Life-long Brotherhood M IC HA E L E . L A RG O msu67 It was a time of The Beatles and Motown. The Cold War raged on and a proxy war in Southeast Asia escalated. We were striving for the moon and civil rights. The city of East Lansing was still honoring Prohibition and women had to be in the dorm by midnight. And yet brotherhood prevailed at our house at 242 North Harrison. On Monday nights we would set aside our slide rules and attend a house meeting where chapter matters were discussed at length. We were near capacity at 31 actives. None of us worried about unemployment lines as we neared graduation. After graduation, in the decades that followed, the Berlin Wall came down as well as the Twin Towers. One president resigned and another was impeached. We got married, had careers, raised families, and retired. Meanwhile several attempts were made by the alumni of Triangle Fraternity at MSU to become involved with the fraternity and their alumni brothers. And then one day, the phone rang. It was brother James. I hadn’t seen him for 40 years. He brought pictures of our fraternity brothers and their wives from a reunion they recently had. This was the beginning of a series of annual reunions that continues today. Thanks to the advent of emails, a group of MSU Triangle alumni from the late 60s can easily be informed of upcoming reunions.
Hyde Park NY in 2018
Reunions have been held in Scottsville, VA; Williamsburg, VA; Plymouth, MA; East Lansing, MI, Orlanda, FL; Cameron, MO; Bowling Green, KY; the Finger Lakes region of New York, and other places. We visited attractions like the Plymouth Plantation, wineries in the Finger Lakes region of New York, Mammoth Cave National Park, the Corvette Museum, the Sandwich Glass Museum, the Culinary Institute of America, and the homes of Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt. On August 17, 2017 we went out to Cameron, Missouri for the total solar eclipse, only to get rained on. Once we gathered in East Lansing for a homecoming game but we were rained on there as well; although we did get to see the fraternity house again. At each reunion, we usually select one of the brothers and his wife to plan the next reunion. This year we plan on meeting in St. Louis. It’s great when someone we haven’t seen in a long time shows up at one of our reunions. We spend a lot of time gathering in the lobby of hotels just talking about recent and past events. This effort has been a great success and we hope that Triangle Brothers from other eras do the same. s
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