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Dear Brothers and Friends, Greetings and Happy New Year. We are pleased to deliver this winter edition of the DEKE Quarterly.

It is as tired as it is unavoidable to state the magnitude and levels of hardship we’ve faced during the last year. We are anxious to put 2020 behind us and look forward toward a better tomorrow. It is within the struggle that strength shines. This Quarterly chronicles some personal stories of efforts, large and small, in the face of adversity.

In addition to so many individual stories, I’ve been thinking a lot about communities, institutions and organizations. More specifically, I’ve been reflecting upon the state of schools, Greek life, and our fraternity. Through all the intense trials of the past year, we have been extremely fortunate. We have found our strengths, identified things we need to do better and, ultimately, found our path forward. Along the way, two themes continue to capture my attention: Relevance and Resilience.

To that end, I’d like to share a few observations as to how our fraternity’s mission continues to be relevant and adapts to changes and challenges.

We open every Board meeting with the reading of the Objects of Delta Kappa Epsilon.

Our Objects read in part: “...the promotion of honorable friendship and useful citizenship, the development of a spirit of tolerance and respect for the rights and views of others, the maintenance of gentlemanly dignity, self-respect, and morality in all circumstances…”

Although drafted so long ago, they seem so perfectly current. These Objects have served us well through some very difficult times over the last 176 years. Following these words in thought and deed we are learning how to value and interpret our rich traditions, and at the same time, be very relevant in changing landscapes.

The undergraduates are navigating dramatically different campus environments. Whether enduring pandemic restrictions or interpreting difficult social and political conversations, our young men continue to stand tall and persevere. In turn, DKE’s professional staff has been doing an excellent job, hand in hand, understanding the range of front-line challenges, then providing tools and support to our chapters.

This is the result of our fraternity’s cumulative efforts to date: 31 chapters were able to complete a modified version of fall rush and 337 new members were initiated this past semester. This goes a long way to answer questions about relevance and resiliency and gets to the essence of what it means to be a Deke. Stay strong!

In the Bonds,

Mason Morjikian Chairman of the Board Lambda-Kenyon ‘88

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NEW CHAPTER AT UGA

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DKE & DEI

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NU ALPHA RESTORES FOUNDER’S GRAVE

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DEKE FOUNDATION

DONOR LIST

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CHARLIE BLAISDELL SCHOLARSHIP IN EVERY ISSUE

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CHAIRMAN’S LETTER

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HQ REPORT

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PUBLISHED BY Delta Kappa Epsilon International 6921 Jackson Rd., Suite 400 Ann Arbor, MI 48103 (734) 302-4210 www.dke.org ΔKE BOARD OF DIRECTORS Mason Morjikian, Lambda ’88, Chairman Greg Miarecki, Delta Delta ’94, Vice Chairman Ron Li, Phi Alpha ’10, Treasurer Charles Jones, Eta ’56, Honorary President Craig Lengyel, Gamma ’89, Honorary President Neilson Brown, Beta ’67 Cory Crenshaw, Tau Lambda ’01 Semmes Favrot, Psi ’92 David Helverson, Delta Pi ’81 Dan Johnson, Sigma Alpha ’77 Stan McMillan, Gamma ’89 John McNeil, Psi ’79 Kevin O’Bryon, Tau Lambda ’77 Michael Peters, Delta Delta ’90 Terry Stewart, Phi Chi ’69 Peter Tripp, Phi Gamma ‘91 ΔKE HQ STAFF Executive Director: Doug Lanpher, Gamma ’77 Associate Executive Director: Mike Hilts, Gamma ’77 Director of Health & Safety Initiatives: Trey Robb Director of Chapter Services: Craig Dick, Phi Alpha ’16 Director of Alumni Services: Turner Spears, Lambda Tau ’16 Assistant Director of Education: Travis Tafoya Archivist & Historian: Grant Burnyeat, Phi Alpha ’65 DEKE QUARTERLY STAFF Publisher: Doug Lanpher, Gamma ’77 Editor: Kevin Cuneo, Gamma ’77 Production Editor: Jeff Hamilton, Gamma ’78 CREATIVE DIRECTION & DESIGN Lester Goodman • lestergcreative.com Barbara Scott-Goodman • barbarascottgoodman.net THE DEKE QUARTERLY is published by Delta Kappa Epsilon in Fall, Winter, Spring, and Summer.

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HQ REPORT Greetings to all Deke Brothers!

all over DKE. Lambda alumni were amazing in their support of this chapter through thick and thin, and we salute them as well.

We’re excited to be back in your mailbox (and hopefully on your coffee table) with a winter edition of the Deke Quarterly. In spite of the Covid virus, most of our chapters managed to keep operating as normally as possible, showing amazing resilience, and DKE kept moving forward on several fronts as well. Here’s a quick update on a few of the happenings from across the Deke Nation over the past several months.

We are very proud to have a new chapter at the University of Georgia, which is a revival of our Beta Delta Chapter, after a break of almost 25 years.

They received their charter from the Board of Directors on December 2nd, and all of us at DKE are proud to welcome an outstanding group of young men who are the refounders of Beta Delta.

Doug Lanpher, Executive Director

Besides Georgia, other “associate chapters” (formerly called colonies) who got started in 2020 and are making great progress include the University of Arizona, and Auburn. We hope to continue moving them toward chapter status as well as associate chapters at Cornell, Harvard, Illinois-Springfield, Northeastern, Ole Miss, RPI, Tennessee, UT-Austin, Vanderbilt, and Washington State.

DKE’s main charity is Movember, which is a men’s health research and funding organization. For the past several years, DKE staff members and undergraduate students have raised money for Movember, mostly by taking the “No Shave Movember” pledge. This year, DKE finished #3 among all fraternities by raising $27,745 for Movember, 64% higher than last year. Among DKE chapters, Delta-South Carolina finished first by raising over $6,200. Philanthropy is an important aspect of what makes Delta such a great Deke chapter.

Exciting news out of Gambier, OH, site of DKE’s Lambda Chapter, Kenyon College. After a forced absence from Kenyon, DKE is back.

The saga of what has transpired over the past two-plus years could fill this entire Quarterly, but we’ll just quote the Beatles and say that it has been a long and winding road to regain our recognition.

Throughout the entire episode, a group of seven determined young men who had not even been initiated yet, navigated their way through the “process” and made it possible for DKE to retain one of our oldest chapters. We proudly initiated these young men “virtually” on New Year’s Day, heralding a great start for 2021 at Kenyon and

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One of DKE’s most important events each year is our annual Chapter Officers’ Academy, or COA for short, at which chapter officers from Deke chapters everywhere gather for a weekend of leadership training. It’s one part of our Deke University, which is the umbrella term we use for all our educational programming. This year’s event was converted to a day of virtual modules, which was unfortunate but necessary. It was supposed to be held in Washington, D.C. just a couple weeks ago, in mid-January. But thanks to a great effort by staff, headed by Travis Tafoya, our Associate Director of Educational Initiatives, we put out a very successful event, attended by over 100 Deke undergraduates.

Hard as it may be to believe, two of our chapters, both in the Big Ten, had their most successful recruitment (rush) seasons in many years, if not ever. I’m referring to Phi Epsilon-Minnesota, which rushed 19 new members, and Sigma Kappa-Michigan State, which had a class of 26. Sigma Kappa’s was not only their largest ever, but the biggest class on campus this fall. Many folks were skeptical that freshmen would join fraternities this year, especially since recruitment was mostly virtual, but we were pleasantly surprised by these two chapters and many others who managed to add average size pledge classes to their numbers. We’re hopeful that those chapters whose primary recruitment season is in the spring do equally well in the next several weeks. We’ll start seeing those results shortly. Another thing we learned is that a lot of freshmen have deferred joining until the spring semester, so we hope many of those good “prospects’’ will enter the halls of DKE soon.

Best wishes from all of us at DKE IHQ for a great 2021!

In the Bonds,

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

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philanthropy events, started programs ot only did Beta Delta at to assist the brothers in their academics, the University of Georgia and stressed leadership in the chapter return to the active role at all levels,” he said. The fact that Beta of Delta Kappa Epsilon Delta maintains a chapter-wide grade chapters, it did so in point average of just over 3.4 shows that record time. “We have a the brothers take their studies seriously. very deliberate process for groups that “Our goal is to reach an average of 3.7,” aspire to become full-fledged chapters Sheppard added. in DKE, but Beta Delta accomplished Even after the presence of COVID-19 this achievement in the fastest time TM on campus began taking a in at least the last ten toll, the Beta Delta brothers years,” said DKE Executive were not deterred. “We Director Doug Lanpher. could no longer book our DKE Board member John meetings in buildings on McNeil, Psi ’79, who over campus, so we moved to a the years has reviewed virtual format,” Sheppard dozens of applications said. from associate chapters, It was important for Beta said he was singularly Delta to reach full chapter impressed by the growth status because that would and development of Beta earn recognition by the Delta. “They submitted a university’s Interfraternity 38-page report, outlining council, which controls their successes and goals, the list of students who and it really stood out. express an interest in Seldom have I seen such a joining a fraternity. seriousness of purpose from Beta Delta brothers hosted Executive Director Doug Lanpher “We’ve had success in such a strong young group. for a dinner in September 2020. rush, even though we’ve I spoke to the members been selective in order to several times and always maintain our strength,” Sheppard said. came away believing that these fellows A DKE chapter had not been “We don’t want to be the biggest chapter have what it takes to become Dekes.” active at UGA in the last 25 at Georgia, only the best.”

On McNeil’s and Lanpher’s A DKE chapter had not been active recommendation, DKE’s board of years, but the current Beta Delta at the university in the last 25 years, directors awarded Beta Delta its full brothers are determined to build but the current Beta Delta brothers charter on Dec. 2, 2020 – just a little a long-lasting DKE tradition. are determined to build a long-lasting over a year from when the members “Seldom have I seen such a DKE tradition. “In addition to our first organized. “From philanthropy to seriousness of purpose from such executive team, we added a new position academics, these men figured it all out,” among our officers called Brotherhood McNeil said. “They learned all about a strong young group.”

Chairman,” Sheppard said. “This person our fraternity and you could just feel organized softball games every Sunday the enthusiasm of this group – all 32 and is in the process of planning a members strong.” camping retreat for all the guys.”

Ethan Sheppard, president of Beta maintaining a high level of enthusiasm Ultimately, the Georgia Dekes would Delta, said he and his colleagues were among all of our members,” Sheppard like to move into their own home. originally impressed by DKE’s rich said. “He met with the people at our “We’re sure it will come in time – it’s history and traditions. He praised the Greek Life Office, which immediately another of our big goals,” Sheppard said. influence of Lanpher and the staff at became supportive of our goal of “Then we will have bricks and mortar DKE headquarters, which met with reaching full chapter status. Doug made permanency.” the Georgia students numerous times. all the right connections for us.”

Meanwhile, they are fulfilling all the “From the beginning, when Doug first First, Sheppard and his Beta Delta duties of a successful DKE chapter. “And visited us, he stressed the importance colleagues created bylaws for the how!” McNeil said. of developing strong programs and associate chapter. “We organized big w w w.d ke.o rg

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Hoyer Tapped to Lead Chicago Cubs Baseball Operations

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ed Hoyer (Gamma Phi ’99) was promoted to President of Baseball Operations for the Chicago Cubs. The longanticipated promotion was announced in November and effective November 20, for the National League team he has served for nine years. He has been General Manager for the Cubs, in support of his long-time mentor and boss, Theo Epstein, when the Cubs had their most successful run in over a century.

Coons Retains Delaware Senate Seat

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hris Coons (Sigma ’85) retained his Senate seat in Delaware, defeating Republican challenger Lauren Witzke in the November 3 election by a margin of 21%, or more than 100,000 votes. His 59% share of the votes cast was the highest proportion he received in three Senate campaigns.

A close ally of Joe Biden, Coons was considered likely for a role in the new

The span included the Cubs’ first World Series appearance since 1906, and a win in that series in 2016. Hoyer also helped bring the Cubs to the playoffs each year since then. He joined the Cubs in 2011, having worked under Epstein in Boston, helping rebuild the Red Sox into a contender and winning the World Series in 2004 and 2007.

Hoyer took over as a co-general manager when Epstein headed to Chicago. Hoyer later served two years as general manager for the San Diego Padres, before Epstein lured him to the Chicago Cubs.

Gamma Deke Takes Chairman Role at Utz

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oger Deromedi (Gamma ’75) was named as Chairman of Utz Brands last fall when Utz Quality Foods merged with Collier Creek

president’s cabinet and was among the final two candidates for Secretary of State. But in November, Biden asked Coons to stay in the Senate, citing the need for a veteran Democratic lawmaker and someone with ability to work across the aisle, especially in a narrowly divided Congress.

Brother Coons, who has worked in politics since he was 17 and campaigned for Republicans in 1980 and 1982, switched his allegiance to the Democrats during his college days at Amherst. In the past decade, he earned a reputation for working

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Holdings in the third quarter of 2020. With the merger, Utz shares became publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange for the first time, after nearly 100 years under private ownership.

The new company, traded under the ticker symbol UTZ, had an initial enterprise value of approximately $1.56 billion.

Brother Deromedi co-founded Collier Creek Holdings with Chinh Chu and Jason Giordano in 2018, the three combining 80 years of investment and consumer goods operating experience. Earlier in his career, Deromedi served many years as chairman of Pinnacle Foods, and prior to that, as CEO of Kraft Foods. Utz, founded in 1921, operates 14 manufacturing facilities in eight states, producing a wide variety of potato chips, pretzels, and other snack foods. The new enterprise will remain based in Hanover, PA.

in a bipartisan manner despite usually voting in line with fellow Democrats.

Delta Delta Deke Dominates in Democratic California

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ohit Khanna (Delta Delta ’98), a member of the U.S. House of Representatives serving California’s 17th Congressional District, won his re-election bid in the November 3 general election.

“Ro” defeated Republican Ritesh Tandon, capturing more than 71% of the votes cast, and just a point

Sean Mesick rings bell to applaud care he received at Roswell Park cancer center in Buffalo.

Phi Gamma Flexes Brotherhood Muscle Against Cancer

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senior in the DKE chapter at Syracuse relates how the support of his brothers helped him through one of the most difficult times in his young life, and how the chapter “paid it forward” by thanking the medical community with a special fund-raising effort.

Early in 2020, a Phi Gamma senior, Sean Mesick, received

less than the 72.5% portion he won in the 2018 race.

Brother Khanna, whose district includes southern Alameda County and western Santa Clara County, served as national co-chair of Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign in 2019 and 2020. Khanna also supported Sanders in his 2016 run against Hillary Clinton.

He is known for accepting campaign donations only from individuals and is one of ten members of Congress who do not take contributions from companies or political action committees.

the bad news: a diagnosis that he had testicular cancer. Sean was treated at the nationally renowned Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center in Buffalo, New York.

“Sean kicked cancer’s ass and made a full recovery by May,” Sean’s Deke brothers proclaimed. Sean adds, “The love and support from my friends and those within the SU community meant the world to me during a trying time and course of my treatment,” Sean says. “I am so grateful for the top-notch care from the doctors, nurses and staff at Roswell Park, as well as the outpouring of support from everyone. It lifted me up and gave me the courage I needed.”

In appreciation for what it took to get Sean back into the chapter, Phi Gamma’s philanthropy chair Ryan Goldberg organized a dedicated, month-long social media fundraising campaign to benefit Roswell Park and cancer research. Through the month of November, the chapter sold T-shirts and other merchandise and took donations, accumulating more than $3,000 for cancer research. “It went well enough that we’re considering making it a yearly project for Phi Gamma,” says Goldberg.

Cornell Renovation Wins Ithaca Preservation Award

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renovation of the curving marble staircase and porch deck of the Delta Chi DKE house at Cornell University in December won a 2020 Preservation Award by Historic Ithaca. The awards, adjudicated by preservation professionals and given since 1968, recognize excellence in adherence to

preservation principles and the beneficial impact on the surrounding community.

Completed before the fall semester, renovations of the entrance to the 1893 Romanesque style ‘Castle’ were made possible by a $630,000 capital campaign that drew many donations, including large gifts from Brothers Chuck Kerner ’74 and Will Roberts ’06.

Over many decades, many of the large marble steps as well as landings had shifted and broken, creating a hazard. A concrete platform between the stairs and the porch collapsed in 2014; its supporting stone

Challenges to Fraternities Dropped at Yale, Harvard

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s challenging as 2020 was, the year did see some good news on significant challenges to fraternity life. Lawsuits at both Yale and Harvard tipped in favor of fraternities, including Delta Kappa Epsilon.

In February, a U.S. District Court in Connecticut dismissed a case against Yale and nine fraternities, including DKE. The suit, brought by three women

walls had also bowed seriously out of plane.

Repairs included new waterproofed concrete foundations supporting the stone wall, the steps and the porch, with continuous drainage mat cladding. The stones of the walls were cleaned and repositioned in their original positions.

Finishing touches included bronze handrails along the staircase, LED architectural lights to replace old flood lights that illuminate the exterior, and new landscaping along the stairs and at the base of the porch.

students at Yale, had sought to force all-male fraternities at Yale to admit women.

In late June, just weeks before students returned to campus for fall semester, Harvard University announced discontinuation of a policy it began enforcing in 2017 that sanctioned students who joined single-sex clubs.

The Harvard policy prohibited students who joined fraternities or sororities from holding leadership roles in other campus organizations; it also barred them from applying for prestigious post-graduate fellowships. The school settled federal and state court lawsuits

DKE Returns to Kenyon College; Approves Two New Colonies

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enyon College’s Student Council voted December 6 to reinstate the DKE chapter on campus after a suspension in the fall of 2018 for alleged hazing. The action frees up the chapter to begin recruiting new members during this spring semester, which begins February 1—with the added Covid-era challenge that only sophomores, juniors, and

by several organizations, including DKE, which had challenged the policy based on its sexual discrimination and infringement of students’ freedom to associate.

“While we are pleased that this policy will no longer hang over Harvard students, we are also painfully aware that its effects will linger,” Judson Horras, CEO of the North American Interfraternity Conference and Dani Weatherford, CEO of the National Panhellenic Conference said in a joint statement. w w w.d ke.o rg

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The first fraternity lodge in North America, built by DKE at Kenyon. seniors will be on campus.

Freshmen will take courses only virtually.

The reinstatement follows more than a year’s heavy lifting by a strong nucleus of upperclassmen—Amir Brivanlou, Andrew Gibbens, Andrew Kotler, Winston Reid, Nate Saindon, John

Back at Auburn, Arizona, too.

While Covid impacted the oncampus activities and roster

sizes of several DKE chapters the past and current semesters, it hasn’t stymied overall growth of the fraternity. Even with curtailed operations during Covid, many chapters did well in recruitment despite severe reductions in in-person rush events. Additionally, the DKE Board of Directors granted associate chapter status (formerly called “colonies”) to groups at Arizona and Auburn.

That brought the DKE chapter roll to 62 chapters—with Kappa Epsilon at University of Washington waiting in the wings as the next associate chapter, likely in fall 2021.

a rough first two months, the company had a solid summer and has seen business climbing ever since.

The main mission is to improve the process of finding and booking outdoor sports guided tours of many pursuits— at first, fishing charters at hundreds of locations throughout the U.S. and the world. Next up, Barnes and his co-founding partner plan to expand the booking biz to hunting, rock climbing, rafting and other outdoor adventures.

The Captain Experience

service “differs dramatically from booking with conventional fishing guide businesses that are shockingly still mostly pen and paper,” Brother Barnes says. “We save travelers from having to search through scores of outdated websites, tolerating phone tag with dozens of small business owners and guides, and logging disappointments instead of trips.”

Visit CaptainExperiences. com to see if there’s a trip of a lifetime waiting for you.

Scandale, and Bryan Yoshino.

These dedicated DKE petitioners made their case to the school administration and student body and finally earned DKE’s way back onto campus. They rewrote the Lambda chapter’s constitution, developed detailed plans on how it will conduct new member education to avoid hazing, and outlined steps for complying with Title IX provisions, especially regarding anti-racism and anti-bias training of members.

This Wahoo Has Gone Fishing

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rom our fraternity’s founding onward, Dekes have been well versed in seeking balance in our lives, especially pursuing social experiences along with academic pursuits.

So, it wasn’t too much of a stretch for a young Deke alum to find opportunity where he saw something was missing – recreation.

Attison Barnes, Eta ’15, founded a new company early last year thinking that the working world needed a push out of the office or a pull off the couch into outdoor escapes.

Barnes launched Captain Experiences with lousy timing – in March, the same time Covid began hitting the U.S. hard. But after

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Brother Beta Earns IFC Recognition at Michigan State

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onathan Greathouse, new president of the Sigma Kappa chapter at Michigan

State, has been active on the school’s IFC for just a few months – but he has already earned recognition for tackling the tough issues. In December, he was recognized as the IFC’s Outstanding New Member among the 28 fraternity officers on the council. The junior Econ major became chapter president in October and has already guided improvement on many fronts, from relations with the office of fraternity and sorority life, to the chapter’s fiscal standing, and alumni relations – all while working to lift morale during Covid. Brother Greathouse also succeeded in landing a corporate finance internship with BorgWarner, the automotive and powertrain parts giant headquartered near Detroit. “I’m pleased to be recognized for positive contributions to Greek Life at Michigan State and for being able to make a difference for our DKE chapter,” Greathouse says, but adds with optimism, “Here’s to an even better 2021.”

DKE Bookshelf: Dangerous Beauty

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e comes from a family with four Dekes, but that’s not the danger of which he writes, or paints. The message in this book by golfer, artist and professional architect

Sam Ingwersen (Kappa ’52)– along with contributions from golf course architect Michael Hurdzan—isn’t even the sole reason to take in “Dangerous Beauty of Modern Golf Course Design.” The phenomenal portfolio of 145 watercolor paintings in the signed, limited edition book is sufficient reason to dwell with the book, time and again. It is a coffee table tour of many of the most beautiful scenes at courses throughout North America. But Brother Ingwersen wants readers to understand a perspective about a 500-year-old sport that is in

Deke Words to Live by…

“True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion.”

– Henry Cabot Lodge (Alpha, Harvard) member of U.S. House and U.S. Senate.

Spring Break in Montana

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n the just-wrapped football season, SEC teams grew accustomed to setting makeup games due to Covid-19. They ended up scrubbing many of the makeup matches as well. But the Alabama Dekes weren’t going to face the same disappointment. When the University of Alabama announced it was cancelling Spring Break 2021 due to Covid-19, DKE International Board Member Semmes Favrot (Psi-Alabama ’82) acted quickly. He planned a “Spring Break in December.”

Brother Favrot hosted his son, Tim Favrot and eight of Tim’s newly initiated Psi freshmen pledge brothers at the Favrot family vacation home, The Grizzly Den, in Big Sky, Montana. From December 11-18, a week of early-season snow skiing—and brotherhood—was enjoyed by all. Pictured from left to right: Lyle Hutchison, Sam Spear, Nate Fulmer, Alex Belt, Harris Pugh, Jimbo Smith, Emmett Morrison, Tim Favrot, and Harris Sankey. All are members of the Psi Alabama Class of 2024, with host Semmes Favrot at far right.

decline, having lost a third of its U.S. base of players, who leave their sticks behind for other pursuits. One cause, Ingwersen posits, is the creation of overly beautiful and memorable golf landscapes, which increases the difficulty and cost of playing the game and reduces the fun for most players. To learn more about the book, published in 2019 but still available, visit www.samuelingwersonartist. com

DKE TRIVIA Did You Know…?

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hile many Dekes have been pioneers in their fields, only a select few have gone on to be known as the “Fathers” in their chosen careers.

William Phelps Eno (Phi-Yale) became known as the “Father of Traffic Safety.” A traffic engineer, he wrote the World’s first city traffic code, in 1903, for New York City. He is also credited with a range of traffic control innovations, including the ‘Stop’ sign, the pedestrian crosswalk, the traffic circle, the one-way street, the taxi stand, and pedestrian safety islands. Yet, Brother Eno never learned to drive an automobile, since autos were rare until Brother Eno was older.

Even so, horse-drawn carriages were already causing significant traffic problems in urban areas … inspiring Brother Eno to write a piece on traffic safety entitled “Reform in Our Street Traffic Urgently Needed.” He also designed traffic plans for New York, London and Paris. w w w.d ke.o rg

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DKE’s NOBEL PRIZE WINNER JIM ALLISON SPEAKS AT DEKE CLUB LUNCHEON

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ouston Dekes were treated to a once in a lifetime opportunity last February, just before the pandemic began its rapid spread. The Deke Club of Houston hosted a luncheon for over 80 Dekes and their wives, with special guest speaker Jim Allison, Omega Chi (Texas) ‘69. Only about 15 months earlier, Jim had won the Nobel Prize (Immunology or Medicine) for his groundbreaking work toward a cure for cancer.

I consider myself very fortunate to have attended that luncheon, as it was one of the most enjoyable events I’ve had the pleasure of experiencing in my role with DKE. The fraternity’s board had proclaimed February 21 as “Jim Allison Day” in DKE, and it was my honor to present him with the framed proclamation.

Jim was introduced to the podium by three of his Omega Chi Deke brothers, George Dillingham, Bob Dillard, and Ron Tigner. They all told entertaining stories about their times in DKE with Jim, but behind those stories were some eloquent words about Jim, and how he was an unusually out-of-the box thinker.

Dillard spoke movingly of how, Jim, who was only 16 at the time, flatly stated that he was going to cure cancer. Most kids wouldn’t be taken seriously with such a claim at that age, but Bob, who was two years older, said the comment made an impact on him, because of Jim’s sense of purpose and determination. Both Tigner and Dillingham noted Allison’s sense of fun, but added that when he put his mind to something, he went after it with intense focus, and that everyone was aware that Jim was destined for great things.

After a few funny Deke reminiscences of his own, Jim made an incredibly uplifting speech about the progress in his work toward a cure for cancer, presenting the Dekes in attendance with the message that cancer is “not necessarily the life sentence” that it has been. Jim lost his mother to cancer when he was only 11 years old, and although he didn’t dwell on that, everyone in the room could feel the passion which drives him in his life’s work; this is personal for 10 THE DEKE QUARTERLY | WINTER 2021

By Doug Lanpher, Gamma ’77

him. He showed graphs indicating response rates (longevity) far greater than just a few years ago, as a result of his MD Anderson team’s work. He continued, “Now, we need to get the response rate up as high as we can get it, for as many types of cancer as we can.”

He concluded this optimistic presentation by explaining his team’s aspirations for future success, saying, “We know the basic rules now.

We know what we’re doing; we do have curative therapies now, and we’re working to make it better. We can use the word ‘cure’ for the first time.” Upon finishing his speech to a vigorous standing ovation, Jim said, “Now let’s get back to telling Deke stories.”

With those in attendance already at an emotional high after Jim’s speech, he was just getting going, because then the fun began. We all knew that Jim has a reputation in Texas not only as a brilliant, life-saving scientist, but also as a pretty mean harmonica player.

The event organizers prevailed on Jim to bring his harmonica with him, and provided the proper sound system and musical accompaniment. Jim treated us to an astonishing, rollicking 25-minute musical performance, playing a rip-

roaring harmonica, and singing an entertaining mix of country blues songs in his distinctive, gravelly voice. It was a blast watching Jim switch from scientist mode to soulful blues musician in a flash. It was as if we’d all been transported to a beer joint in Austin on a Friday night, tapping our toes while listening to Jim and Lisa Morales, the talented singer and guitarist who was invited for the occasion to accompany him, as they played off each other’s energy. He graciously stepped aside and encouraged Lisa to play and sing a couple of solos as well.

As a musical performer, Jim plays with a lot of gusto, leaving nothing up on the stage, and that must be how he attacks his cancer research as well.

As accomplished as Jim is in his professional life, it was great for all of us to see the human side of him, and to hear his inspiring words in person. He is a humble man, well aware of the significance of his work, but without an ounce of bravado.

This man is on a mission to cure cancer, and you got the impression that nothing’s going to get in his way. He clearly enjoyed himself that day, and it’s equally clear that he still values his membership in DKE. No Deke who was there for Jim Allison Day could have walked away without a renewed sense of pride in being a member of our fraternity, for its propensity to produce Gentlemen, Scholars, and Jolly Good Fellows, qualities that Brother Allison distinctly possesses.

Author’s note: The Jim Allison Day luncheon was hosted by Omega Chi Deke Charlie Kinney and his wife Marilyn, at the elegant Junior League of Houston.

Primary organizers were Erik Heyne and Sam Williams, both Omega Chi, and Pete Ventura, Phi Chi-Rutgers. Bob Dillard was instrumental in inviting Brother Allison to the event. To thank Jim for coming, the Houston Deke Club presented him with a special Hohner Rocket harmonica, one that he is known to have coveted but did not previously own. Engraved on the Rocket were the words “Brothers Forever.”

Videos of Jim’s speech and his spirited harmonica performance can be found on the DKE YouTube channel; the address is bit.ly/jimallisonluncheon .

DEKES MEETING THE COVID CHALLENGE . . . WITH GRIT AND DETERMINATION

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By Kevin Cuneo, Gamma ’77

elta Kappa Epsilon brothers of all ages face challenges – especially in 2020. In college, undergraduates at DKE chapters complete service projects, maintain fraternity traditions, enjoy active social lives and bond with their brothers – all while coping with the stress of academic demands. Dekes in the professional world are also under pressure to succeed for themselves and their families. But in 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic presented a new and unprecedented series of demands. This is a story of how Dekes of every age met the challenges during an especially trying year.

“I won’t kid you, it’s been tough for DKE, as well as for all fraternities,” said Doug Lanpher, Delta Kappa Epsilon’s Executive Director. “We lost 22 percent of our undergraduate members because so many

were not on campus at all. The restrictions on campuses were rigid, preventing our chapters from hosting social events, sponsoring major philanthropic projects, and in many cases meeting prospective new candidates for membership in person. To keep people safe, every college enforced Covid protocols, and since each campus’ rules were different, we did not attempt to implement new safety procedures. All we asked was that chapters follow the local guidelines to a T. There were no playbooks on how to cope with the pandemic, so we just kept in constant touch with our undergraduate members to keep our bonds as close as possible.”

While meeting the challenges was no picnic, practically all DKE chapters not only found a way to survive, but many actually thrived during the difficult months. Here’s a sampling of how they did it. w w w.d ke.o rg

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PHI CHI RUTGERS

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hi Chi president Vince Romano said that while the restrictions at Rutgers could seem suffocating at times, the 22 brothers who live in the Deke house there formed a special bond. “Our classes were all virtual, and many of our members went home, but the guys who were left really came to know each other even better,” Romano said. “The dining halls were closed, which left us pretty much on our own when it came to mealtime.

Fortunately, we have a couple of outdoor grills, and they were in use a lot of the time.”

Romano said the brothers at the house looked out for each other. “I think that by coming together and living together helped everyone in terms of mental health. We had a successful fall rush in which we pledged five new members (Rutgers students also rush during the spring semester), even though practically all of our contact with each other outside of the house was virtual. We had Zoom meetings with the new guys and, because everyone seemed to be trying so hard, it worked pretty well.”

Phi Chi had one case in September when a brother came down with the virus, Romano said. “After he tested positive, we immediately called his family, and his parents came and took him home. Then we did a complete cleansing of the house, using what seemed like gallons of Lysol and tons of Clorox wipes,” he said.

The chapter practiced serious social distancing and masks were worn by members, especially when guests visited – one at a time. “Everybody signed in so we could keep a record,” Romano said. “As I say, it wasn’t easy and I guess it seemed a little weird at times, but we pulled through pretty well. It feels now that if we could face this, we could cope with just about anything.”

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hi Gamma president Andrew Brown is proud of the way the brothers at his chapter worked to keep everyone’s spirits up.

“We tried hard to reduce exposure to the virus,” Brown said.

“Our chef is a family man, and we were concerned for him. He decided to take the semester off, so that meant we had to run the catering service ourselves. We’d call Panera or Chick-fil-A

DEKE MAYORS MEET THE COVID Mayor Ed Adler, Alpha Chi ’69

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or a decade, Ed Adler, a Trinity College Deke who once served on the fraternity’s board of directors, has been mayor of Sands Point, N.Y., on the North Shore of Long Island. Though the city’s population numbers only about 3,000 full-time residents, Adler has overseen a police department and water department that operate 24/7. He also supervises the administration of Sands Point’s Village Club, a scenic 210-acre estate that once belonged to the Guggenheim family and later served as the IBM Country Club. Sands Point is a well-to-do, Gold Coast community that was immortalized in novels by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

In 2020, it seemed as if everything changed. “Suddenly, we were faced with the challenge of maintaining our police and water departments in the midst of the pandemic. You’ll recall that it was especially deadly in the early days in New York state,” Adler said. “At first, we had to find a way for our employees to keep socially distanced from each other. That might not sound like a big deal, but our offices are small, and in some cases we had to bring in trailers to accommodate all the workers.”

Early on, one of the city’s veteran police officers caught the virus and later died. “We were the only city in New York to lose a police officer,” Adler said.

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Sands Point set up pop-up testing centers near the Cow Neck Peninsula, and strict measures implemented by Adler kept the spread of the virus to a minimum in the region. “So far, we’ve not suffered a spike during the second surge of the virus,” Adler said. “Our residents, city workers and volunteers deserve a lot of credit for all the work they’ve put in. The citizens watch out for each other and go to great pains to keep safe. I think it’s a big reason why we’ve been able to keep our schools open,” he said.

Adler, who runs a real estate business in New York City, has served on Sands Point’s community board for 30 years. “The mayor’s job is unpaid, but you still feel a great responsibility to keep everyone as safe as possible,” he said. So far, all that work and dedication seems to be paying off.

or Whole Foods and order ...all of the brothers a ton of food for the 30 seemed dedicated to guys who are living in the house. The restaurant keeping each other people would leave the healthy, and it forged a dinners outside the front door, which helped us limit closeness of spirit. exposure to the virus. It was important that we maintain our services without breaking the bank, and, surprisingly, our food bills have run about 25 percent lower than normal.”

The chapter faced a difficult stretch in October when several brothers were diagnosed with COVID-19. “Everyone had to quarantine for 10 days, but we were all healthy after that,” Brown said. “A cleaning service came to our house every day, and we greatly reduced traffic in the house. We have 67 active members, which is pretty good considering that almost all of our classes have been virtual.”

Brown said that all of the brothers seemed dedicated to keeping each other healthy, and it forged a closeness of spirit.

“We’re definitely a tight unit – even closer than we were before,” he said. “I guess you could call that a silver lining in this dark cloud, but it was pretty tough.”

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he seriousness of the pandemic quickly hit home for the DKE brothers at Phi Epsilon Minnesota. “We were on spring break when the first surge hit last March,” said chapter president Brandon Laxson. “Upon returning to campus, we immediately cancelled our formal and pretty much reduced all the other chapter activities,” Laxson said.

In the fall, most classes were still remote, but 19 brothers moved into the chapter house – one brother to a room. “We limited the house to only Dekes,” Laxson said. “Right away we set up COVID rules, which said that anyone who was feeling the least bit sick had to go and get immediately tested. One guy did get sick and he was quarantined on the third floor, where he had his own bathroom. Everyone in the house was assigned a job to keep the place clean at all times. We went through a lot of cleaning products, but the system worked.”

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CHALLENGE Mayor Sandy Stimpson, Psi ’75

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obile, Ala., Mayor Sandy Stimpson successfully kept the pandemic from overwhelming his city of nearly 200,000.

“We have a person here who’s a retired Coast Guard captain, and in January he wrote a game plan advising us what we should do,” Stimpson said. “He based it on what was happening in Europe.”

Stimpson, working with his health department and other officials on staff, decided Mobile needed a face mask ordinance. He also established satellite testing sites. This was long before most other U.S. cities adopted such measures, and Stimpson caught some flak from citizens. But when Mobile escaped the worst of the pandemic, the mayor’s foresight was praised by his former critics. He worked with local hospitals, began buying testing kits, and supported a local business that had begun producing COVID testing equipment after the outbreak’s first surge.

“Nearly 90 percent of the cities had no local testing facilities – in our region most cities would send their test kits to Birmingham or Atlanta,” Stimpson said. “But where it took the better part of two weeks for turnaround of the tests from those places, our local business could get results within 48 hours.” It meant that Mobile, under Stimpson’s leadership, was well ahead of the curve.

“We kind of had to thread the needle by protecting the health of our people but also their livelihoods,” he said. “There were some businesses that were completely left out in funding by the state or federal government. We set aside half-a-million

dollars so they could apply for grants to keep their businesses alive. We ended up disbursing $300,000 in grants and gave the other $200,000 to people to help them pay their bills.”

Stimpson, who was an officer at Psi during his college days, said he believes in the old adage that if you can successfully run a fraternity, you can run a city. “What I learned in school was the importance of relationships, and it’s helped me during my time (seven years) in office.”

The year 2020 was a taxing one for Stimpson, who also had to deal with the effects of two hurricanes. “Yes, they kind of threw the book at us this year, but we’ve survived.

All year long we’ve watched people help each other. As our hospital workers became overworked and stressed, we saw our citizens drive to the parking lots next to the hospitals and flash their headlights in a show of support. It was a way for people to do something – to say thank you.

“It’s been a challenge, I won’t minimize it,” Stimpson said.

“But it’s been a huge honor for me to serve and help make a difference during trying times.”

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Vasant “Vas” Narasimhan, Delta Delta ’98

NOVARTIS CEO NARASIMHAN A WORLD EXPERT ON PANDEMICS, VACCINES

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s chief executive officer of Novartis, a giant global health care company based in Switzerland, Vasant “Vas” Narasimhan, M.D., has been a leading figure in the fight against worldwide pandemics. Educated at the University of Chicago, where he served as a proud brother and president of Delta Kappa Epsilon’s Delta Delta chapter, Vas, 44, received his doctor of medicine from Harvard Medical School. He also holds a master’s degree in public policy from Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.

During and after his medical studies, he worked extensively on a range of public health issues in low- and middleincome countries. Before becoming CEO at Novartis in 2018, Vas served as the company’s chief medical officer and was also head of development for the company’s vaccines. During his career at Novartis, he has overseen the licensing of more than 30 novel medicines, including cell and gene therapies and vaccines.

He recently shared his thoughts about COVID-19 and possible future pandemics with the Deke Quarterly.

You gave an interview in August 2019 in which you said, “We are not at all prepared for a pandemic.”

What did you mean by that, and were you surprised when COVID-19 so quickly and devastatingly swept across the world?

is allocated elsewhere, etc. But pandemics have occurred somewhat regularly throughout history, and we’ve even had multiple pandemics over the past 50 years, such as the Swine Flu pandemic. We need to have longer collective memories and sustain preparedness over time, because it’s difficult to mount these kinds of global responses very quickly.

You were closely involved in the Swine Flu pandemic response.

What was that like? What did the experience teach you?

“I deeply believe that science-based progress and human resilience rise to the occasion when humanity is most in need.”

While it seems like a prescient comment now, I certainly couldn’t have imagined the global crisis that would come to be just a few months later. Like most people, I was very surprised by how fast the COVID-19 virus spread around the world.

The need to strengthen global preparedness is not new — based on research and well-established science, the health and scientific community have been raising the flag for years. During and after pandemics there is a surge of investment and interest in building up real capacity, such as manufacturing capacity, R&D capacity, international organizations, and more. As the years pass, we move away from those efforts — factories shut down, funding

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Back in 2009, I helped lead the Novartis efforts to find and develop a vaccine for H1N1, or Swine Flu, and our scientific effort was ultimately successful. While I’m now a CEO, I actually spent most of my career developing novel medicines and vaccines, including pediatric vaccines, to address a wide range of diseases.

Being part of the Swine Flu pandemic response taught me many things. Notably, I learned that pandemics require crossindustry collaboration that follows rigorous data and science. Even though solutions are often needed urgently, the scientific community needs high-quality clinical data, and that takes time. Additionally, I see a noticeable difference from the Swine Flu response when I look at the collaboration across the healthcare industry today, such as the Gates Foundation consortium, which I co-chair with Bill Gates.

The healthcare industry’s collaboration to tackle COVID-19 has been unprecedented, and I believe it will be one of the great success stories of the crisis.

Next time there is a health crisis or pandemic, do you think we will be better prepared?

Crises don’t just test resolve, but they can also strengthen resilience. As COVID-19 subsides in the future, the world — especially governments and health systems — will inevitably assess their preparedness for the next pandemic, and there are many lessons we must learn from this one.

One key lesson to learn from the crisis is how the digital preparedness of healthcare systems can influence their ability to respond. We can seize the opportunity of the current crisis to pinpoint where technology can help healthcare systems be

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better prepared to predict, prevent, respond and recover from future health crises. Second, building resilience will depend on our ability to think of public health as an investment for the future. Our challenge will be to sustain the unprecedented level of collaboration across government, business, and other sectors to ensure the focus on public health does not decrease.

Your industry has been front and center, rushing to do research and produce treatments and vaccines in months rather than years. What is your reaction to the scientific response to COVID-19?

This is by far the largest and fastest mobilization of global scientific capabilities against a public health crisis, and the COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated that we live in an era of unparalleled scientific capabilities. Experts are more globally networked than ever before. There is more real-time data available than ever before. The full force of medical technology has been brought to bear, as we saw the rapid scale-up of testing early on, vaccine candidates get developed at breakneck speeds, and more.

Most importantly, the response efforts remind us of the power of science, which we all need to stand behind now and in the future.

During your undergraduate years at the University of Chicago, how were you influenced by your membership in Delta Kappa Epsilon? Was being a member of the fraternity a positive experience for you?

Being a part of DKE made my time at the University of Chicago that much more memorable, and I made lasting bonds and friendships that stay with me to this day. I took a lot away from my time there, whether learning valuable lessons about leadership as chapter President or deepening my resolve to inspire and help create a better world through philanthropy and community service efforts.

You’ve maintained a spirit of optimism throughout the entire pandemic. What makes you so hopeful for the future?

I deeply believe that science-based progress and human resilience rise to the occasion when humanity is most in need.

If you go back in history you’ll find many examples of that ideal holding true, and we saw evidence of it in the earliest days of this crisis. I find real hope in the ways humanity collectively responded to the devastation and uncertainty. We stood up for rigorous science, followed public health measures to protect our loved ones and neighbors, and so much more.

The powerful and uniting belief behind actions like that is optimism that a healthier future is within our reach.

While I’m confident the pandemic will remain with us into 2021, I’m also confident we’ll get through this together.

fraternity members who weren’t wearing a mask. That made us doubly serious about wearing our masks in public,” he said.

Even in the midst of the pandemic, Phi Epsilon still managed to pledge 19 new members. “We saw the writing on the wall, so the guys worked really hard over the summer to recruit new members. It paid off and now we have 45 brothers.”

DKE was the only fraternity on Minnesota’s campus to escape the semester without a single violation. “I think all of our actives were determined to maintain our DKE traditions as best we could,” Laxson said. “That was especially true as we worked to pass down our traditions to the new members. In a sense, the pandemic brought out the best in many of us, but I know we wouldn’t want to go through that again.”

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eta Dekes knew they were in “Everyone for close supervision when the recognized the University of North Carolina last summer required every fraternity situation we to submit a comprehensive plan on were in and how they would deal with the virus.

“It was a challenge to convey the accepted it severity of the rules and situation for what it is. to our membership, but within the first week everything began to run Nobody ever smoothly,” said Vance Brice, who questioned their served as Beta’s president during the pandemic’s first year. membership “Everyone recognized the situation in DKE, and we were in and accepted it for what the values it is. Nobody ever questioned their membership in DKE, and the values and benefits of and benefits of being a brother being a brother remained unchanged. Our meal plan is still in effect and we had a few remained safely planned events that were in unchanged.” compliance with the regulations.”

Beta brothers monitored everyone who entered the chapter house, requiring a quick temperature scan of all. “Again, all of our guys complied, which is why it’s been a success,” Brice said.

When COVID clusters began to develop on campus, including at a dorm complex, several fraternities were greatly affected.

Beta began requiring that everyone at the Deke House get tested, and it turned out that two residents of the house tested positive.

In response, the chapter decided to err on the side of safety and closed for two weeks. Most of the brothers returned home, where they continued their studies remotely. While the house was closed, Beta brothers and alumni brothers worked together to deep-clean the place.

In the meantime, Beta conducted rush in compliance with university regulations and landed a group of 20. The chapter also implemented an accountability team, with members from each class, to address any compliance issues. “The system worked well,” Brice said.

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suited me was wrestling, because you had to compete against somebody in your own weight class.,” he said. “But I wasn’t very good at that, either. The year I didn’t wrestle, our team won the state championship. In any case, I’ve always been physically active and when I became an actor, running became a big thing for me. I liked running for its psychological release. I needed that because there’s a lot of pressure in acting.” In one of his more popular performances, Crudup convincingly played Steve Prefontaine in “Without Limits,” which was a big hit in running circles.

Crudup, who was born in Manhasset, New York, is a descendant on his father’s side of Congressman Josiah Crudup of North Carolina. His maternal grandfather was William Cotter “Billy” Gaither, Jr., a well-known trial lawyer in Florida. Billy Crudup went to school in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, before heading off to UNC in Chapel Hill, where he developed t 52, William Gaither a passion for acting, appearing with Crudup has become an undergraduate acting troupe. one of America’s most His DKE brothers at the Beta versatile actors, at home chapter were impressed with his on stage, screen, and stage work and encouraged him to now on TV. The North pursue his dream.

Carolina Deke, who looks years younger A year after earning his degree than his actual age, cuts a dashing figure at NYU, Crudup made his debut and seems more comfortable as “Billy With Jennifer Aniston in The Morning Show on Broadway in Tom Stoppard’s Crudup” than a person with his given “Arcadia.” Crudup has gone back name. He’s worked non-stop for years and and forth between stage and recently took home an Emmy Award for his role in the popular screen throughout his career and won a Tony Award in 2011 for his Apple TV+ series, “The Morning Show.” performance in “The Coast of Utopia.” He’s also been nominated for Supremely confident in his own skin, Crudup for more than a Tony Awards several other times. decade has been landing the parts he wants, in the projects he wants.

Crudup’s voice became famous during his long run as TV “To be honest, I’ve had phenomenal opportunities for a long time,” spokesman for Mastercard, a gig so lucrative that he once Crudup said. “It hasn’t always been in things that people have seen, addressed the audience from the stage of a Broadway play but I’ve enjoyed having my pick of things that come my way.” sponsored by a rival credit card. Crudup told the crowd, “I wanted Crudup, who made his first film in 1996 at the age of 28, picked to say thank you, American Express, for tonight, and thank you up a Masters in acting degree at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts after Mastercard for my career.” Crudup made Mastercard’s “priceless” graduating from the University of North Carolina in 1990. He appeared theme one of the most popular on TV, as he intoned, “For in ten movies before hitting it big in 2000 in Cameron Crowe’s everything else, there’s Mastercard.” iconic film, “Almost Famous.” “I get more comments now about my When his time as a TV pitchman ended, Crudup began reinventing performance in that film than I ever did when it came out,” he said. himself as a character actor. It wasn’t easy, he admits, and not Interestingly, today’s fans of the movie, in which Crudup plays a rock without some degree of regret. But he has flourished in the past star, tend to be in their early 20s. “Usually they end up saying, ‘You’re decade, appearing in 17 films and in two popular Apple TV+ series. still my golden god, even if you’re in your golden years,’” he said.

In the latest, “The Morning Show,” in which he co-stars with Reese Crudup is well respected by critics for his stage work, and he Witherspoon, Jennifer Aniston, and Steve Carell, Crudup plays a freeappreciates his reputation as a below-the-radar actor in film. He’s left spirited producer of a network morning show. “Billy is perfect in the an indelible impression playing characters such as Eric MacLeish, a role,” Carell recently told Entertainment Weekly. “His Emmy was slick lawyer in “Spotlight,” the 2015 award-winning film about the richly deserved.”

Boston newspaper series on pedophile priests.

“I’m glad to be working and doing the things I love best,” said Though he excels today on the golf course, where he maintains a Crudup, whose image as a favorite of the tabloids has mellowed in five-handicap, Crudup downplays his athletic skills. “I grew up with recent years. “An actor can go through a lot of twists and turns during two brothers and we played all sports, but I was the shortest kid in his career, but not only do I not have any big regrets, I feel lucky to be my class. Very skinny, too. So, in high school, the only thing that where I am.”

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BILLY CRUDUP

MAKES HIS MARK AS ONE OF HOLLYWOOD’S BEST CHARACTER ACTORS

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FIRST STEPS IN DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION

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By Travis Tafoya, DKE Assistant Director of Education

hile wrestling with Covid-19, fraternities were challenged from a new and unexpected angle in the fall of 2020.

Protests occurred across North America following George Floyd’s death, and movements like Abolish Greek Life surfaced on several campuses. Society began asking everyone — organizations, businesses, and individuals — to take a closer look at their own histories, biases, and practices.

Delta Kappa Epsilon responded.

More precisely, DKE is in the early stages of its response, one that will be both long-term and hopefully ongoing. Initially, DKE started the process by looking inward to see where we stand on issues related to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) – and where we might need to go to ensure that all members find the sense of belonging and togetherness that our founders envisioned and that all members have worked to create and sustain for more than 175 years.

One of several ‘first steps’ DKE took in the past several months was to create its first-ever Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee. A committee of 16 individuals was assembled in fall and met for the first time over Zoom on December 2, 2020. The group is tasked with promoting one primary goal of “building equitable programs, inclusive environments, and a more diverse organization among members, alumni and stakeholders of our International fraternity.”

Another of the early steps DKE took was to survey all undergraduate members, to help establish a baseline and scope of work. Survey

mental health and events management. The Inclusive Practices course will also be available this spring for all undergraduate members on DKE’s new online learning platform (www. learn.dke.org).

results provided great feedback on member experiences, amidst the significant unrest occurring on many campuses throughout North America this fall—and in the wake of summer’s heated protests on systemic racism.

A key finding: our undergraduate leaders see value in ensuring an inclusive organization and noted there is room for improvement. They seek change in both the resources, support and guidance that DKE International offers to chapters, and in what the local membership experience looks like.

Through the survey, undergraduate leaders did ask for specific education content related to DEI. The DKE staff worked immediately with its education partner, BeingPlaid LLC, to develop an Inclusive Practices course into our Member Onboarding modules. The new course was offered to all incoming new members in the late fall along with courses on hazing prevention, alcohol and drugs,

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ur organization’s vision is “To be a highly respected fraternity populated by men of distinction whose behavior is exemplary in all respects, who go on to become leaders in their chosen fields.”

To prepare our members for this call to be leaders, it is imperative that we instill a culture of inclusion, belonging, access, and equity within our membership. The actions DKE is taking now to achieve this are in keeping with the fraternity’s long tradition of changing and adapting to society.

Sometimes proactively and sometimes reactively, DKE has changed with

the times to do what it sees as right.

This stance has clearly helped DKE survive for 176 years, even altering and adjusting our Objects over the years, adding clauses that guide our conduct and behavior— without making dramatic changes or promulgating comprehensive written policies.

DKE understands DEI work must be a continuous effort and our Board of Directors, staff, and DEI committee are united in commitment to carrying out those efforts within all of Delta Kappa Epsilon and the communities where DKE exists.

WHAT’S NEXT? For the DEI Committee next steps will be to finalize its leadership structure and develop an action plan for the year 2021. Actions will include a review of the current educational programming, resources provided to members, and DKE’s history through storytelling.

The process may include further data collection from undergraduate and alumni members through surveys, listening sessions, and feedback provided at international events.

Additionally, the committee will dive into how best to broaden the conversation of DEI beyond issues of race or ethnicity that were the focal point in 2020 for many groups and individuals.

Further context on DKE’s DEI Committee, including its charge and its composition, can be found at www.dke.org/dei

DEI DEFINITIONS To help guide its work and to be consistent in addressing DEI in policies, education, storytelling, and chapter experiences, DKE established these foundational definitions: DIVERSITY: The aspects of identity that differ between individuals—those an individual is born with and those they take on throughout their lifetime. These aspects can include but are not limited to disability and different ability, education, gender identity and gender expression, national identity, race, religion, sexual orientation, and socioeconomic status.

EQUITY: Ensuring that our day-to-day actions, events, policies, and procedures are tailored to fit each individual member so all Brothers have the opportunity to experience the benefits of Delta Kappa Epsilon equally.

INCLUSION: An environment that affirms the essence of all individuals through identity, experience, and acceptance.

An inclusive environment is one where all people feel engaged, supported, and empowered.

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FORGOTTEN GREATS OF DKE

GEORGE STEINBRENNER THE LONGTIME YANKEES OWNER HELPED RESHAPE MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL

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n life, he was known as “The Boss,” but a decade after his death, George Steinbrenner, Epsilon Williams, 1952, is remembered as a man who forever changed the profile and economics of major league baseball.

In 1973, Steinbrenner, then 43, parlayed a personal investment of $168,000 and led a group of investors to buy the declining New York Yankees team for less than $10 million. Within five years, he launched the Yankees’ own television station and began laying the groundwork for a new stadium that would eventually cost $1.5 billion.

Steinbrenner’s Yankees empire grew so rich Steinbrenner’s At his death in 2010 at and powerful that the president of the Boston the age of 80, Steinbrenner’s Yankees empire Yankees empire Red Sox, Larry Lucchino, frustrated over losing was judged to be worth nearly $2.5 billion, not was judged to pitcher Jose Contreras to New York, began including the ballpark. be worth nearly referring to the team as “the evil empire.” To be And that’s only on the financial side. On $2.5 billion, sure, Steinbrenner ruled with an iron fist and the field, the Yankees, under Steinbrenner’s not including the he dismissed so many employees through the leadership, won seven World Series ballpark. years – often to hire many of them back once championships and 11 American League he cooled off – that he was lampooned in a TV pennants. A pioneer of modern sports ownership, commercial for Miller Lite beer. He appeared Steinbrenner started the wave of high spending with Martin in the ad, and after they got into a disagreement, for free-agent players. He also gained a reputation as a Steinbrenner barked, “You’re fired!” To which Martin responded, demanding employer. In the frenetic 1970s and ’80s, when “Not again!” general managers, field managers and pitching coaches were sent Ushers at Yankee Stadium recalled an afternoon when the spinning through Steinbrenner’s revolving personnel door, Billy team’s organist was practicing loudly, prompting Steinbrenner to Martin served five different stints as Yankees manager.

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stop by. “Let me have a crack at that,” the Yankees owner said.

As he began playing quite skillfully, Steinbrenner asked “How do I sound?” The organist stared for a second and said, “You’re fired!” And both men had a good laugh.

Old friends and DKE brothers at Williams College, according to Bill Madden in his excellent book, “Steinbrenner: The Last Lion of Baseball,” remember George as being driven in the classroom and on the athletic field. He excelled on Williams’ track and field team, while preparing to eventually enter his family’s Great Lakes shipping business. But before going to work for his father, Henry Steinbrenner, George served as an Air Force officer and coached high school football and basketball in Ohio. He later worked as an assistant football coach at Northwestern University and Purdue, which seems to have whetted his appetite for a full-time job in the sports world.

Steinbrenner briefly owned the Cleveland Pipers, a professional basketball team, before it folded, and he tried in vain to buy his hometown Cleveland Indians. Later, he jumped at the chance to assemble a team of investors to purchase the Yankees.

Asked by reporters if he planned to take an active role in running the team, Steinbrenner said, “No, I won’t be involved in the daily operations at all. I’ll stick to shipbuilding.”

That promise did not last long, however, as Steinbrenner maneuvered to take full control of the club. John McMullen, a minority owner in Steinbrenner’s syndicate, once noted that “nothing is as limited as being a limited partner of George’s.”

Steinbrenner demanded a lot from everyone who worked for him, from his office staff down to the players on the field. But he could be generous to a fault and funded dozens of college scholarships for the sons and daughters of people employed by the Yankees. Still, for most it was hard to work for such a demanding boss. Lou Piniella, who twice managed the Yankees in the 1980s, once called Steinbrenner “a great guy – as long as you don’t have to work for him.”

Steinbrenner could poke fun at his own image, however, and his character, George Costanza’s boss, played by Larry David, on TV’s “Seinfeld,” demonstrated an ability to laugh at himself.

Steinbrenner was a loyal DKE brother and when he spoke at the fraternity’s 1978 International Convention in Nashville, he gave a rip-roaring address that had the undergraduates on their feet. That night, after the closing banquet, he met at length with the collegians and even offered one a job for the following summer. Steinbrenner also spoke at a meeting at New York’s DKE Club.

He twice ran into serious trouble during his long tenure with the Yankees and was suspended by the baseball commissioners

Steinbrenner with Billy Martin during their14 years working together on and off.

Mary Jane Schriner, who met George Steinbrenner in 1949 when both were teenagers in Ohio, has letters that he wrote to her over a four year period on the DKE Letterhead.

for a total of nearly three years. Amidst charges that he was a blowhard and a bully, Steinbrenner told Sports Illustrated in 2004 that he saw himself as sticking up for the everyday New Yorker. “I care dearly about this city,” he said. “I like every cab driver, every guy that stops his car and honks. I feed on that, and I’m convinced that if we’re not delivering the best product for our fans, then we’re not doing our job.” w w w.d ke.o rg

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ost pledge classes study the history of their fraternity, but Delta Kappa Epsilon’s new members take it to heart. When Thomas “Mac” Brewer, Delta ’17, began working with the first pledge class at DKE’s new Associate Chapter at Northeastern University in Boston, he issued a special challenge. “I told them to find something about DKE history that had roots in Boston and was previously unknown,” Brewer said.

The Nu Alpha founders accepted the task with relish. Evan Massa, an enterprising member of the group, decided to look into DKE’s founders to see if any of the fifteen were from the Boston area. “I discovered that one of the founders, Albert Everett Stetson, was born in Braintree, Massachusetts,” he said.

Not even the estimable Grant Burnyeat, Phi Alpha ’69, DKE’s archivist and historian, who has compiled a rich history of the fraternity’s founders, knew much about Stetson. That did not deter Massa and his colleagues. “Upon examining Brother Stetson’s family tree and digging through countless genealogical records, I was able to link him to an organization called the Stetson Kindred of America,” Massa said. “The organization is devoted to keeping the family history of Cornet Robert Stetson, who is believed to have come over to the New World from England in 1634.”

After much research, Massa was able to confirm his suspicions that Albert Stetson was buried next to his parents in the Village Cemetery in Weymouth, Massachusetts.

“This was big news, as that information was not listed in any sources I came across in my research,” Massa said. “In fact, the cemetery where he is buried did not even have a record of Albert’s grave.”

So, Massa made a trip down to the Village Cemetery and found Albert Stetson’s grave. “I took pictures of it, as well as a rubbing of the grave’s surface.

The headstone was badly damaged, but the two broken pieces were laid respectfully against the remaining headstone,” Massa said. He credits his Nu Alpha brothers for their help in making the project a reality.

Brewer, who was working and living in Boston at the time, said he is amazed by the tenacity of Massa and his brothers.

“When they would get a bit discouraged, I kept pushing them,” Brewer said. “I knew there had to be DKE history buried here somewhere, and the guys, to their credit, never gave up. This is an intelligent group that cares deeply about the values of DKE.” Brewer said he was on the phone with Stan McMillan, Gamma ’89 and a longtime DKE board member, when he learned that Massa and his brothers had discovered the grave of one of the fraternity’s founders. “Stan had been active as a chapter adviser when my class helped revive the Delta at the University of South Carolina,” Brewer said. “Hearing Evan’s news gave us goose bumps.”

The deteriorating condition of Stetson’s grave sent the Nu Alpha brothers into overdrive. “We knew we had to restore it, so we contacted businesses that perform such work and got an estimate of $1,300,” Massa said. The brothers, who had been in contact with DKE Headquarters, raised about $700 on their own. When they asked Headquarters for help with the rest, several board members stepped forward and made contributions.

Burnyeat generously offered to match whatever amount the board raised to supplement the funds that the chapter had already collected.

The Nu Alpha brothers not only discovered and restored Albert Stetson’s grave, they researched his life. “We learned that he led a short but eventful life, accomplishing much in his 32 years,” Massa said. After helping to start DKE at Yale in 1844, Stetson graduated two years later and went on to medical school at Harvard. With his diploma in hand, Stetson moved to South Scituate where he practiced medicine and joined the local legislature. He married and fathered two children before moving to Dorchester, Massachusetts in 1855. Sadly,

Above, Nu Alpha pledge class who took on the challenge to dig up unknown DKE history in the Boston area; (left) rubbing of DKE founder Albert Stetson’s headstone; (right) the broken headstone discovered by Nu Alpha pledges at a cemetery in Weymouth, Mass.

in 1857, he died of typhoid fever. “We discovered that he was a man of unusual ability and confidence,” Massa said. “Our research revealed that Albert possessed the classic characteristics of a Deke. He was intelligent, loyal, and giving, and he positively influenced everyone with whom he came into contact.”

Nu Alpha has already integrated the discovery of Stetson’s grave into its new

member curriculum. “The brothers in our latest class have visited the gravesite and learned about its history and importance,” Massa said.

“Every time I think about what these young guys did, and what they learned about the qualities of being a Deke, I’m blown away,” Brewer said. “They really set the example, just as Albert Everett Stetson and the other founders did.” w w w.d ke.o rg

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he Deke Foundation operations, but also with some of the “soft has exceeded its goal of skills” that make fraternity membership $1,750,000 for our 175h such a valuable learning experience Anniversary Campaign. leadership, conflict resolution, motivating That is great news and members, goal setting, managing a budget we thank every alumni donor to our and a house, recruiting new members, campaign. and others. Research shows that fraternity As of this writing, men (and sorority women) go on to 1,112 Dekes have enjoy more relative success in all made donations to the aspects of life than do their non Greek campaign. Funds raised counterparts. will go to benefit young DKE can always “get by,” but to Dekes in our chapters excel and stand out among our peers, as they pursue their alumni support is the accelerant we need. educational goals.

To all our participants The campaign in the campaign, the will remain active Deke Foundation until March 31, and sincerely appreciates donations and pledges your generous to this campaign are still commitment to the welcomed! Please visit www.dke.org/donate Dekes who have followed to make a contribution. in our footsteps.

All donations are tax If you have not, deductible in the United please consider making States, and donors a donation to the may allocate up to 50% campaign to help to of their gift to their an even higher level chapter. Those funds of support to our The Deke Foundation supports activities such as the are held in restricted undergrads. annual Officers Academy. The men learn from Alumni, accounts, to be used only Finally, as we wind DKE HQ Staff and each other. by members from your down the campaign, we designated chapter. will now shift back to our Greek Life faces a lot of headwinds in collegiate annual giving dues approach, with our ForeverDeke administrations all over North America, and not just Annual Giving program. We understand that many because of Covid. Like all fraternities, DKE needs to be Brothers dug deep and honored us with very large a consistent, positive resource for our undergrads. Not donations during the campaign, but ongoing support is only can we help them with the X’s and O’s of chapter also important and much appreciated.

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D E LTA

K A P PA

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DONOR LIST ALPHA HARVARD UNIVERSITY James Damask, 2018

ALPHA ALPHA MIDDLEBURY

Christopher Campbell, 2006 Robert Clarke, 1963 Michael Cohen, 1994 Charles Falker, 1989 Spencer Hurst, 2013 John Iacovino, 1963 William Kieffer, 1964 Charles Leonard, 1958 Paul McCormack, 1988 Edwin Naylor, 1964 David Strachan, 1955 Sanford Young, 1944*

ALPHA CHI TRINITY COLLEGE

Edward Adler, 1969 William Conner, 1954 Robert Cudd, 1968 William Engel, 1980 Warren Gelman, 1955 Ray Graves, 1967 Leonard Heinrich, 1973 Richard Lyford, 1953* Paul Marion, 1957 Joseph Pryor, 1988 Robin Tassinari, 1967 Tyler Thors, 1989 Richard Zampiello, 1955 Geoffrey Zampiello, 1998

ALPHA MU ROWAN UNIVERSITY Thomas Boggia, 2012 Dennis Gerber, 2004 Scot Merkle, 1983

ALPHA OMEGA LOUISIANA TECH UNIVERSITY

Thomas Butt, 1994 Seth Schaumburg, 1989

ALPHA PHI - UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO Ryan Ackers, 2003 Michael Dunham, 1987 Andrew Kilpatrick, 1979 Colm Lanigan, 1986 Philip Robson, 1978 Christopher White, 1980 Ross Wigle, 1979

ALPHA TAU - UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA Hardev Bains, 1986 Barrie Bell, 1958 Eamon Egan, 1983 William Pope, 1968

BETA - UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA

Geoffrey Allen, 1987 Mauricio Arnal Prieto, 2017 Tee Baur, 1968 John Beesley, 2002 * Inicates deceased

Lawrence Bell, 1957 Thomas Benjamin, 1983 Scott Brown, 1970 Neilson Brown, 1967 John Carnes, 2011 Timothy Carnes, 2014 James Christmas, 2012 Charles Cogdell, 2009 James Dunn, 1989 Norman DuPre, 1978 Jonathan Engram, 2008 Scott Farmer, 2008 Randolph Freiberg, 1977 William Fuller, 1964 Benjamin Gambill, 2001 Peter Gilchrist, 1962 William Gottwald, 2016 Peter Grauer, 1968 James Gray, 1970 Bernard Gray, 1972 F. Borden Hanes, 1967 Cameron Harris, 1966 Mark Hennessy, 1976 Bernie Hodges, 1977 Addison Holladay, 2008 Walter Hussman, 1968 Walter King, 1968 Nathaniel Kluttz, 2009 Allen Lassiter, 1970 William Luesing, 1959 Robert Mason, 1981 James Maynard, 1982 Ben Mayo, 1955 Steven McCarroll, 1968 Patrick Mealy, 2013 Randolph Metcalfe, 1976 Thaddeus Moore, 1967 Stephen Owen, 1956 Robert Perry, 1959 Dave Phillips, 1965 John Rivers, 1967 Albert Roper, 1963 Alexander Rossitch, 2014 Logan Sawyer, 1968 William Schmidt, 1966 Alex Shuford, 1966 Stephen Stephano, 2014 Daniel Stevenson, 1976 F. Bronson VanWyck, 1967 David Ward, 1957 Oswald Watson, 1971 William Whitaker, 1967 Charles Wickham, 1982 William Wiley, 1949 Fred Wood, 1961 Ernest Zellweger, 1974

BETA CHI - CASE WESTERN RESERVE

Robert Brierton, 1969 Douglas Kupec, 2002

BETA GAMMA - NEW YORK UNIVERSITY Adam Biernat, 2004 Marc Burton, 2008 Brandon Conley, 2014 Eric Freiman, 2016 Patrick Glodkowski, 2016 Zachary Haas, 2007 Ethan Mandel, 2009

Matthew McQueen, 2003 Thomas Ricardo, 2006 Michael Wenz, 2013 Gary Wise, 2012

BETA PHI - UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER

Daniel Ahearn, 1976 Joseph Bailey, 1990 Anthony Bottar, 1972 Mark Branton, 2002 Joseph Carson, 1976 Carlton Clough, 1960 Michael Colton, 1963 Thomas Coppola, 1973 Eric Dubowsky, 2003 James Fitzsimmons, 1955 Donald Gaudion, 1971 John Greco, 2006 Robert Hartz, 1990 Maxwell Kinder, 2015 Nicholas Kollias, 2016 David Maloney, 1976 Sean McCabe, 1991 Franklin Nagy, 1981 Bernie Russotti, 1960 Roger Valkenburgh, 1969 Mark Zweibon, 1979

CHI - UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI

Lyman Aldrich, 1967 William Brown, 1970 Richard Burnette, 1968 George Gafford, 1961 William Graham, 1970 Kirk Grantham, 1963 Joseph Hinshaw, 1971 Samuel Mavar, 1965 Leonard McAfee, 1966 William McMullen, 1966 William Morris, 1964 Charles Paschal, 1980 Larry Singleton, 1980 Lawton (Steve) Stevens, 1965 Donald White, 1966 John Wildman, 2008

CHI BETA - UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON David Ball, 2017 Trenton Booth, 2016 Nicholas DeFalco, 2015

CHI RHO - BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY Eric Day, 2017 Robert Gronowski, 2011

DELTA - UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA Thomas Brewer, 2017 William Doohan, 2018

DELTA CHI - CORNELL UNIVERSITY John Almquist, 1954 Richard Bates, 1966

2020

Brian Behm, 1995 David Bentley, 1964 Michael Clifford, 1991 Michael Crowley, 1959 Kahlil Day, 1980 Ibrahima Diallo, 2016 William Forbes, 1967 Michael Furman, 1979 Robert Gallagher, 1980 Thomas Hudson, 2011 Matthew Jenison, 2004 Blair Jenness, 1997 Charles Kerner, 1974 Theodore Loizos, 1994 James Lyman, 1984 C. Bert MacDonald, 1955 Rudolph Mateka, 1963 Barrant Merrill, 1953 Tudor Mustata, 2007 George Nicholson, 1956 Hugh O Gorman, 1987 Robert Platt, 1973 William Roberts, 2006 Edward Sheridan, 1959 William Wilke, 1960

DELTA PI UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

DELTA DELTA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

EPSILON RHO DUKE UNIVERSITY

Blake Alex, 2014 Edwin Cho, 1995 Kenneth Cid, 2012 Peter Debaz, 2008 Gregory Miarecki, 1994 Kenneth Monahan, 1995 Michael Peters, 1990 John Yung, 1990

DELTA KAPPA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

Ronald Akel, 1960 Ed Allinson, 1957* Peter Barrett, 1953 Richard Bridy, 1969 William Caldwell, 1960 William Combs, 1964 Anthony DiFelice, 1981 Richard Goerwitz, 1956 Bruce Goldfarb, 1987 Craig Graber, 1986 Poul Hornsleth, 1967 Peter Mattia, 2008 Cornelius McCarthy, 1959 John Owens, 1964 Harry Pappas, 1952 David Shields, 1961 John Ward, 1953

DELTA PHI - THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA Hugh Babowal, 1990 Arden Berg, 1972 Connor Bliss, 2016 Timothy Boston, 1984 Darren Kelly, 1991 Cameron Kerr, 2009 Kurt Kufeld, 1986 Eric Lee, 1980 Maurice Nicholson, 1960 Leslie Stitt, 2004

Arthur Alderson, 1971 Stephen Alvey, 1984 Paul Daily, 1976 Alberto Davila, 2017 Michael Fogarty, 1984 David Helverson, 1981 Thomas Hostetler, 1950 Mark Kubiak, 2019 Wayne Moore, 1978 Alan Parsons, 1971 James Personius, 1983

DELTA RHO - NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY Harrison Cole, 2015

EPSILON WILLIAMS COLLEGE

Joseph Albertson, 1954 Stephen Barnett, 1958 Joel Bergquist, 1965 David Kane, 1958

Adam Eisenberg, 1997 Christian Cummings, 2018 Eric Harnish, 1991 Creston King, 1985 Lon Lamb, 1991 Rhodes McKee, 2005 William E. Monaghan, 1985 Lawrence Moore, 1990 Todd Sawicki, 1994 Robert Shaw, 2009 John Vide, 1985

ETA - UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA

Jonathan Adams, 1984 Alfred Berkeley, 1966 Aleco Bravo-Greenberg, 1991 A. Christian Burke, 1976 William Edgerton, 1972 Jonathan Finger, 1982 Robert Green, 1969 Henry Harris, 1975 John Hopkins, 1977 Charles Jones, 1956 Peter Kohler, 1959 John Pinder, 1971 Gordon Rainey, 1962 Scott Vallar, 1982 Raymond Walker, 1973

ETA ALPHA WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY Reid Gaede, 2018

GAMMA - VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY Leighton Aiken, 1977 Robert Alvis, 1974 Weaver Barksdale, 1971 James Becker, 2011

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DONOR LIST Patrick Bennett, 2008 Michael Berryman, 1979 David Burge, 1982 Connor Burns, 2013 Gaines Campbell, 1977 James Carvell, 1961 John Colvin, 1955 Kevin Cuneo, 1977 Brent Curtis, 1985 William Davis, 1981 Joel Derby, 2013 Roger Deromedi, 1975 John Elberfeld, 1989 Travis Fitts, 1955 William Ford, 1953 Wendel Greider, 1990 Andrew Grumney, 2009 Gary Hamburg, 1975 Theodore Hamilton, 1988 William Hardegree, 1955 Ronald Henges, 1954 Michael Hilts, 1978 Robert Holder, 1952 Harry Howard, 1951 Harold Johnson, 1977 John Kelsey, 1964 Richard Klein, 1977 Peter Kostiuk, 2008 Richard Lamping, 1979 Douglas Lanpher, 1977 Craig Lengyel, 1989 Alexander Litt, 2010 Sebastian Lonza, 2014 Chris Lorenzen, 1972 Fleming McClelland, 1968 Marion McMillan, 1989 George Morton, 1968 David Neff, 2001 James Nelson, 1959 Michael Quillen, 1972 Gamiel Ramson, 1977 Mark Redmond, 1975 Brooke Reeve, 1975 Lewis Rogers, 1974 William Sanderson, 1965 M. Thurman Senn, 1983 James Sindel, 2009 Walter Smith, 1984 Richard Smith, 1964 Joe Stamper, 1969 Clay Swindell, 1974 John Teitenberg, 1995 Robert Thomas, 1963 Joseph Whelan, 1976 William Wilson, 1964 William Wise, 1967 Dale Wortham, 1971 Craig Yeager, 1977

Robert Bourne, 1980 Kenneth Cho, 1994 William Choi, 2013 William Cooper, 1967 Robert Corless, 1973 J. Dick Crockett, 1963 William Daley, 1957 Paul Disanto, 1981 Jeremy Edelberg, 2014 Steven Elbaum, 1986 Norman Feit, 1978 A J Ferraro, 2012 Paul Fichera, 1980 James Gately, 1962 Joseph Giaimo, 2011 Jeffrey Gray, 1977 John Griffin, 1994* Peter Hicks, 1972 John Hoder, 1973 Scott Karsten, 1973 Patrick Kelly, 1969 Edward Lifset, 1953 Mitchell Marinello, 1976 Andrew McCloskey, 2015 Thomas Miceli, 2012 J Robert Nastri, 1977 Jeffrey Nesson, 1977 Charles Orr, 1965 Irvin Richter, 1967 Connor Ryan, 2015 Donald Saxton, 1942 Paul Siegert, 1965 Harry Stone, 1958 David Thomas, 1977 Robert Thorndike, 1965 Brett Valentine, 2009 Gregory Waldron, 1988 Albert Welsh, 1956 Edward Wright, 1949 Charles Wrubel, 1959 Michael Yablong, 2019 Alexander Zedlovich, 2009

IOTA - CENTRE COLLEGE

Diego Camargo, 2020 Scott Conrad, 2016 Jerome O’Rourke, 2015

Jackson Andrews, 2002 Tony Apro, 1979 G. Rick DiGiorgio, 1978 Bruce Dungan, 1949 Laurance Eustis, 1963 Michael Garton, 2010 Robert Gatewood, 1971 Alford Gustafson, 1951 Anthony S. Kurlas, 1993 Andrew Lawson, 2015 Thomas McKee, 1963 William McKee, 1960 Ralph Miller, 1980 Reginald Mudd, 1975 Leonard Napolitano, 1997 William Penick, 1957 David Sturges, 1957 Daniel Sweat, 2018 Lucas Wetton, 2014 Gregory Young, 1975

GAMMA PHI - WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY

IOTA MU FORDHAM UNIVERSITY

GAMMA IOTA GANNON UNIVERSITY

William Ahern, 1978 Anthony Arias, 2014 David Bagatelle, 1986 Jeffrey Bean, 2003 Frank Binswanger, 1978

Lucas Vander Linden, 1997

KAPPA - MIAMI UNIVERSITY

Robert Annandale, 1969

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Allerton Smith, 1975 Jeffrey Spear, 1978

2020

Stuart Berger, 1979 Herman Ceccardi, 1962 Anthony Danzo, 1969 Jack Domet, 1993 Leon Eisman, 1967 John Gibel, 1960 John Goodman, 1966 David Harrison, 1944 Alexander Hernandez, 2018 Jason Longworth, 2000 Richard Meyers, 1963* Dmitry Nepomnyshay, 1992 William Ninde, 1966 David Palmer, 1983 Carl Peterson, 1959 Douglas Tirola, 1989 Robert Unkel, 1998 Robert Winkley, 1955

KAPPA BETA UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT SPRINGFIELD Christopher Vemagiri Marbaniang, 2018

KAPPA EPSILON UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON

David Anderson, 2002 Daniel Heldring, 1999 William Hood, 1958 Lawrence P Hughes, 1957 William Lovell, 1962 J. Roger Nowell, 1959 Dugald Stewart, 1949 Hugh White, 1959

LAMBDA KENYON COLLEGE

Samuel W. Adams, 1981 Samuel Baker, 2013 Richard Balaban, 1972 Peter Bianchi, 1978 Bruce Blocher, 1966 James Brady, 1969 Walter Butler, 1968 Peter Cain, 1969 Robert Carnighan, 1959 David Conrod, 2000 Philip Currier, 1956 Richard Dempsey, 1972 Gregg DeSilvio, 1974 William Geist, 1976 Charles R. Gill, 1982 Jeffrey Grover, 1984 Robert Heasley, 1960 Hewitt Heiserman, 1982 David Hooker, 1981 Jim Irwin, 1969 Boyce F. Martin III, 1988 Beckwith Miller, 1977 Mason Morjikian, 1988 J. Bruce Overmier, 1960 Bruce Pendleton, 1970 James Pierce, 1978 Guy Riegel, 1980 Mark Robinson, 1981 Arthur Sansom, 1973 Michael Scadron, 1968 Norman Schmidt, 1971

LAMBDA TAU UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE (KNOXVILLE)

Steven Harris, 2016 Christopher Miller, 2018 Bradford Montrose, 2016 Sean O’Connor, 2019 Robert Turner Spears, 2016

MU - COLGATE UNIVERSITY

John Anzola, 1984 Robert Bestwick, 1978 Robert Bickford, 1979 Clinton Blume, 1979 William Brown, 1970 Thomas Carlson, 1993 Joseph DeBragga, 1943 Sean Devlin, 2005 Dodge Dorland, 1970 Michael Dosdall, 1977 David Driscoll, 1963 Edward Durant, 1959 Edward Gorton, 1947 Edward Gottlieb, 1933 Jonathan Guido, 1999 Donald Hammalian, 1960 Jon Hanson, 1960 Peter Herman, 1953* Richard Himes, 1990 W. Hurlbert, 1958 Dermod Ives, 1958* Thomas Kaim, 1958 Roger Kennedy, 1986 Jerome Mason, 1960 J. Kevin Murphy, 1947* James Nelson, 1998 Bruce Newman, 1986 Ian Nordin, 2013 Peter O’Neill, 1963* Thomas O’Rourke, 1960 Richard Palmer, 1966 James Rand, 1966 Richard Rasor, 1961 Steven Reed, 1984 Girard Ruddick, 1993 Matthew Sable, 2001 John Sallada, 1997 Ramon Sieminski, 1960 R. Jeffrey Smith, 1978 Robert Stoner, 1957 Matthew Swain, 2017 Peter Thomas, 1981 Glen Treichler, 1948 Jarrett Turner, 2004 Edward Wheeler, 1964 Thomas Wiencek, 1978 R. Douglas Wilson, 1957 Marshall Wood, 1954

MU CHI MARYVILLE COLLEGE Douglas Carson, 2013 Preston Fields, 2003 Shawn Springer, 2007

NU - COLLEGE OF THE CITY OF NY

Clifford Daly, 1958 Charles Groppe, 1953 Walter Hansen, 1955 * David Knowlton, 1980 Vincent Lardo, 1953 Nicholas Schkrutz, 1969

NU ZETA - PACE UNIVERSITY John Boles, 1986 Joseph Guistino, 1986 Patrick McIntyre, 1987

OMEGA CHI - UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN George Allen, 1953 Cub Amos, 1956 Richard Armstrong, 1956 Douglas Brinsmade, 1986 Webb Carnes, 1944 James Cauthorn, 1962 G. Michael Cowan, 1965 Royce Faulkner, 1952 Scott Fehr, 1963 George Gearner, 1955 Peter Gill, 1948 Pearson Grimes, 1958 Lee Hancock, 1965 David Hanson, 1979 Erik Heyne, 1981 John Kamrath, 1963 Barron Kidd, 1958 Charles Kinney, 1948 Donald Kirby, 1985 Robert Knight, 1963 John Lung, 1986 Charles Masterson, 1984 Dan McClean, 1964 Greg Mitchell, 1976 Robert Morse, 1972 Arthur Moure, 1986 Ewell Muse, 1961 Bruce Nakfoor, 1982 Douglas Newton, 1959 Jake Price, 2019 William P. Roberts, 1968 Michael Roberts, 1984 Perry Ruthven, 1984 Frank Scarborough, 1959 John Schneider, 1947 Walter Schuchard, 1961 Bruce Thornton, 1969 Ronald Tigner, 1966 John Williams, 1956 Richard Williams, 1965 John (J. David) Wright, 1956

OMEGA MU - OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY Daniel Lyon, 2016

OMEGA OMEGA UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA Joe Garcia, 1995

OMICRON - UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Terence Adderley, 1955* Robert Anthony, 1966 Richard Aster, 1954 Lawrence Baker, 1957 Terrance Baulch, 1976 Eric Braun, 1990 Brian Burke, 1958 John de St Nicolas, 1960 Peter Dow, 1955 Marco Garavaglia, 1976 David Gore, 1959 James Grady, 1959 Terrence Hill, 1935 Franklin Hirt, 1957 Matthew Howell, 1985 Marvin Kelly, 1982 William Krag, 1963 William Lincoln, 1965 Kenneth MacLean, 1964 Jule Miller, 1958

* Inicates deceased

John Mitchell, 1985 James Mohn, 1985 Jordan Mucci, 2017 Charles Naaman, 1999 Mark Pavach, 1982 Curtis Sechler, 1963 Kevin Shea, 1981 Winston Stromberg, 1997 Kenelm Winslow, 1959 James Wurzbach, 1970

PHI - YALE UNIVERSITY Glenn Baker, 1977 William Bernhard, 1954 Peter Bliss, 1967 T. Anthony Brooks, 1962 Jonathan Bush, 1953 Charles Dill, 1961 Richard Evans, 1962 William Flippin, 1963 Richard Haskel, 1955 Lynard Hinojosa, 1964 Henry Knoblock, 1982 Thomas Kukk, 1963 William Lee, 1955 Clarence Lee, 1978 John Matthiessen, 1949 Albert McManes, 2017 Stephen Morse, 2008 Edward Probert, 1958 Charles Puestow, 1960 C. Dick Stasney, 1965 John Wallace, 1956 G. Hunt Weber, 1948 Peter Wells, 1960

PHI ALPHA - UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA Norman Bishop, 1983 Lawrence Blaschuk, 1975 Grant Burnyeat, 1973 Randall Burrell, 1979 Glen Bury, 1981 David Bustos, 1986 Adrian Cheong, 1965 Lloyd Jones, 1962 Quinn Lyzun, 1990 Henry Ma, 1996 Keith McBain, 1978 Owen Pawson, 1972 George Reifel, 1974 Thomas Rich, 1986 James Rogers, 1989 Stefan Santos, 1993 John Sherwood, 1985 Tony Tornquist, 1983 Douglas Wark, 1973

PHI CHI - RUTGERS UNIVERSITY

Vincent Afflixio, 1973 James Baker, 1976 Terence Braden, 1980 Gene Buckno, 1961 Bryan Butler, 1977 Christopher Byron, 1969 Harrison Campopiano, 2019 William Diana, 1983 Edward Dowling, 1972 Everett Drake, 1958 Robert Dunbar, 1972 John Frost, 1967 William Garbarini, 1963 Alfred Glatz, 1969 Jonathan Gonzalez Pelaez, 2016 Leo Hopkins, 1965 Kevin Keaton, 1976

* Inicates deceased

Timothy Lehnert, 1961 Kenneth Mears, 1957 William Miller, 1972 Arnel Miravalles, 1999 Andrew Moldoff, 2018 Richard Novak, 1965 L. Robert Oros, 1967 William Paknis, 1957 Wallace Pattyson, 1966 Anthony Skorupski, 1972 Terry Stewart, 1969 Robert Suffredini, 1968 Kenneth Truscott, 1952 Roy Van Arsdale, 1972 William Venberg, 1951 Peter Ventura, 1970 Alan Zaccaria, 1979

Marcus Wacker, 1985 Robert Warburgh, 1966 Stephen Weaver, 1971

PHI DELTA - WESTERN ONTARIO UNIVERSITY

Thomas Bechler, 1956 Jack Kaufmann, 1964

Baroon Krisendat, 2003 Matthew Morin, 1996

PHI EPSILON UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA

Charles Anderst, 1975 Grant Auerbach, 2017 Brian Basler, 1989 Mark Bilodeau, 1971* David DeWall, 1965 Bradley Dunlap, 1985 Jarrod Englebretson, 1990 Michael Frakes, 1973 E. Conrad Hawk, 1959 Curtis Hill, 1959 Mark Miller, 1980 Dustin Norman, 2009 James Reznick, 1981 James Ronning, 1972 William Ryerse, 1951 Howard Schwartz, 1973 John Thomas, 1973

PHI GAMMA SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY

Edward Benjamin, 1963 Joseph Boffa, 1986 Charles Bohlen, 1993 John Brennen, 1966 Charles Brown, 1986 Robert Bubniak, 1961 Henry Burhans, 1957 William Butler, 1968 Dale Carter, 1968 David Chodak, 2011 Michael Collins, 1997 George Dawkins, 1963 Joseph Galea, 2011 Evan Goldberg, 2009 Benjamin Gunzenhauser, 1963 David Hackworth, 1976 Michael Jabo, 1958 Robert Juliano-Villani, 2013 Alex Kadish, 2001 Stanley Kimmett, 1970 John Klukojc, 1983 Jovan Marjanovic, 1989 John Mathews, 1998 Joseph McMurray, 1965 Timothy Ott, 1976 Blake Reidy, 2007 Harvey Shand, 1963 John Snyder, 1961 David Stern, 1982 Peter Tripp, 1991 John Veasey, 1953*

PHI MU MANHATTAN COLLEGE Bruno Bunzl, 2014

PHI RHO - PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY Kevan Griffith, 2010 Alex Hayes, 2011

PHI SIGMA BRYANT COLLEGE

Marc Morrow, 1997

PI - DARTMOUTH COLLEGE

PI BETA - TROY UNIVERSITY

Connor Mendheim, 2021 David Morr, 1978

PSI - UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA

Samuel Adams, 1979 Lamar Bagby, 1969 Charles Brown, 1975 John Calhoun, 1983 L Guy Cook, 1991 David Cooper, 1967 Angus Cooper, 1964 Angus Cooper, 1997 Lyon Crowe, 1960 Hugh Culverhouse, 1941* Barry Drees, 1965 John Duckworth, 1954 Leroy English, 2014 Christopher English, 2016 Semmes Favrot, 1982 Caffrey Favrot, 1988 Travis Fitts, 1981 Alexander Fleming, 2008 Joseph Fontenot, 2019 Barry Gritter, 1963 Albert Haas, 2018 George Hardesty, 1975 Mark Hickman, 2008 Williams Holmes, 1951 Crawford Inge, 1974 Brock Jones, 1977 Robert Klyce, 1968 Thomas Leland, 2022 Henry Loeb, 1974 Winston Lovvorn, 1969 Garner Lyon, 2016 James Lyons, 1970 Blanchard Marriott, 1959 Jack Marshallsea, 2015 Bruce McAlpin, 1981 Richard McAlpin, 1976 Richmond McClintock, 1966 Charles McNeil, 1971* John McNeil, 1979 Harris Morrissette, 1981 John Mostellar, 1966 Alfred Neumann, 1987 Robert Parsons, 1955 Andrew Ross, 1994 Bryan Strickland, 1962 Patrick Terry, 2014 William Urquhart, 1974 Daniel Ventress, 2008 Robert Yarbrough, 1999

PSI DELTA - WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY David Arturi, 2017 Alex Awad, 2020 Henry Berck, 2021 James Beurle, 1994 William Braun, 2016 George Cain, 1993 Scott Dalgliesh, 2011 Ryan Eubank, 2020 William Gilbert, 2016 James Green, 2016 Robert Griffin, 1992 Scott Hillman, 2013 Matthew Ioannou, 2016 Henry Johnson, 2016 Andrew Jones, 2018 James Jowdy, 1973 Michael Kollman, 2019 Richard Maloy, 1991 George Marken, 2016 John Marshall, 2017 John McAvoy, 1982 Harrison Messer, 2016 Val Napolitano, 2012 Harrison Perkins, 2016 Steven Perricone, 1991 Jeffrey Richardson, 1987 Kellen Rikhoff, 2017 Walker Rise, 2019 Miller Robinson, 2014 Clarke Ryan, 2014 John Sandlin, 1975 Raphael Steege, 2013 Jake Sternberg, 2014 Loyd Stokes, 1983 Matthew Teller, 2014 Henry Valk, 2016* P Derek Van Zandt, 1995 Andrew Weissberg, 2016

PSI OMEGA RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE Rodney Agar, 1959 Robert Booth, 1963 John Broadbent, 1959 Alan Cornell, 1959 Arthur Dionne, 1959 Thomas Duncan, 1959* Peter Goetz, 1956 Fredrick Guimond, 1961 Samuel Heffner, 1956* Orlando Hernandez, 2016 George Hunt, 1945* John Lindsay, 1959 Zenon Lishchynskyj, 1966 Joseph McCann, 1958 George Nelson, 1959 Peter Piech, 2016 Charles Pomeroy, 1953 Robert Rotering, 2016 Edgar Woerner, 1956 Kevin Zweier, 1996

PSI PHI DEPAUW UNIVERSITY Paul Bintz, 1939* John Boomer, 1956 John Bruhn, 1957* William Cockrum, 1959 Anthony Colletti, 1988 Rance Crain, 1960 Richard Hill, 1958 David Hood, 1953* Comer Plummer, 1983 Norval Reece, 1956 John Rose, 1981

Robert Skallerup, 1968* Douglas Weimer, 1972 John Wright, 1968

RHO LAFAYETTE COLLEGE

Nicholas Andrews, 2016 Gregory Bahtiarian, 1987 Kristian Bornemann, 1991 Michael Browne, 1983 Peter Carlson, 2002 Edwin Case, 1959 Andrew Citron, 2011 Brian Ciuffreda, 1994 David Cristini, 2001 Michael Davidson, 1989 Michael De Lisi, 2003 Christian Garelli, 2009 Scott Harris, 1995 William Harvey, 1953 Peter Hiscano, 1981 David Hollod, 1982 Joseph Houldin, 2012 Robert Howe, 2014 Daniel Huffenus, 1986 David Jaffe, 1963 Allan Kirby, 1953* John Kleinert, 2018 Lance Lacoff, 2002 Robert Loughlin, 1953 Richard Massey, 1934 Robert Matje, 1989 Michael McCormack, 1987 Paul McCurdy, 1982 Roger Peck, 1969 James Raywood, 1973 Richard Ryan, 1986 Eric Shrier, 1993 Steven Vecchione, 1976 Samuel Watson, 1961 Todd Wiltshire, 1986

RHO BETA - UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND Brendan Bostock, 2013 Kyle Pearce, 2012 Richard Poidomani, 2002

RHO LAMBDA UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA

Alan Bauman, 1973 Arthur Baumgarten, 1972 Gordon Bullivant, 1967 Paul Buntz, 1973 Donald Burand, 1972 Jack Burdett, 1966 Richard Burns, 1971 Dennis Clowers, 1971 Robert Copeland, 1961 Larry Core, 1968 William Corr, 1962 Ralph Duckworth, 1969 James Griffin, 1969 David Johnson, 1966 Gordon Leaman, 1973 Richard Legatski, 1969 Victor Martin, 1969 Howard McMillan, 1956 Terry Miller, 1969 James Mullen, 1968 William Nation, 1972 George Otey, 1973 David Pape, 1973* George Patterson, 1965 Robert Pickup, 1972 Orin Piepho, 1973 David Reed, 1973

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DONOR LIST Robert Rose, 1965 William Sorter, 1969 Frederick Streb, 1972 Robert Tierno, 1971 Stanley Tubbs, 1969 Thomas Vizard, 1971 George Weaber, 1962 A Weitzenhoffer, 1962 Derrill Whitten, 1958

SIGMA AMHERST COLLEGE

Robert Barberi, 1967 Charles Butler, 1957 Kevin Cudlipp, 2008 David Ford, 1997 David Fulton, 1978 Jacob Gale, 1987 Peter Lagomarsino, 1997 Mikio Nihira, 1989 Gary Rogalski, 1971 Jawad Safi, 2006 Raymond Wheeler, 1984

SIGMA ALPHA VIRGINIA TECH

Richard Anderson, 1971 Charles Bradley, 1979 Elmer Creasey, 1976 Steven Cronemeyer, 1977 Charles Cubberly, 2015 James Daniel, 1988 Charles Hayes, 1964 Raymond Huntington, 1952* Daniel Johnson, 1977 Wesley Johnson, 2012 Alpin Kahveci, 2013 Patrick King, 2005 Andrew Lee, 1989 Charles Lloyd, 1972 Michael Miller, 1985 William Pennington, 1978 Adam Read, 1997 Scott VanVoorhees, 1990 Tazewell Whitley, 1974

SIGMA BETA UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - SANTA BARBARA Benjamin Chan, 2007 Paul Mullin, 1994

SIGMA KAPPA - MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY Matt Ao, 2014 John Clarey, 2007 Carson Fick, 2019

SIGMA PHI VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY John Burgess, 1986 Richard Keating, 1983 Mark Martini, 1987 Thomas Mulroy, 1985

SIGMA RHO STANFORD UNIVERSITY William Bauman, 1949

Frederick Borns, 1971 Robert Bryan, 1957 Raymond Deicken, 1980 James Faull, 1968 Robert Fletcher, 1957* Christopher Greene, 1982 Charles M Hale, 1957 Stephen Hansen, 1975 Phillip Heald, 1961 Charles Hicks, 1960 David LeClair, 1984 Jaren Leet, 1959 Preston Madden, 1955* Scott Otteman, 1983 James Props, 1968 James Quillinan, 1970 Kent Smith, 1988 Glendon Speakman, 1965 Lawrence Wayte, 1958 John Wells, 1956 David Wheeler, 1967

SIGMA TAU MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Robert Doleman, 1959 Todd Esguerra, 2000 Charles Evans, 1979 Maik Flanagin, 2000 Lee Frankenfield, 1998 Bruce George, 1962 Ralph Grismala, 1977 Todd Hiers, 2000 Todd Kane, 2009 Richard Kirkpatrick, 1963 Paul Manger, 1956 Gordon Marler, 1971 John Martin, 1989 Harold McInnes, 1949 Henry Peacock, 1950 Steven Salvas, 2020 Mark Sherman, 1948 Jamie Vinsant, 1999

TAU - HAMILTON COLLEGE Steven Brooks, 1977 James Cumming, 1980 James Douglass, 2004 Bruce Gaylord, 1970 Laurence Glickman, 1977 James Guerin, 1958 Tyler Hirschey, 2000 Martin Kay, 1967 Frederick Marty, 1967 Conrad Naas, 1983 John Ogden, 1980 John Parker, 1952 Bruce Sawyer, 1961 Guido Stroemer, 1990 Louis Teitel, 1968 John Vaneria, 1970

TAU ALPHA McGILL UNIVERSITY

Zain Alimohamed, 2014 Drew Bard Varges, 2015 Yann Ehrhard, 2016 Ivan Fazal-Karim, 2016

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Robert Gales, 1968 Richard Grogan, 1961 Ivan Karp, 1966 Kevin MacLeod, 2003 Colin Shepherd, 1990 Jonathan Wright, 2016

TAU CHI - TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY Tyler Gibbs, 2011

TAU DELTA - UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH (SEWANEE)

Tyler Davis, 1979 James Downey, 1977 Thomas Frelinghuysen, 1976 Mark Leeds, 1987 Timothy Leland, 1989 Charles Mackenzie, 1987 Charles Pohl, 1983

ZETA PRINCETON UNIVERSITY

THETA CHI UNION COLLEGE

Forrest Fox, 2016 Thomas Kurtzweil, 2014 Robert Mahaney, 2015 Samuel Melson, 2018 William Milburn, 2018 Jacob Mitchell, 2019 Ryan Simmons, 2016

Andrew Fellows, 2016

THETA RHO - UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES Gregory Cooper, 1994 Steven Ly, 2007 Erik Pena, 2012 Rex Sessions, 1946

Leonard Brannom, 1989 Frank Failla, 1971 William Hudson, 2000 William Ikard, 1971 Riley Malone, 2017 Thomas Moseley, 1971 Stephen Smith, 1976 William Terry, 1971

THETA UPSILON - ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY

TAU LAMBDA - TULANE UNIVERSITY

THETA ZETA UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY

Simon Abtalion, 2008 Carl Barkemeyer, 2000 Theodore Barkerding, 1973 G. Dufour Bayle, 1955 Damon Becnel, 1991 Robert Bland, 1948 John Bolles, 1964 James Broadwell, 1978 J. Gregg Buckalew, 1965 Cory Crenshaw, 2001 William Dodenhoff, 1978 C. Allen Favrot, 1947* Blair Favrot, 1954 Robert Gallagher, 1987 John Georges, 1983 John Gill, 1993 John Groome, 1995 James Gundlach, 1958 Jerome Heard, 1946* Hans Jonassen, 1963 William Kearney, 1982 Wesley Lambert, 1984 Robert Livingston, 1966 Michael Miller, 1986 Kevin O’Bryon, 1977 Henry O’Connor, 1965 John O’Connor, 1976 Bernard Panetta, 1968 David Pons, 1988 Bennett Powell, 1961 Robert Punches, 1971 James Reiss, 1960 Matthew Rhodes, 1998 John Rive’, 1991 Lloyd Shields, 1974 Ben Templeton, 1978 Frank Toye, 1978 Carey Winder, 1985

THETA - BOWDOIN COLLEGE

Charles Bass, 1976 Endres Campbell, 1972 Daniel Courcey, 1990

Steven Balthazor, 1991 Forrest Billington, 2016 James Dorian, 2016 William Kavan, 1992 Derek Von Borck, 1991

Colby Barrett, 2000 Frederick Bradley, 1958 Scott Clifford, 1987 Gregory Hampton, 1971 Dard Hunter, 2014 Ayman Mabrouk, 2018 Thomas Murphy, 1982 Michael Murphy, 2016 John O’Conner, 1974 Michael O’Neil, 1970 Andrew Pelosi, 2004 Richard Rumpf, 2011 John Sherman, 1990 Charles Shirley, 2016 Gary Tan, 1986 Robert Tuller, 1956

DELTA EPSILON – NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY

William Bartholomay, 1950*

UPSILON - BROWN UNIVERSITY

Gordon Dewart, 1951 John Holman, 1959

XI - COLBY COLLEGE

Felix Baldauf-Lenschen, 2014 John Cornell, 1965 Patrick Dolan, 2012 Patrick Koch, 2003 Martin Lobkowicz, 1977 Charles Madden, 2015 Stefan Merriam, 2013 Robert Oster, 1961 Christopher Smith, 2016 Kevin Walls, 2016 William Wing, 1954 Peter Zink, 2011

Charles Abell, 1991 James Blue, 1991

ZETA GAMMA HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE

ZETA UPSILON UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - DAVIS

Thomas Freeman, 2002 Steven Sweetwood, 1999

ZETA ZETA LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY

Chester Alpaugh, 1977 Robert Barkerding, 1963 Theodore Barkerding, 2002 John Bateman, 1956 Paul Bienvenu, 1970 Timothy Bowlin, 1994 H. Elder Brown, 1974 Christopher Cole, 1971 Roy Cole, 1974 Daniel Devine, 1980 Donald Douglas, 1980 Thomas Favrot, 1973 Edward Gaiennie, 1979 Richard Gautreaux, 1970 S. Pendery Gibbens, 1954 Clave Gill, 1969 Francis Huey, 1961 Alan Kaufman, 1958 Michael Kearney, 1965 Thomas Kramer, 1950 Jacque Kuchta, 1981 Donald Lambert, 1980 Kirk Landry, 1990 John Lange, 1986* David Lankford, 1970 Joseph Mann, 1998 Charles Marshall, 1967 Richard Marshall, 1973 Frank Maselli, 1973 Paul Masinter, 1983 Cyril Melville, 1962 George Mentz, 1989 Brad Myers, 1978 C. Hayne O’Shee, 1965 William Owens, 1964 George Pope, 1976 Wilbur Reynaud, 1970 Andrew Rinker, 1979 David Rosprim, 1993 John Salisbury, 1970 Christopher Schlesinger, 1986 Marc Schneidau, 1989 Roy St Paul, 1986 Clifford Sutter, 1974 Nelson Swayze, 1973 Eugene Tilton, 1966 William Treadway, 1974 Thomas Westfeldt, 1974 Charles Williams, 1980 Sartor Williams, 1967

* Inicates deceased

SCHOLARSHIP TO HONOR CHARLIE BLAISDELL

By Jim Gray, Beta ‘70

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he DKE Club has donated $50,000 to establish and endow the DKE Club Charles O. Blaisdell Scholarship Fund, Deke Foundation President Doug Lanpher announced in early January.

Each year a scholarship of at least $2,500 will be awarded to the undergraduate DKE winner of the Charles O. Blaisdell Leadership Award. Established in 2011, it honors the most outstanding undergraduate Deke “based on his contributions to his chapter, his school, and for his outstanding performance in scholastic matters and extracurricular activities.”

Known as “Mr. DKE” and “the backbone of the DKE Club,” Charlie was a Pi Deke ’37 who died in 2018 at the age of 102.

Universally respected, he was known for his firm handshake – better known as an iron grip – and his unfailing response whenever anyone asked how he was feeling. “Never better,” Charlie would say in his familiar New York accent.

And you believed him.

“Charlie was an amazing person and a loyal Deke. He epitomized what it means to be a gentleman, scholar, and jolly good fellow,” DKE Club President Bob Oros said. “The entire Board of Governors is thrilled to be able to honor Charlie by bestowing this award for excellence to one of our actives.

“We take the ‘scholar’ label seriously and will look forward each year to awarding this scholarship,” he said.

Blaisdell, a prominent New York lawyer for more than 70 years, served the fraternity in many capacities. He was a leader in the Deke Club, serving on its board of directors for

more than half a century. He also served on the fraternity’s board of directors for decades and as president in the tumultuous 1970s. Charlie is credited with helping to bolster the fraternity and its undergraduate chapters after the late 1960s when many Greek organizations had fallen out of favor on American campuses. “Charlie was the real deal,” Lanpher said, recalling first meeting Blaisdell at the 1976 DKE International Convention in New York City.

“Charlie was a changemaker who never backed away from the tough decisions,” Lanpher said. “When his own chapter at Pi began to fail, Charlie went to Dartmouth to check things out himself. Ultimately, he decided that the Pi members at the time were not worthy to be Dekes and he closed the chapter. I know it must have hurt him deeply, but he always did what was best for DKE.” The latest winner of the Blaisdell Leadershp Award is Demetri Maxim, Sigma Rho ’20.

The scholarship is earmarked for tuition and scholastic fees on the undergraduate or graduate level.

“This will have a huge impact into perpetuity in setting an example of what a Deke should exhibit as personal values, scholastic excellence, and dedication to his house and community,” Lanpher said. “We cannot thank the DKE Club Board of Governors enough for this generous gift. It is meaningful to the student brother and in keeping Charlie’s legacy alive forever.”

The donation was very timely for the 175th Anniversary campaign for educational programs, helping put the campaign over its goal of $1.75 million. “I think Charlie would be proud of that,” Lanpher said.

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MYSTIC CIRCLE OF ∆KE C. ALLEN FAVROT TAU LAMBDA ’47 – 1926-2020 C. Allen Favrot, a legendary Deke and beloved figure in New Orleans, died August 13 at the age of 94. Part of a large, impressive family that includes more than 70 Delta Kappa Epsilon brothers, Favrot was honored several times as New Orleans’ outstanding citizen.

Like his grandfather, Charles Favrot, and his father, Clifford Favrot, before him, Allen was given the prestigious Loving Cup by the New Orleans TimesPicayune, considered one of the Delta City’s highest awards.

Allen, famous for his warmth and hospitality, was known as a “relentless fundraiser” for New Orleans. He secured millions of dollars for a host of organizations, including the YMCA, the United Way, and City Park. Gordon Wadge, president of the YMCA of Greater New Orleans, who often volunteered on committees with Allen, said one of his duties included calling business leaders to remind them to send in their pledge cards or gifts. “I was often told, ‘Please tell Mr. Favrot there is no need for him to call me,’” Wadge said. “I think they were worried that if Allen called, they’d have to make a bigger gift. He had a great way with people and was so respected.”

William Coleman III, who also served on numerous boards with Allen, described him as “a planner, an organizer, and

JAMES P. BERRY KAPPA ’64 1942-2020 Jim Berry, a longtime supporter of his DKE brothers at Kappa Miami, died Dec. 1, 2020 at the age of 78.

Born in Cleveland, Jim became nationally known in the insurance business and he owned the SeibertKeck Agency in Akron, Ohio, where he enjoyed a 40-year career.

With his engaging personality and deep

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a leader who could execute.”

Coleman said Favrot was always willing to help and give more of himself. “He was willing to get down in the trenches and do the real work that is so necessary to make things happen.”

The same was true of his longtime service to the fraternity he loved. Not only did Favrot for decades help guide his chapter at Tulane, he served several terms as a leader of DKE International Headquarters and at New York’s DKE Club.

A lifelong New Orleanian, Favrot served in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II. When he returned from the service, he attended Tulane and joined DKE’s Tau Lambda chapter. Eventually, Favrot, who favored bow ties, bourbon old fashioneds, and cultivating camellias, joined the family business, managing real estate.

Allen enjoyed a long, happy marriage to his wife, Jane Caffrey Favrot, who died in 2017. He is survived by two sons, two daughters, nine grandchildren and four greatgrandchildren.

In a toast to Allen at a banquet in New York City many years ago, longtime DKE executive director Bill Henderson referred to Favrot as a “Deke’s Deke.” It’s said there was unanimous agreement in the room.

interest in everyone and everything around him, Jim knew few strangers during his life.

It’s because once he entered a room, he soon made friends with everyone else. One of Jim’s prized possessions was a photo of him standing between George Bush and Dan Quayle, taken when they were running for president and vice president. He told the candidates, “Standing next to two bigtime Dekes like you is how I’ll finally get my picture on the cover of the Deke Quarterly.”

Long after he graduated from Miami, Jim remained active on Kappa’s board of alumni, spearheading the drive to raise considerable sums to build a new Deke House at Miami.

“It was hard to say no to my dad,” said Parker Berry, Jim’s son, who also became a Kappa Deke. “Even after he left the board, to give younger men a chance to serve, Dad regularly fielded calls from other members, asking for his advice on numerous topics.”

He was the personification of the Kappa Chapter for many years.

Jim is remembered with great fondness by so many Kappa Dekes who came to know him through the years. “For me, Jim was a fixture at the house from the time I joined as a freshman in 1965 until I left the housing board at the end of 2019,” said Dan Finkel, Kappa ’98. “Jim was almost always present

for alumni events, telling stories of an era gone by, as well as stories of how we got where we are today. I thought of him as a Kappa alumni historian who sometimes told stories that were so hilarious they could only be told in close company. For the amount of time and energy he spent on DKE throughout his life, it was clear to me how important this fraternity was to him.”

After taking ownership of SeibertKeck, Jim Berry quadrupled the number of employees who worked there, and his clients included many of the largest companies in the Akron, Ohio, area.

A great storyteller who was known for his wit and ability to tell a joke, Jim’s friends said the minute he joined a party, he made it bigger and more fun.

Jim is survived by his wife, Susan, two daughters, his son, and six grandchildren.

PRESTON MADDEN SIGMA RHO ’55 1934-2020 It took 63 years for Preston Madden, from the day he pledged DKE at Sigma Rho, Stanford, in 1954, to become an honorary brother in Delta Kappa Epsilon. Madden, who died on May 5 at the age of 85, went on to become one of North America’s greatest breeders of thoroughbred racehorses. His older brother, Patrick Madden, was already a member of Sigma Rho, and Preston was prepared to follow him when he was called home after his freshman year to run the family’s horse farm in Lexington, Ky. He never returned to Stanford, but did rebuild the farm that, under his grandfather, had produced five Kentucky Derby champions and 182 stakes winners.

Preston proved to be a shrewd judge of horses and in his first year as boss at Hamburg Place, he acquired War Admiral, the Triple Crown winner. Even though the horse was up in years, and would live only one more year, he sired a filly named Balthazar, who became one of the greatest

brood mares in racing history. Her offspring included Alysheba, winner of the 1987 Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes.

Madden was equally proud of T.V. Lark, a champion of the late 1950s and ‘60s, who stood at Hamburg Place and became the nation’s leading sire.

Preston and his late wife, Anita, were famous for their lavish Kentucky Derby Eve parties, which regularly drew celebrities from Hollywood and socialites from around the world. Madden enjoyed such hobbies as sky diving and mountain climbing, but at age 83, he said, “Becoming a Deke after all these years is the icing on the cake.”

PRESTON TRIMBLE RHO LAMBDA ’56 1930-2020 Preston Albert Trimble, a former Oklahoma district attorney and longtime district judge, who helped found DKE’s Rho Lambda Chapter at the University of Oklahoma, died November 30 at the age of 90. During his long and distinguished career, he served as president of the Oklahoma District Attorneys Association, president of the 4,000-member National District Attorneys Association, and chairman of the board of the National Center for Prosecution Management.

Preston served in the U.S. Navy for four years, which enabled him to enroll at the University of Oklahoma in 1952, under the GI Bill. He later joined the Air Force Reserves, serving in the Judge Advocate Office at Tinker Air Force Base. He retired in 1986 with the rank of Colonel.

As a prosecutor and judge, Trimble believed in having an open-door policy, urging citizens of “call me if you think I am not doing my job. I always tell everything I know, so if you hear something or want to know something, just call me and I’ll tell you what I know,” he said.

His admirers said Preston believed deeply in equal justice under the law, with no special favors for anyone. Throughout his

career he advocated education as a way out of poverty and supported rehabilitation programs that emphasized it.

Patty Trimble, Preston’s wife of 43 years, survives him, as do his son, two daughters, six grandchildren, and two greatgrandchildren.

ALLAN PRICE KIRBY, JR. RHO LAFAYETTE, ’53 1930-2020 Allan Price Kirby, Jr., a successful entrepreneur and well-respected philanthropist, died September 16, 2020 at the age of 89. An enthusiastic brother in Delta Kappa Epsilon, he would remain devoted to his fraternity and alma mater all his life. To honor his father, Allan P. Kirby, Sr., he established the Kirby Art Study Center.

His early business career began at Reynolds & Company, Manufacturers Trust Company and Liberty Square, Inc., a real estate investment firm at which he was president. Kirby was also a chairman of the executive committee of Investors Diversified Services, Inc, and served on numerous boards and committees.

He had a steadfast commitment to serving his community and country, which led him to establish the Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship in Washington, D.C., in association with Hillsdale College.

An avid outdoorsman, Allan enjoyed boating, fishing and spending time on his farm with his children and grandchildren. He is survived by a daughter, four sons, and 16 grandchildren.

JACK CHARLES MOLL PSI PHI ’52 1930-2020 Jack Moll, who spent 30 years in marketing and management with SC Johnson in Racine, Wisconsin, died September 19, 2020 in Hilton Head, S.C. An excellent athlete, Jack attended DePauw University where he

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MYSTIC CIRCLE OF ∆KE played on the baseball team and became a dedicated brother in Delta Kappa Epsilon. In his senior year, he served as president of the Psi Phi chapter.

After earning his MBA in business management at Indiana University, Jack was hired by Eli Lilly & Co. He later joined SC Johnson where he was product manager for Pledge and the company’s automotive brands. Jack was also head of Johnson Outdoors and in charge of purchasing many of their recreational companies including Eureka Tent, Scuba Pro, Old Town Canoe and Kayak and Minn-Kota Motors.

Jack was an enthusiastic tennis player and golfer, and in 1972 served as Wisconsin’s delegate to the U.S. Olympic Committee.

He is survived by his wife, Dottie, a daughter, and two grandchildren.

PETER H. PLAMONDON DELTA CHI ’54 1931-2020 Pete Plamondon, a longtime hotel executive who became a pioneer in the fastfood industry, died August 16, 2020 in Germantown, Maryland, at the age of 89. Pete graduated from Cornell University in 1954, where he served as president of DKE’s Delta Chi chapter and was a catcher on Cornell’s baseball team. During Plamondon’s stretch in the U.S. Army, where he was a First Lieutenant at Fort McPherson in Georgia, he worked in a management role in the officer’s club. It sparked an interest that led a lifelong career in the hospitality business.

Pete started at Stouffer food service in Newark, New Jersey, and in 1965 joined the Marriott Corporation, where he developed and launched their fast-food concept, Roy Rogers Restaurants. Named for the Western movie star, Roy Rogers restaurants quickly expanded throughout the country.

In 1980, Pete opened his own Roy Rogers restaurant in Frederick, Maryland, and his company soon expanded to include 15 such restaurants.

Pete always said his dream as an entrepreneur was to own five or six restaurants, but he far exceeded that. At his

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death, his company owned 49 Roy Rogers restaurants and 13 Marriott and Hilton hotels. He was honored on many occasions by international restaurant groups, as well as the numerous charitable organizations on whose boards he served.

In addition to his wife, Lorrie, he is survived by a daughter, two sons, 13 grandchildren, and three greatgrandchildren.

PHILLIP ‘TOM’ SATTERFIELD ETA ’74 1951-2020 Tom Satterfield enjoyed a 46-year career in the Surety Bond business and was beloved by his family and friends for hosting them at so many sporting events over the years. An excellent baseball player and golfer in his youth, Tom never lost his passion for sports.

He also had a passion for Delta Kappa Epsilon after he joined the Eta chapter at the University of Virginia, where he eventually served as chapter president.

Not only was he known as a sharp businessman, Tom was also a loyal and loving son, brother, uncle and friend. He shared endless fun times with friends, taking trips to Virginia football and basketball games, Baltimore Orioles baseball games and numerous golf trips.

Eta brothers and Tom’s many friends mourn his death, but all agree that he lived a rich, full life.

MURPHY ‘MIKE’ FOSTER, JR. ZETA ZETA ’52 1930-2020 Murphy James “Mike” Foster Jr., who served two terms as governor of Louisiana, died on October 4, 2020, at the age of 90. Mike became Louisiana’s 53rd governor in 1996 after running as a little-known state senator who vowed to “fix things that were broken.” The mantra that he lived by, “Do the right thing,”

extended into his political life and he insisted that every member of his staff abide by the same standard. It was one reason why he became the first Louisiana governor since Reconstruction to get elected to a second term.

Following his graduation from Louisiana State University, where he was a member of DKE’s Zeta Zeta chapter, Mike worked in farming and construction. In 1988, he was elected to the Louisiana state senate, which seemed a natural, as he was the grandson of former Louisiana Governor Murphy J. Foster.

As governor, Mike helped restore Louisiana’s natural resources, passing constitutional amendments dedicated to coastal restoration. In 2002, in a special session, he convinced the owners of the New Orleans Saints to remain in Louisiana. The following year, Mike was inducted into the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame.

He is survived by his wife, Alice, a daughter, three sons, nine grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

LEWIS AVERY JONES OMEGA CHI ’63 1941-2020 Lewis Jones, who led a rich life first as a lawyer and later as an executive with several national historical groups, died August 11, 2020, at the age of 79. Lewis took pride in his membership in Delta Kappa Epsilon’s Omega Chi chapter at the University of Texas, and for decades he practiced law. Then, his love of history pulled him in a different direction.

He became president of the Texas Historical Foundation, Adjutant Commander of the Society of the Southern Cross, president of the former Texas Ranger Foundation, and held leadership positions in several other historyrelated groups.

An avid sports fan, Lewis liked to tell the story about picking out his season tickets for Texas Longhorns football games before the new stadium was even built.

He also regularly attended the College World Series

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