Delta Kappa Epsilon Quarterly Vol.128 No.1

Delta Kappa Epsilon

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www.dke.org

SUMMER 2010

Δ Κ E Proudly Announces the Return of the Δ Κ E Quarterly

Kappa Epsilon Celebrates 100th Anniversary

Δ Κ E Welcomes Newest Chapter at University of Victoria

Letter from the Chairman of the Board Dear Brothers in ΔKE: It is a special pleasure for me to be addressing my fellow Dekes from the vantage point of the Δ K E Quarterly. Many Dekes have great recollection of reading the magazine during their college days and beyond, while many of you may have only heard of it. Others may not even be aware the Quarterly existed!

I am pleased to announce the return of the Δ K E Quarterly, only in electronic format for the time being, and I hope you all enjoy it. Please pass the word to fellow Dekes who may not have read it yet, so that they can go online and take a look. We want the Quarterly to be informative, interactive and engaging for Dekes of all ages. As future issues are published, you will read stories about undergraduate chapters, get the latest alumni news, revisit the past with ΔKE history, and receive informative updates from ΔKE International.

The revival of the Quarterly is just one aspect of the rebuilding of the entire fraternity. The past year or so has been about just that – reviving ΔKE. In fact, I have been referring to 2010 as ‘The Year of ΔKE’s Revival.”

As you may be aware, ΔKE has had a significant turnover in staff, beginning with the appointment of a new Executive Director. On 1 October, 2009 Doug Lanpher, Gamma ’77, replaced David K. Easlick, Omicron ‘69, who had served the fraternity loyally for over 20 years.

Doug and his dedicated staff are working hard on many important initiatives that will restore ΔKE to our previous position of pre-eminence, but one of his highest priorities has been to improve the financial situation of the fraternity. Another priority has been to increase the quality and frequency of communications to our alumni and undergraduate Brothers. Thus, the return of the Δ K E Quarterly.

There is a tremendous amount of good news coming from our 50 active chapters and over 30,000 alumni. We want to keep you informed of all that happens and has happened in ΔKE, and will continue to provide you news updates through the website, dke.org, and future issues of the Quarterly.

Please, send us your comments, good or bad. This is a magazine for Dekes, and ΔKE wants to hear what you have to say and what you want to see, from both the Quarterly and ΔKE International.

Best wishes to all Dekes, In the Bonds, Stanford McMillan Gamma ‘79 Chairman COVER: Photo of ΔKE diamond stainglass in dormer of old Theta Chapter House at Bowdoin College by William Hossain

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Omicron, Delta Psi, and Sigma Kappa brothers lounge around sharing stories at Michigan

QUARTERLY Published by Delta Kappa Epsilon International PO Box 8360 Ann Arbor, MI 48107 734.302.4210 dekequarterly@gmail.com William Hossain, Editor Contributors Lin Hanson Doug Lanpher Charles Mackenzie Benjamin Sopchak ΔKE Board of Directors Stanford McMillan, Chairman Albert Bienvenu, Vice Chairman Matthew Blevins, Treasurer Andrew Bird, At Large Grant Burnyeat, West Bob Bilbrough, Southeast Mosah Fernandez-Goodman, At Large Bob Green, At Large Thomas Halley, North Charles Mackenzie, Northeast John McNeil, At Large Scot Merkle, At Large Mason Morjikian, Midwest Ross Wigle, At Large Thomas Randall, Undergraduate Executive Director Doug Lanpher The DELTA KAPPA EPSILON QUARTERLY is an educational journal published by Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity, PO Box 8360, Ann Arbor, MI 48107, in Autumn, Winter, Spring, and Summer.

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Wanderings and Wonderings of a Recent Beta Phi Graduate

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International Updates

New Staff Introduction & Δ K E’s Newest Chapters

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From the Road

With Doug Lanpher and Charles Mackenzie

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Chapter Chatter

Updates direct from the Chapters

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From the Foundation

Estate Planning by Lin Hanson

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Alumni News

Kappa Epsilon Alumni Celebrate 100 Years

26 Deke Contributors

List of Contributors to Δ K E over the past year 32 In Memoriam

Great Dekes Remembered

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Editorial

An Introduction

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Chapter Roll

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Summer 2010

News from International Staff There are some new bodies busy working around the office of DKE International, and we would like to introduce you to the excellent men who have recently joined the team at Headquarters in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Ronald Li

Gabriel VanLoozen

Position: Chapter Consultant

Position: Administrative Assistant

Hometown: Vancouver, BC

Hometown: Petoskey, MI

Chapter: Phi Alpha

Chapter: Omicron

Ron is a recent graduate from the Univeristy of British Columbia in 2010, with an Economics degree and is the newest member to join the line of Chapter Consultants. He will take to the road at the end of August to visit Chapters and provide the services of DKE International.When Ron completes his time as a Consultant, he wants to pursue an MBA.

Gabe is an undergraduate attending the University of Michigan, concentrating in Political Science (with Honors) and History. He helps around the office on a part-time basis, assisting with database management and adminstrative issues. When Gabe graduates in 2012, he wants to pursue a career in international relations.

Sean Thomas

Derek Woodman

Position: Media Intern

Position: Intern/Librarian

Hometown: Troy, MI

Hometown: Roseville, MI

Chapter: Sigma Kappa

Chapter: Omicron

Sean is currently an undergraduate at Michigan State University, concentrating in Professional Writing. Upon graduation in 2011, Sean hopes to move out West and enter the field of publisher editing. He will be creating new brochures and multi-media resources (e.g. newsletter layouts), as well as editing and updating current manuals for DKE.

Derek recently graduated from the University of Michigan in December 2009, concentrated in Political Science and History. He wants to pursue a Law Degree after gaining more experience. Derek will be organizing and cataloguing the Shant library, assisting the development of useful resources, and helping with Convention planning.

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Expansion Welcome Beta Tau to the Chapter Roll

The 24 Founding Fathers of the Beta Tau Chapter at University of Victoria

Δ Κ E Grows in 2010 Across North America, ΔΚE has claimed stake at two new schools, and has recolonized four old chapters.

The spark was ignited in 2009 with the revival of Zeta Zeta at Louisiana State and by the Tau Chi colony granted at Texas A & M University, driven by Cory Crenshaw, ΤΛ '98, and assisted by Chase Treadway � ‘08, the ΔΚE spirit spread outward from there.

The historic Iota chapter was revived at Centre College with the help of alumni across Kentucky, ushering in a class of 27 gentlemen. The alumni in New Jersey brought back to life the Phi Chi chapter at Rutgers University in New Brunswick. And under the guidance and determination of Bill Kavan �� ‘92, the Theta Upsilon chapter has a solid start at Arizona State University.

The newest addition to the chapter roll is Beta Tau, the first fraternity founded at University of Victoria in British Columbia. Beta Tau initiated 24 men as their Founding Fathers. Expansion of Beta Tau was made possible by Brent Tynan �� ‘76, Grant Burnyeat �� ‘65, Drew Gilmore �� ‘04, and help from the active Phi Alpha Chapter.

Tau Chi posing in front of Brother George W. Bush’s Presidential Library

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From the Road

DKE Leaders at Alabama, Pace, and Virginia In its ongoing tradition of grooming undergraduate leaders, ΔΚE remains prominent among the credentials of men holding office in student government as well as Inter-Fraternity Councils – men that not only hold office, but also men who take initiative and contributed boldly to improving the quality of student life all over campus as well as in their chapter houses.

At the University of Alabama, James Fowler, Psi ’11, was recently elected as president of the university’s student government association (SGA).

Prior to the presidency, Brother Fowler served as an SGA senator and then as its vice president of external affairs. Fowler is a native of Madison, AL, where he graduated from Bob Jones High School.

In Fall 2009, Fowler spearheaded the effort to start the campus’s 348 Ride Express, a campus security transportation system that operates on weekend nights. By the end of its first semester of operation, the system had transported more than 16,000 riders.

James Fowler, Psi ‘11

In addition to his student government service, Fowler is a Psi chapter leader. After drafting the chapter’s constitution as a freshman, Fowler served as scholarship chairman. He currently holds the office of Brother Sigma (chapter vice president). Under Fowler’s leadership, Psi has developed a chapter government with the checks and balances of a revived student-run judicial board that administers justice in many campus

offenses of which chapter members are accused.

Fowler and other SGA leaders are scheduled to sponsor a live, televised gubernatorial debate for the state’s general election in September.

Meanwhile, at Pace University, Brother Jonathan Murray, Nu Zeta ’11, is serving as Inter-Fraternity Council (IFC) president. Raised in Copague, New York, Brother Murray graduated from St. Anthony’s High School before attending Pace.

Before taking the reins as IFC president, he won a three-way election last November by 24 delegates representing the campus’s eight fraternities. Brother Murray has also served in University Government, as student activities manager in the Dean of Student’s Development and Campus Activities Office. There, he managed a staff of twelve students. Under his leadership, Pace’s IFC has organized several popular events, including a trip to see a New York Yankees game with the student-led Lubin Business Association (LBA). The ticket sales proceeds will benefit the American Cancer Society and Relay for Life. The IFC and LBA are also planning a water relay race to raise funds for the HIV/AIDS Task Force.

As Brother Beta in Fall 2009, Murray helped organize a campus conference on preventing domestic violence, complete with exhibits and a speech by the local women’s shelter director.

He was also appointed by the University’s Greek advisor to attend the Northeast Regional Greek Leadership Conference in Hartford, CT in the Spring of 2009 as Pace’s Greek delegate. Later that year, Brother Murray attended the National Conference on Student Leadership in Washington, D.C. , as Pace’s student government delegate.

Last summer, he served on the auxiliary staff of the freshman orientation program and is scheduled to serve this summer as its coordinator.

On February 18th , a Deke just succeeded his fellow brother as IFC President at the University of Virginia, a school with 28 fraternities. Current President Penn Daniel, Eta ’11, is a native of New Canaan, CT and a 2007 graduate of St. Andrew’s School. Prior to Brother Daniel’s presidency, he served in student government as well, as cochairman of the Student Life Committee through-

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out his sophomore year. His prior IFC leadership entailed the chairmanship of member education.

During that year, fraternity system recruitment at UVA rose by 14 percent. Charity events have included the Crimson War Blood Drive, a competition with the University of Maryland’s Greek system. UVA won handily and set a blood collection record and was recognized as student organization of the month of November.

Brother Daniel’s goals for the IFC include: continuing to improve recruitment and outreach to international students and members of other diverse groups less likely to join a fraternity; ensuring safety in the fraternity community by improving liability and risk management at safer social events; and, working more closely with undergraduate chapter presidents at UVA. The IFC recently created the new position of vice president of risk management who leads a party patrol.

Deke wins Mr. Bentley 2010

ΔΚE’s Executive Director Doug Lanpher and

Northeast Regional Director Chuck Mackenzie stopped by Bentley University in Waltham, MA, only to find DKE making campus history and headlines again. They were there to witness Phillippe Marquis, Zeta Chi ’13, compete in and win the annual Mr. Bentley contest. Brother Marquis’s hometowns are Montreal, Canada and Somers, CT. A fluent French speaker, Marquis also happens to be an accomplished beat boxer.

Daniel’s other community service has included program directorship of the Big Siblings’ Program at Madison House, where he mentored 31 volunteers and under-privileged children in Charlottesville. UVA’s IFC also will be sponsoring the 5th Annual Mid-Autumn Carnival, at which sororities and fraternity build local community relations by offering booths and prizes that benefit UVA Childrens’ Hospital. Daniel estimates that the event averages an annual $2000 donation to charity.

Brother Daniel was preceded as IFC president

by Charles Gamper, Eta ’10, of Baltimore, MD and the Gilman School. Under Gamper’s leadership, the IFC expanded effective recruitment and diversity outreach. Now, about 33% of all UVA men are brothers of a fraternity, a rate as strong as 20 years ago.

Gamper is the grandson of John F. Rixley, Eta ’51, and twin of Brother Richard Gamper, Eta ’10.

Prior to his presidency, Brother Charles Gamper, a pre-law student, served as honor advisor on the student-led Honor Committee, a judicial board that adjudicates campus dishonesty offenses. UVA has a tradition of student self-governance and discipline dating back to Thomas Jefferson. The Dean of Students plays the role of complainant before a judiciary committee of three students.

Mr. Bentley 2010, Phillippe Marquis poses with Executive Director, Doug Lanpher

On stage, Marquis amazed a crowd of hundreds of students and a panel of four judges, not to mention his fellow competitors, all upperclassmen. In his original beat box routine, Brother Marquis feigned making his favorite recipe on a table with various kitchen utensils and containers, while imitating mechanical sounds with his mouth to a musical beat.

After a standing ovation, Marquis received the title and white sash by unanimous decision.

Contestants were judged not only by their talent, but also the number of supporters each had in attendance at the event. The ingenious Brother Marquis created a Facebook group to promote the event.

- Photo and Articles by Charles Mackenzie

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Chapter Chatter

Delta Chi Chapter New Initiates

Gamma We have had some recent difficulty to say the least at Gamma in the past year.

In March, our fraternity was placed on probationary status until the end of February 2010. Despite not being able to use the DKE house for social recruitment efforts, our rush period went rather well until we were found guilty of another violation in October that resulted in our suspension from the Vanderbilt campus until the spring of 2012.

Positively, our members came together to create one of the better appeals in University history, which was accepted by the Deans and Director of Greek Life. This is the first appeal that has passed with approval from the administration in the history of Vanderbilt. We lost a significant portion of our rush class to the turbulence of our proceedings and were only able to keep five new members. Also, the terms of our appeal required that the junior and senior members

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of the fraternity be removed in hopes of a culture change of sorts.

Having just completed our new member education process, we look forward to adding more numbers to the organization following spring break.

On a lighter note, Gamma started a new philanthropy event this fall, likely to become a staple on Vanderbilt campus for years to come.

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in hopes of an even larger event which will benefit the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. Both Interfraternity and the Panhellenic Councils are supporting the event, which should be a huge success.

The active chapter is happy to report that the freshmen class was the 3rd highest G.P.A among other fraternities at the University of Alabama. With the culmination of last year’s pledge ship, we are anxiously awaiting the arrival of rushees to attend our spring rush parties.

Rush chairmen, Jake Gray and Patrick Morris, are looking forward to carrying forth the rich tradition our chapter has come to expect with this year’s pledge class. Our annual pig roast held the last weekend in February was a huge success with the perforPsi mance of country music star The spring semester start- Rhett Atkins. We look forward ed with a feeling that so many to capping our spring rush had felt in past years with the with a crawfish boil the last winning of the national cham- weekend in March.

The Psi chapter is expionship in the Rose Bowl.

Our chapter, along with tremely excited about the the Kappa Kappa Gamma upcoming year and welcomsorority, ended the month of ing in a new class of great January with a Philanthropy guys. We are thankful to be a event that raised $2,000 ben- part of such a great fraternity. efiting The Breast Cancer Re- We thank DKE for the opporsearch Foundation. Our staff tunity to represent them and helped put the “Burgers for the rich tradition it stands Boobs” event by grilling ham- for. burgers and preparing the house. Chris White helped put the event together and Beta said, “Giving back to society The fall semester of always makes you feel good especially when you benefit 2009 will forever remain a a great organization.” DKE is testament to the strength teaming up with Kappa again of the Beta chapter of DKE helped us to raise thousands for diabetes research.

Finally, our house band, the El Dorados, has become quite a sensation on campus and around Nashville. They perform one to two times each week and are being pursued by just about every music venue around. In attendance for one show was none other than the Black Eyed Peas who took in their performance from their VIP section at a local bar.

Despite our struggles, the members of Gamma remain light-hearted and are trying to make the most out of their time on probation. We look forward to rebuilding the strength of our chapter as Vanderbilt’s oldest and most prestigious fraternity.

at the University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill. The active members, with the aid of our outstanding alumni organization, came together to support one another and weather a very difficult period in our chapter’s history. The way the chapter responded in the face of great adversity showed why “Unity” is one of the three cardinal rules of the DKE chapter at UNC. Following the tragic passing of our brother and leader Courtland Smith in August, our chapter came together in his honor and succeeded in recruiting a pledge class of 21 outstanding freshmen, the largest of any chapter on campus. With our continued recruitment success this fall, Beta has now pulled in pledge classes of 18 or more new members in three consecutive years. As a result, the house is kicking off the new decade with a chapter of 68 active members.

Apart from our rush victories, Beta has made significant changes in our leadership structure, which will ensure the continued sustainability of our chapter. These changes have given the chapter president increased oversight and delegating power in order to increase

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Beta Brothers working on Habitat for Humanity House

the productivity of the chapter’s leadership and to help diffuse the burden of responsibility among our many capable leaders.

The DKE Executive Council now includes three vice president (VP-Philanthropy, VP-Social and VP-University/ Community Relations), aided by a number of chair positions held by younger brothers. This increased organization will ensure that DKE remains one of the best fraternities at UNC. We have also drafted a new Code of Conduct which lays out clear responsibilities and rules that come with the privilege of being a Deke.

The DKE Judicial Board has simultaneously been expanded and its by-laws updated.

Both of these improvements allow increase member accountability within the chapter and help Beta remain a thriving, self-governing organization. Although these changes required significant time and effort contribu-

tions from the chapter’s leadership, as well as from our alumni and parents groups, all the brothers have been incredibly receptive and proactive in helping to implement these measures.

The chapter’s primary focus for 2010 will be on the construction of the Courtland B. Smith Habitat for Humanity House. We held a groundbreaking ceremony for the project on January 23rd which was attended by over 200 people, including Courtland’s parents, nearly a dozen local media outlets and Holden Thorp, Chancellor of UNC. Thanks to the hard work of Frank Driscoll, our VP of Philanthropy, we were able to secure in January a $30,000 contribution from Bank of America towards the build. As a result, we have already raised $63,000 of the $75,000 required to construct the house. While we see this project as a great opportunity for DKE to contribute in a meaningful way to the local community, it will also

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provide the active chapter, parents and alumni with a constructive means of coping with the enormous loss we all suffered last semester. Courtland’s big heart and vibrant personality touched every member of DKE and we can think of no better way to honor his life than to replicate his selfless nature and affinity for service. The construction of the Courtland Benjamin Smith House will ensure that his legacy as an exemplary leader and a charitable gentleman will endure for many years to come.

I am also pleased to report that we have a great group of new leaders taking the reins this semester. You will not find a more intelligent, levelheaded and driven individual than Davis Willingham, a member of the Class of 2011 and our incoming president.

Davis came to UNC from Raleigh, NC and is majoring in Economics and Spanish. I am confident that he and the rest of the new leadership will do an outstanding job in repli

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cating the success the Beta Gray ‘10 became motivated chapter had this past year. to organize an ALS Benefit in memory of his stepmother Lambda and the sad news that Professor Emeritus of Drama, In the past year, the broth- Thomas Turgeon (and father ers of Lambda feel a great of our brother Charles Tursense of pride in our efforts geon ’95), has recently been to uphold the traditions, struggling with this devasvalues, and history of our tating illness. With Brothchapter. Under the strong er Gray’s ambition to raise leadership of a new tribunal money for ALS research and including Brother Charles treatment, the entire fraterniNathaniel Bittermann ‘11 as ty gathered at The Gambier Beta, Brother Nicholas Phil- Village Inn earlier this month ip Loud ’11 as Sigma, and to organize a night of live muBrother Samuel Robert Hull sic by the excellent Motown ’12 as Kappa Rho we have Band (Brother Gray was onmaintained a central position stage with his sax), a live aucin the academic standards, tion of baseball memorabilia, social network, and commu- delicious food, and the evernity service efforts at Kenyon popular “Extended Happy College. This past fall, Lamb- Hour” in the pub. We were da was very happy to place able to raise a total of $5,038 high in the competition for for ALS research at the end the Delta Kappa Epsilon Lion of a very happy and exciting Trophy Award, placing first in night. I should also mention the category of “Community that Brother Gray is a finalist Service” and placing third in to receive the Anderson Cup, “Chapter Improvement.” a prestigious award which Our annual Shawn Kelly is given to one student who Christmas Party, known as has demonstrated the most Kenyon’s largest organized acts of selfless devotion and community service event, involvement within Kenyon was orchestrated by the College and the greater combrothers this past December munity. in remembrance of Brother Last October also sigShawn M. Kelly and our de- naled the arrival of our annual voted aims to support the lo- Alumni Weekend, organized cal community in and around by previous Alumni Chair, Gambier. For two days, we Brother Bittermann, and the hosted a party where the helpful guidance of Brother brothers interacted with over Bob Heasley ’61. Every fall, 300 underprivileged families the actives greatly anticipate by decorating cookies, mak- meeting past generations ing ornaments, and distrib- of Lambda DKEs, and we uting Christmas presents to are very excited to see the every child. number of returning alums In addition to this event, steadily increase every year.

Brother Nathaniel Fairbanks Among many notable alumni,

the brothers were especially pleased to see Brother John W. Bingham ’37 make the trip from Alabama, and we were enthralled by the countless life experiences he shared with all of us.

During this weekend, actives and alumni gathered for a golf outing, a tour of our legendary lodge, and an impressive semi-formal steak dinner. These joyous few days proved to be the perfect opportunity for brothers of every decade to engage actives in the discussion of our future. Our emerging Lambda Alumni Association gathered to vote for a new alumni tribunal - Dave Sibley ’06 as President, George Williams ’06 as Vice President, Teddy Eismeier ’08 as Secretary, and Brother Heasley as Treasurer - and quickly began to establish the foundations and aims of this association.

In recent activities, the Lambda Alumni Association has been busy developing a charitable arm to benefit and support active brothers seeking financial aid. In addition, the Lambda Alumni have also started to renovate a website, complete with extensive contact lists, job links, and picture galleries.

In other alumni news, the active brothers were surprised and excited to hear Brother Bingham announce that he would be moving back to the greater Gambier area almost 73 years after he graduated from Kenyon. All the active brothers eagerly helped Brother Bingham move into his new home, and

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we are all very happy to receive him as a neighbor in addition to a brother; a valuable example of timeless brotherhood.

Finally, our more athletic brothers - Matthew Downing Sargeant ’10, Robert Walter Mueller III ’12, and Danilo Lobo Dias ‘12 - demonstrated their excellence on the squash courts when they led Kenyon’s team at the recent Squash National Tournament, hosted at Yale. Brother Lobo Dias overwhelmed his opponent from Cal-Berkeley to clinch the Chaffee Cup in the National E Division. I should also mention that Brother Sargeant’s excellence extends far beyond the courts, as we are all very proud to announce that he has completed the rigorous Honors Economic curriculum, and he is more than prepared for success in the business world beginning this summer.

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viously, we needed to rent a ladder and replace it manually. Several brothers also renovated their private rooms, which included spackling over holes and repainting the walls. Mike Bellantoni (’10) arranged a charity golf outing for alumni and friends of the chapter; proceeds from the event were used to buy new marble end-tables for our living room.

There have also been several changes to the house governance system. The internal judicial/punitive system was overhauled to be more effective, and two new positions have been created: the Director of Service and Philanthropy (DSP), and the Alumni Relations Chair. The former is responsible for arranging philanthropy events and making sure brothers attend. This spring the DSP will arrange the Second Annual Jeremy Saxe Basketball Tournament (in memory of a deceased brother), a soccer tournament in conjunction with another school student group, and several other events. The Alumni Relations Chair will help us to further strengthen our ties with the Rho House Association, other alumni, and DKE International.

In addition, this year the Rho House Association successfully completed negotiations for a new lease with Lafayette College. The previous lease has been put into place in the 1960s, and there was much confusion on both our end and in the college administration over certain

The Rho Chapter has strived to be the best fraternity at Lafayette College since 1855. During the past academic year, we have taken many strides towards accomplishing this goal. In the fall, 20 new members were initiated. Many of the upperclassmen, as well as members of our alumni association, feel strongly that the new brothers constitute one of the smartest and most determined classes in the past several years.

Members of the new class have taken it upon themselves to improve the house in any way possible. They built new benches to replace old, broken ones in our dining room, and built a new table for our Chapter Room. Several areas around the house were also repainted. Several members of the sophomore class were elected to important positions in the house, including House Manager (Sagar Vengurlekar, ‘12) and Vice President (Mike Rupolo, ‘12). Other members have leadership positions on various student associations outside of Rho, including the Matthew Sargent, Lambda ‘10 receives an award Landis Community Outreach from Kenyon’s Student Activities Office Center and the Lafayette Ac And so the men of tivities Forum.

Lambda continue to cherish The new members are the image of the scholar, gen- not the only brothers who are tleman, and jolly good fellow. dedicated to improving the Until we meet again, we are, house, however. Jason Siegel and forever shall remain, in (’10) and Ryan Kavulich (’11) the unbreakable bonds of helped build a pulley mechaDelta Kappa Epsilon. nism to allow us to easily pull down and put up the flag at the front of our house. Pre10

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elements of that lease. As part of the new agreement, the school now pays janitors to clean our house on weekdays (previously, our cook was forced to act as a janitor as well), and will undertake a number of major renovations over the summer.

Other improvements include new electrical outlets, many of which had not been up to code, and new curtains on the first floor.

There are many plans for future improvements, as well. We hope to get the windows on the second and third floors, many of which are broken or inadequate, replaced.

We also hope to refurbish the floors on the first floor, the Chapter library, and fix several doors around the house.

The brothers of Rho continue to dedicate themselves fully not only to the further improvement of our own chapter, but also to the revitalization of DKE International. Kerothen Philoi Aei.

game by Baus: he accounted for 30 of the 53 points scored on the court (all three pointers).

In social news, the first exchange of the semester was held on Thursday, February 25 with the beautiful young ladies of Pi Beta Phi. Despite having our reservations canceled a mere two hours before the exchange was scheduled, the day was saved by social chairmen Jack Truett, with an assist by Chase Myers. The two combined to relocate the event across the river at the Daiquiri Café in Port Allen. Although it was a little bit farther than Tigerland, the night was a success.

The theme was “Hippies and Terrorists.”

In other news, members gathered at the house to take a picture that will be included in this year’s 150th anniversary edition of “The Gumbo”, which will be available at the end of the school

fully functional pool table in the living room. Everyone has thoroughly enjoyed becoming very accomplished pool players, and the race to see who will be crowned “Mr. Billiards” is on.

The chapter hosted a blood drive on Monday, March 15 in the living room of the DKE house.

Delta Chi After sharing the Lion Trophy with Theta Zeta Berkeley, DX of DKE has responded with another solid year.

Led by Rush Chairs Brian Lo ‘11 and Stephan Spilkowitz ‘10, DX initiated 5 members in the fall, the biggest fall pledge class in many years.

Spring 2010 Rush was even more successful, as 21 men made the decision to become pledges of DX. In addition to successful rush, the Brothers have been

Zeta Zeta The spring of 2010 has been a very busy one as all of the actives pursue their various fields of interest. In our only intramural basketball game of the season, the team won a nail-biter against Sigma Alpha Mu in the last minute when sophomore Jack Baus scored a three pointer, putting the Rampant Lions ahead by one, with three seconds left. Needless to say, the game-winning shot was not the only contribution to the

Newly refinished library in the Delta Chi Chapter house year. Thanks to the donation of Zeta Zeta alumnus Steve Myers, uncle of current active Chase Myers, there is now a

active in improving the physical house. This past year we refurnished our living room thanks to generous donations

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from our Alumni. The alumni have been continuing their aid by funding kitchen improvements which our currently underway. Brothers have been repainting the house all year and the new pledges are renovating our bar. Academics have been on the upswing, as the Brothers improved the house GPA from 3.0 to 3.1.

We have also continued our philanthropic efforts, working in conjunction with the Class of 2010 for “Battle of the Late Night Foods”, attending other chapter’s philanthropy events and donating our cans and bottles for Haiti relief.

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in a very good way. The upperclassmen are highly motivated, and are setting very good examples for the newest class of brothers through academics, athletics, and leadership positions within the fraternity itself. Sigma Tau is even working to branch out and become better known across campus.

Academics are thriving for DKE, even here at MIT. Two members of the class of ’09, James Oleinik and Dave Nackoul, graduated with stellar grades, and both moved into the Masters of Engineering program at MIT. Some of the current upperclassmen also have their sights set on graduate school, whether at MIT or off to another institution. Many of the other brothers are also showing academic prowess, as many of us recently made the all-academic team for our conference in football. This required greater View of Boston from Sigma Tau’s rooftop than a 4.0 GPA, master Kevin Singh ‘10 has which is a B average. worked tirelessly on focusing The Sigma Tau Brothers the pledge process on chap- currently have a very strong ter values, history and team- presence on the MIT footwork. Things are looking up ball field. Every active has at for DX as our largest pledge one point played for the MIT class in over 10 years moves football team, and most are in and takes the helm. still members of the team.

Three of the four captains of Sigma Tau the most recent season were DKEs, and we hope to conThe MIT chapter of Delta tinue that trend next year, as Kappa Epsilon is currently captains have not yet been looking forward to the future, decided. We do also have 12

brothers in other sports than football. Sigma Tau has members of the crew, track & field, and hockey teams. Another brother competes nationally in weightlifting. We also have a brother in the MIT Logarhythms, an a capella group on campus, a group that has elected him to be the current music director.

The leadership of the chapter is working to take strong steps forward. Our new house manager took on the role during his final semester at MIT, and is using much of his time out of class to renovate areas of the house and organize brothers to keep the house in great condition. We have two rush chairs, and they are both determined to bring as many quality members as possible to the brotherhood of Delta Kappa Epsilon in the months ahead. As President, I am very confident in the current leadership of the house. Our newest class of brothers, the class of ‘13, has already inspired great expectations for themselves. These eight new brothers are all hard workers and true to the ideals of Delta Kappa Epsilon. We have even recently gained a spring pledge, and he has already shown high dedication to this brotherhood.

The Sigma Tau chapter is working hard to excel in all aspects of college life. Many of the brothers are involved in areas all over campus. Our upperclassmen are doing well to show the freshmen how to keep Delta Kappa Epsilon strong, and those fresh

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men are more than willing to take those cues and continue to make our fraternity even better.

hopeful new house on campus. The alumni association along with the chapter has been working hard to make this a reality.

In the meantime the acAlpha Tau tive chapter holds its meetings at the University of ManThe Alpha Tau chap- itoba. Since 2003 Alpha Tau ter has shown many signs has come a long way from its of growth over the past two brief period of being inactive years. The executive council; to having 20 active members President Jeff Timlick, Vice and an active Alumni AssoPresident Craig Murray, Rush ciation.

Chairman Erin Bihun, Treasurer Don Mckenzie, Recording Secretary Paul Young and Delta Psi Pledge Trainer Anders Webb The Delta Psi chapter at are proud to initiate eight new members to the Alpha Indiana University has exTau family. Matt Zelich, An- panded exponentially since drew Robertson, Blair Shutur- its fairly recent chartering ma, Ryan Mushy, Bryce Riou, in 2000. Beginning with a Taras Boukailo, Mike Hlynsky pledge class of six men and and Jarad Cranwill make up eight founding fathers, Delta Psi has grown to almost fifty the class of 2014.

Over the course of the last men strong, and maintains a year we have made dona- solid presence on campus. tions to Winnipeg Harvest in Compared to the mansionlike structure of many old fraternities here at IU, the Delta Psi liveout system may seem small, but the spirit that encompasses the chapter is as strong as ever, the common bond of Delta Kappa Epsithe form of non-perishable lon encapsulating an attitude foods and also took dona- of leadership and service tions while tailgating at Man- throughout the brotherhood. itoba Bison games for Breast Every fall, the chapter Cancer Research. participates in a Safe HalAlpha Tau is currently in loween event at one of the the middle of a housing tran- local community colleges, sition from our prior place in providing a safe environment Waverly Heights, which had for Bloomington families to five active members living celebrate the fall festivities. in it over the past year, to a In the spring, Delta Psi par-

ticipates in the 200 Hour Day, where every brother participates in a community service project in order to achieve a combined total of 200 service hours.

Recently, the men of Delta Psi traveled up to Omicron, where they met with Dekes from both Michigan and Michigan State. The weekend was filled with activities that displayed the common bond DKE forges throughout all of its chapters, as Omicron, Delta Psi, and Sigma Kappa participated in a tour through the Shant, trips around Ann Arbor, and other events.

As the chapter heads into the 2010, the active leadership and opportunities Delta Psi faces give high hopes for the years ahead. The chapter is already working with the Dean of Students at IU to secure a small 10 man house for the 2011-2012 school year, and even sororities are tak-

ing notice of their local DKE chapter, as the brothers entertained Alpha Chi Omega, Alpha Gamma Delta, and Alpha Delta Pi earlier this year.

The future looks bright for Delta Psi, and with our strong leadership and active roles within both the Greek community at IU, and the local Bloomington community, we

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strive to represent the Objects of DKE on our campus, advancing the positive image of our Greek system and striving to better ourselves as a chapter, as a brotherhood, and as individuals.

Rho Beta It has been a remarkable past few months for the brothers of Rho Beta. I am proud to give an update from what I believe to be the strongest Rho Beta chapter in several years. I am pleased to write about brothers who have given true meaning to what it means to be a Deke.

We began this schoolyear determined to give back to the community. In October, Rho Beta participated in “Light the Night,” an annual fundraising walk held by the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Organized by Benjamin Paul (‘11), we raised approximately $300 from friends, family, and alumni. Special thanks must go out to Josh Doherty (‘08) who contributed $50 to our fund when we first started raising money.

We were moved by the support we received and look forward to raising more money for this cause next year and beyond.

As one of the smaller chapters, Rho Beta is also proud to announce that three gentlemen have recently accepted bids and will soon join our brotherhood. Rush Chairman, Chris McClintick (’12) has done an exemplary job recruiting underclass-

men to join Rho Beta. Our recognition within the Richmond community continues to grow thanks to his efforts.

With optimism abounding, we expect to increase the size of our chapter in the upcoming years.

Rho Beta has also kept close with its alumni. Alumni weekend was held from March 19th through the 21st this year. It truly sends a positive message to everyone involved that alumni, including many from Alpha class, return annually to catch up with brothers and also to meet newly initiated Dekes.

It is always a particular pleasure to welcome back Richard Poidomani (’02)—the George Washington of Rho Beta—every alumni weekend. With a baby on the way, we wish Rich and his lovely wife, Heather, all the best.

In addition to the chapter as a whole, some of us brothers have been particularly active this past year, accomplishing much and making the Rho Beta chapter very proud. Any discussion of individual success cannot leave out our President, Matt Jordan (’11). He is brilliant in many regards, but none more so than in the field of physics.

His accomplishments are extraordinary— and extraordinarily difficult to comprehend. For instance, he recently travelled to Hawaii to deliver a presentation entitled, “Systematic Uncertainty Involved in Measuring the Fifth Structure of the Deuteron.” The presentation was based on his research in es-

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tablishing a baseline for the hadronic model and determining where quark glueon interactions become manifest. If that all flew over your head, don’t worry, no one else in Rho Beta has a clue either. There is no doubt that this Deke will be someone to watch in years to come.

Our outgoing President, Alex Phillips (’10) is also incredibly impressive in his own right. A natural-born politician with endless ambition, Alex has his eyes set on Washington, D.C. for his post-graduation plans. He is currently working for Rich Anderson, a member of the Virginia House of Delegates.

He is working on constituent services along with other legislative duties including tracking bills going through the General Assembly. In addition, Alex has also worked on Senator John McCain’s presidential campaign as well as Congressmen Eric Cantor’s re-election campaign. With so much experience already in hand, there is no doubt that Alex will be one of the more successful Deke’s to come through the Rho Beta chapter.

We hope this update inspires Deke’s of all chapters.

Our brotherhood fosters some of the most successful and influential men in the world. We brothers of Rho Beta do not forget that fact; we embrace it. In the end, no matter how hard things get, we are all lions, and we will all roar.

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A Modest Request We recall an old proverb, which we expect our readers to have read or have heard of at some point in their lives, known widely as “For Want of a Nail”. For any unfamiliar with the proverb, we recommend you become familiar before continuing.

A fraternity can suffer the same fate, and in all honesty, the kingdom of ΔKE, has almost suffered such a fate, and at present, is not quite out of the woods. Sparing the nitty-gritty details, we will provide an analogy using the same formula as the proverb: For want of a donation, a paycheck was lost For want of a paycheck, a consultant was lost For want of a consultant, a visit was lost For want of a visit, a chapter was lost For want of a chapter, alumni were lost For want of membership, a fraternity was lost All was lost for want of a donation Albeit an (ever–so-slightly) exaggerated example, we anticipate the message realized is that, without support, ΔKE struggles to provide the services that brothers desire and deserve – such as this Quarterly! This can also be applied to ‘For want of a gift, a Chapter house was lost’ or ‘For want of a Scholarship, an active brother was lost’ and so on. This is why we request you contribute, in whatever manner possible, to help ΔKE better serve our members.

Make your gift today here: www.grsconnect.com/rush/dke Or, contact ΔKE HQ for ways to get involved at dke@dkehq.org

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Rampant Lion Foundation Planned Giving © 2010 Linscott R. Hanson* Rampant Lion Foundation

Did you ever read the book or see the movie “The Perfect Storm” about the convergence of two major storms at sea that overwhelmed a group of experienced fishermen? ΔKE and the Rampant Lion Foundation (along with a lot of other charitable organizations) find themselves caught in a perfect storm of another sort in the year 2010. We all know about the economy, and we’ve seen what that has done to charitable giving. But in addition, this year, we’ve got no estate tax.

Before Jan. 1, the wealthy had a fairly basic choice when it came to their estates: they could leave the money to their families or give it to charity. But it wasn’t really an equal choice. With the government taking a large chunk for the estate tax, the choice was to leave a portion to heirs after the IRS took its chunk, or leave the full pretax amount to charity. In other words, for each $1 of the estate, the wealthy could leave $1 to charity, or they could leave 55 cents for their heirs and 45 cents to the IRS (with various caveats for spouses, thresholds etc). As of Jan. 1, however, there is no estate tax, at least for a year. So the wealthy now have a more equal choice: $1 for heirs, or $1 for charity. Guess which one they probably lean toward?

Many experts, in the government and outside it, have predicted that elimination of the estate tax would remove another incentive to make charitable gifts, and that will complete the perfect storm It is a sad fact: when the economy is suffering, hardest hit are fraternities and their companion foundations. Enrollment at 4 year colleges is down, more among males than females, with many men choosing a 2 year college to begin, or no college at all. Fraternity membership is suffering, dues collections are too.

While Congress is looking at a possible retroactive adoption of a new Estate Tax, there is no question that under the language of the law now on the books, the Estate Tax comes back next year, with exemptions reduced from $3,500,000 to $1,000,000, and rates increased..

Hence we should all look at “planned giving.”

Planned giving means some kind of charitable giving planned to take maximum advantage of the gift to minimize taxes on the donor. Although many planned giving techniques are effective at or after the donor’s death, some planned gifts occur during lifetime, perhaps to reduce income taxes.

There are a number of planned giving techniques. Some of them are: Outright Gift of Appreciated Securities: You give appreciated stock and get a full charitable deduction without a capital gain on sale. The Foundation sells, and pays no tax because it is tax exempt.

Bequest: You include the Rampant Lion Foundation in your will for a cash gift at your death.

Gift Annuity: In exchange for your transfer to the Foundation of cash, or more likely appreciated securities, you or you and your wife or another person receive a fixed sum each year for life.

This gift can avoid capital gains tax on the sale of securities and give you a guaranteed income which has become an attractive feature of estate plans these days.

Deferred Gift Annuity: Is the same as the Gift Annuity, above, except the payments commence at some date, fixed by you, in the future, when it is likely your income will be less..

Charitable Remainder Unitrust: You create a “unitrust” which pays a fixed percentage of its value, to you (or others you name) for life, or a term of years.

The remaining assets at the death of the last beneficiary then go to charity.

Charitable Remainder Annuity Trust: You create a trust that pays a fixed dollar amount each year to you, (or others you name), for life, or a term of years. On the death of the last annuitant, the remaining assets go to charity.

This is like the Unitrust, except the annual payments are fixed in amount at the time the trust is created.

Retained Life Estate: You deed your home, farm or other real estate to charity, but retain the right to live in it for the rest of your life, or for a term of years, or a combination of the two. You get a present income tax deduction for the hypothetical value of the foundation’s right to the property when you die. ΔKE, the Rampant Lion Foundation and their partners, First Midwest Bank Trust Department and Greek Resource Services, Inc. have advisors ready, willing and able to consult with you and your attorneys, accountants and financial planners, to help you select the best planned gift technique for you. We will be able to supply concrete illustrations of how each form of plan can work for you and your family as a part of your overall financial plan. Contact Lin Hanson at 847 698 9600, with preliminary questions, or to schedule an appointment.

*In Lin Hanson’s “day job,” he is a partner in the law firm of DiMonte & Lizak, LLC, in Park Ridge, Illinois. His practice is transactional, focused on advising small businesses and estate planning. You can learn more about him and his firm at their website: http://www.dimontelaw.com To learn more about First Midwest Bank’s Trust Services, visit: http://www.firstmidwest.com/content.aspx?id=192 To learn more about Greek Resource Services, Inc, check: http://www.greekresourceservices.com/index.html

Alumni News Wanderings and Wonderings of a Recent Beta Phi Graduate

by Ben Sopchak

When I graduated from University of Rochester last December, I had an infinite amount of freedom in front of me. Through my education and work experience, I had equipped myself with all the tools required to launch a successful career in a number of fields from political science to business and even construction management. I also managed to escape the University with very little debt, which basically meant I was free to pursue just about any path I chose in the months to come. However, taking the first job in the area that I could find, donning a cheap suit and tie everyday, and “living for the weekends� like most of my classmates, who graduated the previous spring, had done did not appeal to me.

With disdain for the direction my mates had chosen and a newfound lust for life, I summoned a heap of ambition and applied to the Masters of Environmental Management program at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. I was surprised to be accepted, as I limped through my last couple semesters at UR, and eagerly enrolled. The program is designed around the ecological sustainability and social justice aspects of development, and addresses institutional and global governance changes required to forge a harmonious existence between man and nature. I was attracted by the more radical approach to these issues, and the solutions-oriented methodology. I bought a plane ticket for mid-February, and off I went.

In between December when I was accepted, and February when I left, I had the month of January to kill. I wasn’t really interested in four weeks of work, so I contacted my uncle, who leads a medical/educational mission trip to the south of India every year. The mission provides free treatments in rural areas where these services could not otherwise be accessed or afforded, goes to a local orphanage and school and helps teach basic English, distribute supplies, and shares love with children who have never before received it from anyone. When he offered me a spot on the team that year, I was elated, and jumped at the opportunity. We took off from Newark airport the first week of January and landed in Delhi some 18 hours later. From there we flew 4 hours south to Bangalore, and then hopped on a bus foranother 5 hours before finally arriving at our destination: Semmandakuppam, Dharmapuri, Tamil Nadu. The next three weeks were the best of my life. Everyday we went to the school to teach and to play with the kids. We stayed at the orphanage and engaged in some building projects there. The way that the community there lives is truly incredible. Materially, they have next to nothing, but they are profoundly resourceful, and above all they are happy. The children all look out for each other, rather than competing all the time. Families work together to grow and prepare food, rear children, and just plain survive.

It was refreshing to see such joy amidst the worst poverty I had ever experienced. In the end, the

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people there, especially the kids, taught me so much more about life and love than I ever could have educated them in a classroom. It definitely changed my outlook on life, strengthened my confidence in my educational choice, and I came away with a working understanding of the Tamil language. “Non unai nesicrane” was the refrain as we boarded the bus to head to the airport (I love you), and they meant it.

I barely had time to unpack from India and pack for Australia before heading to Sydney. I had been on a study abroad semester in my junior year at Rochester and knew what I was in for in terms of expenses. Living in Sydney, particularly near the beach, is not cheap. To compound the problem, I was not receiving the same scholarships that I had for my undergraduate degree.

My parents, while supporting the idea of furthering my education, were not in a position to help much financially. With that in mind, and against the better judgement of my father, I sold not only my car in central New York State, but also my life insurance policy to pay for my education and costs of living during the year and a half duration of my masters program. Tuition is not cheap in Sydney, and neither is beer! A sixpack of something drinkable runs about 18 USD - and a case of that same beer will go for about 55 USD! The stress of my first six weeks as a postgraduate student inspired a spring break trip to Thailand, for some much needed rest and recovery. When I arrived in Bangkok, there was rioting going on like I had never seen. Piles of cars were burning, men dressed in red with devil masks on were carrying weapons, and police were frantically trying to restore order to the city. This was the fallout from a military coup, failed political revolution, election fraud, and subsequent reinstatement of the old dictator (now called Prime Minister a shallow guise of legitimate democracy.) Not being a student of the Southeast Asian political landscape, I was confused and terrified. Those uneasy feelings were quickly put to rest when

I realized that I had unintentionally planned my trip at exactly the same time as the Songkran Festival: a weeklong celebration of the Thai New Year. This celebration is nothing like New Years Eve in the States. It is a massive water fight all across the country. Day and night if you go out of your room, expect to get soaked. Everyone is armed with water balloons, squirt guns, buckets, and smiles. It is almost an insult if you get shot with a water gun and don’t shoot back. That first night I stayed out until noon the next day running around the streets of Bangkok sopping wet, having an absolute blast with perfect strangers I couldn’t communicate with, and slamming beer which uses formaldehyde as a preservative (the consequential hangover inspired an investigation of this).

After a few days in Bangkok, I headed north to Chiang Mai. I thought the water fight would be less intense here, but I was wrong. The city is surrounded by a moat, with fire hoses hooked up. Several feet of water flood the streets during Songkran. Apparently nothing in Thailand is dry during this festival. After Chaing Mai, I flew south for a few days of sun on the beaches of Phuket, a full moon party on the legendary island of Koh Phangan, and some relaxation on Koh Samui before returning to Sydney. I left Thailand with a new appreciation for Southeast Asian culture, a belly full of fantastic food, and loads of new mates.

I finished the first semester of my Masters program with high marks, and began the second in August. I was only two weeks in this time when the travel bug came back.

I received an email alert from JetStar that flights to Indonesia were cheap at that moment, but had to be booked in the next 30 minutes. With a complete disregard for my responsibilities - which I must have picked up during my four years in the Beta Phi chapter house - I logged on and booked a flight to Denpasar, Bali, via Jakarta, leaving the next day.

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I encountered some strong anti-Western sentiment in Jakarta, and was fortunately only there for one night. When I arrived in Bali, it was nothing but friendly welcomes.

I stayed in a beautiful little shack on the beach in Balangan, which was absolute paradise. I surfed uncrowded left-handers, which peeled for nearly a mile, every day for two weeks. I cruised around the island a bit fishing with a mate I met in Kedonganan, and had one of the best feeds of all time. I visited Tanah Lot temple, and I learned a remarkable amount of Indonesian and Balinese for such a short stay. “Saya mau dua bintang dingin sekali!” was my most used phrase (I need two ice cold beers right now!) Indonesia is a special place with a multitude of cultures, rich natural beauty, and the best waves on the planet. I will head back there as soon as JetStar emails me again!

Back in Sydney, I finished my second semester in November, and decided I needed to get fit again, now that I had a couple months for summer break (the seasons are reversed in Australia). Since college football and hockey, I had really let my fitness slide; I decided I would challenge myself to run a marathon. After six weeks of training, I flew to the North Island of New Zealand to run in the Kerri Kerri Marathon around the Bay of Islands. The scenery was beautiful, and I managed to finish 700th out of about 3500

runners. Not too bad, but it nearly killed me. I have officially retired from competitive athletics!

New Zealand though, was an incredible place. It is geologically unique and stunning landscapes are around every corner. I surfed with dolphins,

fished for snapper, and met some really great people.

I was making preparations to come home for Christmas when my uncle rang me, and again offered me a spot on the India team. I had been hoping and praying all year for the chance to go back, and not a day went by where I didn’t think of those kids. I had to take him up on it. Returning to India in January was the best choice I could have made, and now I am sure I will go every year that I am physically able. To see the progress the children made, particularly the little girl I sponsor, was astonishing. They had put the supplies we brought to good use and they all seemed so much more mature. They had learned so much in one year, and the impact of our trip there really resonated with me. Every single one of the 800+ children remembered my name when we arrived. “BEN UNCLE” they shouted over and over again. I am amazed what just a few weeks of my time and an open heart has meant to their lives. These are primarily kids without family support of any kind. My sponsor child’s father is dying of AIDS, and her mother left to go work in the city several hours away. She is only 3 years old and her case is no exception. Most of the kids there have similarly heart-wrenching stories. Just 300 USD per year gives her food, clothing, housing at the orphanage, pays for her schooling, and takes care of any health issues that can be resolved with the community’s limited resources. They way I see it, that’s just a few less nights out in a year. A really small price to pay for how much good it delivers on the other side of the planet.

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the Ganges River that people still bathe in and drink from, and I have breathed the photochemical haze of Mumbai. I have witnessed sweatshop workers in Jakarta limping home after 30 hour shifts on their feet, making shoes and underwear for Western markets, I have seen systematic exploitation of Aboriginal knowledge and land across Australia; but I have also seen the beauty of human compassion in south India, where communities live as giant families, and love is not an abstraction - it is a tangible reality.

My final semester in Sydney is now 25% complete. Through my studies and my travels, I have come to understand more fully the destructive nature of our neoclassical pro-growth capitalist economy, and the implications that it has on natural life support systems and on the people who cannot simply buy their way out of the mess created. I recognize the challenges in addressing the problems that plague the wage-slaves of this system of consumerism, and of conserving and restoring what is left of wild nature for the health and happiness of my children and grandchildren one day. I also recognize that there is not an easy way to bring about the kinds of changes necessary to live in a more equitable and sustainable world. It turns out that “Environmental Management� is not about managing the environment at all; surely, it is capable of managing itself. Rather, it is about managing people and the institutions that determine the fate of the environment.

These experiences have shaped my worldview profoundly, and inspired a way forward.

While I am not sure exactly what the future holds for me, I am sure of one thing. When I graduate in June, I am going to do all that is in my power to help reshape the way we interact with each other and with our environment. The solutions to the problems we face are tricky, but they will not require futuristic, technological innovation, world wars, or infusions of money that do not exist. They require compassion, determination, and a bit of humility. Whether I end up in a PhD program, back in Tamil Nadu with the kids, or anywhere in between, these are the ends I will be striving for.

To contact Ben, please email df13bts@aol.com

Similar to when I finished at UR, I am lucky to have an overwhelming amount of freedom at my feet (tack on $40,000 of US student loan money this time, but still‌).

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Kappa Epsilon Celebrates Its 100th Anniversary

On the evening January 30th, Dekes young and old (many accompanied by their wives and girlfriends) gathered at the Burke Museum on the University of Washington campus to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the founding of the Kappa Epsilon chapter of Delta Kappa Epsilon.

The wine most certainly flowed freely as attendees reunited with their brothers in ΔKE and reminisced about their college years living in the chapter house and where their lives have taken them since then.

Brothers came from near and far to attend the celebration. While most attendees currently live in the Seattle area, several traveled from places like Anchorage, San Diego, Oakland, and Boise to be at the event. None came from further afar than Bob Haugen (KE ‘65) who flew in, along with his wife, Cynthia, from the state of Georgia. Doug Lanpher (Gamma ‘77) made his first visit to Seattle as the Executive Director of ΔKE International. Several members of the Phi Alpha chapter made the journey from the Vancouver, B.C. area and once again showed the strong bond that exists between Phi Alpha and Kappa Epsilon. One local guest of note was Hugh Ferguson (KE ‘38), who made a surprise but warmly-welcomed and greatly appreciated appearance.

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Although we gathered to celebrate the past 100 years of Kappa Epsilon, our membership with the support of International is also looking to the future. For 100 years, the Kappa Epsilon chapter has proudly carried on the traditions and mission of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity at the University of Washington. As students, Kappa Epsilon Dekes have been actively involved in campus activities ranging from student government, intercollegiate athletics, and theater; after graduation they have pursued careers in business, law, pharmacy, politics, engineering, computer science, education, public affairs, real estate, etc...

As KE of ΔKE looks to return to the University of Washington campus, the success of the 100th Anniversary celebration shows that the enthusiasm for ΔKE is strong in the Puget Sound region and that the KE alumni will provide the time and energy required to make our reactivation effort successful.

Zeta Zeta Alumnus Makes a Record Catch Tigue Bonneval, Zeta Zeta ‘97, caught the 3rd largest Warsaw ever recorded in the State of Louisiana. Bonneval reeled in this behemoth Warsaw on May 23, off the coast of Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico. The fish weighed in at 354 pounds.

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List of Donors to DELTA KAPPA EPSILON since July 2009 L. Frank J. William Steven James T. Jonathan John Peter Joseph H. Richard Sean E. James George Arthur Landon Marshall Lynn Samuel Scott Lynard James Rodney Tarrance Samuel Gunnar Thomas Peter James Terrence John Frank John Kenneth John Peter Frederick James George Russell Edward Alexander Clive Edward Mel John Gladstone Arnold Brendan Frank Matthew Jordan Allen Edmund Albert Mahlon Peter Wheelock

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'52 '69 '71 '50 '83

Coleman Cookson Donald Fentress Gafford Graham Hargrave Hinshaw Homich Hood Kornegay Lee Leonard Mavar McIntosh McMullen Morris Parkerson Tonos Wade Ward Weissinger White

'09 '57 '66 '73 '61 '70 '42 '71 '65 '65 '42 '65 '64 '65 '73 '66 '64 '72 '73 '02 '72 '70 '66

UPSILON - Brown Robert

Dillmeier

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Kronholm Pond Shea Tyrrell

'52 '40 '49 '50

BETA - North Carolina Edward George Robert Patrick E. Robert Cameron Christopher Frederick Robert Nathaniel Steven Timothy Randolph Stephen S. Matthew Warren Albert A. Bruce Francis Ernest

Baur Climer Crates Gibbs Glenn Gray Harris Harris Hopkins Jones Kluttz McCarroll O'Connor Old Owen Phillips Reardon Rendall Roper Shuford Swenson Winslow Zellweger

'68 '93 '63 '05 '72 '64 '66 '95 '91 '00 '09 '68 '74 '68 '56 '65 '08 '47 '63 '66 '68 '50 '74

KAPPA - Miami Robert Christopher Stuart James Robert William Daniel Mark Elden David James Gregory Frank Samuel Richard William Thomas David Charles Richard William John Wade David Richard

Annandale Batty Berger Berry Coffin Ducey Finkel Flanagan Fletcher Harrison Hartenstein Herring Ingwersen Ingwersen Jones Malley Maxwell McKell McKinley Meyers Ninde Pluhar Prozeller Reynolds Vanden Brul Blocher Brady Bridges Carnighan Currier Daulton Giles Green Grover Hayes Heasley Heiserman Morjikian Murphy Offenburger Pendleton Sansom

Adams Billig Bull Burnett Coverson Finger Green Lane McFillin Parker Phipps Pollard Rose Ruffin Shillinglaw Walker Wallace

'84 '96 '09 '47 '09 '82 '69 '83 '08 '51 '55 '54 '79 '09 '09 '73 '78

PI - Dartmouth Charles Frederick William William Robert Augustus Gilbert James John

Blaisdell Embree Hale Harris Koslowsky Leach Mueller Progin Steele

'37 '46 '44 '61 '47 '60 '51 '60 '46

IOTA - Centre '69 '04 '79 '65 '59 '66 '98 '46 '66 '44 '44 '99 '79 '52 '54 '57 '49 '48 '55 '63 '66 '90 '70 '50 '67

LAMBDA - Kenyon Bruce James Robert Robert Philip David Gale Thomas Arden C. Robert Hewitt Mason Thomas Greg Bruce Arthur

ETA - Virignia

Jonathan Eric Christopher Henry Najee Jonathan Robert H. Timothy Lewis Paul Oliver Thomas William Andrew Raymond Bass

'66 '69 '86 '59 '56 '59 '58 '73 '50 '68 '60 '82 '88 '45 '69 '70 '73

Jeff Bennett G. James Robert James Lee Joseph Raymond Stanley Anthony Thomas Reginald John Thomas David Darrin

Block Clark DiGiorgio Evans Gatewood Gibson Guillaume Heaton Hundley Kimmel Kurlas McKee Mudd Rhorer Speckman Sturges Violi

'73 '06 '78 '43 '71 '57 '89 '76 '85 '63 '93 '63 '75 '78 '49 '57 '88

ALPHA ALPHA - Middlebury William Weston Glen Norman Reuben Edwin Jerome Theodore Christopher David John

Bjornlund Cowles Graper Higgins Mark Naylor Ocorr Parker Smith Strachan Urban

'63 '58 '58 '61 '60 '64 '56 '59 '65 '55 '44

OMICRON - Michigan Terence Robert John George Richard Lawrence Terrance Robert Scott Steven H.

Adderley Anthony Arnold Aster Aster Baker Baulch Bennett Bonato Browne Buhler

Brian James Scott John David David James James Brian Michael Linscott Per Douglas Terrence Franklin Matthew Albert John Alan Paul Joseph Marvin Richard Paul Michael Thomas Geoffrey Ryan Kenneth David James Atwood William George Allen Glen Carlos Charles Douglas Mark Adam Raymond Nathan Evan Curtis Michael Robert Stephen Michael Kent Eric John Alexander Joseph David Kenelm John

Burke Caffrey Cloutier Conklin Easlick Gore Grady Grady Hacker Hacker Hanson Hanson Harper Hill Hirt Howell Hughes Hughes Iliff Johnson Kaiser Kelly Kost Kuzdrall Lash Loucks MacGlashan Machasic MacLean Mangum Martens McAndrew McFeely McKean McKee Miller Moncada Naaman Padnos Pavach Platti Ploughman Racklyeft Schnittman Sechler Simpson Sligh Slotnick Spink Vana Vander Weele Viggato Voss Whittaker Wicks Winslow Wirtz

'58 '87 '96 '47 '69 '59 '59 '59 '00 '97 '59 '62 '65 '35 '57 '85 '60 '60 '69 '69 '43 '82 '62 '66 '07 '67 '55 '02 '64 '09 '60 '43 '88 '86 '64 '56 '06 '99 '77 '82 '97 '69 '07 '07 '63 '65 '50 '05 '96 '59 '08 '04 '09 '90 '76 '59 '47

EPSILON - Williams Willard Hamilton Robert George Daniel

Brown Herman Kelleher Steinbrenner West

'40 '43 '35 '52 '54

RHO - Lafayette '55 '67 '46 '54 '54 '57 '76 '44 '05 '91 '84

Edwin John Giffin Michael Donald William Martin Richard Scott Richard Peter Christoffer

Case Collins Daughtridge De Lisi Engesser Forbes Freifeld Fritz Harris Heller Hiscano Johnston

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Jonas Matje Neff Novaco O'Brien Pennington Pew Potter Pucci Reed Ryan Sheeleigh Thomson Vecchione Wagner Welz Whitby Young

Robert Robert Thomas Jonathan Kevin Ronald Joseph William Daniel Richard Richard Matthias Fletcher Steven Mark William Edmund Douglas

'46 '89 '59 '92 '96 '52 '55 '03 '08 '48 '86 '50 '98 '76 '80 '77 '51 '86

TAU - Hamilton Thomas Bruce Laurence Martin Bernard Gary Perry Guido John

Duff Gaylord Glickman Kay Mikell Smith Stafford Stroemer Vaneria

'85 '70 '77 '67 '60 '76 '67 '90 '70

MU - Colgate David Robert E. Clinton Lawrence Rufus Clifford Thomas Ralph Philip Thomas Jon Thomas Christopher Jakeson John Timothy John Richard Robert Richard Richard Richard Donald David Richard Robert Harry Glen Daniel Jay

Bergerson Bestwick Bewkes Blume Bossidy Carter Chabina Chalfant Coxhead Groggins Halley Hanson Kaim Lawler Levey Lindstrom Martin McGonagle Moran O'Neill Palmer Perry Rasor Rebar Schreiber Sotell Stemmermann Taylor Treichler Underwood Woldar

'93 '78 '48 '56 '57 '60 '04 '53 '51 '77 '73 '60 '58 '94 '02 '75 '07 '65 '63 '61 '66 '52 '61 '55 '95 '75 '58 '43 '48 '57 '84

NU - C. C. N. Y Clifford John Walter William Donald Dennis George Harry John Nicholas Richard Robert

Daly Donovan Hanneman Hayes Holley Joannides LePorte Lipps Marinuzzi Schkrutz Smela Valli

'58 '58 '56 '56 '40 '61 '52 '61 '57 '69 '57 '60

BETA PHI - Rochester Anthony Joseph Marc Eric Jon Richard Noah John Tyler Christopher David Franklin Adam Benjamin Thomas Howard Charles Mark

Bottar Carson DeBlasio Dubowsky Firnstein Gensheimer Goldman Greco Lory Lucas Maloney Nagy Perri Sopchak Spangenberg Thomas Whittier Zweibon

Michael Thomas Jacque Donald James Walter William Frank Joseph Charles Frank Paul Steven Brian Cyril D. Bradley John George William Robert Robert George G. Reynaud Wilbur Caldwell James David John Marc Bruce Anthony Randall Thomas Roy Cort Nelson John Sam William Vernon Milford Herbert David Thomas Charles Frank Sartor Sterling Monty Scott

'72 '76 '82 '03 '92 '76 '92 '06 '78 '02 '76 '81 '90 '08 '07 '42 '57 '00

THETA CHI - Union Jeremy Brendan

Breazzano McGuire

'07 '05

ZETA ZETA - Louisiana State Edward G. Chester Richard Robert John Albert Paul George John Timothy Thomas Kimberlin Alfred Lucius Christopher Rawlins Lynton Charles Daniel Thomas David John David W. James Robert Charles Alan Frank C. Hardy Edwin Harold Edward Allen Richard Todd Cyril Benjamin William J. Maurice Henry John Richard Francis William Finas C.

Abell Alexander Alpaugh Bailey Barkerding Bateman Betz Bienvenu Bofinger Bond Bowlin Brewton Butcher Butterworth Butts Cole Colomb Culpepper Custer Devine Diano Dufour Eastman Elder Farrell Favrot Felt Feltus Flake Foil Forgotston Fowler Friedrichs Fuselier Gaiennie Gamble Gautreaux Gautreaux Geary Gibson Godfrey Graugnard Gremillion Harrison Hazard Hodges Huey Jeffcoat Jones Kaiser

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'60 '77 '77 '82 '63 '56 '88 '70 '66 '74 '94 '56 '88 '73 '74 '71 '80 '60 '61 '80 '73 '80 '68 '71 '70 '79 '65 '60 '84 '56 '66 '73 '06 '93 '79 '78 '70 '02 '74 '95 '44 '01 '69 '57 '83 '55 '61 '65 '59 '52

Kearney Kramer Kuchta Lambert Leake Ledig Lockard Lopiccolo Mann Marshall Maselli Masinter Mason Melius Melville Moore Myers Nelson Newton Owens Petersen Pettit Pope Purvis Rafferty Reynaud Roberts Robin Rosprim Salisbury Schneidau Scott Simmons Slinkard Smith St Paul St. Paul Swayze Thibaut Thomson Treadway Ventress Wampold Wathan Watkins Westfeldt Williams Williams Williams Willis Wyche Zetzmann

'65 '50 '81 '80 '62 '66 '93 '80 '98 '67 '73 '83 '66 '78 '62 '73 '78 '52 '56 '64 '65 '54 '76 '35 '83 '70 '61 '80 '93 '70 '89 '74 '73 '83 '87 '86 '91 '73 '65 '67 '74 '57 '55 '48 '57 '74 '80 '09 '67 '81 '47 '89

PHI CHI - Rutgers Col (Ret) John Ackley Gene Buckno Christopher Byron Michael Colucci Edward Dowling Everett Drake John Frost William Garbarini James Gearhart Alfred Glatz Roger Gross Roland Horn William Jefferay Timothy Lehnert Thomas Manenti Luigi Margarucci Donald Mozzochi Richard Novak L. Robert Oros Ira Ozer William Paknis Daniel Phelan Gregory Sembrat Brian Sokolowski Robert Suffredini

'51 '61 '69 '82 '72 '58 '67 '63 '49 '69 '83 '54 '37 '61 '73 '06 '59 '65 '67 '81 '57 '80 '69 '00 '68

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Venberg Ventura Zaccaria

'51 '70 '79

PSI PHI - DePauw John David James James Mickey Comer Benjamin Robert Gregory John

Boomer Hood Layton Little Miller Plummer Sheldon Skallerup Smith Wright

'56 '53 '55 '48 '56 '83 '92 '68 '52 '68

GAMMA PHI - Wesleyan David John Gary Daniel J. (Dick) Theodore Louis Edward Mosah Robert Ian Sean Francis Herbert Fredric James John Ronald John Richard James Irvin H. Donald David Robert Brett John Joseph Alexander

Bagatelle Bonini Breitbord Collins Crockett Dalton D'Amanda Ellithorp FernandezGoodman Fields Freeman Gallagher Giantomasi Kelleher Kessler Maynard McDermott McLean Mihalec Murray Regan Richter Sanborn Saxton Thomas Thorndike Valentine Weitz Weitz Zedlovich

'86 '90 '79 '08 '63 '95 '51 '46 '04 '64 '80 '08 '07 '53 '74 '88 '78 '47 '69 '49 '89 '67 '86 '42 '77 '65 '09 '38 '44 '09

PSI OMEGA - R. P. I. Rodney Robert Thomas Samuel Clayton John Michael George Peter John William Newell Edgar Kevin

Agar Booth Duncan Heffner Jewett Lindsay Moore Nelson Parsons Pitrus Stewart Whitcomb Woerner Zweier

'59 '63 '59 '56 '49 '59 '57 '59 '60 '45 '49 '45 '56 '96

BETA CHI - Case Western James A. Saundy Anthony Eric Lee Michael J.

Bodfish Broennle Cale Costa Crescimano Hyson Laurich Rydstrom

'45 '63 '94 '70 '03 '05 '92 '66 '

DELTA CHI - Cornell

John Donald Richard Brian Bruce David Vincent Wesley James Michael Kahlil Walter John H. William Kyle Thomas Matthew Blair Peter James George George Franklin Kenneth Mark Kirkland

Almquist Barrick Bates Behm Benson Bentley Bertomeu Card Clark Clifford Day Dinehart Dubeck Fogle Forbes Hansen Healey Hyland Jenness Kwiatkowski Monroe Nesterczuk Nicholson Pinter Schwab Storer Todd

54 '91 '66 '95 '61 '64 '95 '03 '44 '91 '80 '69 '71 '70 '67 '09 '01 '97 '05 '45 '66 '56 '71 '83 '80 '44

DELTA DELTA - Chicago George Jay Michael Peter Thomas

Cahill Dawley Peters Welsh Wiencek

'90 '48 '90 '91 '78

PHI GAMMA - Syracuse Louis Edward William Clifford Dale Richard Carmen George George Robert Frank Floyd David Robert Edmund David John Scott Joseph Robert Timothy Judson Ralph John W. David Arthur Neil Peter Robert George Stephen

Bantle Benjamin Blaney Broder Carter Clark Davoli Dawkins Dawkins Fearon Fowler Gilfoil Hackworth Isham Luzine Mash Mathews McGee McMurray Milford Ott Rigby Rossi Salvo Smith Stern Stipanovic Swift Tripp Warburgh Waters Weaver

'51 '63 '64 '84 '68 '51 '62 '63 '63 '49 '68 '37 '76 '61 '60 '09 '98 '99 '65 '47 '76 '49 '74 '50 '82 '74 '56 '93 '66 '43 '71

THETA ZETA - Cal Russell William Colby

Adams Adams Barrett

'49 '50 '00

Jonathan Frederick Alastair Thomas William Samuel Alfred Gregory William S. Christopher Todd Stanley Richard Joseph Emmons Charles Robert Brooks John John Samuel

Berg Bradley Cumming Davis Fay French Galedrige Hampton Henshaw Mhoon Miller Morrish Nelson Peterson Saveri Sebenius Stephenson Tuller Walker Walker Wood Wright

'65 '58 '83 '65 '46 '49 '79 '71 '46 '43 '88 '86 '58 '90 '84 '50 '57 '56 '50 '53 '60 '52

ALPHA CHI - Trinity Edward R Warren Leonard Robert Paul Joseph Alexander Timothy

Burnham Darling Gelman Heinrich Kenyon Marion Pryor Simpson Yasui

'40 '77 '55 '73 '51 '57 '88 '51 '83

PHI EPSILON - Minnesota Hugh Joseph William David Theodore Jarrod Glenn E. James Edgar Steven Dustin Daniel James D. Kirk

Arey Cates Craig DeWall Edin Englebretson Gullickson Hawk Koenig Lechner Nelson Norman Peterson Reynolds Smith Ulmer

'50 '06 '41 '65 '56 '90 '42 '59 '91 '42 '75 '09 '51 '77 '52 '93

SIGMA TAU - M. I. T. Joseph John Maik Lee Stephen Todd Lawrence Gordon Harold Henry Mark Philip Thomas Enrique Warren Norman

Aguila Brogan Flanagin Frankenfield Gill Kane Markel Marler McInnes Peacock Sherman Strong Thornbury Velez Watters White

'45 '41 '99 '98 '60 '09 '71 '71 '49 '50 '48 '58 '64 '98 '49 '61

TAU LAMBDA - Tulane Simon

Abtalion

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David William Matthew G. Jonathan Robert Richard John J. Lucius George Robert Cory Alexander Jose William Craig Joseph C. Henri Daniel Lance James Jerome John Shawn Hans Charles Robert Philip William Theodore Kevin Robert Shepard Bennett Michael Richard Austin Frank Avery Richard Carey

Akridge Atkins Barousse Bayle Bean Bland Blum Bolles Buckalew Butts Coe Craig Crenshaw Curtis de La Fuente Dodenhoff Duchossois Dupont Favrot Favrot Foley Guest Gundlach Heard Hogg Holloway Jonassen Lane Livingston Loria Messersmith Nass O'Bryon Overall Pleasants Powell Rapier Smallpage Stewart Stewart Stirratt West Winder

'61 '56 '87 '55 '85 '48 '78 '64 '65 '47 '63 '51 '01 '00 '84 '78 '66 '56 '47 '52 '08 '92 '58 '46 '94 '07 '63 '54 '66 '77 '55 '66 '77 '49 '51 '61 '58 '77 '04 '87 '54 '90 '85

ALPHA PHI - Toronto Viler Donald W.

Lika Macdonald Newlands

'09 '53 '75

DELTA KAPPA - Penn William William Philip William Ronald Peter Matthias T. Richard Walter Donald Stephen Robert John Stephen Edward John Paul Peter Todd Peter Edward Thomas John Keith

Bartholomay Laser Meyers Robinson Akel Barrett Christy Coleman Coons Crowell Cutting DesJardins Doherty Dougherty Enquist Freda Guyton Hallingby Humphrey Huseby Mattia McGehee Neviaser Owens Stimson

TAU ALPHA - McGill

Cecil W. David Peter

'60 '53 '57 '76 '78 '46 '58 '90 '86 '53 '88 '48 '48 '69 '66 '94 '08 '42 '62 '91 '90

'58 '68 '58 '54

SIGMA RHO - Stanford William Daniel James Stephen John Robert David Kenneth Stephen Thomas Joseph James David Bernard Craig Craig Thomas Daniel Roger Walter James James A. Roger Richard Lawrence David John

Bauman Berring Cuneo Duncan Evans Fletcher Giber Gundle Hansen Harris Henry Isaacs LeClair Lowe McCaw McIntosh McManus McNevin Mertz Moguel Props Quillinan Shapiro Smith Terzian Wayte Williams Wilson

'49 '09 '62 '71 '74 '57 '76 '05 '75 '09 '00 '80 '84 '54 '73 '62 '58 '81 '66 '90 '68 '70 '61 '63 '58 '58 '76 '44

Richard Jack James Edmund Olin James William Robert William Royce Peter Lukin Carlton John (Jack) Frank Andrew Robert Robert B. Buckner William William Harrison Richard H. Stuart Eugene Peter Richard Craig

Robert Franklin Bartholemew John John Gary Charles

Achor Hartzell Hegarty Hummer McDonald Newtson Wurmstedt

'51 '45 '48 '54 '43 '57 '44

'49

KAPPA EPSILON - Washington David Robert Douglas Dale Hugh Clark Scott William Lawrence William Paul Donald E. John Gary Thomas James

Anderson Bulmer Campbell Chihuly Ferguson Goss Herzog Hood Hughes Lovell Meyer Molitor Naden Nowell Shultz Symons Warren

'02 '57 '57 '64 '38 '58 '99 '58 '57 '62 '58 '58 '51 '59 '63 '53 '99

OMEGA CHI - Texas George Cub Byron Ralph

Allen Amos Baird Beeler

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'61 '47 '76 '70 '56 '48 '58 '48 '89 '52 '48 '47 '50 '63 '42 '90 '81 '72 '66 '70 '68 '48 '63 '27 '60 '84 '48 '52 '65 '85

Eamon William William

Egan Gray Pope

'83 '70 '68

THETA RHO - UCLA

RHO DELTA - Wisconsin Fagan

Beeler Blanton Broomas Burke Cable Carnes Clark Eckert Eckhardt Faulkner Gill Gilliland Hagelstein Kamrath McKnight Middleton Miller Morse Rice Roane Roberts Smith Stafford Startzman Tyson Weese Werlein Wiggins Williams Wilson

ALPHA TAU - Manitoba

DELTA PI - Illinois

Joseph '50 '58 '49

Convey Courey Orr Williams

'53 '56 '58 '56

Douglas Steven William Drew Thomas

Laidlaw Ly McDevitt Scanlon Stanton

'43 '07 '45 '08 '08

DELTA PHI - Alberta Hugh Donald Darren Vitor Maurice

Babowal Chernichen Kelly Marciano Nicholson

'89 '66 '88 '90 '60

DELTA EPSILON - Northwestern William William Philip William

Bartholomay Laser Meyers Robinson

'50 '58 '49

LAMBDA DELTA - SMU Blue

John

'54

PHI ALPHA - British Columbia Grant Adrian A. Alvin Daniyar Owen Andrew Brent

Burnyeat Cheong Johnston Lee Minster Pawson Synyshyn Tynan

'65 '65 '62 '88 '05 '72 '01 '76

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George Paul George Harry

Fullerton Nargiz Suter Warfield

'55 '52 '54

RHO LAMBDA - Oklahoma Fred Ralph J. Donald Orin Robert George A.

Davis Duckworth Fullerton King Piepho Spangler Weaber Weitzenhoffer

'56 '69 '71 '63 '73 '63 '62 '62

Failla Ikard Munson Robinson Smith

'71 '71 '70 '07 '76

PSI DELTA - Wake Forest Robert Lee Earl Grayson Walter Richard Robert Hugh Tom Ronald Todd

Bilbrough Boyd Dewey Farrar Janke Maloy Poole Sandlin Thompson Verner Werstler

'78 '74 '75 '09 '84 '91 '73 '72 '93 '72 '87

SIGMA ALPHA - Virginia Tech Richard William Gerald Vijender Jerry Bruce Michael Barry Richard Charles Joseph Elbert John John Elmer Adrian John James James Jeffrey Samuel Robert William Chris H. Stephen Michael Richard David C. Edward John Daniel Nicholas Patrick

Anderson Atwell Augst Bajwa Ballengee Beam Beam Bishop Bomgardner Bradley Brian Burson Collins Crawford Creasey Creech Cullen Daniel Day Deschon Dibert Dreelin Driskill Gandolfo Garrett Gillespie Hall Hall Haskins Hayes Hickman Hinkle Johnson Kindig King

IOTA MU - Fordham

'71 '09 '56 '88 '73 '04 '79 '06 '82 '77 '76 '60 '76 '88 '88 '08 '75 '09 '86 '06 '76 '27 '01 '77 '77 '04 '05

John James Joseph Evan

Andras Ehlers Gitto Tzanis

'98 '97 '74 '82 '08 '88 '74

ZETA UPSILON - UC - Davis

Akridge Carucci Crooks Denham Gillespie Gillis Marsh Nell Robb Scofield Tolbert

'76 '90 '75 '93 '83 '78 '77 '79 '79 '80 '80 '82 '81 '82 '85

ALPHA MU - Rowan Robert Timothy Dennis Robert Christopher David Michael Scot Jonathan

Bauer Bennett Gerber Harris Kelly Lande Lis Merkle Murray

'90 '09 '04 '88 '91 '88 '00 '83 '09

EPSILON RHO - Duke Tomas Christian Robert

Barreto Horazeck Shaw

'08 '09 '09

NU ZETA - Pace Richard Brian Brendan James Sean Travis Mark

Acciarito Hassig Kenefick Mulcahy Mulcahy Scelia Shrekgast

'91 '94 '92 '93 '05 '87

THETA UPSILON - Arizona State Steven Kory Derek Robert Shawn William Scott Lorin Adam

Balthazor Blythe Borck Drawer Flahart Kavan Leith Oliver Smith

ALPHA RHO - Temple Cameron Tristan

Adam Colby Gareth Semyon Robert

Jackson Kim

Bastein Darrah deBruyn Faynboym Salgado

'90 '91

'02 '06 '93 '07 '04

PHI SIGMA - Bryant

PI BETA - Troy State Arthur Wayne Richard Steven Mark Roderick David Lawrence John Dennis Gary

Vander Linden '97

'73 '78 '88 '89 '76 '83

Lucas

SIGMA PHI - Villanova

TAU DELTA - Sewanee Frank William H. Joe Stephen

William Lewis A. Lilly Henry (Hank) Mattox Charles Munn Overton Thomas Passan William Pennington William Perris Brian Quible Frank Rayburn David Read Adam Rohrer William Scimeca Craig Sexton Daniel Webb Charles Wilkinson Charles

'91 '89 '91 '94 '92 '92 '95 '92 '96

Charles James

Boklan Maloney

'73 '06

PHI RHO - Penn State Christopher Brullo Costantino Michael

'09 '08

CHI RHO - Bloomsburg Peter

DeTommaso

'07

ZETA CHI - Bentley Craig

Damon

'93

BETA GAMMA - NYU Marc Ethan Matthew James Matthew Thomas Matthew

Burton Mandel McQueen Morillo Perloe Ricardo Rodman

'08 '09 '03 '09 '09 '06 '05

SIGMA KAPP A - Michigan State Andrew John Alexander

Bird Clarey Kobylarz

'01 '07 '09

DELTA PSI - Indiana Vincent Dustin Eric

Marshall Parrish Seidel

'09 '07 '06

MU CHI - Maryville Preston Charles William

Fields Jackson Lehman

'03 '09 '03

KAPPA OMEGA - Lake Forest Thomas

Symington

'05

RHO BETA - Richmond Gregory Stephen Richard Michael Jonathan

Hofbauer Necel Poidomani Scott Ward

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In Memoriam “Those old comrades, loved and cherished, Who have passed from our mortal sight, Shall be our life’s guardian angels, Directing our steps aright.

Ever sacred be those church-yards, Where our brothers were laid away; And our hearts to these, our Meccas, Shall wander like pilgrims grey.”

- from In Memoriam by W. T. Laird

Dr. Harris D. “Pete” Riley Jr. November 12, 1924 - March 26, 2010

Dr Riley was an advocate for children’s health for over 60 years in Tennessee and Oklahoma.

He died on March 26, 2010 at the age of 85. Dr. Riley was born November 12, 1924 to Harris and Louise Allen Riley and raised in Tupelo, MS. He graduated from Vanderbilt University with a BA in 1945, was president of the Gamma Chapter, served in the U.S. Navy and Air Force and graduated from Vanderbilt’s Medical School in 1948 where he developed an interest in pediatrics. Dr. Riley returned to Vanderbilt joining the faculty in the Department of Pediatrics where he served until 1957.

In 1958, Dr. Riley was appointed Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Oklahoma. At 32 he was the youngest chair of a major medical department in the country. He recruited a talented faculty numbering

over 80 members, attracted national grants and recognition, was a prolific researcher and writer, publishing over 500 medical books and articles, trained countless pediatricians and oversaw a major addition and renovation of the Children’s Hospital.

At his retirement from OU in 1991, he was Regents’ Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics and the hospital’s Infectious Disease Unit was named in his honor. At that time his former students and residents established the Harris D. Riley, Jr. Pediatric Society that sponsors an annual lecture at Oklahoma Children’s Hospital in his honor. In 2008, the University established the Riley Chair in Pediatric Education.

At the time of his death, he was Professor of Pediatrics Emeritus and writing a history of Vanderbilt’s Department of Pediatrics. Dr. Riley had a passion for caring for children and collaborating with those who shared that passion.

He was active in many medical organizations, particularly the Southern Medical Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics. He served as Editor of the Southern Medical Journal and of the Journal of the Oklahoma State Medical Association. Dr. Riley was an enthusiastic life-long supporter of Vanderbilt. He served as President of the Oklahoma City Vanderbilt Club, President of the Alumni Association in 1974-75 and member of the Board of Trust from 1976-1986.

Along with a small band of brothers, Dr. Riley helped keep Gamma afloat during the difficult years after WWII. Mostly medical students, the small group managed to keep the chapter operating during a time when many fraternities were temporarily closed.

Dr. Riley has been an ardent supporter of Gamma ever since. He served as President of the Gamma Alumni Association for a time. In 2008, the Gamma Alumni Association named a Scholarship after Dr. Riley, awarded annually to the undergraduate Brother who most excels in leadership within the chapter and other school

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organizations, as well as in academics.

Dr. Riley married Margaret Barry of Mt. Vernon, Ohio in 1950 who survives him. They have three children who survive him: Steven Allen Riley (Laura), Mark Barry Riley (Becky), and Margaret Riley Sisson (Fred). He is also survived by seven grandchildren, by his brother, Frank Allen Riley, Sr., Gamma '49, and cousins Dr. William G. Riley, Gamma '43, and Frances Lee Riley Sweat.

Amb. William Cochran Turner May 27, 1929 - February 28, 2010 William Cochran Turner passed away on February 28, 2010. He was born May 27, 1929, in Red Oak, Iowa, to Josephine Cochrane Turner and J. Lyman Turner. He is survived by his wife of 54 years, Cynthia Dunbar Turner, and his children, Scott (Leslie), and Douglas (Bobbie), and grandchildren, Colin, Derek, Adam, Benjamin and Emily. He was preceded in death by his son, Craig Dunbar Turner.

William (“Bill”) Turner was a corporate advisor who had a major impact on the way multinational corporations pursue global expansion.

In 1974, Ambassador Turner was appointed

by Richard Nixon to serve as U.S. Ambassador to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). His term coincided with one of the organization’s greatest challenges: the Arab Oil Crisis. The oil embargo and subsequent spike in energy prices had thrown the Western world into crisis, exposing the huge security risk in which oil-consuming countries found themselves and creating a major recession. The U.S. Mission to the OECD, led by Amb. Turner under Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, created the International Energy Agency (IEA), whose mission was to help prepare the U.S. and other OECD countries for future energy challenges.

On leaving the OECD in 1977, Amb. Turner was engaged by IBM World Trade to join the company’s European advisory board, which was made up of business and political leaders from multiple countries. Sensing the immense strategic value of bringing together knowledgeable, influential thought leaders to advise senior U.S. executives on regional and global markets, Amb. Turner launched a seminal study to evaluate best practices in the use

of international advisory councils, which had been formed by only a handful of multinationals prior to that time.

As the emerging expert on the subject, Amb. Turner was subsequently hired to establish advisory boards for U.S. multinationals such as General Electric, AT&T, Avon, and Caterpillar. He also served on a number of corporate boards, including Goodyear, Salomon Brothers, and Nabisco.

Although his career interests remained global throughout his life, Bill also served as a committed civic leader in Phoenix. Among his Phoenix-based pursuits, he was a trustee and former chairman of the board for the Thunderbird School of Global Management, where he was instrumental in developing the institution to maintain its leadership position in international management education. Bill also served as a director of First National Bank of Arizona.

More recently, he served on the boards of Microtest and Rural/Metro Corporation.

Bill had a great appreciation for music and the arts. He served as president of the Phoenix Symphony in its early days, was a co-founder of the Phoenix Chamber Music Society, and served on the board of the Heard Museum. Bill was also an active member of the Bohemian Club, based in San Francisco.

Bill also had a passion for conservation, serving on the boards of the World Wildlife Fund

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and the Conservation Foundation in Washington, D.C. He also pursued a lifelong love of international relations through his more than twodecade membership in the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, and the Atlantic Council of the United States in Washington, D.C. Early in his career, Bill was involved in a broad range of other economic, educational and cultural initiatives at a national level including: member of the U.S. Advisory Commission on International Educational and Cultural Affairs (by presidential appointment), and member of the National Review Board for the Center for Cultural and Technical Interchange between East and West (by appointment of the U.S. secretary of state).

Additional Arizona-based positions included director of the Executive Committee and chairman of the International Committee of the Arizona Economic Council. Bill also chaired the Joint Economic Development Committee and the Crippled Children Services board. He was a founding Director of COMPAS, the Combined Metropolitan Phoenix Arts and Sciences organization.

Upon graduating from Northwestern University in 1952, where he became a Delta Epsilon Deke, Bill moved to Phoenix to start Western Management Consultants, Inc., an international economic and marketing consulting firm that was eventually bought by Marsh & McClennan.

His firm’s economic study for Phoenix/Maricopa County in 1960 helped guide growth in the region for many years.

Throughout the latter part of his career, Amb. Turner served as co-chairman of the advisory board of Youth With a Mission (YWAM), an interdenominational Christian missionary movement; and on the board of directors of Mercy Ships, which operates hospital ships serving some of the world’s poorest people.

Hon. David Joseph Tilley May 1, 1942 - December 4, 2009

After a long struggle with respiratory illness, Judge David Tilley passed away peacefully at home on December 4, 2009 at the age of 67, with his loving wife Judy at his side. David was a deeply loving husband and father, and a man of great integrity, warm humor and profound wisdom.

A widely respected and integral member of Edmonton’s legal community, David will be re-

membered for his compassion and devotion as a lawyer and his fairness and objectivity as a Provincial Court Judge. Born in Montreal, David spent his later teen years in Winnipeg before moving to Edmonton to attend law school at the University of Alberta.

Through more than 20 years as a lawyer, he was recognized as one of the province’s best and most considerate family law practitioners.

Always determined to give back to the community, he worked extensively with the Legal Aid Society of Alberta, serving as chairman for three years. In 1991 he was appointed to the Provincial Court bench, where he served as a judge until his death. David will be remembered for his love of music and singing, his passion for sports and his unique and sometimes bizarre sense of humor.

David is survived by his wife Judy, sons Steve and Scott (Deirdre), brother John, Carol Ward, and numerous loving in-laws, cousins, nieces, nephews and other relatives, as well as many friends and colleagues. He is predeceased by his parents Joe and Blanche, and brothers Kent and Joey.

James Joseph O’Connor 1944 - 2009

James O’Connor, passed away on December 16, 2009. Jim is survived by Adelaide “CheeChee” Charbonnet O’Connor; their four children, Katherine (Mark), James J., Jr. (Kimberly), Clayton, and Andrew; and their six grandchildren, He was the son of Henry and Virginia O’Connor and the brother of Henry “Skip” O’Connor, Tau Lambda ‘65, Mercedes O’Connor Fast, and John M. O’Connor, Tau Lambda, ‘76.

Jim graduated from Tulane University’s undergraduate and law schools. He worked as Assistant District Attorney before serving in the U.S. Navy JAG Corps, including an assignment as Judge on the U.S.S. Shangri-la. After separating from Active Duty, Jim continued to serve in the U.S. Navy Reserves, retiring as a Captain.

He then worked as an Assistant U.S. Attorney before entering private practice in the New Orleans area. Jim was heavily involved in local politics. He was a member of the New Orleans Country Club and a former member of the Southern Yacht Club, Pickwick Club, Bienville Club, and Sons of the American Revolution.

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November, 19, 1918 - November 22, 2009 James Samuel Abbott, III, Passed away at his Gates Mills, Ohio residence November 22nd, 2009.

Mr. Abbott was born in Cleveland, Ohio, November 19, 1918. He graduated from University in 1936 and went to Cornell University where he was a member of the Delta Chi Chapter of DKE. During WWII, Jim served initially in Cleveland's 107th Calvary, before he went into the US Army's Officer Candidate School. Jim went on to serve as an Aviation Ordinance Officer in the 670th Bomb Squadron of the Army Air Corps in both England and in France and was honorable discharged as a Captain in 1945.

Jim returned to Cleveland and joined the National ACME Company, moving to the Chicago office in 1950 and back to Cleveland in 1964. After the merger with Cleveland Twist Drill, he became the manager of the Threading Tool Division until his retirement in 1983.

Jim immediately formed his own consulting company, the JSA Consulting Company, and was the exclusive U.S. representative, manager and distributer for the Wilhelm Fette Co. of Hamburg, Germany until he retired again at the age of eighty-five. Another of Jim's accomplishments was his recognition in several editions of Who's Who in American Business, as an authority on Threading Tools, for their design and application.

Jim had a fascination with cars that lead to his racing them while he was in Chicago. He competed in many road races with his Porsche, restored Alfa Romeos, and became the Regional Governor of the Sports Car Club of America, Chicago Chapter. He was a long time member of the Vintage car Club of America.

Genealogy was another of Jim's hobbies. This led to membership in the Sons of the American Revolution, Sons of Colonial Wars and service as the Past Governor of the Ohio Chapter of the Founders and Patriots of America.

Jim and his wife, Mary, enjoyed the world of antique furniture so much that he went on the serve the Western Reserve Historical Society

as a Past Chairman of its American Furniture Collectors organization.

Jim was a member of the Mayfield Country Club where he was an active participant in both golf and paddle tennis.

Jim is survived by his beloved wife, Mary (nee Torrance) of Gates Mills, OH, his dear son James S. Abbott, IV, (Nancy) of Cleveland Hts., OH, and his dear grandson, James S. Abbott, V.

Paul Duane Hardy 1936 - 2010

Paul D. Hardy, 73, of Clearwater, passed away May 29, 2010. He was born in New York and moved to Florida in 1973. He was a maritime attorney practicing in Philadelphia, Washington D.C., and Tampa for almost 50 years.

He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1958, where he was a member of the Delta Kappa Chapter of ΔKE. He then received his law degree from the University of Virginia in 1961.

He was preceded in death by his wife Jacqueline. Survivors include his mother, Mae; brother, Robert and wife, Diana; son, Christopher; daughter, Valerie Childress and husband, Michael; and two granddaughters, Madison and Katherine.

Clint Willis Blume, Jr. 1932 - 2010

Brother Blume, member of Mu Chapter, class of 1954, joined the Mystic Circle on June 6, 2010. Clint served ΔKE in many capacities for many years, and was a well known figure at the ΔKE Club and in all Deke circles in New York and Colgate. The next edition of the Quarterly will include a complete obituary on Brother Blume. We would like to share photos and stories from fellow Dekes about their memories of Brother Blume, please send them to the editor.

Please let us know of any Brothers or loved ones that you have kept in touch with over the years and has passed on to the Mystic Circle. Contact the Editor via email at deke.quarterly@gmail.com or send post to P.O. Box 8360, Ann Arbor, MI, 48107, or contact DKE International at 734.302.4210.

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Editorial We, with grave audacity and innocent intention, will attempt to pick up where our predecessor, SIR ORACLE, left off so abruptly nearly 70 years ago. Not only have we accepted the call to revive, edit, and restore to former glory our beloved Δ K E Quarterly, we have taken it into our hands to resurrect, from a mostly forgotten tomb, SIR ORACLE SPEAKS. Assuredly, the supermajority of you readers have never been graced by SIR ORACLE’s light-hearted opinions and musings. We will provide a brief history before we embark upon the certainly presumptuous role of walking in SIR ORACLE’s well-traveled shoes.

In 1925, Oswald ‘Os’ Constantin Hering, ΣΤ ’97 accepted the role as Editor and Business Manager of the Δ Κ Ε Quarterly, taking over for his much respected friend, and General Secretary of ΔΚΕ, James Anderson Hawes, Φ. Hawes was worn from travel and his duties to the Fraternity, yet scraped by enough information to compile wordy accounts of ΔΚΕ events and letters from Chapters. However, the results were dismal and unappealing (as we can attest from recent attempts to stomach even one of those issues). The readership responded with fewer subscription renewals. Os reacted with a brand new approach to the lame beast that became the Δ Κ Ε Quarterly. Os and the Council decided that the Δ Κ E Quarterly should be “more interesting and attractive to its readers and apprise them more generally of the progress of ΔΚΕ” (Vol. 43, No.1, p. xix). In Volume 43, Number 2, SIR ORACLE was introduced. Readership grew as word spread that the magazine had taken new life.

No topic shall be too taboo for our considerations, and we will approach every remark conscientiously and well-mannered, so as to limit offenses to imbeciles and deserving prominent figures. In the spirit of Os, we will tread as best we can in his footsteps and once again make the Δ Κ Ε Quarterly an engaging and organic – for lack of a more cliché term – magazine for our readers.

We will occasionally reproduce past passages and articles from SIR ORACLE SPEAKS, in hopes to connect with the past, and make light of the present. We appreciate your patience as we grow into our new role as Editor, and welcome comments and feedback in letters and emails.

Any letter or email will be fair game to reproduce in subsequent issues of the Δ Κ E Quarterly, unless noted as CONFIDENTIAL, so mind your manner, you may be promulgated. ~

Many of you were probably expecting to open a Quarterly filled with proclamations of the highly anticipated return of our beloved and infrequent/irregular magazine. Alas, we have made the decision to refrain from the hullabaloo associated with the revival of the Quarterly, and decided to jump right into it as if only a beat were skipped. There have already been past revival issues, plastered with covers from past issues or photographs of some prominent Dekes we can recall to mind so swiftly.

Truth be told, this issue is more of a revival than any other Quarterly in recent history. The publication you are now reading is the Delta Kappa Epsilon Quarterly (or Δ Κ E Quarterly for short), NOT The Deke Quarterly. The Deke Quarterly was fabricated in October 1941, the second issue following the death of ‘Os’. Os left us his final issue, Vol. 59, No. 1, then passed away on March 6, 1941. Vol. 59, No. 2 of the Delta Kappa Epsilon Quarterly was dedicated to Os and some of SIR ORACLE’s best excerpts. However, the October issue of 1941 brought a drastic change in the name of the publication – the Δ Κ E Quarterly had suddenly become The Deke Quarterly. We have done some light research and read through subsequent issues of the Quarterly since the name change, but we were displeased to find no explanation for the abrupt name change. In reality, and in true ΔΚΕ lexicon, The Deke Quarterly was a slight misnomer. The name implied that a single Deke was responsible for and privy to the

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entire magazine! Our intention is to encourage and promote the widespread accessibility and engagement of all Dekes in the content and discussions of the Δ Κ E Quarterly. ~

In order to explain our return to the origin of the Δ Κ E Quarterly, and without intention of sounding like a haughty, grade school grammar teacher, we would like to refresh our reader’s understanding of how the terms ΔΚΕ and Deke(s) are to be properly used.

When referring to any entity that belongs to the fraternity (from local to International level), that entity shall be referenced using ΔΚΕ. Examples of such are: the ΔΚΕ house, the Alpha Chapter of ΔΚΕ, ΔΚΕ at Yale, ΔΚΕ has arrived.

When referring to any member who has been initiated into ΔΚΕ, the man can be referred to as a Deke. Examples of such are: the Deke became president, the Dekes are coming, those Dekes live on Main Street.

Most common mistakes occur with the improper use of “Deke”. Examples of such are: DEKE at Centre, the Deke House at Bowdoin, DeKE (this lower case ‘e’ is intentional, and never proper), and The Deke Quarterly (as corrected above). These examples would all imply the singular of one member possessing the above. ΔΚΕ can be pronounced either “D-K-E” or “Deke”, but ΔΚΕ and Deke are not typically interchangeable in written form.

While we firmly believe that languages are flexible, ever-shifting, and dictated by common practice, there is a point in which the traditional distinctions between words should be strictly followed, and we feel the necessity to condemn the improper usage of ΔΚΕ and Deke. ~

Recently, we have had the pleasure to dine with innovator Mr. John Cullen, founder of Multisorb Technologies - the company that makes those packets that keep your packaged food

fresh, amongst other things. Though not a Deke, Mr. Cullen is an impressive and true gentleman, and graced us with his presence to enjoyable conversation and a four-course, Italian meal.

A most unique experience from that dinner, aside from the company, was our first tasting of nero di seppia. Basically, it is cuttlefish, risotto and a few common ingredients cooked with black squid ink for color. The dish was unexpectedly delicate and quite flavorful. We were warned to indulge carefully, as the ink is liable to stain your mouth and tongue; and quick it was to stain. The dish is on par with a caviar, in terms of delicacy and aesthetics. If you are ever in a position to try nero di seppia, we definitely recommend you overcome the appearance, and enlighten your tastebuds. ~

While on the subject of mollusks, we would like to make note of Paul the Octopus, and his amazing run of “predictions” that he had made on the 2010 World Cup. Quick research on the topic shows that he correctly “predicted” the outcome of eight out of eight games. If given the same probability as a coin flip, the probability of choosing the winner eight times in a row was one in 256 attempts (1/2 to the power eight).

We were unhappy with the accuracy of his “predictions”, as we were pulling for Germany to claim World Cup victory, after USA had been eliminated. Alas, congratulations to Spain. ~

The 166th Convention of Delta Kappa Epsilon is in Ann Arbor, MI, 28 July through 1 August.

The next issue of the Δ Κ E Quarterly will cover the details and highlights of the Convention, for those unable to attend.

It is our hope that attendance to Conventions and Banquets in the future draw as many Dekes as Conventions and Banquets of yore, in which hundreds of Dekes would unite to share stories, conduct business, and enjoy multiple course meals while accompanied by live music. A revival of this nature would surely please us, as testament to the bonds that we all share.

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Please send us any of the following pieces of infomation so that we can better serve you, our members: Current Mailing Address Preferred E-mail Addresses Contact Numbers Any News or Information to Share with the Brotherhood Pictures (and plenty of them!)

Alumni Events or Other DKE Gatherings Mail to: ΔKE P. O. Box 8360, Ann Arbor, MI 48107 or E-mail deke.quarterly@gmail.com

George M. Steinbrenner III July 4, 1930 ~ July 13, 2010

At the time of the completion of this issue of the Delta Kappa Epsilon Quarterly, Brother Steinbrenner, Epsilon '52, passed away.

We will present an article in the upcoming issue of the Quarterly dedicated to Brother Steinbrenner and his involvement in Delta Kappa Epsilon.

If you have any stories about, or photos with, Brother Steinbrenner you would like to share, please send them to the Editor for possible publication.

Photo Credit: O'Meara/AP

We wish to extend our condolences to his family and thank him for all he has done to make our fraternity proud to call him a Deke.

- Ed.