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CHAI RMAN’S LETTE R Brothers, Friends, and Parents, In just a few months ΔKE will commemorate its 175th anniversary and we hope you will join in the celebrations. The actual date, June 22nd, will see a gala evening in New York City at the DKE Club but there are numerous other events throughout North America. Everyone is encouraged to attend to reconnect with old friends, meet new ones, and—of course—participate in the Lion March.

It’s easy to dismiss 175 as just another anniversary for an organization that has seemingly been around forever, like the telephone or General Electric. But put into context, it’s truly remarkable.

General Electric wouldn’t be founded for almost a half century after ΔKE and the telephone would take 32 more years to be invented. In fact, the same year ΔKE was founded the first telegraph was sent. The United States itself was only 68 years old that year and the confederation of Canada would be 23 years after ΔKE’s founding.

Needless to say, 175 is a big accomplishment. Our tradition of leadership has played a major role; thank you to everyone who has served on a local alumni board, house corporation, foundation board, the international board or in any other leadership role. Our thanks also go to all of the chapter consultants and other members of staff over the years. The collaborative effort of alumni volunteers and our professional staff is critical to our success.

Likewise, ΔKE would not be among the oldest and most respected Greek-letter organizations today without the generous support of so many of you. Our donors, many of whom are recognized in this issue of the The DEKE Quarterly, continue a strong tradition of providing the next generation with the opportunity to become Dekes. Thank you for your generosity, commitment, and dedication.

Ultimately, however, ΔKE is successful because every year young men choose to become part of ΔKE and its legacy. We focus on attracting campus leaders, providing them with skills and tools to thrive, and instilling lifelong connections of friendship and support. We appreciate and recognize the trust they, and their parents, place in us, which is why we strive every day to deliver the resources of a word-class organization.

So join us to celebrate, but also to volunteer, donate, and make a difference in the lives of future generations of Dekes.

In the Bonds,

Michael Peters Delta Delta – University of Chicago ’90 Chairman, Delta Kappa Epsilon International

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IN THIS ISSUE

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2018 DONORS TO ΔKE

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PSI RETREAT

IN EVERY ISSUE SPECIAL REPORT

BROTHER BETA ACADEMY

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CHAIRMAN’S LETTER

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HQ REPORT

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DEKE NEWS

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DEKES UNDER 30

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FORGOTTEN GREATS COVER STORY

175th CELEBRATION

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CHAPTER & COLONY NEWS

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MYSTIC CIRCLE

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CHAPTER ROLL

PUBLISHED BY Delta Kappa Epsilon International 3001 Plymouth Road, Suite 205 Ann Arbor, MI 48105 (734) 302-4210 www.dke.org ΔKE BOARD OF DIRECTORS Michael Peters, Delta Delta ’90, Chairman Peter Tripp, Phi Gamma ’93, Vice Chairman Ross Wigle, Alpha Phi ’79, Treasurer Charles Jones, Eta ’56, Honorary President Craig Lengyel, Gamma ’89, Honorary President Neilson Brown, Beta ’67 Cory Crenshaw, Tau Lambda ’01 Bob Green, Eta ’69 Carl Haynes, Beta Tau ’19 Dan Johnson, Sigma Alpha ’77 Stan McMillan, Gamma ’89 John McNeil, Psi ’79 Craig Miarecki, Delta Delta ’94 Mason Morjikian, Lambda ’88 Kevin O’Bryon, Tau Lambda ’77 Terry Stewart, Phi Chi ’69 ΔKE HQ STAFF Executive Director: Doug Lanpher, Gamma ’77 Associate Executive Director: Mike Hilts, Gamma ’76 Director of Health & Safety Initiatives: Trey Robb Director of Chapter Services: Craig Dick, Phi Alpha ’16 Director of Alumni Services: Turner Spears, Lambda Tau ’16 Chapter Consultant: Tommy Desch, Delta ’17 Chapter Consultant: Garrett Hybarger, Delta ’18 Chapter Consultant: Torrey Talifer, Omicron ’18 ΔKE QUARTERLY STAFF Publisher: Doug Lanpher, Gamma ’77 Co-editor: Robert Alvis, Gamma ’74 Co-editor: Kevin Cuneo, Gamma ’77 Design: Scott-Goodman Design THE DEKE QUARTERLY is published by Delta Kappa Epsilon in Fall, Winter, Spring, and Summer.

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SPECIAL REPORT

ROCKING AT OLE MISS

HQ REPORT Greetings to all Deke Brothers and Friends,

who contact us looking to start up a new fraternity chapter on their campus. Those six simple words reflect so well the type of fraternity that they envision but does not exist on their campus - a brotherhood of well rounded men.

With spring here, our thoughts turn to the 175th Anniversary of our great Fraternity, now only a couple of months away. It’s our time to celebrate this amazing brotherhood we are all part of the friendships made, the achievements of our chapters and our individual members, the positive impact our Fraternity has made in society, and the personal growth and enrichment from which so many of us have benefited through our membership in ΔKE. I look forward to attending many of the regional celebrations and of course the big event in New York City on Founders Day, June 22.

In the Objects of ΔKE, we see a more complete expression of our Founders’ vision for the expectation of our members, which now form the tenet of our organization.

If it’s been a few years (or more) since you’ve seen the Objects, it’s worth reprinting them here: The Objects of Delta Kappa Epsilon are:

Doug Lanpher, Executive Director

The writings of our Founders are fascinating to read, because they reflect a group of young men who had noble goals and high aspirations. As with most visionaries, they were dissatisfied with the status quo. Although they liked the concept of membership in a society in which young men can freely congregate, they were dissatisfied with the two fraternities then in existence at Yale. Our Founders, who were all sophomores, believed that those two groups were too narrowly focused on accruing academic and social honors amongst themselves - in today’s parlance, we might call them “stuffy elitists.”

The fifteen young men who met on a Saturday in Room 12, Old South Hall on Yale’s campus, had the idea that although the pursuit of academic excellence is in itself noble and important, there should be more to a fraternity. They believed a fraternity should encourage the development of a well-rounded man. This led to the words which have since become immortalized in the annals of ΔKE, and which formed the basis of our motto: “That candidate most favored was he who combined in the most equal proportions the gentleman, the scholar, and the jolly good-fellow.”

Those words - gentlemen, scholars, and jolly good fellows - resonate with us still today, 175 years later, because they reflect a multi-dimensional man, one who leads a life of purpose and of admirable behavior. It is interesting to note that these words still resonate with young men today; our motto attracts potential chapter founders

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• The cultivation of general literature and social culture, • The advancement and encouragement of intellectual excellence,

• The promotion of honorable friendship and useful citizenship, • The development of a spirit of tolerance and respect for the rights and views of others, • The maintenance of gentlemanly dignity, self-respect, and morality in all circumstances, and • The union of stout hearts and kindred interests to secure to merit its due reward.

The next few months will be our opportunity to celebrate our glorious past, while also looking forward to continuing to live up to the ideals espoused so eloquently by our Founders in 1844. Those ideals stood the test of time, and they are still with us and inspiring us today.

Our love for ΔKE and our pride in her heritage and ideals continue to inspire us to honor ΔKE as she honors us.

In the Bonds,

Doug Lanpher, Gamma ’77 Executive Director, Delta Kappa Epsilon

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he Delta Kappa Epsilon Board of Directors created a new voluntary staff position in October called DKE Archivist and Historian. It then offered Grant D. Burnyeat, Phi Alpha ’65, the chance to serve as the fraternity’s first member to fill that role.

Recently retired from the board, Burnyeat accepted the role and assumed duties in January.

When he served as a DKE Board Member, Brother Burnyeat particularly relished acting as Chairman of the History Committee. “This role recognizes Grant’s extensive contributions and generosity in preserving DKE history, and the standards he sets will serve as the benchmark for continuing this work well into the future,” says Board Chair Michael Peters.

Many Brothers may not realize that Grant researches, writes and produces This Day in Deke History, a Facebook journal that chronicles prominent Deke events and members for every day of the year through our history.

(Visit daily at https://www.facebook.com/ TDIDEKEH)

The archivist/historian reports to the Board of Directors and makes recommendations for ways to improve the acquisition and retention of artifacts related to the fraternity. He also advises chapter leaders and alumni,

GOULD NAMED CHIEF COUNSEL AT U.S. TREASURY BUREAU

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ekes are accustomed to seeing Brothers climb to lofty positions in national government. The latest to move up the ranks: Jonathan Gould, Zeta ’98, was named to the post of Chief Counsel and Senior Deputy Controller at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (the OCC) in Washington, D.C. at the end of December. In his new role, Brother Gould oversees the agency’s legal activities, including advisory services to banks and examiners, litigation, enforcement and compliance activities, legislative initiatives, and regulation of corporate practices of national banks and federal savings associations.

Steve Setka moves the ball in Aussie Rules football.

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ALPHA TAU DEKE ASCENDS IN AUSSIE RULES FOOTBALL

Rob Colburn

BURNYEAT TAKES NEW HISTORIAN POST

encouraging them to collect and organize historical materials.

“Among the projects I’ve always wanted to tackle is to enlist at least one person per chapter to take on the role of local DKE historian,” Grant says.

“We might have a third of our chapters and colonies doing some of that important work now, but it could be better managed across all our locations. We need undergraduates and alumni alike safeguarding materials that preserve and tell more of the story of DKE.”

teve Setka, Alpha Tau ’15, is climbing rungs on the rugby ladder, or at least in a sport similar to rugby, a few short years after he graduated from the University of Manitoba. The tall 27year old is both passionate about and becoming a star in “Aussie Rules” football, a sport he “hadn’t even heard of ” until a few years ago. In February, Setka made the initial cut for The Northwind, an all-Canadian squad that will compete a seventh consecutive time in the Australian Football International Cup, an amateur world championship set for Melbourne, Australia in 2020.

Setka has played two years with the Winnipeg Bears, an Australian or “Aussie Rules” football club in Manitoba. He is the first Manitoban to be selected to train for the Canadian AFL team. To make the final squad of 30 and compete in Australia, he next must survive two more cuts from training camps in Edmonton and Toronto.

Setka, whose 6-foot-1 frame and athletic skills serve him well as a forward linesman, says the sport mixes elements of hockey, football, rugby, and basketball-- sports he played in high school. While the game resembles American rugby, with an oval ball and players not using pads, it features more players--teams of 18. It’s also less physical than either rugby or football, and scores are tallied only by kicking.

After earning his bachelor’s degree from Princeton University, Gould went on to earn his law degree from Washington and Lee University. The OCC, an independent bureau of the U.S. Treasury, supervises nearly 1400 national banks, federal savings associations, and federal branches and agencies of foreign banks.

Gould joins the OCC from the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, where he also served as Chief Counsel. Previously, Gould worked at BlackRock and Promontory Financial Group, as well as Alston & Bird LLP.

MU ANNOUNCES SCHOLARSHIP, TEMPLE RENOVATION

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u chapter Brothers spanning nearly 60 years and their guests gathered on February 9 at the Yale Club in New York City for their annual winter reception. As tradition holds, the event drew well, with more than 100 people attending.

Addressing the group, Alumni President Sean Devlin, ’05, cheerfully proclaimed, “The alumni chapter is going strong!” He announced $20,000 in scholarships awarded to Colgate undergraduates and the conclusion of a $2.1 million w w w.d ke.o rg

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DEKE NEWS ago and never got it back.

The good news is that replacement “standard badges” -- with your name, greek letters of your chapter, and class year inscribed on the back -- are available for $40 in 4 to 6 weeks from our DKE vendor, www.greekmarketplace.net.

Be sure to wear your pin when attending one of the many 175th Anniversary celebrations.

MARK YOUR CALENDAR: NOLA LUNCHEON

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he DKE Club of New Orleans announced it will host a luncheon Friday, April 12 in New Orleans. The gathering at Galatoire’s Restaurant on Bourbon Street, which boasts an historic heritage dating to 1905, expects to be a fine warm up to the club’s celebration of DKE’s 175th Anniversary, planned for June 1. The April event will feature remarks from DKE Executive Director Doug Lanpher. For more information, or to reserve your seat at the table, contact John Humphreys, Zeta Zeta ’80, at humphreysj@eaganins. com.

REPLACE YOUR DIAMOND PIN OF OUR JOLLY FRATERNITY

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BROTHERHOOD KEEPS CHAPTER WARM IN CHICAGO

arly on January 30, temperatures in Chicago plunged to -23F. The next day, they tumbled further to -27, matching Chicago’s coldest temperature ever recorded. The Chicago River

s we approach our ten celebrations across North America to ring in DKE’s 175th year, perhaps you have come to realize you never did replace that diamond pin of our jolly fraternity. Maybe you lost it in that last household move, or pinned it on a girlfriend decades

froze over completely. The brutal cold spanned more than 80 hours.

It may have been the coldest days in Chicago for over 40 years, but the Dekes of Delta Delta at the University of Chicago figured out how to warm up the brotherhood, according to Ben Wormsley, the chapter’s president.

“We had classes cancelled for two days and spent most of the time indoors,” Wormsley says.

But, Wormsley also reported that, to make the most of the

weather event, the chapter “held a brotherhood movie marathon and several more brotherhood events.” Wormsley also helped make certain the Brotherhood events were a success. Since his car was among the few that started without trouble, he went out to pick up members and bring them back to the events.

DKE TRIVIA Did you know….?

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Delta Delta brotherhood events warmed up Chicago’s coldest day in 40 years.

DEKES TOAST HOLIDAYS AND NEW COLONY IN CALGARY

few years ago, Brothers from DKE chapters who now live near Calgary, Alberta began a new holiday tradition. In December, they continued the practice by gathering a 5th consecutive year at the Vintage Chophouse for the DKE Steakhouse Christmas Dinner.

While attendees were surely gentlemen, scholars, and jolly good fellows in equal proportions, the holiday revelers stacked the equation heavily on the jolly side for this event.

Those gathered shared stories of DKE, fine brotherhood, and fine food and spirits--including Alberta wagyu ribeyes and Chateauneuf du Pape. The festive group is likely to grow in size and cheeriness in the coming years, since DKE has a new colony under development at the University of Calgary.

The undergraduate men building the colony are being led by future Deke Hayden Kerr, the son of Randy Kerr, Delta Phi ’91.

Kerr is currently the United Conservative Party’s candidate for a legislative assembly seat in Alberta.

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hat the term “Teddy Bear” originated from President Teddy Roosevelt (Alpha-Harvard), after a 1902 hunting trip. Attendants to the president had tied a black bear to a willow tree after an exhausting chase with hounds.

Brother Roosevelt refused to shoot the bear, deeming it unsportsmanlike. A political cartoon about the incident inspired Morris Michtom to create a new toy, a small stuffed bear cub. After getting permission to use Roosevelt’s name, Michtom put a bear in his shop window with a sign reading “Teddy’s Bear.” By 1906, ladies carried “Roosevelt Bears” everywhere, children were photographed with them, and Brother Roosevelt used one as a mascot in his reelection bid.

Colin Morgan

capital campaign to repair and update the Mu Temple.

Renovation work on the brick neo-gothic meeting hall that Dekes built themselves in 1877 on the Colgate University campus will extend throughout the year.

The DEKE Quarterly staff looks forward to sharing details when it is complete, though some updates should be available from Mu Brothers this summer, as they expect to return to the Yale Club with a big contingent to celebrate Deke’s 175th.

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JAMES FOWLER, PSI ’11 HUNTSVILLE NATIVE SOARS TO THE TOP OF MARITIME INDUSTRY

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ames Fowler has already lived a lifetime in his first 29 years. As an undergraduate at University of Alabama, Fowler led a drive that earned international coverage when in the spring of 2011 a series of devastating tornadoes ripped through the south, including 19 Alabama counties, killing more than 300 people.

Fowler, a top officer at Psi, cofounded UA Greek Relief, which raised over $250,000 and served more than 10,000 meals a day out of the DKE House kitchen. “We started by pulling food out of our freezers and then we ordered truckloads of food that we prepared for the victims and relief workers,” Fowler recalled. The allhands-on-deck effort fed hundreds of people for days, winning praise for the Dekes from coast to coast. Time magazine featured a photo of the Psi brothers pitching in to help the community.

“In the months and years later, the university took over the project which has now raised millions of dollars for relief,” Fowler said.

President of the student government at Alabama, he went on to get a masters in business administration at Tulane University.

Then he traded academia for a pair of work boots, becoming operations manager for Crescent Towing in New Orleans, one of the nation’s largest ship-assist tug service providers. “I had no idea I wanted to be in the maritime industry, but I learned the business by working on ships, cranes, docks and so many other parts of the industry. I worked night shifts, holidays and weekends, gaining just enough knowledge to be dangerous,” he joked.

Today, Fowler serves as vice-president of Cooper/T. Smith Corporation, which is headquartered in Mobile, AL, and operates in 38 ports in the United States, Brazil and Mexico. The company runs warehousing, terminal operations, tugboats, push boats, barging, floating terminals, logistics, forestry, vessel repair and more.

“I work for the Coopers, a family of great Dekes who have been running this business for four generations,” Fowler said. “The Coopers have a rich history of recruiting Psi Dekes and it seems that at work there are brothers to the left of me and to the right of me.

I’m fortunate that the Coopers have mentored me for years, and I regularly turn to them for advice.”

Fowler also serves as treasurer of the Psi alumni house corporation, which advises on operations, collections and works

“Throughout my years at Psi and now in my career, I’ve been extremely fortunate to have been surrounded and mentored by outstanding people”

with staff all tethered to the DKE chapter. With David Cooper, Psi ’67, he helped organize a recent two-day retreat for undergraduate and alumni Psi Dekes (covered later in this issue), which proved to be a great success.

Life seems to move pretty quickly these days for Fowler, who also serves on Mobile’s Chamber of Commerce and plays a significant role on the Mobile Airport Authority, which is building a major international airport in the city’s downtown area.

Married to Meg McCrummen Fowler, his college sweetheart, James points out that he met the girl of his dreams at the DKE House.

“Throughout my years at Psi and now in my career, I’ve been extremely fortunate to have been surrounded and mentored by outstanding people,” Fowler said. “I’ve learned that to win and sustain business, one must develop, leverage, and protect a competitive advantage that’s focused on the needs of the customer.

Good leaders need to maintain an interdependent culture in which team members feel ownership and responsibility for the company’s overall success.” w w w.d ke.o rg

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SPECIAL REPORT

ATTENDANCE AND PARTICIPATION IMPROVES AT THIRD BROTHER BETA ACADEMY

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scriptions he wrote in every book. or Delta Kappa EpThe meetings began bright and silon’s Brother Beta early on Saturday morning at the Academy, the third Fund for American Studies headtime proved to be the quarters, located in the heart of charm. Top fraterniWashington’s embassy district. Sesty officers from 23 sions on social event management chapters met in January for a full and chapter leadership set the tone weekend of serious discussion, for two days of serious work. leadership seminars and fun in “The Brother Beta Academy has Washington, D.C. successfully gathered the fraternity’s Attendance at the academy rising leaders to discuss current improved for the third consecutive issues and encourage the practice of year, as undergraduate leaders networking among their peers,” said worked with DKE headquarters staff DKE Executive Director Doug Lanto gain experience in many aspects Top: Brother Betas and DKE HQ staff in lobby of Fund for pher. “The feedback we’ve received of running a successful chapter. After American Studies headquarters. Above: Health & Safety in recent weeks from the brothers arriving on Friday at the well-apDirector Trey Robb giving a presentation on DKE standards. has been outstanding. As we hoped, pointed Kimpton Carlyle Hotel, lomany have remained in close touch cated near DuPont Circle, everyone each undergraduate and autographed with their brothers from various chapters, adjourned to an opening reception, which copies of his memoir, “The Windmill which has strengthened our bonds, drawing featured remarks by longtime U.S. ConChaser, Triumphs and Less in American us closer together.” gressman Bob Livingston, Tau Lambda ’67.

Politics.” Many undergraduates called As the chapter leaders shared ideas Livingston spoke about his years in meeting and chatting with Livingston on planning, goal setting, the elimination DKE, which he said positively influenced a highlight of the weekend. They were of hazing, and proactive delegation, they practically every aspect of his personal especially impressed by the personal inresponded positively to sessions led by and professional life. He also met with 8 THE DEKE QUARTERLY | SPRING 2019

DKE headquarters staffers, including Turner Spears, Mike Hilts, Craig Dick, Trey Robb, Tommy Desch, Torrey Talifer and Garret Hybarger.

Devin Byrne, Delta Rho ’20, said the leadership sessions fired his enthusiasm for making improvements at his chapter.

“We’ve already had a shift in culture, and what I’ve learned here will help put us on the right track,” he said.

Levi Sumrall, a junior at University of Mississippi, said what he experienced at the Brother Beta Academy reinforced his belief in DKE’s motto: Friends from the heart forever. “The most important thing I’ve taken from these sessions is how vital communi-

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cation is, especially since as a colony, Chi is a young group,” he said. “I’ve also made a lot of friends here who my Chi brothers and I will be able to call upon. This has been a great experience for me.”

Connor McAllister, a junior at Wake Forest, said the leadership sessions taught him the importance of keeping the right attitude. “We are learning at Psi Delta that you must have the proper attitude to be able to adjust to change,” he said.

“Hearing that same message from the rest of the guys here has convinced me.”

Garrick Spennewyn, Phi Epsilon ’19, who attended the academy for the second year in a row, said learning the policies

and practices of DKE made a big impact on him as he returned to his chapter.

“What’s remained the same from last time is the closeness of the brothers,” Garrick said. “We might come from all parts of North America, but Dekes seem to have so much in common.”

Nathan Maietta, a Gannon University sophomore, said he had just taken over as Brother Beta at Gamma Iota. “I didn’t know what to expect at these meetings, but have learned how willingly everyone shares,” he said. “I’ve heard so many good ideas from so many brothers, and I can’t wait to take them back to our chapter.”

THE WINDMILL CHASER

Bob tells a lot of interesting ob Livingston has and funny stories in the book. written a fascinating For example, while in the Navy political memoir called in 1962, he was heading to The Windmill Chaser. Bob, Cuba as part of the naval force a Deke from Tau Lambda which would enforce Kennedy’s (Tulane), served in the U.S. blockade during the Missile House of Representatives Crisis, when the crisis ended. from 1977-1999, and now And you’ll enjoy reading about heads up his own lobbying some of the wild and crazy peofirm in Washington, D.C. ple he prosecuted in the DisAs a prominent leader in trict Attorney and US Attorney the Republican Party, first as offices. He also openly addressAppropriations Committee es - and takes responsibility for Chairman, then rising to the - the events that eventually led number two position in the Bob Livingston signed copies of his book for all Brother Betas to the end of his congressional House (Majority Leader), Bob career. But what I enjoyed most about was in the middle of the action in DC He also pulls no punches when writing the book is that it is written in a very for the Reagan years and the George about many of the top political leaders conversational style; the reader feels as Bush (41) and Clinton administrations. who framed the political landscape in the if he could be sitting around the living He was closely aligned with Newt Ginyears that Bob has been involved. There room with Bob, listening to him talk grich, and with Newt, helped formulate is a lot of “inside baseball” here, as Bob about his experiences and opinions. and execute the Republicans’ successexplains how decisions get made in D.C. And there is plenty of Deke material in ful 1994 strategy to retake the House.

If you’re interested in an “insider’s” perhere too; it’s clear that Bob’s DKE relaBob has spoken at numerous Deke spective, this is the book for you. tionships mean a lot to him, not only in events over the years, and has reBob tells of an important lesson he college, but still today. mained a loyal and involved Brother learned early in his career, a lesson from The phrase “Chasing Windmills” since joining DKE in college. which many of today’s hard liners on both usually refers to pursuing an ideal bigger Windmill Chaser is a very personal sides could benefit. Namely, that in politics, than yourself, and striving to live up to memoir, as Bob retells experiences regardless of how strongly you feel about a visions of what we - and the world - can from his early life (including college certain issue, you’re better off getting the be. Bob has devoted his professional life years and DKE), his legal career as a best deal you can when negotiating with to that notion, and his book is a patriprosecutor, and then his entry into the other side, rather than holding out in otic and inspirational story about the politics and reaching the heights of hopes of getting everything you want. Not quest of one man to serve the country influence in the House. Bob is a very only is that a more effective way of govhe loves, in the best way he could. opinionated guy; he states his views erning, but it also helps build relationships Please go to amazon.com to very clearly and energetically, whether on both sides of the aisle - something Bob order “The Windmill Chaser,” by Bob about US monetary and fiscal policy, was great at - and something that is surely Livingston.

– Doug Lanpher foreign affairs, or domestic policies. missing from today’s environment. w w w.d ke.o rg

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RINGING IN ΔKE’s Please help us celebrate ΔKE’s 175th Anniversary.

PARTY LIKE IT’S 1909!

The grand gala event will be held at the Yale Club in New York City on June 21-22, 2019; tickets are still available.

Dekes from all chapters and of all ages will gather to celebrate the anniversary of ΔKE’s founding on June 22, 1844. ΔKE hosted a black tie affair in NY’s Hotel Astor in December 1909 to celebrate Robert E. Peary, Theta ’77, becoming the first man to reach the North Pole in April that year.

Celebrate with your Chapter Brothers by reserving a table for 10, or a portion of a table.

10% discount for a table of 10!

For more info or to purchase tickets, please call, email, or go online: TURNER SPEARS 865.438.4739 TURNER@DKE.ORG • WWW.DKE.ORG/175th 10 THE DEKE QUARTERLY | SPRING 2019

YEAR OF CELEBRATION! Regional celebrations to be held throughout North America Vancouver, BC March 21-23

STRENGTHEN OUR BROTHERHOOD AND BONDS - NOW AND FOREVER

Washington, DC April 27

Chicago, IL May 18

Nashville, TN May 18

New Orleans, LA June 1

Atlanta, GA Sept 21

Boston, MA TBD

Houston, TX TBD

Toronto, ON TBD

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e hope you can join us at one of the regional celebrations currently planned in the cities listed in the panel on this page, leading up to the grand celebration in New York City on June 22.

Our theme for this year is “Strengthen our Brotherhood and Bonds Now and Forever.”

All the events promise to be great opportunities to celebrate what ΔKE has meant to each of us throughout the years of our membership. $100 Honor Roll Brothers Help Sponsor our Anniversary Celebrations Any Brother who wishes to have his name printed in the Banquet Program at the 175th Anniversary dinner at the Yale Club in NYC may do so by enrolling in the Honor Roll program for $100. Your name will also appear as an Honor Roll sponsor in the special edition of The DEKE Quarterly which will be distributed on the evening of the Banquet.

If you would like to support the 175th as an individual Honor Roll Brother, please write a check to Delta Kappa Epsilon for $100 with “Honor Roll” in the memo line and mail to: Jim Gray, DKE International, 3001 Plymouth Rd., Suite 205, Ann Arbor, MI 48105 Or, visit http://bit.ly/175HonorRole and enroll online.

The Deke Foundation Supports ΔKE’s Educational Initiatives The Deke Foundation is a charitable educational foundation for supporting ΔKE undergraduate members through scholarships and leadership programming. Donations to the Deke Foundation are fully tax deductible in the U.S., and donors can allocate up to 50% of their donations to their chapters.

Your support is greatly appreciated. Please consider making a $1,000 tax-deductible donation in 2019 to the Deke Foundation to support these critical initiatives. Please visit http://bit.ly/dekefoundation.

Thank you!

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THE NIGHT MUDDY WATERS ROCKED PARTIES AT CHI ATTRACTED BIG-NAME PERFORMERS ACROSS THREE DECADES

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ore than 50 years ago, Delta Kappa Epsilon’s Chi Chapter at the University of Mississippi hosted some amazing performers at the fraternity’s dances. Muddy Waters, the great Chicago bluesman, and Howlin’ Wolf, the blues singer and harmonica player, were regulars at

the Deke House.

“We had some tremendous performers for the pure enjoyment of the brothers and their friends,” recalled Bill Morris, Chi ’64, who was president of the chapter in 1962.

“David Hervey, who loved music, was a year ahead of me at Chi and he brought in some incredible names. We had Danny White and the Cavaliers, Little Milton, Slim Harpo, Jesse Hill out of New Orleans, and Doug Clark from Chapel Hill.

“The day after Doug Clark performed, the dean summoned me to his office,” Morris said. “Doug had used some colorful language during his show, and the dean had already heard about it from several people who were there. He suggested that we not invite Mr. Clark back, even though he’d put on a great show. I agreed and got the heck out of there.”

Morris said he remembers those nights of music at the Ole Miss Deke House with great fondness. “People to this day talk and write about those parties,” he said. “One night we had the Vibrations out of Chicago, and people on campus wanted to know how they could get tickets to come to our party. But all the tickets were taken, which left a lot of people out in the cold,” said Morris, 76.

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Above left: Pictured at the R&B Pioneer Awards are Floyd Dixon, Fat Domino and Bill Morris. Above: It was a magic moment for Bill Pinkney, Bill Morris, Prentiss Barnes, and Rufus McKay.

Richie Burnette, a Chi Deke who followed Morris by several years, recalls a story when a long line of people, without tickets, waited impatiently to hear the music. “We had five bands playing at once, including one on the roof,” Burnette, Chi ’68, said. One Ole Miss co-ed, the reigning Miss America, tried to sneak into the Deke House by climbing through a bathroom window. “Yes, the Dekes were the Goliaths of fraternity parties at Ole Miss,” Burnette said.

He also remembered when the Dekes had so many bands playing at their party that the KA’s, whose band never showed up, “asked if they could borrow one of our bands. We shared one of our groups,” Burnette said.

Music not only filled the souls of the DKE bothers at Ole Miss, it helped Morris fund his education. “My dad had a lot of foresight, and he insisted that I pay a portion of my tuition.

To do that, I teamed up with Hervey to sponsor dances around Oxford and Jackson,” he said. “We brought in some big names and the dances went off in style.”

Burnette, who started playing in a band when he was in high

THE OLE MISS DEKE HOUSE

By Kevin Cuneo, Gamma ’77

Left: The Moonglows perform at the DooWop Hall of Fame ceremonies. Above: Bill Morris shares old times with Bill Pinkney shortly before the singer’s death.

From that “historic encounter,” as Morris calls it, he went school in the Mississippi Delta country, said books have been on to establish close friendships with some of the biggest doowritten about the incredible fraternity parties at Ole Miss from wop era singers. He produced the first two gospel albums by the 1945-70. After a long career in banking, he’s back playing with Drifters and over the new few years found himself singing with such popular groups as Solid Gold and the Fabulous Doo Vays, the band during its induction to the Rock which regularly perform in Memphis and and Roll Hall of Fame. He also continued throughout the south.

“We brought in performing with the Moonglows, including “I served as vice-president in the chapter at the group’s final performance at Boston and my big duty was to function as the social some big names Symphony Hall at ceremonies for the Doochairman,” Burnette said. “One night we and the dances Wop Hall of Fame. booked Booby Moore, who had a No. 1 hit at went off in style.”

“Best of all, I became close friends with the time, ‘Searching for my Baby,’ and he was many of the singers who had been my heroes backing up Spyder Turner, who had a No. 1 hit when I was young,” Morris said. “I even spoke with ‘Stand By Me.’ That was something, two at many of their funerals, which I consider to be among the red-hot bands playing at the Deke House at the same time.” highlights of my life.”

In 1964, Morris said he had an opportunity to book a hot Through it all, Morris kept meticulous notes and is putting the band from England called the Beatles. A friend said he could finishing touches on “This Magic Moment,” a memoir about his arrange a Beatles show in Atlanta if Morris could come up with relationship with the music and the musicians. “The strength of an advance payment of $50,000. “I thought about going to my book lies in the chemistry that existed between the singers and my uncle for a loan, but then decided against it,” Morris said. myself,” Morris said. “These are the kind of friendships that change “Then the Beatles went on the Ed Sullivan Show and the rest is the world. When people of different backgrounds and races come history.” together, with the love given from above, miracles happen.”

After his hitch in the U.S. Army ended, Morris thought “This Magic Moment” is due out in early 2019. seriously about becoming an entertainment promoter. “But In addition to their famous parties, Burnette points out that after careful consideration, I decided to get into the insurance of the 26 Rhodes Scholars who studied at Ole Miss, three were business, which turned out to be a great move for me. I’ve had a Dekes. “The first Ole Miss graduate to serve as chancellor of the lot of success and have no complaints.” college was a Chi Deke, and one of our faculty members – also In the 1980s, Morris was in Washington, D.C., for a meeting a Chi Deke – performed the wedding vows for William Faulkner with Connecticut Mutual Life when he spotted an advertisement and his wife,” Burnette said. for the Moonglows, a popular doo-wop band from the 1950s that “So, you see, we had some great times in college, but was performing at a local club. “Clyde McPhatter, who had been DKE during that era ranked first in all the major categories the lead tenor for the Drifters, was singing with the Moonglows – academics, athletics, and fun. We really lived the slogan of that night, and he invited me onstage to sign with the band,” gentlemen, scholars and jolly good fellows,” Burnette said.

Morris said. “It was one of those life-changing moments.”

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DELTA KAPPA EPSILON

DONOR LIST ALPHA ALPHAMIDDLEBURY COLLEGE William Bjornlund 1963 Christopher Campbell 2006 Michael Cohen 1994 Christopher Dahl 1994 William Fox 1959 Nathan Gaudio 2014 Michael Giordano 2013 John Iacovino 1963 Charles Leonard 1958 Reuben Mark 1960 Paul McCormack 1988 David Rosen 1987 David Strachan 1955 Spencer Wright 1948 ALPHA CHI-TRINITY COLLEGE Edward Adler 1969 William Conner 1954 Robert Cudd 1968 Ray Graves 1967 Leonard Heinrich 1973 Robert Kenyon 1951 Paul Marion 1957 Joseph Pryor 1988 Robin Tassinari 1967 Tyler Thors 1989 Richard Zampiello 1955 Geoffrey Zampiello 1998 ALPHA MUROWAN UNIVERSITY Thomas Boggia 2012 Dennis Gerber 2004 Scot Merkle 1983 Gregg Paine 1987 Lee Sanft 1992 Edward Vance 1994 Richard Zucal 2000 ALPHA OMEGA-LOUISIANA TECH UNIVERSITY Charles Campbell 1986 Randall Dailey 1993 ALPHA PHIUNIVERSITY OF TORONTO Mitchell Cleary 2016 Michael Dunham 1987 Paul Gordon 1978 Colm Lanigan 1986 Philip Robson 1977 Robert Sloan 1983 Ross Wigle 1979

ALPHA TAU-UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA Hardev Bains 1986 Barrie Bell 1958 Eamon Egan 1983 William Lindsay 1958 James Paul 1949 William Pope 1968 Blair Shuturma 2014 George Tsiklis 2000 BETA-UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA Geoffrey Allen 1987 Mauricio Arnal Prieto 2017 Edward Baur 1968 John Beesley 2002 Lawrence Bell 1957 Thomas Benjamin 1983 Neilson Brown 1967 John Carnes 2011 Timothy Carnes 2014 James Christmas 2012 Donnell Cobb 1959 Charles Cogdell 2009 James Cornell 1985 James Dunn 1989 Jonathan Engram 2008 Brett Epstein 2014 Scott Farmer 2008 Randolph Freiberg 1977 William Fuller 1964 Benjamin Gambill 2001 James Gray 1970 Bernard Gray 1972 Cameron Harris 1966 Bernie Hodges 1977 Addison Holladay 2008 Walter Hussman 1968 Thomas Kenna 2013 Walter King 1968 Nathaniel Kluttz 2009 Robert Mason 1981 Ben Mayo 1955 Steven McCarroll 1968 Patrick Mealy 2013 Thaddeus Moore 1967 Stephen Owen 1956 William N. Peak 2019 Robert Perry 1959 Davis Phillips 1965 Philip Riker 1968 John Rivers 1967 Albert Roper 1963 William Schmidt 1966

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Christopher Schrum 2017 Alex Shuford 1966 Stephen Stephano 2014 Charles Wickham 1982 Ernest Zellweger 1974 BETA CHI-CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY Robert Brierton 1969 Brian Dykas 2002 Jon McGruder 1956 Vaughn Rubin 1945 Eric Rydstrom 1966 BETA GAMMA-NEW YORK UNIVERSITY Adam Biernat 2004 Marc Burton 2008 Brandon Conley 2014 Eric Freiman 2016 Patrick Glodkowski 2016 Zachary Haas 2007 Richard Hendler 1985 Dong Liang Lin 2008 Matthew McQueen 2003 Thomas Ricardo 2006 Michael Wenz 2013 Gary Wise 2012 Gennady Zilberman 2007 BETA PHI-UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER Andrew Baker 1949 Tyler Ballew 2005 Travis Block 2012 Dennis Bowler 1965 Carlton Clough 1960 Michael Colton 1963 Kevin DeFranco 2014 Vincent Dick 1979 Eric Dubowsky 2003 James Fitzsimmons 1955 Robert Goergen 1960 Noah Goldman 1992 John Greco 2006 Maxwell Kinder 2015 Nicholas Kollias 2016 David Maloney 1976 Franklin Nagy 1981 Roger Valkenburgh 1969 Mark Zweibon 2000 CHI-UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI Dan Ballard 1961

Kenneth Cookson 1957 William Graham 1970 David Henderson 1963 Joseph Hinshaw 1971 Samuel Mavar 1965 William McMullen 1966 William Morris 1964 Bill Tucker 1960 Donald White 1966 CHI RHO-BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY Edward Cass 2010 Robert Gronowski 2011 Sean Mitchell 1995 Christopher Roth 1998 DELTA-UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA Jon McGill 2016 James Arthur 2018 DELTA CHI-CORNELL UNIVERSITY John Almquist 1954 Richard Bates 1966 Brian Behm 1995 David Bentley 1964 Michael Crowley 1959 Thomas Hudson 2011 Matthew Hyland 2001 Blair Jenness 1997 Charles Kerner 1974 James Lyman 1984 John Matthews 1941 George Nicholson 1956 Hugh O Gorman 1987 Brendan O’Gorman 2003 Edward Sheridan 1959 Stephan Spilkowitz 2010 Jesse Stolow 2005 Mark Storer 1980 John Yerger 1982 Ryan Zimmerman 1997 DELTA DELTAUNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO Blake Alex 2014 Edwin Cho 1995 John Evans Haynie 2020 Greg Miarecki 1994 Kenneth Monahan 1995 Michael Peters 1990 Peter Welsh 1991 John Yung 1990

2018 DELTA KAPPA-UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA Ronald Akel 1960 George Akel 1957 Peter Barrett 1953 John Bruno 1954 William Caldwell 1960 William Combs 1964 Brendan Dale 2016 Anthony Di Felice 1981 Blaine Eynon 1969 Bruce Goldfarb 1987 Craig Graber 1986 Thomas Harlowe 1968 Peter Mattia 2008 Cornelius McCarthy 1959 Harry Pappas 1952 Keith Stimson 1990 John Ward 1953 Homer Wood 1957 DELTA PHIUNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA Hugh Babowal 1990 Arden Berg 1972 Dwight Bliss 1977 Graham McLean 1964 Michael Thomas 2016 DELTA PI-UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS Arthur Alderson 1971 Stephen Alvey 1984 Peter Bulkeley 1962 Paul Daily 1976 Kenneth Ebi 1946 Ronald Elliott 1973 Michael Fogarty 1984 Gabriel Gonzalez 2017 David Helverson 1981 Thomas Hostetler 1950 John McDonald 1943 Wayne Moore 1978 James Personius 1983 Eliot Thompson 2016 John Waterstreet 1951 William Welch 1950 Charles Wurmstedt 1944 DELTA PSI-INDIANA UNIVERSITY Charles Auer 2016 Nolan Auerbach 2016 Jordan Paris 2007

DELTA UPSILONNORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY George Cooper 1959 William Robinson DELTA RHO-NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY Richard Keith 2015 Alexander Zimmerman 2018 EPSILON-WILLIAMS COLLEGE Joseph Albertson 1954 Stephen Barnett 1958 Joel Bergquist 1965 David Kane 1958 EPSILON RHO-DUKE UNIVERSITY Ronald Fiore 1993 Eric Harnish 1991 Creston King 1985 Rhodes McKee 2005 Todd Sawicki 1994 Robert Shaw 2009 John Vide 1985 Donald Walther 1989 ETA-UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA Jonathan Adams 1984 Alfred Berkeley 1966 Archer Burke 1976 John Couric 2007 Henry de Laureal 2004 Jonathan Finger 1982 Robert Green 1969 Charles Jones 1956 William W. Leas 2018 Joseph McGowin 1979 John Pinder 1971 Thomas Rose 1979 Scott Vallar 1982 John Vanderslice 2019 Edward Williams 1994 ETA ALPHA-WASHINGTON & LEE UNIVERSITY Ryan McDonnell 2017 GAMMA-VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY Joseph Abriola 1980 Weaver Barksdale 1971 James Becker 2011 Patrick Bennett 2008 Michael Berryman 1979

Connor Burns 2013 Gaines Campbell 1977 Glenn Costanzo 1990 Kevin Cuneo 1977 Chase Cunniff 2015 Brent Curtis 1985 Roger Deromedi 1975 T. Gary Fitts 1955 William Ford 1953 Gregory Fuller 1974 Zachary Glaser 2013 Andrew Grumney 2009 John Halsell 1980 John Hamilton 1950 Harold Johnson 1977 Richard Klein 1977 Peter Kostiuk 2008 Richard Lamping 1979 Douglas Lanpher 1977 Erik Larsen 1962 Craig Lengyel 1989 Alexander Litt 2010 Kyle McLain 1977 Stanford McMillan 1989 David Neff 2001 James Nelson 1959 Thomas Pryse 1945 Gamiel Ramson 1977 Mark Redmond 1975 Brooke Reeve 1975 John Reid 1979 Kelsie Sams 1986 William Sanderson 1965 M. Thurman Senn 1983 Walter Smith 1984 Richard Smith 1964 Joe Stamper 1969 Clay Swindell 1974 Robert Thomas 1963 David Vollmer 1974 William Wise 1967 Walter Yarbrough 1953 Craig Yeager 1977 GAMMA IOTA-GANNON UNIVERSITY Scott Conrad 2016 Andrew Fenstermacher 2015 Robert Fisher 2015 Joshua Geiger 2016 Cory Johnston 2016 GAMMA PHI-WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY Anthony Arias 2014

David Bagatelle 1986 Thomas Barton 1974 Frank Binswanger 1978 Gary Breitbord 1979 Kenneth Cho 1994 William Choi 2013 Robert Coli 2019 William Cooper 1967 Robert Corless 1973 David Creed 1962 J Richard Crockett 1963 William Daley 1957 Paul Disanto 1981 Thomas Dwyer 1972 Jeremy Edelberg 2014 Steven Elbaum 1986 Norman Feit 1978 Paul Fichera 1980 James Gately 1962 Joseph Giaimo 2011 Jeffrey Gray 1977 John Griffin 1994 John Harrison 1988 Peter Hicks 1972 John Hoder 1973 Franklyn Judson 1964 Herbert Kelleher 1953 Patrick Kelly 1969 Edward Lifset 1953 Mitchell Marinello 1976 Thomas Miceli 2012 J Robert Nastri 1977 H Scott Sanborn 1986 Donald Saxton 1942 Norman Shapiro 1963 Paul Siegert 1965 Michael Stein 1957 George Stephens 1963 David Thomas 1977 Robert Thorndike 1965 Robert Thorndike 1965 Brett Valentine 2009 Gregory Waldron 1988 Albert Welsh 1956 Edward Wright 1949 Alexander Zedlovich 2009 IOTA-CENTRE COLLEGE Jackson Andrews 2002 Anthony Apro 1979 Rick DiGiorgio 1978 E Bruce Dungan 1949 Laurance Eustis 1963 Donald Fuller-Wisner 2015 Michael Garton 2010 w w w.d ke.o rg

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DELTA KAPPA EPSILON DONOR LIST Robert Gatewood 1971 Lee Guillaume 1989 Alford Gustafson 1951 Anthony Kurlas 1993 Ralph Miller 1980 Reginald Mudd 1975 Leonard Napolitano 1997 William Penick 1957 Carlos Sasse 1958 David Sturges 1957 Daniel Sweat 2018 Lucas Wetton 2014 IOTA MU-FORDHAM UNIVERSITY Lucas Vander Linden 1997 KAPPA-MIAMI UNIVERSITY Robert Annandale 1969 Lester Babbits 1969 Stuart Berger 1979 James Berry 1965 Alexander Bianco 2013 Herman Ceccardi 1962 Robert Coffin 1959 Jack Domet 1993 William Ducey 1966 Leon Eisman 1967 Christopher Finkler 2004 Mark Flanagan 1946 John Gibel 1960 Buddy Haidet 1957 Gregory Herring 1999 Eric Holland 2013 Frank Ingwersen 1979 Jason Longworth 2000 Charles McKinley 1955 Dmitry Nepomnyshay 1992 William Ninde 1966 David Palmer 1983 Robert Runkle 1939 Stuart Schaller 2013 Douglas Tirola 1989 Robert Winkley 1955 Tianran Ye 2012 KAPPA CHI-UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE Trevor Hanrahan 2016 Jeffrey Martin 2014 KAPPA DELTA-UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND George Fullerton 1955 KAPPA EPSILON-UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON Daniel Heldring 1999

William Hood 1958 Lawrence Hughes 1957 William Lovell 1962 J. Roget Nowell 1959 John White 1964 Leighton Wood 1956 KAPPA OMEGA-LAKE FOREST COLLEGE Thomas Symington 2005 LAMBDA-KENYON COLLEGE Richard Balaban 1972 Alexander Beatty 2019 Walter Butler 1968 Peter Cain 1969 R. Claiborne Capute 1981 Robert Carnighan 1959 Martin Caverly 2020 David Conrod 2000 Philip Currier 1956 William Geist 1976 Robert Heasley 1960 John Merritt 1979 Beckwith Miller 1977 Mason Morjikian 1988 James Overmier 1960 Bruce Pendleton 1970 Guy Riegel 1980 Rev. Mark Robinson 1981 Arthur Sansom 1973 Michael Scadron 1968 Allerton Smith 1975 Jeffrey Spear 1978 Thomas Withgott 1968 LAMBDA DELTA-SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY Bailey Simmons 1951 MU-COLGATE UNIVERSITY John Anzola 1984 Robert Bestwick 1978 Robert Bickford 1979 Clinton Blume 1979 William Brown 1970 Thomas Carlson 1993 Joseph DeBragga 1943 Michael Dosdall 1977 David Driscoll 1963 Edward Gottlieb 1933 Jonathan Guido 1999 Thomas Halley 1973 Donald Hammalian 1960 Jon Hanson 1960 Richard Himes 1990 Thomas Kaim 1958 David Katz 1999

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Roger Kennedy 1986 Christopher Lawler 1994 Andrew Maksimovich 2011 Jerome Mason 1960 J. Kevin Murphy 1947 James Nelson 1998 Bruce Newman 1986 Ian Nordin 2013 Peter O’Neill 1963 Thomas O’Rourke 1960 Richard Palmer 1966 James Rand 1966 Richard Rasor 1961 Steven Reed 1984 Girard Ruddick 1993 Matthew Sable 2001 John Sallada 1997 David Schreiber 1995 R. Jeffrey Smith 1978 Richard Sotell 1975 Robert Stoner 1957 Matthew Swain 2017 Peter Thomas 1981 Glen Treichler 1948 Jarrett Turner 2004 Edward Wheeler 1964 Thomas Wiencek 1978 R. Douglas Wilson 1957 MU CHI-MARYVILLE COLLEGE Chase Condrone 2016 Danny Maxwell 2005 David Sturchio 2015 NU-COLLEGE OF THE CITY OF NY Clifford Daly 1958 Charles Groppe 1953 Walter Hansen David Knowlton 1980 Vincent Lardo 1953 Harry Lipps 1961 Nicholas Schkrutz 1969 Robert Van Son 1957 NU ZETA-PACE UNIVERSITY Donald Becker 1984 John Boles 1986 Joseph Guistino 1986 Patrick McIntyre 1987 OMEGA CHI-UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS Cub Amos 1956 Douglas Brinsmade 1986 Royce Faulkner 1952 George Gearner 1955 Peter Gill 1948

James Guckian 1960 Erik Heyne 1981 Louis Hughes 1946 Barron Kidd 1958 Charles Kinney 1948 Donald Kirby 1985 Robert Knight 1963 Greg Mitchell 1976 Robert Morse 1972 Arthur Moure 1986 Ewell Muse 1961 Bruce Nakfoor 1982 Douglas Newton 1959 Michael Roberts 1984 Gordon Rountree 1964 Frank Scarborough 1959 John Schneider 1947 Harrison Stafford 1933 Bruce Thornton 1969 Howard Tyson 1961 John Williams 1956 Richard Williams 1965 OMEGA MU-OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY Philip Woods 2016 OMICRON-UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Terence & Jennifer Adderley Fund 1955 Richard Aster 1954 Terrance Baulch 1976 Andrew Baumer 1959 Eric Braun 1990 Brian Burke 1958 James Caffrey 1987 John de St Nicolas 1960 Peter Dow 1955 Kevin Drumm 2010 Marco Garavaglia 1976 David Gore 1959 James Grady 1959 Terrence Hill 1935 John Hurley 1984 Marvin Kelly 1982 William Krag 1963 William Lincoln 1965 Jule Miller 1958 John Mitchell 1985 James Mohn 1985 Philip Ragains 1959 Neil Sarin 1989 Douglas Schaffer 2012 Curtis Sechler 1963 Kevin Shea 1981 Michael Simpson 1965 Kenelm Winslow 1959

2018 Derek Woodman 2010 James Wurzbach 1970 George Zinn 1955 PHI-YALE UNIVERSITY L. Kirk Baird 1966 William Bernhard 1954 David Bollweg 2012 T. Anthony Brooks 1962 Jonathan Bush 1953 Richard Evans 1962 Sean Fletcher 1996 William Flippin 1963 Robert Frame 1966 Marshall Hamilton 1962 Thomas Kukk 1963 Clarence Lee 1978 Robert Lemire 1954 Scott Lystad 1979 John Matthiessen 1949 William McCandless 1952 Walton McLeod 1959 Robert Milligan 1972 George Philippides 1981 Edward Probert 1958 Charles Puestow 1960 Jesse Reising 2011 Benjamin Siegl 2010 C. Richard Stasney 1965 Jordan Stevens 2008 Albert Urich 1957 John Wallace 1956 G. Hunt Weber 1948 PHI ALPHA-UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA Ernest Bianco 1950 Lawrence Blaschuk 1975 Calvin Buchanan 2015 Grant Burnyeat 1965 Adrian Cheong 1965 John Elwell 1967 PHI CHI-RUTGERS UNIVERSITY James Baker 1976 Terence Braden 1980 Bryan Butler 1977 Christopher Byron 1969 William Diana 1983 Edward Dowling 1972 Everett Drake 1958 John Dryfuss 1966 Robert Dunbar 1972 Brian Foley 2015 C. Norman Fowler 1961 John Frost 1967 William Garbarini 1963

Jonathan Gonzalez Pelaez 2016 Maurice Hill 1972 Leo Hopkins 1965 Kevin Keaton 1976 Timothy Lehnert 1961 Robert McAllister 1954 Kenneth Mears 1957 Arnel Miravalles 1999 Donald Mozzochi 1959 Richard Novak 1965 L. Robert Oros 1967 William Paknis 1957 Wallace Pattyson 1966 Jason Sanchez 2016 Terry Stewart 1969 Robert Suffredini 1968 Kenneth Truscott 1952 Roy Van Arsdale 1972 Peter Ventura 1970 Alan Zaccaria 1979 PHI EPSILON-UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA Stuart Campbell 1958 David DeWall 1965 Bradley Dunlap 1985 Jarrod Englebretson 1990 Garrett Kranz 2014 Bradford Reid 1999 William Ryerse 1951 Frederick Webber 1960 PHI GAMMA-SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY Edward Benjamin 1963 John Brennen 1966 Charles Brown 1986 Robert Bubniak 1961 Dale Carter 1968 E. Robert Cooney 1954 Andrew De Paulis 2016 Michael DeTogni 2014 Brenton Dorl 1998 John Fahey 1980 Robert Fearon 1949 Evan Goldberg 2009 Adrian Goris 2009 Benjamin Gunzenhauser 1963 Bruce Hoffman 1969 Michael Jabo 1958 Alex Kadish 2001 Matthew Linaburg 2013 Martin Lipke 1980 Jovan Marjanovic 1989 John Mathews 1998 Joseph McMurray 1965 Timothy Ott 1976

Blake Reidy 2007 Harvey Shand 1963 John Snyder 1961 David Stern 1982 Peter Tripp 1991 John Veasey 1953 Marcus Wacker 1985 Robert Warburgh 1966 Stephen Weaver 1971 PHI MU-MANHATTAN COLLEGE Jonathan Alania 2020 Bruno Bunzl 2014 James O’Connor 2015 PHI RHO-PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY Michael Costantino 2008 Kevan Griffith 2010 Alex Hayes 2011 Benny Joseph 2002 Brian Wallace 1997 PHI SIGMA-BRYANT COLLEGE Jacob Zuchowski 2019 PI-DARTMOUTH COLLEGE Thomas Bechler 1956 Charles Blaisdell 1937 Jack Kaufmann 1964 James Progin 1960 John Steele 1946 PI ALPHA-UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI Andrew Dodenhoff 2015 Adam Evan Rushing 2019 PI BETA-TROY UNIVERSITY David Marsh 1980 Dustin Minkler 2016 David Morr 1978 Lawrence Nell 1982 John Sylvia 1979 PSI-UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA Samuel Adams 1979 Lamar Bagby 1969 Charles Brown 1975 Carl Burchette 2011 John Cline 1985 Richard Coates 2014 Angus Cooper 1964 Angus Cooper 1997 David Cooper 1967 A. Lyon Crowe 1960

Taylor Douglas 2017 Leroy English 2014 Christopher English 2016 T. Semmes Favrot 1982 Louis Finlay 1954 Alston Fitts 1961 Alexander Fleming 2008 David Gray 1980 George Hardesty 1975 Mark Hickman 2008 Williams Holmes 1951 Crawford Inge 1974 Brock Jones 1977 Jeffrey Kintz 2016 Robert Klyce 1968 Jarrod Lesso 2016 John Lewis 1963 Henry Loeb 1974 Garner Lyon 2016 James Lyons 1970 Philip Markwalter 2020 Blanchard Marriott 1959 Jack Marshallsea 2015 Bruce McAlpin 1981 Richard McAlpin 1976 Richmond McClintock 1966 John McNeil 1979 Marlin Moore 1983 Patrick Morris 2012 John Mostellar 1966 Alfred Neumann 1987 Stephen Parden 1972 Robert Parsons 1955 Andrew Ross 1994 James Taylor 2016 Patrick Terry 2014 William Turner 1969 William Urquhart 1974 Daniel Ventress 2008 John Wimberly 2013 R. Bruce Worley 1959 PSI DELTA-WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY David Arturi 2017 James Bailey 2016 Jeff Banastey 2017 James Beurle 1994 William Braun 2016 William Gilbert 2016 James Green 2016 Robert Griffin 1992 Eric Hagen 1985 Charles Harlan 1998 William Hayden 2016 Scott Hillman 2013 Matthew Ioannou 2016 Henry Johnson 2016 w w w.d ke.o rg

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DELTA KAPPA EPSILON DONOR LIST Andrew Jones 2018 James Jowdy 1973 Michael Kollman 2019 Jade Litcher 1983 Richard Maloy 1991 George Marken 2016 John Marshall 2017 John McAvoy 1982 Harrison Messer 2016 Val Napolitano 2012 Harrison Perkins 2016 Steven Perricone 1991 Jeffrey Richardson 1987 Kellen Rikhoff 2017 Miller Robinson 2014 Clarke Ryan 2014 Hugh Sandlin 1972 Raphael Steege 2013 Jake Sternberg 2014 Loyd Stokes 1983 Matthew Teller 2014 Henry Valk 2016 P. Derek Van Zandt 1995 Andrew Weissberg 2016 PSI OMEGA-RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY Rodney Agar 1959 Robert Booth 1963 John Broadbent 1959 Arthur Dionne 1959 Thomas Duncan 1959 Fredrick Guimond 1961 Samuel Heffner 1956 George Hunt 1945 John Lindsay 1959 Neil MacFarlane 1955 Michael McDonough 1960 George Nelson 1959 Stephen O’Rourke 1993 Peter Piech 2016 William Schmidt 1960 Kevin Zweier 1996

Michael Browne 1983 Edwin Case 1959 Andrew Citron 2011 Brian Ciuffreda 1994 David Cristini 2001 Michael Davidson 1989 Michael De Lisi 2003 William Engel 2010 Parker Andrew Gaglione 2018 Christian Garelli 2009 Scott Harris 1995 William Harvey 1953 Bradley Helland 2010 David Hollod 1982 Joseph Houldin 2012 Daniel Huffenus 1986 David Jaffe 1963 Allan Kirby 1953 Robert Malnati 1989 Jeffrey Marver 2011 Richard Massey 1934 Robert Matje 1989 Michael McCormack 1987 Paul McCurdy 1982 Richard Morrison 1951 Thomas Neff 1959 Jonathan Novaco 1992 Ronald Pennington 1952 Joseph Pew 1955 James Raywood 1973 Robert Reese 1963 Richard Ryan 1986 John Sheehy 2005 Eric Shrier 1993 Jason Siegel 2010 Steven Vecchione 1976 William Welz 1977 RHO BETA-UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND Brendan Bostock 2013 Kyle Pearce 2012 Richard Poidomani 2002

PSI PHI-DEPAUW UNIVERSITY William Cockrum 1959 Anthony Colletti 1988 Rance Crain 1960 Charles Floyd 1951 Richard Hill 1958 David Jerrett 1965 W. Thomas McGhee 1958 Carl Sorenson 1951 Robert Skallerup 1968 Douglas Weimer 1972 John Wright 1968

RHO LAMBDA-UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA William Corr 1962 George Kingelin 1963 Victor Martin 1969 George Otey 1973 George Patterson 1965 Orin Piepho 1973 Frederick Streb 1972 Robert Tierno 1971 George Weaber 1962 Max Weitzenhoffer 1962

RHO-LAFAYETTE COLLEGE Kristian Bornemann 1991

SIGMA-AMHERST COLLEGE Robert Barberi 1967

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Charles Butler 1957 Kevin Cudlipp 2008 David Ford 1997 Jacob Gale 1987 Peter Lagomarsino 1997 Gary Rogalski 1971 Jawad Safi 2006 Edson Sheppard 1955 Benjamin Wells 1965 SIGMA ALPHA-VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY Richard Anderson 1971 Jeffrey Bowman 1968 Charles Bradley 1979 John Cullen 1976 James Daniel 1988 James Day 1962 Edward Greene 1968 Charles Hayes 1964 Raymond Huntington 1952 Daniel Johnson 1977 Alpin Kahveci 2013 Patrick King 2005 William Pennington 1978 Joshua Waller 2005 Tazewell Whitley 1974 SIGMA BETA-UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA Paul Mullin 1993 SIGMA PHI-VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY John Burgess 1986 Richard Keating 1983 P. Mark Martini 1987 Christopher Miller 1989 Thomas Mulroy 1985 Evan Tzanis 1993 SIGMA RHO-STANFORD UNIVERSITY James Barringer 1944 William Bauman 1949 Robert Bryan 1957 Raymond Deicken 1980 Chesley Erwin 1974 James Faull 1968 Robert Fletcher 1957 Christopher Greene 1982 Charles Hale 1957 Stephen Hansen 1975 Phillip Heald 1961 Charles Hicks 1960 David LeClair 1984 Jaren Leet 1959 Preston Madden James Props 1968

George Ramos 1985 Roger Smith 1963 Glendon Speakman 1965 Frank Trane 1953 Ricardo Urena 1996 Lawrence Wayte 1958 John Wells 1956 David Wheeler 1967 SIGMA TAU-MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY David Atherton 1991 Luther Banner 2016 James Colville 1973 Maik Flanagin 2000 Bruce George 1962 Ralph Grismala 1977 Todd Hiers 2000 Mark Kalinich 2013 Sean Kent 2020 Richard Kirkpatrick 1963 Harold McInnes 1949 Henry Peacock 1950 Zachary Rose 2010 Steven G. Salvas 2020 Carl Schumacher 1948 Mark Sherman 1948 Theodore Tzanetos 2012 SIGMA XI-ST. JOSEPH’S COLLEGE John Ortiz 2014 TAU-HAMILTON COLLEGE Aron Ain 1979 Steven Brooks 1977 Thomas Busch 1978 James Cumming 1980 James Douglass 2004 Bruce Gaylord 1970 Laurence Glickman 1977 James Guerin 1958 Tyler Hirschey 2000 Martin Kay 1967 Frederick Marty 1967 Conrad Naas 1983 John Ogden 1980 Bruce Sawyer 1961 Guido Stroemer 1990 Louis Teitel 1968 John Vaneria 1970 TAU ALPHA-MCGILL UNIVERSITY Drew Bard Varges 2015 Yann Ehrhard 2016 Cristian Hertzer 2016 Ivan Karp 1966 Robert Kitz

2018 Tristan Leahy 2014 Kevin MacLeod 2003 Jonathan Wright 2016 TAU CHI-TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY Andrew Elliott 2012 Bryce Ferguson 2020 Tyler Gibbs 2011 Weber Massengale 2018 Brent Phelps 2015 Eric Michael Thornburg 2019 Ryan Yeager 2015 TAU DELTA-UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH Alan Calder 1989 Frank Failla 1971 William Ikard 1971 TAU LAMBDA-TULANE UNIVERSITY Simon Abtalion 2008 Allain Andry 1956 G. Dufour Bayle 1955 Jonathan Bean 1985 Robert Bland 1948 Richard Blum 1978 John Bolles 1964 J. Gregg Buckalew 1965 Lucius Butts 1947 James Conner 1964 Cory Crenshaw 2001 Jose de La Fuente 1984 William Dodenhoff 1978 Joseph DuPont 1956 David Faust 1973 C. Allen Favrot 1947 Robert Gallagher 1987 John Gill 1993 John Groome 1995 James Gundlach 1958 Jerome Heard 1946 Hans Jonassen 1963 Calvin Jones 1974 William Kearney 1980 Wesley Lambert 1984 Robert Livingston 1966 Philip Loria 1977 William Messersmith 1955 Michael Miller 1986 Theodore Nass 1966 Kevin O’Bryon 1977 John O’Connor 1976 John Ormond 1989 Bernard Panetta 1968 Bennett Powell 1961 Michael Rapier 1958

John Rive’ 1991 Lloyd Shields 1974 Ben Templeton 1979 C. Clarke Wellborn 1964 Carey Winder 1985

UPSILON-BROWN UNIVERSITY Gordon Dewart 1951 John Holman 1959

THETA-BOWDOIN COLLEGE Robert Baker 1990 Charles Bass 1976 Daniel Courcey 1990 Tyler Davis 1979 John Devine 1986 James Downey 1977 Thomas Frelinghuysen 1976 Mark Leeds 1987 Timothy Leland 1989 Charles Mackenzie 1987 Charles Pohl 1983

XI-COLBY COLLEGE Felix Baldauf-Lenschen 2014 John Cornell 1965 Patrick Dolan 2012 David Giesel 2015 Patrick Koch 2003 Charles Madden 2015 Robert Oster 1961 Christopher Smith 2016 Kevin Walls 2016 Joseph Waters 2015 William Wing 1954 Peter Zink 2011

THETA CHI-UNION COLLEGE Tyler Barnhart 2014 Michael Capella 2014

ZETA-PRINCETON UNIVERSITY James Diamond 1989 Douglas Wojcik 1989

THETA RHO-UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES Gregory Cooper 1994 Steven Ly 2007 Rex Sessions 1946

ZETA CHI-BENTLEY COLLEGE James Kulesza 1997

THETA UPSILON-ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY Jeffrey Agster 1991 Steven Balthazor 1991 Adam Daha 2013 James Dorian 2016 Dylan Jay Haste 2018 Jason Hish 1996 William Kavan 1992 Michael Perrin 2014 Austin Troop 2016 Derek Von Borck 1991 THETA ZETA-UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY Colby Barrett 2000 Frederick Bradley 1958 Scott Clifford 1987 Lucas Cravero 2011 Alastair Cumming 1983 Samuel French 1949 Bruce Glover 1986 Michael O’Neil 1970 Andrew Pelosi 2004 Charles Shirley 2016 Gary Tan 1989 Robert Tuller 1956 Brooks Walker 1950 Jeffrey Way 1985

ZETA GAMMA-HAMPDENSYDNEY COLLEGE Ryan Simmons 2016 James White 2016 ZETA UPSILON-UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS Thomas Freeman 2002 Jason Giles 1994 Robert Salgado 2004 ZETA ZETA-LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY Ken Abington 1957 Steven Aertker 2014 Chester Alpaugh 1977 Hans Armstrong 1954 Robert Barkerding 1963 John Bateman 1956 Paul Bienvenu 1970 Wilson Blum 2012 George Bofinger 1966 Thomas Brewton 1956 H. Elder Brown 1974 James Burt 1959 Christopher Cole 1971 Roy Cole 1945 Lynton Culpepper 1960 Henry Davis 1965 Martin de Laureal 1972 Daniel Devine 1980 Thomas Favrot 1973

Richard Gautreaux 1970 S. Pendery Gibbens 1954 Clave Gill 1969 David Greenwald 1992 Marvin Hall 1962 John Hazard 1983 Keith Henry 1982 James Henson 2011 Richard Hodges 1955 Francis Huey 1961 William Jeffcoat 1965 John Jumonville 1967 Alan Kaufman 1958 Michael Kearney 1965 Bryan Kitto 2015 Thomas Kramer 1950 Jacque Kuchta 1981 Donald Lambert 1980 John Lange 1986 David Lankford 1970 Michael Maginnis 1971 Joseph Mann 1998 Charles Marshall 1967 Frank Maselli 1973 Paul Masinter 1983 David Melius 1974 Cyril Melville 1962 George Mentz 1989 Bradley Myers 1978 George Newton 1956 Autley Newton 1958 William Owens 1964 George Pope 1976 Richard Provensal 1980 Clement Purnell 1958 George Purvis 1935 Renaud Rafferty 1983 Wilbur Reynaud 1970 David Rosprim 1993 John Salisbury 1970 Christopher Schlesinger 1986 William Sonner 1980 Cort St. Paul 1991 William Stroud 2018 Eugene Tilton 1966 William Treadway 1974 Thomas Virgets 1955 Thomas Westfeldt 1974 Sartor Williams 1967 Sterling Willis 1981 Edward Wolff 1992

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FORGOTTEN GREATS OF DKE

SCHOLAR AND BASEBALL LEADER

BART

GIAMATTI YALE PRESIDENT WENT ON TO BECOME COMMISSIONER OF BASEBALL

By Kevin Cuneo, Gamma ’77

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Springfield, young Bart developed a lifelong interest in sports. ngelo Bartlett Giamatti, Phi ’60, was a Short and stocky, he was not a skilled athlete, but he served Renaissance scholar and a former Yale as manager of the South Hadley high school baseball team.

University president who also happened to love Encouraged by his parents, he also developed an aptitude for baseball. The Yale Deke once wrote: “Baseball languages and literature. The dinner table conversations often breaks your heart because it is designed that centered on topics such as Dante’s “Divine Comedy,” though way. The game begins in the spring, when young Bart said he would steer the discussion to Ted Williams everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, and his quest for a second .400 season. “I have been devoted filling the afternoons and evenings with delight. And then, as to the Red Sox throughout my life, and, for me, Williams, Dom soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the DiMaggio and Bobby Doerr ranked up there with Shakespeare, fall and winter alone.”

John Donne and Edmund Spenser,” Giamatti Though well known in scholarly circles for “Everyone loved told the New York Times in 1978. decades, Giamatti’s name did not become a Bart because of his After graduating from Phillips Academy in household word until 1986 when he entered the rough and tumble world of major league baseball intelligence, personality Andover, Mass., Giamatti entered Yale, where he majored in English. A proud member of as president of the National League. Three years and charm,” said Delta Kappa Epsilon, he was remembered by later, when he was 51, Giamatti succeeded Peter President George his brothers for his ability to stand up at dinner Ueberroth as Commissioner of Baseball.

H.W. Bush and recite long, witty poems. “Everyone loved Giamatti was considered an ideal Bart because of his intelligence, personality and commissioner for his administrative skills and charm,” said President George H.W. Bush, who deep love of the game. Known to his friends preceded him at the DKE House, during a eulogy for Giamatti. as Bart, he was a man of wit and passion who was almost “He blessed his DKE brothers with a large dose of class.” universally respected by everyone on Yale’s campus during his After graduating magna cum laude from Yale in 1960, eight years as president of the university from 1978-86. Before Giamatti went on to Yale’s graduate school as a Woodrow that, he served for 11 years as a professor at Yale, where he Wilson fellow, obtaining a doctorate in comparative literature. had captured the admiration of administrators, the faculty and He was hired the following year as an assistant professor students, not only for his academic excellence but also for his at Princeton, and then after teaching a summer course at style. “The students loved him,” said Benno C. Schmidt, who New York University, joined the Yale faculty as an assistant succeeded Giamatti as Yale President. “Even students who had professor of English. Giamatti rose rapidly through the ranks at no interest in the subjects he taught would take his classes Yale, winning friends and admirers among the faculty, students because he was so interesting.” and staff. Giamatti published several award-winning books on Born in Boston on April 4, 1938, Bartlett Giamatti was Renaissance poetry, but when interviewed by critics about the reared in classic Ivy League fashion. His parents were Valentine books, he said, “All I ever wanted to be was president of the Giamatti, a Yale graduate and professor of Italian at Mount American League.”

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Mets pitcher Tom Seaver attracted the attention of baseball owners, including Avron Fogelman, then a co-owner of the Kansas City Royals. “We wanted an intelligent man to lead our game who could be totally objective. Whatever decision he made, we wanted the ultimate winner to be the integrity of the game. I think Dr. Giamatti was the perfect choice to become commissioner, and I’m only sorry that his tenure was so brief.”

After making many friends in baseball during his term as National League president, Giamatti stepped into a quagmire the moment he took over as commissioner. He immediately took on Pete Rose, the all-time hits leader and former manager of the Cincinnati Reds, who stood accused of betting on his own team. After months of nasty depositions and legal

wrangling, Giamatti convinced Rose, who continued to insist that he did not bet on baseball, to agree in writing to a ban from the sport.

Just days after the Rose case concluded, Giamatti suffered a fatal heart attack at his summer home on Martha’s Vineyard. When he died on Sept. 1, 1989, Giamatti was only 51. His son, actor Paul Giamatti, called his father “a great man and a wonderful father who was respected by everyone who’d ever met him.”

The late George Steinbrenner, longtime owner of the New York Yankees and himself a brother in DKE, said there was no doubt in his mind that, had Giamatti lived, he would have gone on to become one of baseball’s greatest leaders. “Bart gave magnificently of himself as a teacher, scholar and leader.” w w w.d ke.o rg

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PSI DEKES, YOUNG AND OLD, GATHER FOR IMPORTANT TALK AT HISTORIC RETREAT

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si Dekes of all ages gathered in January at the Cooper family’s Rosinton estate in Loxley, Ala., for an important series of meetings. “We called it a forum, but it was more of a workshop that helped connect our brothers from many generations,” said David Cooper, the 74-year-old industrialist who was a driving force behind the historic retreat. Cooper is a leader of Cooper/T. Smith Corporation, a giant in the maritime industry which operates in 38 ports across the globe. He has been a loyal Psi Deke since his 1967 graduation from the University of Alabama.

Nearly 30 Dekes took part in discussions about the chapter’s operations, including its successful drug-testing program, academics, responsibilities of membership and many other topics. “We had a good representation of undergraduates, as well as more seasoned Dekes,” Cooper said.

“We all listened to each other as much as we preached.”

Psi, long one of DKE’s best chapters, is proud of its rich heritage which dates to the founding of the chapter in 1847.

“Through the years we have always believed that it’s a privilege rather than a right to be a Deke, and that’s one of the key themes we emphasized to the younger brothers,” Cooper said.

Surprisingly, one of the more interesting discussions focused on good manners. “You seldom hear about basic manners anymore, but they go such a long way and can be powerful,” Cooper said. “We stressed that good manners are a strength, not a weakness, especially as you grow older and take your place in the world. They reinforce the respect we have for each other, and I think many of the younger Dekes were impressed.”

Rosinton, with its impressively appointed living spaces, 30 bedrooms and 125-seat chapel, also provides outdoor opportunities for visitors to fish, hunt deer and quail and ride horses on the grounds.

In addition to holding management meetings at the estate, the Coopers often entertain clients from China, Japan and other foreign nations. But it was inside Rosinton where the serious DKE business took place in January.

“We stressed that Psi Dekes do not allow hazing and that education is vitally important to our members,” Cooper said. “In keeping with our conviction that once a Deke always a Deke, we talked about traditions that keep all of our brothers connected. It’s important, for instance, for every Deke to know our fraternity’s songs, such as ‘A Band of Brothers’ and ‘Son of a DKE.’” Cooper said the weekend 22 THE DEKE QUARTERLY | WINTER 2018

Above: Forum attendees gather in front of the Copper family’s Rosinton estate.

Left: Ample accommodations for meeting and dining at Rosinton made for productive results. Below: Semmes Favrot ’83 talks about the importance of ΔKE history.

proved successful because everyone was able to understand and embrace the fraternity’s common beliefs. “The discussions recharged us and reinforced the things Dekes hold dear,” he said.

In between horseshoe matches, the Psi Dekes discussed the chapter’s new member education program, making sure that every week in the eight-week process has a special meaning.

“In addition to our younger Dekes, we had DKE representatives from various professions, including businessmen, lawyers and judges,” Cooper said. “Three of the fellows are older than I am, but we all learned from each other. The meetings also turned into an advertisement for the June celebration of DKE’s 175th anniversary, and I’m sure that Psi will have a strong representation in New York.”

Cooper said that smaller meetings of undergraduates and alumni have taken place at local hotels in the past, but this was the largest and most formal gathering in many years. “Everyone gave it their full attention and we all went away with a much better sense of our brotherhood,” he said.

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ALPHA OMICRON COLONY – UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO The 2018-2019 year has been a great one for the brothers of Alpha Omicron. Fall marked the chapter’s first semester in our new house, providing us with a space that has helped us to improve the chapter. We recruited eight new members bringing our chapter to 31 brothers. We also graduated our first class of alumni this semester, who are all pursuing great careers in fields from business to genetics.

Our chapter has seen many new brothers step up into leadership positions, including a new executive team and many new chair positions. Seeing the new brothers respond to the challenges of these positions gives us confidence that our chapter has a bright future as we continue to grow. Through our house, located prominently on the university hill, and our newly initiated brothers, our campus presence has been increasing tremendously this year.

Before the spring has fully sprung, a group of brothers will go down to Boulder Creek to maintain it for the upcoming season. This includes picking up trash, establishing camping spots, and ensuring safety down the stream for all guests. While the Creek is not owned in any way by the brothers of DKE, we make it our own by providing annual maintenance and caring for the surrounding areas. In addition to tidying up the creek, our brothers team up with other fraternities on the Hill to participate in a massive clean-up of the area. We see this as a great cause to keep our home tidy and clean for years to come.

We have had many successful brotherhood events in the beautiful mountains of Colorado, from tubing down the Boulder creek to tailgating at the base of ski mountains. Our brothers have been enjoying all Colorado has to offer. One brother in particular, David (Mac) Harrison competes in ski freestyle competitions nationally. Recently, he competed in an event in Montana which included skiers from all over the world in, finishing 2nd place by hundredths of a point. We are extremely proud of Mac and how he has represented our fraternity at the highest standards.

Our philanthropy efforts, supporting Adaptive Adventures, successfully raised money to support veterans and others with disabilities get experience in active outdoors sports. Through selling raffle tickets and donations, we surpassed our goals and raised $5,000 for a great cause.

This spring, our new president, Ben Bailet, ’21, visited Washington D.C. for the 3rd annual Brother Beta Academy.

This was our chapter’s first appearance at the Bother Beta Academy, and a great way for the Alpha Omicron chapter to continue to grow its prominence.

DELTA PHI – UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA As the old saying goes, you’ve got to work hard to be a Deke, and the 2018-19 year has been no exception. That being said, with the continued support from our alumni who have been working tirelessly to support our chapter, things are continuing to improve year after year.

Delta Phi would like to thank

Delta Phi members sport their Deke hockey jerseys Mike Simons ’87, Paul Gil ’87, André Despins ’03, Tyson Hallan ’07, Cameron Kerr ‘09 and James Day ’10, to name a few, for their hard work and contributions to the chapter over the past few years. We wouldn’t be where we are today without all of your support. Thank you.

June 22nd, 2018 marked the inauguration of the Delta Phi Moosehead Golf Tournament in Invermere, BC. Spearheaded by alumnus Bob Rennebohm ’73, the event saw great success with alumni from an incredible range of classes in attendance making it a weekend we won’t soon forget. Hearing the stories from the alumni about their glory days is something we are sure all members of DKE have learned to appreciate deeply, as it makes every alumni event that much better. All in all, the weekend was a great success and will continue to expand to include Dekes of all generations for years to come.

In the fall of 2018, our recruitment period began, and Delta Phi successfully bid and

initiated 12 new brothers into our ranks, increasing our active chapter to 34 members. The new member class of 2019 is an enthusiastic and ambitious bunch, with many of them setting their sights on executive leadership in the future. We are very excited to see where this group of fine young men will take our chapter, and we have faith they will do us all proud.

Over the past year, our most notable accomplishment would certainly be our efforts in philanthropy. Thanks to the hard work and effort of our philanthropy chairman Andrew Fast ’17, we’ve managed to amass over 700 philanthropy hours in the past 10 months alone. This year also marks the 9th consecutive year our chapter has volunteered its service to the All-Saints Anglican Cathedral for its Breakfast for the Homeless initiative, a service that provides free hot breakfasts to the less fortunate every Friday morning from November through April. We’ve also increased our involvement with

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CHAPTER &COLONYNEWS the Parkinson’s Association of Alberta, with actives sitting on their various committees and actively participating and volunteering at events. This year Parkinson’s Alberta raised over $415,000 province wide, and we are incredibly proud to be involved.

While the Edmonton Oilers are starting to look more and more like the Cleveland Browns of the NHL, the Alberta Dekes Intramural Hockey Team has been nothing of the sort. A pivotal event was the night of December 3rd, 2018. The Alberta Dekes goalie was away for business, and the team was scrambling to find a substitute. It was that fateful night when active Gunner “Big Guns” Johannson ’18 realized his time had finally come. He laced up skates for the first time in his life, strapped on his goalie pads, and hobbled his way onto the ice. He stood tall and proud in the net, with only his left hand on the crossbar to keep him from falling. Ninety minutes later the score was 9-0, Alberta Dekes. Not one of the 11 shots on net made it past him that night.

DELTA PI – UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS This previous Fall, Delta Pi chapter has taken big steps in creating a solid foundation for the future. This past semester we moved from Urbana to Frat Row in Champaign, which as a result, led us to 11 new initiates.

Our newly initiated Theta class has already shown a lot of initiative and promise, with four of them taking non-executive chair positions in our house.

One of the big positions taken by a new initiate is our Alumni Relations chair, Connor Follin. This is a pivotal role because Delta Pi has very recently re-created our Alumni Associ-

Delta Pi brothers are thrilled to be in their new house on fraternity row ation. In our first association meeting we got to meet past Dekes from our chapter and established connections that will help strengthen our chapter in the long run. The meeting consisted of the current members with chair positions informing our alumni where we stand currently and how we plan on moving forward. We have also begun undergoing a search for permanent housing on campus.

For Homecoming, we handdrew a banner with the help of our sweetheart, Alondra Pulido, and hung it outside our house for the weekend. The banner was entered into a competition between other organizations on campus, winning second place.

We also had the privilege of DKE Executive Director, Doug Lanpher, making an appearance at our chapter house on the Homecoming weekend.

One of the chapter achievements we are proud to share from this past semester is moving up IFC’s rankings of “average GPA of fraternities campus wide.” With help from our new scholarship chair, Himmat Singh-Mann, we plan to continue this trend.

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While only being granted our charter one year ago, with our fraternity size of 42 active members, we stand respectively with the houses that have been here for decades. As our presence on campus grows, we will continue to build our hard-earned name and keep alive our well known reputation of being gentlemen, scholars and jolly-good fellows!

OMEGA CHI COLONY – UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN Each semester brings new experiences, new opportunities, and new goals; and when looking at the 2018-2019 school year, the Omega Chi Chapter of DKE found itself in an exciting position.

Growth became the focus beginning of Fall 2018. Starting with one active brother, the wall of ground work ahead seemed almost insurmountable. Week by week, the impossible became the possible and we ended the semester with 18 members. The following is just a glimpse of Omega Chi has been up to.

Omega Chi wants to give back to its community, so the chapter has planned a Deke Dawgs event

later this semester. In collaboration with Austin’s Pets Alive, Austin’s foremost animal shelter to save animals most at risk for euthanasia. the chapter is going to bring adoptable puppies to the UT Austin campus for students to pet right before finals. With an event like this garnering enough attention and foot traction, we anticipate donating approximately $1,000 to APA. The chapter will also have profit shares planned with local businesses and franchises to help with the donation goal. Omega Chi will also participate in IFC’s annual Round-Up event to benefit the B+ foundation that raises more than $50,000 each year.

Omega Chi has also taken tremendous strides to once again regain a charter from international headquarters.

We’re working on improving our GPA from a 3.090 to the Texas IFC Average of 3.27. We have an Alumni Weekend planned for April 12 - 13 where we will tailgate for the baseball game against Kansas State. In addition, our social chair has been working vigorously to plan fun mixers with other sororities.

Omega Chi is also proud to announce that several of our upperclassmen have secured internships for the Summer.

Our brothers will be working in various areas such as Texas and New York for industries like consulting, advertising, and energy services.

Restarting a chapter is not an easy task, especially at a campus with an long standing, established Greek culture.

We’ve had many ups and downs in the process, and we finally have a strong foundation for the future. All things are pointing towards a successful venture for years to come. Omega Chi of DKE is here to stay.

Phi Alpha presents another huge check to the Canadian Cancer Society PHI ALPHA – UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA Fresh off the excitement of winning the 2018 Lion Trophy, Phi Alpha is proud to announce some exciting updates from these past months and for the upcoming weeks.

Phi Alpha is continuing our recent philanthropy tradition by holding the 8th annual Scott Trap Stick-It To Cancer ball hockey tournament with a goal of raising over $45,000 for the Canadian Cancer Society. Over the past 8 years, Phi Alpha has raised just under $200,000, with $47,000 in 2018 alone.

This year’s tournament will be held on Saturday March 16th, 2019.

Fall recruitment was very successful. We initiated 26 distinguished gentlemen including members of the varsity rugby team, musicians, residence advisors, and entrepreneurs.

Recently Vice-President Ibrahim Kawasme attended the Brother Beta Academy, in Washington D.C. where he was able to discuss various topics with and learn much from members of other Delta Kappa Epsilon chapters. Some of his takeaways have since helped the chapter form a better policy regarding information security moving forward. As well, after recent elections, we are welcoming our 2019-20 executive council and looking forward to what they have in store for the chapter!

PHI EPSILON – UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA The Minnesota Dekes have had quite an interesting year. We welcomed 12 new brothers into our bonds, revitalized many of our officer positions to increase productivity, and laid the groundwork for our house to receive many needed updates and renovations.

Our alumni network is stronger than ever before with such members like Soham Patel ’17, Brian Cox ’96, Brian Basler ’89, and John Magnuson ’91, all returning to the halls of our chapter to mentor our membership.

Having won the Delta award for most improved chapter, we find ourselves more excited than ever to push our chapter forward into a better future. Phi Epsilon is in an amazing position for the coming year.

Many of our members serve the school on a larger basis outside of this Fraternity. Our Brother Beta, Garrick Spennewyn, serves as our local Interfraternity Council Representative to the University of Minnesota’s Student Government in addition to being a member of the Undergraduate Advisory Board for DKE HQ. Brother Jack Thalhuber also serves in a similar capacity as an At-Large Representative.

Maxwell Chu, serves as a Student Senator, IFC executive Vice-President, and served as an Intern in Governor Mark Dayton’s office. Brother Daniel Gruening is a cadet in charge of all training events for the Go-

pher Battalion Army ROTC. Cody Freese and Brandon Laxson received internships working with Gopher Sports Marketing and Brother Aditya Pathak is a leading member of the Sexual Assault Prevention task force for our Greek community.

Due to the involvement of these Brothers, our house has a revitalized reputation on campus. We have a continued desire to improve our chapter and the community. Our membership is excited with the growth our chapter is seeing and looking forward to upcoming brotherhood, alumni, and philanthropy events.

Rapidly growing Pi Alpha needs one of the biggest houses at Mizzou

Iconic Phi Epsilon house on main University of Minnesota campus

PI ALPHA – UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI This past fall semester of 2018, Pi Alpha initiated 23 new members, our largest non-founding class in chapter history. Established in 2014, we have grown to become one of the most successful fraternities on campus and continue to grow each year.

This past year we signed a lease on one of the biggest houses on campus, a significant accomplishment for only being on campus 5 short years. We look forward to continuing success in the coming years with our chapter, and celebrating DKE’s 175th anniversary this summer.

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CHAPTER &COLONYNEWS Recent graduate Josh Stockton ’18, who is also a founder of Pi Alpha, is currently in his first year of “Teach For America” where he is teaching math to 8th graders at a public school in Saint Louis. Stockton mentioned the struggles of earning respect during his first semester but noted his improvement establishing strong teacher-student relationships.

Our current President, Anthony Tretter, interned with Congressman Blaine Luetkemeyer of the third district of Missouri.

He assisted in constituent affairs and helped fellow staff members in various issue areas of importance to their office. After returning from Washington D.C., he was elected our fifth president of the Pi Alpha chapter. James Pulliam was also a participant in this internship working for Congressman Billy Long.

Pi Alpha looks forward to celebrating our 5th anniversary on campus here at the University of Missouri, and celebrating many more in the future.

SIGMA RHO – STANFORD UNIVERSITY Sigma Rho has had many successes throughout the 20172018 school year. After Spring Quarter, we initiated seven

new members into our chapter, using an improved New Member Education program, which was updated to contain meetings and discussions targeting many under-discussed issues, such as gender, identity, privilege, and mental health. This put our total number of active members to 24. Each member is tremendous and will carry DKE Sigma Rho into the future.

Sigma Rho hosted two successful alumni events, including dinner at Coupa Café on the Stanford golf course, which had over 20 alumni present, and our annual alumni tailgate during Homecoming, which had over 70 persons attend. We continue re-engaging these important and vital members of the Sigma Rho community, with multiple events on the horizon.

Continuing Sigma Rho’s philanthropic contribution to our community, our chapter co-sponsored a Challah for Hunger event on campus, which assisted with the creation, braiding, baking, and distribution of challah. Profits are then donated to charities targeting hunger in various situations. We are planning to do it again in the next few weeks. We are also expecting to host therapy llamas on campus during this quarter’s finals week to provide

Would Sigma Rho brothers dress in anything other than the Cardinal?

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Tau Beta achieving big things in drive to earn their full charter an opportunity for students to destress. Sigma Rho also established the DKE Service Scholarship, open to all undergrads and gender identities on campus as an effort to support philanthropic individuals on campus.

We have a challenge with campus presence since we do not have a dedicated house.

However, DKE Sigma Rho continues to grow our chapter every year and make measurable gains in many of our goals, such as establishing and rebuilding our alumni support network, and making a positive impact in our community. Growing our chapter, while maintaining our culture at Stanford is no small task, yet it is bar we continue to strive towards and approach, and we are extremely excited to see what the next year will bring.

TAU BETA COLONY – SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY This past year Tau Beta has seen tremendous growth both internally and externally. In 2018, we introduced 12 new brothers, bringing our active brother count to an all-time high of 23, and we have 5 more on the way in this spring’s pledge period.

This March, in honor of our late founding father Nick Healey, we will be introducing our 1st annual “Nick Healey Hike for Mental Health”. We have set an initial goal at $5,000 dollars for fundraising, but have every intention on surpassing that. The

event will consist of a hike up to SFU, located on top of Burnaby Mountain. Money raised will be donated to the Canadian Mental Health Association. Last year, we participated in our school’s annual Relay for Life, and came in 2nd place in fundraising at SFU. Our second term Brother Beta, Steven Robertson, went to his second Brother Beta Academy in January, as well as the 174th Convention in June last year. Steven has also been working tirelessly getting Greek Life recognized at Simon Fraser University. He was recently elected as the “Simon Fraser Student Society Liaison”, among all Greek Letter Organizations at SFU. Our alumni network at Tau Beta has grown immensely over the last year, as we have continuously met new DKE’s in the area of Vancouver, most recently, John Kim, Phi Alpha ‘84, who attended our Spring 2019 new member pinning ceremony.

Three of our Founding Fathers are currently at Graduate school in various locations: Nader Kassem, ’15 is at the University of Calgary finishing his law degree Kelvin Yeung, ’17 is at the University of Sydney, in Australia also doing his Law degree, Alex Campbell, ’16 has just begun his long practicum in Education, at the University of British Columbia At the end of summer in 2018, Tau Beta, Beta Tau, and

Phi Alpha had a social event at the Phi Alpha house, which we hope turns into an annual event, to continue to grow our respective colonies and chapter closer together.

Even 8 acres may not hold Tau Chi for long Even 8 acres may not hold Tau Chi for long TAU CHI – TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY The 2018-2019 school year has been an exciting period of growth for Tau Chi. We successfully wrapped up our first full year in our new chapter house, with 30 live in brothers, located on 8-acres of property in south College Station, TX. In the fall semester we initiated 16 new brothers bringing the active chapter to nearly 80 members, and we’re excited to see many of them assuming leadership roles on our executive and auxiliary councils.

We hosted our annual Alumni Weekend sharing many great stories at an awards banquet, tailgating before the A&M vs Ole Miss game the following morning. A great range of alumni came out to meet our new members and celebrate our most achieved members with three awards: the Treadway, the Rising Star, and the Nagode. For context, the Treadway Award, given to our Vice President, Jacob Murphy, acknowledges our most contributing member who upholds the values of the fraternity in all aspects of life. Chris Cooper, our House Manager and President Elect, won the Rising Star award

for his promising contributions to the chapter and fraternity. Lastly, the Nagode was awarded to Kyle Blakeman, our Risk Manager.

This honor is held especially dear to Tau Chi in remembrance of our passed brother Jacob Nagode and is awarded to the brother who most highly reflects the values of our brotherhood.

We have continued to bolster our campus presence in the past year. Three brothers hold leadership roles on Texas A&M’s Interfraternity Council: Vice President of Finance, Director of Marketing, and Recruitment Committee. Additionally, Tau Chi has won the IFC scholarship for the third year in a row. This year, Riley Neal, ’20, won the $1,000 reward for his academic and extracurricular success.

Tau Chi brothers have continued to maintain a high level of achievement on campus and in their careers. Our members represent the fraternity in their involvements as President of the Economics Society, lacrosse, football, and rugby players, incoming Marines, investment bankers, and engineers. Recently graduated DKEs have gone on to the Navy, Bell Helicopter, and Lockheed Martin.

We are very excited as the spring semester is picking up.

Currently, we are planning our fourth annual Ducky Derby, a philanthropy hosted by the Brazos Valley Children’s Museum that we have been partnered with since its founding in 2015. We hope to help raise at least $15,000 for the charity. Additionally, we are in the process of establishing Tau Chi’s Mom’s Club. Our goal is to strengthen the relationship between our chapter member’s parents and the chapter by involving them in projects to improve the chapter and celebrate their contributions to our lives. And as always, we are seeking to improve

Theta Zeta finally owns their beautiful house our academic performance with a new study hours app, implemented to help brothers track their study habits.

It has been a very successful year for Tau Chi and we are very excited to see what the future has in store for our chapter!

THETA ZETA – UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY The past two semesters have seen many accomplishments and improvements for the Theta Zeta chapter of Delta Kappa Epsilon. We said goodbye to our graduating senior class, many of which stayed local, acquiring jobs all around the bay area, at prestigious companies such as Amazon, Oracle, Mackenzie, BCG, and Facebook. With an incredible graduating class to look up to, the Theta Zeta chapter has boasted many exciting and successful activities that have elevated not only the chapter, but all the brothers individually.

The new Fall 2018 and Spring 2019 classes have increased active membership by 33%. Along with this came an increase in community involvement through IFC and other greek organizations around campus. Theta Zeta hosted a very successful philanthropy with DKE petting zoo, raising over two thousand dollars for a local animal shelter.

The brothers of the Theta Zeta chapter, with help from alumnus Bob Tuller, ’56, now fully own the chapter house, establishing it as one of the founding members of the Greek community at UC Berkeley.

The brothers of Theta Zeta also participated in many brotherhood trips, including a road trip to USC, where the brothers enjoyed watching the Bears defeat the Trojans, and look forward to going on their annual Lake Tahoe trip this upcoming Spring. With vacation comes hard work as well. After sweeping the competition in IM dodgeball and softball, the brothers of Theta Zeta established themselves as champions, coming in first for both sports in the Spring, and first in Softball in the Fall.

With an eager new freshman class, a sophomore group of leaders, a responsible and scholarly junior class, and an ambitious senior class, the brothers of the Theta Zeta chapter of Delta Kappa Epsilon plan to make this next year as successful and exciting as the year before.

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MYSTIC CIRCLE OF ∆KE HERBERT D. KELLEHER GAMMA PHI ’53 1931-2019 Herb Kelleher, who died Jan. 3 at 87, was not your typical CEO. He would dress up as Elvis Presley, once settled a business dispute by arm wrestling his opponent, and went on TV wearing a bag over his head. Mainly, he is remembered as the co-founder and longtime leader of the low-cost carrier Southwest Airlines, which he built into an industry powerhouse.

Brother Kelleher was also a loyal Deke who never forgot his Gamma Phi brothers at Wesleyan University.

He was working as a lawyer in San Antonio in 1967 when a client, Rollin King, approached him with an idea for a low-fare airline that would fly between San Antonio, Dallas and Houston. Herb guided Southwest through a thicket of legal obstacles thrown up by other airlines, but the new carrier began flying in 1971. “Our basic thinking was that Southwest would democratize the skies,” Kelleher said in Fortune magazine in 2010. “Which we did; I mean, a couple of years ago 85 percent of Americans had flown at least one commercial flight as opposed to 15 percent in 1966.”

From day one, Kelleher ran Southwest using a number of simple business strategies including his conviction that keeping the airline’s employees happy should be the carrier’s primary focus. Happy employees, Kelleher believed, would translate into happy customers and eventually happy shareholders, a philosophy that proved to be true under his guidance.

From the beginning, Kelleher made it clear to passengers up front that the airline would not offer any frills, except for peanuts. Southwest operated a single aircraft type, the 737, to keep maintenance and training costs in line. He also decided that success demanded avoiding operations at congested major airports such as Chicago O’Hare, Boston Logan or Miami International, opting for secondary locations like Chicago Midway, Fort Lauderdale and Manchester, N.H.

TERENCE E ADDERLEY OMICRON ’55 1933-2018 Terence Adderley, whose career spanned six decades with Troybased Kelly Services Inc., died October 9, 2018 at his home in Bloomfield Hills. He was 85. The former chairman and CEO of

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Most of all, Kelleher was known for a personal trait normally missing from most executives in the aviation industry – a sense of humor.

It was often on display in the early days when he appeared in the airline’s early advertising.

When a copyright dispute arose between Southwest and Stevens Aviation CEO Kurt Herwald over which company had the right to use the slogan “Just Plane Smart,” Kelleher and Herwald recognized early on that litigation would be a waste of time and money.

Instead, they decided to settle the matter with a public arm wrestling match.

Kelleher, dressed in a bathrobe, emerged from his multicolored bus, flanked by a dozen cheerleaders. He lost the match, which took place before a crowd of 4,500, but good naturedly donated $10,000 to the Ronald McDonald House as his penalty, Communication professionals estimated that Southwest garnered at least $6 million in positive publicity from the event. “Herb taught us that it sometimes pays to conduct business with a sense of humor,” Herwald said.

Known for his fondness for smoking and bourbon, Kelleher agreed to give a speech before a large crowd in New York City.

But when the hotel manager approached him and told him that he had to refrain from smoking, Kelleher said, “No smokey, no talkey.”

In an editorial in the Wall Street Journal that appeared the day after Kelleher died, the newspaper reported: “Southwest is an example of something that happens time and again in a capitalist economy. Thanks to an entrepreneur with a vision no one else has, an established business model is upended – and what was once a luxury becomes part of ordinary living. We now take the affordability and availability of airline travel for granted, but one reason is the tenacity of Herbert David Kelleher.”

the staffing company had battled health issues since a cardiac incident in 2006.

A Detroit native and son of Kelly Services’ founder, Brother Adderley served as CEO from 1989 until 2006 after holding a series of managerial and executive roles that started in 1958 as manager of the company’s office in Louisville, Ky. The adopted son of William Russell Kelly, Adderley became the company’s second chairman following Kelly’s death in

1998. Calling him the “godfather” of Kelly Services, past Plante & Moran PLLC partner Paul Bernhard once compared Adderley’s importance at the company to Bill Gates’ at Microsoft Corp.

Brother Adderley joined ΔKE at the University of Michigan, graduating with a Bachelor of Business Administration and Master of Business Administration degrees.

He was a very loyal and supportive alum of both Michigan and ΔKE. A consistent and

significant donor to ΔKE, his wife, Jennifer, made sure his foundation continued that practice after his death.

Adderley’s tenure saw the evolution of the staffing industry from the early “Kelly Girl” office-temp brand to an industry that offered an array of services ranging from engineering to information technology staffing. Under Adderley’s leadership, Kelly Services built engineering and technical staffing divisions for information technology, finance and health care among other sectors.

The company also launched a health care informatics division that helped hospitals shift to electronic health records systems.

“The business world has lost a true icon and respected leader and Oakland County has lost a friend,” Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson said in a statement. “Terry Adderley was one of six original members of the Oakland County Business Roundtable and was honored in December for 25 years of distinguished service. It’s a great loss to the community.”

Adderley served on the boards of numerous organizations, including of the Business Leaders for Michigan, the Detroit Economic Club, William Beaumont Hospital, Oakland County Business Roundtable, Detroit Country Day School, Citizens Research Council of Michigan and the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan.

Brother Adderley was preceded in death by his own son, Terence Adderley Jr., who died in the 9/11 attacks.

JOHN W. HANES JR PHI ’50 1925-2018 John Wesley Hanes, Jr. departed this world peacefully on June 9, 2018, in his own home with his wife and son by his side, at age 93.

Upon graduating from Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts in 1943, Brother Hanes began his service in the U.S. Army at the age of 19, rising to the rank of First Lieutenant during World War II. After his discharge in 1946, he attended Yale University and joined ΔKE. John embarked on a government career in 1950, working as an economic specialist with the Office of the U.S. High Commissioner for Germany and transferring to the Central Intelligence Agency in 1952. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles appointed him as a special assistant in 1953.

In time, he was appointed Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs, then Administrator, Bureau of Security and Consular Affairs.

In 1961, at the end of the Eisenhower

administration, John resigned from the State Department to enter private business as an investment banker on Wall Street (becoming a partner at Wertheim & Co.) and eventually on his own.

Brother Hanes was a passionate person and did everything with purpose. Consistently in the company of dogs, it is rumored they ran his house. John loved spending time in the great outdoors fly fishing, duck hunting, bird watching (from a young age he could identify the song of almost any bird), camping, hiking, jogging, tagging bears, and traveling the world with good friends. He was an avid conservationist and believed deeply in improving our environment.

NEIL J CALL OMICRON ’55 1933- 2018 Neil Call died Sept. 10, 2018 at Lower Keys Medical Center in Key West at the age of 85.

Brother Call graduated from the University of Michigan where he joined Delta Kappa Epsilon. Neil served in the U.S. Army and began his working career at Ford Motor Company. After a stint as CFO of Paramount Pictures Corporation, he went on to work for Gulf + Western Industries.

Neil later co-founded MacKenzie Partners, a leading corporate governance and merger and proxy advisor. He has also sat on the board of Sonabank for 32 years.

Upon retiring to Key West in 1995 with Eleanor, his wife of 40 years, Neil became involved in several local organizations, among them the Community Foundation, the Chamber of Commerce and the LKMC Hospital District Board.

Brother Call was a mentor and guiding light to all who knew him.

JUDGE OLIVER A. POLLARD JR ETA ’54 1932-2018 Oliver (Buddy) Pollard died on June 10, 2018, at age 86.

Brother Pollard was a native of Petersburg, graduated from Petersburg High School, attended St. Christopher’s School, and then graduated from the University of Virginia, where he was a proud Deke. Following his service in the U.S. Army Counter Intelligence Corps, he earned a degree from T. C. Williams Law School of the University of Richmond in 1959.

Brother Pollard was an attorney (and later a partner) with White, Hamilton, Wyche and Shell. Subsequently, he followed his father to become a judge of the Circuit Court of Petersburg, where he served for 29 years.

Bud’s interests included oil painting, golf, bonsai, building twig furniture, gardening, genealogy and historic preservation. He authored Under the Blue Ledge, a history of Nelson County.

KENNETH ADE EBI JR DELTA PI ’46 1923 – 2018 Kenneth Ade Ebi, Jr. died in Fair Oaks, CA on Dec. 7, 2018, at the age of 95.

Ken grew up in Moline, IL, was an Eagle Scout, and a graduate of Moline High School and Culver Military Academy.

Brother Ebi served in World War II, 7th Infantry Div. in Okinawa as 1st Lieutenant in Army Corps of Engineers. Ken became a member of ΔKE at the University of Illinois, graduating with a BS in Mechanical Engineering.

Ken joined Aerojet General Project Gemini team in 1962. He founded Sierra Copy in 1966 and retired in 1993.

Brother Ebi traveled the US, Canada, Mexico, and all 7 continents with his beloved wife of over 74 years, Dorothy.

They were long-time members of local Jazz & Ragtime Societies and had a passion for rescued German Shepherds and Corgis.

PAUL DANIEL SCHEU KAPPA ’81 1959-2018 Paul Scheu was born in Indiana but spent the bulk of his youth in Orchard Park, New York.

Brother Scheu became a Deke at Miami University of Ohio, graduating in 1981, and went on to a successful career in banking and portfolio management. Paul spent several decades living and working in Seattle where he was a self-employed financial advisor.

Paul led a very active and full life. A talented musician, he lightened the mood wherever he went with his humor. Paul loved woodworking, fine wine, good food, and spending time outdoors. He also traveled extensively and had many good friends.

Brother Paul was a generous and fun-loving uncle, a caring brother, and an especially devoted son. He will be greatly missed by his friends and family.

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CHAPTER ROLL 2018-2019 SCHOOL PHI PSI CHI BETA ALPHA KAPPA DELTA ETA IOTA OMICRON RHO TAU BETA PHI PHI CHI GAMMA PHI PSI OMEGA DELTA CHI DELTA DELTA PHI GAMMA THETA ZETA PHI EPSILON SIGMA TAU ALPHA PHI DELTA KAPPA TAU ALPHA SIGMA RHO DELTA PI OMEGA CHI ALPHA TAU DELTA PHI PHI ALPHA TAU DELTA PSI DELTA SIGMA ALPHA PHI DELTA PI BETA EPSILON RHO NU ZETA THETA UPSILON PHI SIGMA PHI RHO ZETA CHI BETA GAMMA SIGMA KAPPA DELTA PSI MU CHI RHO BETA TAU CHI BETA TAU SIGMA XI OMEGA MU PHI MU CHI BETA GAMMA IOTA ZETA GAMMA PI ALPHA TAU BETA LAMBDA TAU IOTA CHI ALPHA OMICRON DELTA RHO KAPPA BETA TBD

Yale University University of Alabama University of Mississippi University of North Carolina Harvard University Miami University University of South Carolina University of Virginia Centre College University of Michigan Lafayette College Hamilton College University of Rochester Rutgers University Wesleyan University Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Cornell University University of Chicago Syracuse University University of California at Berkeley University of Minnesota Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of Toronto University of Pennsylvania McGill University Stanford University University of Illinois University of Texas at Austin University of Manitoba University of Alberta University of British Columbia University of the South Wake Forest University Virginia Tech Western University Troy University Duke University Pace University Arizona State University Bryant University Pennsylvania State University Bentley University New York University Michigan State University Indiana University Maryville College University of Richmond Texas A&M University University of Victoria St. Joseph’s College Oklahoma State University Manhatttan College University of North Carolina Wilmington Gannon University Hampden-Sydney College University of Missouri Simon Fraser University University of Tennessee Ithaca College University of Colorado North Carolina State University University of Illinois Springfield University of Calgary

ΔKE ADDRESS 73 Lake Place, New Haven, CT 06511 946 University Blvd., Tuscaloosa, AL 35401 Colony status, Uses private facilities, Oxford, MS 132 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC 27514 Colony status, Cambridge, MA 325 E. Sycamore, Oxford, OH 45056 Uses university facilities, Columbia, SC 173 Culbreath Road, Charlottesville, VA 22903 600 W. Walnut Street, Danville, KY 40422 1004 Olivia Ave., Ann Arbor, MI 48104 719 Sullivan Trail, Easton, PA 18042 Uses college facilities, Clinton, NY 597 Fraternity Road, Rochester, NY 14627 78 College Ave., New Brunswick, NJ 08901 276 High Street, Middletown, CT 06459 Colony status, 901 Peoples Ave., Troy, NY 12180 Colony status, 13 South Avenue, Ithaca, NY 14850 6239 Kimbark Ave., Chicago, IL 60637 703 Walnut Ave., Syracuse, NY 13210 2302 Piedmont Ave., Berkeley, CA 94704 1711 University Ave. SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414 403 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02139 157 St. George Street, Toronto, ON M5A 2M8 Canada 307 S. 39th Street, Philadelphia, PA 39104 526 Rue Milton, Montreal, QC H2X 1W4 Canada Uses university facilities, Stanford, CA 311 E. Armory, Champaign, IL 61820 Colony status, 715 Graham Place, Austin, TX 78705 638 Jubilee Ave., Winnipeg, MB R3L 1P6 Canada 11003 87th Ave., Edmonton, AB T6G 0X5 Canada #8 2880 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 2B5 Canada 735 University Ave., Sewanee, TN 37383 1101 Polo Road, Winston Salem, NC 27106 302 Roanoke Road, Blacksburg, VA 24060 Colony status, uses private facilities, London, ON, Canada 414 Fraternity Circle, Troy, AL 36081 1708 Pace Street, Durham, NC 27705 Uses private facilities, Pleasantville, NY Uses private facilities, Tempe, AZ Uses university facilities, Smithfield, RI 328 E. Foster Ave., State College, PA 16801 Uses private facilities, Waltham, MA Uses university facilities, New York, NY 1148 East Grand River Ave., East Lansing, MI 48823 424 S. Fess Ave., Bloomington, IN 47401 Uses private facilities, Maryville, TN Uses university facilities, Richmond, VA 3989 N Graham Road, College Station, TX 77845 950 Empress Ave., Victoria, BC V8T 1N8 Canada Uses college facilities, Patchogue, NY 1225 W. Third Ave., Stillwater, OK 74074 4513 Manhattan College Parkway, Bronx, NY 10471 412 Rose Ave., Wilmington, NC 28403 109 University Square, Erie, PA 16541 Uses college facilities, Farmville, VA 912 S. Providence, Columbia, MO 65203 7495 Aubrey St., Burnaby BC V5A 1K6 Colony status, 1828 Fraternity Park Dr., Knoxville, TN 37916 Colony status, uses private facilities, Ithaca, NY Colony status, 881 19th Street, Boulder CO Colony status, 18 Maiden Lane, Raleigh, NC Colony status, uses private facilities, Springfield, IL Colony status, uses private facilities, Calgary, AB, Canada

Figure in ACTIVES column is number of members after Fall 2018 initiation. Add NEW MEMBERS to ACTIVES to determine total chapter/colony size New member column shows recruiting periods. Spring or Fall indicates year round recruiting with letter denoting the primary time on that campus X-F indicates new members were added this Spring although Fall is when the largest class would be anticipated X-S or X-Spring only indicates number of new members added this Spring when the largest class of the school year would be anticipated

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ACTIVES 44 184 23 76 10 45 99 45 38 62 55 16 15 66 43 27 33 24 50 43 41 47 39 41 41 19 43 11 16 32 67 23 60 56 8 26 6 13 34 32 61 27 16 82 12 13 23 74 18 9 12 29 47 26 28 75 23 22 6 30 39 16 10

NEW MEMBERS TBD-Spring only Fall only 23-Fall Fall only TBD-Spring only 12-Spring only 11-Fall 12-Spring only 20-Spring only Fall only Fall only TBD-Spring TBD-Spring 16-Fall TBD-Spring only 0-Fall 8-Spring 7-Spring 25-Spring 7-Fall 0-Fall 0-Fall 0-Fall 12-S 0-Fall TBD-Spring only TBD-Spring 10-Fall 8-Fall Fall only Fall only 8-Spring 25-Spring 0-Fall TBD-Spring 0-Fall 5-Spring 3-Spring 26-Fall TBD-Spring 0-Fall 14-Spring 21-Spring 14-Fall TBD-Spring TBD-Spring 3-Spring 8-Fall Fall only 9-Spring only 0-Fall TBD-Spring 0-Fall TBD-Spring 3-Spring 0-Fall 8-Fall 5-Spring only 0-Fall 0-Fall 6-Fall 0-Fall TBD-Spring

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Philip Arnett, Rho – Lafayette*

Jerry Che, Omega Chi* – Texas

Colin Corini, Jordan Shklyar, Miguel Dauhajre, Zeta Gamma – Theta Zeta* – Psi Delta – Hampden-Sydney Cal Berkeley Wake Forest

Evan Smith, Theta Upsilon – Arizona State

CJ Hales, Lambda Tau* – Tennessee

Colton Bone, Lambda Tau* – Tennessee

Kyle Webster, Edward Mitchell, Andrew Frey, Nathan Maietta, Gamma Iota* – Sigma Xi – Delta*Beta – Gannon South Carolina North Carolina St. Joseph’s (NY)

Devin Byrne, Delta Rho* – NC State

Ben Bailet, Alpha Omicron Colorado

Levi Sumrall, Chi – Mississippi

Will Hume, Alpha Phi – Toronto

Cary Beam, Kappa* – Miami (OH)

James McGuire, Rho Beta* Richmond

*=repeat attendance by chapter **=repeat attendance by delegate

Steven Robertson**, Tau Beta – Simon Fraser

Connor McAllister, Psi Delta – Wake Forest

Ibrahim Kawasme, Phi Alpha – British Columbia

Jon O’Daniel, Kappa Beta* – Illinois Springfield

Garrick Spennewyn**, Phi Epsilon – Minnesota

Mitchell Burke, Sigma Kappa*Michigan State