carriers for
48 Spring/Summer 2009 Delta as as senior VP-Delta Connection. With the merger with Northwest, Delta Connection headquarters have been located in Minneapolis/ The Bornhorst file St. Paul. Until school is out, however, he returns to Northern Kentucky, not far from the airport under which he grew up, to his wife of 19-years and four children and he tries to impart the life lessons of the Fraternity on them. As ›› Don Bornhorst, Senior Vice President, the airline industry is buffeted by a struggling economy, he continues to live Delta Connection by Morrison’s philosophy. “If I had a race horse, I think I’d name it “Morrison’s Philosophy,” ›› In charge of 9 carriers, (including Comair), Bornhorst chuckles. 700+ airplanes Bornhorst shared his guidance with Phis at this winter’s Presidents Leadership Conference in St. Louis. While at the meeting, the Fraternity ›› Delta is the largest airline in the world presented Bornhorst with the Distinguished Alumnus Award. ›› Delta Connection is the largest regional jet fleet in the world
Spring/Summer 2009 49 Benjamin Benschneide Dr. Sigvard Hansen performing a complete ankle replacement.
50 Spring/Summer 2009 Dr. Sigvard Hansen challenged assumptions and helped turn around trauma care
By Carol M. Ostrom
urning medical dogma on its head, Dr. Sigvard Hansen, Whitman ’57, helped transform trauma care at Seattle’s Harborview Medical Center. He also developed a world-class reputation as an orthopedic surgeon with “golden fingers” T and the skills and courage to push the envelope. Sixty-plus years ago, alone on a broken-down surgeon. But whoever wrote that script wasn’t tractor somewhere in the middle of 300 acres counting on a couple of Hansen’s most of farmland in the Spokane Valley, 10-year-old enduring, celebrated and sometimes cursed Sigvard T. Hansen, Jr., figured out what was qualities: fearless independence, incredible
wrong, and fixed it. “3-D” perception, and the drive to muscle past Benjamin Benschneide Repeated rendezvous with such balky farm opposition when he’s sure he’s right. Dr. Sigvard Hansen machinery taught Hansen valuable lessons, ones Ultimately, such qualities would lead to his that some day would help him plow a wide swath recognition as “the father of traumatology” for Standard practice had long been to put right through the middle of medical orthodoxy. his role in building Harborview Medical Center’s patients with thighbone fractures into casts and True, the looming pixie dust of determinism vaunted emergency-care system, and to worldwide long-term traction, where they healed slowly, that had begun to sprinkle the husky youngster prominence as a foot and ankle surgeon. growing weaker and often developing pneumonia didn’t signal anything particular about feet—the Like much of the world around it, Harborview or blood clots. Sure there was a better way, body part that today is indelibly linked to his in the 1960s was in transition. Treatment of Hansen soon began fixing their fractures within name around the world. broken, diseased and deformed bones, previously hours, nailing metal rods into their broken bones. But there was plenty about self-reliance, about a subset of surgery, was gaining strength as its As a result, patients quickly began walking, analyzing the problem, keeping your eye on the own discipline. Word of new, drastically different giving them a fighting chance to recover from goal and, ultimately, making things work. European techniques for fixing broken bones was their other injuries. The grandson of Danish immigrants who raising eyebrows. Dr. Robert Winquist, later hired by Hansen as settled in the tiny town of Wilbur in Lincoln And at Harborview, plans were under way for a a young resident, recalls being awed. County, young Hansen, known as Ted, was system—formalized as Medic One in 1970—that “He wasn’t doing anything that was in the expected to work very, very hard and always to be would for the first time deliver large numbers of books. I asked him early on, ‘Where do you get honest and fair. major accident victims to the hospital alive. your information?’ As he sat on the broken tractor, he knew Into this swirl came Hansen. The former “He said, ‘I don’t ask anybody east of Ninth better than to seek out his dad, a demanding chapter president and football-team captain had Avenue’ “—the hospital’s street—essentially high-school principal, athletic coach and teacher spent three years as the lone medical officer at a eliminating the entire U.S. who, with his brainy wife, was growing beans and Navy ammunition depot in Hawaii, where he’d Intent on refining the techniques, Hansen wheat and raising pigs, chickens and cows—plus revamped routines and solved long-standing broke rules and sometimes used unorthodox three children. Hansen, the oldest, knew what his patient issues. methods, such as using old drain pipes to bend busy dad would say because he’d heard it plenty: Even while still in training, the young doctor metal rods to better fit inside a patient’s leg bone. “Just fix it.” was singled out early on to insert the hardware “He tried my patience,” admits Dr. D. Kay A strong, smart young man who entered to fix fractured hips, relying on what others Clawson, then chairman of the orthopedics Whitman College in 1953 to study mechanical called his “golden fingers” and “uncanny gift” department at the UW, which manages engineering, Hansen veered when he ran into of three-dimensional perception. He was so Harborview. But Clawson, who was instrumental theoretical mathematics. He couldn’t see it or competent, superiors often didn’t bother to in bringing the techniques to Harborview, also touch it, so it didn’t make sense to him. supervise. Hansen quickly rose through the ranks recognized Hansen’s talent, and protected him. Comparative anatomy, though, was real. In and became a teacher himself. At conferences, Hansen and Winquist, who medical school at the University of Washington In the late ‘60s, as students were experimenting helped refine the techniques and document results, he quickly turned to a specialty tailor-made for with drugs and radical politics, Hansen also was began revealing their methods to other surgeons. his skills: orthopedic surgery. testing new ground. Dumping medical dogma, he “They would shout ‘That’s malpractice!’ “ If times had been different, if he had been adopted the controversial new European techniques Winquist recalls. “Pretty much everything we did different, he might have become just another for repairing severe fractures of trauma patients. was considered malpractice.”
Spring/Summer 2009 51 Benjamin Benschneide Mike Kilpatrick and his wife, Sally, meet with Hansen. A diabetic with multiple toes amputated, Kilpatrick had been told by other doctors that he wouldn’t be able to save his feet. Hansen doesn’t agree.
Hansen ignored them. and themselves. Its motto, Hansen says: “Don’t adventure. Hansen laughs easily, asks lots of He was “brave enough and good enough” to believe what the big guys tell you.” questions and listens closely. He wants patients to make it work, Winquist says. Since his college years, Hansen has thought know him, and he wants to know them, for what As orthopedic trauma became more a lot about feet, particularly about the atavistic may be a long journey together. specialized, Hansen increasingly focused on feet traits that cause foot problems. Feet, he says, are Other doctors told Kilpatrick that more and ankles, medically underserved body parts our most uniquely human body part, fascinating amputations were his only option. Hansen disagrees. where trauma, genetics or disease can render a from a mechanical as well as medical perspective. “So there is something that can be done?” his person nearly helpless. His skills served him well Ultimately, he likes taking a “crooked, terrible wife, Sally, asks cautiously. in those complex structures, whose many angles foot” and making it work. “Oh yes,” Hansen assures them. “I do it all and planes often stymie other surgeons. Mike Kilpatrick has a couple of those. the time.” There, too, he met opposition from the In an exam room, Hansen greets Kilpatrick, More stories ensue, and eventually, Hansen establishment. And there, too, he changed history. a retired school administrator with diabetes and details procedures involving cutting Kilpatrick’s In the end, Hansen became an icon, says Dr. genetic foot issues. He can’t walk. Both feet have calf muscles and inserting metal pins—“what we Andrew Sands, a New York surgeon and protégé collapsed, have stubborn ulcers and are painful. call rebar”—into his feet. in the mid-1990s. “He single-handedly changed The toes on his left foot have been amputated. “I was trained that none of this could be done,” the way foot and ankle surgery is done in the At 73, Hansen is a strong man with steady, Hansen tells them. “I decided everything I had United States.” muscled hands that feel reassuringly warm and been taught was probably baloney.” Across the country, the doctors who have sensitive. He picks up Kilpatrick’s left foot, gently Kilpatrick nods. “Things change…You’ve trained with him list membership in the Spinoza feeling for pulses and muscle tightness. always got to be open.” Society, a group begun years ago by Hansen and They chat about Kilpatrick’s years teaching Before he met Kilpatrick, Hansen reviewed his Sands, vowing to challenge dogma, each other in Africa and Indonesia, swapping stories of X-rays with his “fellows,” the doctors who train
52 Spring/Summer 2009 with him. He insists they discover not just what a much, and now, pain has curtailed her life. Her A few foot-and-ankle surgeons still oppose patient has, but why. podiatrist told her to see only Hansen. him “because they have different philosophies,” “You need to figure out the cause of the Hansen’s patients come from afar, often with Hansen says. “Of course, I don’t make any bones problem,” he says, “or else the treatment will complex problems, and wait months to see him. about the fact that I think they’re full of…” never work.” Some have been turned away by other It’s not that he hadn’t made mistakes. He has, surgeons, including those and talks about them with candor and regret. He He’s amazing. He’ll do these extreme who avoid difficult cases. “My once invited the mother of a patient to sue him, cases that would take another surgeon all answer to that is: Who the hell but she declined. Since 1976, only two patients takes care of the people who have filed claims. day to do, and he’ll be done in two hours. aren’t ideal but have serious His biggest challenge, he says, is convincing problems?” Hansen says. patients that he might fail. “I have to tell them Hansen genuinely likes his patients, likes not Hansen believes in surgery. He chose it over that this is a bad problem, and I may have trouble knowing whether they can pay, likes teaching. It’s less drastic options when he had heart problems with it.” what has kept him at Harborview. at 64, and again with prostate cancer. “I think it’s At conferences, talk often turns to the Time after time, he’s jumped off the career track the best way to go.” question: “Who’ll be the next Ted Hansen?” to return to patients and teaching. His intolerance Outside the operating room, Hansen stands at He wonders that, too. He’s not sure anybody of bureaucracy is legendary, despite chairing the a sink, scrubbing. Hands in the air, he backs into today could buck medical orthodoxy the way UW orthopedics department from 1980 to 1985. the room and slips them into latex gloves. he and his colleagues did, he says, because Asked then if he would consider being a dean, As he and his trusted team prepare to remove today’s “evidence-based medicine” requires he shot off a note: “I consider my five years as Gizinski’s ankle bones to make room for a prior “evidence.” chairman to be a prelude to Hell. I would consider metal-and-plastic implant, they move in quiet “It’s absolutely crazy,” he says. “People who being a dean actually arriving there.” unison. His nurses each have been with him for would be innovative are sort of shut down He refuses to use e-mail, dictates notes and more than a decade, his usual scrub tech for 25. these days.” derides “playing with computers” instead of “He’s very easy to work with,” says Anne But that dilemma may have to be solved by others. caring for patients. Hospital officials tolerate his Foster, his circulating nurse. “He’s so steadfast— A January safari-and-winery-visiting trip to heresy because he brings in money, he says. He no big drama.” Africa with his wife, Dalia, was significant: It was makes a good living because what he does isn’t Darrell Flamand, the implant manufacturer’s his first “real” vacation—no slides or manuscripts. easy, he adds, and “everybody can’t do it.” representative, watches Hansen, as he often does. For the past decade or so, his man-against- Hansen is not arrogant, says New York video “He’s amazing. He’ll do these extreme cases that mountain struggle has moved closer to home: producer Christopher Hansen, his older son by would take another surgeon all day to do, and He’s been trying to keep the house above Perkins his first marriage. “He’s not about ‘me,’ about he’ll be done in two hours.” Lane above Perkins Lane. Over 12 years, he’s built himself. He wants to make people better. It’s Other surgeons use a “jig” or guide. Not Hansen. a series of walls, moving heavy rocks. never been about him.” “The jig is his brain,” says Winquist. Now, he mostly works on a basement Rosalie Gizinski, 72, is out cold in Operating As the time ticks by on the big operating-room wine-cellar excavation and rockwork project. Room No. 9 in Harborview’s basement. She’s clock, Hansen and Dr. Erik Novak, a fellow, work His aching knees need surgery, but he doesn’t waited almost two years for this surgery by over Gizinski, intent and focused. Hansen lets have time, he says. “I’ll do that when I retire.” Hansen, director of the Sigvard T. Hansen Jr. Novak do some, occasionally guiding him. “See Carol M. Ostrom is a Pacific Northwest magazine staff writer. Foot and Ankle Institute. that?” he asks, checking placement on X-rays This article and all photos were used by permission of the Seattle Times. Until two years ago, she and her husband, displayed nearby. Gene, walked around Green Lake every Two hours later, they’re done. With a fellow, morning. Previous surgeries failed to help Hansen may tackle four cases a day. While he’s operating, he won’t feel aches or fatigue. When the 12-hour day is over, he suddenly notices that his knees ache, and he finally sags. Hansen says he plans to retire from surgery by age 75. He’s got patients lined up until then and nothing to prove. Looking back, he speaks almost fondly at the
Benjamin Benschneide Benjamin once-bitter opposition he inspired. Gone are the cries of “malpractice!” “The things that we did that were so controversial are all standard now,” he says a little wistfully. Dr. Hansen scrubs up before ankle replacement surgery.
Spring/Summer 2009 53 Facebook Phi Dave Morin discusses his role as senior platform manager at Facebook
very day, literally thousands of Phis throw interviewed Morin recently as he drove along higher education marketing. The opportunity to snowballs at each other, pick their favorite California’s coast on the way to a meeting. go and learn marketing at Apple was better than E sports teams, buy each other drinks and join an MBA. These were the days before Facebook causes, all from the comfort of their keyboard. It’s Scroll: What inspired you to get into the and YouTube. We were trying to figure out ways all done through Facebook, the country’s fastest world of Internet technology? to engage students online and trying to build a growing social networking Web site. Facebook I paid a good portion of my college tuition writing community, and came up with the Apple Student touts 200 million active users grouped together by software for the Internet. My senior year I was Gallery, which was a way to upload things created college, community and workplace (see sidebar). approached by some guys from Apple. Since my with a Mac onto the Internet. But what many don’t know is that a Phi Delt, passion and love was for technology, I decided Dave Morin, Colorado ’03, is responsible for to go to Silicon Valley and try to figure it out. I How did you get involved with Facebook? developing the applications that have given life started meeting with the guys from Apple to try While I was at Apple, we partnered with to Facebook during the past few years. The Scroll and get a job. I ended up getting offered a job with Facebook to build a group called the Apple
54 Spring/Summer 2009 Student Group. In the first year after we started this group on Facebook, we had half a million students, which was incredible. [A few years later] the Facebook founders offered me a job to go over to Facebook and develop what is now called Facebook platform. At that time it was a Web site for connecting people and was limited to a couple of applications. At the time we were a small company but were constantly getting ideas from our users, so we basically wanted to turn Facebook into an operating system so developers around the world could build applications. So we spent a year building the technology and operating system to develop a world-class operating platform. When we developed it, we thought in our wildest dreams we would have 5000 developers. It turned out we attracted more than 700,000 developers in literally every country in the world. We were completely humbled by the response. The numbers are staggering. Phi Dave Morin, Senior Platform Manager What got you interested in becoming a Phi? I didn’t want to join a fraternity initially, I had never heard of them back chapter that I developed an interest in philanthropic events which through home in my small town in Montana (I think we had more people in an my work at Facebook can be carried out on a massive scale. For example, hour on Facebook than my entire town). But at Boulder I wore my Junior Facebook has been used to mobilize protests in Africa that helped change Olympic Ski Team jacket during rush to try and meet other skiers at conditions for people living in an area. Boulder. It turned out the Phi Delts saw my jacket and really took a liking to me. The guys were really cool and the guys matched my value set and What’s next for you and the company? that began my journey into the fraternity world. Facebook will continue to be about connecting people in deeper and more meaningful ways. In terms of me, I see myself as an entrepreneur. I Who is a Phi you admire that may have inspired you? think we’ve got 10–20 years before we see the true potential of what we’re I was at the Presidents Leadership Conference [as an undergraduate] where doing here. David Almacy spoke. At the time he worked in D.C. at the White House. He was an amazing speaker and I remember sitting there, wondering to What about people who have never used Facebook? myself, if someday I’d be able to give talks to large groups like he did. For older alumni, Facebook allows you to find fellow alumni, connect and share stories and provides a good opportunity to connect with the What has it been like for you since this took off? current generation of Phis. We also allow business owners to put a page on Once this thing launched, it became an important part of an ecosystem of Facebook that enables you to have a presence on Facebook and share with entrepreneurs and I went out and have spoken to 2000-person rooms. your customers in a way that wasn’t possible before. Dave Almacy, who I mentioned earlier, has become one of my mentors to help me to understand motivational speaking and communications at a very high level. I’ve been able to travel all around the world, and we basically built an ecosystem—it’s worldwide. It’s about people and enabling anyone, whether it’s Phi Delta Theta or CNN, the ability to connect and So what is Facebook? share. Everything’s better with your friends right? And that’s our mission. If you are an alumnus, maybe your kids have convinced you to join. If you’re an undergraduate, you’re probably a little creeped What’s it like to work at Facebook? out that your professors and the university president are now My favorite thing is the culture and the energy. We spend a lot of time on it. Regardless of how you feel about Facebook, it’s become recruiting the best talent in the world. We’re rooted in the world of college, the de-facto online social networking site (for now) with more so it’s a very youthful culture. It’s a really empowering thing to be a than 175 million active users. If you want to learn more about Facebook, recent news articles can be accessed via the Internet company of 900 employees serving 2 million users. to explain the site. For undergraduate Phis, in particular chapter alumni chairmen, Facebook represents an easy way to connect What is your advice to young Phis who want to be as successful with alumni through the years. For alumni Phis, the application as you? allows networking in a way that was previously impossible. The most important thing is to do what you love and go to the part of the Moving to a new city and want to network with fellow Phis? It’s as easy as a Facebook search. Make sure you download country where that thing is. For me, it was Silicon Valley. Take risks and go the Phi Delta Theta Facebook application once you join. More after it to do what you love. information is available on the Phi Delta Theta GHQ home page. Has Phi Delt contributed to your success? I was president of my chapter at Boulder. As president, I learned leadership skills and how to apply those for service to the community. It was in the
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The Scroll (Fraternity Headlines) is a RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feed that allows the Fraternity to post positive news items as they arise within the organization. It can be found on the Fraternity’s homepage and is constantly updated. Anyone can submit a story by clicking the “Suggest a Story” link directly under the headlines. 220 Headlines Posted in 2008 180 Headlines Posted So Far in 2009
Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. People use Facebook to keep up with friends, organizations, and businesses that they are interested in. Earlier this year, the Phi Delta Theta Facebook Application was introduced to replace the Phi Delta Theta Circle. Through this application, those who have downloaded it can search for other members by chapter, location, industry and profession. The Fraternity also features a “Fan Page” on Facebook, that allows all of those who subscribe to receive daily updates in the form of news items, blog posts and videos. The “Fan Page” also allows members to provide feedback and insight on all things Phi Delta Theta. Phi Delt Facebook Application-9,242 Users Fan Page-8,502 Fans
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Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co-workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing? Phi Delt Twitter users can read the Fraternity’s Scroll RSS feed and other updates about what the Fraternity is doing via the Fraternity’s page. Followers of Phi Delta Theta on Twitter-511
YouTube is a video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips. Phi Delta Theta has its own “channel” where conference videos, videos developed by undergraduates, promotional videos, and other random videos have been uploaded. Number of Videos Uploaded to Phi Delt’s YouTube Channel-105
The Phi Delta Theta blog is an online collection of written “posts” developed by Phi Delt undergraduates and alumni, GHQ staff members, and special guests. The blog is utilized to gather feedback and educate our membership base about the issues in the greater Greek community that surround the organization. It also gives a glimpse inside the walls of Phi Delta Theta through the blog posts of 10 selected undergraduates who blog about their Phi Delt experience. Number of Phi Delt blog posts-38
The Phi Delta Theta wiki a browser-based web platform that allows Phis to contribute information based on their expertise and knowledge. The wiki also permits individuals to edit content within articles on specific topics. Together, this material creates an encyclopedic-type knowledge base that is founded on the integrity of the contributor’s additions. It is our hope that the Phi Delt wiki becomes a venue to share best practices, build chapter histories, gather program ideas, learn about operational areas, and collaborate on any Phi Delt topic imaginable.
Spring/Summer 2009 57 Spring/Summer 2009 61...... Expansion 63...... True Blue Society 69...... Opinion from the Order 70...... Chapter Grand ucas ohn L J Brothers with a passion for Georgia Unique gifts from George and Jack Fontaine create a program in music business and an alcohol education center for UGA students by Kelly Simmons
ike many siblings, George and Jack Fontaine shared a lot of George Fontaine (BBA ’76) came to UGA in 1972, fresh out of military experiences. Older by nearly two years, George charted courses that high school in Chattanooga and tasting freedom for the first time. Raised L Jack often followed. Both brothers attended UGA, but the outcomes on Lookout Mountain, he grew up cheering for the Tennessee Volunteers were vastly different. Despite the contrast, each brother developed a until the summer he went to camp at UT and decided he didn’t like strong affection for UGA, a loyalty that would outlast triumph and tragedy Knoxville. He chose Georgia instead. and eventually induce them to establish separate legacies at UGA.
58 Spring/Summer 2009 George pledged Phi Delta Theta and became outside of work, hunting dove and quail, and in concert when he was in 8th grade. Not long its social chairman, booking bands for the cheering the Astros at Minute Maid Park or the after he saw the Allman Brothers. fraternity’s house parties and praying people Georgia Bulldogs on television. “That was it for me,” he says. would be sober enough to show up after the Though older, George is the shorter of the Once at UGA, he thrived on the Athens music football games. By the time he left Athens in 1977 two, with twinkling eyes and a crooked smile, scene, and booking bands for fraternity parties and headed to Houston to work for the family like his mother’s, that his wife Celia teases him took him deeper into it. Just before graduation in business, he had finished school, gotten married about. Jack is leaner and more solemn. Shy by December 1976, a friend who shared his musical and helped re-launch the Georgia Theater as a nature, as a boy he spent Sunday mornings in a tastes came to him with a bold idea—to lease music venue. church bathroom crawlspace rather than go to a the shuttered Georgia Theatre and turn it into a Jack Fontaine (M ’79) enrolled at UGA in Sunday school class where he’d been forced to concert hall. He threw himself into the project, 1975. He also pledged Phi Delta Theta. He, too, sing a solo. working days selling stereos and albums at a was a part of the social scene, and it became his “The teacher caught me talking in class and local record store, and evenings and weekends downfall. Addicted to alcohol and drugs, he left she made me sing from a hymn book,” Jack planning for the re-emergence of the theater. school after two and a half years to join George vividly recalls. “It took 10 minutes. I never went “I just loved Athens like no place I’ve ever in Houston. back to Sunday school again.” been in my life,” he says. Years later, the Fontaine brothers would return Growing up in and around Chattanooga, By then he had married Celia, his high school to Athens with their teenage sons—prospective George and Jack never wanted for much. The sweetheart, who had moved to Athens after freshmen—in tow. Seeing the campus again boys’ great grandfather, John Lupton, was graduating from Tennessee and was teaching at rekindled memories and the love each of them one of three Chattanooga investors who were St. Joseph Catholic School. They were there just held for the school. In the coming months, the awarded Coca-Cola bottling franchises in the a few months before George’s family decided brothers left more than their sons at Georgia. early 1900s. As sales of the soda flourished the he needed to put his business administration They gave extraordinary gifts to UGA that played family prospered with bottling plants in Houston, degree to better use and he was sent to Houston on their greatest passions. Dallas, Austin, Denver and Phoenix, and later to work for the family business. His first job was A simple life additional markets were acquired in Tampa, cleaning out beverage displays in groceries and It’s a steamy day in June and the Fontaine Orlando and Jacksonville. The family sold the convenience stores. brothers are eating at a Thai restaurant near their company to Coca-Cola in 1986. He and Celia left Athens before the theater opened. west Houston homes, which are just a mile or so But despite their wealth, the boys’ greatest But while George Fontaine had left the music apart. Sweat beads on Jack’s forehead from his pleasures growing up were simple. They hunted, scene, the music bug still had him. favorite dish, Tiger Cried, beef with spicy green fished and camped on Lookout Mountain, In 1995, he partnered with a friend to start an sauce. George ribs him good-naturedly, something combing the hillside for relics from the Civil War. independent record label. A few years later, the Jack has gotten used to as the younger brother. One of George’s most memorable gifts from company merged with New West Records, out They have been business partners since his grandfather was a transistor radio. Just five of Minneapolis. The label had some small artists college, first with the family company and now as years old, George would fall asleep with the radio but soon hooked a big fish—Delbert McClinton, owners of a successful Red Bull distributorship. pressed against his ear, listening to Johnny Cash, who won a Grammy for his first album produced Friends as well, they spend a lot of time together James Brown and the Beatles. He saw Brown live by New West.
Spring/Summer 2009 59 “He gave us the clout we needed,” George to his father. John entertained sick children as “It just felt right” says. Soon New West had a cast of well-known Wilbur the pig in a children’s theater production In the meantime, George too found that he artists including Dwight Yoakam, John Hiatt and of “Charlotte’s Web,” and at age 11 during a wanted to give back to the school where his third the Drive-By Truckers. summer fishing trip he chatted easily with an and youngest, Cartter, is now a freshman. His oldest Addiction, sobriety, then a tragedy unexpected visitor on deck—former President son and namesake graduated from UGA with a Jack Fontaine often followed in his older George Bush—while Jack, star struck, remained journalism degree in 2004; during George Jr.’s brother’s footsteps. He too fell in love with the tongue-tied and terrified in the galley. senior year, George and Celia made a permanent Athens social scene. But the temptations of a A timely decision commitment to the area, buying a 2,000-acre farm college town and fraternity life were too great. He Just four years after John’s death, and 27 years fronting the Broad River in Elberton. stopped studying and going to class and by 1978 after leaving UGA, Jack returned to campus “I didn’t realize how beautiful the land was had dropped out. with his second son, Harrison, a high school around that area,” George says. “I was mature enough to be an addict but was senior who hoped to enroll at UGA the following A chance meeting between George and not mature enough to handle college,” Jack says. summer. Jack remembered the demons from his Nashville songwriter Bruce Burch (BSEd ’75) Like his brother, Jack moved to Houston and college years and thought about John. How many led to an even greater investment—this time in went to work on the bottom rung of the family more students would stay in school if they knew UGA. Burch had been talking to Terry College business, riding shotgun in a delivery truck to the warning signs of alcoholism and addiction, of Business Dean George Benson about starting learn the routes and the routine before getting he wondered. How many more would live to a music business program in partnership with a route of his own. He met Nancy in 1980 and graduate if they knew the dangers of drinking the School of Music. Benson agreed it was a they married less than a year later. He was still and driving? Wouldn’t it be great for these 18-and good idea given Athens’ music history, Atlanta’s drinking and doing drugs when their first son, 19-year olds to know how much better their growing hip hop industry and the music business John, was born in 1984. lives would be in 20 years if they made the right in Georgia, which is approaching $2 billion. His life was unmanageable. decisions now? They just needed someone to pay for it. George “It did cost me college; it almost cost me my “It’s what keeps me sober every day,” he says. gave the school $500,000 of his own money and marriage,” he says. “Thinking about what I have to lose.” $250,000 from his family’s foundation to start the By 1987 Jack had hit bottom and was willing Jack knew he had to do something substantial certificate program. It launched with 27 students to ask for help. He entered a treatment center for UGA to try and keep kids from going down the in January and Burch, who’s now in Athens, and returned to Houston clean and sober, the same road he had, or worse, ending up like John. expected 50 more students to enroll in August. addictions no longer a part of his life. His head was After much discussion, he and Nancy decided to “We’re very excited about this,” Benson says. clear, his body clean. The time he’d spent nursing endow a new program at UGA to better educate “We think this program not only can help give hangovers or looking for a dealer were put to better students about the dangers of alcohol. students a leg up in the industry, but the city of use—time spent with family or on his business. Athens as well.” “When you’re not looking over your shoulder, It’s what keeps me sober every day. UGA President Michael Adams praised the when you’re not hampered by unmanageability, Thinking about what I have to lose. Fontaines for recognizing specific needs at the you’re open to focus,” Jack says. “The doors open university and doing something to address them. up in front of you. I’d never felt better, never been “If I had approached or confronted this personal “They put their money where their mouths and happier, never been as productive.” problem in my early years I would have a Georgia their hearts are,” he says. But alcohol wasn’t through with Jack. In diploma today,” Jack wrote in a letter to UGA For the Fontaine brothers, the gifts are a December 2000, he suffered the ultimate loss— outlining the gift. In February, UGA announced legacy to the university that they hope will outlast his oldest son, John. the John Fontaine Jr. Center for Alcohol themselves, their sons and their grandchildren. John Fontaine, then 16, got into a car with a Awareness and Education, made possible by a $2 “It just felt right,” George says. “Reconnecting friend who had been drinking. The friend lost million gift from Jack and Nancy Fontaine. here with my kids here at the same time makes it control of the car and hit a tree, throwing John, who The gift could not have come at a better time even more special.” wasn’t belted in, to the pavement. He died instantly. for the university, which has struggled to address This article appeared in UGA’s alumni magazine. It was an unthinkable horror for Jack and the increasing problem of excessive and binge Nancy, who had spent long hours talking to the drinking, particularly among underage first-year oldest of their three children about the dangers students. In January, a freshman died after a night of alcohol. “Don’t drink and drive,” they had told of excessive partying on and off campus. him. “Don’t ever get in a car with someone who Vice President for Student Affairs Rodney has been drinking.” Bennett says the problem likely is more severe The days after the accident were a blur as than university officials even realize. “I don’t family and friends moved in and out of the know that we fully understand the depth of what house. Teenage cousins and friends gathered to this work is going to be about,” Bennett says. mourn and celebrate John—a fun-loving boy “We’re so fortunate Nancy and Jack were willing whose self-confidence was a source of wonder to trust us with the resources they gave us.”
60 Spring/Summer 2009 Expansion Update
he 2008–2009 academic year saw Phi Delta Theta’s expansion Indiana Gamma–Butler University efforts soar to new heights. The Fraternity welcomed back five Installed: October 22, 1859 | Re-Installed: April 19, 2009 T storied chapters and colonized at five other campuses, two of which Number of Initiated Brothers: 1850 were new to Phi Delta Theta. More than 400 new Brothers and colony Indiana Gamma (Butler University) initiates 73 at largest chapter installation members were given the opportunity to leave their legacy by becoming in over twenty years (Re)Founding Fathers of Phi Delta Theta on their campus. The success On the eve of its 150 anniversary this fall, the Indiana Gamma chapter that these chapters have seen can be attributed to amazing undergraduate at Butler University was reinstalled on April 19th, 2009 after a seven student-leaders, great alumni support, the General Council’s dedication year absence from campus. During the weekend’s festivities, 73 men to growing the Fraternity, and the hard work of the General Headquarters’ were initiated in Phi Delta Theta’s largest chapter installation initiation expansion staff. As preparations are being made for upcoming expansion ceremony in over twenty years. efforts during the 2009-2010 year, a recap of 2008-2009 is well deserved. The new Butler chapter’s success in reemerging as one of the top fraternities on Butler’s campus in both size and stature can be greatly Illinois Gamma-Monmouth College attributed to the diversity of its Founding Fathers. The men of Indiana Installed: January 12, 1871 | Installed: November 15, 2008 Gamma were able to create a great reputation as leaders on campus by Number of Initiated Brothers: 94 having their initial 45 members involved in Dance Marathon, Alpha Phi In December of 2007, eight men desirous of starting a different type of Omega service fraternity, Campus Crusade for Christ, Butler Advertising fraternity on the Monmouth College campus contacted several fraternity & Marketing Association, residence life, speech and debate team, theater, headquarters for information on starting a chapter. Their search for a new student government, varsity football, club lacrosse, and club soccer. fraternity lead them to Phi Delta Theta. After this group of men would During this spring semester, they capitalized on this reputation recruiting become officially recognized by the fraternity, it was discovered that Phi additional first-year students and increasing their size to over seventy Delta Theta had once been on Monmouth’s campus before, existing only members. Beyond being recognized for their accomplishments through briefly on campus before the chapter eventually ceased operations. their installation by the General Fraternity, the men of Indiana Gamma After a few months, the group grew to twenty-six men and was colonized were recognized by Butler University’s Student Government Association on February 28, 2008 as the Illinois Gamma Colony. These men proved with the Legacy Award, given to the individual or organization that makes to be leaders in every aspect of life. Not only did they hold the highest the biggest impact on Butler’s campus that year. cumulative grade point average among the Greeks on campus, but they also Indiana Gamma looks forward to becoming one of the premiere required every member to be involved in at least two other organizations chapter’s in Phi Delta Theta and has already made plans to win the on campus! Their involvement included the Monmouth College Student Fraternity’s Founders Trophy in 2009–2010. Senate, the student newspaper, the Scots Ambassador Program, Hall Council, Residence Life, and several varsity and club sports teams, honors societies, and community service groups, just to name a few. After a successful recruitment period this fall, Illinois Gamma initiated thirty-five brothers and was officially installed as a chapter of Phi Delta Theta on November 15, 2008.
Ohio Lambda–Kent State University Installed: December 11, 1954 | Re-Installed: April 25, 2009 Number of Initiated Brothers: 718 After Ohio Lambda’s closure a few years ago, a group of remaining members became the Re-Founding Fathers of the Ohio Lambda Colony. Despite a slow start by the colony, Ohio Lambda gained great momentum in the fall of 2008 earning top grades on campus, winning the campus-wide Greek Sing, and becoming one of the largest fraternities on campus. For
Spring/Summer 2009 61 their tireless work, the Re-Founding Fathers were rewarded on April 25th Oregon Alpha–The University of Oregon and 38 members were initiated during the chapter’s installation weekend. Installed: May 30, 1912 | Re-Installed: May 30, 2009 Presided over by General Council member Rich Fabritius, this installation Number of Initiated Brothers: 1592 was near and dear to his own heart being a 1994 graduate of Kent State and After a seven year absence from campus, Phi Delta Theta returned to a member of Ohio Lambda. Eugene with a staff-driven expansion effort in the Fall of 2007. After a few months, twenty five young leaders accepted the initial challenge of being a Founding Father of Phi Delta Theta on campus. After a successful recruitment effort in the 2008–2009 school year, the colony grew to over forty members and was number one in grades for the fall term. The chapter includes several varsity athletes at the U. of O., as well as leaders in many walks of campus life. Oregon Alpha became a chapter of Phi Delta Theta on May 30, 2009. Without a doubt, this chapter is poised to be a successful chapter on campus for many years to come.
New Jersey Alpha-Rutgers State University of New Jersey Installed: April 23, 1988 | Re-Installed: May 16, 2009 Number of Initiated Brothers: 388 In February 2008, Tim Becker and Jeremy Koenig from the Fraternity’s Pennsylvania Mu Chapter at Widener University identified several student leaders on campus interested in rebuilding the legacy of Phi Delta Theta at Rutgers. Andrew Long, a junior on campus led the recruitment effort which garnered men involved in organizations ranging from club baseball, sports medicine and management, to the Rutgers Review, Daily Targum, and Residence Hall Government. On December 6, the interest group was formally recognized as the New Help Support Expansion! Jersey Alpha Colony of Phi Delta Theta. After a strong recruitment push Want to support an up-and-coming chapter in your area? Contact GHQ at 513.523.6345 or visit areyoualeader.com. this spring, the New Jersey Alpha Colony grew to over fifty members. The men have already made waves at Rutgers by winning a campus-wide trivia contest and competing admirably in Keller Cup Intramural play. They also earned the 3rd highest new member GPA (out of 28 fraternities) and have men studying over 20 different subjects. The New Jersey Alpha Chapter was officially re-installed on May 16th, 2009 and is excited to return the chapter to its award-winning reputation of yesteryear.
Colonizations 2009-2010 Expansion Projects Iowa Beta (Tentative): The University of Iowa Colonized: October 11, 2008 University of California, Number of Colony Members: 38 Los Angeles California Gamma Maryland Delta (Founded: 1922) Johns Hopkins University Colonized: February 13, 2009 San Diego State University Number of Colony Members: 51 California Pi (Founded: 1989 ) Utah Alpha The University of Utah Colonized: April 18, 2009 Calif. State University, Fresno* Number of Colony Members: 25 Boise State University* New Mexico Beta George Mason University* New Mexico State University Colonized: April 18, 2009 Florida Atlantic University* Number of Colony Members: 30 *New Campuses for Phi Delta Theta
62 Spring/Summer 2009 True Blue Society Join the True Blue Society: another Ensuring the Phi Delta Theta experience way to give back to Phi Delta Theta
Moe Stephens, Southern Indiana Over 900 Phis have committed to live out this oath as a ’99, works with fraternity and sorority True Blue Phi. To join them, go to www.truebluesociety. members every day as the Assistant org for more information and to join; or contact the Director of Student Activities for General Headquarters at 513-523-6345. Greek Life and Leadership at the University of Puget Sound. Because In addition to the knowledge that they are of his role at UPS, Brother Stephens supporting services for their fellow alumni, True knows the profound impact that a Blue Phis receive the following exclusive benefits fraternity can have on an individual’s for a one-time $299 membership fee: life and has done a great deal within • Lapel pin Phi Delta Theta to ensure a tremendous Phi Delt experience as a staff member, alumni club officer, and most recently as Pi • Wallet card North Province President. However, Moe’s contribution to Phi • Personalized True Blue Society Brick in the GHQ Courtyard Delta Theta has not ended with personal service as he is also a • Lifetime subscription to the printed version of The Scroll member of the True Blue Society. • Premium discounts on travel and entertainment packages, as well as at “Becoming a member of the True Blue Society is merely my way retailers such as Brooks Brothers of living up to the commitment I made to Phi Delta Theta from the time I raised my right hand and took the Phikeia oath. My small • A chance to represent the True Blue Society at the annual presentation sacrifice now will ensure the future of our Fraternity and allow of the Lou Gehrig Memorial Award to an active MLB Player those who follow after to enjoy the benefits of one of the strongest All members who join before the conclusion of this summer will also and most respected fraternities in the world,” said Stephens. receive a True Blue polo shirt to wear with pride, demonstrating loyalty. Moe will be representing the True Blue Society later this summer when the Fraternity presents its Lou Gehrig Memorial Award to Shane Victorino of the Philadelphia Phillies prior to their game on July 4th against the New York Mets. The presentation will be part of a very special day in Major League Baseball entitled, “4ALS” where the 70th Anniversary of Brother Gehrig’s “Luckiest Man” speech will be celebrated along with organizations that work to fight against ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease). Keep an eye on your inbox this summer for the next issue of The Scroll Extra featuring this presentation that will include audio and video of the presentation and in the next issue of The Scroll for a very special article on Shane “The Flying Hawaiian” Victorino.
Spring/Summer 2009 63 Hundreds more Phis become True Blue members
366 Clyde S. Porter III 391 Matthew B. Williams 416 Adam R. Horn 441 William R. Erwin University of Texas-Arlington Mississippi State University Missouri Western State University Kent State University 367 Christopher J. Lilly 392 richard D. Calder 417 ben T. Boyer 442 Garland W. Howard University of Michigan Lawrence University University of Georgia Centre College 368 John W. Stitt II 393 Clifford S. Campbell Jr. 418 richard L. Robinson 443 John M. Bissell University of Mississippi University of Georgia Eastern Kentucky University Cornell University 369 robert H. Brickley 394 Gary R. Wade 419 John A. Hageman 444 James E. Harris University of Montana-Missoula University of Tennessee University of Kansas Arizona State University 370 James M. Golden 395 John E. Meisenbacher 420 James M. Nelson 445 William M. McCormick Washington State University University of Arkansas University of Arizona McDaniel College 371 Kevin Coughlin 396 barry B. Aden 421 Ken T. Morrison 446 A. Roy Burks Cornell University Tulane University University of Oklahoma University of Wisconsin 372 M. John Dyrud 397 Gene M. Olander 422 stephen S. Brixey Jr. 447 Dabney W. Coleman Lawrence University Kansas State University University of California-Los Angeles University of Texas-Austin 373 robert W. Dionne 398 Keith V. Clarke 423 Donald R. Franz 448 robert A. Hayes Jr. Syracuse University University of Washington Washington University University of Mississippi 374 r. Michael Kight 399 robert W. Olsen Jr. 424 James B. Souder 449 John B. Meek University of Washington Mercer University University of Florida University of Illinois 375 robert A. Collier Jr. 400 Michael T. Graydon 425 Andrew M. Fitzgerald 450 Marlyn L. Bjorge University of North Carolina Willamette University University of Missouri University of North Dakota 376 richard E. Parks 401 Charles N. Hooper Sr. 426 robert L. Berto 451 robert V. Chiarello University of Washington Davidson College Florida State University Dickinson College 377 brian H. Bailey 402 William J. Mark, Jr. 427 Keith L. Krueger 452 John A. Buckley II University of Maryland University of Colorado Texas A & M University Sam Houston State University 378 Casey M. Coon 403 Kevin D. McCullough 428 edson A. Elliott 453 Howard Gellis Stephen F. Austin State University Stephen F. Austin State University University of Puget Sound University of Pennsylvania 379 benjamin Balderrama Jr. 404 peter T. Morse 429 John F. Gilmore 454 richard D. King University of La Verne Calif. State University-Northridge Michigan State University University of Oklahoma 380 lucky C. Peterson Minnesota 405 M. Stephen McDonough 430 Forrest C. Mischler 455 Walton S. Miller State University Mankato University of Tennessee Allegheny College Southern Methodist University 381 edward M. Christian 406 William O. Goodwin 431 sean D. Brinker 456 Alan A. Gutberlet Cornell University Duke University Missouri State University University of Central Florida 382 Curran H. Daigle 407 brandon Gerson 432 M. Eugene Mittel 457 paul A. Noyd Georgia Institute of Technology York University Gettysburg College Stephen F. Austin State University 383 Timothy W. Peters 408 John F. Ingraham 433 robert W. Briggs 458 William N. West Miami University University of Michigan Duke University Eastern Kentucky University 384 Christopher S. Lee 409 Hilton M. Howard 434 Jack E. Drake 459 edward A. Donahue McDaniel College North Carolina State University University of Cincinnati Florida State University 385 peter C. Kinyon 410 William C. Tempel 435 Thomas M. Matthews 460 Jeffry P. Jensen University of Michigan University of Missouri Oklahoma State University University of California-Berkeley 386 eric M. Richardson 411 William H. McElroy 436 James E. Montague 461 Vernon L. Lindskog Washington State University Washington State University University of North Carolina University of Washington 387 powell A. Jackson 412 steven L. Kiburz 437 Charles E. Cobb Jr. 462 Alexander M. Becker San Jose State University University of Nebraska-Kearney Stanford University Centre College 388 Cameron G. Norman 413 richard L. McKnight 438 robert A. King 463 Mark L. Bye Indiana University University of Oklahoma University of Maryland Mass. Institute of Technology 389 Andrew S. White 414 ralph E. Fisher 439 pierson A. Ebrom 464 edwin P. B. Ropp Rollins College University of Akron Colgate University Vanderbilt University 390 Dean M. Weich Jr. 415 Donald B. Coleman 440 Charles W. Poore, Jr. 465 Todd D. Wakefield Case Western Reserve University Emporia State University University of South Dakota University of Utah
64 Spring/Summer 2009 466 Floyd D. Copeland 493 Adam S. Twedt 520 Keith D. Miller 547 Andrew D. Diodati University of Mississippi Missouri Western State University Indiana Univ. of Pennsylvania Rollins College 467 John D. Donahey 494 robert C. Brook 521 Mark L. Hobson 548 Warren A.Uthe University of Virginia Michigan State University Stephen F. Austin State University Kent State University 468 Thomas E. Beetem 495 luke M. Benfield 522 John R. Dandoy 549 Duane K. Powell Purdue University Mercer University University of La Verne McDaniel College 469 William R. Keller 496 robert E. Ankrom 523 robert D. Espeseth 550 Michael B. Gooden Bowling Green State University Ohio University University of Wisconsin Texas Tech University 470 Michael J. Papp 497 William A. Blackwell 524 Christopher M. Ponessi 551 paul V. Troup III University of Akron University of Texas-Austin Rochester Institute of Technology Purdue University 471 Christopher J. Bowman 498 David W. Lee 525 William B. Stockwell 552 larry R. Burke Clemson University Wichita State University University of Pittsburgh Southern Methodist University 472 Gregory J. McKinney 499 John C. Stitt 526 Thomas J. Schaefer 553 Justin D. Carpenter Tennessee Technological University University of Mississippi University of South Florida Louisiana State University 473 Charles L. Mendenhall 500 Thomas F. Starck 527 robert P. Kratz 554 richard G. Hyde Miami University University of Tennessee San Diego State University University of Cincinnati 474 William K. Block 501 sean T. Brennan 528 bruce A. Hancock 555 Jordan R. Pallitto Colgate University Ringling School of Art and Design Texas Tech University Allegheny College 475 David A. Herlicka 502 Tyler A. Buckner 529 J. Alan Long 556 William T. Baird Southern New Hampshire University North Carolina State University University of Toronto University of California-Los Angeles 476 Jesse A. Conlon 503 Gary R. Harms 530 norman H. Racine 557 Adam J. Dubois Allegheny College University of Wisconsin University of Illinois Central Connecticut State University 477 nicholas L. Buonanno 504 Cory W. Dreiling 531 Todd J. Shannon 558 patrick R. Hylant Butler University Wichita State University Clarion University Ohio State University 478 Daniel R. Elliott 505 Christopher M. Job 532 T. Earl Lockhart 559 John W. Barber Indiana University Calif. State University-Northridge Texas Tech University Westminster College 479 James A. Gibbs 506 lodge L. Hanlon 533 Christopher S. Yingling 560 stephen J. Demergasso University of Oklahoma Kent State University University of Miami Willamette University 480 Adam Toon 507 Mark P. Koepsell 534 bernard C. Corker 561 Dan V. Callanta Wichita State University Eastern Illinois University West Virginia University San Jose State University 481 ivan R. Fuller 508 eugene E. Krebs 535 shane J. Sebastian 562 scott C. Long Butler University Butler University Sonoma State University Ohio University 482 patrick W. Leed 509 Derek S. McKenzie 536 Kenneth M. Jastrow II 563 John P. Mix II University of Georgia University of Nebraska-Kearney University of Texas-Austin University of Idaho 483 John Gerald Gillardi 510 Clint J. Mattson 537 Tyrrell B. Eichler Jr. 564 A. Douglas Larson Missouri State University Colorado State University Washington University Minnesota State Univ.-Mankato 484 Charles C. Allen 511 H. M. Lane Jr. 538 William G. Clark 565 Jordan V. Johnson Colorado College Vanderbilt University Louisiana State University Texas State University-San Marcos 485 robert W. Saacke 512 Jon T. Anstey 539 James R. Ballard 566 edward T. Mason Georgia Institute of Technology Texas State University-San Marcos Colorado State University Syracuse University 486 D. Chet McKee 513 Michael E. Bogers 540 robert G. Mould 567 J. Paul Harper University of Illinois DePauw University Northwestern University Colorado State University 487 Guy P. Duhame 514 brett J. Aiken 541 Thomas C. Eakin 568 K. Todd Kourt Arizona State University Louisiana State University Denison University Southwestern Okla. State University 488 Joseph L. Jimenez 515 William R. Rediske 542 J. M. Morgan 569 J Richard Hamilton Baylor University Lake Forest College Univ. of California-Riverside Ohio University 489 Harold E. Shigley Jr. 516 neil R. Wood 543 James L. Bosco 570 nathan P. Thomas Emporia State University University of Manitoba Cornell University SE Missouri State University 490 Jonathan H. Templeton 517 Christopher M. Smith 544 richard M. Held 571 D. Clark Higgins University of Utah North Carolina State University University of South Dakota Ohio University 491 F. Andrew Moran 518 John P. Hodgson 545 roger E. Luring 572 Jon R. Bausback Jacksonville University Washington & Jefferson College Miami University Indiana University 492 Christopher T. Sanford 519 James T. Herfurth 546 David J. LaBrash 573 Hugh G. Hines, Jr. Calif. State University-Sacramento University of Missouri Indiana University Centre College
Spring/Summer 2009 65 574 stuart A. Marshall 602 Thomas C. Grubish 630 Christopher R. Senner 658 richard W. Debler Southwestern University University of North Dakota Southern Methodist University Florida State University 575 Keith A. Davis 603 Gerald N. Furseth 631 Alvio Dominguez 659 steve A. Lynch Ohio State University University of Minnesota Florida International University Georgia Southern University 576 Donald C. Cowles IV 604 Charles E. Wicks 632 Aaron C. Davis 660 steven L. Palmer Miami University Willamette University West Texas A & M University University of Tampa 576 nicholas E. Wininger 605 Clayton R. Burkhart 633 paul D. Croyle 661 Christian D. Finnigan Creighton University University of Oklahoma Butler University Randolph-Macon College 577 eldon C. Lown 606 J. Kevin Hughes 634 Carl J. Gessler Jr. 662 Joseph C. Abmont Ohio University University of Southern California University of Arkansas Calif. State University-Northridge 579 John M. Iannacone 607 nickolas G. Mitilenes 635 robert P. Boles 663 Joshua D. Robertson West Chester University Colgate University Calif. State University-Northridge Mercer University 580 John B. Powell 608 Theodore M. Brennan Jr. 636 Jerry W. Ho 664 William W. Lang University of North Carolina Southern Methodist University University of Toronto Mass. Institute of Technology 581 William C. Matthews III 609 sean F. Keefer 637 Mitchell J. Spencer 665 Jon R. Sandidge Duke University University of South Carolina Emporia State University Southern Methodist University 582 Adonis M. Graham 610 scott W. White 638 David Foster III 666 edward P. Kennedy Jr. Stephen F. Austin State University DePauw University University of Cincinnati University of South Carolina 583 nicholas Papas 611 peter N. Wolf 639 Donald L. Miner 667 Thomas W. Garnella Mississippi State University Iowa State University University of Cincinnati Calif. State University-Northridge 584 Mark A. Weiss 612 benjamin M. Wolf 640 Warren L. Blanchard 668 ross H. Oliver Bowling Green State University Iowa State University University of Southern California Texas A & M University 585 Andrew C. Cormier 613 Kurtis L. Hamilton 641 ray L. Bassett 669 larry J. Work Southern New Hampshire University Franklin College University of Florida Texas Tech University 586 Travis O. Cooke 614 eric A. Hesla 642 ryan K. Lurich 670 richard C. Berg University of North Carolina University of South Dakota Texas State University-San Marcos University of North Dakota 587 robert R. Kauffman 615 Troy L. Wilson Jr. 643 Mark M. Repanshek Jr. 670 Anson More Keller Gettysburg College Washington University Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ. University of Maryland 588 steven L. Benjamin 616 Mark C. Connell 644 J. D. Christie 671 Gary W. Gooden Emporia State University University of North Texas University of Pennsylvania Texas Tech University 589 J. Eddy G. Craig Jr. 617 Taylor M. Montague 645 M. Bruce McClelland 672 benjamin A. Corey Colorado College Franklin College University of Missouri University of Iowa 590 John L. Barner Jr. 618 Taylor D. Smith 646 scott D. Graham 673 richard H. Hagenlocker Georgia Institute of Technology University of Kansas Sam Houston State University Ohio Wesleyan University 591 Garrett W. Youngblood 619 richard L. Ekin 647 Thomas A. Castleberry 674 David L. King Colorado State University University of Illinois University of Nevada, Las Vegas Texas State University-San Marcos 593 Thomas H. DeWees 620 Todd J. Kniffen 648 richard M. Leslie 675 paul M. Marek University of Cincinnati Gettysburg College University of Florida Louisiana State University 594 russell J. Podraza 621 Christian C. Hillin 649 John A. Garretson 676 William T. Towles Texas Tech University Southwestern University Iowa State University Georgia Institute of Technology 595 William P. Merriam 622 richard T. Corgel 650 Christopher W. Nordman 677 Matthew N. Tonkin Willamette University Syracuse University California State University-Chico Sam Houston State University 596 Gregory S. Griffin 623 Carl W. Wardenburg 651 Gary L. Olsen 678 bradley M. Petryk Colorado State University University of Missouri Lawrence University University of Alberta 597 philip C. Austin 624 ned N. Fleming 652 Joseph C. Ott 679 James C. McCarthy Missouri Western State University Texas Christian University University of Pittsburgh University of Tampa 598 Matthew J. Nicholson 625 John R. Morrison 654 Kevin M. Brown 680 David A. Green Sonoma State University Stephen F. Austin State University Missouri Western State University Widener University 599 Will L. Chesney Jr. 627 stephen G. Bailey 655 Fred C. Koenig 681 Douglass F. Wiles Rollins College Mercer University Michigan State University University of Florida 600 russell T. Therrien 628 eric M. Conocenti 656 ernest M. House 682 Joshua D. Hanley Mercer University Colgate University Eastern Kentucky University Westminster College 601 Jason C. Julian 629 Kern G. Rodeberg 657 Dale L. Preston 683 steven D. Kallestad University of New Mexico University of Minnesota Kansas State University California State University-Chico
66 Spring/Summer 2009 684 Timothy B. Blonkvist 710 David C. Saunders 737 James W. Head 764 Kenneth D. Hughbanks University of North Carolina Lehigh University Emory University Valparaiso University 685 rowdy D. Durham 711 rodger W. Burkart 738 lyal E. Quinby Jr. 765 robert B. Malone University of Texas-Arlington University of South Dakota University of Colorado Texas A & M-Corpus Christi 686 benjamin K. Hultquist 712 William T. O’Byrne 739 William E. Beckham Jr. 766 Alpay T Soyoguz Missouri Western State University University of Illinois Georgia Institute of Technology University of California-Berkeley 687 James T. Johnson III 713 Gale W. Conley 740 larry R. Byrd 767 David A. Huddler University of North Carolina Indiana University Texas Tech University University of Nevada, Las Vegas 688 raymond H. Bartlett 714 Milton E. Thompson Jr. 741 Alfred N. Gerein 768 Denis J. Meerdink Denison University University of Florida University of British Columbia Iowa State University 689 nathan H. Brunk 715 W. K. Futerer 742 louis Kilo 769 James B. Treleaven Miami University University of Arizona Washington University Case Western Reserve University 690 Michael S. Meyer von Bremen 716 edward J. Dublin 743 Fred A. Underwood 770 Jay L. Peterson Mercer University Miami University Texas Tech University Randolph-Macon College 691 Jeffrey M. Griffin 717 James A. Ladd 744 G. Wilson Scaling II 771 Theodore S. Sitterley Jr. Texas Tech University University of Puget Sound Texas Tech University University of Arizona 692 Howell W. Melton Jr. 718 Adar E. Govea 745 J. M. Neal 772 John S. Wallace University of Florida University of the Pacific Hanover College University of Akron 692 lane A. Montgomery 719 James F. Crowder Jr. 746 ronald L. Boucek 773 ryan M. Yeager La. State University-Shreveport Emory University Kansas State University University of Maryland 693 Jordan M. Moore 720 Albert W. Norris 747 W. Wayne Allen 774 edward C. Johnson Minnesota State University-Mankato Western Kentucky University Oklahoma State University Kansas State University 694 William N. Doushkess Jr. 721 barry D. Brown 748 Jackson E. Winters 775 George A. Finley III Lehigh University Dickinson College Ohio Wesleyan University Southern Methodist University 695 Thomas J. McDermott Jr. 722 John R. Calhoun 749 sam L. Faulkner 776 Hector L. Cordova University of California-Los Angeles University of Nebraska-Lincoln Florida State University University of California-Berkeley 696 lee A. Miller 723 Zachary C. Noland 750 Voris V. Boll 777 robert S. Rodgers University of California-Berkeley University of Kentucky Franklin College Texas Tech University 697 Anthony J. Horton 724 ryon L. Ray 751 Christopher Williams 778 Donald H. Bravaldo Jr. University of California-Los Angeles Texas State University-San Marcos Kansas State University Auburn University 698 lorin J. Caccamise 725 ryan J. Howard 752 Walton D. Vickery 779 Donald G. Rochelle Colorado College Missouri State University University of Oklahoma University of Texas-Austin 699 George H. Engelage IV 726 Allen R. Plimpton 753 richard C. Orth 780 Frank T. Priest University of Southern California Stanford University University of Cincinnati University of Kansas 700 Carl W. Howell 727 John P. Helmick Jr. 754 Jared R. Nunes 781 William R. Farr University of Southern California Auburn University Belmont University Iowa State University 701 John M. Heady 728 benjamin L. Harrison 755 perry C. McGriff Jr. 782 noah M. Jordan Western Kentucky University University of Mississippi University of Florida Louisiana State University 702 Gilbert T. Cormier Jr. 729 robert W. Young 756 William C. Neel 783 Jeffry J. Akridge Washington State University Whitman College Florida State University Washington State University 703 Harold C. Broman 730 David S. Trump 757 philip C. Thompson 784 George H. Schaller University of Puget Sound Michigan State University Southern Methodist University Iowa State University 704 McKenzie D. Cook 731 Andrew T. Trupka 758 ronald W. Williams 785 Alexandre I. Gedrinsky Oregon State University Kansas State University University of Richmond McGill University 705 Charles R. Higgins 732 lonnie E. Holliday 759 Dan M. Elder 786 larry L. Stroman Kent State University Texas Christian University Texas Tech University University of South Carolina 706 H. E. Evans III 733 Frederick P. Booth 760 David H. Lewis 787 Audie J. Martin University of Georgia University of Wyoming Denison University University of Arkansas 707 richard R. Wheeler 734 byron Spencer Jr. 761 edward F. Steinkerchner 788 paul B. Wallace Centre College University of Missouri University of Akron University of Oklahoma 708 Jeffrey D. Palmquist 735 Matthew H. Patton Jr. 762 David W. Hanna 789 David W. Sweeten University of Cincinnati Duke University Purdue University Texas State University-San Marcos 709 Donald E. Bauermeister 736 Arthur G. Johnson 763 benjamin R. Kaufman 790 Darren A. Royalty University of Southern California University of South Carolina University of Michigan Indiana State University
Spring/Summer 2009 67 791 russell L. Cobbs 818 Thomas C. Ray Stephen F. Austin State University University of Georgia 792 Timothy R. Wiedmeyer 819 Duane A. Rasmussen Ripon College University of Minnesota 793 Jeffrey D. Rubel 820 loy Brooks University of Tampa University of Iowa 794 David H. Van Vleet 821 M. Dan Howard Syracuse University Texas Tech University 795 robert D. Linder 822 Walter L. Williams University of Iowa Ohio Wesleyan University 796 Kenneth C. Plattner 823 William E. Barron Jr. University of Kentucky University of Georgia 797 George R. Horner 824 lawrence B. Thomas University of Nebraska-Lincoln University of Kansas 798 Jerry L. Waldrop 825 James E. Pittman Oklahoma State University Oklahoma State University 799 rodney K. Raines 826 peter B. White West Virginia University Gettysburg College 800 larry F. McArthur 827 Charles J. Wychunas Ohio University Florida State University 801 Albert W. McCullin Jr. 828 Jack M. Rouhier Southwestern University Ohio Wesleyan University 802 Harvey M. Mumma 829 Victor W. Kramer Gettysburg College Arizona State University 803 Jon R. Mills 830 steven C. Finn University of Maryland Southern Methodist University 804 Teddy G. Wood 831 brian S. Mahoney University of Kentucky Duke University 805 Gene C. Lawrence 832 robert W. Paxton DePauw University Tennessee Technological University 806 John C. Palmer 833 robert T. Shadoin Gettysburg College Emporia State University 807 Harry L. Ryan 834 barry B. Wright Willamette University Gettysburg College 808 bruce A. Anderson 835 sean D. Considine University of Illinois Northern Arizona University 809 richard C. Zimmerman 836 samuel R. Clammer University of Oregon University of Oklahoma 810 loren H. Lounsbury 837 Jeffrey B. Dechert Whitman College Texas State University-San Marcos 811 richard E. Higgins 838 Travis J. Bassett University of Minnesota University of South Dakota 812 bruce G. Knapp 839 ernest B. Helin Stanford University Ohio University 813 Jerry K. Byrd 840 l. Bruce Boylen 845 eric S. Free 850 Michael P. Bizzle Stephen F. Austin State University Oregon State University University of Cincinnati Oklahoma State University 814 Harold C. Curtis Jr. 841 richard J. Schlaff 846 Merritt M. Jaggar 851 e. Koehler Thomas University of Maryland Michigan State University Butler University University of Oklahoma 815 John H. Benjamin 842 Calvin S. West Jr. 847 Forrester M. Smith III 852 John A. Barsamian Gettysburg College Amherst College Southwestern University Union College 816 William H. Osha 843 Arne M. Borgnes 848 r. Matthew Shively Members joining from October 26, 2008–April DePauw University University of Oregon Purdue University 20, 2009. The next issue of The Scroll will list the newest members. 817 robert P. Schmid 844 Thomas P. Lauritzen 849 robert C. Ungerer Texas Tech University Wabash College University of Miami
68 Spring/Summer 2009 Fraternity brothers helped him overcome shyness to become Man of the Year Editor’s note: Gen. Bernard W. Rogers, USA, Ret., the 28th Army chief My dad, Richard A. Cox, Franklin College, ’36 passed away on February of staff, died on Oct. 27, 2008. He retired from the Army in 1987 as the 28, 2009, one day after his 95th birthday. He was so proud of his Fraternity supreme allied commander Europe and commander-in-chief, U.S. European membership that he carried his membership card in his wallet his entire Command. During his career while he was at West Point as commandant life. He stopped at the Fraternity house in Franklin several years ago, and of cadets he was noted for reforming the cadet disciplinary system and the young men were astounded at his low Bond number. College was hard controlling hazing. in the depression and the Brothers helped each other to stay in school. Following his graduation, he conducted management training seminars Letter to Bernard W. Rogers all over the U.S. for General Electric and Whirlpool appliance dealers. December 13, 2006 In 1970, he was chosen “Man of the Year” by the North American Retail Dear Brother Phi and Classmate, Dealers Association for his outstanding contributions in assisting retail Reminiscences! What would appliance dealers through training seminars and individual consultation. we do without them! When I He credits his success in life much to the fraternity men who encouraged subtract my birth year from 2006, him (actually took him by the hand and made him sign up for the debate I am startled by the number “88.” team to overcome his shyness). However, I contend that there is —Mary Wolting some good in everything. In this case, the “88” grants me privileges Letter written to California Xi chapter brothers : received only for “Seniors— I recently joined the Army and am currently serving in Ft. Hood, Texas. eminiscing being one of them. I would love to see Phi Delta Theta, and especially the Cal Xi chapter, In my recent reminiscing, West show its support for the troops! I am heading to Afghanistan in May, Point became a natural focal and I would love to have a Phi Delt flag to hang from my truck for a point. Three years of intimate daily association with classmates was an picture while I am there. It would be an awesome display of pride for incomparable and unique experience—memories of which I will cherish me and the whole Fraternity on how we serve both the community and all my days. And I cannot visualize a more memorable experience. The our country no matter what we do. I would also love to see an American whole Corps was great, but, in my judgment, no class could equate to flag hung outside of the chapter house while I am gone to show the the Class of June ’43. Your selection to be First Captain to head the Chico Greek community that we show support for the troops and all Corps was right on target. I am confident that your selection was the that they do for the country. I know that not everyone agrees with the easiest and most pleasant task the Supe ever had at West Point. war, but in the Army it is about brotherhood. Every day I hear the phrase Sincerely, “The Standard” being used, just like the days when I was at Chico. As I Tom (Thomas M. Elgin, Alabama ’40) uphold a standard now in the Army, all Phis should uphold the standard for a Greek. If you could make this happen, I would greatly appreciate it, and it Correction would help me get through the rough days ahead. PROUD TO BE A PHI! In the last issue of The Scroll, we reported on the University of Akron’s new —Jon DiProfio, California State-Chico ’06 chapter house. The building pictured was actually the old chapter house. (Editor’s note-California Xi has answered Jon’s requests) Pictured below is the new facility, which recently was honored by the University Park Alliance as one of the 2009 Investor Award Winners. Congratulations to a Hawaiian athlete, Shane Victorino What a pleasant surprise, last evening while watching the nightly sport news, to learn that a Maui boy, Shane Victorino (of the Phillies baseball team), had just been awarded another outstanding honor, The Lou Gehrig Award, by the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity! It was even mentioned that Lou had been a member of the Fraternity at Columbia University. Whenever a Hawaii athlete achieves success, he/she gets good coverage throughout the state. It was great to see Phi Delta Theta’s name on the television! —Joe Stoddard, Iowa State ’43
Spring/Summer 2009 69 Chapter Grand
Phi Delta Theta honors members who have entered the Chapter Grand by listing them in the magazine. We generally reserve extended obituary articles for famous Phis and general officers. To submit obituary information, email [email protected].
Former General Council President Wade Weatherford, N.C. Beta ’44 Retired Judge Wade S. Weatherford Jr., 88, who served the 7th Judicial Circuit for 14 years, died March 9, 2009 at his residence, following a brief illness. Weatherford was the first circuit court judge elected from Cherokee County, taking the bench in 1967 and retiring in 1981. He served in the state House of Representatives from 1961 until 1966 and was a state senator for one year before accepting an appointment to the judgeship by the legislature. Retired Cherokee County Clerk of Court Katie Baines described Weatherford as a friend of the court. “When I went to work at the courthouse, he was already a judge, but he was not on the bench that much in Gaffney. I knew him through the court system. He would always come to the clerk’s office to visit when he was in town. He was always a gentleman and always so pleasant and nice to be around. I think everybody loved him,” she said. Baines said she actually saw Weatherford more following his retirement, when he often walked with his wife, Eleanor, through their Union Street neighborhood. “They got their daily walks in, trying to stay healthy,” she said. Weatherford received recognition by various groups for his ruling granting a petition by an adoptee to gain access to birth records, which are sealed in South Carolina. Weatherford graduated cum laude with a bachelor of arts degree from the University of North Carolina and received his doctor of law degree in Phi sportscaster Jimmy Crum, Ohio Gamma, ’52 1948 from the University of South Carolina. James W. (Jimmy) Crum, 80, passed away on January 5, 2009 in Columbus, He served as General Council President of Phi Delta Theta and was Ohio. He was known as the dean of Central Ohio sportscasters and the a World War II veteran and retired lieutenant commander with the U.S. voice of the basketball Buckeyes (1959–1979), and from 1968–1980—with Naval Reserve. His body has been donated to the University of North Phil Samp—as the “radio voice of the Cincinnati Bengals.” Jimmy worked Carolina Medical Center, his alma mater, according to his wishes, a as sports director/sports anchor at WCMH-TV for 41 years. He retired on family friend said. A memorial service for Weatherford will be announced December 31, 1993. later. His family requested memorials should be made to the Epworth’s Children’s Home, P.O. Box 50466, Columbia, S.C. 20250-0466.
70 Spring/Summer 2009 Gehrig Award Committee Member and Hall of Fame Announcer Harry Kalas, Iowa ‘59 Harry Kalas, entered the Chapter Grand on April 12 prior to calling the game between the Washington Nationals and his Philadelphia Phillies. Brother Kalas was in a league of his own as an announcer, husband, father, and member of Phi Delta Theta. Extra! Extra! Chad Collingwood, Widener ’93, recalled a fond moment with Kalas Want to keep up with Phi Delt email address, just contact us from his college years. In 1991 a group of Widener Phis (including myself) events between mailings of at [email protected]. were working the Phillies ALS Carnival and he stopped by to say hello. The Scroll? Watch for the Scroll It’s simple and it’s free. I’ll never forget him booming ‘Phi Delta Theta…Brothers in the Bond’ Extra in your mailbox. If you when he walked up. Just awesome, with his distinct voice. Something I’ll need to add or update your always remember.” Ironically, days prior to Kalas’ death, he had received a letter announcing the 2008 Gehrig Award Winner, Shane Victorino of the Philadelphia ’66, William W. Compton University of Case Western Reserve Phillies. Kalas would have been a part of the presentation at Citizens Bank Montgomery, Ala., 11/08 California-Berkeley University Ballpark, the weekend of July 4th during MLB’s 4ALS event celebrating the California Alpha Ohio Eta 70th Anniversary of Gehrig’s “Luckiest Man” speech and raising awareness ’79, Frank C. Vann, Jr. ’39, Willliam A. Beal ’59, Richard M. Logar for Lou Gehrig’s Disease just as he did when Curt Schilling won the award Camill, Ga., 10/08 Ferndale, Calif., 2/08 Mount Laurel, N.J., 6/08 in 1995. He certainly will still be there in spirit. Ball State University ’42, Edwin C. Callan Centre College Indiana Kappa San Francisco, Calif., 3/09 Kentucky Alpha-Delta Former Province President ’84, Nelson R. Kirk ’40, Jere C. Caldwell Robert Ingels, Illinois Eta, ’51 Greenwood, Ind., 9/08 ’42, James E. Hug Danville, Ky., 11/08 Bob Ingels, died September 8, 2009 at his home. Merced, Calif., 3/08 Bowling Green State ’40, Theodore W. Selin University ’45, Lawrence C.Merriam, Jr. Cynthiana, Ky., 9/08 Ohio Kappa Corvallis, Ore., 10/08 ’53, George A. Ensign University of Chicago Englewood, Colo., 3/08 ’50, Frederick C. Hawkins Illinois Beta Belmont, Calif., 8/08 ’49, John B. Cramer ’05, Michael J. Medders Davidsonville, Md., 11/08 University Akron ’65, Edward L. McCartt University Arizona Avon Lake, Ohio, 9/08 ’53, Harold A. Ellis, Jr. Ohio Epsilon Akron, Ohio, 2/09 Arizona Alpha Piedmont, Calif., 1/09 ’52, Harold A. Lamonds ’44, Samuel T. Serves ’40, Richard H. Creswell Butler University Las Vegas, Nev., 7/08 Akron, Ohio, 9/08 University Alabama Phoenix, Ariz., 12/08 Indiana Gamma University of Alabama Alpha ’43, Arthur K. Hamp California-Los Angeles ’54, Ellsworth C. ’47, George Bledsoe ’50, Paul V. Macon ’50, Emory C. Lusby Grand Rapids, Mich., 1/09 California Gamma McClenachan Findlay, Ohio, 1/08 Mobile, Ala., 8/08 Phoenix, Ariz., 4/09 ’54, James L. Kelly Greenwich, Conn., 9/08 ’47, Harry C. Ent, Jr. Newport Beach, Calif., 4/08 ’47, James R. Fuchs ’52, William H. Griffin ’51, John H. Geyer Longwood, Fla., 10/08 University of Cincinnati Norco, Calif., 7/08 Huntsville, Ala., 8/08 Phoenix, Ariz., 5/08 ’59, Stephen R. Lanzit Ohio Theta ’68, Chandler K. Stanard ’49, Glenn M. Michael New Canaan, Conn., 11/08 ’42, William N. Mire ’50, Oscar C. Mitson Daphne, Ala., 11/08 Ashland University Bainbridge, Ind., 1/08 Cincinnati, Ohio, 8/08 Fort Wayne, Ind., 9/08 Ohio Mu California State University Alberta ’72, Charles D. Loraine ’54, Edward J. Hughes University-Northridge ’44, Raymond T. Bradford ’56, Harold G. Hanna Alberta Alpha Wickliffe, Ohio, 1/09 Folsom, Calif., 3/09 California Zeta Cincinnati, Ohio, 4/08 Akron, Ohio, 3/09 ’54, Gerald J. Francis ’68, Richard A. Baker Red Deer, Alberta, 4/09 Auburn University ’67, Robert V. Willian San Clemente, Calif., 4/09 ’50, Donald C. Gaddis ’63, Phillip P. Parker Alabama Beta Scottsdale, Ariz., 8/08 Cincinnati, Ohio, 2/09 Anchorage, Ak., 9/08 Allegheny College ’45, William R. Ireland, Sr. ’69, Edward M. Petersen III Pennsylvania Delta Shoal Creek, Ala., 3/09 Granada Hills, Calif., 8/08 ’50, Dawn V. Martin ’65, Steve E. Kiltau ’50, James D. Hilleman Hamilton, Ohio, 1/09 N. Palm Beach, Fla., 9/08 Corry, Pa., 2/08 ’49, Ronald L. Moreland Mobile, Ala., 3/09
Spring/Summer 2009 71 ’50, William W. Storch ’42, Earl L. Jorgensen ’43, Randolph R. Few ’84, Johnny A. Mohler ’56, Stephen E. Emerine Iowa State University Milford, Ohio, 11/08 Rochester, Minn., 7/08 Durham, N.C., 10/08 Plainfield, Ind., 3/09 Tucson, Ariz., 2/09 Iowa Gamma ’59, George C. Colias ’66, John D. Hasselbach ’46, Henry S. McDonald III Emory University University of Georgia University of Illinois Palatine, Ill, 3/09 Odessa, Fla., 6/08 Tampa, Fla., 8/08 Georgia Beta Georgia Alpha Illinois Eta ’53, Robert F. Taylor ’55, Ralph W. Williams, Jr. ’37, Howard A. Stotler, Jr. ’63, Charles S. Saladino II Clemson University ’52, Hubert S. Smith, Jr. Lakeland, Fla., 9/08 Atlanta, Ga., 12/08 Lake Forest, Ill., 8/08 Las Vegas, Nev., 1/09 South Carolina Gamma Essexville, Mich., 8/08 ’70, Judson H. Drennan III ’55, Joseph C. Sawyer, Jr. ’58, Lee S. Laster ’39, Edward D. Sethness Iowa Wesleyan College Florence, S.C., 3/09 ’54, Seely F. Pratt, Jr. Pell City, Ala., 1/09 Carrollton, Ga., 8/08 San Antonio, Texas, 10/08 Iowa Alpha San Francisco, Calif., ’51, George L. Hall, Jr. Colgate University 3/08 ’59, Arthur L. Burns, Jr. Georgia Institute of ’43, Roy H. Thompson, Jr. Peyton, Colo., 2/08 New York Zeta Lookout Mountain, Technology Zionsville, Ind., 9/08 ’50, Tedford J. Cann Denison University Tenn., 5/08 Georgia Delta University of Kansas Milton, Fla., 6/08 Ohio Iota ’43, John C. Dennis, Jr. ’49, Edward J. Dobbratz Kansas Alpha ’46, Charles E. Weaver University of Florida Macon, Ga., 4/09 Watertown, Wisc., 10/08 ’56, Donald D. Martin ’62, Richard M. Piccarreto Atlanta, Ga., 11/08 Florida Alpha Albuquerque, N.M., 12/08 Pittsford, N.Y., 12/08 ’39, Laurence W. Hall ’50, Robert J. Freeman ’51, Robert F. Ingels DePauw University Tampa, Fla., 6/08 Hilton Head, S.C., 5/08 Carmichael, Calif., 9/08 Kansas State University ’64, Frank E. Filisko Indiana Zeta Kansas Gamma Lorain, Ohio, 11/08 ’44, Leland H. Buckley, Jr. ’42, Paul G. Rogers ’52, William H. Holman, Jr. ’73, Douglas A. Judson, Jr. ’40, Irvin B. Jenkins East Moline, Ill., 8/08 Washington, D.C., 10/08 Jackson, Miss., 10/08 Arlington Heights, Ill., 10/08 Sun City W, Ariz., 5/08 ’70, James B. Patterson Garden City, N.Y., 7/08 ’84, Alan D. Hutchinson ’45, Frank J. Wentz., Jr. ’61, William H. Scarborough Indiana University ’43, Donald C. Phinney Chicago, Ill., 9/08 Middleburg, Fla., 2/09 Katy, Texas, 7/08 Indiana Alpha La Canada-Flintridge, ’76, Thomas J.R. Beckmann ’43, Dan M. Cravens Calif., 4/08 Cumberland Center, ’86, Scott T. McMahon ’52, Thomas A. Ghiotto ’73, Francis S. Dennis III Columbus, Ind., 9/08 Maine, 2/08 South Bend, Ind., 6/08 Fort Lauderdale, Fla., 1/09 Augusta, Ga., 6/08 ’43, Bernard W. Rogers ’48, Jack L. New McLean, Va., 10/08 University of Colorado ’87, Randall B. Bernier ’52, Thee Allan Jones Gettysburg College Greenfield, Ind., 10/08 Colorado Alpha Cary, Ill., 3/09 Orlando, Fla., 2/09 Pennsylvania Beta ’44, Glen E. Cline ’48, George S. Malcolm ’52, Frank L. Whittaker, Sr. ’55, Carl A. Litten Boise, Idaho, 8/08 Fort Lauderdale, Fla., 3/09 Dickinson College ’79, Billy W. Gilley Brigantine, N.J., 4/09 Ellettsville, Ind., 8/08 Pennsylvania Epsilon DeLand, Fla., 1/09 ’44, John F. Hudelson ’50, Wardner B. Crockett ’52, James G. Park Hanover College ’61, Ronald R. Tracy Denver, Colo., 2/09 Carmel, Calif., 10/08 Pittsburgh, Pa., 8/08 Florida State University Indiana Epsilon Yorba Linda, Calif., 10/08 Florida Gamma ’33, Dillon R. Dorrell, Sr., ’51, John Huff Green ’58, Frederick A. Vickers Drake University ’55, William C. Plumb Rising, Ind., 8/08 University of Iowa Valley, Ariz., 9/08 Colorado Springs, Colo., 2/09 Iowa Delta Lynn Haven, Fla., 3/09 Iowa Beta ’63, Eugene W. Prentice ’65, Michael F. Groh ’43, James R. O’Brien ’56, Harry O. Gaffin, Jr. Colorado College Osawatomi, Kan., 8/08 ’56, Harry M. Kimbro Minneapolis, Minn., 10/08 Billings, Mont., 1/09 Granbury, Texas, 8/08 Colorado Beta Chattanooga, Tenn., 11/08 Clyde W. Blanchard, Jr. ’67, James H. Dock University of Idaho ’53, Rex B. Ruther ’59, Kent G. Heintz Lakewood, Colo., 2/09 Snellville, Ga., 6/08 Franklin College Idaho Alpha Roswell, Ga., 11/08 Bulverde, Texas, 6/08 Indiana Delta ’39, Charles D. Crowther, Jr. Colorado State University Duke University ’35, Richard A. Cox Snellville, Ga., 8/08 ’59, Harry N. Kalas ’77, Michael A. Kearny Colorado Gamma North Carolina Alpha Austin, Texas, 2/09 Media, Pa., 4/09 Olathe, Kan., 2/09 ’56, Edward B. Dawson ’36, David M. Myers ’40, Maynard F. Helen Cullowhee, N.C., 10/08 Newport, Pa., 11/08 ’41, Robert J. Geurine Seattle, Wash., 6/08 ’00, David C. Sorin Kent State University Franklin, Ind., 3/09 Winnetka, Ill., 8/08 Ohio Lambda Cornell University ’40, William G. ’55, Grant McBroom ’41, James S. Yates ’57, Worthington Baker New York Alpha Hobstetter, Jr., Indianapolis, Ind., 8/08 Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, 2/09 Pinehurst, N.C., 2/08 ’40, Paul C. Wolters Glendale, Ariz., 12/08 Woburn, Mass., 3/08
72 Spring/Summer 2009 University of Kentucky ’49, John G. Hazlett University of Mississippi ’52, John H. Holroyd Ohio University Oregon State University Kentucky Epsilon Newark, Ohio, 8/08 Mississippi Alpha Gilbert, Ariz., 12/08 Ohio Gamma Oregon Beta ’46, Jay C. Doyle ’36, Davis L. Fair, Jr. ’46, Robert L. Towner ’55, Jack A. Stephenson Corona Del Ray, Calif., ’49, Leo A. Merzweiler, Jr. Louisville, Miss., 3/09 ’60, Marc L. Benjamin, Jr. Largo, Fla., 3/09 Issaquah, Wash., 3/08 7/08 Naples, Fla., 3/09 Colorado Springs, Colo., ’44, Chatwin M. Jackson, Jr. 9/08 ’51, Francis L. Hiles ’43, George M. Zellick ’48, Charles T. Gardner ’52, Edwin M. Piatak Kosciusko, Miss., 1/09 Santa Ana, Calif., 7/08 Lewistown, Mont., 12/08 Burlington, N.C., 5/08 Menlo Park, Calif., 10/08 ’94, Jeffrey J. Krolik ’50, William F. Galtney Albuquerque, N.M., 11/08 ’52, James W. Crum University of ’63, Ormsby K. Hackley, Jr. ’62, James A. Rorabeck Houston, Texas, 11/08 Columbus, Ohio, 1/09 Pennsylvania Atlanta, Ga., 9/08 Osprey, Fla., 8/08 University of North Pennsylvania Zeta ’56, C. Willis Connell, Jr. Carolina Ohio Wesleyan ’43, H. Allan Crowther, Jr. Knox College ’84, James J. Whitford Clarksdale, Miss., 4/09 North Carolina Beta University Orange City, Fla., 9/08 Illinois Delta-Zeta Cleveland, Ohio, 2/09 ’39, Clen S. Humphrey, Jr. Ohio Beta ’53, Donald E. Rossiter ’79, James M. Seale Tiverton, R.I., 10/08 ’46, Donald W. Goodman ’45, William F. Feely LaGrange, Ill., 4/08 University of Miami Cleveland, Miss., 9/08 Scottsdale, Ariz., 7/08 Bradenton, Fla., 7/08 Florida Delta ’41, Andrew Gennett, Jr. Lamar University ’57, Bruce D. Kolb University of Missouri Asheville, N.C., 9/08 ’51, Thomas S. Bangert Pennsylvania State Texas Iota Pompano Beach, Fla., 4/09 Missouri Alpha Lodi, Ohio, 10/08 University ’66, Gene H. Schneider ’52, John C. McKelvey ’44, Wade Weatherford, Jr. Pennsylvania Theta Massena, N.Y., 2/08 University of Michigan Bridgeton, Mo., 9/08 Gaffney, S.C., 3/09 ’52, Henry H. Wade ’53, Theodore R. Kemmerer Michigan Alpha Marietta, Ga., 2/09 Pine Grove Mills, Pa., 5/09 Lawrence University ’45, George S. Bacon, Jr. ’79, Steven R. Schofer ’47, William A. Lane Wisconsin Beta Grand Rapids, Mich., 2/08 San Diego, Calif., 9/08 Macon, Ga., 11/08 University of Oklahoma ’06, Adam D. Dahr ’49, Gerald L. DeMotts Oklahoma Alpha Greensboro, N.C., 12/08 Hancock, Mich., 5/08 ’48, Woodward A. Missouri State ’47, John N. Shaw ’51, Frank L. Davies, Jr. Warrick, Jr. University Bluffton, S.C., 1/08 Enid, Okla., 12/08 University of Pittsburgh Louisiana State Plymouth, Mich., 2/08 Missouri Epsilon Pennsylvania Iota University ’89, Scott A. Hardy ’54, Campbell L. Stubbs II ’51, William C. Hudson ’51, Robert Cornforth Louisiana Beta ’53, David W. Krupp Kansas City, Kan., 6/08 Hamden, Conn., 2/09 Durant, Okla., 1/09 Daytona Beach, Fla., 8/08 ’63, Curley L. Marcotte, Jr. Palm Desert, Calif., 3/09 Covington, La., 12/08 ’90, Christopher W. Wampler ’57, Edward W. Sutton ’55, Barry J. Galt ’56, James L. Hill, Jr. Michigan State Springfield, Mo., 9/08 Fresno, Calif., 9/08 Houston, Texas, 8/08 Orange Park, Fla., 1/09 Massachusetts Institute University of Technology Michigan Beta University of Montana University of North Oklahoma State University of Puget Massachusetts Gamma ’86, Thomas P. Furtaw Montana Alpha Dakota University Sound ’75, Harry L.F. Houpis Grosse Pointe, Mich., 8/08 ’59, Thomas L. North Dakota Alpha Oklahoma Beta Washington Delta Rocklin, Calif., 8/08 McEacheron ’51, David L. Sande ’75, Robert J. Gilmore, Jr. ’07, Beau A. Jacobson ’90, Thomas E. Mourad Santa Maria, Calif., 10/08 Grand Forks, N.D., 3/08 Palmer, Alaska, 6/08 Wilsonville, Ore., 4/09 McGill University West Bloomfield, Mich., 2/08 Quebec Alpha University of Ohio State University University of Oregon Purdue University ’46, Frank R. Cordon University of Minnesota Nebraska-Lincoln Ohio Zeta Oregon Alpha Indiana Theta Cape Coral, Fla., 12/08 Minnesota Alpha Nebraska Alpha ’58, Robert H. Perry ’42, Preston L. Phipps ’64, Kenneth S. Rabe ’39, Robert D. Watson ’51, James G. Curran Elyria, Ohio, 2/09 Portland, Ore., 10/08 Shreveport, La., 7/08 Mercer University St. Paul, Minn., 1/09 La Habra, Calif., 1/09 Georgia Gamma ’64, William L. Clymer ’52, John M. Fitzmaurice University of Richmond ’59, John T. Brown, Jr. ’43, Paul A. Grassle, Jr. ’51, Howard A. Dinsdale Oakwood, Ohio, 3/09 Salem, Ore., 7/08 Virginia Delta Macon, Ga., 8/08 Rochester, Minn., 12/08 Lincoln, Neb., 9/08 ’59, Russell E. Booker, Jr. ’66, John Michael Hurst ’51, Roderick L. Slade Richmond, Va., 3/09 Miami University ’50, Harry D. Peters University of New Mexico Columbus, Ohio, 12/08 Brookings, Ore., 11/08 Ohio Alpha Chanhassen, Minn., 5/08 New Mexico Alpha University of the South ’44, Richard E. Baumhardt ’51, Ronald H. Hammershoy Tennessee Beta Centerville, Ohio, 2/09 ’53, John R. Albers San Diego, Calif., 9/08 ’41, Lee McGriff, Jr. Dallas, Texas, 10/08 Birmington, Ala., 2/08
Spring/Summer 2009 73 ’46, George G. Clarke Stanford University ’08, Samuel R. Sakoclus III Wabash College Washington & Lee ’52, Ronald G. Smith Memphis, Tenn., 3/09 California Beta Tomball, Texas, 7/08 Indiana Beta University Sammamish, Wash., 12/08 ’36, Richard B. Stark ’60, Robert L. Meister Virginia Zeta ’49, Richard E. Simmons, Jr. Stuart, Fla., 1/08 Texas Tech University Nashville, Ind., 6/08 ’55, William Kelly Young ’53, Richard L. Beck Birmingham, Ala., 11/08 Texas Epsilon Fort Worth, Texas,, 4/09 Seattle, Wash., 6/08 ’50, Thomas L. Shawver ’52, Dorrance H. Guy Washburn University ’77, Paul C. Hedrick Lansing, Mich., 7/08 Aledo, Texas, 3/08 Kansas Beta Washington State Willamette University West Palm Beach, Fla., 1/09 ’40, William H. Smith University Oregon Gamma Stephen F. Austin State ’56, John W. Jones Highlands Ranch, Colo., Washington Gamma ’49, John W. Lyles, Jr. University of South University Brady, Texas, 12/08 1/09 ’48, Daniel W. Nordhill Portland, Ore., 9/08 Dakota Texas Eta Black Butte Ranch, Ore., South Dakota Alpha ’65, Joseph C. Stafford ’58, Jerry W. Bell ’46, Gordon E. Bowers 9/08 Williams College ’55, Patrick F. Porter Shreveport, La., 9/08 Monte Vista, Colo., 11/08 Kansas City, Mo., 11/08 Massachusetts Alpha Fort Dodge, Iowa, 1/09 West Texas A & M ’53, R. D. Utiger Weston, Swarthmore College ’59, Charles D. Lynch ’56, Don E. Cavanaugh University Mass., 6/08 ’58, James P. Pennsylvania Kappa Lubbock, Texas, 1/09 Montgomery, Ala., 4/09 Texas Theta Scheurenbrand ’40, Dhan G. Mukerji II ’68, Ernest R. Reeves III University Wyoming Sarasota, Fla., 3/09 Hilton Head, S.C., 9/08 Tulane University ’59, Franklin K. “Buzz” Horseshoe Bay, Texas, Wyoming Alpha Louisiana Alpha Crews 8/08 ’44, Robert D. French ’73, Paul J. Joslin Syracuse University ’44, Norman S. Conroy Hutchinson, Kan., 3/09 Bartlesville, Okla., 12/08 Mitchell, S.D., 9/08 New York Epsilon Houston, Texas, 11/08 ’68, Robert C. Voegele ’61, James A. Hayes University Washington Albuquerque, N.M., 4/09 University of South New York, N.Y., 10/08 ’51, Robert E. Zetzmann Washington Alpha Florida Metairie, La., 12/08 ’44, Bruce M. Gascoigne West Virginia University Florida Epsilon University Texas-Austin Seattle, Wash., 8/08 West Virginia Alpha ’64, Robert L. Bobier Texas Beta Union College ’41, William J. Vance, Jr. Tampa, Fla., 12/08 ’46, H. B. Sanders, Jr. New York Beta ’44, E. Walton Kirk, Jr. Shillington, Pa., 1/08 Dallas, Texas, 9/08 ’57, Joseph P. Lavigna Point Richmond, Calif., ’88, Michael A. Willette Harrison, N.Y., 10/08 7/08 University of Jacksonville, Fla., 11/08 ’49, Charles J. Hooper Western Ontario Houston, Texas, 2/09 Vanderbilt University ’48, Donald MacDonald Ontario Beta University of Southern Tennessee Alpha Sammamish, Wash., 8/08 ’71, Douglas G. California ’51, Sam J. Jamison, Jr. ’35, Andrew B. Benedict, Jr. Wotherspoon California Delta Houston, Texas, 9/08 Nashville, Tenn., 12/08 ’49, Howard B. Ludwigs, Yorkton, Sk., 11/08 ’56, Ronald L. Brown Walla Walla, Wash., 9/08 Sequim, Wash., 2/09 ’64, Charles T. Newton, Jr. ’44, James A. Webb, Jr. Westminster College Houston, Texas, 11/08 Nashville, Tenn., 1/09 ’50, Sanford T. Shaub Missouri Beta ’58, William S. Scully, Jr. Tacoma, Wash., 7/08 ’40, Joseph H. McCord Scottsdale, Ariz., 12/08 ’75, Samuel S. ’50, Beaumont Davison III Sikeston, Mo., 10/08 Sengelmann III Sarasota, Fla., 9/08 Washington University– Southern Methodist Houston, Texas, 9/08 St. Louis Whitman College University ’57, Lynch D. Bennett, Jr. Missouri Gamma Washington Beta Texas Delta Texas Christian Univ. Jekyll Island, Ga., 8/08 ’33, William D. Waller, Jr. ’35, Jack M. Morrison ’51, Allan K. Dray, Jr. Texas Zeta Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., Walla Walla, Wash., 1/09 Dallas, Texas, 8/08 ’61, Michael T. Ashworth University of Vermont 10/08 Colleyville, Texas, 2/09 Vermont Alpha ’36, Clare F. Woodward ’54, Gilbert F. Hatcher ’41, William S. Pratt ’60, Donald C. Kirkpatrick Kerby, Ore., 9/08 Dallas, Texas, 10/08 Texas State Rutland, Vt., 4/08 Boulder, Colo., 10/08 University-San Marcos ’44, Robert H. Wilson ’88, Kelley M. Oliphint Texas Mu ’56, Charles P. Szendrei Washington & Jefferson Kennewick, Wash., 9/08 LaGrange, Texas, 10/08 ’93, Frederick A. Weber Austin, Texas, 11/08 College Plano, Texas, 4/09 Pennsylvania Gamma ’49, Joseph G. Leonard ’57, John R. Hill ’43, Russell J. Niemeier McMinnville, Ore., 8/08 Sun City W., Ariz., 10/08 Presto, Pa., 5/08
74 Spring/Summer 2009 Your will or estate plan: An opportunity for personal choices
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