review th e ST. ANTHONY HALL I SPRING 2009 from the editor

brothers and sisters all:

Welcome to the new St. Anthony Review ! I hope you enjoy the new format and expanded content. Many people played a role in encouraging the overhaul of our beloved newsletter, but credit for the hard work of layout and graphic design belongs to Heather Youngman, Nicola Leckie, and their colleagues at Stewart Howe Alumni Service. Please direct your praise and congratulations to them at [email protected]; any concerns and criticism can come to me at [email protected]. The first issue of the new Review showcases the Hall at its best in the past, present, and future. Marcus Goodwin, ∆’08, guides us through the national archives. Lila Claghorn, Ε’06, Ben Bonyhadi, Κ’08, and Sara Molinaro, Κ’07, show us that literary tradition still stands at the heart of our Order. And in their chapter reports, the undergraduate officers tell of the joys of initiating a new class of Delta Psis. This is St. Anthony Hall, and it exists because of you and all those who came before and after you. The new St. Anthony Review , like every facet of the Hall, exists because of the generosity of our membership. If you like what you see here, please consider making a donation to the St. Anthony Fund or the St. Anthony Educational Foundation. You can learn more about donation options on page 19. The fall issue of the Review will be in electronic format only. If you would like to receive the electronic issue, please visit stanthonyhall.org or contact the national office to make sure we have your e-mail address on file. Thank you for taking the time to connect with the Hall. I hope I’ll see you at the GC in January.

YITB,

Hon. Bro. Andy Sudhakar, K’02 H. Fpop.

P.S.— Don’t miss the literary prompt on page 11! I look forward to seeing what you come up with. a look inside THE REVIEW I SPRING 2009

pg .11 LITERARY AMBITIONS Read literary works by two undergraduates, then renew your bonds through creative ex pression.

also inside ... PROSPECT pg .8 5 HD Nick Noble, Ε’77, shares his thoughts on the future of our fraternity

SEMPER PHI 6 Follow Phi’s revitalization from 10 actives to a 10-year anniversary

RAISING A GLASS 8 Learn about the second annual Toast to Tony, scheduled for June 20

PAST MEETS PRESENT 9 Dig through history with us as we pg . explore our national archives 9 retro spect A REPORT FROM OUR FORMER HD This letter is adapted from Ex. Sis. Packard’s (K’85) farewell address from the 2009 G.C.

In the last year, I have grappled essentially with one question: Who or what are we as a national organization? Imagine a new Theta sister—let’s call her Antonia. Her initial view of the fra - ternity is the few friends who drew her in. Then her view expands to include her pledge class and all the Theta undergraduates. Her experience with those siblings forms the bonds that she will forever associate with St. Anthony Hall. Were she real, I would have met Antonia during our travels this year. The GC has found that our undergraduate members are a wonderfully diverse and intelligent group of individuals, taking full advantage of the privileges and oppor - tunities that membership brings. The quality of the literary works was excellent. As an order, however, we need to address excessive alcohol consumption at parties and, in some cases, allegations of resultant unwanted sexual activity. We need to grapple with this not only for liability reasons, but, more importantly, because this behavior is contrary to both our vows and the objects of the fraternity. St. Anthony Hall must be a model to the university community of responsibility and service. Antonia comes to GC and encounters the full variety of our chapters and traditions. That diversity produces the strength of our national fraternity. But soon Antonia graduates—so how can she continue to participate? She’s probably most familiar with her local graduate chapter. Our graduate groups provide the continuity, stability, and supervision that enables our undergraduates to thrive. They range from Bro. Taylor Smith at Theta, who is working to establish a full graduate board and to find a meeting location for the undergraduates, to Bro. Chip Dean at Epsilon, who helps a large board of brothers to run a beautiful, historic house and encourage graduate participation online and at social events. On the surface, our graduate boards seem to deal with different issues, but upon closer examination, we all work toward good governance, fiduciary responsibility, and support for our undergraduates. It is vital that we work together, across chapters, to support and learn from each other. When she moves away from her undergraduate chapter, Antonia might look for a local association in her new hometown. In 2008, we had more than 40 local weealthhaovf eknoa wledge, expertise, events outside of the Toast to Tony! For example, Sis. Alyssa Rosenberg, Σ’03, and love and fidelity, and we need to Bro. Tom Moore, ∆’73, restarted local associations in Washington, D.C. and learn how to draw on it. Philadelphia, respectively, with great success. Antonia could also find opportunities to help all the chapters by volunteering at the national level. For example, Bro. Robert Marsteller, Υ’78, served on the Induction Committee, helping to examine the rushing practices of our various chapters. Sisters and brothers from all our chapters worked on issues ranging from risk management to preserving our history, to increasing the participation of sisters in the fraternity. Reports from all these committees are on our website— please read them! I cannot overstate the importance of having sisters and brothers from all our chapters and in all kinds of professions and locations contributing to our well-being as a national fraternity. We have a wealth of knowledge, expertise, love and fidelity, and we need to learn how to draw on it. The establishment of our national policy must include voices from many chapters and individuals. So, finally, we have the national fraternity as seen through the eyes of this particular HD, Antonia plus a few decades. This year has been a delight for me. It has been an enormous privilege to work with all of you, and particularly my fellow GC officers. I have been consistently impressed and moved by your dedication, effort, humor, and love, and I thank you. This is a remarkable band of brothers and sisters, and together it can do anything. So, who are we as a national fraternity? We are Antonia and all the undergraduates that she represents, Taylor Smith and Chip Dean and all the graduate board members, Alyssa Rosenberg and Tom Moore and all the brothers and sisters in area associations, Robert Marsteller and all the national committee members, the GC, and the ex-HDs. The national is all the brothers and sisters that have worked in the past, are working now, and will work in the future to realize the objectives of St. Anthony Hall. Thank you for granting me the immense honor and pleasure of serving in this high office.

4 pro spect A REPORT FROM OUR CURRENT HD Richard Noble, E’77, reflects on our fraternity and examines the bonds that unite us all.

Delta Psi is a family. It sounds clichéd, I know. After all, we are a “fraternity.” Obviously we are “brothers” and “sisters”—and sometimes parents and grandparents, nephews and nieces, sons and daughters, cousins, cohabitants…even husbands and wives. As a family, we have a responsibility to one another—to embrace our bonds, even as we celebrate our differences. One way to do this is to visit other chapters—see what they do and how they do it; share your customs and traditions with them; learn from each other. It is time we all embark on voyages of discovery, to meet those family members we’ve never known or to revive family ties long lost or broken. Another way is to preserve institutional memory. There are memorials aplenty in every chapter, but memorials without memory are empty vessels. Explore, ask questions, talk with older graduates. Embrace these valuable resources, these wonderful people. There is so much we can discover about where we’ve been, in order to better inform where we’re going. Connect with your chapter’s past before you lose it—losing part of your family as well. We can celebrate our Delta Psi family through our shared tradition of literary expression. Literary works should be free, yes, but never hurtful. We’re family, linked together by vows and bonds stronger than many “regular” families outside the Hall. We support each other—we don’t tear each other down. We’re not purposefully insensitive. We can honor our Delta Psi family through our secrets—those shared by us all and those uniquely special to individual chapters. Yes, each chapter has a slightly different definition of what is “secret” in some instances, and that’s fine. Circumstances are different on each campus and in each environment. But we cannot keep secrets from each other. Nor can we allow an obsessive secrecy to negatively impact the greater fraternity. As a family, we need to respect and to trust each other. We can model the best of our Delta Psi family through our rushing and pledge process. Rushing must be welcoming, the pledge process must be challenging, but neither can ever be abusive, never. After all, we’re inviting sense of familty tihsattmhakaets people to join a family. us special and will continue And we have our Delta Psi family traditions to pass on—again, those mu - to do so, even as we move tually shared as well as those exclusive to respective chapters. These traditions from strength to strength. often have value and institutional memory and the wisdom of those who have gone before are essential to their preservation. But sometimes they need to be changed. They are outdated, or have been so increasingly narrowly interpreted that they have become an obstacle, or they have ossified to the point where they have become a threat to our survival. We have met these sorts of challenges before, and we will face them again— forthrightly, with all due discussion, debate, and deliberation. Let’s work to build mutual respect between brothers and sisters and between chapters and college or university administrations. And above all: let’s take care of each other—as a family. It is that sense of family that makes us special and will continue to do so, even as we move from strength to strength. The St. Anthony Hall of yesterday informing the Delta Psi of today and inspiring a richer, fuller fraternity family for tomorrow—sisters and brothers supporting each other, taking leadership roles on campus and in the com - munity, being responsible for healthy self-examination and constructive change, modeling the value of the best fraternal organizations through community service and creative excellence.

We are from different worlds, is that so strange? And what is asked is not that we should change, But that we open and accept in kind What diff’rent gifts we bring, then we are strong— Our hearts together, singing love’s sweet song. 5 semper FROM 10 ACTIVES TO A 10-YEAR CELEBRATION phi

By Bros. Ryan Patrick McClelland, Φ'99, and David Joshua Weldon, Φ'01

In January 2000 , four brothers from the University of Mississippi attended the 153rd GC at Trinity. While four undergraduate attendees would be a poor showing for any other chapter, it was a milestone for Phi, the first time in over five years that the chapter sent a delegation to the GC. In the mid-1990s, Phi's alumni association had decided to let the chapter go dormant due to problems with recruitment and the deteriorating condition of the chapter hall. It was unknown whether Phi would resurface or become extinct. In fall 1998, the St. Anthony Club of Mississippi, under the leadership of Exc. Bro. Alan Moak, Φ'78, and Bro. Bob Warner, Φ '76, sent an e-mail to all Honors College freshmen who had not joined a fraternity and held information ses - sions on campus. The alumni presented St. Anthony Hall as a social organization that also held high academic standards and observed certain literary traditions. They made it clear that Delta Psi was different from any other fraternity on the Ole Miss campus. Ten men pledged—Nate Bailey, Jimmy Hamilton, Nicholas Hammond, Ian Kendall, Drew Martin, Ryan McClelland, Avery Mixon, P.J. Pattridge, Jarrett Underwood, and Jason Wilkins. That first pledge class found itself in a unique position: With no undergraduate members, who would train the pledges? Bro. Joe Ellis, Φ'88, took on the role of pledge master and big brother to all 10 pledges. Bros. Billy Rhodes, Φ'75, and Billy Keith, Φ'89, were a constant presence, giving generously of their free time and offering instruction and constructive criticism. As Bro. Ellis recalled, “We'd lost or misplaced the pledge manual, so I rewrote the pledge ceremony from memory, with help from the two Billies. After their formal pledging, we began regular meetings—first in the student union and later in the business school. I gave [the pledge brothers] an introduction to the fraternity, emphasizing our values, history and forms, with the knowledge that these lessons would serve as a template for years to come. After they elected class officers, I gradually let them assume control of the meetings. They were a bright and committed group and in a very short time were running crisp meetings with wonderfully varied and expressive literary works. I can remember marveling at how quickly they became the Phi Chapter—these 10 men with no Hall, only an idea and a promise.” The Resurrection 10, as they are known in the current Phi pledge test, were initiated in April of 1999. All ceremonies were performed in one weekend at a church camp just outside Oxford, Mississippi. Sitting H.D. Liam Murphy (K’83) and other members of the GC came to Oxford to preside over the initiation ceremony. “Watching each of them assume the badge was an almost indescribably proud moment,” said Bro. Ellis. “At the outset, my efforts were driven by selfish motivation. This was my fraternity, my chapter, my pride. This was the place to which I hoped to return again and again—a tangible monument to the good times and precious friendships I had developed during those years as an active member. However, during the weeks I served mentoring those 10 young men I became equally determined that this brotherhood be rebuilt to continue to forge new friendships and new memories for generations to come.” Although the class of 1999 had taken to the rituals of the Order easily, the job of recruitment would prove more chal - lenging. In the fall of 1999, Phi participated in formal rush at a distinct disadvantage; unlike the other fraternities on cam - pus, Delta Psi had an extraordinarily small membership, no name recognition, and, worst of all, no house. The Hall was 6 still standing, but it was in such disrepair that it was uninhabitable. The Phi Boys held their rush sessions in an academic building and not a single rushee pledged. The Hall did gain one pledge through informal rush that fall and two more in the spring of 2000, but the situation looked bleak. spotlaliugmhnt i For the moment, the Phi Chapter had failed to capture the attention of the Ole Miss student body, but they succeeded in impressing the G.C. during their Φ visit in 2000. The meeting was held in a courtroom in the historic courthouse ERIC TILLMAN, ’76 in the center of the Oxford Square. Phi won its first of three consecutive HD Bowls at the next GC in 2001. (They By Ryan Gregg, Φ’07 also recently repeated, taking the honor in 2007 and 2008.) During the second round of formal rush at Ole The first successful rush, in terms of Miss, it is customary for fraternities to host an quantity, came in the fall of 2000. Not alumnus speaker, and this year, St. Anthony Hall wanting to repeat the mistake of hold - was no different. It took only a phone call to get ing rush in a drab lecture hall, the Bro. Eric Tillman to catch a plane from brothers set up a gigantic tent—com - Saskatchewan, Canada, to Ole Miss for this task. plete with a banner, chairs, a podium, Bro. Tillman has achieved numerous successes and refreshment tables—right on the in many different sides of athletics, concentrated front lawn of the Hall, where renova - in football. He graduated from Ole Miss with a tions had begun. This rush would come bachelor’s degree in journalism, while working for to be known as “the big tent revival.” An the Ole Miss athletic department during his unprecedented 12 pledges came to the undergraduate years. He spent eight years as exec - Phi Chapter, which had roughly the utive director of the Senior Bowl All Star Game, same number of actives. In the fall of attended by the best high school football players in 2001, the brothers moved into a beauti - the United States. He has worked at the NFL office CHEERING ON in New York City and served as a vice president of fully renovated Hall, which helped the Bro. Bob Warner, Φ’76, Phi chapter in terms of legitimacy and NFL Europe. The latest phase of his career has graduate board president, and taken him to Canada, where he is the first general logistics. Since moving into the Hall, the Bro. Mary Ellen Warner, Φ’06, brethren have been able to accept 15-20 manager in Canadian Football League history to cheer on the Ole Miss Rebels. pledges each year in the fall, with an ad - win three Grey Cups (the Canadian equivalent of ditional two to five pledges in the spring, resulting in an active brotherhood of the Super Bowl) with three different teams— approximately 50-60. The St. Anthony Club of Mississippi has begun a capital British Columbia, Toronto, and Saskatchewan. campaign to pay off the nearly $1 million renovation costs of the Hall. To date, Eric is currently the GM of the Saskatchewan they have garnered nearly $600k in financial pledges from 98 active and Roughriders, and last year he and fellow Ole Miss graduate brothers and are confident that they will achieve their goal. graduate Kent Austin lead the team to a Grey Cup While Phi's membership numbers have grown, their quality remains the championship in their very first season together. finest of any Greek organization on campus. Over the past 10 years, Phi As if the aforementioned accolades weren’t brothers have held cabinet-level positions in virtually every Associated Student enough, Bro. Tillman is blessed with a talent that Body administration (including one ASB president); served as student directors served us well in rush—the ability to win an audi - of the Sally McDonnell-Barksdale Honors College; joined all of the major ence. As hundreds of young men walked in and honor societies, including Phi Kappa Phi, Omicron Delta Kappa, and Phi Beta out of St. Anthony Hall, they were privileged to Kappa; been inducted into the Ole Miss Hall of Fame; earned the Taylor Medal hear Eric’s story. He spoke of almost pledging (the highest undergraduate honor at Ole Miss); and been deeply involved in the another fraternity, changing his mind after a Trent Lott Leadership Institute. Saint A’s have won multiple Order of Omega heartfelt talk with a brother, and later on, in his life Awards at Ole Miss, including Greek Man of the Year. In addition to these aca - as an alumnus, experiencing the many blessings demic accomplishments, the Phi Boys also succeed in intramural sports—they that our brotherhood can provide. Even though the have won several championships in ultimate Frisbee and soccer, finished first speech was meant for those wanting into the in total points one semester, and are playoff-competitive in virtually every sport. Order, it also hit home with active brothers. On April 24-25, 2009, Phi held a reunion to commemorate the tenth “Every time I heard that speech, I wanted to anniversary of its return to the Ole Miss campus. The event kicked off Friday pledge again,” said Tyler Craft, Φ 07. If Eric night with a traditional meeting, a part of the Order that all the graduate suddenly fell out of love with foot’ball, a career as brothers love and miss. Ironically, the meeting took place in the same a motivational speaker would suit him well. academic building as that first unsuccessful rush. And there could be no It is a true testimony to the bonds that we have meeting of the minds in Oxford without a cocktail party. Saturday brought a in this fraternity when you consider that Bro. new day and with it one more opportunity to enjoy fellowship and memories at Tillman flew from another country (on his own a traditional cookout at the Hall. ticket) just to tell some young kids about four In January 2000, four undergrads from Phi attended the G.C. at Trinity. In years of his life. While Eric’s undergraduate time January of 2010, Epsilon will host the G.C. once again, and the Phi Chapter may have only been four years, it seems apparent will return in far greater numbers than a decade ago. to me that it is not just four years of brotherhood This stunning growth is due to the ceaseless work of Phi's undergraduate that you can get out of St. Anthony Hall, but and graduate brothers and to the love, loyalty, and support of their brothers and decades and decades more. sisters throughout the Order. Saint Anthony’s southernmost chapter is alive and well. So may it ever be. 7 DsavAe TthEe S

TOAST TO TONY

now brethren FILL YOUR GLASSES It’s almost that time again! The second annual Toast to Tony is happening on June 20, 2009. Last year more than 200 St. A’s gathered in 15 cities across the world to raise a glass to our beloved Uncle Tony. Exuberant brothers and sisters organized and executed events in their homes and at local watering holes. This year’s celebration promises to be another wonderful time!

As of this writing, PARTICIPATING CITIES INCLUDE:

BOSTON/CAMBRIDGE, MA CHAPEL HILL/DURHAM, NC Don’t see your city on the list? DENVER, CO RAISING A TOAST St. A’s at the 2008 Philadelphia toast. HOUSTON, TX Contact the national office at OXFORD, MS [email protected] for an PROVIDENCE, RI updated list or to host a toast in your SAN FRANCISCO, CA } area. WASHINGTON, D.C.

GC 2010

It’s not too early to begin planning for the 2010 GC convention! The Epsilon Chapter looks forward to hosting you on January 8-9 in Hartford, Connecticut. Keep an eye on stanthonyhall.org for updated information.

SINGING LOUD Pictured left: Kappas join in song at the 2008 GC. 8 the past MEETS THE PRESENT AT OUR NATIONAL ARCHIVES

By Marcus Goodwin, ∆’08 DIGGING THROUGH ST. ANTHONY HALL’S national archives in Philadelphia is like searching through a verifiable museum. There are enough artifacts and memorabilia to drive a history buff crazy (compose yourself, Bro. Noble), all neatly stored. Thanks to a recent cleaning session during the GC visit to Delta, it’s easy to go through the archives to find relics of our rich history. While they are temporarily stored in the Philadelphia Racquet Club, not getting as much attention as they perhaps should, the archives are very much alive. From documents chronicling the organization’s past to the objects that accompany their stories, the archives represent all of the chapters of Delta Psi and their rich histories. While going through some of the items, it was easy to UNEARTHING HISTORY Above: Marcus Goodwin, ∆’08, identify original photographs, sketches, and prints of all of the chapter houses: there are cased wooden frames with glass helps clean the archives. Left: covering them. These all exhibit the esteem that the Hall has for “The Treason of St. Anthony” from a magnificent architecture. The structural integrity is evident in all of the photos, due mainly to 1920s dinner invitation. Top left: A the highly regarded architects who pendant from the Hall’s 50th anniversary. constructed our Halls. The collection comes from a number of sources. Contributions from the national organization include old newsletters, award- winning literary pieces sent from chapters, pictures from the GC’s annual visit to chapters, minutes from old (1897!) chapter meetings, books written by Delta Psis, sketches and assorted artwork from brothers, and photographs chronicling all of the past HDs. The pictures start out as old, white men with a grimace, some of them wearing a religious collar. As you flip the page, cold stoic figures evolve into more colorful individuals. The last page is Exc. Sis. Elise Packard standing with a confident pose, indicative of how far the Hall has come over its 162-year history. The archives have been donated by alumni over the years. There are piled-up boxes of their contributions. However, no alumnus has given nearly as much as Bro. Gano Haley ( Α'42, Κ'84, Θ'86). Bro. Haley’s boxes could qualify as their own respectable collection of St. Anthony Hall ephemera over the past half century. Sifting through one of his boxes, I found songs written by Delta Psis and invitations to the national convention in 1970; a St. Anthony Trust of Rhode Island spring outing in 1978; a swing dance at Alpha in 1985; and a St. Anthony Hall in New York City reunion from 1993. This menagerie of documents was only matched by the trinkets, all sealed in cases, with labels stating their purpose. On the other side of the room there is an assortment of small objects. They include an embossing seal which stamps “The Fraternity of Delta Psi: 1927,” skeleton keys to archival safe boxes, and pins of brothers who have died. Many more items in the archives have yet to be discovered. Many contributions from alums have yet to be sorted out. There is a computer in the archives room with a database of the archives’ contents that desperately needs updating. (Perhaps some undergraduates could undertake this project with national support?) The Racquet Club location is meant to be temporary; hopefully by the time a permanent home is found, all the archival items will have been organized. These items not only exhibit the array of the fraternity’s fundamental history, but also highlight the distinctiveness of each chapter. Every part of the whole is different from the other, but they all form one unified entity. They portray several of our facets, but they cannot fully encapsulate the fraternity. St. Anthony Hall is a living organization, which is defined mostly by what we do, less by what we’ve done. The archives stand as a beautiful reminder of what we are all a part of.

IF YOU HAVE A RELIC OF St. ANTHONY HALL that you feel is worthy of archive status, please contact the national office in Ithaca. They will facilitate your item’s addition to the collection. 9 the link is a new program that strives to increase the long-term bonds of brotherhood within the Fraternity of Delta Psi. It does this through informal (but intentional) interaction between a pair of members—one graduate and one undergraduate—from different chapters, age groups, and walks of life.

graduates, come relive some of your fondest memories with young brothers and sisters eager to learn all they can about our precious Order.

undergraduates, come learn about the brothers and sisters who paved the way for you and feed off of the wisdom they are sure to impart.

MAKING CONNECTIONS brothers and sisters all, THROUGH come develop long-lasting friendships across generations, explore new channels of communication, and help the Order to enhance its institutional memory.

uncle tony’s And Ruth said, “Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; LINK and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God.”

It's new, it's fun, and it's bound to be a worthwhile adventure. The Link is still in its early phases of development, and we would like to kick off the experience with a small pilot group.

We hope that at some point every brother and sister will participate, so please visit www.stanthonyhall.org to fill out the Link profile form.

10 brothers and sisters,

The works on the following pages serve to remind us that literary expression lies at the heart of our Order. Perhaps it’s been a while since you visited your home chapter or attended a GC. Cast your memory back, then, and think of all the times you heard your brothers and sisters bare their souls in the welcoming atmosphere of the Hall. As with all our traditions, each chapter embraces creativity in a different way. At this year’s GC, the Alphas conducted a debate, the Kappas led a spontaneous writing exercise, and the Xis presented a piece of collaborative visual art. Still, the essence remains the same: By sharing our thoughts and words, we strengthen the bonds of brotherhood. Whether you’re a physicist, an accountant, a lawyer, or a journalist, it’s never too late to reconnect with the creative spirit of the Hall. Sis. Sara Molinaro has written an excellent prompt to get you started. Please consider sharing your literary work with your brothers and sisters. Send your piece to the national office, and please let us know if we can post your piece on the national website. You might even end up in the next issue of the Review !

YITB, Andy Sudhakar, K’02 H. Fpop.

renew your bonds through

By Sara Molinaro, Κ’07 creative expression st. anthony hall often gives us an excuse to meet new friends or catch up with our old ones—and whether it’s chatting with a fresh-faced Κ’09 at Brown’s Commencement or running into your pledge brother from 30 years ago at a GC banquet, we all need to find ways to stay in touch with one another. Write a literary work based on correspondence with other siblings. The possibilities are infinite, including: poetry based on a sib’s Twitter feed, a collage of Christmas cards from siblings, or a letter you always wished you had written. You could even collaborate with another sibling, via e-mail or snail mail, to create this literary work. As always, it’s most important that you create something that moves you.

If you would like to share your work, send a copy to the national office at [email protected] or P.O. Box 876, Ithaca, NY 14851. We look forward to seeing what you create! 11 literary submission BRO. CLAGHORN’S PIECE WON THE LITERARY PITCHER AT THE 2009 GC

By Lila Strawbridge Claghorn, E’06 uInwantteditotoplenewitdh a letter I received from my grandfather last fall while I was in London studying abroad.

I have always been someone who dreamed of writing in a journal. I wanted to write down every single moment and “Somewhere in Londontown” memory, and for the last 15 years or so, I have had a differ - November 8, 2006 ent kind of journal. I love writing letters, longhand, to my grandfather. He is the one person in the world that I have Dear Globetrotter: literally told everything to for as far back as I can remem - v- ber. From advice about dating to my lifelong dream of act - By the time I got through your much-appreciated lengthy epistle (deli nd ing, he has always written back with witty, brilliant lines ered by your dad), I was wracked with a combination of acute jet lag a that seem to quell any stress or feelings that I had when I l exhaustion. But I guess this crazy world of ours looks complete physica had written him. stamina of youth and the will- more favorably on the young, with the He used to work for Time magazine with a generation ris, Rome, ingness to explore those exotic cities of the world: London, Pa who did nothing but write, so his writing is, well, ab - Dublin, Prague, Brussels, Venice, et al. solutely fantastic. I’ll never forget writing my first letter to him, when I was about 10 and dreading the use of one s Your proposed travel schedule does, however, take me back to those year word over another so that I could impress him or at least when Marcie and I hop-scotched the world with the O’Conners and the write somewhat the way he did. It didn’t take me long however, to figure out that he couldn’t have cared less Erdmans. I only hope that with all these major travel sojourns, you can about my style of writing but instead he just wanted to time for a few moments of study. How I remember the PLP’s version find hear what was going on in my life. So streams of thoughts hen you and Jake stole the show and the of Little Shop Of Horrors w filled the page, all to be answered by my Big John. sang that solo Sud- hearts of the audience, and especially when you When my grandmother, Marcie, his wife, died last denly Seymour. Your letter brought back those rock hard sadistic New Year’s, our relationship took on even greater form. Pocono chairs and a jam-packed DC and your belting out that classic. He wrote to me at least twice a week, and instead of his usual wit and poise, he combined it with a new sensitivity d I’m happy that you’re enjoying your foreign stint and merry-go-roun that I had never before experienced. He opened up to me, g and only me. He has written numerous books about our schedule. Now begins the hard part as you prepare for your stage-actin at- family, from Claghorns At War to Claghorns At Ease , and career; good luck to you from the old fuds who will always be your gre he wrote a tribute about four months after his Marcie est supporters. passed away. He asked my father to give it directly to me. I was the only one he allowed to read and edit it, and then dy hard, I’ll close the way I did during your Taft stay years ago: stu after we spoke, only then, could it be read by the others. re- have fun, and never, never forget who loves you, Baby! (I’m glad you We were each other’s human form of a diary. That kind membered my closing lines.) of soulful communication is something that I will never Big John forget. A month ago, he was diagnosed with bone cancer, and I have tried to visit him as often as possible out in Princeton, New Jersey, where my father grew up. Yester - day, as I sat next to him, hand in hand, I explained to him that I had to leave to get back to school. He has a very hard time speak - ing now, but he began to cry. This 6-foot-3-inches tall, scary, strong, competitive, sarcastic, racist (but with a huge heart) ass of a man began to cry. He said, “Please don’t leave, Lila, please. I’m scared.” I can’t put into words how I felt standing there, holding back my tears, and my anger that he actually had to die. But I was the one he was waiting to tell that to. His nurse said he hadn’t spoken or eaten in days, and he waited to speak to me…or at least that’s what she said; of course, at that point she may have been just trying to make me feel better, but still…my Big John and I have spent the last 15 years sharing our secrets with one another, and he needed his journal—it was as simple as that. I think what is so wonderful about the Hall is that we can come up here and spill our hearts out, laugh, and write profound poetry…Flip or Geordie can sing horribly…or Steve can come up and try to prove he’s cool time and time again. The thing is, we are each other’s secret holders…within this sacred space we become each other’s journal. The moment we step into meeting, the space immediately becomes sacred. The traditional element, the sense of brotherhood, and the smell of the old wood and dark mold bring you back to this place, this sacred space. So I guess what I am trying to say is, thank you for being my other journal. It is so relieving to know that even after my grandfather has passed away, there is still somewhere where I can come to share my 12 everything too. submilsisteiroarn y

And sometimes, Sometimes when I’m listening to music, What scientists call proprioception kicks in. Close your eyes By Ben Bonyhadi, K’08 And touch your index finger to your nose: aesthesia That’s proprioception, The awareness of where your body is Relative to itself. Sometimes, And when I listen to Kullak Sometimes I don’t feel right Piano Concerto in C minor That is to say, I experience the world Opus 55 Along unconventional latitudes The one with the really I don’t hear sounds Really good intro Or taste flavors The crescendo I hear registers twice Or see light and dark Once on my eardrums Black, white And once on my back. And color The music starts Sometimes In subtle low-slung shapes, When I’m at the mall Simple acute polygons Clothes shopping Tessellate their way up my spine You will see me running my hands like a little kid, Violins trace the outlines Running my hands like a stick against fenceposts, Of regions Running my hands like that raindrop on the passenger shaped like bird-of-paradise flowers window of the car, As they splinter over my shoulderblades Leaving bits of itself behind And at that point But always going Where the clavicle meets the scapula Down Trumpets are like spirographs made of angles Running my hands And I feel my skin like a broken mirror Over the dust-free shoulders of the suitjackets Reflecting the music back into me Black, pinstripe, navy from a hundred separate scintillating vantage points. Chocolate corduroy And when I listen to Jimi or Jerry, or Elton John Round the polychrome wheel of neckties They throb and reverb at the base of my skull Edges lifting under my fingertips like pages And I can feel my brain settling Of a water damaged book Into the back of my head Over the leather and polyester and rubber contours Which is actually a wrought-iron bowl Of the heels of shoes All black scrollwork Up and down and up and down again And rigid curls Capturing each sleeve of each t-shirt Because sometimes Between my fingers I can’t hear the music As I orbit their carousel But I know where the chords buried themselves in my skin Because sometimes Afterimages of firework sparks Sometimes I can’t match clothes without feeling them, Burning themselves into the sky The colors don’t work Don’t register And sometimes Don’t cohere When I’m cooking Unless my fingers know what they feel like Or eating Because sometimes Or even just really hungry, My hands run on that intersection I know what tastes good Between texture and sight And what tastes bad And you know, that paisley just doesn’t feel right And what could taste better To go with a shade of green so light By the architecture of the flavors, And I know for a fact The way they orient themselves That the chocolate corduroy jacket will never go with anything In the geometric space of my mind’s eye. Ever Their densities Because can’t you feel how ugly it is? (continued on the next page)

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Their arcs Their directionalities and involutions Fitting together Like a piece of Ikea furniture. Some assembly required. Because even though the yellow dryness of curry powder Is a small puckered hemisphere, Like those little rubber domes you used to turn inside out To watch them go pop, And could never accommodate, The ground-level beveled curve Of soy sauce, Even though it won’t work, It does anyway, If you pair them off With the carbon flavor of grilled chicken, Which is an outward-reaching brick With a scalloped surface Because sometimes my tongue is a plane And my tastebuds are levels And compasses And dowsing sticks And I have to disassemble flavors in order to know what they are. Warning: Choking hazard.

And sometimes, Sometimes I can’t describe the difference between east coast air and west coast air In words, But my hands know how to sculpt the difference Because east coast air breathes like Painting a giant block of foam With pointed fingertips covered In red and black paint, But west coast air Is windmilling your arms With a fistful of markers Green and blue On a dry-erase board slanted towards the mountains. And sometimes Sometimes the smell of a book printed in the seventies Is the feeling on my feet As I climb between the synthetic sheets Of a hotel bed Damp, but not really. And sometimes, Sometimes the heat of the sun On the backs of my arms When I sit on the curb waiting, Is acid lime green Limned with purple Zigzags Because the sun doesn’t know how to fall evenly. Because sometimes I don’t feel right. But sometimes Sometimes I do. 14 chapter reports

delta chapter epsilon chapter ∆ UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA Ε TRINITY COLLEGE Report by John Francis Rogers IV, ∆’07 Report by James Cryder Bancroft, Ε'07

Greetings from Delta. I am pleased to report that the Epsilon returned from winter break with great enthusi - Delta Chapter is off to yet another strong start this semes - asm, as the 13 new initiates quickly asserted their leadership ter. After two brief weeks of rush, during which Penn as brothers.While five brothers were awarded the Faculty students displayed a particularly strong interest in the Honors Award for their academic excellence last fall, the Hall, we began the process of inducting new potential brotherhood has pursued a large range of majors, ranging members in late January. This year’s pledge class is as from econ, history, and political science to mathematics, art strong as ever, and the group represents a broad range of history, and psychology. Athletically, Epsilon has chosen to backgrounds, interests, and personalities. I know I speak actively participate in a variety of both varsity and club for all of Delta in saying that we are confident that each teams. member of this new class will be a valuable addition to Our commitment to the Trinity College and Hartford our Order. communities has remained ubiquitous this spring. Bro. As was mentioned at the GC in January, Delta’s rela - McClain has created The Mill on Vernon Street; it is a new tionship with the Penn administration was tested in the space on campus designed specifically to unify the student aftermath of a social event this past fall. After much pro - body through the common language of the arts and to pro - ductive discussion between Delta and the University, the mote student creativity. Aside from this tremendous accom - situation has been resolved and both parties have moved plishment, Brother McClain has organized a series of forward. Certainly the collective work put in by so many events, entitled Conversation over a Cocktail, during which brothers served to further strengthen the bonds between students and professors seek to create innovative solutions the Delta alumni and the undergraduates. Furthermore, to issues of campus climate. while alumni visits on Wednesdays have always been a As community service has always been an important as - strong tradition at Delta, we have been fortunate to have pect of our Order, Bro. Schutzer has taken initiative and re - had a particularly large turnout so far in 2009. sponsibility in the organization of several local events this Building upon the momentum of the past few years, semester, such as Relay for Life and regular visits to the the Delta Alumni Association of New York, co-headed by soup kitchen. Bill Bryan, ∆’97, and Wally Tomenson, ∆’96, helped to In preparation for the upcoming GC in January 2010, host a terrific event in New York on March 28. There was the undergraduates are working in coordination with the an impressive turnout from the brethren, and both the Saint Anthony Trust of Hartford, our active alumni base, to alumni and the undergraduates enjoyed the evening and restore the historic Epsilon Chapter House to pristine con - the many toasts to Uncle Tony. dition. With the help of significant donations from alumni, Continuing Delta’s strong speaker series tradition, we we are excited to take on various projects to fix the building. will be hosting MSNBC’s Senior Campaign Correspon - Epsilon is in good standing with Trinity as our current pres - dent Tucker Carlson this coming April, largely thanks to ident, Reid Longley, conducts tri-weekly meetings with the hard work of Sam Dangremond, ∆’06. We are eager school officials. Our positive relations with the school will for Tucker’s visit, and look forward to opening the doors serve us well as we gear up for the events of next year. The of the Hall to the Penn community. In addition, we have brotherhood has dedicated itself to maintaining the tradi - recently reached out to a number of student groups in tions of our Order and will continue to successfully fulfill need of scarcely available event space, and I am proud to the duties of brotherhood. say that the organization “Power Up Gambia” hosted a very successful event at Delta on April 3. As summer continues to draw closer, we look forward to a number of exciting events later in the spring semes - kappa chapter ter, including Penn’s Spring Fling, Delta’s annual Frazer Κ BROWN UNIVERSITY Cup race, and of course graduation weekend at the Hall. Report by Evan Smith, K'06 Please come visit us at 3637 soon; our doors are always open. I'm happy to be greeting you on behalf of Kappa today, as this semester has already been one of the most productive and full of growth that I have seen. Our annual rush kicked off to a tremendous start, with 15 chapter reports, continued highly regarded guest lecturers speaking at the Hall on topics be able to contribute more during our meetings, and we are such as erotic literature and persuasive communication. After very happy with the results. In addition to the 19 new broth - a month of non-stop work and stress on the part of every last ers, our spring class has five new pledges that are on track brother or sister—but most notably on the part of our rush to be initiated this fall. chairs, Sis. Trilling and Bro. Cooke—we confidently extended Brothers from Phi have continued to act as leaders in 30 bids, 21 of which were accepted. This shattered the previ - various organizations on the campus of Ole Miss. Brother ous record of 18 acceptances in 2006. After a rigorous pledg - Matthew Henry, Φ’08, is the current student director of the ing process, 17 pledges were initiated late at night one Honors College, a position that has been held by three Monday in April—again breaking all previous records. other Phis in the past. Other positions include senators in Speaking of the pledge process, Sis. Berg and Bro. Castillo the Associated Student Body, Honors College, and Croft In - must be acknowledged for their work preparing the newest stitute for International Studies. The Phi Chapter of Delta class of Kappas for membership. Not only were alumni inte - Psi has also established itself as the leader among the grally involved in the process, with a previous SATRI presi - Greek community. For the sixth straight semester, our dent driving down from Boston to talk on important aspects chapter has achieved the highest GPA of any Greek organi - of fraternity life, but a visiting Phi brother was asked to speak zation on our campus. We were also honored with the to the pledge class, giving the pledges a sense of how the prestigious Chancellor’s Cup, an award given by the Inter- fraternity is so much more than just day to day life around Fraternity Council to the overall best fraternity on campus. the Hall. The new endeavors of the Phi Chapter this semester Continuing our tradition of strong inter-chapter relations, have involved many different kinds of activities to better our this semester Kappa has spread itself far and wide, as we vis - fraternity and its brethren. We hosted our first philan - ited Epsilon for an afternoon, drove to Phi and Xi over spring thropic event, the Delta Psi “Spring Fling” ultimate Frisbee break, and are currently planning a trip to Sigma for our en - tournament, and raised more than $1,100 to support the tire chapter. On top of that, two siblings are applying for a United Way. SAEF grant to work on an organic farm in Buenos Aires, Ar - Our lecture series has also expanded greatly throughout gentina, and they are inviting any interested members from this semester. Our lecture chair, Bro. Ryan Parsons, Φ’08, other chapters to accompany them for the experience. Never has brought in three lectures from various Ole Miss Faculty before have I seen so much time and effort spent on making members, including Bro. Vaughn Grisham, Φ’01. These all siblings a part of the Kappa experience, not just those who lectures and discussions have been very informative and live within the walls of King House. helped expand the intellectual curiosity of the brethren. Finally, back at home, we have just completed an extensive Our newest endeavor has been our spring alumni event. overhaul of our bylaws. Forming two small committees that This year marks the 10-year anniversary of the Phi Chap - worked in parallel though separately, we corrected the out - ter’s refounding on the campus of Ole Miss. Our spring event honored the 10 brothers of the Phi 1999 class and the dated, tweaked the grammar, and ended up making substan - overall progression the fraternity has made into 2009. tial changes to our new judicial system as well as our new system of dealing with inactivity. At the end of the day, Kappa has found a new energy over the last semester, and is ready for anything. sigma chapter YALE UNIVERSITY phi chapter Σ Report by Bradley Milam, Σ ’07 UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI Φ Report by Ryan Gregg, Φ’07 The mesmerizing duo of a violin and piano hit you as you turn your key and hang your coat in the foyer, the warmth and authentic gravitas of a nearly 100-year-old cas - Greetings from down in Dixie! I am happy to report that tle welcoming you home yet again. Members huddle and the Phi Chapter has continued to improve itself over the listen around the living room. A group studies downstairs spring semester.While continuing to excel in areas we have in the bar’s windowless timelessness as friends laugh in the focused on before, the spring has also been a time for Phi ladies’ lounge above. Two members read in the library; one to explore a series of new endeavors that have produced comforts another in the trophy room. The lights of our some great results. tower illuminate the sky along College and Wall, a clear in - After a strong fall rush, the spring brought in 19 new ac - dication to Yale and everyone else that its keepers—our tive Phi boys. During their time as new initiates, they have members—are busy. completed our newly renovated Junior Active Education Welcome to any old day at the Sigma chapter of St. An - Program (JAEP). Under the direction of Bro. John Lynch, thony Hall, whose current active membership of just over ’07, the Phi 2009 fall pledge class studied the various de - Φ 40 tends to our proverbial intellectual and personal growth tails of our books of ritual, bylaws, and forms of meeting. through not just these personal, everyday interactions that Their education has been very effective in training them to too often go unnoticed and undervalued in so broad a re - 16 chapter reports, continued port, but also through our official duties and responsibili - the newly refurnished Danforth room. It was therefore no ties, by way of no less than behemoth projects. surprise when, at the elections that took place at the end of the Nips and tucks to the aging building—a new piece of semester, several officer positions were filled by members of furniture here, plans to renovate the bar there—along with the Tau 2008 class. updates to satiate our technological desires (wireless Inter - The beginning of the spring semester was marked by a net in the tower!) keep the space open and functional. productive work weekend, in which we managed to finally Our public lecture series has, yet again, drawn house - clean out the basement and the old freshman room, now re - hold names for quite impressive crowds. Most recently, born as a double. After one year as house manager, I decided best-selling author Gay Talese, currently the John to take on the position of Bt., with high hopes and several Christophe Schlesinger Visiting Writer at Yale, gave a plans in mind. reading to a crowd of mingling members and nonmem - One of our main goals for this semester is to strengthen bers in our living room; acclaimed poet D.A. Powell did our alumni relations. We thank Sis. Angelica Osorno, Τ’02, the same; and Harvard Law professor and co-director of and Lizzie Krasner, Τ’04, who recently joined the SAAB Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, board as alumni liaisons and who helped us plan this year’s Jonathan Zittrain, lectured on his book. Also open to the Founders’ Day. Having taken place on April 4, Founders’ Day public are our usual Friday bar night and Tuesday break - was highly successful this year. For the first time, we ex - fast of pancakes and eggs, run by our steward, Diane Mis - tended invitations not only to hundreds of Tau alumni, but erendino. also to Delta Psi alumni currently residing in the greater On the private front, the 5 busies himself with advising Boston area. We thank Andrew K. Stein, Κ’03, the president the many members interested in applying for SAEF of the Saint Anthony Club of Boston, for his help in this re - grants, and our 6s prepare to update and then digitize our gard. Founders’ had a total attendance of more than 100 peo - 140 years of archival mass through the generosity of a ple, including many Taus (both undergraduate and alumni), chapter grant. The 4s successfully executed a GC feast and brothers from the Epsilon, Kappa, and Xi chapters, and plan ahead for the officer changeover and senior feasts, re - M.H.&E. Bro. Noble. spectively, and of course, the famed 98th annual Pump & Furthermore, we’ve had some very good fraternity meet - Slipper, whose incomparable luster is stuff of legend. Our ings this semester. As happens in the spring, the meeting 3 seeks further transparency and oversight of the budget time is mostly filled with new member presentations and sen - and the 2 has implemented a new structure to officers’ ior bios. All in all, our community looks great this semester. meetings, all the while pushing to make the Hall more ac - An ongoing rush is taking place throughout the spring, so we tive in the community at large. hope we’ll soon have the first members of the Τ’09 pledge On the alumni front, we look forward to reunions to be class. With around 45 active members this semester, the held in tandem with the AYA reunion calendar, with house is more vibrant than ever. meetings scheduled on May 28 and June 4 and subse - quent Hall-sponsored events over those respective week - ends. theta chapter In sum, our chapter is teeming with the steady buzz of PRINCETON UNIVERSITY activity. The unique, lively membership strives to main - Θ Report by Chanel Renée Deroche Carmona, Θ’07 tain a culture of openness and honesty. Traditions of old perpetuate, while progressivism of new—faces, ideas, projects, proposals—ensure a positive balance between Throughout the past six months, our chapter has once the good of both ages. With this balance do we continue again striven to build a strong sense of community and broth - to support the openness and respect, loyalty and trust, se - erhood among our membership. We have continued to sup - crecy, fidelity and love always present in our minds. We port each others’ academic, artistic, and intellectual passions. excitedly carry our Hall into another year. Theta maintains a strong relationship with its graduate chap - ter led by the supportive Bro. Smith, Θ’00. While we have no official relationship with Princeton University, our member - tau chapter ship continues to play an active role in university campus life, such as acting in musical theater troupes, dancing in our MIT most prestigious companies, and writing for various campus Τ Report by Ana-Maria Piso, T’06 publications. The 2009 undergraduate membership of the Theta chap - ter is 39—14 Θ’06, 14 Θ’07, and 11 Θ’08. Three of our mem - Last semester was very productive and flourishing for the bers—all from the Θ’07 class—are studying abroad this house and fraternity. After a highly successful rush, 15 fresh - semester. Bro. Rafael Palomino is in Buenos Aires, Argentina, men, sophomores, juniors, and even one MIT graduate have Bro. Dov Kaufmann is in Sydney, Australia, and Sis. Britta Red - joined the pledge class of 2008. The pledges’ involvement wood is in Paris, France. Over the past semester we have had was reflected in several successful social events, as well as in more than a quorum of members present at every meeting and their permanent presence in the second-floor lounge or in 17 chapter reports, continued continue to enjoy strong membership participation in all of our chapter events. xi chapter At the end of February, we also completed one of our most UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA successful rush periods. About 100 freshmen and sophomores Ξ Report by Amy Olsen, Ξ’06 rushed our chapter, and we offered bids to 13 new pledges, five young men and eight young women. Over the past month, they have proven to be a dynamic and valuable asset in chapter Greetings from the Xi Chapter! Currently Xis are in the events, injecting our organization with a newfound vigor and usual tizzy getting ready for Swingout, which promises to be sense of purpose. On April 10, under the guidance of another rip-roaring success due to our lovely Swingout chairs, Pledgemistress Rachel Poser and Pledgemaster Martin Sis. Fiona Matthe ws and Sis. Tasha Wilson. Scheeler, the new pledge class was initiated at the Alpha house This year, Friday night cocktails will also feature an open in New York City. mic for undergrads and alums, alike where music, poetry, Overall, the Theta Chapter is doing well. We plan to build prose and performances of all variety are welcome. If this re - upon our successes in the upcoming months and hope to one port were due later, maybe y’all could hear some highlights. day secure a chapter house four our membership. Hopefully those of you who were able to attend are now think - ing back to the wonderful time you had with us. In other news, two of our brothers from Phi are asleep up - upsilon chapter stairs, having traveled up for our spring pledge formal. Tonight UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA we will be celebrating our four newest brothers and sisters! In Υ Report by Ryan Mostrom, Υ’06 terms of inter-chapter relations, our ties with Phi and Kappa continue to grow in strength. The Upsilon Chapter continues to thrive as one of the pre - Brothers and sisters all! It should not stop there! Other chap - mier organizations at the University of Virginia. ters are more than welcome at our ivied halls. Please visit and From an academic perspective, we are pleased to report that expand the bonds, y’all! our chapter GPA continues to remain in the top half of the Spring semester is a tough one for Xis, but nevertheless Inter-Fraternity Council for at least the past five years, as well as we’ve been working to improve our campus image and expand higher than the university student average. Upsilon brothers our service and philanthropy projects. This semester, Sis. also continue to serve as leaders at the university. Our dominat - Annie Peacock and I met with one of the campus deans to dis - ing presence on the Honor Committee, the Inter-Fraternity cuss ways to improve our image and renew our reputation as Council, and our presence of volunteers with the Madison a place to go for awesome literary and artistic activities that is House confirm our commitment to service and leadership. also dedicated to service and philanthropy instead of just “that In fact, several of our members serve the Honor System as place with the awesome parties.” officers, two of our members serve as representatives from their For this reason, Xi has decided to experiment with bringing respective schools on the Honor Committee itself, and the vice in speakers connected to all things literary and artistic for the chairman for community relations on the Honor Committee, enjoyment of the UNC campus and the Chapel Hill/Carrboro Tyler Alexander, calls Upsilon home. community at large. We’ll be sure to advertise the dates for all Within the Inter-Fraternity Council, Upsilon currently holds these events! several offices on the governing board, including one of the In terms of a service and philanthropy update, I’ll stick to highest offices on the council. Lastly, many brothers dedicate what the chapter has been working on as a whole since there time to the Madison House big brothers/big sisters program to are too many individual projects to mention. After our “Word mentor young inner-city children. on your Arm” party in January, we donated $500 in proceeds Our social agenda continues to be a success, including per - to the Orange County Rape Crisis Center and put the rest in formances by several bands, including the popular band “Ra - our slowly growing “fix the deck” kitty. In addition, we are dioCult” and the annual 24-hour party sponsored this year by fundraising for the Fundación A. Jean Brugger, which is a non - Red Bull. Within the realm of athletics, Upsilon remains strong. profit where Xi alumna Mara Jacobsohn, Ξ’93, works. Our brotherhood includes three Division I varsity athletes, If you’re hungry for more Xi happenings, I strongly encour - many club sports players, and dozens of other brothers who en - age you to log onto the national website and read the Xi Chap - gage in athletic endeavors on a daily basis. ter Chronicles. You don’t want to miss reading the synopsis of From a philanthropic perspective, Upsilon is in the midst of the Ridgeway Award-winning oration from this past GC given planning its annual Billy Hill Memorial 5k Run, an event that by Sis. Jordan Price! draws hundreds of participants and thousands of dollars to the American Heart Association. We thank all those alumni who generously give resources to this cause. With respect to recruitment, 2009 has been a fantastic year REPORTS FROM GRADUATE CHAPTERS AND here at Upsilon. 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