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from the Grand Sage January 1, 2010, will likely become a milestone date in the history of Sigma Pi. No, there was no fanfare. However, on that date, Policy Governance was adopted as the mechanism and system to define the relationship between the Grand Council and Executive Office. The adoption of Policy Governance was a major step forward for our Fraternity, and the decision was one that was not taken lightly. Undergraduate chapters and alumni volunteers received this news in midDecember electronically via a special edition of “The Bulletin.”

However, this is news that bears repeating.

Policy Governance strategically redefines how our Fraternity is managed, clarifies roles and responsibilities of the Grand Council and Executive Office staff, the linkage between those two entities, and the monitoring process to assure long-term goals are met. As significant as those elements are from an operational standpoint, the most visible change will be in terms of the relationship the Grand Council (the Board of Directors) develops with its “owners” who are, in our organization, each of you.

More than ever before, the Grand Council will be soliciting input from the members to increase our understanding of what you want from your fraternal experience. The input we gather from you will help us to establish and continually reassess and redefine the strategic goals, and thus develop what are called “Ends policies.” These policies are, in essence, the compass for our Fraternity.

I’m very proud of the commitment made by the Grand Council and Executive Director Mark Briscoe to see the Policy Governance implementation through to where it stands today.

It took over a year of focus by all of these men to study the concepts of Policy Governance, as well as to devote the time for a number of intense days of training which required healthy dialog and debate related to the values of our Fraternity, all in

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the spirit of making Sigma Pi a better run and more vision-driven organization. Each of us involved in this transformation recognizes that we are only scratching the surface in terms of the potential of Policy Governance; however, we are enthusiastic because everything we know tells us that it will make Sigma Pi better.

Before I conclude, I would like to shift gears a bit. As your Grand Sage, I’ve recognized the opportunity to prepare this letter for each edition of the Emerald as one of the privileges that comes with the medallion I proudly wear as the symbol of my elected office.

As such, you may know by now that my letters have sometimes focused on life experiences while always remaining true to Sigma Pi (both the organization and the brotherhood) as the overarching theme. However, I don’t recall a time in my life where Sigma Pi and life itself have intersected in such a pronounced way. On December 12th, my son Douglas was initiated into Zeta Pi Chapter at Oakland University along with eight of his pledge brothers. This was a day I had been hoping for and looking forward to with great anticipation for a very long time.

Witnessing my son’s initiation, participating in the ceremony, and having him become my brother was an incredible experience for me. I was overcome with pride and deep emotion and will forever cherish those memories.

As we all know, life is filled with highs and lows. Regretfully, while I was experiencing one of the highest fraternal and parental highs, I was struggling with one of the most painful experiences of my life. During the month of December, in the same timeframe of my son’s initiation, I was witnessing the loss of my dear friend and Gamma Alpha brother Geno Zayid to cancer.

Geno made the trip to the Long Beach Convocation in 2008 with his wife Maggie and their three sons. He was very proud of what I had accomplished in Sigma Pi and wanted to be there for me when I was elected Grand Sage. You may

recall that my first Emerald letter, only a little more than a year ago, related the story of my closest friends and brothers including Geno, and reflected on the many things we’ve done together over the years. He was always full of life, and was the life of the party for as long as I’ve known him. Not expecting anything less of Geno, I watched him fight valiantly, only to succumb to the disease on January 2nd. In our final conversations, he told me how disappointed he was to miss Douglas’s initiation (I assured him he was there in spirit), and that he was hoping to be at the 2010 Convocation in Boston for me.

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I will miss Geno terribly as will the many other brothers who had the chance to know him. However, I can’t tell you how thankful and grateful I am that he was able to make the trip to Long Beach.

The look of pride on his face as he helped robe me and place the Grand Sage medallion around my neck during my installation will always be etched in my mind. Thank you, my brother, for a wonderful 30 years-plus of friendship and fraternalism.

This issue of the Emerald offers details on the recent charterings, as well as offering a greater fraternal perspective related to both Geno’s passing and my son’s initiation, and much more. I hope that as you read the magazine, you pause to reflect on what Sigma Pi has meant to you, and that you are able to feel a sense of appreciation for the bonds of brotherhood you have experienced.

And remember that, as I indicated at the beginning of this letter, your Grand Council and Executive Office staff are committed to working hard to make the Sigma Pi experience even stronger.

Fraternally,

Member, North-American Interfraternity Conference

George Hakim Grand Sage Copyright © 2010 Sigma Pi Fraternity; Sigma Pi, ACE Project and the crest are trademarks of Sigma Pi, all rights reserved

In this issue Volume XCIV, Number 3 Winter 2010 Editorial Staff John Kitch (H, Purdue ’73) Editor Todd Shelton Managing Editor/Creative Director Mark S. Briscoe (AP, Arkansas State ’82) Business Manager communications committee John Kitch (H, Purdue ’73) Joseph V. Palazzolo (DB, Monmouth ’03) Bryce Carder (HU, UC - Irvine ’99) Clifford A. Wilke (DZ, Missouri - St. Louis ’81) Jonathan Drnjevic (BT, Valparaiso ’81) Jeffery Seay (HE, Florida State ’91) Jack Chenoweth (H, Purdue ’74) John Michelich (EG, Illinois Wesleyan ’75)

Sigma Pi Fraternity was founded at Vincennes University, Vincennes, Indiana, on February 26, 1897. Sigma Pi has chartered more than 215 chapters in North America and has initiated over 90,000 members since 1897. The founding fathers of the Fraternity are: Rolin Rosco James (1879 - 1953), William Raper Kennedy (1877 - 1944), James Thompson Kingsbury (1877 - 1950), George Martin Patterson (1877 - 1960) Emerald of Sigma Pi Fraternity (ISSN 1074-5289, USPS 011-013) has been published since 1911. Emerald is published three times a year by Sigma Pi Fraternity, P. O. Box 1897, Brentwood, Tennessee, and additional mailing offices.

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Executive Office News Six members of Sigma Pi participate in 2010 IFC Academy, learning models for high-performance IFC operations Six members of Sigma Pi joined more than 150 Interfraternity Council (IFC) officers, advisors, chapter presidents, chapter delegates, and graduate advisors from 34 U.S. colleges and universities in participating in the 2010 IFC Academy, hosted Jan. 30 in Indianapolis by the NorthAmerican Interfraternity Conference (NIC).

The one-day, 14-hour program, focused participants on their role in developing high-performing IFCs – specifically the role of the IFC in serving the needs of its member fraternities, and the role the NIC Standards play in supporting high performance.

“The fraternities of the NIC operate by an agreed-upon set of standards,” said Peter D. Smithhisler, president and CEO of the NIC. “Developed by the membership with the goal of helping younger members clearly understand what membership means, and helping older members

development, values, and ethics, each chapter applies them differently to accommodate their individual fraternity’s mission and values.

understand their responsibility in teaching and modeling, the Standards provide an excellent co-curricular education for every member,” he said.

On campus, the IFC’s role is to understand and promote the Standards to the leadership of their member fraternities. Individual chapter leaders hold responsibility for interpreting the Standards to their chapter members, explaining how they apply to the chapter’s individual mission and values. While NIC standards encourage and support academic achievement; campus involvement and leadership; risk management on topics such as alcohol use, fire safety, hazing, and sexual abuse; the value of ritual; and the importance of communicating the value of education, career preparation, civic engagement, leadership

At the Academy, Sigma Pi members Tanner Smith, from Arizona State; Jeff Jurkas, Jesse Koch and Josh Miller, from Grand Valley State; and Colin Robertson and Stoyan Mantchev, from Loyola University Chicago, renewed their sense of commitment to the interfraternal community. Each completed a personalized assessment of their own council effectiveness, and each developed a task list to work through once they return to campus. Because open (year-round) recruitment of members and open (to any interested fraternity) expansion of chapters on a campus continue to be issues IFCs have difficulty understanding and explaining to their members, the six Sigma Pi participants also learned how to identify restrictive clauses in their polices and, along with NIC professional staff, discussed ways to work with campus advisors and administrators to remove restrictive policies.

The Academy offered two tracks, one for officers responsible for marketing and public/member relations, and another for executive officers responsible for operation and stewardship.

Presenters included Josh Orendi, CEO of Phired UP Productions, who led the marketing/communication track; Ben Pendry, NIC vice president for advancement, who led the executives track; Marc Katz, past chairman of the NIC, who provided a legal update for council officers; Bob Marchesani, current NIC chairman, who focused on the importance of interfraternalism; and NIC Chairman and CEO Pete Smithhisler, who led the session on the value and importance NIC Standards hold for IFC operation.

Founded in 1909, the NIC is the trade association representing 73 international and national men’s fraternities. Through advocacy, collaboration, and education, the NIC works to ensure that fraternities can operate in an environment conducive to their success.

New Jersey Fall Province Workshop News On Saturday, September 19th, the NJ Province held their annual fall workshop at The College of New Jersey. The workshop was attended by over 100 Sigma Pi members from the NJ province and neighboring schools. Several alumni volunteered to help plan this event and give presentations at it. The workshop featured an hour long panel discussion moderated by the Province Archon Justin Saponara, and included Sages from the top three leading chapters in the province, including Mark Infante of Delta Beta, Paul Cella of Theta Delta, and Bill Collister from Zeta Chi. We’d like to extend special thanks from the NJ Province to all of the chapter directors and alumni volunteers who took the time to be with us that afternoon.

Additionally, thank you to Matt Krupka Theta Tau, ‘06, and Pete Lagregor and Gary Tulp, Theta Delta ’02, for presenting.

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The NJ Fall Province Workshop is geared specifically towards promoting recruitment, leadership, and smart risk management throughout our chapters. We also aim to provide regional and national updates of the fraternity for the undergrads and alumni who choose to attend. This year’s province workshop was an impressive show of brotherhood.

Many alumni and undergraduate leaders worked together to educate the brothers on important topics relevant to Sigma Pi brothers in today’s world. Undergrads were given an entire segment to ask their own questions, and the workshop also included an all too relevant presentation that helped prepare us for today’s job market, including resumé preparation and the interview process. In addition to the panel discussion, which covered an array of issues, and job market presentation, topics discussed included risk

management, recruitment, image, and leadership. The presentations and panel discussion were geared towards both new and seasoned brothers looking to improve themselves and/or his chapter.

The afternoon kicked off with Paul Cella and the guys from TCNJ who gave those in attendance some background information on the university and the Theta Delta chapter. We ended a job market presentation that provided some insight on how Sigma Pi members have been successful in networking and finding jobs/internships despite the rough economy.

Of the workshop, Theta Delta chapter president, Paul Cella, said, “This year’s fall province workshop was a great success. The addition of an interactive panel discussion greatly improved the exchange of a lot of combined experience and knowledge with the undergrads.

It also served to keep all the

brothers interested and motivated as we addressed the topics of the workshop.” Sage Mark Infante of Delta Beta commented, “The workshop was a success. It was run much better than it has been in the past and covered a wide range of topics. I thought the panel discussion was a great idea and all the brothers from the DeltaBeta chapter thought it was very effective.”

Of those who attended, about 9 were alumni. TCNJ hosting the workshop, had the most men in attendance, followed by Zeta Chi and Delta Beta. Our newest chapter, Iota-Iota at Montclair State also sent a solid group of men. The 5th annual Pledge Province Workshop will be held at Rowan university in March this spring.

If anyone is interested in volunteering in the NJ province, please contact Justin Saponara at (973) 449- 7550.

Executive Office News The Centennial of the North-American Interfraternity Conference: 2009 - 2010 In April, within view of the Pentagon, the Joint Services Color Guard of the Military District of Washington opened the centennial meeting of the North-American Interfraternity Conference House of Delegates. To acknowledge the growth of the fraternal movement, and to recognize that the 73 NIC member fraternities represent both national and international organizations, the executive directors and guests present sang both the Canadian and American national anthems. With the House of Delegates session launched, so was a year-long centennial celebration that will highlight interfraternalism, brotherhood and collaboration.

The National Interfraternity Conference was founded at the University Club of NYC on November 27, 1909 by delegates of 26 fraternities. At the NIC’s 75th anniversary, one dinner speaker noted that in 1909, “the climate was such that the country, the fraternities and the people were ready for change.” And in the 100 years since fraternities agreed there was value in collaboration, the fraternal movement has indeed changed – the country, the fraternity system, and the people involved with both.

Today there are 127 inter/national fraternities and sororities, and 73 fraternities hold membership in the NIC. In the 100 years since the NIC’s founding, two additional important trade organizations have developed, reflecting how the fraternity world and the country have developed.

The National Pan-Hellenic Council Inc. represents nine fraternities and sororities with predominantly African-American membership; and the National Association of Latino Fraternal Organizations has a membership base of 23 fraternities and sororities.

The industry continues to evolve with the development and growth of the National Asian Pacific Islander American Panhellenic Association (NAPA) and the National Multicultural Greek Council (NMGC).

Combined, the 12,000 fraternity and sorority chapters on more than 800 campuses in the U.S. and Canada have membership of more than nine

million, with 750,000 of those being today’s undergraduate members and the world’s future leaders.

that fraternities can operate in an environment conducive to their success. That is the NIC mission.

Leadership development is one of many strengths today’s fraternity and sorority community offers as the largest and most visible valuesbased organizations on campus.

Without question, fraternities and sororities provide the most successful leadership development programs for college students and provide the largest network of volunteers in the U.S.

How does it do that? Through local, regional, and international representation on campuses, in communities, within the fraternity industry, and on Capitol Hill; through public and media relations; web-based initiatives that now include promotion and recruitment assistance through fraternityinfo.com; through position statements that are clear about the values of fraternity men; and through campus intervention and guidance on policies, IFC recognition, colonization, voting, expansion and more.

How large? Millions of hours of volunteer service are given by fraternity and sorority members annually. Just last year, NIC member fraternities provided more than 1.3 million service hours and raised more than $12.8 million for philanthropy.

But leadership is more than service and philanthropy.

Fraternities encourage their development and promote their importance as a foundation for lifelong success within the context of being values-based organizations.

Many success stories demonstrate how men live their fraternity’s values. You can find many of these on www.fraternityinfo.com, the website devoted to telling the fraternity story and celebrating the impact of fraternities on campus, within communities, and on individual lives. Illustrating the point of the speaker at the NIC’s 75th anniversary, the men highlighted there have indeed changed the world, the fraternity system and the people involved with both.

The roots of the NIC go back to 1883, to a meeting of fraternity editors in Philadelphia. Ten years later, the “College Fraternities Congress” was held at the Chicago’s World Fair; and in 1895, more than 300 fraternity men met in Atlanta to form The American Panhellenic Society. The idea for a permanent society was formalized in 1909, and in the 100 years since the NIC has grown nearly threefold. Throughout the century it has changed to meet the needs of its members and the fraternity world. Today, through advocacy, collaboration, and education the NIC works to ensure

The NIC’s annual recognition and awards program emphasizes the NIC Standards and rewards men, chapters and fraternity members who exemplify them. The awards also encourage fraternities to tell their stories that demonstrate the benefits of fraternalism. The NIC Awards of Distinction celebrate the endeavors and triumphs of those men who “live their ritual” everyday.

The NIC provides extensive programming for IFCs and campus leaders to learn through the IFC Academy and the INTERCHANGE Resource Network. It also provides extensive programming for IFCs and campus leaders to develop their leadership through undergraduate programming that includes the Undergraduate Interfraternity Institute (UIFI), the IMPACT Institute, the Alumni Academy, and the Jon Williamson Futures Quest.

In 2010, the NIC will celebrate the 20th Anniversary of UIFI, a program from which over 10,000 fraternity and sorority leaders have graduated since 1990.

The nine-man NIC board of directors planned the year-long celebration that began in April in Washington and will conclude at the NIC’s annual meeting in April, 2010. To kick off this 100th year, the leaders of the National Panhellenic Conference, the National Association of Latino Fraternal Organizations, the National Pan-Hellenic Council Inc., and the Association of Fraternity/

Sorority Advisors joined the crowd in Washington at the Centennial Banquet to recognize the successes of the fraternity world and to discuss what that work will look like over the next 100 years. The banquet room was filled with a memorabilia exhibit recounting 100 years of the NIC; and reminiscent of a Harry Potter movie, the flag of every member fraternity was hung from the ceiling. NIC Board Chair Bob Marchesani reflected on the history of the organization, but Dud Daniels, who was present at the 50th anniversary celebration, offered many anecdotes from having lived through much of it. Other luminaries from the fraternity world, men whose leadership have put the fraternity movement in the position of strength it is in today, also took the podium and entertained the crowd.

The celebration will continue throughout this year. A Centennial Charter was created and displayed at the annual meeting in Washington, and all 73 members will receive a framed edition. To return to the roots of the NIC, the winter meeting of the board will be held in New York City to coincide with a reception in the University Club where the group will replace the 75th anniversary plaque with one commemorating the centennial. Most importantly, to involve undergraduates in this historic occasion the four Greek regional conferences will present a video shot during the 2009 annual meeting, one involving undergrads, as well as alumni, in telling the story that is interfraternalism.

While the 26 founding member fraternities could not have envisioned videos, websites, and twitter being part of a centennial celebration, certainly they envisioned the interfraternity cooperation that existed then growing into the collaboration that exists today. That collaboration, among 73 international and national men’s fraternities, with a focus on advocacy and education for each member, is the mission of today’s North-American Interfraternity Conference.

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by Mark Reed, Alpha Phi ‘69

As the whole world is now aware, on January 12, 2010, the country of Haiti was devastated by a killer earthquake the likes of which few, if any, of us have ever seen. The visions that have come out of Haiti on TV have been heartbreaking. Death and destruction are of Biblical proportions. I just returned from Haiti, having gone there on a disaster relief trip with my Haiti partner, Crawford Hitt, Director of Edu-Pack Ministry. We have done disaster relief before, but we were not prepared for what we saw and experienced in Haiti. As horrible as what you see on TV and read in the newspaper, it is worse.

The magnitude of this disaster is such that there is no way everyone is going to receive relief in a timely manner. All the many well intentioned organizations, as well as the U.S. government and countries from all over the world, are not going to be able to help everyone, particularly in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake. Our friends there told us that they had seen no relief distributions of any kind. The people are becoming desperate for help. In fairness to all those trying to help, how do you get

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money, water, food, shelter and medical care to millions of people? It is just not happening.

Because of the disruption of communications, wiring money to Haiti is almost impossible. That’s why we decided to go.

We flew into Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, because flights into Port au Prince (PaP) are limited to military, government and relief flights.

The twelve hour drive to Haiti was brutal. I said at the outset that nothing could fully prepare us for what we were driving into.

The destruction is reminiscent of the photos and films of destroyed cities in Europe during WWII. I do not exaggerate.

We stayed with ministry partners in the Delmas area of PaP, living with 35-40 refugees in a tarp covered area behind their destroyed buildings, sleeping on the ground. Those buildings still standing are, for the most part, not habitable. The people are afraid to go back inside for fear of future quakes and aftershocks, which are still going on. I can’t tell you how glad the people were to see us. I made friends immediately with all the children by taking their photos. It was

Mark Reed in Haiti after the earthquake

like having puppies crawling all over you.

Our treks into the “war zone” that was PaP were mind boggling.

There were big piles of rubble everywhere, only recognizable as a fallen building by remnants of a roof. Pancaked structures were everywhere. Over and over again we were told stories of the miracles that saved people’s lives. From walking out the door

as the building collapsed behind them, or of the building that fell around someone as they ran out, miraculously dodging falling rubble. It was heartbreaking to hear the other stories of those who did not make it. Everyone we talked to gave all the credit to God for their survival, saying over and over again how good God had been to them. Here these people are, with nothing but their life and the clothes on their backs, continued on page 7

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island nation of Haiti. While stating earthquake that crippled the of American responders to the deva wave first following is an “ask a the The of . part nture was adve r t Mille recen Brother Zachary to talk with us about his life and his time some had Zach ing, ongo are rescue and recovery missions official capacity. his own and he is not speaking in an brother” interview. His thoughts are tribal authorities in dealing with the medical impacts of major

Q: When and where did you pledge?

A: I pledged in the Fall of 1995 at the Gamma Xi Chapter in Montgomery, WV. I’m currently the treasurer of the Southern West Virginia Alumni Association. We also run www.sigpi.net Q: Did you go as an individual or did you go as part of a team to Haiti?

A: I’m a federal employee of the National Disaster Medical System (NDMS.) Specifically, I’m a “communications specialist.” and work on the Incident Response and Command Team (IRCT) as part of the Logistical Response Assistance Team (LRAT.) Q: That is quite a groupof acronyms, what did you do in support of the mission?

A: Working with a team we provided 24x7 satellite, radio and information technology support to the over 300 team members operating in the disaster area. In Haiti this included multiple field hospitals and numerous strike teams.

Q: Is this your full-time job?

A: No, I’m activated and deployed only as needed and for training purposes. Think of it like a cross between the national guard and a hospital. In regular life I’m and information security manager who works on various contracts for the federal government.

peacetime disasters and to provide support to the military and the Department of Veterans Affairs medical systems in caring for casualties evacuated back to the U.S. from overseas armed conventional conflicts.

Q: How did you get involved?

A: I started by applying and being accepted to the local Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT) and after learning and working there for a number of years. When a slot opened on the national team I jumped at the chance.

Q: What are the DMAT teams?

A: They are regional and spread throughout the country (e.g. I was associated with PA-1 based in Pittsburgh) teams locally coordinated that provide teams of doctors, pharmacists, nurses, logistics, EMTs, administrative staff and other personnel required to operate a field hospital.

Q: Why are the teams spread out?

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out communications and other equipment: tents, water, bandages etc. Once command identified missions for strike teams those were sent out. After a few days, sites were secured so that we could then deploy our field hospitals. Most of the persons worked from before the sun got up to well after the sun went down. 16 hour plus days in 95+ degree heat.

Q: It sounds like there is a lot

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A: We were called late on the 13th with our arranged A: Correct, as operations are ongoing it would be flight information and ordered to move from our homes to the inappropriate to discuss any details that could compromise the staging area. So I collected by “go-bags,” notified my work and kissed my wife and children goodbye and headed to safety and/or security of the personnel and mission. Also, the airport. After a briefing at the staging area we loaded out of respect, I won’t share any pictures of the facility, the dead, or persons being treated. up on a commercial charter and headed to Port au Prince.

Q: Fair enough: What else was happening at the embassy?

Q: Was is smooth sailing into Haiti....

A: Along with others, we provided health care to A: Somebody talked, eh? Not exactly. The air traffic American citizens. The consular was also providing control at the Port-au-Prince airport was functioning with a military team that was doing the best with what they had. repatriation services back to the United States as well as pushing through visas for the orphans.

Problem was that there were way too many unscheduled incoming jets. You may have heard on the news but we were Q: Orphans, were there lots of them? on the plane that almost collided with another over Haiti.

A: Sadly yes. For me, that was the hardest part of this After we were shaken in the jet wash, we lost pressure, ran deployment. Shepherded by aid workers, groups of orphans out of fuel, and made an emergency landing on the island of would show up, be process ed then loaded onto buses to head Turks and Caicos. for the airport. Age 1 to 8, dressed up, no luggage and I Q: Sounds like quite a scary situation.... rarely saw any toys.

A: Yes, I was concerned but as the embedded reporters I couldn’t help but think that these are the kids with no from NPR later noted: On a commercial flight there mommies or daddies that have to leave everything they have would have been pandemonium after the oxygen-masks ever known to get on a scary plane to go to an unfamiliar dropped. Many of these guys were still asleep. new place. They do it without a teddy and I’ve never saw them cry. Did they have to watch their parents die? Did Q: Sounds like a rough crew. they get one kiss before they were dropped off because there A: In any group there are usually neophytes, but many was no food? Awful questions went through my mind and, of these people are seasoned military veterans. They don’t after a while, I had to make a point not to look. scare easily.

Q: Lets switch subjects. Was NDMS the only team Q: So what was your first day like. deploy ed?

A: The next day we flew from Turks to Haiti in a Coast A: Absolutely not! We were there multi-national Guard C-130. When we arrived, we spent some time forces from the US Military, USAID, and finding our equipment and supplies and stayed on the tarmac. the UN, I saw teams from Britian, Columbia, That evening we loaded materials and personnel into four Argen tina, Israel, Mexico, France, and I’m sure dump trucks (got to adapt in a disaster), loaded the rest there were many others. At one surreal moment, I of the people in rented SUVs, got our armed security ran into a NGO team from the hospital where my kids personnel and the convoy headed into the night. That night were born. we slept under the stars on the lawn of the US Embassy.

Q: What was it like outside of the compound?

Q: So what were operations like?

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a couple of sites. I can’t show you the field hospitals, but the destruction of the homes and businesses is pretty tough to look at. Also we saw many of the make-shift tent cities.

Most of the people had houses before the quake. Now they have nothing. The port was in a bad shape too.

Restoring the port will be vital to restoring the economy.

Q: What were some of the positive things you remember?

A: When the Embassy cafeteria re-opened after a week or so. They had fresh bread, bacon, ice, and Coca- Cola.

While it was a wonderful change from Meals Ready to Eat (MREs) it was a much better feeling to know that someone had the supplies and means to bake bread. This meant, in some small way, the wheels of their economy must have started to turn.

Q: What do you think is the future for Haiti?

A: Obviously, the future for Haiti is dependent on its people. After their basic needs are supplemented, they need great investment in infrastructure and commercial development. There is no opportunity to work as many of the buildings and factories have collapsed. It is a beautiful place and not nearly as bad as is made out in the media.

They need investment not just aid. Haiti could easily be as beautiful as any other island in the Caribbean.

Q: What can I do to help?

A: In the short term: send money to the aid agencies and encourage your representatives to support recovery efforts. In the long term: seek and support investment opportunities to help grease the wheels of commerce in Haiti. If you have an open spot in your home and heart: foster and/or adopt one of orphaned children. Some just need a place to stay until they can be reunited with their families.

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everything else gone, but they are still thankful and their faith is stronger than it has ever been. It is humbling, I can tell you.

It hurt to view the National Palace, Haiti’s “White House,” this once beautiful building, the most impressive in Haiti, now damaged perhaps beyond repair. I had attended a President’s prayer vigil there six years ago. Where we once gathered inside is now a collapsed ruin. Refugee camp tent cities have sprung up all over PaP. Thousands of people are living in primitive conditions under a variety of shelters, mostly tarps or sheets strung between trees, all subject to being blown away in a strong wind. As I walked through the camps, the most vivid sight was watching the children doing what children always do, even in tragedy – they were running around playing.

Old men and women were lying on blankets, sheets or mats on the ground in the shade of their “tent.” As we drove around Port au Prince, we saw over and over again hand lettered signs on cardboard, sheets, boards or whatever was available, relaying similar messages of: “Help!” “We need food and water.” “S.O.S.” “Don’t forget us.” The people are pleading for help. Whenever

people saw our white faces, they would call to us to help them and give them water or food. It is a helpless feeling to not be able to give them what they ask for.

One of the saddest things we did was our visit up to the Montana Hotel, formerly the nicest hotel in Haiti, which totally collapsed trapping or killing numerous people, many of them Americans.

Most everyone has heard the story of the young American college student from Florida who was with fellow students serving the people of Haiti, and who is missing. Her parents asked if we could take current photos of their daughter to deliver to the Montana for identification purposes. The Montana is guarded

by American soldiers from the 82nd Airborne. We met with the U.S. Family Liaison for missing persons, and gave her the new photos. We were informed she had not been found yet. The hope is that she will turn up alive in some hospital or some other shelter. I cannot even imagine how her parents are dealing with this.

We visited our ministry partners and delivered the funds and supplies we brought for them, including antibiotics, Ibuprofen, splints, bandages and other

medical supplies, including insulin and syringes for the eight year old daughter of one of our pastors. He had been unable to find insulin in Haiti. He told us his daughter would have died in a short time if we had not brought the insulin to her. As Crawford said, that alone was worth the trip. We also brought tarps for shelter, but many more are needed, including real tents.

Shelter is going to be a major problem, especially when the rains come. It has not rained since the quake, but once it starts, it will be brutal. The misery index is going to be off the charts. Of course the money we brought to everyone was critical for their ongoing survival.

hurt and pain here. I know there are desperate people here who are looking for a job, don’t know where their next meal is coming from, or are trying to figure out how to take care of a loved one’s medical needs. I do not lessen that at all. But what is going on in Haiti is so far beyond what we here know that unless you experience it, you can’t fully understand it. I do not mean to say that I understand it. My short time there only served to grieve my heart in some ways, but in others it gave me great hope for the future of Haiti. The people there are true survivors and the faith in God of my friends has shown me where I can make changes in my life.

There is so much more I could share, but this would become a novel. It has taken me several days back home to get my head around everything to be able to sit down and start this story. I have no doubt there will be many things I remember as time goes by. But I definitely do not want to forget anything. Not a single thing. Even the worst of it.

I hope my words will help you, the reader, have a better understanding of the tragedy that is Haiti. Maybe it will help you, in some way, decide to help. I hope so.

You can help by making donations to the American Red Cross: www.redcross.org

As I told my wife, Michelle, upon my return, “I will never, for the rest of my life, ever take anything for granted.” We are so blessed here in America. I know there is

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Chapter reports are those submitted by deadlines listed on page 1.

Central Florida Iota-Kappa Chapter This past semester for the Iota Kappa chapter of Sigma Pi saw our first pledge class initiated, coupled with the successful completion of our philanthropy.

Additionally, the Iota Kappa chapter installed their second official Executive Council. The results were: Ricky Schools-Sage, Morgan Brabbs- Vice President, Jacob Booth- Treasurer, Justin Schneider- Secretary, Justin Calabrese- Sergeant at Arms, and William George- Herald. On November 15th, we initiated our Alpha Class, consisting of 21 members.

During the pledge period, our Alpha Class placed first in a sorority dance contest, called “Kappa Delta Shakedown.”

Our philanthropy, “Yards for Youth” was met with great success. Seth Iskowitz, an Iota Kappa brother was the organizer of the event.

We had nearly 10 other organizations compete in our philanthropy, which was a powder-puff football game.

Zeta-Omicron Chapter, Lawrence Tech, during their ACE Project

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Alabama Theta-Omicron Chapter

Arkansas State Alpha-Pi Chapter

The Theta Omicron Chapter just finished another semester filled with much advancement. The chapter grew in size with the addition of new brothers from a large fall pledge class. At the university’s annual Greek awards dinner, Theta Omicron was chosen as runner-up for the Greek Excellence Award, prevailing over many top fraternities on campus. This fall also marked the first time our chapter sponsored a philanthropy cookout. On October 20th, our chapter along with the University’s Student Health Center served hamburgers and hotdogs to spread awareness about the dangers of alcohol poisoning.

The event was a huge success with a large number of students attending, a multitude of Sam Spady cards being handed out, and over 1,500 dollars being raised.

The Alpha Pi Chapter of Sigma Pi at Arkansas State University has had a productive three months.

These past few months have been busy with the elections of new officers in our chapter and with the Arkansas State Universities IFC, and solidifying future goals of our chapter.

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Arkansas Tech Iota-Lambda Chapter I have the great honor of reporting that on Nov. 7th 2009, the Arkansas Tech colony chartered as Iota Lambda chapter of Sigma Pi. This was the first time in the history of Sigma Pi that we had two colonies become chapters in the same state on the same day. The Arkansas Tech chapter has worked had to accomplish its goal of chartering and accomplished this goal in little over a year. We

excelled in the classroom and in fraternal life. We bonded as brothers, worked together, and achieved a common goal.

Carleton

Eta-Rho Chapter

Eta Rho is ecstatic to welcome 13 new brothers into Eta Rho. The Chapter has been participating in many campus activities like the White Ribbon Campaign - End Violence Against Women and the Wheelchair Challenge - Promoting accessibility on campus. A special mention to the hard work done by Brother Alex Sirois, the Vice President of Student Life, for CUSA and of course the Eta Rho hockey team is in first place! Finally, we would like to congratulate Eta Rho Alumni brother Carlos Constantino and brother Robert Spender for their recent engagements. Also congrats to brother John

MaClean who tied the knot in Whistler earlier this year.

Special mentions to the families of Brother Matthew Nesrallah for the birth of his son Philip, Brother Dave Sedgewick for the birth of his son Christian and brother Richard Pereira for the birth of his daughter Sophia. Eta Rho is looking forward to next year!

Colorado

Zeta-Delta Chapter

Over the past month the Zeta Delta chapter has been continuing to grow strong with the Omega pledge class finishing up their pledgeship and the chapters continuing participation in the University of Colorado’s Greek community. Last month our chapter finished

Theta-Upsilon Chapter participating at Bobcat Build at Texas State University

Chapter News Drury

Eta-Alpha Chapter, Cal State - Sacramento, during recruitment

second in the Chi Omega’s karaoke philanthropy. We raised just shy of $1000 to put towards the event. We also held a date party with a sorority in our community which turned out to be a great time for all involved.

At the Greek Award ceremony our chapter won the philanthropy of the year.

Our chapter is continuing to reach out to the community and make our chapter the best on campus.

Delaware

Iota-Beta Chapter

It has been a memorable year for the Iota Beta chapter. This semester we initiated our largest new member class to date and we’re excited to welcome 22 new brothers to our chapter.

We achieved Gold status in our University’s Chapter Assessment Program, finishing last semester with the second highest GPA of any fraternity on campus.

Iota Beta recently held its annual Turkey Bowl football game and Holiday Clothes Drive with the sisters of Alpha Delta Pi. We will be holding our Fourth Annual Founders’ Day event in February, all brothers in the area are welcome to attend. Please e-mail Greg Fitter(gfitter@udel.edu) for more information.

Epsilon-Rho Chapter

The Epsilon Rho chapter is doing awesome right now! We currently have to two teams in the soccer intramural and they are both undefeated. We have a very good chance of winning the soccer playoffs. We have decided to move our ACE Project to this semester so we can have a bigger and better fundraising event for Sam Spady in the Spring. We just had our Fireside and it was an amazing and productive experience.

Here at Drury we have had the best school spirit than anyone else here. We have been the best soccer fans and we have helped push Drury to the Division II soccer tournament. Our pledges have been doing pretty good so far and have been working very hard!

Eastern Illinois Beta-Gamma Chapter The brothers at Beta Gamma just celebrated their 60th anniversary at Eastern Illinois University.

Close to 100 Alumni came to visit the active chapter for homecoming. Some Alums

drove all day to check if the active chapter is still keeping up the domination that they worked hard to maintain while they were active members of Sigma Pi. We are very thankful of the support we get from our Alumni. Homecoming was a great success. Flag football season is underway and it looks like we’re going to win the championship. We also just won powerlifting as a team and had individual winners in some of the weight classes. Other than that we elected a new sweetheart Sarah Harcharik who is shockingly good looking and loves Sigma Pi. She is a very big deal around campus and we are lucky to have her be our sweetheart!

Elon

Epsilon-Theta Chapter

The Epsilon Theta chapter has been undergoing several changes this year. We have created new committees, getting more of our younger members involved in leadership early. We have continued working hard to a strong brotherhood and are working hard to improve specific chapter functions.

Zeta-Alpha Chapter, West Chester, during ACE Project

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Chapter News Florida

Zeta-Zeta Chapter

The past fall semester was an epic success. Highlights of the semester would be the grab a date to Hollowscream, trip to Daytona Beach and most Brothers found their way to the Florida vs Georgia game for a good time in Jacksonville.

Brotherhood morale is at a high going into the Spring

Loyola - Chicago Beta-Chi Chapter For the brothers of BetaChi the end of the fall semester at Loyola also sees the end of term for an Executive Board that has been very efficient, hard-working, and diligent when it came to leading the chapter. Although we are sad to see them leave their posts, a promising new

process for the initiation of the new members. In October we won Greek Week for the second time in three years, and we hosted a philanthropic event raising money for awareness against sexual rape and assault. This event was called Kristen’s Story and involved a mother who came to speak in front of a crowded hall, telling her

moved into a new fraternity house. The house is located directly across from campus.

Mississippi

Colony

The Beta-Mu Colony was pinned on October 7, 2009; with 29 members. Since then we have gained four more brothers and plan on participating in spring rush which will help our numbers grow tremendously.

On November 14, 2009, our colony had its first brotherhood retreat which was very enjoyable, the brothers who attended had a great time and said it was great opportunity for everyone grow closer as a brotherhood. We also have three major philanthropy projects that are still in the planning stages; however, we plan to have these events well planned and well organized and they should be huge successes in the spring semester.

there first semester and nearing initiation.

Missouri Southern State Eta-Mu Chapter The Eta Mu chapter of Sigma Pi is planning on initiating seven new members in spring 2010.

We have also participated in a lot of activities and community service for the Ronald McDonald House, by putting up Christmas lights on the house and decorating Christmas trees in the house. In the spring we will be planning many mixers with the sororities as well as events with the alumni.

A Founders’ Day camping trip will be planned for a chapter get together as well as a good way for the Alumni to meet the new guys. Safe Spring Break will be planned soon on campus which is a chance for us to promote The Sam Spady Foundation and alcohol awareness. We plan for the upcoming semester to be a great one not only for rush

Rush activities at Iota-Kappa Chapter, Central Florida

semester. The hope is to gain an abundance of new members this semester to further our efforts towards a house on campus. Everyone will be working hard to accomplish this goal.

Houston

Theta-Nu Chapter

Our chapter is doing great at the moment. We have a very strong, willing, and promising pledge class.

Looking forward to the future semesters to come as we develop our chapter into one of the strongest on this campus.

Iowa State

Sigma Chapter

We are continuing strong recruitment efforts and expanding our numbers.

We have now recruited 4 new members throughout the semester and know at least 3 will be moving into the house. We are also continuing to raise money for the Sam Spadey philanthropy project.

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E-board has been elected to fill their places. These new leaders assumed their posts on November 30th and brought with them many new ideas to continue to take the chapter in a positive direction.

Accompanying them is our Fall ’09 pledge class who have already shown their excitement to integrate themselves into our group of brothers. Additionally, we hosted our first ever Sigma Pi Toy & Clothing Drive during the beginning of December, an event that we hope to turn into an annual service project for the underprivileged kids of Chicago.

Miami (OH)

Eta-Phi Chapter

The new executive council ran our first chapter meeting after the transition process was held and things seemed to run smoothly.

We will jump right into rush when we get back from break and begin our

Iota-Beta Chapter, Delaware

story of her deceased child We also participated in the Up-Till-Dawn Charity to raise money for St. Jude’s Children Hospital. This event went very well along with the other events we have participated in at Miami University.

Middle Tennessee State Theta-Omega Chapter Theta Omega Chapter at MTSU has just signed and

Missouri Gamma-Sigma Chapter

but for our brotherhood to grow larger in the process.

This has been a good year for our chapter. We recently had our kitchen remodeled complete with new chairs and tables for our dining room. We also got rid of our very old and worn out couches for some nice new furniture. Our pledge class has performed very well in school and is finishing up

Murray State Gamma-Upsilon Chapter The Gamma Upsilon chapter at Murray State University has had a tremendous fall semester of the 2009-’10 school year. At the start of the semester our rush chairs, Parker Timmons and Juan Casa del Valle set up the

Chapter News events for rush week which allowed us to obtain nine outstanding new members: Eric Hirsch, Chad Wilson, Charlie Bohannon, Trent McNally, Blaire Bohannon, Roy Love, Chad Branham, Corey Garton, and Trevor Austin. They completed the pledging period and are now active brothers.

After taking our new members we put all our focus on the homecoming festivities and float building teaming up with the ladies of Alpha Sigma Alpha and winning 1st place in the float competition, as well as competing in all philanthropy and sporting events as well.

E-Board officers, we hit the ground running and never looked back. We greatly improved our Brotherhood over the past fall, holding many cookouts and events in which we renewed our friendships within the Chapter. We also greatly improved our overall Greek GPA, jumping to one of the best GPA’s on campus.

Looking forward to the spring, we currently have 4 pledges and are looking to add 10-15 to our ranks by the end of the semester.

Theta Eta is looking forward to 3 socials planned and an awesome upcoming rush.

Look for great things from us in the near future.

Oakland

Oregon

Zeta-Pi Chapter

Oakland chapter is coming back with a vengeance!

We are about to initiate 9 guys, one of which is Doug Hakim, whom you’ve guessed it, is the son of our Grand Sage . After a slow last year for us, we are growing in numbers again, and will soon be the dominate fraternity on campus once again!

Ohio State

Gamma Colony

The Gamma Chapter of Ohio State Sigma Pi is proud to announce our colonization as of this November. We currently have over 20 highly motivated brothers looking to reestablish and expand the Sigma Pi influence once held on this campus. Through hard work and perseverance we hope to keep recruiting more brothers and begin to participate in such things as brotherhood and philanthropic events. The Gamma chapter was very monumental in the creation of Sigma Pi in the early 1900’s, and we plan to honor those men with our organization.

Old Dominion Theta-Eta Chapter Theta Eta has had a great past semester. With our new chapter director Brian Kurisky and some new

Iota-Epsilon Chapter

The Iota-Epsilon has represented itself proudly during the fall. During a football game, there are 9 people involved around the football field. 1 player in pads, 3 on the cheerleading team, Three in ROTC honoring the flag during the National Anthem, and 2 mascots. We strongly support our school and our involved brothers.

Purdue

Zeta-Chi Chapter, Rowan, brothers during their Bar-b-que

Eta Chapter

Eta Chapter has been showing signs of increasing strength as we reach the end of the semester. We recently participated in Phi Mu’s Miracle Mania, a dance competition in which we were paired with the ladies of Sigma Delta Tau. We did not place, but our new members and the SDT ladies received standing applauds from the all-Greek audience.

We also received the Most Improved Chapter award.

Despite losing the football game, our homecoming was a resounding success. One of the highlights was the Active-Alumni Banquet.

The dinner was a great opportunity for our Alumni to meet and get to know the Actives of our Chapter. Our Chapter would like to thank all Deltas that attended, especially Delta Brad Brink for organizing the dinner.

In the next edition, we

Zeta-Zeta Chapter, Florida

will report the score of the upcoming Sigma Pi - Kappa Delta Rho Football Game.

This game is a tradition between houses which we have revived.

Southern Indiana Theta-Psi Chapter The men of the Theta Psi, are very excited as of late.

In early November Brothers James Hines, Tyler Hercamp, and David Martinez attended ADVANCE, which is a Greek leadership retreat.

The men of Theta Psi have also recently participated in The NCAA Division II cross country national championships, which were held on our campus. We helped out by setting up tents and placing benches in certain areas for the runners after their races.

The latest news in the Theta Psi chapter is elections.

Under the leadership of our new executive council, whose members are very involved on our campus,

we know that the Theta Psi chapter has many good things in store.

Southern Tech Epsilon-Alpha Chapter This semester our chapter has seen a very successful rush resulting in 11 new brothers with a possible five more brothers to join the 18th of December. We have also started an annual tradition of hosting an event entitled “Chivalry Dinner” for the sororities

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Chapter News

Zeta-Delta Chapter, Colorado, brothers after the Greek awards ceremony where they won the Outstanding Philanthropic Achievement Award

on campus, in which there were approximately 40+ participants attended.

Spring events are already being planned and so far the spring is looking to be very active. We are also proud to see one of our current brothers, Christopher Kin Jung, graduate with a degree in Civil Engineering on the 19th of December.

TCNJ

Theta-Delta Chapter

Fall 2009 has been a great semester for us. We took a GREAT class of 4 guys that are constantly proving their dedication and commitment to this Fraternity, some of them already hold

Committee Head positions!

This semester we’ve sponsored/co-sponsored a ton of great events like: Alcohol Awareness Week, Domestic Violence Awareness, Professor Appreciation, Sigma Pi Live (a bunch of Brothers got up on stage, played a few cover songs, and all donations went to Sam Spady!), and The Sigma Pi Sale (Bachelors Auction, all donations go to Sam Spady). This is also the 10th Anniversary of Theta-Delta, so we are throwing a MASSIVE formal with the help of our Alumni Association. We are very excited for Spring ‘10, and can’t wait to extend our Brotherhood to the next

Brothers of Theta-Phi Chapter represent Sigma Pi and Greek Life at Fall FIESTA at Penn College.

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pledge class!

Texas - San Antonio Iota-Delta Chapter The Iota-Delta Chapter of won lip sync during Greek Week and blew the Greek community away with an outstanding performance.

We not only won first place at lip sync, but also at canstruction, greek god, and ultimately won the entirety of greek week.

We had 6 a.m. practices every Thursday for five weeks leading up to the performance. The entire chapter put a lot of work into our lip sync and would like to thank Betty Castillo of Sigma Kappa for helping with our choreography and

working with us throughout all of our practices. This semester has been going extremely well for the chapter and we hope to continue impressing the campus and our peers alike.

UCLA

Upsilon Chapter

This past quarter has been another excellent one for Upsilon. The members of the Executive Council retired and did an excellent job. Their accomplishments will be hard to equal.

Brothers Martin Vigodnier, Daniel Antrim, Spencer Van Ruiten and Brian Warren were installed as the new executive council. We are confident in their ability

Gamma-Upsilon, Murray State, brothers enjoying a fall weekend

in keeping Upsilon as one of the top chapters.

We congratulate Chance Goldberg who graduated this fall. He’s one of Upsilon’s brightest brothers. He was also a member of Model UN and the top delegate in the organization. We wish him luck with his new internship at a talent agency.

Community service is what we strive to achieve at a high standard. This quarter, we decided to participate in a creek cleanup. Several brothers woke up early on Saturday morning to help restore UCLA’s only natural creek and the campus was impressed with our work.

Vincennes

Alpha Chapter

We have all been very busy at Alpha Chapter. Grades are the most important thing to us and right now we are all working hard keep our overall GPA high. At the end of this semester we hope to have the highest GPA of all the Greek organizations. We just won the spirit award.

We won best decorated float during spirit week and overall best spirit. Our award was a paddle which we keep in our formal room

Chapter News

Gamma-Xi Chapter, West Virginia Tech

Alpha-Nu Chapter, Virginia, during a consultant visit

and we are very proud of it. We hope everyone has a great Christmas break and a happy new year.

West Virginia Tech Gamma-Xi Chapter

Washington State

Colony

Washington State Colony is proud to say that we are so close to chartering.

As of right now, we are at 46 colony members and are ready to initiate ten more sometime soon. Our grades are outstaunding and philanthropy is going amazingly. The interior and exterior committees are doing extremely well in Greek life and we are becoming the talk of the town. With Dad’s weekend coming up, we are excited for all of the activities that we will do as well as the socials with all those sororities. This winter, we are planning a big snowboard/ski trip for the weekend and should be a great brotherhood event that we are all looking forward to. All in all, we are excited on how we have all come together as brothers and worked on our scholarship and philanthropy. We are ready for chartering in the Spring.

received the IFC cup and won Greek Week. We also brought in 4 new members while following with 12 this fall. This fall we hosted our annual Sorority Showdown which raised 500 dollars donated to the Police Athletic League in West Chester. we also won the Fraternity Flag Football league championship aganist our rival Pi Kappa Phi. With the spring semester close ahead we welcome four new members to the new exec board.

Collectivley we are looking forward to welcoming a big pledge class this semester.

So far this year our chapter has done community service for Habitat for Humanity on November 7th. All brothers and pledges were in attendance. We volunteered at a haunted house in Eleanor on October 25. To date we have raised over a thousand dollars in food for the ongoing food drive at WVU Tech. Thirty-one alumni showed up for the homecoming bash. We held a carnival in collaboration with all other Greeks on campus on October 16th.

The annual Greek Formal was held in the WVU Tech campus ball room on November 7th. We have held several brotherhood events such as scavenger hunts, bowling, trips to Ryan’s and Benny’s, etc.. Four out of five neophytes were initiated December 9th. The final neophyte plans to be initiated by Christmas.

Western Illinois Epsilon-Zeta Chapter The spring semester was a great one for the brothers of the Epsilon Zeta chapter.

We grew not only in size but in our brotherhood as

well. Our chapter had the highest GPA out of all of the other Greek organizations on campus with a 3.01.

During the summer we worked hard on cleaning up the house so we could look forward to an even more productive year. Also near the end of the summer we had a golf outing with our alumni, it was great to get their support and know that they will always be a part of our house and be there for us. Everyone in our chapter is ecstatic for this coming semester as we welcome more members in our house and look to expand.

West Chester Zeta-Alpha Chapter Over the past year we have earned some things to be proud of. In the summer we were recognized at Sigma Pi University for the work we did with our ACE project. Last spring we

Theta-Gamma Chapter, West Alabama, hosted a clothing drive

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Sigma Pi Fraternity is a family. Each of us has more than 90,000 brothers in the Fraternity, dating back to the Four Founders.

One of the great benefits of our fraternal experience is that no matter where we go, across the country or around the world, if we see our Greek letters on a T-shirt, baseball cap or sweatshirt we have an immediate and profound connection through the Ritual with the man wearing them. It is one of the reasons each of us chose to become a member of Sigma Pi, to become a part of something bigger than ourselves, to join the Sigma Pi family.

Each of us also has our other family, the one into which we were born, with mother, father, sisters, brothers, nieces, nephews, aunts and uncles. You are about to read four inspiring stories of Sigma Pi men who are blood relatives, two sets of fathers and sons and four sets of brothers. Their stories are unique unto themselves, but our history is full of fraternal legacies, sons and grandsons and great-grandsons of men who embraced the values of Sigma Pi and passed those values down from generation to generation.

It is why Sigma Pi Fraternity will live forever.

Contributors: Jason Beck, John Kitch, Rob Pankau, John Santeramo All the brothers listed in the background of this page and the front cover are legacies of Sigma Pi.

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When the Iota-Mu

chapter was chartered at the Georgia Institute of Technology on November 14, 2009, there were three rare circumstances associated with this new chapter.

Number one; there are three sets of blood brothers that all became fraternity brothers that day.

Second, the son of a Founding Father became a Founding Father himself. And third, the sitting Grand Herald not only initiated his younger brother, he also installed him as the Herald of the Chapter.

Three Sets of Brothers Imagine starting a new fraternity chapter. Now, imagine doing it with your brother. (No, not your fraternity brothers – that happens all the time. I mean your blood brother, who now also becomes your fraternity brother.)

Now, imagine that happening three times, all in the same group, at the same time. That’s just what happened at Georgia Tech for three sets of brothers: John and Thomas Dugan, Min-Hee and Min-Jae Sayer, and Joseph and Jonathan Taylor.

“I think it’s really neat that my blood brother is now a fraternity brother, and its interesting to know him from a family and fraternity perspective,” said John Dugan, a computer science major and the Iota Mu Third Counselor. “I hope that through this experience, we can develop a stronger relationship both as friends and as family. So far it has been a great experience for me, and has helped me to develop a stronger relationship with my brother.”

Younger brother Thomas Dugan, a civil engineering major, said, “I was really impartial to the idea of fraternities, but the idea of starting a new chapter was something that really intrigued me and made me gain respect for my brother. He definitely had an effect on my joining. He introduced me to the idea and took me to a few events over the summer. I got to know some of the other brothers, and I knew that I wanted to join. There is no doubt that being in Sigma Pi together will help us to have a closer relationship.”

Coming from Korea to the United

John Dugan, Thomas Dugan, Jonathan Taylor, Justin Taylor, Min-Hee Sayer, Min-Jae Sayer

States was quite an adjustment for Min-He and Min-Jae Sayer.

Min-He, who is majoring in nuclear and radiological engineering and mechanical engineering, said joining Sigma Pi is a positive influence on his relationship with his brother, “If there is one thing special about the relationship with my brother it is that we came to the U.S. within about a year and a half year of each other. I went through the process of getting used to different aspects of life such as culture and the school systems first, and I had a chance to help him through those when he came to the U.S.” Min-Jae Sayer, a chemical engineering major, says he was skeptical about his brother joining Sigma Pi at first, “I was wondering why he joined, but I guess Sigma Pi helped him get adjusted to Tech, especially for those who transfer.”

Min-Hee said, “Never in my life, did I think that this would actually happen, until it did.

For one, I never pictured myself joining a fraternity. I never thought my brother would be interested in joining. If anything, I believe that this opportunity positively influences the relationship with my brother.”

For Jonathan and Joseph Taylor, joining Sigma Pi was an extension of their close relationship.

Joseph, a building construction major, said, “I like to think that my brother and I are very close, and have been rather close for our entire lives. I think that the fraternity has brought us much closer together.”

He continued, “I tend to look up to my brother and go to him for advice and guidance, not just because he is my older brother, but also because he has been through many of the same things that I am going through. I think that the best way to put it is that my brother is not just a sibling to me, but a role model, and also my best friend.”

Mechanical engineering major Jonathan Taylor said, “We have always been very close due to our age and interests. Our relationship is very open and honest. The individual bonds of fraternal brotherhood and blood are combined to form a much stronger bond. Joining Sigma Pi made our relationship even better since we now have even more in common. Being founding fathers together was an even better experience. The fraternal bonds that you have are multiplied when your family becomes a part of the brotherhood.”

Joseph says that if it were not for Jonathan joining Sigma Pi, he might not have joined any fraternity, “When my brother joined Sigma Pi, it actually got me interested in joining a fraternity, although I was still in high school. Before Jonathan joined, I had this preconceived notion that most Americans have about fraternities in general.

But after he told me about how it really was, I became very interested in joining myself.

Once we were both members of Sigma Pi, it gave us a sense of connection that I don’t really think we ever had before.”

All the sets of brothers agree that being in Sigma Pi together is an advantage. John Dugan says, “I think it’s amazing that two other sets of brothers can be a part of this experience.”

Joseph Taylor echoed those sentiments, “I think that it is absolutely incredible that we have three sets of brothers in our fraternity. I think that the most interesting thing about it is that each set of siblings has two completely different guys. For instance, my brother and I are alike in many aspects, but we are different in many more. The same thing goes for John and Thomas, and Min-Hee and Min-Jae. Even though each set of brothers is so

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the Naval ROTC squad. Kirk says, “When I found out there was a colony of Sigma Pi on the Georgia Tech campus, I actually made contact with Mark Briscoe, who in turn got the colony in touch with me and my son.”

JD says he really didn’t know much about Sigma Pi before he was about to graduate from high school, “When I was a child I had no idea my father was in a fraternity. He never really spoke about his undergraduate years.

Of course, that may have been slightly inappropriate when I was a kid. When I started to finish up high school, my father approached me about joining a fraternity, namely Sigma Pi, and urged me to reach out while at Tech to see if there was a chapter here.”

December 12, 2009 was a special day for nine men initiated into the Zeta-Pi Chapter (Oakland University, Rochester, MI) but it will also be noted in Sigma Pi Archives as being the first time in our 113 year history that the son of a sitting Grand Sage became a member of our brotherhood. Grand Sage George Hakim (GA - Detroit Mercy, 78) had the honor of witnessing the initiation of his son Douglas and of participating in the Instruction of the new Brothers.

Also attending the initiation were more than 50 undergraduates and alumni including surprise attendee Grand Third Counselor Ed Levesque (HH - Bridgewater State ’89) who attended on behalf of the entire Grand Council and participated in the ritual. Local Sigma Pi dignitaries in attendance included former Educational Foundation Chairman Tom Moore (GR – Western Michigan University ‘69), Michigan Province Archon and Ritual Committee chair Michael Grant (ZP – Oakland University’97), Zeta Pi founding fathers Rob Waters and Chuck Surinck, former Zeta Pi faculty advisor Alan Scott (AH - William & Mary ’63), Greater Detroit Alumni club founder and current Alpha Beta CD Fred Salmu (GW ’93), and current Zeta Pi CD Rob Pankau. This special event was also attended by many alumni and active brothers from Zeta Pi, Gamma Alpha, Gamma Omega and other local chapters.

different, anyone can see that they have a stronger bond to each other than to the other brothers, and that in itself is an amazing and beautiful thing.”

Following the initiation, Grand Sage Hakim served as Master of Ceremonies for the installation of new Zeta Pi officers. After a photo session on campus, a reception was held at the home of Doug’s godparents, John and Kathy Santeramo (GA - Detroit-Mercy, 1979). The reception was very well attended, with almost everyone joining in the post-initiation celebration.

Kirk says, “Several of the members of the colony were, like me, already initiated brothers from another university. They shared the ideals and brotherhood that I had embraced from my experience with Sigma Pi at Alpha Pi.” The group chartered in February of 1984 as the Zeta Alpha Chapter.

It is a rare and special day when a father witnesses his son become his brother and this day was no exception, as it was clearly a very proud moment in the lives of both GS Hakim and his son Douglas. And, this historic occasion was a momentous day for Zeta Pi Chapter, Michigan Province and for our entire Fraternity.

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A Founding Father’s Legacy is a Founding Father In 1978, Kirk Hendrix was initiated into the Alpha Pi Chapter at Arkansas State University. Who was his big brother there? That turns out to be Executive Director and Honorary Grand Sage Mark Briscoe. Kirk later transferred to West Chester State University, and in the fall of 1983 joined the Sigma Pi colony there.

Flash forward to 2009. Kirk and his family live in the Atlanta, Georgia metro area where he works as a Product Manger for Innovative Chemical Technologies, Inc. Kirk’s son JD is enrolled at Georgia Tech and is a member of

So, JD sought out the colony to find out more. He says, “I didn’t really have a clear picture on what a fraternity was until my father started explaining it to me. Sigma Pi, up until recently, was just two Greek letters and the name of another fraternity. My initial image of Sigma Pi before I joined was a bunch of guys who wanted to start a fraternity at Tech, something not easily done.

I didn’t know anybody in the fraternity yet, so I had no reason to be impressed or disappointed.

But soon after my first cookout event, I was highly impressed and thoroughly convinced that this is where I belonged.”

Kirk says that he was excited about JD joining the colony, “In short, I had to sit on my hands to keep from clapping! I was pretty jazzed up when I heard from JD that he was really impressed and was considering joining. My son may not have known it, but I was overjoyed when he called to tell me that he had decided that this colony was what he truly wanted to be a part of. I remember JD asking me my thoughts and of course I had only one answer.

They are a fantastic group of men and I could not be more proud of my son’s decision to embrace the ideals of Sigma Pi in his daily life and join them. These guys are an impressive group and are to be commended.”

JD says that becoming a

Founding Father has brought him closer to his father, “If anything, becoming a Founding Father and joining Sigma Pi at Georgia Tech has definitely brought my Father and me closer. A new level of understanding and relationship has been established as a result, making my Father not only a mentor but a best friend and fellow Brother. “ “I think aside from the concept, becoming a Founding Father has changed me fundamentally as a person for the better. Becoming a Founding Father allows a person to acquire leadership, moral, and professional skills in a unique situation that only a select few ever get to experience,” JD said. “The brothers of Sigma Pi at Georgia Tech, in my opinion, are some of the highest caliber people I’ve ever had the pleasure and experience to work with, be friends with, and know personally. It was their initial impression upon me that convinced me that Sigma Pi was where I belonged and something that could better me, as well as me bettering it.”

Kirk Hendrix says the experience is one that’s hard to put into words. “I don’t know if there are words to describe how happy I am that JD has done this and is a Founding Father of Sigma Pi. ‘Thrilled’ doesn’t quite cut it really. I know that as he goes through his experience at

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Georgia Tech he will grow into a leadership role that will help him as he moves on into the world at large. There is so much ahead for him that I can’t help but feel excited about the coming years.

He will always be my son. Now he is also my brother. Pretty profound, eh?”

Grand Herald installs brother as Herald Grand Herald Craig Donnelly had an experience that no other Grand Council member has had: initiating his younger brother into the fraternity and installing him as the Herald of his chapter.

Two years ago Craig’s younger brother Sean, was one of the first Georgia Tech students to join what would become the colony, and eventually Iota Mu as the expansion staff began the process on the campus.

Craig says he was happy that his brother joined the group, “Sean joining Sigma Pi was very gratifying to me. If his undergraduate experience is half of what mine was, he will thoroughly enjoy himself and graduate with a sense of pride for having been a part of a great organization that will benefit him for the rest of his life. He always showed great interest in my ‘Sigma Pi stories’ and in particular my stories about Convocation, Sigma Pi University, or the other events that I would attend. But I

never thought that he would ever have the opportunity or desire to join.”

Sean says that Craig helped shape his ideas about Greek life, “Before I came to college, I never really had an image of any fraternity. What I did know, however, is that Sigma Pi had formed my brother into the leader he is now. I have always looked up to him while growing up, and I can see where his leadership came from. He did introduce me to some Sigma Pi chapters at a couple of schools when I was searching for colleges in high school. I had an image of Sigma Pi as a group of men committed to making one another better men. I have had first hand experience with this starting our chapter.”

Both Donnelly brothers agree that they have become much closer as a result of their fraternal activities. Sean says, “Sigma Pi has brought my relationship with Craig to a different level. Every time we talk we bring up Sigma Pi at least once in the conversation. We make trips together to fraternity events and both like being involved and knowing what is going on in Sigma Pi on the international level.”

Craig said he believes that having Sean become a Founding Father makes him proud, “Sean being a Founding Father takes it

to another level. It means that he truly believes in the organization and what it stands for enough to start it from the ground up. I know how important Sigma Pi is to me to this very day. Sean will now get to experience that first hand. I was very proud to clothe him with the same robe that I currently wear as a member of the Grand Council. Sean being on the EC was a tremendous step of maturity for him and is something that I am very proud of. Sigma Pi plays such a large part in my life, and was such a key component of my maturity as an undergraduate. To have him on the brink of the same experience renders me almost speechless.”

Sean says that he and Craig are very much aware of the uniqueness of their positions, “Being the Herald of the Iota Mu chapter of Sigma Pi is very special and rewarding. Knowing that my brother is the Grand Herald gives it a special meaning for me. I don’t believe any set of brothers have held the same positions in office on the Grand Council and in a colony/chapter at the same time. So it is a special thing to share together. The fact that my brother initiated me into Sigma Pi was very exciting. It’s so surreal when you think about it, because not many people get to be initiated as Founding Fathers by the Grand Council, never mind by your own brother!”

Sean Donnelly and Grand Herald Craig Donnelly

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Epsilon-Pi Chapter Alumni Association tailgating with former Governor of Virginia and Former U.S. Senator George Allen at CNU’s Homecoming Game on Saturday, October 17th

River City Alumni Association Founder’s Day is fast approaching and we would like to extend an invitation to all Sigma Pi Alumni far and near to join us for the River City Alumni Association and Eta Alpha celebration (2/27/10).

The alumni and actives will square off on the gridiron in an intense game of football followed by an old fashioned BBQ. It is always a great time for alumni and actives to join together and celebrate the bonds of Sigma Pi. If you are in the Northern California region, and are not a part of the RCAA, please get into contact with us! Alumni from all chapters are welcome in our alumni association. Email Mike at mjdambrosio@yahoo.com.

Orange County Alumni Association On Sunday, January 10, 2010, The Orange County Alumni Association of Sigma Pi (OCAA)

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co-hosted a networking event at the Cal State Fullerton, Golleher Alumni House. The event was attended by twenty brothers representing multiple chapters from Orange County including Long Beach State, UCLA and Cal State Fullerton. We were honored to have Sigma Pi Educational Foundation’s COO Jonathon Frost. two Past Grand Sages John Merino and Larry Rovira, and Past Grand Herald Glen Cook in attendance. The day featured great networking, superb Italian Food provided by brother Alonzo Lepe-Ambrose Italian Restaurant and a Foundation update from Jonathon Frost.

The event was a great collaboration between the Educational Foundation that we hope to repeat in the future.

The OCAA also continues its efforts with the executive office to present to Cal State Fullerton its re-colonization process. If the university approves our presentation our Fraternity would

be allowed to recruit a colony in the fall of 2010. The alumni chapter needs your support by renewing your membership in the chapter through Cal State Fullerton in order to show our alumni strength. Please contact Carlos Leija (714) 619-0201 for more details with this effort..

Kentucky Thoroughbred Alumni Club Murray State University’s Kentucky Thoroughbred Alumni Club would like to invite alumni from the Gamma Upsilon chapter to join our groups on Facebook, LinkedIn, and SigPi.Net. Please make plans to attend this year’s Summer Reunion. It is always the third weekend in July.

Events usually include a reception on Friday night, a golf scramble on Saturday morning, an alumni club meeting, softball game, and different events on Saturday night.

We are very proud of our alumni: Andy Morris is the fraternity’s

current Grand First Counselor; James Jennings is a member of the Sigma Pi Educational Foundation’s Board of Trustees, Louie Junkerman is on the planning committee for this year’s convocation, Dr. Jay Morgan is a member of MSU’s Board of Regents, and Clay Young is an advisor to the colony at the University of Louisville.

We have also worked with the Sigma Pi Educational Foundation to setup a Chapter Endowment Fund (CEF). Any contributions made to the fund are tax deductible. Information on the CEF can be found at the Educational Foundation’s website or in our social networking groups.

Please contact us at our e-mail address (sigmapialumni@hotmail. com) with any news you would like to share with the rest of the chapter or to get more information about our activities and events.

News from Alumni Dr. Mahnke returns from Iraq Dr. Beckett Mahnke, a 1991

Upsilon graduate, recently completed a 7-month tour of duty as a medical doctor in Iraq in support of U.S. military and the nation’s civilians.

Mahnke, who is an officer and trained as a pediatric cardiologist, was stationed at a military hospital in the Green Zone in Baghdad. His tasks were more in line with general medicine and all non-surgical needs for Americans, Iraqi government officials and their civilian families.

Beckett is back in Hawaii at a military hospital, where he treats congenital heart defects in soldiers, pregnant women and their young children throughout the Pacific Region, which includes trips to military bases in Guam and Japan. He trained in Seoul and Pittsburgh. Doctors serve less than one year in Iraq, so they can return to their home hospital and keep their specific skills up to date.

Beckett wasn’t sure what to expect of his deployment, but after returning, he would sign up immediately for another trip to Iraq: “I was pretty excited to go, and it was much more enjoyable than I expected. It was a very unique experience. Five years ago, I was dreading going there. But, if they tapped me on the shoulder, I’d go immediately.”

In Iraq, Iraqi government ministers and American VIPs are treated at the hospitals in the Green Zone, which is safe for the most part. The Green Zone is relatively small at 5 square miles, and it is an inviting target for insurgents to lob in shells.

Loudspeakers will everyone to take cover when a shell is detected, and all the workers will scramble to protection.

Beckett was generally safe, but like all military officers, he has friends who were killed. He met a soldier named John Pryor while in Kuwait prior to deployment, and later learned that Pryor had been killed by a bomb in Mosul, after attending church with friends.

Some of Beckett’s most important work is treating Iraqi children who are burned and wounded by bombs. The goodwill generated by treating the most innocent and vulnerable in Iraq helps generate support from the nationals, and makes the service of the soldiers easier.

Beckett has gone on patrols with combat soldiers, wearing 35 pounds of body armor. With very high temperatures, soldiers carry 100 pounds of gear and weaponry and face shooting and bombs. They’re genuine athletes, but they don’t get paid for it.

“Our deployment was cush compared to them,” Beckett said. “It’s an honor to take care of those

guys, for everything they do for us and the Iraqis.”

Beckett also started a pet therapy program at his base, which aided soldiers suffering from PostTraumatic Stress Disorder. A British contractor next to the base had friendly Springer Spaniels as bombsniffing dogs, and Beckett asked about using them for therapy. The dogs helped soldiers to open up, reminding them of their dogs back home. Soldiers that are wounded and returning to the U.S. are usually depressed, because they want to stay and fight with their buddies. So, the dogs help those soldiers, too. One day, a VIP was visiting the hospital and saw one of the dogs, and asked “What’s this?”

Beckett thought he was busted, for having dogs in the hospital. Instead, he said, “This is awesome, I have a pet therapy dog at Walter Reed (the Army hospital in Maryland).”

Beckett’s observations about the Iraq War include the large number of civilian contractors (including the British company that provides bomb-sniffing and guard dogs). He said that most of the Iraqis are thankful for the work and sacrifices of the Americans, and simply want to work and improve their families’ lives. The country was developed and had a highly-educated workforce prior to the 1980 Iran-Iraq War. But the country now suffers from a huge brain drain, because all of the smart professionals want to move to America to get away from the violence.

Part of Beckett’s work included a semi-exchange program with Iraqi doctors. Although, the Iraqis are so well-trained, that the Americans could offer very little new information. The Iraqi medical system has the knowledge, but its problem is its shortages in resources.

While visiting with those doctors, Newsweek snapped a photo that ended up on its website, which Beckett did not realize until his friends started emailing him. Beckett learned about the cultural differences in medical treatment. He prescribed a medicine for a child with asthma, but Iraqi doctors usually prescribed it for a cancer treatment. They thought the family would ignore his advice, but Beckett later received a letter of thanks from the child’s family.

Beckett was considering marine biology or medicine after graduating from UCLA. He selected medicine because a friend’s fiancé died, and he wanted to have a larger impact (kind of like our Creed—in the service of God and man). He entered the Uniformed Services University as a U.S. Army officer and then selected pediatric cardiology, because the improving the lives of children produces a lifetime of returns, up to 70 years of a healthy life.

Beckett returns stateside to California when he can and meets up with Brian Gorman and Andrew Dearborn in northern California for hiking and rockclimbing, and he also stays in contact with Steve Schechter.

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A Ukrainian beacon in the East Village

By Julia Moskin, New York Times About 40 years ago,

Tom Birchard (GH - Rutgers ’68) — a mild young New Jersey man of Pennsylvania Dutch and Midwestern antecedents — showed up at a fraternity party at Rutgers University, and was sucked unwittingly into the rest of his life.

“You meet a girl, you never know what is going to happen,” he said last month, gesturing around the bustling dining room of Veselka, an East Village restaurant famous for its garlicky, peppery Ukrainian dumplings and borscht.

Mr. Birchard married the girl, Marta. She was a daughter of Wolodymyr Darmochwal, an agronomist who, along with thousands of other professionals, was expelled from Ukraine after World War II, when it was under Soviet rule. After two years in a displaced-persons camp in Germany, the family settled in New Jersey and opened Veselka on the corner of Second Avenue and Ninth Street as a combined newsstand, canteen and community center in 1954.

Photos: Natalie Behring for The New York Times

The marriage did not endure, but the restaurant did. Mr. Birchard, 63, who went to work for his father-in-law in 1967, is now the sole owner. Over several decades that turned Veselka into a canteen for anarchists and artists as well as Ukrainians, he became many things he never expected: an honorary Ukrainian-American, a community leader and performance art patron.

His steady employment of pirogi-folders, sauerkraut-brewers and

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kielbasa-makers has made him an unlikely Anglo-Saxon Noah of a food culture that is fading in the East Village, though the neighborhood was a haven for Eastern European immigrants for more than 100 years.

At this time of year, Mr. Birchard is also a dispenser of Ukrainian Christmas spirit. From Dec. 24 to Jan. 6 — the date of Christmas Eve in the Ukrainian Orthodox Church — the restaurant serves the Sviata Vecheria, a traditional 12-dish dinner that is meatless and dairy-free. It is eaten before Mass and is followed, on Christmas morning, by a prodigious feast of ham and sausages.

The meal begins with kutya, a thick porridge of wheat berries and sugared poppy seeds that promises a sweet year ahead.

Traditionally (and on Jan. 6) the man of the house offers bread, honey and kutya to everyone at the table, pronouncing blessings on each for the new year. Mykola Kamyanka, one of Veselka’s managers, said that the woman of the house does the same for any animals in the barn. “Even the cows and the chickens get a taste of kutya,” he said. “They are part of the family, too.”

The dinner ends with uzvar, a sweet, spiced compote of dried fruit. “Everyone in Ukraine — Catholics, Orthodox, whatever — shares the same meal that night,” said Andrew Lastowecky, a Ukrainian-American who has been a regular at Veselka since the 1950s, and who was eating a dinner of stuffed cabbage with mushroom gravy and potato dumplings on Dec. 24.

Today, Ukrainian food — with its repetitive repertory of root vegetables, pork, and sweet and sour tastes — does not seem all that exotic. But to Mr. Birchard, the flavors of the food and the warmth of Ukrainian family life, as well as the excitement of the New York streets, proved irresistible. The East Village in

News from Alumni the Polish term for the plump dumplings more properly called varenyky in Ukrainian. “I challenge Tom on nomenclature all the time,” Mr. Lastowecky said.

“There are those who would be offended to see the word ‘pirogi’ on a Ukrainian menu.”

Andrew Lastowecky, left, a Ukrainian-American who has been a regular at Veselka since the 1950s, sits with Tom Birchard, the restaurant’s owner.

the late 1960s was in transition from a starting point for upwardly mobile immigrant families — Jewish, Italian, Polish, Puerto Rican — to a bohemian, raucous, eventually ungovernable incubator of New York’s counterculture.

“We were in and out of Veselka all day, every day,” said Penny Arcade, the writer and performance artist who arrived in the neighborhood as a teenage runaway in 1967 and is still a Veselka regular. “It had the Village Voice before anywhere else, a row of phone booths, smokes for a dime and cheap good food that never changed.” Mr. Darmochwal, she said, never hid his disapproval of the hippies and beatniks, artists and punks who lingered there over coffee and cigarettes and free challah. “But he never threw us out, either,” she said — even in 1969, when an anarchist squirted him with breast milk after he objected to her breast-feeding at the table.

On Mr. Birchard’s watch, Veselka has sponsored performance artists including Ms. Arcade, David Leslie and Karen Finley, whom the restaurant supplied with gallons of honey to be poured over her naked body for her recent “Honey Dance” series.

Once, the celebrated artists of the East Village were instead performing “King Lear” and vaudeville sketches in Yiddish. In the late 19th century, as Jewish immigrants arrived from the region, Second Avenue became a

global center for Yiddish theater, music and culture. After 1900, Mr. Lastowecky said, when nonJewish Ukrainians followed, they settled among the sounds, smells and tastes of the villages they had left behind.

“It was a very familiar mix from the Old Country,” he said. “Kosher butchers, pork butchers, dairy restaurants, the same music, the same languages.” Here, they established churches, baths, cafes, and a headquarters for Plast, a nationalist Ukrainian youth organization that was banned by the Soviet government. (Plast owns the building that houses Veselka.)

Mr. Birchard said that during the 1980s he worried that he would never be able to sustain the Ukrainian traditions at Veselka, since the flow of emigrants had dried up. “And now look,” he added, gesturing to the four young Ukraine-born women who were rapidly folding varenyky and vushka, plump mushroom-and onion-filled dumplings resembling tortellini. Vushka are part of the Sviata Vecheria, and are made only at Christmastime.

“Every girl in the Ukraine knows how to make them,” said Maria Maksymiuk, who perched a couple of vushka on her fingers to demonstrate their shape.

“Vushka” means little ears, and with their curvy whorls, that’s just what they look like, especially when they turn bright red in a bowl of vegetarian borscht.

Mr. Birchard said that now there

Of the old Ukrainian restaurants in the neighborhood, which included Leshko’s, the Kiev and many others, only Veselka has transformed itself into a fully Ukrainian-American restaurant, and endured. “It’s because of how Tom Birchard welcomed the whole community of the East Village that Veselka is still around and still popular,” Ms. Arcade said.

“This man keeps us going,” said Julian Baczynsky, throwing his arms around Mr. Birchard before crowds of Christmas shoppers. Mr. Baczynsky, 86, is a butcher whose smokehouse, across the street, supplies Veselka with 200 pounds of kielbasa (kobasa in Ukrainian) each week.

Veselka, like the East Village itself, has become cleaner and brighter over the years, but the food is still perfect for cold weather, with a savory earthiness and bright, clean flavors. “The Veselka Cookbook,” published last year, illustrates how, through small adjustments in seasoning (black pepper or garlic, caraway or carrot), texture and technique, a richly varied cuisine can evolve from a limited group of ingredients.

Ukraine changed hands several times in the 20th century, moving from Austro-Hungarian rule to the Soviet Union to today’s independent statehood, and each change took a new wave of Ukrainian immigrants to the East Village. By the 1950s, it had one of the largest Ukrainian communities in the world.

During the later Soviet era, contact between the East Village and Ukraine became difficult, and emigration rare. Veselka was staffed mostly by Polish women, including four pirogi-makers who worked together for 25 years and were “the backbone of the place,” Mr. Birchard said. To make pirogi that are light but substantial, savory but not aggressive, and perfectly consistent is not easy, he said.

Veselka is particularly famous for its pirogi, although that is

is a steady flow of young people from the cities of Kiev and Lviv who turn up on Veselka’s doorstep looking for work in the kitchen, where almost everything is still made from scratch. “Everyone in Ukraine knows about Veselka,” said Mr. Kamyanka, one of Veselka’s managers. “It is probably the most famous Ukrainian restaurant in the world.”

That said, to be a regular at Veselka is to become truly intimate with beets, cabbages, onions and potatoes. “You can’t eat this food every day,” said Jason Lee, a Korean-American art student who lives a few blocks away. “Every so often, I manage to eat a whole order of pirogi, and then I’m pretty much set for a week.”

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Adytum on High True Model of Brotherhood On January 2, 2010, our Brother Geno Zayid (GA - Detroit Mercy, ’80) passed on to the Adytum on High after a long illness.

In the 32 years since he joined Sigma Pi, Geno was a true model of Brotherhood and a friend to all who knew him, and even after his passing, he remained a remarkable inspiration to his Gamma Alpha Brothers.

When word got out about his deteriorating health, Brothers from as far away as New York and Oregon flew into Detroit. On the day of his wake, Brothers from The Detroit Metropolitan area, Northern Michigan, and Kentucky drove in to pay respects and honor him, and Brothers in Arizona, Texas and Florida, who could not be present, were in touch by phone and email.

On the evening of January 3, at St Mary’s Orthodox Church in Livonia, MI, a group of about 30 Brothers from Gamma Alpha and other local chapters were honored to participate in the Rite of Commendation to the Adytum on High, led by Grand Sage George Hakim (Gamma Alpha, Detroit Mercy, 1978), who was Chapter Sage when Geno pledged. Many people, including the priest and deacon at the church were moved by our ritual, and had never before seen such a Fraternity ceremony. Some family members who knew Geno was in a Fraternity, expressed a deeper understanding of how much Sigma Pi meant to Geno, and for those of us present, it was a reminder of how strong a bond we have.

Geno was a friend to everyone who knew him, and was always ready to assist anyone. While some out-of–town Brothers were in Michigan, we gathered to tell stories and look at old photos, and were not surprised to see that Geno was in nearly all of them.

He was a big part of our lives, and he will be sorely missed, but he continued to bring people together, since at his funeral Brothers who had lost contact and not seen each other in 10 or 20 years were reunited, and bonds were reestablished and

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strengthened. Many resolved never again to allow so much time to pass without seeing each other.

Sad as it was, this was a reminder for all who participated of how enduring our Brotherhood is, not only during life, but in the inspiration each of us can leave behind. By making a difference in someone else’s life, we will live on through them and everyone they encounter.

Dr. Judson C. ‘Jake’ Ward, 97, Emory icon

by Rick Badie, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution On past Halloween weekends, Emory University’s Miller-Ward Alumni House would turn into a fun fest for graduates, their families, even folk outside the college circle.

The annual event was called “Jake’s Open House” for its host, Dr. Judson “Jake” Ward Jr. (Y - Emory ’33) After all, be it on campus or outside its confines, Dr. Ward was all about community.

“He was a magnet for community,” said Dr. Gary S. Hauk, vice president and deputy to Emory President James W. Wagner. “He was one of those spirits you encounter from time to time who [possessed] graciousness, openness and a real concern for people’s welfare.”

This year, the Halloween bash didn’t take place. Thank budget cuts.

But it may return to honor Dr. Judson C. “Jake” Ward Jr. of Decatur. He died Sunday at Budd Terrace Nursing Home from complications of hip surgery. He was 97.

A memorial service will be at 2:30 Wednesday at Glenn Memorial United Methodist Church on the campus of Emory University. Mayes Ward-Dobbins Funeral Home of Marietta is handling arrangements.

Dr. Ward’s Emory ties span decades. There, he earned his bachelor’s degree (1933) and a

Judson C. Ward

master’s degree (1936), both in history.

Then he entered the workforce, first as a history and English teacher at Fitzgerald High in South Georgia. He also taught at Georgia Teachers College, now Georgia Southern University, and at Birmingham-Southern College.

He earned his doctoral degree in history from the University of North Carolina. He then served as president of Georgia Teachers College prior to being named an assistant chancellor for the state university system.

In 1948, the Army veteran returned to Emory as the school’s dean of the undergraduate liberal arts college and as a professor of Georgia history. Nine years later, he was promoted to vice president and dean of faculties.

In 1970, he was named executive vice president, a post he retired from in 1979, according to the Emory University Web site.

As an Emory administrator, Dr. Ward oversaw the admission of women to all campus schools. He presided over the admission of the first black student.

In 1984, the historian volunteered to oversee the Emory Alumni Association’s travel

program. A year later, he became dean of alumni, where he helped keep the network vibrant and strong.

“He was more like a figurehead for us,” said Allison Dykes, vice president for alumni relations, “but it was much more than that because he actually worked with us. His role was to help us engage alumni, and he had the history and relationships to do that.”

So without question, the Marietta native can be considered an Emory icon. It came honest, said his son, Peter Ward of Marietta.

“Emory, absolutely, was his life,” his son said. “He developed a love of education at a very early age, and he was good at it. He had an unusual curiosity about him.”

At Emory, Dr. Ward was more administrator than teacher. He satisfied his itch for the latter with the “Young Couple’s Class,” a Bible study group, at Glenn Memorial United Methodist Church. He taught the class 56 years.

“On his 30th anniversary as the teacher of the class, the members, in a tribute to him, changed the name of the class to the Jake Ward Class,” said senior pastor David Jones.

Adytum on High Gifts in memory of a brother of Sigma Pi are accepted by the Sigma Pi Educational Foundation. Once a gift is received, a card of acknowledgement is sent to the donor and, if possible, a card announcing the memorial contribution is sent to the immediate family of the one remembered or person honored.

Please contact the SPEF office (800) 332-1897, email: edfund@sigmapi.org Arkansas State - Alpha-Pi Ward C Davis ‘2007 Oct 2009

Jacob M Johnsen ’48 2/22/06 Henri F Frank ’41 8/28/09

Auburn - Alpha-Delta Cohen D Jones ’62

Detroit - Gamma-Alpha Geno T Zayid ’81

Ball State Univ - Delta-Nu Scott A Gildersleeve ’77 9/30/09

Drexel- Beta-Theta William T Harvey ’82 12/17/00 Thomas J Snyder ’51 3/10/09

Barton - Beta-Rho Winfred N Shearon ’69 7/2/97 Bentley - Iota-Theta Sean B Williams ’10 1/10/10 California - Iota Wadsworth Turner ’19 Jan 1978 Earl A Davis ’20 March 1966 James L Welch ’21 Sept 1961 Terrel L Duncan ’21 Sept 1961 John F Hettrich ’24 Feb 1974 Howard Willoughby ’34 12/13/89 James E Marren ’25 4/25/1995 Merritt T Davidson ’23 12/6/91 Victor T Cranston ’26 2/14/1990 George M Dixon ’26 8/23/1991 Foster H Taft ’24 7/29/1996 Leland T McConnell May 1979 Walter E Vincent ’25 July 1973 Goodwin L Foster March 1977 Brainerd H Hill ’27 Jan 1966 George M Stanton ’29 Nov 1987 D.J. Herring 2/25/2002 Christy T Allen ’30 May 1978 Alan H Laidlaw ’30 Dec 1978 Lewis M Allen 1/13/98 Juan C Hayes ’32 9/26/1998 Jack H Brockhagen ’31 11/15/02 Elmond N Sewell ’31 10/26/2001 Alan C Carrier ’31 12/18/1988 Capt. Whitney Jones ’34 3/22/97 Cyril G Hansen ’33 12/31/1999 Robert C Howard ’40 11/10/2008 William C Yates ’33 Dec 1993 George F Larsen Jr. ’33 April 1993 John A Rutter ’35 5/29/2002 Frederick A Vallejo Jr. ’35 Jan 85 Walter I Christie Jr. ’35 3/24/2004 Ardell F Lawton ’37 1/28/2001 Weare C Little Jr. ’36 7/17/93 James J Halpin ’56 9/5/09 Cal State - Dominguez Hills - Eta-Iota Adrian E Rodriguez ’05 8/4/09 Cornell - Mu William L Malone ’21 May 1951 Morton P Woodward ’20 1/14/2004 Harry N Maar Sept 1978 Frederick W Wrede Jr. ’24 Feb 1980 William H Summerson ’27 4/86 William W Roberts ’33 Nov 1966 David W Lippert ’33 7/12/1992 Lewis M Nutting ’32 1/8/2004 Myron W Osborn Jr. ’36 Apr 1982 Henry H Westcott ’36 11/19/2002

Eastern Illinois - Beta-Gamma Forrest R France ’74 10/31/2009 Edwin Clarence Hussemann ’68 2/3/2009 Richard L Parker ’52 6/9/2008 Robert T Parker ’52 5/22/2008 Richard A Davis ’52 11/4/2007 Charles F Blakely’51 11/28/2008 Gail O Blair ’57 3/25/2003 Stephen L Allison ’64 5/18/01 Emory - Psi Judson C Ward ’33 11/1/2009 Fairmont State - Gamma-Epsilon Larry A Bell ’72 Larry A Conaway ‘72 Ferris State - Theta-Theta Dane L Crystal ’07 6/27/09 Franklin & Marshall - Nu Jeremiah R Rothermel Dec 1983 Charles M Kresge ’23 3/25/92 Robert B Myers ’25 6/11/1998 Andrew M Wiley ’26 Jan 1993 Norville E Shoemaker ’28 Dec 1981 Richard F.M. Fisher 4/7/1991 David F Chambers Jr. ’29 6/16/95 Rupert E Herr ’30 June 1982 Harold M Frantz ’30 12/22/95 Charles J Rath Jr. ’30 1/28/1993 Raymond G Frey ’30 3/7/2004 Andrew C Smith ’31 8/24/1988 Clair G Frantz ’30 March 1981 Cecil E Herington ’37 Dec 1981 Arthur E Sergeant ’32 11/3/1988 Roland R Spangler ’32 2/9/2000 Paul H Hershey ’33 10/2/2002 Henri S Yeager ’33 April 1976 Harry J Bader ’33 9/14/1999 Scott W Spencer ’35 12/22/1992 Wendell E Mook D.O. ’36 11/13/2000 Charles Y Tanger Jr. ’36 5/5/1991 Leonard C Mook Jr ’36 7/10/89 Warren W Stiely ’37 Jan 1976 Edward E Birchall ’39 4/15/2004 John W Hartman ’51 Stewart “Bob” R. Thorbahn ’52 1968 George H Menzel ’47 11/2/2009 Georgia - Alpha-Phi William P Lovett ’70 1-21-10 Michael “Sparky” C Bushaw ’81 12/16/09 Georgia Southern - Gamma-Tau Frank X Mulherin ’76 Sept 2009

Illinois - Phi LeRoy G Spencer ‘1914 Percy E Clark ‘1911 Paul W Mourning ‘1913 Royal L Smith ‘1916 Seeley W McGehee ‘1917 LeRoy M Foss ‘1921 Donald C Johnson ‘1922 William H Hammond ‘1918 Earl G Stone ‘1923 William H Holzinger ‘1924 Frederick W Richardson ‘1923 Frank L Shantz ‘1925 Farley L Thompson ‘1925 Donald Roy Simpson ‘1928 Donald R. Williams ‘1929 Austin W Davison ‘1929 Howard O Ullman ‘1930 Jack Barnett ‘1929 William K Maxwell Jr. ‘1930 William W. Batchelder Robert T Hamlet ‘1927 John F Schroeder Russell S Ratcliffe ‘1931 Fred W Ruhnke ‘1931 Walter E Brinn Jr. 10/18/96 Edward W Scott Jr. Clifford L McKellips ‘1931 6/30/91 Latimer Million ‘1928 Sept 1965 William N Holmes Robert J Wolgast 6/15/99 Charleton K Williams ‘1931 1/7/01 Arthur A Esslinger ‘1931 Clayton Esslinger ‘1933 Feb 1986 Ernest Jokinen ‘1931 Dan J Sullivan’1933 Phillip W McDowell ‘1933 1/11/1983 Clifford L Carroll ‘1931 Kenneth P Anderson ‘1931 7/3/200 Vincent F Nightingale ‘1934 1/11/2000 Joseph Klaus ‘1933 1/3/96 Herman F Johnson ‘1934 James H Cornell ‘1934 11/17/92 Wesley C Holmes ‘1934 Bliss L Charles ‘1933 6/21/03 Wendell F Shurtz ‘1932 7/27/98 Robert N Dillard ‘1934 Alfred J Kamm ‘1934 10/31/04 Wenford Rickman ‘1934 Apr 1981 James R Large ‘1936 1/15/90 John M Davies ‘1937 3/20/96 Roger J Sharkey ‘1936 5/31/90 Harry C Heidinger ‘1935 9/21/2000 Hugh F Fowler ‘1937 1/14/99 Russell G Carlin ‘1938 July 1979 Allen J Gugler ‘1937 4/8/94 Lynn G Thompson ‘1938 1/28/96 Frank F Schack ‘1940 4/4/03 Richard R Cherskove ‘1938 2/25/76 Illinois Wesleyan - Epsilon-Gamma Joel R Hapke ’78

Indiana - Beta Donavon Q Nicholson ’49 8/16/09 Iowa - Xi Robert J Tlusty ’22 April 1981 William E Ohms ’23 March 1973 Lynn E Sawyer 1/18/1995 Carmon F Weed ’23 April 1971 Cleo S Roberts ’26 May 1969 John W Gauld ’25 Sep 1979 Stanley O Overland ’26 12/6/1997 Stanley G Fuller ’25 Feb 1980 Merrill H Messerli Jan 1982 Roland C Travis June 1978 Wesley S Shaler July 1965 Freeman L Stillman Sep 1980 Walter P Nelson ’27 9/22/1993 Robert L Wilson ’27 Nov 1971 Chauncey P Broughton ’27 Oct 1968 George D Lower ’26 5/20/1994 Harm D Peters July 1986 Edwin C Lipton July 1981 Basil G Reed ’28 March 1984 Albert E Bennett July 1985 Wendell W Lotts June 1967 Arvel C Scales 6/19/1990 Earl W Soesbe ’29 1/11/2001 Amond N Fiscus ’30 Jan 1983 Merl P Seilhamer ’29 May 1968 Elbert G Heiserman ’29 Jan 1973 George H Buck Jr. ’30 Jan 1973 William M Parkins ’31 June 1982 Leland O Graham ’31 March 1983 Wentworth W Lobdell ’31 1/7/2005 Leonard W Mochal ’32 Nov 1980 Aubrey B Taylor ’33 Oct 1993 James M Wilson ’32 2/20/1996 Robert H Isensee ’33 12/1/1995 Herbert M Gale ’31 1/11/1992 Arthur C Nehring ’31 8/5/1995 Gordon C Armstrong ’31 10/23/1992 Frank S Tuttle ’33 7/1/1994 Arnold A Allan ’35 6/10/1999 John R Stoakes ’34 April 1971 Elvin D Thompson ’33 4/20/1989 George A Ammann Sr. ’33 5/22/08 Clarence E Wood Jr. 8/23/1993 Elmer L Wintermeier ’37 March 1977 Townsend M Brown ’37 1/19/2000 Thomas H Birch ’38 7/1/07 Stanley F Chiang ’91 Nov 2008 Iowa State - Sigma Ivan H Ramsey Nov 1979 Solon B Renshaw ’42 Sep 1971 Arlyn W Pickford July 1978 Cameron L Page Aug 1987 Elting W Hanna ’21 Feb 1964 Clarence C Armstrong ’26 Nov 1967 Lyman A Sanders Oct 1969 Clarence J Hansman ’25 Feb 1979 Arthur B Olson ’25 June 1974 Harry E Rood 12/5/1995

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Adytum on High Everett L Gensicke Dec 1968 Frederic A Lyman ’26 Aug 1977 Belford A Anderson ’27 6/14/1991 Ralph E Fisher Jan 1975 George L Houle ’26 March 1971 Oscar W Oja ’28 Jan 1973 Lewis H Harding ’28 9/23/93 Lloyd W Brown ’28 May 1973 Ralph R Connelly ’30 Oct 1981 Lawrence E Moller ’30 Aug 1987 Orville F Drennan ’30 Nov 1978 Theron S Smith ’31 Dec 1981 L. Raymond Speicher ’31 3/20/2000 Lowell Goodman ’36 Sep 1997 Kenneth L Cosgriff ’56 8/17/07

Kenyon - Lambda Clarence J Ader ’20 Feb 1986 Rolland P Schneider Dec 1986 Arthur H Torrance ’24 June 1975 Dana W Niswender ’23 May 1976 Robert L Thebaud ’25 7/17/1999 Lawrence W Mills ’26 9/5/1988 John R Dangler ’27 1/1/1988 Henchel K Bennett ’27 1/16/1996 Clarence M French ’27 4/11/1993 William R Cotts ’28 Aug 1975 Clifford J Kraemer ’28 Dec 1980 Harold Thebaud ’28 4/19/2008 John R Pierce ’30 7/13/1998 Dr. Neal Dow ’29 8/19/1994 Dane O Sprankle ’29 Oct 1984 John W Briggs ’30 3/18/1993 Charles J Kinzel ’30 Aug 1985 Edward M Schempp ’30 Apr 1984 James A Hughes ’31 July 1987 Arthur D Wolfe ’31 5/23/2000 David R Whiting ’32 12/24/1995 William T Hatcher ’34 9/1/2001 Richard B Stambaugh ’34 1/17/98 Albert F Shorkey ’35 4/18/1999 Thomas F Hudgins ’33 4/8/2004 Howard H Wilson ’36 11/5/1996 Robert T Skiles ’37 Feb 1985 Donald S Ferito ’37 9/24/1997 Robert B Kimball ’37 5/31/1988 Harry A Koegler Jr. ’38 8/22/1993 Jack D Runner ’37 10/3/1992 William P Weeks ’39 11/3/2003 Charles W Henderson ’39 Aug 87 Francis H Boyer ’40 Jan 1979 Francis E Rogers ‘1919 John C Vanpelt ‘1922 Morris A Thomas ‘1922 Robert M Heinbuch ‘1921 Clarence S Nelson ’1923 Russell E Francis ‘1926 Elwood P Lawrence ’1926 Robert W Tyson ‘1927 Edmund W Westland ‘1927 Hupert E Williams ‘1929 Frederick B Shoaff Jr. ‘1929 Allen W Broden ’1930 Landon B Woodruff ‘1930 Rowland H Shepherd ‘1931 Lock Haven -Beta-Omega Doane C Bower ’69 4/20/06

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Louisiana State - Alpha-Kappa John L Bellinger ’50 Louisiana Tech - Delta-Lambda Michael G Turner ’89 12/26/09 Loyola-Chicago - Beta-Chi Kenneth D Klug ’71 Missouri - Gamma-Sigma William A Cuva ’12 12/17/2009 Missouri STL - Delta-Zeta Edward Farrell ’72 10/6/09 North Carolina State - Rho Peter W Patton Jr. ’26 Jan 1986 John D Wallace ’21 April 1987 Frederick A Love ’30 2/4/1998 John P Rugheimer Jr. 6/2/89 Richard C Tucker ’30 2/13/98 Richard C Tucker ’30 2/13/98 Jacob T Towson Jr. 12/30/1994 Reuben O Bundy ’31 9/13/2001 Richard E Spruill ’31 Feb 1965 Harvey C Tucker ’32 10/31/2004 Elwin H Atwood ’31 Aug 1984 George M Bromfield ’32 9/3/1990 Charles N Gross ’32 12/26/1992 Henry E Craven Jr. ’33 12/16/06 Leslie C Vipond ’33 8/14/1993 Milton R Vipond ’33 3/12/2001 Robert M Lightfoot Jr. ’31 1/26/93 George R Berryman ’32 May 1982 Everett H Shands ’33 April 1983 Fred A Doerrie ’34 2/25/1994 Harry J Brown Jr. ’36 9/23/2007 Ernest J Lassen ’34 4/7/2005 John R Gaydowski ’37 March 1971 William H Milloway Jr. ’39 8/7/05 Rice G Strange ’59 Billy E Gupton ’46 Aug 2009 Leete R Doty ’63 Northern Illinois - Beta-Sigma Stanley Dambrauskas ’64 10/11/02 Ohio - Epsilon James E Rodgers ’75 Aug 2009 Manly E Burgin ’20 Dec 1975 Harley E Swartz ’21 May 1978 Robert W Hixson ‘1922 Apr 1984 Walter H Stewart ’21 April 1972 Paul E Stewart ’23 Jan 1976 Abel R Miller ’24 Oct 1982 Theodore M Woodruff ’24 May 1968 Casel J Grove 12/12/1999 William G Moler ’26 Apr 1980 Marion A Conkle ’26 July 1981 Gerard C Powell ’27 Nov 1982 Ralph A Kennard ’27 Feb 1987 Charles B Blythe ’27 3/3/1989 John H Crawford ’28 Jan 1972 Ralph K Zimmerman ’28 Sep ‘80 Donald W Powell ’29 Feb 1974 Delbert O Waud ’29 Sept 1978 William M Balliette Jr ’30 March 1978 Ralph W Detrick ’30 9/11/1971 Robert W Linton ’30 3/18/1989

Russell A Unkrich ’30 7/13/95 Arno Reuter ’32 March 1979 Robert K Smith ’31 5/28/1988 Paul L Young ’31 March 1974 Harold C Kennard ’31 5/28/1997 Robert W Cooper ’32 8/15/1998 Lindley M Smith ’32 May 1981 Charles E Washing ’34 Apr 1969 William T Barnes ’35 1/11/1989 Robert N Lashbrook ’35 12/5/90 Edward E Ames ’36 3/25/2005 Raymond F Harrold ’36 12/9/1998 Robert A Wassum ’36 12/29/90 George E Minister ’36 Oct 1978 Ray E Biddle ’36 12/31/2002 Harley B Gooding ’37 12/31/2004 John W main ’35 2/27/05 Norman F Boltz ’36 2/8/2001 Wilson A Schoneberger ’37 3/5/95 William H Pohler Jr ’37 11/24/05 Warren E Ullom ’37 9/7/97 Burton L Onweller ’37 7/17/98 Albert G Bergesen ’37 5/30/1999 Maurice E Whitcum ’38 7/27/89 Harold N Carlisle ’40 10/13/91 Stewart Barnes ’40 11/7/1987 John I Beicher ’39 11/18/89 Charles R Standen ’39 3/4/1993 Douglas P Morrison ’32 9/6/1999 Harry M Burgy ’40 11/7/2001 Robert D Laird ’45 Raymond C Scheel ’43 Frederick W Rosser ’45 Robert E Chapman ’45 James W McCutcheon ‘46 Robert W Jones ’46 Jack H Coleman ’46

Ohio Northern - Zeta William A Caudill ’16 Dec 1972 Loren E Wagner ’16 Sept 1975 Harry C Peters ’16 Sep 1970 David W Morgan ’1913 Apr 1973 Craig W Marshall ‘1917 Apr 1969 Harry H Lunn ’15 Jan 1987 Troilus G Bridge May 1979 Donald C Silver ’22 4/29/1989 Harold J Welling ’23 Jan 1980 Rudolph B Light ’21 4/21/1992 Robert C Greer Jr. ’24 3/24/1990 Robert A Fisher ’24 June 1970 Carter M Patton ’24 Nov 1976 Walter C Ritchie ’25 Feb 1969 George L Cretors ’25 March 1986 Paul D Michel ’26 Dec 1975 Grover A Hughes ‘1912 July 1981 Russell J Masonn ‘1926 10/3/2003 Gilbert B Strong ‘1928 dec 1981 Paul S Carothers ‘1928 Apr 1973 Raymond E Steele ’29 12/2/1996 Henry B Brumbach ’27 1/5/92 Ralph L Jacoby ’30 3/31/1992 Franklin W Simmons ’29 3/28/91 Thomas F Goodyear ’29 5/28/93 Charles W Stoner ’31 July 1975 Howard V Nussbaum ’29 8/3/1999 Dale M Fowler ’30 Feb 1987

Daniel H Miller ’29 Feb 1981 Donald Hambleton ’31 Jan 1979 Virgil J Mellott ’31 June 1980 Merle E Carson ’32 April 1976 Glen D Mauk ’31 Feb 1978 James M Ebaugh ’31 7/3/1993 Max D Moorhead ’32 2/23/1999 Gilbert H Graham ’32 8/13/1995 Edward H Rickenberg ’33 Dec 1978 John O Moorhead ’33 7/21/93 John J States ’33 Oct 1993 Clyde F Hedderly ’34 April 1979 Layton E Tracht ’35 8/1/2003 Robert H King ’33 4/7/1997 Ralph W Metz ’36 2/11/1991 John C Owens ’37 5/11/1988 Raymond J Olsem ’38 June 1978 John E Wiant ’38 4/23/1992 Kenny L Rhoades ’63 2/6/09 Kneeland J Roffe ‘12/25/1957

Ohio State - Gamma Norman F Booth ‘1921 3/15/93 Alvin L McKinstry ’1927 Dec‘80 Kenneth E Moore ’27 Oct 1985 Harold W Morris ’29 Mar 1976 J Kenneth Crawford ’29 4/11/93 Glen M Ford ’30 July 1980 Ralph W Tapper ’32 3/28/09 Harold A Henderson ’31 Oct 1972 Rex M Rankin ‘1934 April 1984 Robert H Firth Jr. 1933 9/11/1998 James C Hart 1933 5/19/1996 August J Sorensen 1933 6/19/05 DeForest W Chaffee ’34 9/15/91 Frank J Sercelj ’35 12/4/1990 Robert H Colburn ’35 2/3/2001 Rupert A Chaffee ’38 7/12/07 Edward W Augur ’37 Oct 1978 Ernest J Bahnsen ’37 12/5/05 Roger D Freriks ’38 2/17/92 Edwin H Hawley Jr. ’37 Apr 1980 Harrison E Tawney ’37 12/11/92 Oregon State - Omega Lauren D King ’53 12/22/2009 Pennsylvania - Delta Harold C Appenzellar ’23 Nov 1966 William D Ramborger ’26 Sep 76 Forrest C Ebright ’27 Nov 1974 Roy A Curl ’25 11/11/92 Ellis R Waring ’96 8/31/96 Daniel F Debeixedon May 1969 Louis K Buell ’29 5/21/99 Birger F Burman II ’32 4/1/93 Neil R Chapman ’31 8/9/89 Murray E Steeble ’33 1/1/98 George P Crillman ’31 8/31/2000 Harrison V Ferris ’32 12/25/96 Wesley A Mertz ’31 Aug 1971 Jack R Winterburn ’32 11/29/98 Francis K Bittenbender ’33 10/21/89 Oliver M Fanning ‘1935 5/1/02 John E Galm ’33 2/11/1989 Roland D Rulison ’33 9/21/89 Archibald W Thomas ’33 1/29/91 James A Hauze ’37 9/22/1992 Frederick Anne Jr. ’38 Oct 1984

Adytum on High Anton H Claus ’38 Oct 1987 Gordan R Vance ’38 1971 James W Lanning ’39 5/1/99

Penn State - Theta Charles H Myers ’39 7/28/09 George W Bauer ’26 3/29/95 John C Mairs ’29 12/3/1995 James W Reynolds ’31 1/7/1996 Hobart P Shultz ’31 8/11/1990 LeRoy Kurtz ’31 June 1972 Harold V Mentzer ’31 Oct 1981 Paul R Diveley ’31 1/18/2002 Daniel B Wedmore ’32 7/19/90 Glenn J Hoffman ’33 11/17/2004 Andrew W Patten ’34 12/2/2002 Harry Knecht ’33 April 1982 Henry F Sturgis ’35 3/7/1995 Robert H Small ’36 March 1982 Edwin L Singley ’36 5/31/1997 Robert E Frew ’36 Nov 1981 Ray J Daley ’37 4/10/1990 Frank B Wright Jr. ‘36 4/25/1999 Weston D Gardner ’38 9/25/1998 Edmund F Jones ’38 Dec 1979 William H Boyer ’38 2/16/1990 Joseph R Golightly ’39 July 1985 Paul L Cox Jr. ’39 7/7/2002 Arthur R Blotter ’38 8/10/2009 Stanley M Bielski ’46 Aug 2009 Pittsburgh - Chi Graydon M Campbell ‘26 5/19/92 Charles M Booher ’26 8/9/1993 Samuel G Fisher ’27 10/17/1988 William S Lampe ’27 Sep 1974 Linton D Means Jr. ’29 11/12/1990 Louis G Nicol Jr. ‘30 May 1974 Levan R Fleck ’31 May 1956 James W Aites ’33 Oct 1971 Purdue - Eta William W Ferguson ’30 1/16/98 Phillip S Murphy ’30 3/17/1993 Roy L Gibson ’30 3/25/2001 James R Freyermuth ’29 9/9/2000 Edgar D Harder ’33 May 1991 Donald C Pippel ’32 5/3/2004 Lloyd N Mosbey ’32 8/12/1994 Charles R Streich Jr. ’34 Jan 1982 Donald B Glenn ’33 11/3/1989 Robert W Davis ’35 Apr 1978 Raymond J Voneman ’36 6/1/94 Dominick J Giovanni ’35 9/4/2002 Wilbur H Fricke ’37 9/7/1998 Ronald S Smith ’58 6/23/2009 Robert H Lehman ’39 2/17/09 Rhode Island - Alpha-Upsilon George R Nazareth ’52 Edward F McCaughey ’54 8/13/09 Rutgers State - Gamma-Eta James F Fisher ’76 10/17/09 Saint Lawrence - Alpha-Zeta Charles G Heltman ’41 1982

Salisbury University - Theta-Xi Charles A Figiel ’11 12/9/2009 Temple- Kappa David Martin ’34 5/27/97 Wilfred C Collin ’33 Nov 1978 John S Kotzen ’34 Oct 1974 John M Lodzsun ’33 3/22/2000 John T Swayne ’35 12/15/93 Malcom E Chance Jr. ’38 Dec 1976 Edward P Asmus ’40 11/27/03 James G Callas ’39 9/16/01 John A Hartman ’44 10/9/2009 Tulane - Omicron Hosea W McAdoo 6/16/1990 James B Compton ’23 Nov 1980 William R Fraser ’23 5/22/1998 Charles S McLellan 3/15/1972 Loyall D Farragut ’23 Apr 1978 Charles L Smith ’23 Dec 1973 Fred P Setzler ’23 July 1976 Robert S Wynn ’24 4/13/1991 William F Armstrong ’58 Jan 1978 Walton P Bondies April 1979 Sedgie L Newsome ’23 May 1975 Claude B Gullant ’25 May 1968 Ralph E King Dec 1974 Newell C Erwin ’24 April 1963 Lawrence D Moore ’26 12/22/88 William L Vaught ’26 4/29/96 Sidney L Soniat ’27 5/9/2000 Daniel K McInnis ’27 Jan 1985 Claiborne B Robertson ’31 4/30/89 Clyde R Ross ’31 7/9/1992 Joseph W Gunn ’35 March 1984 Joseph G Fernon 5/17/1994 UCLA - Upsilon Andrew L Diehl ‘48 Donald B Johns ’26 11/26/1994 Arthur A Jones ’24 March 1979 George O Koch ’23 9/30/1989 Albert E Dunford ’24 5/7/1993 Murray E McGowan ’24 Feb 1981 Lloyd D Hessel Jan 1980 Phillip M Haddox ’25 Nov 1983 Ralph E Smith ’27 Aug 1959 Robert N Henderson ’28 5/20/91 Delmar Wright ’29 6/2/1999 Robert J Newell ’31 Nov 1986 Homer E Oliver ’33 12/21/91 Allan G Cooley ’33 4/22/03 David E Beeman ’35 5/3/99 Boyd Cook ’35 March 1987 Karl O Van Leuven Jr. ’34 June 1978 Henry M Avery ’34 11/15/1989 Eugene H Myers ’35 11/27/1991 Edward B Dixson ’36 4/22/2008 Howard G Salisbury Jr. ’36 6/9/2008 Billy Brandt ’38 12/22/1994 Norman F Smith ’39 11/27/2001 Utah - Pi James T Anderson ’23 April 1982 Archibald Freebairn June 1985 Bert Merrill ’23 March 1974 Elbert L Cox ’23 Oct 1978 Lorenzo J Cummings ’23 Nov 1968

Martin M Harris April 1985 Donald A Vance May 1973 Thayer T Hills ’24 Oct 1968 Karl M Ward ’25 Sept 1978 Leslie P Barker 6/15/1990 John Y Bearnson ’23 Nov 1985 Louis P Croft ’24 Oct 1978 Brenton W Jennings ’24 1/12/1991 William B Hayes ’25 Feb 1982 Kenneth H Malan April 1977 Irvin Schindler ’26 Sep 1952 William A Price ’28 June 1986 James M Millward ’24 July 1974 Lawrence E Minear ’29 June 1982 Bartlett R Parkinson ’28 March 1983 Fenton C Bradford ’26 Jan 1970 John S Quick ’28 Nov 1977 Ferdinand E Peterson ’28 8/16/1993 Ervol O Olsen ’28 Dec 1969 William G Bywater ’30 3/13/1993 Wesley C Walton ’29 5/9/2006 Stanley Stringham ’29 May 1987 Victor Hamill ’29 Dec 1982 Mervyn S Sanders ’29 2/17/95 Jesse B Vance ’29 March 1973 Ralph R Merrell ’30 Feb 1980 Jesse C Jensen ’29 Apr 1979 Dwight W Flickinger 2/15/99 Glenn F Bunn ’30 Oct 1984 Grant A Strebel ’31 3/29/2005 Alton B Anderson ’30 May 1965 Landell S Merrill ’30 11/29/1995 LeRoy B Jex ’31 Sep 1970 Edison T Whitaker ’31 2/16/2003 Reed S Nielson ’31 10/17/1996 Wallace J James ’33 June 1971 Melvin B Granville ’32 Aug 1970 Phillip Howard ’33 Oct 1979 Llewellyn Leigh ’33 2/5/1993 Bryant E Rees ’33 May 1985 Thomas J Badger ’33 May 1971 David McCurdy Feb 1978 Harold R Vance ’33 7/6/87 Douglas F Erdman ’36 Feb 1978 Ramm Hansen 4/11/1995 Eastes W Murphy ’36 11/15/2000 Murray A Bywater ’37 5/1/2004 Donald E Brimley ’36 3/24/2002 Harold G Wise ’36 7/22/1998 Theron W Fortheringham ’35 4/13/2006 John Grosso Nov 1979 Aurelius E Miner ’35 9/20/07 Shelley A Swift ’38 7/28/2001 George E Price ’39 11/3/1997

Walter P Murphy ‘1900 William Stuckey ‘1899 Bert A. Meyer ‘1912 Eugene Stanford Omar E Wilson ’01 10/19/2009

Virginia - Beta-Pi Stephen J Coya ’75 Jun 2009 Virginia Poly Ins - Delta-Upsilon John F Beier ’74 Virginia Tech - Delta-Upsilon John F Beier ‘ 9/24/2007 Wake Forest - Alpha-Nu Andrew J Chinchiolo ’43 12/19/98 Washington - Alpha-Gamma Chester T Beals ’33 11/26/04 Wisconson-Madison - Tau James Hargan ’22 Feb 1982 Herbert F Holscher May 1979 Earl C Weitermann ’25 April 1964 Kenneth S Spoon ’25 Dec 1984 Lloyd H Rooney ’31 Feb 1982 Edward E Oberland 7/25/1997 Arthur W Michler ’28 May 1979 Adolph M Hutter ’28 June 1985 Arthur R Thomas ’28 9/18/1997 Edgar C Kuehl ’28 Dec 1977 Vincent B Mullins ’28 1/5/1999 Galen J Fleishauer Aug 1965 Wallace A Cole 2/3/1996 Albert W Wood ’30 10/15/1987 Adolph C Himley ’29 Jan 1976 Ernest Gruner ’29 1/10/1989 Ronald C Jones ’30 11/5/1996 Wilbur A Howe ’30 Dec 1980 Robert L Hoyle ’32 Oct 1992 Charles L Ludden ’34 3/24/2008

Utah State - Alpha-Psi Robert U Braithwaite ’51 Vincennes - Alpha Norman W. Fields ‘1909 Edwin I Marx ‘1908 Raymond A Welton ‘1908 Andrew Summit ‘1908 Horace T. Von Knappe ‘1907 Fred E Gantz ‘1903 E. O. Chowning ‘1903 Neville A Powell ‘1902 Hugh Peffley ‘1903

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WHEN IS CONVOCATION? Convocation will be held July 28th through August 1st, 2010.

WHERE IS CONVOCATION? Convocation will be at the Crowne Plaza Boston North Shore & CoCo Key Water Resort in Danvers, Massachusetts which is located 18 miles north of Boston.

WHO ATTENDS CONVOCATION? Each active chapter of the Fraternity is entitled to representation by one delegate and one alternate delegate, exclusive of any alumni club delegates, Grand Officers, Past Grand Officers, or Honorary Grand Officers, provided that the chapter is in good standing with the Fraternity.

Colonies also send one delegate and one alternate delegate who may participate in discussions, but are not allowed to vote. In addition, other interested brothers and pledges are encouraged to attend. A chapter or colony may bring as many members as they please.

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