The Deke Quarterly Vol. 139. No.3 by Delta Kappa Epsilon Quarterly

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Greetings. We are pleased to deliver this summer edition of the DEKE Quarterly. I hope you enjoy it. This issue has several interesting articles. Two of the articles, in particular, share a link worth noting. It is the time of year we salute our outgoing senior class as the brothers begin a new chapter in their lives. This milestone of achievement and opportunity offers both questions to be explored and possibilities to be contemplated. A glimpse of what is possible can be found in this Quarterly’s cover story about Brother Teddy Tzanetos, Sigma Tau, MIT ‘12. As you will read, Brother Tzanetos works at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and is the Tactical Lead for Ingenuity, the helicopter that traveled to Mars aboard the Perseverance rover. While I am certain that there is nothing within my experience that would permit me to understand the idea of the remote operation of a four-pound helicopter from a distance of 45 million miles, the story serves to push the definition of what it means to contemplate what is possible. Clearly this challenge is not just for our graduating seniors, but for everyone. With all that we have weathered over the last year, the intersection of these two stories reminds me of the responsibilities we have and of the need to expect the most from our own initiative. At the very least, I pledge to think twice about the lazy use of the phrase, “Come on, it’s not rocket science.” I wish you, your family, and friends an enjoyable summer. In the Bonds,

Mason Morjikian Chairman of the Board Lambda-Kenyon ‘88

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DEKE FOUNDATION

DKE 2021 GRADUATES

COVER STORY

THE DEKE AND THE MARS HELICOPTER

DONOR LIST IN EVERY ISSUE

CHAIRMAN’S LETTER

HQ REPORT

DEKE NEWS

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HQ REPORT Greetings Fellow Deke Brothers,

page magazine. We always appreciate ideas for this section.

Welcome to the summer issue of the Quarterly, and I do hope you enjoy reading it. We’re very proud of the publication, not just this issue but each one we’ve created over the past several years. Our goal is to make each issue interesting and fun to read for Dekes of all ages and from all chapters. As Publisher, my biggest dread is that our readers find the magazine boring!

We occasionally run themed stories that highlight multiple Dekes who are involved in similar pursuits, such as the Deke Winemakers issue, or the Deke Music Titans, which was the cover story of our most recent issue. In fact, we are thinking of developing a feature for the fall issue about Dekes in agriculture, so if you or a Deke buddy are involved in farming or agriculture, please let me know. Is there another theme you think we could develop?

We send out a survey by email after every issue, so that we can learn from you, our readers, about the general direction of the We know that everyone would like to read magazine, and your feedback on specific more about their own chapter, and we try Doug Lanpher, articles and features. If you get that survey, hard at that, but one of the frustrations Executive Director please do us a favor and return it, as it with producing the Quarterly is that getting really does help us. Or, just send an email undergrads to send us 300 words and a to quarterly@dke.org with any comments, good, bad or photo or two is harder than you might think. By the way, otherwise. that’s not a “kids these days” comment, as our historical files show that this has been a challenge since, well, forever. Probably the best thing we can get from you is story ideas. If you have any suggestions about a subject which might So please, let us know your thoughts, specifically or in make a good story, whether it be about a general topic, or a general. What would you like to see more of, or less of? specific alum who is doing something interesting (including Should our magazine lean toward more alumni news and less yourself), please let me know. We’re not just talking about undergrad news, or vice versa, or a good mix of both? Do you “famous” Dekes, but anyone involved in an interesting career read the Mystic Circle obits, and do they take up the right or doing good work, like Dave Griffith or Dr. Dick Stasney in amount of space? Do you like reading alumni features such as the last issue. We know there is a lot of that in DKE but it the one on Toronto Deke Tom Wright in this issue? How about doesn’t always come to our attention unless someone tells our recurring column on “Forgotten Greats of DKE,” such as us! By the way, that’s how we found out about Teddy, our Sargent Shriver in this issue or Dick Clark in the last one? Do cover story for this issue. you enjoy the occasional column on “Dekes Under 30?” At our editorial meetings to map out each upcoming issue, we discuss what’s going on around DKE, recent events, alumni achievements, undergraduate news, and we try to select the subjects that we think will be of the most interest. Sometimes we’ll address a topic about something occurring in the fraternity industry, general trends, etc., but that’s not something we focus too much of our attention on in the magazine. However, if industry news and trends is something you’d like to read more about, please let me know. A fairly recent addition to our lineup is Deke News, which features shorter, quicker updates on news from IHQ or around the Deke Nation. That’s a good way for us to cover a lot of ground without taking up too much space in our 32-

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This is the kind of feedback that is valuable to us, so let us know. We want to produce a magazine of the greatest interest to all our readers, and you can help! Best wishes for the remainder of the summer to all of our loyal Deke Brothers. In the Bonds,

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

DEKE NEWS Northeastern Dekes Repair Founder Headstone

Founder Stetson’s headstone as Nu Alpha members discovered it, and after its repair in May.

special DKE history project that Nu Alpha associate chapter members began last fall is now complete. The headstone on the grave of DKE founder Albert Everett Stetson in Weymouth, Mass., has been repaired, thanks to the research and oversight work of the newest Dekes from Northeastern University. Led by Evan Massa, ’23, the project began with a mission set by alumni advisor Mac Brewer, Delta ’17, who suggested members try to learn some Boston-area DKE history. The results of their research turned out to be especially exciting and important to all of Delta Kappa Epsilon. First, the new members located Stetson’s 1857 gravesite, which was big news, since the cemetery did not have a record of Albert being buried alongside his parents until the query from Brother Massa. Then, when Nu Alpha members visited, they also discovered the headstone marking his grave was in pieces.

The Nu Alpha Dekes orchestrated efforts to raise funds for its professional repair and contracted to have the work done as soon as the spring weather permitted. “It was truly an emotional moment for me and the brothers to see the gravestone in its restored state— compared to how it looked when we found it last fall,” Brother Massa said.

Rebuilding Momentum for Regional Deke Clubs

ith the worst of the pandemic behind us, we hope to restart our existing Deke Clubs and even start a few more in 2021-22. Besides the original Deke Club in NYC (which is run by its own Board of Governors), there are regional Deke Clubs in Houston, Chicago,

Boston/New England, New Orleans, and Washington, D.C. DKE staff will be in touch with Deke leaders in these cities with hopes of getting some events planned for the near future. To any Dekes who are good organizers, Executive Director Doug Lanpher suggests “Let’s get some Deke Clubs started in other cities or regions!” He suggests opportunities exist in larger metro areas such as Dallas, Charlotte, San Francisco, and Toronto, but perhaps any region with 100 or more

Dekes could support a Deke Club. If you think your city or region could be a good place for a local Deke Club, please email craig@dke.org.

Minnesota Deke Lands National Science Foundation Grant

rew Brinker, a rising junior in DKE’s Phi Epsilon chapter, was awarded a $200,000 grant from the National Science Foundation this spring—a rare grant to an undergraduate-led

Yale Names Baseball Field for George H.W. Bush

any Dekes refer to him as Bush 41, or just 41. At Yale, he is George H.W. Bush ’48, for the year he graduated. And, this past April, Yale announced that tag would become the new Babe Ruth gives George H.W. Bush name of the school’s his original autobiography manuscript at home plate of Yale Field. baseball field: George H.W. Bush ’48 Field. This is the second athletic facility at Yale to be named for a Deke; the football stadium is named for Walter Camp, often called the Father of American Football. Brother Bush played first base for the Yale Bulldogs beginning in 1945 after completing service as a naval aviator during World War II; he went on to captain the team in his senior year and helped the team reach the College World Series in 1947 and 1948. “He was a distinguished student-athlete at Yale,” said Peter Salovey, Yale president. “He exemplified dignified service and leadership to this country. His legacy will continue to inspire generations of students at Yale.” “It is truly fitting that our baseball field be named after one of our greatest student-athletes and 41st U.S. President,” said Victoria Chun, Director of Athletics at Yale. “President Bush is a wonderful example of what Yale student-athletes are capable of, and his name on our field will inspire current and future Bulldogs for years to come.

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Brother Drew Brinker relaxing before he begins new research work for the NSF.

project. Over the next two years, the psychology major will lead a small team of researchers in The Thinking Lab at University of Minnesota. The team will investigate the neurophysiological

responses to conflict and emotional development in romantic relationships. They will look at how neurological structures change as emotional attachment and intimacy is built and then

challenged over time. It may answer questions like why some people are ‘needy’ and others are ‘too independent’ in romantic partnerships. “While similar studies exist in the scientific literature,” Brinker says, “our study aims to contribute new knowledge to the fields of both neuroscience and psychology by providing a longitudinal analysis—over a long period, as opposed to studies that chronicled isolated situations or changes over very short time periods. “My advisor had recommended I try for it, and I thought it would be good experience to apply for the grant, even if I got a ‘no’ answer,” Drew said. He wrote the grant beginning last fall, expending a lot of time and

energy, since NSF asks applicants to show the value, to provide evidence of the potential importance, and explain why we should care about the work’s possible outcome.

First Bryan Scholarship Recipients Announced

ue to the very generous gift from Robert and Julie Bryan, Delta Kappa Epsilon has completed the process of selecting the first round of Bryan Scholars. Deke Foundation Trustees Caffrey Favrot and Stan McMillan managed the selection process and narrowed an applicant field of more than 40 applicants to the ten recipients. The ten winners of the inau-

Dicky Pride Wins on PGA Senior Circuit

icky Pride, Psi-Alabama ’91, shot a 5-under 67 to win the Mitsubishi Electric Classic near Atlanta on May 16, his first on the PGA Champions Tour. The win came in his 11th start on the senior tour, a victory he was closing in upon after being in strong contention in the Regions Tradition tournament in Alabama the week before. Besides a healthy winner’s payday, the Mitsubishi victory earned Pride an exemption on the circuit through the 2022 season. And it made Pride only the 18th player to win on all three PGA Tours—the PGA Tour, the Korn Ferry Tour, and the Champions Tour. He won the St. Jude Classic in 1994, his rookie season for the PGA Tour title. In August 2015, he won the Portland Open on the Korn Ferry Tour. Pride indicated this year’s win means the most to him because “It was a lot harder for me. When I won Memphis in ‘94, I was young, naive, and ignorance is bliss.” It was also special because of his capturing wins on all three PGA tours, “… something I always wanted to do and I always wanted to say.” Pride has been a professional golfer since graduating from University of Alabama, where he played on the school’s golf team and won all-SEC team honors in his junior and senior years. He has over a dozen top-10 finishes in his career, including placing second at the 2012 Byron Nelson Classic. Just before his St. Jude win in 1994, Pride had rescheduled his wedding date so it wouldn’t conflict with a qual-

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ifying tournament. Perhaps to repay her patience, Pride won a car for his fiancé, Kim, by shooting a hole in one at the Buick Challenge later that season. Pride’s play has strengthened this year, with hard work overcoming injuries of the past decade. After the Mitsubishi win, he finished 20th in the KitchenAid Championship in Tulsa over the Memorial Day weekend and followed that with an 11th place, 8-under performance at the Principal Charity tournament in Des Moines the first week of June, and a stronger 9-under finish at the American Family Insurance tourney June 13 in Madison, Wisconsin, good for 7th place, just strokes behind the likes of Jim Furyk, Retief Goosen and Fred Couples.

gural scholarship awards are: Jack Cunningham, Nu Zeta-Pace; Samuel Gozelski, Sigma Tau-MIT; Matthew Leonardo, Phi Epsilon-Minnesota; Ben Pikus, Sigma Kappa-Michigan State; Vincent Romano, Phi Chi-Rutgers; Noah Skrok, Sigma Kappa-Michigan State; Alan Swieca, Phi Epsilon-Minnesota; Samuel Watson, Lambda Tau-Tennessee; Jack Wilson, Phi Chi-Rutgers; and Ethan Woodward, Omega Omega-Arizona. Look for complete profiles of these Bryan Scholars in an upcoming Deke Quarterly. Two of the winners, Brothers Swieca and Skrok, are recent graduates who will apply their award money to supporting their post-graduate work.

New Chapter at Ohio State; Prospects Surface in Louisiana, Connecticut

he Board of Directors in May approved the petition of a 50-man interest group at Ohio State to become DKE’s newest associate chapter. DKE had a chapter at Ohio State for a short time in the early 2000’s. “There is a lot of groundwork needed to give an interest group the right chance at succeeding as a chapter—and this group of young men seem to be doing all those things right,” says DKE Executive Director Doug Lanpher. “That includes developing a good relationship with the University and its Office of Fraternity Life.” Also brightening prospects for good DKE growth coming out of the Covid pandemic, two new possible associate chapters have also appeared

on the horizon. Additionally, Mother Phi at Yale looks to rebound this fall. DKE’s founding chapter at Yale was in voluntary “Covid Suspension” status for the past academic year, with most of its members away from campus. In recent phone conferences attended by current and former Brother Betas, alumni adviser Tom Virgulto, and DKE Board Chairman Mason Morjikian, discussion centered on a possible return this fall with about 25 members, a new rental house in New Haven, and a strong recruitment class. Alpha Omega alumni are organizing and making early plans to reactivate the DKE chapter at Louisiana Tech. While efforts are in very early stages, they have made contacts with the university administrators and will work to obtain their approval for a return.

Tiffany & Company Repairs DKE Lion Trophy

ood news for all Dekes— those who have sipped from the cup and those who have yet to do so: Tiffany & Co., the specialists that crafted the original cup in 1894 for DKE to present to our last surviving founder (William Boyd Jacobs), has completed a much-needed repair of the sterling silver trophy we now call the Lion Trophy. Tiffany reshaped the main body, smoothed out a few dings and dents, re-soldered the two lion handles where they had detached from the main cup. The cup is polished up and as bright and uplifting as ever!

Dekes Win Student Government Posts at Three Colleges

ekes won key spots in student government this spring at three colleges: Gannon University in Erie, Pa., Lafayette College, in Easton, Pa., and the University of Minnesota. Hank Scheffler, president of Rho Chapter, was elected as Director of Greek Life against the incumbent in the school’s only contested race. Matthew Schlessman and Derrick Gernatt were elected the next President and Chief of Staff in the Student Government Association at Gannon. Nick Wallenhorst won re-election as a Student Senator for the College of Liberal Arts in the University Senate. He will represent students and author resolutions on their behalf that affect all five campuses of the University of Minnesota. Congrats, Deke leaders. We look forward to the positive representation and changes you can bring to your campuses.

Hank Scheffler

Matthew Schlessman

Nick Wallenhorst

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for free public schools for students between the ages of he admirable conduct of 6 and 18. For those efforts, he Dekes – scholars, gentlehas been called the “Father of men and jolly Utah’s Free Schools.” good fellows Yet well before – are often those years, while a accompanied student at Western by characteristic Reserve, Brother traits like invenAllen earned fame tive and creative as a pitcher on the or courageous college’s baseball pioneers. Multiteam. He is credited ple of those tags with being the first apply to Clarcollege pitcher to Clarence Emir Allen ence Emir Allen perfect the curve (Beta Chi-Case Western 1877). ball, having learned it while Brother Allen was a U.S. repreplaying with the Erie Keysentative in the Utah territory stones during the summer of and became the first Utah 1876. He helped introduce the rep with full legislative voting pitch to college baseball in privileges. His inventiveness 1877, and notably, never lost a included authoring a bill in game after adding the pitch Utah in 1890 that provided to his repertoire.

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Kappa BetaIllinois Springfield This spring, we celebrated the 3rd anniversary of Delta Kappa Epsilon Kappa Beta Associate Chapter. We were also honored this semester by receiving the “Stars in Solidarity” Award from the Gender Sexuality Student Services at the University. The program provides education, advocacy, support, mentoring, and a safe space for sexual and gender minority students. Kappa Beta chapter is committed to continuously demonstrate our allyship for the LGBTQIA+ community. Our chapter’s Brother Beta, Miguel Valente, is a senior Political Science major who’s been in the Army National

New letters for Delta Rho at North Carolina State. As its chapter members say, other fraternities have houses, we have a home.

Guard since August 2017 and activated for deployment in October 2020. During his time away, he managed to attend university remotely and remain active in the chapter. Brother Valente looks forward to returning to campus this fall. He is pictured here, fifth from the left, front row, with the 1970th Qm. Co. Brother Valente was serving as part of a DoD-approved support mission to U.S. Customs and Border Patrol.

Omicron-Michigan This past month, our chapter said goodbye to its beloved home at 1004 Olivia in Ann Arbor. The house has been home to Omicron Dekes for many decades, and it is sad for us to depart such a historic building. The memories shared, lessons learned, and bonds built in this household will never be forgotten. While we’re sad to say goodbye to this special place, we are equally excited to prepare to build the brotherhood and traditions at a new chapter house. We extend a huge thank you to the DKE International staff for all their help throughout the process, and for making this year an overall great year despite the ongoing pandemic.

Phi Epsilon – Minnesota The Phi Epsilon Chapter has had amazing success this year in campus presence and

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in recruitment. Despite the ongoing pandemic, the chapter has successfully initiated the second-largest recruitment class in chapter history, beaten solely by the 1982-1983 recruitment year. Moreover, the chapter was awarded the Outstanding Community Service Award for its dedication in shifting its philanthropic efforts to fit the needs of the local community throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. In March, Brother Morgan McElroy was announced as the winner of the Greek Legacy Award, a title given to one Interfraternity Council member annually for individual dedication to improving Greek Life at the University of Minnesota. We are also amazed at the individual successes of our members, the most recent being Drew Brinker, who was awarded a major grant from the National Science Foundation (see details in Deke News).

Sigma KappaMichigan State Our chapter is jazzed heading into summer, especially for closing out a Covid-racked year with good recruitment and because many members landed great summer internships. Among the internships Hunter Lagerquist is working for Amazon in Chicago; Drake Myny and JD Greathouse are working in Finance for

BorgWarner in Detroit; Luke Jakubik and George Zagrodzki locked in Supply Chain internships, one at Yanfeng, the other with Markatos; Alex Poggi and Hunter Reif both snared engineering work— Alex with Magna International and Hunter with SBS Energy; and Dylan Abbott scooped up a Sales & Marketing internship with JBS USA. When the Sigma Kappas return to East Lansing this fall, hopes are high we will move back into quarters at 1148 E Grand River—which has served as home to the chapter for several years. The Exec Board is working with Deke Purchasing Group and DKE partner Alpha Fraternity Management to purchase the home and make it a more permanent home to Dekes at MSU. Big plans are afoot as well to complete a kitchen and dining room renovation, most suitable for new meal service program for all live-ins with meals at the Deke House Sunday night thru Friday noon. Our chapter’s new Alumni Association is now meeting quarterly and is planning the first major active-alumni get-together since the fall of 2018. Focus is on a terrific tailgate for November 13.

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TAXES, CHANGE & DEATH – THE INEVITABLE PAINS OF A JOLLY GOOD FELLOW By Garner L. Lyon, Financial Advisor, Psi ’16

he past twelve months have been a whirlwind of change and uncertainty for many. Regardless of how drastically the Covid-19 pandemic affected you, it is no secret that the next series of changes in line for our country via the new administration will be a vast and historic tax reform. There is an expected suite of tax increases targeting wealthy Americans from the White House. Many independent analysts predict reductions in after-tax income for high-income earning taxpayers, as soon as this year, after these changes come into play. Taxes on corporations, regardless of the entities size or revenue, may have an even more drastic effect long-term, as the heavier tax burden for the business may ultimately affect how much employees can contribute to their pension, employee stock programs, additional retirement accounts, and not to mention how much corporations will actually pay their employees after these proposed changes come into play. Regardless of whether you own a business or not, if you have a will (or perhaps a trust), you have taken the first crucial steps in the process of estate planning. The consequences of passing away without a will in place (dying “intestate”) spark an enormous negative impact for generations to come. Estate plans should have (at a minimum): an updated will in place, financial power of attorney to manage affairs should you become incapacitated, and a health care power of attorney. There should also be a living will (also known as a healthcare directive) noting end-of-life medical attention and documents you wish to be carried out/referred to after your passing. This may seem quite obvious and well-known (as very

important planning steps) to many readers. However, the statistics are astounding for even high-net-worth Americans—too few have embraced these very simple actions for their long-term planning and estate layout. If you have not taken these steps, vast resources are available to you to do so. If you have taken the initial steps, be aware that many of the forecast tax changes can drastically impact what you leave behind to the people and organizations you love most. Completed estate plans that help establish your important legacy are worth reviewing regularly with a professional. DKE has recently launched a will-planning program that is very low-cost and easy to set up. Additionally, there are many “jolly good fellows” with enormous levels of expertise in many different fields to help guide you through this process. While you review these decisions and what matters most to you and your family, consider what DKE has meant to you over the years. While many donors are aware of the popular strategy of gifting highly appreciated stock to non-profit organizations such as church, medical-research societies or non-profits like DKE, there are many ways to include DKE in your charitable giving. A good fiduciary and estate planning attorney can help you strategize the best ways to include DKE or other charities that are important to you. They can guide your contributions via living gifts to the organization and provide other creative ways to lighten your tax burden (while making a difference!). DKE will be offering a simple method for alumni to donate appreciated stock. For more information, please contact Jim Gray at jamesagrayiii@gmail.com.

The foregoing information is not written as or intended as specific tax or legal advice. Garner Lyon is not authorized to give legal or tax advice. Individuals are encouraged to seek advice from their own tax or legal counsel. Individuals involved in the estate planning process should work with an estate planning team, including their own person legal or tax counsel. Garner Lyon is a registered representative of and offers securities and investment advisory services through MML Investors Services, LLC. Member SIPC. 1050 Crown Pointe Pkwy. Suite 1800, Atlanta, GA 30338. 770-551-3400. CA Insurance License #4082009. CRN 202306-304297.

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DKE 2021 GRADUATES STEP As they embark on their life journeys, we share

brief profiles of some of the 400-plus members of Delta Kappa Epsilon who graduated this spring. Join us in celebrating with them their achievements so far and wish these young DKE leaders the best going forward. Many of these vignettes were written by the graduates themselves, and some based on input from their brethren in the chapter as they were wrapping up semester work this spring or just as they packed up to move on from campus. Many took the opportunity to reflect upon what DKE brotherhood has meant to them—and expressed hope that lessons they learned would help them to achieve goals they’ve set for their careers and lives. From our perspective, just this small but representative sample of graduating Dekes showcases an amazingly broad range of talent and interests. DKE clearly attracts the broad spectrum of wellrounded men it always has, and these descriptions indicate that today’s men of DKE appear to have appreciated and embraced those ideals.

Matthew Lowe, Nu Alpha-Northeastern.

Matthew Lowe, Nu AlphaNortheastern. “Over my years as a Deke, I had the privilege to serve as both President and New Member Educator. Service to the chapter in those roles yielded some of my fondest college memories. Not only have I formed relationships I know will last for decades with the brothers in my chapter, but I’ve also enjoyed befriending brothers from DKE chapters all over the country like Delta, Phi Gamma, Alpha, and many more. After graduation, I will be staying in Boston, MA to work for Chewy as a back-end software developer and continue helping my chapter however I can as an alumnus.”

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Antonio Bak, Zeta Theta-WSU.

Antonio was one of the founding fathers of the Zeta Theta associate chapter and, as his brothers openly heralded on social media, “has been a rock for our brotherhood.” Besides serving as president and helping shape the character of the young chapter, Antonio was very active on campus and in the community throughout his time at ‘Wazzu.’ He volunteered at Pullman Regional Hospital, working in the ACID. He also volunteered as a Cougar Connector, serving as a university host in recruiting and admissions, answering questions from prospective WSU students. Brother Bak graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology and will be taking the next year to build personal experiences and find professional mentors in order to pursue a career in medicine.

Logan Nantais, Delta Kappa-University of Pennsylvania.

As DKE alumni and Arctic explorer Robert Peary once said: “The time to prepare for your next expedition is when you have just returned from a successful trip.” In that light, I am reflecting on my amazing experiences at Penn as a DKE, as social chair of my chapter, the VP of Administration and Finance for Penn’s IFC, and my time on the International’s DEIA Committee. These experiences have shaped who I have become and who I hope to be in the future. I graduated magna cum laude with a degree in History and Anthropology with honors. After graduation, I am planning to apply to law school and pursue a career in international law. One thing is for sure, while preparing for this next expedition, I know that the friendships and lessons I’ve learned throughout my successful trip as an undergraduate DKE will help me in whatever endeavors I choose to pursue.

TOWARD BRIGHT FUTURES Carl Haynes, Beta Tau-Victoria.

“Being a Deke means embracing challenge. The challenge is to act with character and to work to shape the world around you for the better. This has been true since our founding in 1844 and is true today. It has been my great pleasure to be a small part of this DKE tradition at the chapter which I call home—Beta Tau. Together during my time as an active, we took on this challenge, ran some of the largest philanthropic events on campus, regularly got elected to student government, ran clubs and served as presidents and vice presidents of the largest student organizations. It goes without saying, perhaps, but we had the biggest parties too. DKE has provided me with challenges, confidence, mentors and brothers to last a lifetime. I completed my Bachelor’s degree in Commerce and now I head off to start a career in sales at Galvanize selling GRC software and working on a business venture that should launch next year. Long live DKE, long live Beta Tau.”

Christopher Davie, Beta Tau-Victoria.

“I graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Victoria’s Honours Program for Psychology. Since graduating, I have been accepted into a Master’s Program at the University of Calgary for Industrial/Organizational Psychology. I became an active member of the Beta Tau Chapter of DKE in 2017. After joining, I was Beta Tau’s Secretary from 2017-2019, Co-Philanthropy Chair in 2018, and was President from 2019/2020. Joining DKE was the most important decision I made as an undergraduate. DKE gave me friends and connections that have changed my life and opportunities to grow as a person I would have never had otherwise. I am looking forward to giving back to DKE as an Alumnus.

Jackson Oaks and Levi Sumrall, Chi-Mississippi.

Jackson (at left in photo) graduated from University of Mississippi in May with a B.B.A. in General Business, and a B.A. in Economics along with a minor in Political Science. Despite an obviously heavy classwork load, he also served as a student assistant in the Office of Chancellor Boyce since the second semester of his sophomore year. “My time as a Deke has taught me more than just how to be a Gentleman, Scholar, and Jolly Good Fellow. As social chairman for the chapter for two years I learned that the Deke brotherhood expands to all horizons and there are endless possibilities to make connections!” Jackson also is thankful for the opportunity to be a part of rebuilding the Chi chapter, which was reinstated in 2018, and through our hard work, determination, and good faith, my brothers and I brought back the oldest and most historic fraternity to the campus of Ole Miss.” After graduation, Jackson headed to New Orleans to work as a Business Development Representative for Regional Economic Models Inc. (REMI). Levi Sumrall (at right in photo) graduated with a B.S. in Accounting and a minor in Chemistry. “My experience and memories in Deke have taught me many things. As President, I learned that good communication goes a long way—and the better you communicate with other officers, the easier it is on everyone. The job of bringing the Chi chapter back onto campus was not easy. Still, we succeeded, through lots of attention and dedication. I am very happy to have been a part of the effort and I think that my pledge class is leaving the chapter in good hands with great members who have big great visions for our chapter. After graduation, I transferred to University of Southern Mississippi to pursue my MBA; I then hope to attend Dental School at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson. Continued

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Carlos Gonzalez, Delta Pi-Illinois.

“I was initiated in fall 2016 and was an active member at the Delta Pi chapter since, all through my entire undergraduate years. My major is Economics with a minor in Food & Agribusiness Management. My degree is Bachelor of Arts in Economics. I was recently offered a position in Sales Management with PepsiCo, where I will direct a team of salesmen, overseeing and growing accounts worth millions of dollars. Being a Deke has meant perseverance, growth, and endless opportunities. This brotherhood has helped build me into the gentleman I am today. At times when academics had me at my worst, the support seen from my brothers kept me going. Being a Deke means that I will always have a brother in my corner, a support you can count on. I am not the same person I was as a freshman. I turned my life around for the better. Friends that knew me freshman year will agree and are very impressed with who I became. Being a Deke means I will always have a place on campus.”

Andres Callegari, Phi Chi-Rutgers.

“I am a recent graduate from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. This May, I received my Bachelor’s of Science degree in Health Administration. In my senior year, I worked as a Care Coordinator at Memorial Sloan Kettering in Manhattan and look forward to continuing my professional career in healthcare administration. As a member of the Phi Chi chapter, I served as the Recruitment Chair, Public Relations Chair and Assistant Social Chair. To me, being a DKE means holding yourself to the highest of standards in every aspect of life. Being a gentleman, scholar, and jolly good fellow is what separates a DKE from other men.”

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Samuel Carter, Chi-Mississippi.

“Being a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon has allowed me to grow exponentially as a person and professional. I have made friendships with gentlemen I can call brothers for life. I was privileged to serve as Vice President and New Member Educator during my junior and senior years. I graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Integrated Marketing Communications and a minor in General Business. I plan on attending law school in Baton Rouge or Jackson this fall.

Morgan McElroy, Phi Epsilon-Minnesota.

The former Vice President External for the Phi Epsilon chapter, Morgan McElroy graduated with a double major in Political Science and Communication with a minor in Business Management. Following graduation, he will begin working for @dkehq as a Chapter Consultant! When looking back on his time in DKE, Morgan reflected on the impact of the quality of differences and diversity of our membership. “I am proud of the empowerment we have in individuality,” Morgan shared in an online profile about Phi Epsilon. Also on social media, he did not hesitate to identify his favorite memory from his just concluded undergraduate days: “I have no better memory than of the Deke house and sitting around a summer bonfire with my brothers. Those heart-to-heart experiences with people so different in aspiration and background shaped my worldview while making me the man I am today. These connections and memories will last a lifetime, and what I will miss most following graduation.” His Phi Epsilon brothers shared their farewell, too: “Morgan, we cannot begin to thank you for all you’ve done for our house. We truly are lucky to call you a Brother and look forward to hearing of all your amazing accomplishments in the future!”

Chayanne Khodabandeh, Phi Alpha-British Columbia.

Matheus Sartorato, Beta Delta-Georgia.

Matt is representing his local, immediate family in the U.S. as well as his extended family in Brazil by graduating from the University of Georgia with a biological sciences major and horticulture minor. Matt will remain in Athens for four more years as he attends UGA’s College of Veterinary Medicine upon graduation. He hopes to become a mixed animal veterinarian with an emphasis in surgery. Matt is one of the founding fathers of Beta Delta (re-founded in 2019 and chartered in December 2020). He served as the founding Social Director and T-Shirt chair. He states that starting this chapter significantly impacted his college experience for the better, specifically through the friendships he created and the lessons DKE taught him.

Jacob Tyler Warren, Beta Delta-Georgia. Jake earned his Bachelor’s of Science in Ecology and wrapped up great service as VP of Recruitment for the very young and rapidly growing chapter at University of Georgia. Jake, who enjoys playing the guitar, also loves capturing the earth on camera, was celebrated on Earth Day as Deke of the Week by his chapter for this ecological passion. As for what’s ahead, he is already engaged in— and loving-- contract work with Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company, which deepens ports, maintains waterways, and restores beaches and barrier islands. Jake is a coastal restoration biologist and drone pilot for an environmental consulting company in Port Fourchon, Louisiana. He also has a project with the Army Corps of Engineers in Savannah lined up for August. Down the road, he aims to become a commissioned officer in the NOAA Corps of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric] Administration, the oldest scientific agency in the U.S. government.

“Although I didn’t join DKE until my third year of university when I transferred to UBC to pursue a Bachelor of Kinesiology, I appreciated the opportunity to take on leadership roles in the chapter. These included terms as Corresponding Secretary and the Scott Trapp Stick-It to Cancer Chairman. In that latter role, I led our chapter in a record-breaking philanthropy event, Shave for Scott, raising $56,370 for the Canadian Cancer Society. Outside of DKE, I was a varsity athlete on the UBC Men’s Rugby team, which afforded me the chance to build on my skills in high performance athletics. Being a part of DKE taught me how to hone my skills and adapt into several different leadership roles. I appreciated the collaboration on decisions and being in a group that values the balanced, well-rounded life of the gentlemen, the scholar, and the jolly good fellow. It has taught me to respect myself and the people I represent, and to seek ways to improve for the benefit of all my brothers. I will cherish the memories and the lessons I learned. I plan to continue my education in September in an as-yet undetermined Doctor of Chiropractic graduate program. One day, I hope to operate my own clinic and fitness center aiming to assist people living healthy and active lives while also using my chiropractic skills to correct any misalignments or mechanical disorders in their musculoskeletal systems. In the community I hope to build, I look forward to advocating for positive health and societal change, within the same inclusive and diverse environment in which I have been empowered.”

Hunter Ball, Chi-Mississippi.

Hunter earned his BA in Political Science from Ole Miss and thanks everyone who has extended his congratulations. He says he has been proud to serve the Chi chapter as both Philanthropy Chair and as Vice President and was also privileged to serve as an executive in the university’s chapter of Pi Sigma Alpha Honor Society, as Vice President. “I am extremely excited for the next step of my academic endeavors. I was thrilled to be accepted into the University of Texas School of Law in Austin and look forward to attending this fall.”

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SIGMA TAU DEKE TAKES THE LEAD ON

Artist rendering of Ingenuity Mars Helicopter in flight.

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TEDDY TZANETOS THE MARS HELICOPTER

IMAGES COURTESY NASA

nlike the other 10-year-olds he grew up with – boys who liked to ride bikes, play video games, and pull pranks on little girls - Theodore ‘Teddy’ Tzanetos was a bit more serious. He was deeply interested in computers. Mostly, he liked to take them apart and then reassemble them. Teddy, the son of a Greek-born industrial sewing machine mechanic, convinced his father to show him how to assemble a desktop computer. “Since that time, I’ve been hooked,” Tzanetos said, “and I wanted to understand how it was possible to process data, act on information, and follow a program. I started going to traveling computer shows to stay up to date with the latest components.” In his hometown of Plainview, N.Y., he eventually joined the Old Bethpage High School’s First Robotics Team and Independent Research Program. “That was when I solidified my passion for engineering,” Tzanetos said. It’s also when his gift for understanding and creating robots began to take shape. Today, the 31-year-old Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate has become something of a celebrity genius for his role as Tactical Lead for the crew at the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, California, that developed Ingenuity, the miracle Mars helicopter. It’s the four-pound marvel that traveled nearly 300 million miles onboard the Mars Perseverance Rover and is now flying all over the Red Planet. In recent weeks, Ingenuity has triggered celebration after celebration at the JPL. “It’s a dream come true,” said Tzanetos, who served as president and vice president of his Delta Kappa Epsilon chapter at M.I.T. “I know it’s a cliché, but it’s a dream for me to be a part of the team that is able to see this work come to fruition. We are hoping this will be a stepping stone, a foundation for future missions to come. Hopefully, one day there will be many more fleets of rotorcraft on Mars, but it started with this one, and we couldn’t be happier.” From the beginning, once Perseverance made it to Mars, Ingenuity began reaching major milestones. The rover carrying Ingenuity, affectionately known at NASA as Percy, landed on Mars on Feb. 18 after an eight-month voyage from the Kennedy Space Center. As Ingenuity prepared for its big debut, Percy stayed busy conducting science experiments. But first, the helicopter successfully deployed from underneath the rover, charged its batteries and survived the frigid Martian night which

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Above: Teddy Tzanetos, MiMi Aung and Bob Balaram of NASA’s Mars Helicopter project observe a flight test. Right: The Mars Helicopter team

can drop to as low as -130 degrees Fahrenheit. Since then, the Before joining NASA, Teddy served for two years as the head team has demonstrated Ingenuity’s flying ability. On its first of engineering at The Drone Racing League, a New York Cityflight, Ingenuity had a simple takeoff, hovered about 15 feet off based startup where he managed a team of developers and the ground and landed back down. Flights since then have lasted engineers. They built drone-race infrastructure, embedded about 90 seconds. avionics, and an online simulator that would be played by tens “Our goal, plain and simple, was to prove that we can fly of thousands of users worldwide. Teddy’s intelligence kind of on Mars,” Teddy said. “Once accomplished, we hope that it boggles the mind as he explains his expertise in uUAS embedded blows the doors open for the future of Martian exploration. It system development with a focus on state estimation for inertial will unlock that aerial dimension that is going to be extremely navigation. But there’s more to this proud Deke than just his exciting for humanity and for scientists within NASA and the engineering prowess. larger exploration community.” At M.I.T., from which Teddy earned his Charlie McKenna, writing in the Boston Globe, undergraduate degree in 2012 in computer “One day I heard said Tzanetos’s involvement with Ingenuity science and electrical engineering, he was also about the Mars stretches back to 2017, his first year at JPL. a rugged defensive lineman on the college’s “Initially, he was hired to work on a project football team. The 6-foot-3, 230-pound Tzanetos helicopter and I with Google but made a conscious effort to get injured his knee during his final year of high started knocking involved with the Mars helicopter project once school, which delayed the start of his college on doors, asking, he heard about it,” McKenna wrote. football career. But once he regained his health, ’Is there anything that “One day I heard about the Mars helicopter he started for the Engineers for three seasons. needs help?”’ and I started knocking on doors, asking, ’Is Needless to say, in addition to the post-season there anything that needs help?’’’ Teddy said. football all-star teams he made, he was also ‘“Is there any work that needs to be done?’ and twice named an Academic All-American. After sure enough I was lucky enough to be brought on board. My graduation, he went on to earn a master’s degree at M.I.T. first responsibility was ground support equipment, building the “I had a lot of fun at Sigma Tau, our Deke chapter,” Teddy charging platforms and kind of the life support equipment for said. “It was great to be a part of the Dekes, many of whom were the hardware. And then it seemed to snowball from there.” Now, on sports teams. We were all going through a grueling academic Tzanetos works primarily in operations. test, and sports proved to be a great diversion. I know that many

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Left: Ingenuity’s Second Flight As Seen by Perseverance Below Left: Ingenuity’s Team Reacts to Data Showing Helicopter Completed Its Second Flight Below Right: Chopper wings and solar array.

Dekes everywhere share the experience of making friends that human explorers. The key is to move quickly but nimbly -- to last a lifetime. That was certainly the case for me and many of accomplish as much as we can.” my brothers at Sigma Tau. Being a part of the fraternity afforded Tzanetos likes to compare Ingenuity to Sojourner, the first me an opportunity to grow in so many ways. It certainly helped rover to land on Mars, which proved that the technology was me develop my leadership skills. In DKE, I believe there are core viable. That led to the rovers that followed. “We hope Ingenuity lessons to be learned and worthwhile core experiences to be shared. will do the same for Martian aerial exploration,” he said. Because I know what I learned in DKE helped me thrive in the future.” of the time delays between Earth and Mars, and the amount of In addition to his scientific and engineering skills, Tzanetos, time required to download data from Ingenuity, NASA does not who is a bachelor, enjoys cooking and sharing Greek dishes that live-stream the actual flights. he learned from his parents, both of whom were born in Athens. Teddy has worked so hard and achieved so much during his “I love to cook Greek food for large gatherings, involvement on Ingenuity’s team that he said he’s and I learn as many recipes as I can,” he said. had little to think about what lies ahead for him. The This is a fantastic “While my sister has me beat on the spanakopita descriptions of his other responsibilities are hard for time for an and most of the hallmarks of Greek cuisine, I am the layman to grasp. For example, he’s worked on still responsible for the lamb at Easter and during engineer in the field, the Tango on Racing Quadrotors. He’s also devoted the previous Mars helicopter team barbecues. considerable time to the ToRQ projects and the and it’s extremely In pre-Covid times, my parents came out to CLARty project. For the ToRQ project, he labored on exciting just to California to help me prepare the lamb roast for state estimation, closed-loop motor controls, system get something a large crowd. That was a great time.” integration and embedded software. off the ground. This is an exciting time to be involved in For a Deke who’s already known to his friends the work surrounding space exploration. “It as a gentleman and a jolly good fellow, he’s seems that things are really heating up,” Teddy certainly a scholar. “Regardless of what I do for said. “There’s renewed interest in returning to the moon, and the rest of my career, I know that my involvement on Ingenuity countries like China have sent up a land rover. This is a fantastic will always rank as one of the highlights of my life,” Teddy said. time for an engineer in the field, and it’s extremely exciting just to get something off the ground. It’s important to prove that If you are interested in knowing more about Teddy Tzanetos and his projects, check out this online post, www.youtube.com/watch?v=oisPtpLVni0. we can fly on Mars so that future generations can send fleets of

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FORGOTTEN GREATS OF DKE

SARGENT SHRIVER PEACE CORPS LEADER PLAYED KEY ROLE ON WORLD STAGE By Kevin Cuneo, Gamma ’77

R. Sargent Shriver made

a major impact on everything he attempted in business, government and diplomacy. A Yale Deke who remained loyal to his fraternity throughout his life, Shriver was without a doubt one of the primary movers of the 20th century. Married to Eunice Kennedy Shriver for 56 years, he played an important role in America’s most famous political family. Charged in 1961 by his brother-in-law, President John F. Kennedy, with the task of bringing the idea of the Peace Corps to fruition, Shriver tapped into a spirit of volunteerism that led thousands of young Americans to serve in poorer countries around the world. Following the death of JFK in 1963, Shriver remained in Lyndon B. Johnson’s administration where he became the president’s chief architect in the war on poverty. He headed the Office of Economic Opportunity from 196568, creating such programs as Head Start, the Job Corps, Volunteers in Service to America, the Community Action Program and Legal Services for the Poor. “LBJ always said Sarge was brilliant at engaging people of all ages and inspiring them to do good works,” said Doris Kearns Goodwin. “He ran the programs of the Great Society with amazing efficiency, making them useful and effective for the people who really needed them. Even after the Office of Economic Opportunity was dismantled in 1973, many of the programs Shriver started would survive in other agencies.” Atlantic Monthly editor Scott Stossel, who in 2004 wrote the best-selling biography, “Sarge: The Life and Times of Sargent Shriver,” said the personable Deke had a complex relationship with the Kennedys. “They buoyed him up to heights and achievements he never would have otherwise attained,” Stossel said, “But they also held him back, thwarting his political advancement.” Shriver, born in Westminster, Md., on Nov. 9, 1915, was the son of a banker. One of his ancestors, David Shriver, was a signer of Maryland’s 1776 Constitution. The Shrivers, like the Kennedys, were Roman Catholics and socially prominent, but unlike the Kennedys were not especially affluent. Sarge, who 18

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was known by that nickname throughout his life, attended Canterbury, a Catholic boarding prep school in New Milford, Conn., where he met John F. Kennedy, briefly a schoolmate. After graduating with honors from Yale in 1938, Shriver earned a law degree there in 1941. He enlisted in the Navy after the bombing of Pearl Harbor and would serve as an officer on battleships and submarines in the Atlantic and Pacific. Shriver received a Purple Heart for wounds he sustained at Guadalcanal. When the war ended, Shriver became an editor at Newsweek. He met Eunice Kennedy at a dinner party, and she introduced him to her father, Joseph P. Kennedy. Impressed by Shriver’s intelligence and drive, Kennedy hired him to manage his recently acquired Merchandise Mart in Chicago, then the world’s largest commercial building. Shriver not only turned a profit for the mart, he also plunged successfully into Democratic politics. In 1960, powerful Democrats in Chicago wanted to run Shriver for governor. “Sarge, who did great work as a leader in business and education in Illinois, could have easily won the governorship that year,” Stossel said. “But the Kennedys convinced him not to run because they didn’t want his campaign to conflict with JFK’s drive for the White House.” Shriver’s relationships with the Kennedy were widely analyzed by the news media, not least because of his own political potential. “He looked like a movie star, with a flashing smile, dark hair going gray and the kind of muscled, breezy athleticism that went with tennis courts and sailboats,” Robert McFadden wrote in the New York Times in 2011. “Like the Kennedys, he was charming but not self-revealing, a quick study but not reflective.” Shriver, who married Eunice Kennedy after a seven-year courtship, became a key official in JFK’s run for the presidency, coordinating his brother-in-law’s campaigns in Wisconsin and West Virginia, two crucial states during that primary season. Shriver also became a principal contact with minorities and played a significant role after a distraught Coretta Scott King placed a panicked phone call to the Kennedy campaign.

Sargent Shriver’s prompt attention in 1960 to a panicked phone call helped free Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. from a Georgia prison.

“Mrs. King was terrified that her LBJ always said Sarge husband, Martin Luther King Jr., would was brilliant at engaging be killed in prison after he was sentenced people of all ages and to serve four months of hard labor in a Georgia prison for what amounted to a inspiring them to do good minor traffic violation,” McFadden wrote. works . . . He ran the “Shriver suggested that JFK call Mrs. King programs of the Great and that Robert Kennedy phone a judge in Society with amazing Georgia. Dr. King was released in a matter efficiency, making them of hours, which helped produce a windfall of black support for the campaign.” useful and effective for Johnson considered Shriver as a vicethe people who really presidential candidate in 1964, and Hubert needed them. Humphrey had him on his short list for VP in 1968 after Shriver served an impressive stint as U.S. Ambassador to France. He helped to heal a nasty split with French president Charles de Gaulle, who had recognized Communist China. Shriver was also a key negotiator in the Paris Peace Talks, which had been convened with the goal of ending the war in Vietnam. When Shriver finally ran for vice president on a ticket with George McGovern in 1972, after fellow Deke Brother Sen. Thomas Eagleton bowed out of the campaign, they were crushed Shriver’s strong that November by Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew. leadership at the For the rest of his life, Shriver served as a counselor to Peace Corps inspired presidents as they coped with everything from the cold war thousands of young Americans to serve with the Soviet Union to civil rights struggles and urban riots in poor nations. at home. “When the fog of war and chaos cleared years later, he was remembered by many as a last vestige of Kennedy-era idealism,” McFadden wrote. In his final professional years, Shriver was a rainmaker for an distinguished service to America. “From the Peace Corps to all international law firm, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, of the other major programs he served, Sargent Shriver inspired before retiring in 1986. He was also active in the Special everyone around him,” Clinton said. Olympics, founded by his wife for mentally challenged athletes, When Shriver died in 2011 at the age of 96, President Barack and he continued his work with the Sargent Shriver National Obama eulogized him as the right man at the right time for Center on Poverty Law, an organization founded in 1967 as the his country. “If he hadn’t accepted a role supporting all of the National Clearinghouse for Legal Services. Kennedys, he might have become president himself,” Obama In 1994, when President Bill Clinton awarded Shriver the said. “He was that gifted.” Presidential Medal of Freedom, he praised him for a lifetime of w w w.dke.org

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TOM E.S. WRIGHT ALPHA PHI BROTHER SETS PACE IN MULTIPLE SPORTS AND BUSINESS WORLDS

hile celebrating the anniversary of the 1898 founding of Delta Kappa Epsilon’s first Canadian chapter, the event’s keynote speaker let sail a forward pass to a waiting receiver, an undergraduate member of Alpha Phi. The tuxedoed gent let fly a pro-size football from the podium, spiraling it over tables full of wine-filled glasses in the dining hall at Sassafraz, a restaurant in a tony section of Toronto. The speaker was Tom Wright, no stranger to inspiring audiences at events of all kinds. His sports-centric career is studded with starring roles, though he’s best known for his run as the 11th commissioner of the Canadian Football League. So, launching a pigskin bearing his autograph across the black-tie crowded room was altogether fitting. Other significant stops in the lofty career of the 1976 University of Toronto graduate include president of TaylorMade, of Adidas Canada Ltd, and of Salomon North America—all before being tapped to oversee the CFL. After the CFL, Tom served as Managing Director of Level 5 Strategic Brand Advisors, one of Canada’s leading business and brand strategy firms. From there, it was on to General Manager for the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), where he introduced the sport of mixed martial arts (MMA) to Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Tom’s career trajectory still climbed after that, as his age reached the mid-60s and his curly hair went almost fully gray. “When I left UFC, I did something I had never done before—and it still means a lot to me. I started my own company, S10, a portfolio advisory firm.” At S10, the guy who’s loved and worked sports for four decades broadened his scope. Tom gave talks on leadership and corporate culture and advised an exciting variety of non-sports businesses. They include a biologic company, a craft beer producer in Denver, and a footwear maker. He also worked with a firm developing technology for Covid-19 testing and contact tracing.

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In that speech for Alpha Phi’s anniversary, Tom said that lessons he learned at DKE in the 1970s have served him well. He gained an appreciation for the importance of tradition and the value of loyalty. “Loyalty can be to people, like family and colleagues, but you can also be loyal to an organization or to a business plan or objective,” he pointed out. He notes that being loyal to the mission helped him stay the course while building a following for UFC, when upsets could have diluted their efforts. Tom’s life journey through many sizes and shapes of sports businesses began in Toronto, where Tom was born and still resides with his wife Ginnie—and happily within walking distance of the homes of his three daughters and five grandchildren. He joyfully adds, the entire family, even the kids, are athletes. “All are more talented than I am,” he says, and adds, “Ginnie, my wife, is the most versatile athlete of us all.” As long as he could remember, it was his wish to be able to convert his love of sports into a living. “By the time I got to college, I pursued a path that would keep me involved in sports my whole life. Back then, however, I thought I was going to be a Phys Ed teacher.” “Being a Deke had an impact on changing that outcome, too. It helped me get through four years, earn my degree and to move on to earn my MBA. Coupled with my appreciation for my father’s acumen in business, that kept me focused enough to reach new heights.” A true lover of sports, Tom participates in lots of them—golf, basketball, tennis, and squash among them. In his days as a product manager at Adidas, he even completed a marathon and he tells how it cost him. Winding down in the bar after a marathon meeting at Adidas, a liquor-emboldened Wright boasted he could run a marathon in under four hours. He backed his boast with $250 bets with four highly dubious Adidas colleagues. He awoke hung-over the next morning but started training for the Boston Marathon. He didn’t have time to run qualifying races, but earned a spot by exemption, since Adidas was a race sponsor. “So there I was, at the 100th running of the oldest and most prestigious of all marathons with 40,000 other runners. I didn’t finish under four hours,

“I had been a long-time fan of combat sports. I followed boxing since I was at the Deke house, watching Sonny Liston and Ali. But I didn’t take the job as a fan of MMA. It took it as a fan of sports, but mostly because it was a great Brand story. How often does anyone get the chance to introduce a new sport to a nation? Hockey, football, basketball have been around forever. The UFC wasn’t even on the map!” That daunting challenge included having to lobby the federal government, persuading politicians to amend the criminal codes to make mixed martial arts legal across Canada. “How fun is that!” he exclaims. “I had no legal background, but if I had, maybe I wouldn’t have ventured where we needed to go.” With multiple trips to Ottawa and many presentations to senate sub-committees, in 2010 his team succeeded in getting needed revisions on provisions that were last updated in 1935. “It was a phenomenal feeling to stand with my small team when the results of the vote came in, 283-8.” Just eight months after his team won legal standing for MMA, the UFC Canada team hosted one of the most successful UFC events ever held. A crowd over 55,000 fans at the Rogers Centre in Toronto on April 30, 2011 witnessed Georges St-Pierre hand Jake Shields his first UFC loss in six years in the largest MMA event ever held in North America. A proud fraternity member, Tom counts several brothers among his best friends 45 years after leaving the Deke house at 157 so I paid off four bets. The good news: Two St. George Street. Tom golfs in a men’s of the checks were donated to the Special league on a team of four Toronto Dekes, Olympics.” all mid-1970s graduates. Team captain Tom also shared a tale from his product is Gordon Hawke, Tom’s pledge brother manager days at Spalding. His duties covered from 1972; Tom’s brother-in-law Doug the J5-V, then the official football of the CFL, Grand and Doug Newlands, a 1973 pledge made in Brantford, Ontario. “Birthplace of complete the foursome. hockey great Wayne Gretzky,” Tom reminds. These companions speak well In that job, Tom had to secure the signature of of Tom, but they know him as Poodle, a “I’ve been fortunate the CFL commissioner. “An apprehensive youngster nickname earned from Tom’s hair, which is enough to be the president forever curly without the need for a perm. in my 20s, I had to visit one of the most-revered of four major sports commissioners of all time.” Jake Gadaur was a large, “Tom’s always cheerful, and smiling, a imposing former player, on teams that won the Grey thoughtful and savvy man with a great sense of companies, but also to Cup [the CFL’s version of the NFL’s Super Bowl] in humor,” says Brother Hawke, one of a strong travel the world for 1942 and 1953. “I mustered the courage to speak and nucleus of alums who stay active in the Alpha work, and the chance uttered a feeble ‘I need your signature’ and handed him Phi alumni association. four blank pieces of paper. I was grateful that he kindly to do really interesting Tom has always been a giving and generous things.” signed them quickly and shook my hand.” supporter of his community. For a sportsman Twenty years later, he relived the same experience, like Tom, even much of his volunteer community from the other side of the desk. “A young product work is linked to sports. He’s volunteered with manager from Wilson came for my signature, so it could be reproduced Special Olympics Canada for more than 30 years and served a term on the new Grey Cup footballs. I had a dilemma on how to sign. My dad as the organization’s National Board Chairman. was a huge influence in my life, and he named me Tom. But my mom Today, Brother Wright continues on as president of S10, but he called me by my middle name, Esten, most of my life. So, I signed ‘Tom also takes the seat again as another company president, this time E.S. Wright,’ keeping the E there for my mum.” at Astound—a firm which provides digital / electronic displays His stint as CFL commissioner, a shade over four years, was brief and physical architectural structures for trade shows and retail but successful. Wright improved the league’s financial stability through operations. new broadcast deals and healthy corporate sponsorships, but also by “I’ve been fortunate enough to be the president of four major establishing a new player salary management system. Wright’s tenure sports companies, but also to travel the world for work, and the also saw new owners installed for the Hamilton Tiger Cats and the chance to do really interesting things.” He says he feels very much Toronto Argonauts. very much like the banker George Bailey in the popular Christmas Regarding the UFC, Tom still effervesces when he describes tale. As he heads on to lead yet another sports / entertainment accepting the role as General Manager to lead development of mixed endeavour, Tom Wright underscores the sentiment. “It’s a martial arts in Canada, Australia and New Zealand. wonderful life.”

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BETA DEKES GIVE AN OLD BROTHER NEW LIFE WHEN DEKES FROM THE CLASS OF 1968 AT UNC CHAPEL HILL LEARNED THAT ONE OF THEIR OWN WAS IN NEED, THEY JUMPED INTO ACTION TO MAKE SURE THEIR BROTHER’S YEAR ENDED ON A POSITIVE NOTE. By Cara Aungst, Affinity Connection

Beta Chapter’s Class of ’68 at their 50th reunion. Dickson Gribble is seated in the lower right corner. Tee Baur is beside Dickson, in the pink shirt. Bill Hollan, who organized the van project, is in the top row on the left end (wearing glasses). Peter Grauer is in front of Hollan wearing a white golf shirt.

n oft-touted benefit of fraternity membership is building friendships that last a lifetime. This story demonstrates that such promises are not only true, but just what good can come from the bonds of brotherhood more than five decades after they form. It is thanks to such bonds of brotherhood that Dickson Gribble is still living his best life, even as the Army Military Intelligence veteran struggles with the effects of Parkinson’s disease. Last Christmas, his fellow alumni from the class of 1968 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel 22

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Hill came together to purchase a specially equipped van for Dickson and his wife. The gift — completely paid for in just two days — means mobility and freedom for their brother and friend. The friendship began during the spring of 1965, when a group of 32 young men pledged to the Beta Chapter of DKE together. From the get-go, they formed a bond that grew stronger over their four years of college. As they graduated and headed off into the world, these brothers promised to maintain their close connection. And year after year, they did. In fact, for their 50th reunion, 27 of the 32 brothers made the trip

to Chapel Hill to celebrate, reminisce and make new memories. Around the time of the reunion, Bill Hollan had gotten in touch with Dickson, who had been his pledge roommate. It was a phone call that would eventually lead to the life-changing Christmas gift to close out 2020. Brother Hollan, who made his career in real estate, recalls that Dickson was a basketball player, at least 6 ft. 8 in. tall. “He had to bring a special bed to the DKE house because he was too tall for any of the beds we had.” “We’ve stayed loosely in touch over the

Left: Dickson Gribble, Beta ’68. Above: The specially outfitted Chrysler Pacifica the 1968 Betas bought for Dickson Gribble. Right: Susan and Dickson check out their 2020 Christmas gift.

Dickson and his wife were trying to procure a vehicle. Peter Grauer, president of the pledge class and current chairman of the board of years. Dickson spent his career in Army Bloomberg L.P., sent back a one-line reply: Military Intelligence, retiring as a full “Can we help with the van?” colonel, and he lived all over… in Thailand, Later, Peter furthered his thoughts. “We’re Germany, England. Prior to our 50th in the last half of the fourth quarter. We have reunion event a couple of years ago, I got to do all we can to help each other. Life is back in touch with him and discovered that short. We’ve got to do something.” he was suffering from Parkinson’s disease.” Peter and Bill had a conversation, and Some months after the 50th reunion, after that, “Bill did all the heavy lifting,” near Thanksgiving of 2020, Dickson Peter says. Bill looked into the cost for a and Bill connected again. In that phone vehicle that would accommodate Dickson’s call, Bill learned about how Dickson height and allow him and his wife to depended on his retirement community’s comfortably travel. They settled on a vehicle for transportation. specially equipped Chrysler Dickson also noted how Pacifica. A second email Within days, 27 getting around was more went out to the brothers difficult during Covid, brothers jumped in outlining the details. especially due to his height. What came next with pledges. Not Through the Veterans overwhelmed them only was the vehicle Adminstration, Dickson both. “There was just an completely paid for, and his wife Susan had outpouring of support,” but it was ordered in applied for a grant to Peter says. “That’s what time for Christmas. acquire a vehicle that it’s all about.” Within days, would accommodate his 27 brothers jumped in motorized wheelchair. It with pledges. Not only was would be a way to get out more, head to the vehicle completely paid for, but it was appointments, see grandchildren, and to ordered in time for Christmas. enjoy excursions with his wife and friends. “The DKE class of 1968 is already As soon as Bill cradled the phone, he set legendary within the UNC community, but I out immediately to email his Beta pledge sincerely believe this has to be our proudest brothers. Of the original 32, only one, moment as a whole class,” Bill said when he Brooke Williams has passed away, and the updated the group on December 4, 2020. surviving brothers keep in touch through “Because of your support, I was able to call email. Bill gave them all a quick update the Mobility Works provider yesterday and of Dickson’s health and mentioned that tell her to put the wheels in motion to make

a configured van available before Christmas, if at all possible. When I explained where the funds were coming from, she said she had never seen such an act of generosity. I couldn’t disagree.” “To me, that’s what bonding and brotherhood are all about,” Tee Baur, owner of Baur Properties, says. “We all feel close enough that when one of us has a concern or a problem, we have brothers who are there to help us out. To me, that speaks volumes about what brotherhood and fraternity life is all about.” Just after Christmas, Bill got a message that the whole pledge class had been waiting for. “This is one amazing van!” Dickson’s wife, Susan, wrote. “We are absolutely thrilled and immensely grateful to you and all the guys for everything you have done. We’re heading into 2021 full of hope and looking forward to the new freedom of movement for Dickson.” “This was a great ending to a very difficult year,” Bill said. “Thanks, thanks, thanks.” Cara Aungst is a public relations partner to the Beta chapter. w w w.dke.org

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n the past two years, Delta Kappa Epsilon completed its first-ever major capital campaign, surrounding the 175th Anniversary of the fraternity in June 2019. The successful fundraising campaign wrapped up in spring 2021, with more than 1,200 individuals—identified on these pages—giving gifts and making pledges that totaled more than $2.4 million. Donors who gave at exceptional levels during the two-year campaign are footnoted and keyed to a legend shown on these pages. The Deke Foundation is grateful for the fabulous support of all its members and appreciate that the generosity helps sustain our ongoing educational programs provided at our chapters as well as at DKE Convention, DKE Officers Academy, and Emerging Leaders Institutes. ALPHA - HARVARD James Damask, 2018 ALPHA ALPHA - MIDDLEBURY Sanford Young*, 1944 David Strachan, 1955 (5) Charles Leonard, 1958 Robert Clarke, 1963 John Iacovino, 1963 William Kieffer, 1964 Edwin Naylor, 1964 Paul McCormack, 1988 (8) Charles Falker, 1989 Michael Cohen, 1994 Christopher Campbell, 2006 Spencer Hurst, 2013 ALPHA CHI - TRINITY Richard Lyford*, 1953 (7) William Conner, 1954 Warren Gelman, 1955 Richard Zampiello, 1955 Paul Marion, 1957 Ray Graves, 1967 (2) Robin Tassinari, 1967 Robert Cudd, 1968 Edward Adler, 1969 (7) Leonard Heinrich, 1973 William Engel, 1980 Joseph Pryor, 1988 Tyler Thors, 1989 Geoffrey Zampiello, 1998 ALPHA MU - ROWAN Scot Merkle, 1983 Dennis Gerber, 2004 Thomas Boggia, 2012 ALPHA OMEGA – LOUISIANA TECH Charles Campbell, 1986 Seth Schaumburg, 1989

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BETA – NORTH CAROLINA William Wiley, 1949 Ben Mayo, 1955 Stephen Owen, 1956 Lawrence Bell, 1957 Bailey Patrick, 1957 (7) David Ward, 1957 William Luesing, 1959 Robert Perry, 1959 Fred Wood, 1961 Peter Gilchrist, 1962 Albert Roper, 1963 William Fuller, 1964 Dave Phillips, 1965 Cameron Harris, 1966 (4) William Schmidt, 1966 (7) Alexander Shuford, 1966 (8) Neilson Brown, 1967 (3) Borden Hanes, 1967 (4) Thaddeus Moore, 1967 John Rivers, 1967 Bronson VanWyck, 1967 William Whitaker, 1967 (7) Tee Baur, 1968 (2) Peter Grauer, 1968 (1) Walter Hussman, 1968 (3) Walter King, 1968 Steven McCarroll, 1968 Logan Sawyer, 1968 Scott Brown, 1970 (7) James Gray, 1970 (3) Allen Lassiter, 1970 (5) J Pruden III, 1970 Oswald Watson, 1971 Bernard Gray, 1972 (3) Ernest Zellweger, 1974 Mark Hennessy, 1976 (7) Randolph Metcalfe, 1976 (3) Daniel Stevenson, 1976 Randolph Freiberg, 1977 Bernie Hodges, 1977 Norman DuPre, 1978 (4) Robert Mason, 1981 James Maynard, 1982 (7) Charles Wickham, 1982 Thomas Benjamin, 1983 Geoffrey Allen, 1987 James Dunn, 1989 Benjamin Gambill, 2001 John Beesley, 2002

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Jonathan Engram, 2008 Scott Farmer, 2008 Addison Holladay, 2008 Charles Cogdell, 2009 Nathaniel Kluttz, 2009 (6) John Carnes, 2011 James Christmas, 2012 Patrick Mealy, 2013 Timothy Carnes, 2014 Alexander Rossitch, 2014 Stephen Stephano, 2014 William Gottwald, 2016 Mauricio Arnal Prieto, 2017 BETA CHI – CASE WESTERN Robert Brierton, 1969 Douglas Kupec, 2002 BETA DELTA – GEORGIA Alexander Ream, 1995 BETA GAMMA – NEW YORK UNIVERSITY Matthew McQueen, 2003 Adam Biernat, 2004 Thomas Ricardo, 2006 Zachary Haas, 2007 (8) Gennady Zilberman, 2007 Marc Burton, 2008 Ethan Mandel, 2009 Gary Wise, 2012 Michael Wenz, 2013 Brandon Conley, 2014 Eric Freiman, 2016 Patrick Glodkowski, 2016 BETA PHI - ROCHESTER James Fitzsimmons, 1955 Carlton Clough, 1960 Bernie Russotti, 1960 Michael Colton, 1963 Roger Valkenburgh, 1969 Donald Gaudion, 1971 Anthony Bottar, 1972 Thomas Coppola, 1973 Daniel Ahearn, 1976 Joseph Carson, 1976 David Maloney, 1976 Mark Zweibon, 1979 (8) Franklin Nagy, 1981 (8) Joseph Bailey, 1990 Robert Hartz, 1990 Sean McCabe, 1991 (8) Mark Branton, 2002

Eric Dubowsky, 2003 John Greco, 2006 (5) Maxwell Kinder, 2015 Nicholas Kollias, 2016 CHI - MISSISSIPPI George Gafford, 1961 Kirk Grantham, 1963 William Morris, 1964 Samuel Mavar, 1965 Steve Stevens, 1965 Leonard McAfee, 1966 William McMullen, 1966 Donald White, 1966 Lyman Aldrich, 1967 Richard Burnette, 1968 William Brown, 1970 William Graham, 1970 (5) Joseph Hinshaw, 1971 Charles Paschal, 1980 Larry Singleton, 1980 John Wildman, 2008 CHI BETA – NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON Nicholas DeFalco, 2015 Trenton Booth, 2016 David Ball, 2017 CHI RHO - BLOOMSBURG Robert Gronowski, 2011 Eric Day, 2017 DELTA – SOUTH CAROLINA Thomas Brewer, 2017 William Doohan, 2018 DELTA CHI - CORNELL Barrant Merrill, 1953 John Almquist, 1954 (8) Alan MacDonald, 1955 George Nicholson, 1956 (8) Michael Crowley, 1959 Edward Sheridan, 1959 William Wilke, 1960 Rudolph Mateka, 1963 David Bentley, 1964 Richard Bates, 1966 William Forbes, 1967 Robert Platt, 1973 Charles Kerner, 1974 (4) Michael Furman, 1979 Kahlil Day, 1980 (7) Robert Gallagher, 1980 James Lyman, 1984 Hugh O Gorman, 1987 Michael Clifford, 1991 Joseph Marraccino, 1991 (8) Theodore Loizos, 1994 Brian Behm, 1995 Blair Jenness, 1997 Matthew Jenison, 2004 (3) William Roberts, 2006 Tudor Mustata, 2007 Thomas Hudson, 2011 Ibrahima Diallo, 2016

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DELTA DELTA - CHICAGO Michael Peters, 1990 (8) John Yung, 1990 Gregory Miarecki, 1994 Edwin Cho, 1995 Kenneth Monahan, 1995 Peter Debaz, 2008 Kenneth Cid, 2012 Blake Alex, 2014 DELTA EPSILON NORTHWESTERN William Bartholomay*, 1950 DELTA KAPPA - PENNSYLVANIA Harry Pappas, 1952 Peter Barrett, 1953 (7) John Ward, 1953 Richard Goerwitz, 1956 Edward Allinson*, 1957 (4) Cornelius McCarthy, 1959 (8) Ronald Akel, 1960 William Caldwell, 1960 David Shields, 1961 William Combs, 1964 John Owens, 1964 (8) Poul Hornsleth, 1967 Richard Bridy, 1969 Anthony DiFelice, 1981 Craig Graber, 1986 Bruce Goldfarb, 1987 (8) Peter Mattia, 2008 DELTA PHI - ALBERTA Maurice Nicholson, 1960 Arden Berg, 1972 Eric Lee, 1980 Timothy Boston, 1984 Kurt Kufeld, 1986 Hugh Babowal, 1990 Darren Kelly, 1991 Leslie Stitt, 2004 Cameron Kerr, 2009 Connor Bliss, 2016 DELTA PI - ILLINOIS Thomas Hostetler*, 1950 (8) Gary Newtson, 1957 Arthur Alderson, 1971 Alan Parsons, 1971 Ronald Elliott, 1973 Paul Daily, 1976 Wayne Moore, 1978 (7) David Helverson, 1981 (3) James Personius, 1983 Stephen Alvey, 1984 Michael Fogarty, 1984 (7) Alberto Davila, 2017 Mark Kubiak, 2019 DELTA RHO – NORTH CAROLINA STATE Harrison Cole, 2015 EPSILON – WILLIAMS COLLEGE Joseph Albertson, 1954 Stephen Barnett, 1958 David Kane, 1958 Joel Bergquist, 1965 EPSILON RHO - DUKE Creston King, 1985 (7) William Monaghan, 1985 John Vide, 1985 (8) Lawrence Moore, 1990 Eric Harnish, 1991 Lon Lamb, 1991 Todd Sawicki, 1994

Adam Eisenberg, 1997 Rhodes McKee, 2005 Robert Shaw, 2009 Christian Cummings, 2018 ETA - VIRGINIA Douglass Mackall, 1953 Charles Jones, 1956 (1) Peter Kohler, 1959 Gordon Rainey, 1962 Alfred Berkeley, 1966 Robert Green, 1969 John Pinder, 1971 William Edgerton, 1972 Raymond Walker, 1973 (7) Henry Harris, 1975 (7) Archer Burke, 1976 (8) John Hopkins, 1977 Jonathan Finger, 1982 (8) Scott Vallar, 1982 Jonathan Adams, 1984 Aleco Bravo-Greenberg, 1991 ETA ALPHA – WASHINGTON & LEE Reid Gaede, 2018 GAMMA - VANDERBILT Harry Howard, 1951 (5) Robert Holder, 1952 (4) William Ford, 1953 Ronald Henges, 1954 John Colvin, 1955 Travis Fitts, 1955 William Hardegree, 1955 James Nelson, 1959 James Carvell, 1961 Robert Thomas, 1963 John Kelsey, 1964 Richard Smith, 1964 William Wilson, 1964 (8) William Sanderson, 1965 William Wise, 1967 (7) Fleming McClelland, 1968 George Morton, 1968 Joe Stamper, 1969 Weaver Barksdale, 1971 Dale Wortham, 1971 Chris Lorenzen, 1972 Michael Quillen, 1972 Robert Alvis, 1974 Lewis Rogers, 1974 Clay Swindell, 1974 (8) Roger Deromedi, 1975 (4) Gary Hamburg, 1975 Mark Redmond, 1975 Brooke Reeve, 1975 Richard Rua, 1975 (7) Joseph Whelan, 1976 (8) Leighton Aiken, 1977 Gaines Campbell, 1977 Kevin Cuneo, 1977 (8) Harold Johnson, 1977 Richard Klein, 1977 Douglas Lanpher, 1977 (2) Gamiel Ramson, 1977 William Roberts, 1977 (8) Craig Yeager, 1977 Jeff Hamilton, 1978 (8) Michael Hilts, 1978 (8) Michael Berryman, 1979 (7) Richard Lamping, 1979 (7) Joseph Abriola, 1980 William Davis, 1981 David Burge, 1982 Thurman Senn, 1983 Walter Smith, 1984 (8) Brent Curtis, 1985 (8) Theodore Hamilton, 1988

John Elberfeld, 1989 Craig Lengyel, 1989 (7) Stan McMillan, 1989 (3) Wendel Greider, 1990 John Teitenberg, 1995 David Neff, 2001 Patrick Bennett, 2008 Peter Kostiuk, 2008 Andrew Grumney, 2009 James Sindel, 2009 Alexander Litt, 2010 James Becker, 2011 Connor Burns, 2013 Joel Derby, 2013 Christopher Keller, 2014 Sebastian Lonza, 2014 Chase Cunniff, 2015

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GAMMA IOTA - GANNON Jerome O’Rourke, 2015 Scott Conrad, 2016 (8) Diego Camargo, 2020 GAMMA PHI - WESLEYAN Donald Saxton, 1942 (8) Edward Wright, 1949 Edward Lifset, 1953 Albert Welsh, 1956 William Daley*, 1957 Harry Stone, 1958 Harry Stone*, 1958 Charles Wrubel, 1959 James Gately, 1962 Dick Crockett, 1963 (8) Charles Orr, 1965 (7) Paul Siegert, 1965 Robert Thorndike, 1965 William Cooper, 1967 Irvin Richter, 1967 Patrick Kelly, 1969 Peter Hicks, 1972 Robert Corless, 1973 John Hoder, 1973 (8) Scott Karsten*, 1973 Mitchell Marinello, 1976 (8) Jeffrey Gray, 1977 Robert Nastri, 1977 Jeffrey Nesson, 1977 David Thomas, 1977 William Ahern, 1978 Frank Binswanger, 1978 Norman Feit, 1978 Robert Bourne, 1980 Paul Fichera, 1980 Paul Disanto, 1981 David Bagatelle, 1986 Steven Elbaum, 1986 Gregory Waldron, 1988 Kenneth Cho, 1994 John Griffin*, 1994 Jeffrey Bean, 2003 Brett Valentine, 2009 (8) Alexander Zedlovich, 2009 Joseph Giaimo, 2011 A J Ferraro, 2012 Thomas Miceli, 2012 William Choi, 2013 Anthony Arias, 2014 (8) Jeremy Edelberg, 2014 Andrew McCloskey, 2015 Connor Ryan, 2015 Michael Yablong, 2019 IOTA - CENTRE Bruce Dungan, 1949 (8) Alford Gustafson, 1951 William Penick, 1957 David Sturges, 1957 William McKee, 1960

Laurance Eustis, 1963 Thomas McKee, 1963 Robert Gatewood, 1971 (7) William Block, 1973 (8) Reginald Mudd, 1975 Gregory Young, 1975 Rick DiGiorgio, 1978 (8) Anthony Apro, 1979 (8) Ralph Miller, 1980 Anthony Kurlas, 1993 (5) Leonard Napolitano, 1997 Jackson Andrews, 2002 Michael Garton, 2010 (8) Lucas Wetton, 2014 Andrew Lawson, 2015 Daniel Sweat, 2018 (8) IOTA MU - FORDHAM Lucas Vander Linden, 1997 KAPPA – MIAMI (OHIO) David Harrison, 1944 Robert Winkley, 1955 Carl Peterson, 1959 John Gibel, 1960 Herman Ceccardi, 1962 Richard Meyers*, 1963 John Goodman, 1966 William Ninde, 1966 Leon Eisman, 1967 Richard VandenBrul, 1967 (8) Robert Annandale, 1969 Anthony Danzo, 1969 Stuart Berger, 1979 (8) David Palmer, 1983 Douglas Tirola, 1989 Dmitry Nepomnyshay, 1992 Jack Domet, 1993 Robert Unkel, 1998 Jason Longworth, 2000 Alexander Hernandez, 2018 KAPPA BETA – ILLINOIS (SPRINGFIELD) Chris Vemagiri Marbaniang, 2018 Jonathan O’Daniel, 2019

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KAPPA EPSILON – WASHINGTON Dugald Stewart, 1949 Pat Hughes, 1957 (1) William Hood, 1958 Roger Nowell, 1959 Hugh White, 1959 William Lovell, 1962 (8) Daniel Heldring, 1999 (6) David Anderson, 2002 LAMBDA - KENYON Philip Currier, 1956 (8) Robert Carnighan, 1959 Robert Heasley, 1960 Bruce Overmier, 1960 Bruce Blocher, 1966 Walter Butler, 1968 (5) Michael Scadron, 1968 James Brady, 1969 Continued EXCEPTIONAL DONATION LEVELS: (1) Rampant Lion Society, $50,000+ (2) Founders Circle, $25,000-49,999 (3) Jolly Good Fellows, $10,000-24,999 (4) Presidents Club, $5,000-9,999 (5) Anniversary Club, $2,100-4,999 (6) 175th Scholars, $1,750-2,099 (7) DKE Gentlemen, $1,000-1,749 (8) Friends from the Heart, $450-999

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1 7 5 TH A N N I V E R S A R Y C A M PA I G N 2 0 1 9 - 2 0 2 0 Peter Cain, 1969 James Irwin, 1969 (8) Bruce Pendleton, 1970 Norman Schmidt, 1971 Richard Balaban, 1972 Richard Dempsey, 1972 Arthur Sansom, 1973 Gregg DeSilvio, 1974 (6) Allerton Smith, 1975 William Geist, 1976 Beckwith Miller, 1977 Peter Bianchi, 1978 James Pierce, 1978 (7) Jeffrey Spear, 1978 Guy Riegel, 1980 Samuel Adams, 1981 David Hooker, 1981 Mark Robinson, 1981 (6) Charles R. Gill, 1982 Hewitt Heiserman, 1982 Jeffrey Grover, 1984 Boyce Martin, 1988 (8) Mason Morjikian, 1988 (8) David Conrod, 2000 Samuel Baker, 2013

Girard Ruddick, 1993 John Sallada, 1997 James Nelson, 1998 Jonathan Guido, 1999 Matthew Sable, 2001 Jarrett Turner, 2004 Sean Devlin, 2005 Ian Nordin, 2013 Matthew Swain, 2017

LAMBDA TAU - TENNESSEE Steven Harris, 2016 Bradford Montrose, 2016 Robert Spears, 2016 (8) Christopher Miller, 2018 (8) Sean O’Connor, 2019

NU ZETA - PACE John Boles, 1986 Joseph Guistino, 1986 Patrick McIntyre, 1987 David Goldstein, 2015

MU - COLGATE Edward Gottlieb, 1933 Joseph DeBragga*, 1943 Edward Gorton, 1947 Kevin Murphy*, 1947 Glen Treichler, 1948 Peter Herman*, 1953 Marshall Wood, 1954 Robert Stoner, 1957 Robert Wilson, 1957 Griswold Hurlbert, 1958 Dermod Ives*, 1958 Thomas Kaim, 1958 Edward Durant, 1959 Donald Hammalian, 1960 Jon Hanson, 1960 Jerome Mason, 1960 Thomas O’Rourke, 1960 Ramon Sieminski, 1960 Richard Rasor, 1961 David Driscoll, 1963 Peter O’Neill*, 1963 Edward Wheeler, 1964 Richard Palmer, 1966 (7) James Rand, 1966 William Brown, 1970 Dodge Dorland, 1970 Richard Sotell, 1975 Michael Dosdall, 1977 Robert Bestwick, 1978 Jeffrey Smith, 1978 Thomas Wiencek, 1978 Robert Bickford, 1979 Clinton Blume, 1979 Peter Thomas, 1981 John Anzola, 1984 Steven Reed, 1984 Roger Kennedy, 1986 Bruce Newman, 1986 Richard Himes, 1990 Thomas Carlson, 1993 26

MU CHI - MARYVILLE Preston Fields, 2003 Shawn Springer, 2007 Douglas Carson, 2013 NU - CCNY harles Groppe, 1953 Vincent Lardo, 1953 Walter Hansen*, 1955 Clifford Daly, 1958 Nicholas Schkrutz, 1969 David Knowlton, 1980 NU ALPHA - NORTHEASTERN Adam Akkach, 2020

OMEGA CHI - TEXAS Webb Carnes, 1944 John Schneider, 1947 Peter Gill, 1948 Charles Kinney, 1948 Royce Faulkner, 1952 George Allen, 1953 George Gearner, 1955 Cub Amos, 1956 Richard Armstrong, 1956 John Williams, 1956 David Wright, 1956 Pearson Grimes, 1958 Barron Kidd, 1958 Douglas Newton, 1959 Frank Scarborough, 1959 (8) Ewell Muse, 1961 Walter Schuchard, 1961 James Cauthorn, 1962 Scott Fehr, 1963 John Kamrath, 1963 Robert Knight, 1963 Dan McClean, 1964 Michael Cowan, 1965 Lee Hancock, 1965 Richard Williams, 1965 (5) Ronald Tigner, 1966 Bill Roberts, 1968 (4) Bruce Thornton, 1969 Robert Morse, 1972 Greg Mitchell, 1976 David Hanson, 1979 (7) Erik Heyne, 1981 Bruce Nakfoor, 1982 Charles Masterson, 1984 Michael Roberts, 1984 Perry Ruthven, 1984 Donald Kirby, 1985 Douglas Brinsmade, 1986 John Lung, 1986 Arthur Moure, 1986 (8) Jake Price, 2019

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OMEGA MU – OKLAHOMA STATE Daniel Lyon, 2016 (8) OMEGA OMEGA - ARIZONA Joe Garcia, 1995 OMICRON - MICHIGAN Terrence Hill, 1935 Richard Aster, 1954 Terence Adderley*, 1955 (7) Peter Dow, 1955 (8) Lawrence Baker, 1957 (8) Franklin Hirt, 1957 Brian Burke, 1958 Jule Miller, 1958 David Gore, 1959 James Grady, 1959 (8) Kenelm Winslow, 1959 John de St Nicolas, 1960 William Krag, 1963 (8) Curtis Sechler, 1963 Kenneth MacLean, 1964 William Lincoln, 1965 (8) Robert Anthony, 1966 James Wurzbach, 1970 Terrance Baulch, 1976 Marco Garavaglia, 1976 Kevin Shea, 1981 Marvin Kelly, 1982 Mark Pavach, 1982 Matthew Howell, 1985 John Mitchell, 1985 James Mohn, 1985 Eric Braun, 1990 Winston Stromberg, 1997 Charles Naaman, 1999 Douglas Schaffer, 2012 Jordan Mucci, 2017 PHI - YALE Hunt Weber, 1948 John Matthiessen, 1949 Jonathan Bush, 1953 (7) William Bernhard, 1954 Richard Haskel, 1955 William Lee, 1955 John Wallace, 1956 Edward Probert, 1958 Charles Puestow, 1960 Peter Wells, 1960 Charles Dill, 1961 Anthony Brooks, 1962 Richard Evans, 1962 William Flippin, 1963 Thomas Kukk, 1963 (4) Lynard Hinojosa, 1964 (8) Richard Stasney, 1965 (8) Peter Bliss, 1967 Glenn Baker, 1977 Clarence Lee, 1978 Henry Knoblock, 1982 Stephen Morse, 2008 Albert McManes, 2017 PHI ALPHA – BRITISH COLUMBIA Lloyd Jones, 1962 Adrian Cheong, 1965 Owen Pawson, 1972 Grant Burnyeat, 1973 Douglas Wark, 1973 George Reifel, 1974

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Lawrence Blaschuk, 1975 Keith McBain, 1978 Randall Burrell, 1979 Glen Bury, 1981 Norman Bishop, 1983 Tony Tornquist, 1983 John Sherwood, 1985 David Bustos, 1986 Thomas Rich, 1986 James Rogers, 1989 Quinn Lyzun, 1990 Stefan Santos, 1993 Santos Stefan, 1993 Henry Ma, 1996

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PHI CHI - RUTGERS William Venberg, 1951 Kenneth Truscott, 1952 Kenneth Mears, 1957 William Paknis, 1957 Everett Drake, 1958 Gene Buckno, 1961 Timothy Lehnert, 1961 William Garbarini, 1963 Leo Hopkins, 1965 Richard Novak, 1965 Wallace Pattyson, 1966 John Frost, 1967 Robert Oros, 1967 Robert Suffredini, 1968 Christopher Byron, 1969 Alfred Glatz, 1969 Terry Stewart, 1969 (7) Peter Ventura, 1970 Edward Dowling, 1972 Robert Dunbar, 1972 (7) William Miller, 1972 (7) Anthony Skorupski, 1972 Roy Van Arsdale, 1972 Vincent Afflixio, 1973 James Baker, 1976 Kevin Keaton, 1976 Bryan Butler, 1977 Alan Zaccaria, 1979 Terence Braden, 1980 William Diana, 1983 Arnel Miravalles, 1999 Jonathan Gonzalez Pelaez, 2016 Andrew Moldoff, 2018 Harrison Campopiano, 2019 PHI DELTA WESTERN (ONTARIO) Matthew Morin, 1996 Baroon Krisendat, 2002 PHI EPSILON - MINNESOTA William Ryerse, 1951 (4) Conrad Hawk, 1959 Curtis Hill, 1959 David DeWall, 1965 (4) Mark Bilodeau* , 1971 James Ronning, 1972 Michael Frakes, 1973 Howard Schwartz, 1973 John Thomas, 1973 Charles Anderst, 1975 Mark Miller, 1980 (1) James Reznick, 1981 Bradley Dunlap, 1985 (8) Brian Basler, 1989 Michael Natoli, 1989 Jarrod Englebretson, 1990 Dustin Norman, 2009 Grant Auerbach, 2017 PHI GAMMA - SYRACUSE John Veasey*, 1953 Henry Burhans, 1957 * indicates deceased

Michael Jabo, 1958 Robert Bubniak, 1961 John Snyder, 1961 Edward Benjamin, 1963 George Dawkins, 1963 Benjamin Gunzenhauser, 1963 Harvey Shand, 1963 Joseph McMurray, 1965 John Brennen, 1966 Robert Warburgh, 1966 William Butler, 1968 Dale Carter, 1968 Stanley Kimmett, 1970 Stephen Weaver, 1971 (2) David Hackworth, 1976 Timothy Ott, 1976 David Stern, 1982 John Klukojc, 1983 Marcus Wacker, 1985 Joseph Boffa, 1986 Charles Brown, 1986 (2) Jovan Marjanovic, 1989 (7) Peter Tripp, 1991 Charles Bohlen, 1993 Michael Collins, 1997 John Mathews, 1998 Alex Kadish, 2001 Blake Reidy, 2007 Evan Goldberg, 2009 David Chodak, 2011 Joseph Galea, 2011 Robert Juliano-Villani, 2013 Andrew Certilman, 2015 PHI MU - MANHATTAN Bruno Bunzl, 2014 PHI RHO – PENN STATE Kevan Griffith, 2010 Alex Hayes, 2011 PHI SIGMA – BRYANT Marc Morrow, 1997 PI - DARTMOUTH Thomas Bechler, 1956 Jack Kaufmann, 1964 PI BETA – TROY David Morr, 1978 Connor Mendheim, 2021 PSI - ALABAMA Hugh Culverhouse*, 1941 (1) Williams Holmes, 1951 (7) John Duckworth, 1954 Robert Parsons, 1955 (7) Blanchard Marriott, 1959 A Lyon Crowe, 1960 Bryan Strickland, 1962 Barry Gritter, 1963 Angus Cooper, 1964 Barry Drees, 1965 Richmond McClintock, 1966 John Mostellar, 1966 David Cooper, 1967 (1) Robert Klyce, 1968 Lamar Bagby, 1969 Winston Lovvorn, 1969 James Lyons, 1970 Charles McNeil*, 1971 (3) Crawford Inge, 1974 Henry Loeb, 1974 William Urquhart, 1974 Charles Brown, 1975 George Hardesty, 1975 (8) Richard McAlpin, 1976 Brock Jones, 1977 (5) Samuel Adams, 1979 (5)

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John Lapeyrouse, 1979 John McNeil, 1979 (3) Travis Fitts, 1981 Bruce McAlpin, 1981 Harris Morrissette, 1981 (3) Semmes Favrot, 1982, Favrot Family Group (1) John Calhoun, 1983 (7) Alfred Neumann, 1987 Caffrey Favrot, 1988, Favrot Family Group (1) Guy Cook III, 1991 Andrew Ross, 1994 Angus Cooper, 1997 Clayton Koenig, 2005 Alexander Fleming, 2008 (8) Mark Hickman, 2008 Daniel Ventress, 2008 Leroy English, 2014 Patrick Terry, 2014 Jack Marshallsea, 2015 Christopher English, 2016 Garner Lyon, 2016 (8) Albert Haas, 2018 Joseph Fontenot, 2019 Thomas Leland, 2022 PSI DELTA – WAKE FOREST James Jowdy, 1973 John Sandlin, 1975 John McAvoy, 1982 Loyd Stokes, 1983 (8) Jeffrey Richardson, 1987 (8) Richard Maloy, 1991 (3) Steven Perricone, 1991 Robert Griffin, 1992 George Cain, 1993 James Beurle, 1994 Derek Van Zandt, 1995 Scott Dalgliesh, 2011 Val Napolitano, 2012 Scott Hillman, 2013 Raphael Steege, 2013 Miller Robinson, 2014 Clarke Ryan, 2014 Jake Sternberg, 2014 Matthew Teller, 2014 William Braun, 2016 William Gilbert, 2016 James Green, 2016 Matthew Ioannou, 2016 Henry Johnson, 2016 George Marken, 2016 Harrison Messer, 2016 Harrison Perkins, 2016 Henry Valk* , 2016 Andrew Weissberg, 2016 David Arturi, 2017 John Marshall, 2017 Kellen Rikhoff, 2017 Andrew Jones, 2018 Scott Gerber, 2019 (8) Michael Kollman, 2019 Walker Rise, 2019 (8) Alex Awad, 2020 (4) PSI OMEGA – RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC George Hunt* , 1945 Charles Pomeroy, 1953 Peter Goetz, 1956 Samuel Heffner* , 1956 (3) Edgar Woerner, 1956 Joseph McCann, 1958 Rodney Agar, 1959 John Broadbent, 1959 Alan Cornell, 1959 Arthur Dionne, 1959 Thomas Duncan* , 1959

John Lindsay, 1959 (8) George Nelson, 1959 (8) Fredrick Guimond, 1961 Robert Booth, 1963 Zenon Lishchynskyj, 1966 Kevin Zweier, 1996 (8) Orlando Hernandez, 2016 Peter Piech, 2016 Robert Rotering, 2016 PSI PHI - DEPAUW Paul Bintz* , 1939 David Hood* , 1953 John Boomer, 1956 Norval Reece, 1956 John Bruhn* , 1957 Richard Hill, 1958 William Cockrum, 1959 Rance Crain, 1960 Robert Skallerup* , 1968 John Wright, 1968 Douglas Weimer, 1972 John Rose, 1981 Comer Plummer, 1983 Anthony Colletti, 1988 RHO - LAFAYETTE Richard Massey, 1934 William Harvey, 1953 (8) Allan Kirby* , 1953 Robert Loughlin, 1953 Edwin Case, 1959 Samuel Watson, 1961 David Jaffe, 1963 Roger Peck, 1969 James Raywood, 1973 (8) Steven Vecchione, 1976 Peter Hiscano, 1981 David Hollod, 1982 Paul McCurdy, 1982 (8) Michael Browne, 1983 Daniel Huffenus, 1986 Richard Ryan, 1986 (8) Todd Wiltshire, 1986 Gregory Bahtiarian, 1987 Michael McCormack, 1987 Michael Davidson, 1989 Robert Matje, 1989 Kristian Bornemann, 1991 Eric Shrier, 1993 Brian Ciuffreda, 1994 Scott Harris, 1995 (8) David Cristini, 2001 Peter Carlson, 2002 Lance Lacoff, 2002 Michael De Lisi, 2003 Christian Garelli, 2009 Andrew Citron, 2011 Joseph Houldin, 2012 Robert Howe, 2014 Nicholas Andrews, 2016 John Kleinert, 2018 RHO BETA – RICHMOND Richard Poidomani, 2002 Kyle Pearce, 2012 Brendan Bostock, 2013

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RHO LAMBDA - OKLAHOMA Howard McMillan, 1956 Derrill Whitten, 1958 Robert Copeland, 1961 William Corr, 1962 George Weaber, 1962 Max Weitzenhoffer, 1962 George Patterson, 1965 Robert Rose, 1965 Jack Burdett, 1966 David Johnson, 1966

Gordon Bullivant, 1967 Larry Core, 1968 James Mullen, 1968 Ralph Duckworth, 1969 James Griffin, 1969 Richard Legatski, 1969 Victor Martin* , 1969 Terry Miller, 1969 William Sorter, 1969 Stanley Tubbs, 1969 Richard Burns, 1971 Dennis Clowers, 1971 Robert Tierno, 1971 Thomas Vizard, 1971 Arthur Baumgarten, 1972 Donald Burand, 1972 William Nation, 1972 Robert Pickup, 1972 Frederick Streb, 1972 Alan Bauman, 1973 Paul Buntz, 1973 Gordon Leaman, 1973 George Otey, 1973 David Pape* , 1973 Orin Piepho, 1973 David Reed, 1973 SIGMA - AMHERST Charles Butler, 1957 Benjamin Wells, 1965 Robert Barberi, 1967 Gary Rogalski, 1971 David Fulton, 1978 Raymond Wheeler, 1984 Jacob Gale, 1987 Mikio Nihira, 1989 David Ford, 1997 Peter Lagomarsino, 1997 Jawad Safi, 2006 Kevin Cudlipp, 2008 SIGMA ALPHA – VIRGINIA TECH Raymond Huntington* , 1952 Charles Hayes, 1964 Richard Anderson, 1971 Charles Lloyd, 1972 Tazewell Whitley, 1974 Elmer Creasey, 1976 Steven Cronemeyer, 1977 Daniel Johnson, 1977 (4) William Pennington, 1978 (8) Charles Bradley, 1979 Michael Miller, 1985 James Daniel, 1988 Andrew Lee, 1989 Scott VanVoorhees, 1990 Adam Read, 1997 Patrick King, 2005 Wesley Johnson, 2012 Alpin Kahveci, 2013 Charles Cubberly, 2015 SIGMA BETA – CAL SANTA BARBARA Paul Mullin, 1994 (7) Benjamin Chan, 2007 Continued EXCEPTIONAL DONATION LEVELS: (1) Rampant Lion Society, $50,000+ (2) Founders Circle, $25,000-49,999 (3) Jolly Good Fellows, $10,000-24,999 (4) Presidents Club, $5,000-9,999 (5) Anniversary Club, $2,100-4,999 (6) 175th Scholars, $1,750-2,099 (7) DKE Gentlemen, $1,000-1,749 (8) Friends from the Heart, $450-999

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1 7 5 TH A N N I V E R S A R Y C A M PA I G N 2 0 1 9 - 2 0 2 0 SIGMA KAPPA – MICHIGAN STATE John Clarey, 2007 Matt Ao, 2014 Carson Fick, 2019

Tyler Hirschey, 2000 James Douglass, 2004 TAU ALPHA - MCGILL Richard Grogan, 1961 Ivan Karp, 1966 (7) Robert Gales, 1968 Colin Shepherd, 1990 Kevin MacLeod, 2003 Zain Alimohamed, 2014 Drew Bard Varges, 2015 Yann Ehrhard, 2016 Ivan Fazal-Karim, 2016 Jonathan Wright, 2016 (8)

SIGMA PHI - VILLANOVA Richard Keating, 1983 Thomas Mulroy, 1985 John Burgess, 1986 Mark Martini, 1987 SIGMA RHO - STANFORD William Bauman, 1949 Preston Madden*, 1955 John Wells, 1956 (8) Robert Bryan, 1957 (1) Robert Fletcher*, 1957 Charles Hale, 1957 (6) Lawrence Wayte, 1958 Jaren Leet, 1959 Charles Hicks, 1960 Ted Muhs, 1960 (4) Phillip Heald, 1961 Glendon Speakman, 1965 David Wheeler, 1967 James Faull, 1968 James Props, 1968 James Quillinan, 1970 (8) Frederick Borns, 1971 Stephen Hansen, 1975 (8) Raymond Deicken, 1980 Christopher Greene, 1982 Scott Otteman, 1983 (7) David LeClair, 1984 (7) Kent Smith, 1988 SIGMA TAU – M I T Mark Sherman, 1948 Harold McInnes, 1949 (7) Henry Peacock, 1950 Paul Manger, 1956 Robert Doleman, 1959 Bruce George, 1962 Richard Kirkpatrick, 1963 Gordon Marler, 1971 Ralph Grismala, 1977 Charles Evans, 1979 John Martin, 1989 Lee Frankenfield, 1998 Jamie Vinsant, 1999 Todd Esguerra, 2000 Maik Flanagin, 2000 Todd Hiers, 2000 Todd Kane, 2009 Steven Salvas, 2020 TAU - HAMILTON John Parker, 1952 James Guerin, 1958 Bruce Sawyer, 1961 Martin Kay, 1967 (8) Frederick Marty, 1967 Louis Teitel, 1968 Bruce Gaylord, 1970 John Vaneria, 1970 Thomas Broderick, 1972 Steven Brooks, 1977 Laurence Glickman, 1977 James Cumming, 1980 John Ogden, 1980 Conrad Naas, 1983 Guido Stroemer, 1990 28

TAU CHI – TEXAS A & M Tyler Gibbs, 2011 TAU DELTA - SEWANEE Frank Failla, 1971 William Ikard, 1971 (8) Thomas Moseley, 1971 William Terry, 1971 Stephen Smith, 1976 (8) Leonard Brannom, 1989 Alan Calder, 1989 William Hudson, 2000 Riley Malone, 2017

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TAU LAMBDA - TULANE Jerome Heard* , 1946 C. Allen Favrot*, 1947 Favrot Family Group (1) Robert Bland, 1948 (8) Blair Favrot* , 1954 Dufour Bayle, 1955 James Gundlach, 1958 James Reiss, 1960 Bennett Powell, 1961 (4) Hans Jonassen, 1963 (8) John Bolles, 1964 (8) Gregg Buckalew, 1965 (6) Henry O’Connor, 1965 Craig Duchossois, 1966 (4) Robert Livingston, 1966 Bernard Panetta, 1968 (8) Robert Punches, 1971 Theodore Barkerding, 1973 Lloyd Shields, 1974 John O’Connor, 1976 Kevin O’Bryon, 1977 (8) Richard Blum, 1978 James Broadwell, 1978 William Dodenhoff, 1978 (8) Ben Templeton, 1978 Frank Toye, 1978 William Alpaugh, 1979 (8) William Kearney, 1982 John Georges, 1983 (7) Wesley Lambert, 1984 Carey Winder, 1985 Michael Miller, 1986 Robert Gallagher, 1987 David Pons, 1988 Damon Becnel, 1991 (8) John Rive’, 1991 John Gill, 1993 John Groome, 1995 Matthew Rhodes, 1998 (1) Carl Barkemeyer, 2000 Cory Crenshaw, 2001 (3) Simon Abtalion, 2008

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THETA - BOWDOIN Endres Campbell, 1972 Charles Bass, 1976 Thomas Frelinghuysen, 1976 James Downey, 1977 Tyler Davis, 1979 Charles Pohl, 1983 Mark Leeds, 1987 Charles Mackenzie, 1987 (1) Timothy Leland, 1989 Daniel Courcey, 1990 THETA CHI - UNION Andrew Fellows, 2016

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THETA RHO - UCLA Rex Sessions, 1946 Gregory Cooper, 1994 Steven Ly, 2007 Erik Pena, 2012 THETA UPSILON – ARIZONA STATE Steven Balthazor, 1991 (8) Derek Von Borck, 1991 William Kavan, 1992 (8) Forrest Billington, 2016 James Dorian, 2016 Reid Certilman, 2018 THETA ZETA – CAL BERKELEY Robert Tuller, 1956 (7) Frederick Bradley, 1958 Michael O’Neil, 1970 Gregory Hampton, 1971 John O’Conner, 1974 Thomas Murphy, 1982 Todd Morrish, 1986 Gary Tan, 1986 Scott Clifford, 1987 John Sherman, 1990 Colby Barrett, 2000 Andrew Pelosi, 2004 Richard Rumpf, 2011 Dard Hunter, 2014 Michael Murphy, 2016 Charles Shirley, 2016 Ayman Mabrouk, 2018 UPSILON - BROWN Gordon Dewart, 1951 John Holman, 1959 XI - COLBY William Wing, 1954 Robert Oster, 1961 John Cornell, 1965 Martin Lobkowicz, 1977 Patrick Koch, 2003 Peter Zink, 2011 Patrick Dolan, 2012 Stefan Merriam, 2013 Felix Baldauf-Lenschen, 2014 Charles Madden, 2015 Christopher Smith, 2016 Kevin Walls, 2016 ZETA - PRINCETON Charles Abell, 1991 James Blue, 1991

ZETA GAMMA – HAMPDEN-SYDNEY Thomas Kurtzweil, 2014 Robert Mahaney, 2015 Forrest Fox, 2016 Ryan Simmons, 2016 Samuel Melson, 2018 William Milburn, 2018 Jacob Mitchell, 2019 ZETA UPSILON – CAL DAVIS Steven Sweetwood, 1999 Thomas Freeman, 2002 ZETA ZETA – LSU Thomas Kramer, 1950 Pendery Gibbens, 1954 (8) Richard Hodges, 1955 John Bateman, 1956 Alan Kaufman, 1958 Francis Huey, 1961 Cyril Melville, 1962 (8) Robert Barkerding, 1963 William Owens, 1964 (7) Michael Kearney, 1965 Hayne O’Shee, 1965 Eugene Tilton, 1966 Charles Marshall, 1967 Sartor Williams, 1967 Clave Gill, 1969 (5) Paul Bienvenu, 1970 (8) Richard Gautreaux, 1970 David Lankford, 1970 Wilbur Reynaud, 1970 (8) John Salisbury, 1970 Christopher Cole, 1971 Thomas Favrot, 1973 Richard Marshall, 1973 Frank Maselli, 1973 Nelson Swayze, 1973 H Elder Brown, 1974 Roy Cole, 1974 Clifford Sutter, 1974 William Treadway, 1974 Thomas Westfeldt, 1974 George Pope, 1976 Chester Alpaugh, 1977 (8) Brad Myers, 1978 Edward Gaiennie, 1979 Andrew Rinker, 1979 Daniel Devine, 1980 Donald Douglas, 1980 Donald Lambert, 1980 (8) Charles Williams, 1980 (8) Jacque Kuchta, 1981 Paul Masinter, 1983 (8) John Lange* , 1986 (8) Christopher Schlesinger, 1986 Roy St Paul, 1986 George Mentz, 1989 Marc Schneidau, 1989 Kirk Landry, 1990 David Rosprim, 1993 Timothy Bowlin, 1994 Joseph Mann, 1998 (8) Theodore Barkerding, 2002 Clifford Sutter, 2011

EXCEPTIONAL DONATION LEVELS: (1) Rampant Lion Society, $50,000+ (2) Founders Circle, $25,000-49,999 (3) Jolly Good Fellows, $10,000-24,999 (4) Presidents Club, $5,000-9,999 (5) Anniversary Club, $2,100-4,999 (6) 175th Scholars, $1,750-2,099 (7) DKE Gentlemen, $1,000-1,749 (8) Friends from the Heart, $450-999

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MYSTIC CIRCLE OF ∆KE BERNIE CHATHAM ZETA ZETA, ’54 1931-2021 Bernie Chatham, a former sportswriter and author of popular books, died Feb. 19 in Dallas, Texas, at the age of 89. Even though he was born and raised in Shaw, Mississippi, which is Ole Miss territory, Bernie chose LSU where he pledged Zeta Zeta. DKE brothers and friends, who nicknamed Bernie “Po Devil,” say he bled Purple & Gold for the rest of his life. Bernie was a die-hard fan of the Tigers in all sports and after graduation went to work in the sports department of the New Orleans Times-Picayune. Later, he created a sports publication called “Touchdown,” and also went on to publish a cookbook of favorite recipes from famous Louisiana athletes called “Time Out for Cooking.” He is survived by his son and four grandsons.

ERNEST THOMAS CHI, ’64 1941-2021 Ernest George Thomas, of Vicksburg, Miss., died March 8 at the age of 79. He attended the University of Mississippi where he was a proud brother in DKE’s Chi chapter. While in college, he was elected president of his freshman class and served as business manager and editor of the campus newspaper, The Mississipian. Ernest received his bachelor’s degree in business in 1964. After college, he returned to Vicksburg and joined his father in the furniture business. He also worked as a stockbroker and eventually opened his real estate business. Ernest was an avid outdoorsman who loved hunting and spending time in the country with his friends and family. Survivors include his wife, Camille Sanders, a daughter and son and two grandsons.

JOSEPH VINDEL TAU LAMBDA ’13 1991-2021 Joseph D. Vindel, the victim of a homicide on March 7, was just 29. He grew up in Old Metairie, La., graduated from De La Salle high school, and earned a bachelor’s degree in public relations from Tulane University, where he was also a brother in DKE. He was a talented chef who worked for several notable restaurants before acquiring his real estate license. When Joseph joined the talented team of Berkshire Hathaway, his career as a real estate agent took off like a rocket. Joseph was a skilled golfer who also had a deep interest in music. He leaves behind the love of his life, Katie Kreuz, as well as his parents and many relatives.

CHARLES SHAFFER BETA, ’64 1941-2021 Charles Milton Shaffer, Jr., died March 18 after a battle with Alzheimer’s disease. Born on December 21, 1941 in Durham, North Carolina, he grew up in Chapel Hill. Highly recruited as a football quarterback, he was awarded the Morehead Scholarship to the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa and was elected class president his junior and senior years. Despite a knee injury that ended his football career, he became co-captain of the varsity basketball and tennis teams and played during Coach Dean Smith’s first three basketball seasons. He was also a dedicated brother in DKE. Charlie enjoyed a 35-year legal career at King & Spalding where he was a partner and served as chairman of both its litigation department and hiring department. He was a member of the American College of Trial Lawyers and also served as president of the Atlanta Bar Association. After 35 years at King

& Spalding, he accepted the position of president and CEO of The Marcus Institute, a center for children with developmental disabilities.

TOMMY BARFIELD ZETA ZETA, ’57 1935-2021 Thomas Atkinson Barfield died on April 18 at the age of 86 after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease. Born in Baton Rouge, La., he attended Catholic High School, where he was a pitcher for the 1953 state championship baseball team. He received a degree in mechanical engineering from LSU, where he also pitched for the baseball team. Tommy was a proud DKE brother. He served as a Captain in the U.S. Army and for most of his career worked with Ormet Corporation in Burnside, La. A deeply spiritual person, Tommy served his church in multiple capacities, including as a prison minister and a volunteer at shelters, soup kitchens and with missionary groups. His lifelong love of baseball led him to devote years to coaching. Tommy is survived by his wife, Julie Barfield, and many relatives.

SAM BOYD PI BETA,’18 1996-2021 Samuel Allen Boyd, a brother in DKE’s Pi Beta chapter at Troy University, died April 29 at the age of 25. He graduated in 2019 from Troy with a degree in Rehabilitation. Most recently, Sam had been attending Salus University in Elkins Park, Pa., where he was working toward a master’s degree in Orientation and Mobility. Sam was also chapter advisor for DKE at Troy. Survivors include his fiancé, Hayden Scarbrough, of Troy, his parents, Ginger and Morgan Boyd, New Brockton, Ala., and a sister, Anna Elizabeth Boyd, New Brockton, Ala.; and many other relatives.

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MYSTIC CIRCLE OF ∆KE WILLIAM HOKE CAMP ETA, ’48 1924-2021 William Hoke Camp, Jr., 96, a Virginia Deke who served heroically in World War II, died on March 19. He attended Centre College before being called into the Army in April 1943. He served with the 68th Armored Infantry Battalion, 14th Armored Division in France and Germany in 1944 and 1945 where he earned the Combat Infantry Badge and was awarded the Bronze Star. After discharge from the Army, he attended the University of Virginia where he was a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity and was manager of the basketball team. Bill became president of Shippers Supply Company where he worked until his retirement. He is survived by Katherine Smith Camp, his wife of ten years, and his daughter and two sons. Edith Camp, Bill’s first wife of 55 years, preceded him in death.

DICK FOGG THETA, ’59 1937-2021 Richard Lloyd Fogg died on April 7 after an eight-month battle with leukemia. He was 84. Dick was born in Boston and went on to study at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. He was a proud member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity and lettered in cross country. He received his MBA from the SC Johnson College of Business at Cornell University, and then began his business career in brand management at Procter and Gamble in Cincinnati. He would spend decades as an executive in the food industry. Dick retired to Sonoma, Calif., where he served on the Sonoma Valley Citizens Advisory Commission and was instrumental in developing the 2020 Sonoma County General Plan. A world traveler, Dick and his wife Carrie

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visited six continents, only missing Antarctica because their ship caught fire. So that year they went to the North Pole instead. Dick is survived by his wife, his two daughters, son, and two grandchildren.

RICHARD ‘CLAY’ CAPUTE LAMBDA, ’81 1959-2021 Richard Claiborne “Clay” Capute, an employee benefits consultant and standout athlete, died April 21 of COVID-19 complications at the University of Maryland St. Joseph’s Medical Center. He was 62. Born in Glen Cove, N.Y., Clay attended Kenyon College where he was a proud Deke and a star on the school’s lacrosse team. He earned a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Pittsburgh and later worked for 30 years in employee benefits consulting at Turner Benefits, RSM McGladrey and Verisight. In retirement Clay remained a sports enthusiast and attended lacrosse games and followed college and professional football. He attended many Super Bowls with friends.

SAM COLLINS ZETA ZETA, ’62 1941-2021 Samuel Henry Collins, a prominent New Orleans lawyer who also practiced in Denver and in Arizona for more than 40 years, died April 27 in Tucson, Ariz. Sam graduated from Louisiana State University in 1962 and went on to earn a law degree there. He was also a proud DKE brother in LSU’s Zeta Zeta chapter. Born in Shreveport, he grew up on the island of Pedernales in Venezuela where he learned to speak Spanish. He spent much of his career focusing on Social Security Disability and Workers Comp law, primarily for Spanish-speaking clients. Sam is survived by his sister.

WILLIAM WALSH DALEY GAMMA PHI, ’57 1937-2021 Bill Daley, a longtime Trumbull, Conn., resident who took great pride in his membership in DKE, died on May 28 at the age of 84. Bill, who loved his time at Wesleyan, served as president of the Delta Kappa Epsilon chapter during his undergraduate years and was very involved in the Gamma Phi alumni association. He worked for more than 40 years at General Electric where he attained executive positions in sales and marketing. During his career and in retirement, Bill volunteered as a coach and umpire in Little League baseball. He served in the School Volunteers Association. pioneering a successful pre-K to grade 2 tutoring program at Connecticut schools. He was recognized for his service to the DKE alumni organization in 2013. Bill and his wife Barbara enjoyed traveling the world.

HENRY KOEHLER PHI, ’50 1927-2019 Henry Koehler, an internationally known painter and illustrator, died Dec. 24, 2019 at the age of 92. After serving in the Coast Guard, he enrolled at Yale in 1946 where he became a brother in DKE. While at Yale, Henry served as the art director of the yearbook, the Yale Record, and the Yale Literary magazine. As an illustrator his work appeared in Vogue, Town & Country, the New Yorker, and on the cover of Sports Illustrated. He had more than 70 one-man shows and his work was collected by President Kennedy, Prince Charles, the Duchess of Windsor, Ralph Lauren, and others. In 1974, he designed the postage stamp marking the 100th anniversary of the Kentucky Derby. Always stylish, he made the Vanity Fair International Best Dressed list in 2017 at the age of 90. His wife of 44 years, Audrey, died in 2008.

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