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Phi Mu to celebrate 50 years at Northwest
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Dave Price ’70 and Tim Milner ’71 were among the participants in this year’s Jim Williams Memorial Golf Tournament.
Golf tourney benefits Geist scholarship, Bostwick fund
There was a tremendous
turnout at the Jim Williams Memorial Golf Tournament this summer in Mount
ast and present members of Phi Mu football game and attend a meet-and-greet in the will gather during Northwest’s HomeBallroom. The Ballroom will be open Saturday coming weekend to celebrate the Zeta afternoon and evening, allowing those in attendance Lambda Chapter’s 50th anniversary. a common meeting place to reunite and reminisce. The reunion begins at 5:30 p.m. Friday, For more information, contact Laurie Moore Oct. 21, in the organization’s Roberta Skinner ’71 at (314) 255-1845 or zetalambda50@ Hall chapter room and will include a short gmail.com. n commemoration for the charter members and a remembrance ritual. Tickets for the 7 p.m. Variety Show will also be available. The festivities continue Saturday, Oct. 22. Special seating will be available for the Homecoming Parade, which begins at 9 a.m. Following the parade, Phi Mus are invited to gather in the J.W. Jones Student Union Ballroom, tour Roberta Hall and campus, Installed at Northwest in 1961, Phi Mu’s Zeta Lambda Chapter, which includes more than 1,500 women, is observing its 50th anniversary this October with a attend the 2 p.m. Bearcat variety of activities during Homecoming weekend.
Ayr, Iowa, as 84 golfers participated in the annual
Phi Sigs from the ’60s era reunite in Arizona
fundraiser.
Nearly $14,000 was
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raised for the Cullen Geist Memorial Scholarship at Northwest as well as $1,000 for the Leah and Eric Bostwick Education Fund.
Tournament organizer
Wayne Woolsey ’70 said next year’s golf outing will be June 9 in Mount Ayr, and the scholarship designation will be determined at a later date. n
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handful of Phi Sigma Epsilon fraternity brothers from the 1959 to 1961 era at Northwest began reuniting about five years ago in Arizona, and since that time the gathering has grown every year, with this year’s reunion attracting 30 people. Ed Jones ’60 and Hal Wilmarth ’69 coordinated this year’s festivities in Mesa, Ariz. Next year’s reunion will be in Sun City West, Ariz., and is being organized by Bill Simmons ’61, Doug Drake ’61 and Larry Sheldon ’60. For more information, contact Sheldon at lsheldon735nm@ gmail.com. n
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Phi Sigs who recently reunited in Arizona include (front row, from left) Ken Jahde ’61, Don Kixmiller ’60, Ron Kixmiller ’60, Ron Kraft ’63, Gary Burns ’61, (back row) Hal Wilmarth ’69, Phil Maher ’60, Larry Sheldon ’60, Ed Jones ’60, Don Anderson ’60, Doug Drake ’61, Larry Miller (attd. ’57-’59), Kelly Snipes (attd. ’55-’57), Bill Simmons ’61 and (the lone Sig Tau) Duane Abbott ’63.