Marietta Delt Alumni

DTD at MC #74

2009-08-27T12:03:00.002-04:00

Good afternoon everyone,
Did you all ever wonder if I was going to write again? I did, several times. And I have to admit, when you let it go this long, there is a lot involved in getting started again.

I had several email addresses to update, a few new brothers to add to the list, and a whole lot of stuff to go through and clean up in my inbox! But enough of that, if I had stayed on top of things in the first place I wouldn't have had all that to do!

So here we go, as you all know, we just finished celebrating our first 40 years at MC. And a grand celebration it was! But now we have something to get us started on the next 40... EY WON IT'S 4TH HUGH SHIELDS AWARD!!!!!! How is that for some wonderful news? They got the award at the Northern Division Conference in January. Congratulations to the Undergrads for a tremendous year!

Last week at the chapter meeting we installed the new officers for the next year. They seem to be a really strong group with some good ideas on how to keep the chapter going in the right direction. The best of luck to them. You can see the names and the picture of the guys with the Hugh Shields flag at the chapter website. http://www.marietta.edu/~delts/ Check it out, there are also pictures from the 40th. I have some other pictures that I will be sending to Hops to be included at the site. So check back often.

There is also a rumor that the Undergrads will soon be putting up another issue of the Protimoi, you'll sure want to check it out.

Let's get started on the notes I have received from the guys. Unfortunately some of them are dated. But better late than never. Please drop me a line about what is happening in your life so we can keep this email interesting to everyone.

Steve Hills sent this note:

Dudes, A password protected alumni list is not very
useful!!! Please send me the passowrd or put a link to an unblocked file on
the web page.
Thanks, Steve Hills '82

Well Steve, I hope that the chapter got back to you, but here is the password for the directory. It is: **removed** We put the password on it to try to help protect the privacy of the Delts. Unfortunately, it can cause a problem sometimes. Sorry about that.

Bob Kavula sent me the following note and link to some pictures he took at the 40th.

Good to see all at the reunion. It was definitely an enjoyable
time.

I have posted all the photos Vicki and I took at homecoming here:http://picasaweb.google.com/rakstr/Reunion

Could others please post as well? It would be great to see what else
was going on!!!!!! Also, feel free to forward if someone is not on this
list.

Rick, thank you very much for all you time and dedication for making this
weekend a huge success.

Be sure to check out his pictures and post your own, Dave Broome sent me the following letter. He is the brother who put together the booklet we had at the banquet. A great job, everyone who saw it told me. Thanks again, Dave!

Rick-
Regarding the booklet that was handed out at Homecoming... I know
that Ted Smith and Joe Kirby were unable to
get to Marietta due to family matters. I've never met either of them,
but they both contributed a lot to the booklet text, and I was hoping they were
able to get copies.

Everyone who has enjoyed the booklet can also thank the rest of the
brothers who contributed: Jon Hartshorn, Matt Dole, Shawn Selby,
Ron Rees, Lance Koved, Bruce Miller, Mike Malone, Adam Hopkins, Rick Dunsker,
Joe Mester, Gregory Hanson, Ken Kavula, Rick Neel, Michael C Stein
(from a 30-year-old letter), and Bill Havens (posthumously, and
in a splendidly written, still-relevant paragraph that belongs on the first
page).

As for additional copies.. if the chapter runs out, I sent them (Adam
Hopkins) a PDF file of the entire text and the cover, which can be downloaded
onto a flash drive (I didn't know what either of those things were before
working on the booklet). The average cost of a booklet if professionally
assembled was about $2.00 each...should the need arise.

Finally- you mentioned preparations for the 50th anniversary.. Of course,
you were joking, but I mentioned to a few folks that I would be happy to compile
another booklet for the 50th. Some of the stories in the booklet for the
40th anniversary are "keepers" and deserve to be re-told again and again
(especially the ones about the chapter's founding). Hopefully, there will
be more to tell by then --and hopefully, more existing alums will recall a funny
or inspirational tale to include. Only one thing will prevent me from
being a Delt over the next ten years; otherwise, I'll be glad to keep collecting
tales of DTD at MC. For example- on the very day of our 40th banquet we
learned that a Delt who transferred to Marietta in 1861 (no- that year is not a
typo) attempted to start a DTD chapter at Marietta College, but his letter of
request to Bethany was not answered. I made a copy of the copy of his
letter, which was plopped on the coffee table at 219 4th Street, and soon I
will "transcribe" it as best as I can (if the undergrads have not already
done so from their copy). In the meantime, there are plenty of other
chapter-related concerns to keep us all occupied, not the least of which is
finding a new
shelter.

Until later,Dave Broome '88

As you noticed, he is more than willing to do it again for the 50th. So if reading the booklet caused you to think of something you would like to share, write it, send it to me and I'll forward it to Dave. Remember, everyone has a story to tell. DTD means something special to all of us. You also noticed, I hope that he sent a pdf file to Hops (the chapter webmaster) with the contents of the booklet. Hops, if you could, please post the link to that file on the website (or whatever you do to make things work) so that Lee Boveroux can get his copy of it.

Rick,
I attended the dinner, but somehow succeeded in not getting a book.
SO, kindly send one along, or email a soft copy, whichever is easiest.
Thanks,Lee
('83)

I had told Lee I would send him one, but it seems that they have been misplaced at the chapter, so this will be much quicker for Lee. (Much too slow for my taste, though.) My sincere apologies, Lee.

Bill Buzell sent me the following note, and has an interesting possible twist to our housing issue. Something to think about, don't you think, Hartsy?

Rick,
Thanks so much for the update-I am very sorry we could not attend the 40th.
I am saddened a little that I do not see in any of the pix any brothers from
'87. We used to get some of us together quite often. I would love to have
e-mails for any of those late 80s guys.

Well, maybe the 50th...I find it interesting that we are again considering
purchasing our own house-I had long advocated that back in the 80s, but we were
told the college would not allow us to do that.

I have always felt that living together in the same house made us closer as
a family. No dorm could ever do that.

I hope that we do have the opportunity someday to have a new shelter-I
might suggest that we could consider two very unusual options-

Contract with the Marietta High career center to build us a house. They
work much cheaper, and although it could take longer, they may relish the
challenge.

Contact "Extreme Home Makeover"- they probably wouldn't do it, but are you
sure if you don't ask???

How about it you guys from the late 80's, gonna get together again? You'll be glad you did.

Mark Nye sent me this note as to why he couldn't be with us for the 40th. Too bad he couldn't be here, but it sure is good news that his wife got her transplant and is well on the road to recovery. Keep us informed Mark.

Dear Rick,
Due to my wife's health, I was unable to attend. We were waiting for
a double lung transplant, and I didn't want to be five hours from Ann Arbor if
the call came. Well, the call didn't come over the reunion weekend, but it
came Wednesday the 29th of October. She had surgery on the 30th, double
lung transplant and she is working hard to get out of U-M hospital hopefully by
tomorrow.

So the 50th reunion will be on my list of things to do.

Sincerely, Mark Nye Class of 78

Lance Koved sent me this note. I have to agree with Lance about 10 years seeming like a long way off, yet I recall that it was 3 years that we spent planning the 40th and that time just flew. None the less, I hope to get to see you before then Lance.

Joyce and I really enjoyed seeing everyone at Marietta.
We had a lot of fun catching up although there never is enough time to spend
with everyone. We also thought the buildings and grounds at the college
were much improved since we had last visited 15 years ago. We hope to
travel the country more in the next few years after I retire so hopefully we
will have a chance to visit more of our friends. Ten years until the
next reunion seems like a long way off.

I spoke to my brother, Jim, the other day. He mentioned that the 2nd annual meeting of the Southwestern Chapter of EY alumni was held on Feb. 10, 2009. It was another golf outing, this time held in Vail, AZ. The attendees, Jim Neel and Bruce Masatsugu, being the golf nuts that they are, enjoyed thier game. The scores weren't what they had hoped for, but both of them complained that it was hard to find thier ball in the 2" of snow that covered the course.
They fininshed thier meeting at the course clubhouse, where it is reported that they actually consumed some food. However there were no witnesses to substansiate that claim. If your travel plans take you to the Tucson AZ area next February, please make plans to attend the annual meeting.

How was that for a report Bruce? Is it fit to show your wife???

Now for a couple of serious items. Number 1, Fergie is planning on retireing in the next couple of years. That is a real shock to a lot of the guys, who can't remember a time when he wasn't the chapter advisor. It is to me, I know. We also know that it takes a special kind of person to do it all, and we probably won't find that person to take his place. That being said, we are in the beginning phase of putting together an "Advisory Board" to help the chapter. More will be coming as time goes on. But there are needs for many areas, so if you live fairly close to Marietta, or can get here on a fairly regular schedule, and are willing to help, please let us know, and what areas you are interested in helping in.

Number 2, our ongoing need to replace the Chapter house. Here is a letter from Hartsy, followed by a reply from Matt Dole. We are still in the beginning phase of this, but it is something that will need to be addressed sooner rather than later. Face it folks, something needs to be done with the chapter house.

Brothers,
As promised here's more on the housing situation. Figuring that most of you are familiar with the housing situation for our chapter, I documented our overall options in a Pros vs Cons arrangement. Please look this over and see if there may be something missing. Right now, there is work being done to make the best of each option, should that be the direction we end up taking. The college is aware we hope to "go it alone", but has remained a decent partner and has so far been willing to consider our needs in their planning. Additionally, during a conference call last week, facilitated by Andy Longo at the Central Office, I was encouraged to learn that a chapter with a similar alumni base and chapter size as ours was able to build a shelter in less than 3 years from concept to occupancy. If you would like to know more about that just ask. I have some files I can send you.

My thought is that we need to make decisions at a House Corp. meeting the weekend of our annual Golf Outing weekend. That's far enough out for plenty of information to be gathered. More on that later. That's all for now.
Fraternal Regards. Jon Hartshorn

Delt Housing Options
Buying Pro: Reasonably Affordable
Foreseeable Risks Con: Limited Opportunities Renovating Ongoing Maintenance Costs Major Questions: Where could we go? Does City Ordinance allow it? Building Pro: Built Specific to Our Needs We Choose the Location Long Term Solution Con: Greatly Increased Responsibility High Initial Cost Difficult Project Major Questions: Can we get property? Will we be able to raise the money? Could we get a loan? What would we build? Staying College Owned/Operated Pro: No New Liability We've Done OK This Way Con: Remain at 219 4th Indefinitely No Control Over Rent Money Major Question: What happens when 219 4th is closed?

Here is Matt Dole's response:

Seems me me there are a few things we need to know before we ever get into engineering:
1. We need to deduce whether the college is going to let us build/own a house independent of college housing.
2. We need to get a handle on what the college charges for rooms, subtracting out meal plans since I assume we'll want the guys to stay on the college meal plan so we can see what sort of cash flow we'd have.
3. We need to know if the college will donate land or if land acquisition will be an additional cost (and hassle with the zoning regulations)
4. We need to see if the college will work with us on billing, they have more clout to collect than house corps. If they collect and give us the housing share it'd be ideal.
I think this is a critical part of the "partnership" aspect of this project.Once we know what the cash flow is, we'll have a better understanding of what kind of mortgage house corps can reasonably carry without being foreclosed upon, which will lead us into engineering & architectural planning.

My guess is that we'll have to end up building to a budget, rather than budgeting for the ideal building - but that's just me.

Could be 10 beds, could be 15, could be 20, just depends on what we deem a reasonable risk for house corps.

I'd also be interested in doing an early study on continuing care costs. Will the college provide maid services for a fee? Trash/water/sewer/heat/electric, etc? We don't want to plan for and build a great house that we can afford to maintain.

I'll be glad to help any way I can since I'm tossing ideas out there like it's my job... (It's a defense mechanism to help me forget about yesterday's election results.)

For the record, I'm in favor of building a DTD-only facility, but I understand - as the dude who nearly ran the house into the ground - that even 12 beds is a scary proposition as the numbers ebb and flow.
msd

One last thing, the annual golf outing is scheduled for the 4th Saturday in April, (the 25th). How many of you will be here to play? Let me know and I'll work on finding a course and figure out the cost. That's all I have for now. I plan on writing about twice a month, depending on what you all have to say, so keep the emails coming and I'll keep writing.

Rick Neel '73

DTD at MC #73

2009-08-27T12:01:00.001-04:00

Oops, I either didn't write this one or have lost it....If I lost it and you have it, please send it to me so I can post it. Thanks!

DTD at MC #72

2008-10-21T19:27:00.002-04:00

Good evening everybody,
15 days to go! October 24th,,,, homecoming,,,, EY's 40th anniversary. There is still time to get it together and show up in Marietta.

For those of you planning on being with us, send your checks to Fergie. The cost is $50 per person if you wish to attend the whole weekend, if you can only make part of it the breakdown is $35 for the Banquet on Saturday night and $15 for the Valley Gem cruise on Friday night. The address for your check is: **removed for privacy reasons**. Please make your check payable to "Crescent Colony ofMarietta, Inc"

As of this afternoon, we had checks from 65 people, about 40 of them were Delts and the rest are guests. Fergie expects that there will beabout 100 for the Valley Gem and 125 to 150 for the banquet. I think that is pretty good, considering we haven't yet reached 400 initated men yet at EY.

If you are interested in viewing the most recent undergraduate event, the serenading of a sorority after its rush, please go to the chapter website and click on the link at the top of the home page. I think they were even singing on key! http://www.marietta.edu/~delts/

Speaking of the undergrads, they just finished rush and pledged 14 men. Pretty special, and the guys seemed to me to be good men. I stopped by the house and had a nice conversation with several of them.

Let's see what emails I have received since the last email to you guys. Craig Sundstrom sent me this email about his attendence.

Hey Rick!
Sorry if I've already noted this to you, but I just wanted to clarify that I will be in attendance AND bringing a guest. I included that
with my RSVP and check, but wanted to be sure that information made your list
(the one I see in the e-mails) as well.

I hope you are well and are as excited about the 40th as I
am. Carri (my girlfriend) and I will be arriving
late Thursday night. See you then!

All the best,
Craig D. Sundstrom

Just want to let you know, I fixed it... from Bob Kubota, he will behere also. I love it, this should be a great weekend.

It looks like I should be home and plan on attending Will send Bob my check in
next day or so See you there
Bob Kubota

Both of those guys are past Presidents. It looks like we will have quite a few of them in attendence. Unfortunately, the President we had when I was VP doesn't look like he will be there, Mark Russell. Too bad.

Jordan Herrick sent me this note, another person that will be joining us.

Rick,
Just wanted to add another name to the 2000s list: Jason Strawsburg plus a date. I will keep you updated if any more names come in.
Thanks, Jordan

Another one from my era has stepped up... Glad to hear you will be with us Steve! Try to talk Andy James into coming will you?

Dear Brother Delts & Rick,
Just touching base to inform you I plan to attend as many of the Saturday
Oct. 25th scheduled events as possible. I mailed my check to Bob Ferguson for
the Dinner & Program on Sat. pm this past Monday. Will look forward
to meeting as many current undergrads and my EY Delt alum brothers as time
permits!
Fraternally Yours,
Steve Critchlow '72

Ken Weaver will be with us for the banquet, he's another President - a 2 term guy. I'm looking forward to seeing you again, Ken.

Rick,
Thank-you for working towards bringing all of the brothers together. I am planning on being there, but I will be coaching a high school football game on Friday night. So I will arrive Saturday morning. My wife will be with me.
See you then,
Ken Weaver Class of 1975

I have some new and updated email addresses for you: First I will list the new pledges. Congratulation guys! You are joining a great fraternity and we look forward to all the great things you will do to take EY to greater heights! Good luck.

Borwell, James, Chambers, Brandon, Earley, Alex, Halsey, Stephen, Heinzman, Matt, Inks, James, Jordan, Charles, Krutschnitt, Peter, Nolen, Ryan, Paszco, Zack, Sparta, Alex, Stay, Tyler, Kolligian, Derek, Wessler, Kevink.

Here are some updated (and new) alumni addresses:
Matt Fuller (updated), Alex Kalkofer (updated), Scott Gilmore (new), Bill "Buzzy" Buzzell (updated), Nick Aylward (updated), John Kitson (updated)

That's all I have this time, please plan on attending the House Corp. meeting, it should be interesting!

Rick Neel '73

1970's - Ted Smith +1, Lance Koved +1, Don Wolfe, Ron Rees, Bruce Miller +1, Bruce Masatsugu, Darrell Pritchard +1, Joe Matheny, Randy Williams, Rich Wolf +1, Bob Peterson +1, Al Head, Bob Kavula +1, Rick Dunsker, Chuck Robinson +1, Bob Burns, Rick Neel, Neal Mettler +?, JoeMester +1, Bob Bayer +1, Rob Weidenfeld, John DeVito, Bob Exten +1,Scott Gilmore, Bob Kubota, Ken Weaver +1
1980's - Drew Kern, Jon Hartshorn, Brian Rothenberg, Chris Goebel,Michael Tita +1, David Broome
1990's - Shawn Selby, J.P. Clowes, Matt Christman-Lees, Tim Cox, GregManko, Jeff DeWerth +1, Charley Maghes +2, Kevin Oliphant +1, TraceyHoward +1, Tim Parsons, Eric Gustafson, Chad Rhoads +1, Todd Myers +1,Chris Kurtz +1, Brian Stone, Mike Porath +1, Steve Blanzaco
2000's - Craig Sundstrom +1, Andy Byers +1, Justin Nethers, Matt Dole,Corey Medina, Casey Trail +1, Chris "Smitty" Smith, Seth Wolfson,Trent Elliott +1, Jordan Herrick, Jake Dornon +1, Ashley Woolam,Joshua Downey, Doug Orr +1, Jay Read, Matt Rouhier, Chris Lieb, BrianAshton, Trevor Brown, Nick Aylward, Josh Argento, Hunter Johnsson +1,Josh Harris, Chris Devine, Dan May, Sean Bailey, Jason Strawsberg +1

DTD at MC #71

2008-10-13T11:48:00.002-04:00

Good evening guys,

Well there are only 28 days left before homecoming. The number of paid reservations is rising on almost a daily basis. I just got an updated list of attendees from Jordan Herrick, so the weekend is looking like there will be a bunch of us. And the decade of the 2000's looks like it has overtaken the 1970's.

There have been some questions concerning cost. While we hope that everyone will be able to attend the whole weekend, if you can't make it to some of the events, here are the prices broken down. The river cruise on Friday night is $15 and the banquet on Saturday night is $35. That is per person.

I got a question about a couple of children and the cost for them at the banquet. I really can't answer that question at this point, I will have to discuss it with the committee and I'll let you know individually, but I'm sure it will be a reduced cost, after all how much can a 2 year old eat? I'll send you an email in the next couple of days.

Along this same line, I have been asked how much of the weekend will be open to friends and spouses. Almost the whole weekend is family friendly, the only function that is only for brothers, is the ritual meeting. That will be Sunday morning in McDonough Hall on campus. Please, plan on including your special person in the whole weekend.

We are asking that your payment be sent to Bob Ferguson at **remmoved for privacy reasons** no later than October 10th so we can let the caterers know how many to plan on feeding. Make your check payable to "Crescent Colony of Marietta, Inc." Also, Bob Ferguson and Jon Hartshorn, have asked that there be no one staying at the house on this weekend other than those brothers actually living there. The feeling is that there will be too much going on at the house for the brothers to keep up with and have alums sleeping there as well. Thank you for your help in this matter.

At the end of this email, I will include the schedule of events for the weekend, and the names of those that are planning on attending. Unfortunately, I got an email today from one of the guys having to uncommit, due to the health of his wife. I'm sorry to hear about it Joe, hopefully she will be well soon. He has reservations for a room already, if you are interested in using his room, please contact him soon. He is planning on cancelling the reservation in the next couple of weeks. His email address is: Joe Kirby, **removed** I'm sure that Bob Exten and John DeVito will give you a good accounting of what went on.

Dave Broome sent me a rather long email about the booklet that he is working on. He promises that it will be ready on time and tells me that it is looking pretty good. I'll just copy his note so you can send him the help he needs. Please remember, though he says that he works well under pressure, time is getting VERY short for his work. Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.

The "booklet" which we have been discussing for nearly a year is almost
entirely a collection of first-person accounts of our chapter's history -from
the beginning to the present day, as told by various alums. It is
not a photo album (although a few images will be included), nor is it a dry
third-person text of "how it all started." It was (and is) my hope that
these stories will breathe life into the chapter's history, and provide present
and future undergraduates (as well as alumni) with a permanent reference to
prove that the Delt experience at Marietta is a special one. I have very
very few scanned photographic images to use in this booklet...All of those whch
you sent to me are currently included in some form. I was trying to attach
at least one image to each story, but there aren't enough images to go
around.

If any scanned images are out there that have a somewhat-interesting story
attached, there is still time to include it -just send it to me as soon as
possible! And- keep in mind, that it is essential that I
know the names people in photographs (and graduation year, if possible).

Should anyone else want to immortablize their thoughts for this project,
there is currently an opportunity to fill in the gaps on the following
subjects: Except for Shawn Selby's account of the first
Hugh Shields award (1991), there are no other stories from the 1990s.

Perhaps a couple of other stories from that decade would help stretch the
narrative into the present day.
For example: 1. After winning the first Hugh Shields award, the chapter's performance accelerated, and by the 25th anniversary in 1993, numbers and general undergraduate enthusiasm were at a high point. Anyone from that period care to share some of the afterglow?
2. Alternatively, by 1999, the chapter's numbers had fallen into single-digits. Something cathartic happened among those few remaining Delt undergraduates to turn things back around- and they succeeded. What was it? How did you do it? Keep in mind that the chapter's fortunes have always been very cyclical. In the future, perhaps another group of EY Delts could find inspiration in your story.

3. Photos from the move in 1984 from 507 Putnam St to 219 4th St I have. What I don't have is any accompanying commentary. Any alums from the 1983-84 school year care to get in on this.
4. Could someome who lived in that abomination known as Douglas Putnam Hall (the dormitory for freshmen men) provide an account of what it was like to live there? I only stepped in there a couple of times -and that was plenty creepy enough for me.

5. What happened on the Marietta Campus on the morning of Sept 11, 2001? Were classes cancelled? Was there a special message to the student body from the administration?

.........Thanks in advance for any input that other alums may have on these subjects; please remember to identify yourselves by full name and graduation year.

But- we're in the home-stretch now, so it would need to be done very soon. Scanned images are preferable, and those can be sent directly to me at **removed** ...again, sooner -rather than later- is preferable. In any case, written personal accounts of the highlights (and lowlights) of chapter history are preferable -and any late submissions are welcome.

Fraternally, Dave Broome, '88

Please guys, help him out. This booklet is something that all Delts will cherish, I think.

Debby Smith is our first Little Sister that is committed to coming to our 40th. There is still time for the rest of you ladies to make your plans. Hope that you all will be able to join us Here is her note.

Dear Rick,
I am one of the missing little sisters class of 1976, Deborah (Debby) Smith. My husband (David Seibert) and I are planning to come to homecoming. At this time we are not sure which functions we are attending as I am also an AST and we will be splitting our time between the two groups.

Will we be able to pay for only the functions we attend? At this time we are considering the social hour at the Shrine Club, tail gating prior to football game, homecoming parade, and possibly the banquet. Can you update me on those.

We will be staying at the Best Western on Muskingum Drive. Please include me on the e-mail updates.

Looking forward to seeing everyone. Debby Smith

That's all I have for this time, see you in October! Rick Neel '73

Thursday evening for early arrivalsMeet and greet-Town House around 8:00

Friday The day will be free to see Marietta
Noon - Midnight Registration at DTD
8-10 pm Valley Gem river cruise-Bottom deck enclosed

Saturday 9:00-9:25 Doughnuts and beverage at Delt House
9:30-10:15 Campus tours
10:30-11:00 507 Putnam visit
11:30-12:00 Parade
12:00-12:45 House Corp meeting
12:45-1:30 Tailgate at Stadium
1:30-4:30 Football game
6:00-7:00 Social Hour @ Shrine Club
7:00-12:00 Dinner, Program & Socialization (um, I think we mean Socializing. Socialization is the process of converting private property to state-owned property -- Shawn)

Sunday9:00-10:00 Breakfast at Delt house
10:00-11:00 Ritual not at house
11:00-1:00 Alumni-Undergrad Football game
1:00- Free time

Delt 40th Anniversary Attendence List
Advisor - Bob Ferguson +1

1960's - Greg Maloof + 1, Ken Kavula +1, Frank Hirsch (I think), Steve Newton

1970's - Ted Smith +1, Lance Koved +1, Don Wolfe, Ron Rees, Bruce Miller +1, Bruce Masatsugu, Darrell Pritchard +1, Joe Matheny, Randy Williams, Rich Wolf +1, Bob Peterson +1, Al Head, Bob Kavula +1, Rick Dunsker, Chuck Robinson +1, Bob Burns, Rick Neel, Neal Mettler +?, Joe Mester +1, Bob Bayer +1, Rob Weidenfeld, John DeVito, Bob Exten +1, Scott Gilmore

1980's - Drew Kern, Jon Hartshorn, Brian Rothenberg, Chris Goebel, Michael Tita +1, David Broome

1990's - Shawn Selby, J.P. Clowes, Matt Christman-Lees, Tim Cox, Greg Manko, Jeff DeWerth +1, Charley Maghes +1, Kevin Oliphant +1, Tracey Howard +1, Tim Parsons, Eric Gustafson, Chad Rhoads +1, Todd Myers +1, Chris Kurtz +1, Brian Stone, Mike Porath +1, Steve Blanzaco

2000's - Craig Sundstrom, Andy Byers +1, Justin Nethers, Matt Dole, Corey Medina, Casey Trail +1, Chris "Smitty" Smith, Seth Wolfson, Trent Elliott +1, Jordan Herrick, Jake Dornon +1, Ashley Woolam, Joshua Downey, Doug Orr +1, Jay Read, Matt Rouhier, Chris Lieb, Brian Ashton, Trevor Brown, Nick Aylward, Josh Argento, Hunter Johnsson (maybe), Josh Harris, Chris Devine, Dan May, Sean Bailey

DTD at MC #70

2008-09-09T17:13:00.002-04:00

Hello everybody,
Well I was going to write this yesterday, but I decided to adopt a dog from the Humane Society and had to get the house (and backyard) ready for a dog. So I had to put it off until today, which turned out to be a good thing. I was getting ready to go pick "Buddy" (I think that's the name I'll give him, not sure yet) when my phone rang. It was a call from Dean "Dreamer" Costilow - '75. He stopped in for a minute while on his way to Kentuky to see his son play soccer.

He dropped off his pledge paddle and a copy of the Delt Shield. I'll be dropping them off at the house in the next day or so. Unfortunately, he doesn't think that he will be able to make the 40th. I'm hoping that he is able to adjust his schedule. He did request that I pass his best wishes to everyone, especially the guys he went to school with.

He told me that he has 4 children, 2 boys and 2 girls. All of them are grown and out of the house now, so he has joined that club known as the "empty nesters." It was really nice to see Dean, we sure did some dumb things, back in the day. A lot of fun though.

We are getting all of the plans finalized for the 40th, Fergie seems to feel that it is all coming together nicely, me, I'm pretty nervous about it all. Some of the "improtant" people that we have scheduled to be there are Bruce Peterson, Northern Division President, someone from the Central Office, perhaps Garth Eberhart, Director of Chapter Services. (Jim Russell, who had promised to be with us, had to back out due to the fact that the Purdue Delts are dedicating thier new house that same weekend. And he couldn't talk them into delaying the dedication. So I guess I won't send him any "hate mail"), and someone from the Arch Chapter. Pretty impresive for us. Fergie casts a long shadow, I guess. Plus the undergrads are doing a really good job.

We are now just 45 days from Homecoming. Time is getting short (finally, it seems as if I have been plugging this forever). However we need to get it into gear as far as who is coming. I know that a lot of you have let me know of your intention to be here, and that is wonderful. We are going to have a great turnout. There are going to be a lot of memories shared and a bunch of lies told, I'm sure.

However, now is the time to step up and get your money in. Without payments, it is pretty hard to go to the Shriners and tell them how many to expect for the banquet on Saturday. Also, it is hard to tell the caterers how much food and drink to bring for the Valley Gem river ride. While the drink part will be a cash bar, the food will be part of the price you are paying, and as you can understand, we don't want to buy what we don't need.

Fergie has asked that the deadline for payment be set at October 10th. That's 2 weeks before Homecoming, and we really need to know by then.

I have been asked by a few alums what the cost will be if they can only make the banquet (or the Valley Gem). As much as we hope that you will be able to make it for the entire weekend, we have established a price for each event. The Valley Gem will be $15 and the Banquet is $35. That gets you to the price of $50 for the weekend that is per person. I hope that you all will be able to attend everything and enjoy yourselves.

Please make your check payable to: Crescent Colony of Marietta, Inc. and send it to Bob Ferguson, **removed for privacy reasons**. (If you wish to enclose anything extra, there will be no complaints from House Corp, I'm sure!) If you are bringing someone with you please let us know thier name so we can make a nametag for them. Also if there is any other information (like class year, Greek organization, etc) include that, in case we don't already know it.

So far, we have received payment from 19 Delts and a total of 32 people. That's pretty good for this early, but please get your checks written. That is out of 99 people that have said they are coming. When all is said and done, I expect that we will have 150+ there. Be one of the attendees.

Also, I got the following news from the President of House Corp and our Chapter Advisor. For this homecoming, please there is no "camping out" or sleeping at the house allowed. The feeling is that there will just be too many people in Marietta this weekend and the undergrads will have thier hands full keeping up with the house as it is. Your understanding and cooperation is appreciated.

Let's see what I have heard from Delts since the last time. Nick Alyward sent me the following note, he's our first chapter consultant. Any of you out there on the upper east coast get ahold of Nick and visit for a bit.

Rick,
I plan on being at the 40th. I'll get the check to Ferg. Also, since I will be traveling for the fraternity this year, if any alums are in the areas I am traveling, I'd love to meet up with them and hear about their times at Marietta. I will be traveling the east coast from Maine to D.C. and then all of Pennsylvania. Let me know.
Thanks! Nick Aylward '08

Kevin Oliphant sent me this message. He forgot to include his phone number so I had to go back and ask for it. I'm off that whole week Ollie, you gonna help me not remember it? Here's his phone number, give him a call - **removed**

Hey Rick!
Pass along for any Delts who are in early for the weekend if they'd like to meet for lunch on Friday. Im just 15 minutes away in Vienna WV and would like a chance to catch up at the Townhouse or the Galley or one of the old hangouts from college days. May even have a beer or two.

Wiona Porath (Mike's wife and social secretary) sent along this note. And by the way, they are included on the list now. I'm looking forward to meeting her, she is a well of information. The note about the sorority houses is concerning the ongoing debate about relocating the Delts.

Apparently our email got lost. We responded that we will be attending the40th, but sadly we aren't on the list :( Mike Porath, '90 and Wiona Altic Porath.

Note on Sorority Houses...all but one were owned by the chapters and the one the college owned is now no longer...sad for me and my sisters

Don't forget that the college did own the Tri-Sigma House and look what happend to us...they stole our house and made it into the Admissions office. Now we aren't even on campus. The college never sent any word to the alums that I am aware of when the chapter was having this happen.Anyway, can you add Michael and I to the list of '90's
Thanks,Wiona

Pete Weiner sent me the following note. Unfortunately, in a following email he determined that he wasn't going to be able to make the timing work. So he won't be joining us. Sorry to hear that Peter, maybe next year.

Hey Big Bro,
My wife, Karen, and I are trying to finalize our plans for our yearly obligations to family in Charleston and Cincinnati . I'm pushing for the time around Homecoming so we can make the side trip to Marietta to coinside. But incase our timing is off know that I am thinking of you guys.
Also I'm going to try to make the side trip just to sya hey and if we can hook up it
would be great.

Remember I can always be reached through my Web Site**removed** or through
my Dell cell phone **removed**( no I do not advocate Dell, I just fix them).
Peter

Shawn Selby sends his greetings from the old country. I used to be able to make the claim of coming the greatest distance to these things, but you have beaten my record, Shawn. I'm looking forward to seeing you.

Hi Rick
I bid you Purple, White and Gold greetings from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland!

Just last week I finally booked my flight back to North America! I'm flying directly from Manchester to Toronto on Friday, Oct. 17. I'll spend that weekend in Toronto seeing my much-missed friends there. Then on the Monday I'll head to Detroit where I will spend a few days before coming down to Marietta on the 23rd or 24th. After Homecoming, it is back to Toronto via Detroit for a nonstop flight back to Manchester on Oct. 27. By my calculations, the distance between Manchester, England, and Marietta is 3,695 miles.

If I can be bothered to make the cross-ocean, continent-hopping trip, well then, none of our Brothers have much of an excuse for not making the trip, from where I sit. :-)

(And I will happily buy a drink for any Brother who has travelled a farther distance to get to Marietta!)

As for everyone else, I suggest they start memorising the words to "God Save the Queen" and "Rule Britannia".
Shawn Selby '92

Tim Parsons sent me some pictures of the newest Delt Legacy - Jacob Timothy Parsons. I won't attempt to post them here, because I send this to some people at work and you know how that goes. But I will attempt to get them to the chapter so they can be posted on the website. He's a good looking guy Tim. Congratulations.

Debby (Smith) Seibert, one of our missing Little Sisters sent me the following note. Debby, I apologize for not responding to you directly (which I will correct when I finish this) but yes, you can only attend the things you wish to. See above.

Dear Rick,
I am one of the missing little sisters class of 1976, Deborah (Debby) Smith. My husband (David Seibert) and I are planning to come to homecoming. At this time we are not sure which functions we are attending as I am also an AST and we will be splitting our time between the two groups.

Will we be able to pay for only the functions we attend? At this time we are considering the social hour at the Shrine Club, tail gating prior to the football game, homecoming parade, and possibly the banquet. Can you update me on those.

We will be staying at the Bestwestern on Muskingum Drive.Please include me
on the e-mail updates.
Looking forward to seeing everyone.
Debby

Brian Stone sent me the following note, as you can all see the number of Alums planning on coming back is increasing. Don't be left out!

Hey Rick.
You are doing a great job with keeping us all informed. I've been trying to work things out to get back for homecoming and I have finally got everything in order.

I just made my plane and hotel reservations so I will be coming back. So put me down for 1. I will be getting my check on to Fergie as soon as possible.

I should be into Marietta some time around noon on Friday, or maybe earlier
depending how fast my rental car is.
Fraternally Brian Stone 1997
I spoke to Cowboy Santini and he said that he would attend as many of the functions as possible depending on the schedule of his daughter and the state soccer tournement. Good luck to her Cowboy, I hope she makes the state finals and wins, but I'd like to see you at homecoming also...(Of curse so would Bob Kavula!)

That's all I have for this week. Remember October is right around the corner! See you all at homecoming. Have a great week, Rick Neel '73

DTD at MC #69

2008-08-24T22:24:00.002-04:00

Hello everybody!

Well it's interesting, here we are with email #69, and that is the year I graduated from High School. I still remember our "unofficial" class motto. I have no idea what the official one was however. "Sin, Sex, Booze and Wine, we're the class of '69." Do you remember your motto?

Karnea is over, and school is about to begin. Classes begin on August 25, and the undergrads are beginning to move back into the house. I stopped by this morning and ran into a few of the guys. They told me that we are expecting to begin the fall semester with 33 brothers returning. Several of last years freshman decided not to return to school for various reasons, something that happens at colleges and universities every year. We wish them the best in thier futures, and hope they stay in touch with us. Because now, guys, you are alumni!

The goal for recruitment for this year is 22 men. I was told that breaks down into 18 in the fall and 4 for the spring rush. So the undergrads have thier work cut out for them.

The last couple of days have been move in days for the freshmen, and the Delts were there to help out. They provided strong backs to help move the new students into the dorms. And while they were doing that, they got to meet a lot of the new freshmen men. That should help them with rush. Getting a headstart on the process. (oh, by the way, they got to meet the new freshmen women also!)

The Delts had some good news, from spring semester. I think I reported it earlier, but in case I didn't, or you missed it, the guys finished last semester with a 3.05 GPA. Bravo!

Oh! I almost forgot, Homecoming is in only 2 months. Two months and two days to be exact, and with homecoming, is our 40th anniversary. I hope that you have made your plans and are just waiting to send in your check. If that is the case, the cost is $50 per person, please send your check, made out to, Crescent Colony of Marietta, Inc. and send it to Bob Ferguson at **removed for privacy reasons**. I will be posting the schedule of events and the names of those people who have let us know they are coming at the end of this email.

I got the chance to see Rich Wolf last week, he was in the area to see his in-laws. We had dinner and swapped memories. It's funny how different things stick with you that others have forgotten. But when we told a story, the other one of us remembered the incident, even if we didn't recall it originally. That was fun.

There is still some commentary concerning the proposed new living quarters for the Delts. I got several notes from Rick Kramer and Todd Myers. Both of them had interesting suggestions as far as alternative housing for the chapter. I referred them to Ferg and Hartsy, but haven't heard anything back from either one of them since Karnea. Ferg said that they were planning on having some discussions with people from the central office, so we might have some better insight into the situation. When I hear something, I"ll let you all know.

Since the last email, I have gotten the addresses from some of the lost brothers. I wrote to them, but haven't heard anything back yet. None the less, welcome home guys! I hope you find time to share with us. The names and addresses are: Bruce Goldfarb, Gordon Turner, and Dean Kilton. If these guys are from your era and you know them, send them a note and get back in touch with an old friend.

I got Dean's information from Nick Aylward, EU's first chapter consultant. Evidently Dean wandered into the Central Office and was looking for information about EU and wanting to get back in touch with the fraternity. Here we are Dean, welcome!

Let's see who wrote since the last time. I received the following note from Bob Kavula. It was copied to me when he sent it to Cowboy Santini and Matt Sutko. I hope that he talked you two guys into coming. (I guess I'll have to call them and bug them).

OK,If I can drag my fat ass up from Dallas, certainly you guys can make it :) Especially you Cowboy.......We're arriving Thursday night and will be at the Townhouse for drinks. Staying at the Lafayette and will be there for the 30th thing on Friday night.

I went to my wife's 30th high school reunion last weekend and it was kind of fun and I didn't know anyone. It's a once in a lifetime chance guys to have the 40th Fraternity party and our 30th Class reunion.

Hope to see you both.
Todd Myers sent the following note in:

Rick,I plan to attend homecoming and will get my check into Fergie,
Thanks,Todd Myers '91

Chris Kurtz sent me the following note. In answer to your question about the sororities, they all own thier own houses I believe, so no they won't be moving into the type of arrangements we are talking about. And no, it will not be a problem if you bring your children. The whole weekend is open to everybody, with the exception of the initiation on Sunday.

Hello everyone, I am sorry I have not been reading all of the recent emails but I do appreciate receiving them. As I have been out of the loop, what is going on with the sororities? Are they being moved there as well?

I look forward to seeing everyone at homecoming. Rick please put me down for at least 1+ my wife Jessica. ( I might be bringing our 2 kids in tow, is that a problem? I've never come to a homecoming with kids so...)

My best to everyone, especially my brothers who I look forward to celebrating our 15th reunion together, Andy, Brian, J.P., Xan, Seth (hope you can make it, sorry to hear about your accident), Graham, Greg, Jimmy and Tony (does Tony come back to homecoming?)

All the best,Chris Kurtz
PS Join facebook, I have been able to reconnect with a bunch of folks from my MC days.

That's a long list of brothers he wants to see, are you all signed up? If not, what are you waiting for? Now I do have to admit feeling shock, hurt and betrayal that someone (other than my brother, Jim) actually says he doesn't read all of these things! How about you Shawn Selby? I haven't had any criticism of my writing skills for quite a while now. Am I getting better???

I got the following from Bruce Masatsugu, unfortunatly he won't be on the river cruise. All I can say is "Drive Faster, Bruce!" Just kidding, drive safely, and I'll catch up with you at the Town House! Of course you could take an earlier flight.

Rick, Thanks for all the updates.

It's been fun reading about all the experiences at DTD through the years. Couple of things. First, it'll be just me for the dinner on Saturday night so remove the "+1". Also, I haven't seen anything about a count for the river cruise, but I don't think I'll be able to make it. Baring any delays, I'm arriving in Columbus at 5:40 so I'll probably arrive in Marietta sometime after 8. I'll catch up with you after the cruise (Town House?)

Either call me at **removed** or give me your number and I'll call you sometime after 10. Looking forward to seeing everyone in a couple of months.

Bruce Masatsugu '75

Here are the names of the guys who will be making presentations at the banquet: Remember guys, keep it between 10 and 15 minutes, the subject matter should be about DTD and MC, and there will be ladies and perhaps children in the audience. If you are interested in speaking, let me know. There will be a computer there if you wish to do a power point... Speaking will be, Ken Kavula, Greg Maloof, Rich Wolf, Shawn Selby, Brian Rothenberg, Don Wolfe, Jordon Herrick, and Chris Goebel.

If anyone is in conact with Chris Goebel, please send me his phone number. He has evidently changed his email address, and I need to speak to him. Thanks.

That's all I have for this week. Time is getting short, and I'm getting pretty excited. I hope you are too.

Have a good weekend, Rick Neel '73

Thursday evening for early arrivals Meet and greet-Town House around 8:00

Friday The day will be free to see Marietta
Noon - Midnight Registration at DTD
8-10 pm Valley Gem river cruise-Bottom deck enclosed

Saturday9:00-9:25 Doughnuts and beverage at Delt House
9:30-10:15 Campus tours
10:30-11:00 507 Putnam visit
11:30-12:00 Parade
12:00-12:45 House Corp meeting
12:45-1:30 Tailgate at Stadium
1:30-4:30 Football game
6:00-7:00 Social Hour @ Shrine Club
7:00-12:00 Dinner, Program & Socialization (um, I think we mean Socializing. Socialization is the process of converting private property to state-owned property -- Shawn)

Sunday 9:00-10:00 Breakfast at Delt house
10:00-11:00 Ritual not at house
11:00-1:00 Alumni-Undergrad Football game
1:00- Free time

Delt 40th Anniversary Attendence List
Advisor - Bob Ferguson +1
1960's - Greg Maloof + 1, Ken Kavula +1, Frank Hirsch (I think), Steve Newton
1970's - Ted Smith +1, Lance Koved +1, Don Wolfe, Ron Rees, Bruce Miller +1, Bruce Masatsugu, Darrell Pritchard +1, Joe Matheny, Randy Williams, Rich Wolf +1, Bob Peterson, Al Head, Bob Kavula +1, Rick Dunsker, Peter Weiner +1, Chuck Robinson +1, Bob Burns, Rick Neel, Neal Mettler +?, Joe Mester +1, Bob Bayer +1, Rob Weidenfeld, John DeVito, Joe Kirby +1, Bob Exten +1, Scott Gilmore
1980's - Drew Kern, Jon Hartshorn, Brian Rothenberg, Chris Goebel, Michael Tita +1
1990's - Shawn Selby, J.P. Clowes, Matt Christman-Lees, Tim Cox, Greg Manko, Jeff DeWerth +1, Charley Maghes +1, Kevin Oliphant +1, Tracey Howard +1, Tim Parsons, Eric Gustafson, Chad Rhoads +1, Todd Myers, Chris Kurtz +1
2000's - Craig Sundstrom, Andy Byers +1, Justin Nethers, Matt Dole, Corey Medina, Casey Trail +1, Chris "Smitty" Smith, Seth Wolfson, Trent Elliott +1, Jordon Herrick, Jake Dornon +1, Ashley Woolam, Joshua Downey, Doug Orr +1, Jay Read, Matt Rouhier, Chris Lieb, Brian Ashton (I think), Trevor Brown

DTD at MC #68

2008-08-18T18:12:00.003-04:00

Hello everyone,

I got the following note from Jeremy Dornon, giving me heck for my inability to spell! Sorry Jeremy, it's fixed and I'll try not to do it again! I'm going to enjoy meeting the Delt Legacy you will be bringing.

Rick...As always, love receiving the updates in the inbox. Just a quick note, I am still attending the 40th, but I will be bringing someone, so please note me as +1 on the attendees list. Also, when you update the attendees list, my last name is spelled 'Dornon' not 'Dornan'. Nothing major, just fyi! Can't wait to kicking back at the TH with the brothers, and letting the majority of the guys meet my 2 yr old son, Braxton. Also a future Delt. :)

Tim Cox sent me the following note. I had him listed as an "I think" on the attendees list. Here he makes it official.

Hey Rick, Just wanted to let you know that I will definitely be attending the 40th festivities. What are the exact dates again?

Thanks,Tim CoxClass of '99

I answered Tim directly with the dates, but here they are along with the cost involved. Homecoming is October 24-26. And the cost is $50 per person attending. Please make your check payable to Crescent Colony of Marietta, Inc Send it to Bob Ferguson, **removed for privacy reasons** I hope to see many of you there.

Chad Rhodes sent me this note, he'll be there, how about you?

Rick, I'll be at the 40th, along with my wife, Krista. We've got the hotel reservations and the check will be in the mail shortly. I'm looking forward to meeting you and others and to catching up with old friends. Thanks for all of your work on the newsletter.

Chad Rhoads Class of 1995

Murray Talasnik sent me the following note. I suggested that he contact the alumni office, if any of you have a better suggestion for him, please drop him a line.

Hi all.
I was recently unpacking some long lost boxes and found some of my old Marietta College yearbooks. Unfortunately, I seem to have lost the 1971 yearbook, the year of my graduation. If anyone has any idaes about how I might find a replacement, I would greatly appreciate it.
Thanks.
Murray Talasnik, class of 1971

I got this email from Hartsy, President of House Corp., concerning our meeting last week with the college about housing options. First of all, let me say that I received many very good replies last time I wrote. To all of you "Thank you." Your feelings were presented to the college by me when we met.

After some thought and further conversation with Ferg and Andy Longo, here's how I see our realistic options:
#1) We stay where we are as long as we can, and when we get word we have to leave, we look again at options.
#2) Let MC know that we are OK with the moving to the new residence hall, and wait to see what we get.
#3) Find a way to get some money into the new residence hall project, and continue to partner with the college.

There are other possibilities, but I see them all as variations of the above.

Right now I slightly favor #2 over #3, with #1 a distant 3rd. My stance on #3 could improve if I knew more about how we could get some form of equity stake in the residence hall. I lean toward #2 thinking that there may be more options in a few years, more time for fundraising, and in the mean time we have decent housing.

I'd be higher on #1 if we owned 219 4th right now. As Andy mentioned to me, we have no property to sell or rent if we just let the college move us.

The down side of #2 is that if we don't like what we get, we may be back to moving again in a few years.

That's all for now. See you guys soon.
Jon Hartshorn, ASQ CMQ/OE

Today, I sat down with Fergie and using Hartsy's email as a basis for discussion, put together the following thoughts.

From our talk with the college, they are planning on spending $200 a square foot to build the new residence hall. That means for us to have a 5000 sq ft house of our own, it would cost us $1,000,000. I don't see that happening, do you?

Secondly, the college is about $30,000,000 in debt, so this building is probably our only opportunity for new quarters in the forseeable future. Several thoughts came to mind as we were barnstorming, here are some of them in no particular order.

Fraternity size comes and goes. In 2000 we had 4 or 5 members, in 2006 we had 50, in 2008 we will start with 30+. We have been up and down for our entire history (as have all the other fraternities). So where will we be in 5 years? How about 10? It is impossible to know, but if we have our own house, we will have to pay for it. That means members, it would be a terrible thing (to my mind) to have to recruit men just to fill a house, not because they are quality people.

Right now, DTD is held in pretty high regard by the administration of the college. Who is to say what the case will be in 5 or 10 years. The people in charge with MC are in thier late 50's and early 60's. Perhaps thier replacements will be progreek, but maybe not. What do we do then?

Next, Lynne Miller, in her email said that the college was planning on providing the chapter with "adequate space" for meeting rooms and storage for our ritual equipment. The meeting mentioned that the college figured on 15 sq. ft. per student. If we figure the Delts get a membership of 60, that would give us 900 sq. ft. in public area. Of course we don't have 60 members. The college did seem receptive to our needs for more room however. It may become necessary for us to contribute if we wish for more space than they plan on for us. Right now, in the 4th St. Shelter, the back room (as best we could tell from outside) appears to be 32x23 (736 sq ft) for the chapter room and 32x42 (1344 sq ft) for the total addition. As I write that, it doesn't seem right. The total is close to accurate, not sure on the chapter room.

Unfortunately, we were ncluded in this discussion just recently, and as the discussion unfolded, it became pretty obvious that we should have been included 6 months ago, so we could have been better prepared. As of the time of our meeting, the college hadn't been able to arrange anything with the LCA so we don't know what thier thinking on this subject is.

When House Corp first began the discussion on this subject, our best thought was having our fraternity house on the front of a building and a dorm behind it. Actually that is what the college is proposing. We will have our own entrance at one end of the new hall, with our letters above the entrance. Beds for approximately 15 members (that is negotiable - but keep in mind, we weren't able to fill the house we have this year), dedicated outdoor space like we have now, for volleyball, etc., semi-private bathrooms (a definate improvement from what we have now), etc.

To reiterate what Hartsy said, here are the options I see for us.

#1 - Building of our own. The cost would be about $1 million. We don't have that much, and the cash flow options don't appear to make it workable. Even if we could get $300,000 from members (that's $750 each from 400 members - which we don't have yet) it still wouldn't work. And that is assuming we could get the land from Marietta College.

#2 - Stay where we are. Assuming that the college finds that our house is usable for the next 10 years at a reasonable cost, what happens in 10 years? That house won't last forever, as much as we would like it to. Remember, the college owns the house, they can decide it isn't cost effective at any time.

#3 - Move to a house on 4th St. (like the ATO's are in). They sleep 60. Do we want to have people sharing the house that aren't Delts? Remember, we have never had 60 in our history. It's an option, the college likes us right now.

#4 - Work with the college, move into the new residence hall and make it our own. This may cost us some money (probalbly will) to get enough common space to serve our needs.

#5 - Something else. There is always another option that hasn't been thought of.

My biggest concern is that we keep a level playing field. The ATO's will stay where they are, on 4th St. The assumption is that the DU's will be back in 2011, and they will be back in thier house. Will that put us at a competitive disadvantage?

Sorry this is so long. But I felt it needed to be. See you in October!

Have a great week. Rick Neel '73

DTD at MC #67

2008-07-21T11:33:00.004-04:00

Hello everyone,
I hope that you all had a great weekend, and are enjoying your summer.
For me, moving home to Marietta has been just great. 2 weeks ago, I got to attend the Riverfront Roar, the powerboat races that Marietta has every summer. This year it was the world championship for Div. 2 and 3. Pretty exciting.

During the weekend, I got together with Matt Dole, Matt Joy (and his 4 year old son - a future Delt for sure!), Brian Wolf, and Trevor Brown. Trevor gave me a well deserved hard time for not having him included in the list of attendees for the 40th. It's been taken care of Trevor. See you in October.

Matt Joy said that he would be around for part of the festivities at least, he wasn't sure how much time he could spend with us though. Matt Dole told me that Brian would be there also. Brian, please let me know if you will be participating in the whole weekend and if you will be bringing anyone with you. That way I can add you to the list of attendees.

For those who need the address and info on where to send your money, the cost is $50.00 per person. Send your check, payable to "Crescent Colony of Marietta, Inc." to Bob Ferguson, **removed for privacy reasons** I'll post our schedule of events at the end of this email, as well as the attendees. Please get in touch if you are coming and don't see your name.

Eric Gustafson '97 sent me a note letting me know he is planning on coming. And Casey Trail says he is bringing his girlfriend.

A few emails ago, I sent a picture from the Initiation Banquet out because Dave Broome needed to know the names of the people in it. Ken Kavula said that he would try to identify everyone for us. So far he has sent this message:

Got it this time - and am amused to see the back of my head and my hand as
I direct the new Delts in their first official rendition of Delta Shelter! I'll work on the other names in the next few days and get back to you.

Hope you haven't forgotten me Ken. Time is beginning to be a factor for Dave to get the booklet put together. Hard as it is to believe, we are only 4 months away!

Scott Frasca sent me the following note, I'm sorry to hear that you won't be able to make it to the 40th. I hope that you enjoy your move to Maine. Will you be anywhere near Bangor? That's where Mark Russell lives. Make note of his new address.

HI Rick! You are doing a great job keeping us all in touch!
Unfortunately a move to ME and the construction of our new house is going to
keep me from joining all our Brothers in Marietta for the celebration. Please note my new email address: **removed**. Will be issued a new one late this year when we get moved into the new house ... living in temporary quarters for now!
Thanks! Scott
Class of '89

VERY IMPORTANT, PLEASE READ!!!
I recently received the following email from the college. As you all are aware, our Shelter is in need of being replaced. The college is planning on building a new residence hall (which is sorely needed) and is thinking of putting the Delts and LCA's in part of the new building. There will be a conference call next week that will include Hartsy, Fergie, Andy Longo (from the Central Office), me and the college to discuss this. Please read the following email, and if you have any comments that you would like to be included in our discussion, let one of us know. If you don't let us know what your feelings are, we will not be able to let the college know what you think. Thank you. Here are the other 2 email addresses: Hartsy **removed** and Fergie **removed**

Hey guys!
I have some (potential) exciting news to share with you!

Recently theCollege has decided to move forward with plans for building a new residence hall which will be located on the corner of Putnam and 7th street (beside McCoy in the current parking area). Eventually, this hall will replace Parsons, which we all know is in poor condition. That said, we also know that the current housing situations for our three fraternities are not the best for any chapter due to issues with facility size and condition. What we have now is the perfect opportunity for all three chapters to have brand new housing in the new residence hall.

Before you get too excited, let me explain a few things. First of all, this is not set in stone. However, if it happens, it would work something like this...each fraternity would have their own floor in the hall. As with your current housing situation, you would be allowed to decorate/paint, etc. with approval from Residence Life. The structural design has not been completed, but we would make sure you have adequate space for chapter meetings and secured storage space for ritual equipment, etc.

You would also have enough bed spaces that would be neither to large or too small (probably closest to the Delt's housingcapacity). We would want to make sure that you feel that this is your space and home.What I need from you now is suggestions for what kinds of elements you would like to see (i.e. as I mentioned before, secured storage for ritual equipment) in your potential living environment. I wouldappreciate any feedback ASAP as we are moving forward with this quickly. If you need to, please solicit ideas from other members. I hope you will see this as an exciting time for Fraternity Life at Marietta.

YOU have the opportunity to create a new living space for your fraternity that will meet the needs of the organization. I will keep you updated as I learn more. Thanks so much guys!
Take care!~Lynne =)

--Lynne MillerAssistant Director of Student Activities & Greek
Life

That's all I have for this time, there wasn't much news from brothers. But I thought that it was pretty important that you be informed about what the college is thinking, concerning housing for the undergrads. Please get back with me as soon as you can, so we can share your input with the college. Rick Neel '73

Thursday evening for early arrivals
Meet and greet-Town House around 8:00

Friday The day will be free to see Marietta
Noon - Midnight Registration at DTD
8-10 pm Valley Gem river cruise-Bottom deck enclosed

Saturday
9:00-9:25 Doughnuts and beverage at Delt House
9:30-10:15 Campus tours
10:30-11:00 507 Putnam visit
11:30-12:00 Parade
12:00-12:45 House Corp meeting
12:45-1:30 Tailgate at Stadium
1:30-4:30 Football game
6:00-7:00 Social Hour @ Shrine Club
7:00-12:00 Dinner, Program & Socialization (um, I think we mean Socializing. Socialization is the process of converting private property to state-owned property -- Shawn)

Sunday
9:00-10:00 Breakfast at Delt house
10:00-11:00 Ritual not at house
11:00-1:00 Alumni-Undergrad Football game
1:00- Free time

Delt 40th Anniversary Attendence List
Advisor - Bob Ferguson +1
1960's - Greg Maloof + 1, Ken Kavula +1, Frank Hirsch (I think)
1970's - Ted Smith +1, Lance Koved +1, Don Wolfe, Ron Rees, Bruce Miller +1, Bruce Masatsugu +1, Darrell Pritchard +1, Joe Matheny, Randy Williams, Rich Wolf +1, Bob Peterson, Al Head, Bob Kavula +1, Rick Dunsker, Peter Weiner +1, Chuck Robinson +1, Bob Burns, Rick Neel, Neal Mettler +?, Joe Mester +1, Bob Bayer +1, Rob Weidenfeld, John DeVito, Joe Kirby +1, Bob Exten +1, Scott Gilmore
1980's - Drew Kern, Jon Hartshorn, Brian Rothenberg, Chris Goebel, Michael Tita +1
1990's - Shawn Selby, J.P. Clowes, Matt Christman-Lees, Tim Cox (I think), Greg Manko, Jeff DeWerth +1, Charley Maghes +1, Kevin Oliphant +1, Tracey Howard +1, Tim Parsons, Eric Gustafson
2000's - Craig Sundstrom, Andy Byers, Justin Nethers, Matt Dole, Corey Medina, Casey Trail +1, Chris "Smitty" Smith, Seth Wolfson, Trent Elliott, Jordon Herrick, Jake Dornan, Ashley Woolam, Joshua Downey, Doug Orr +1, Jay Read, Matt Rouhier, Chris Lieb, Brian Ashton (I think), Trevor Brown

DTD at MC #66

2008-07-08T13:03:00.002-04:00

Good morning to everyone,

There's not a lot going on in the Marietta Delt world this week, but I have received some notes from people after my last email. Plus, I wanted to let everyone know that on the Blog site; http://mcdeltalumni.blogspot.com I have posted some of the early emails in this series. Joe Mester sent me most of them. So we are now complete with the exception of #6 and 7. If by some miracle, you still have them saved, please send them to me so we can be complete.

As I was reviewing the blog, I found where we had had a comment from one of us. Scott Gilmore sent in a comment to one of them. I'm sorry it took me so long to notice your comment Scott, I vow to do better in the future. If you are still reading these through the blog, please send a note to the chapter at www.marietta.edu/~delts and give them your email address so we can get you added to our lists. Here is the note that Scott left:

Here I am,long lost and retired Scott Gilmore, '79. Anyone remember
LB?

Wow what memories came rushing back to me after visiting this site. Great job you guys!!! Totally awesome.

Just a brief history update on me...retired 26 yrs USAF and also did 5 yrs as a civil servant. Yes, I was only at MC for year 75/76 but did return for 79/80 (VP).

I'm married with two sons, one itn the Navy and the other attending Texas Tech in the fall, maybe another Delt in the family.

Hope to make it to the 40th and see everyone well!! Even BAM!!
Scott

It's great to be found by one of the missing. Good to hear from you Scott.

Goose Kitson sent me the following note, it is meant for all of the Columbus Delts. Perhaps there can be a Columbus EY alumni chapter meeting like we had in Tucson last winter. Let me know how it works out Goose. If I can be of service, let me know.

Hey Rick,
It's GooSe class of 06-08. I just wanted to update you and others as to the whereabouts of a few recent alums. Myself, Ashley Wollam, Jeffrey Wojton, and Sergio Periera Fajardo Jr. are currently residing in Columbus while Wojton becomes a Neurosurgeon, Ashley works as a Business analyst, Sergio watches the EuroCup and I work at an IT firm, Teamwork Solutions.

I know that Christopher Devine has also moved to Columbus doing really well within the realm of Graphic Design and computer stuff.

I was hoping that maybe some of the Marietta- turned Columbus Delts could possibly work something out where we could every now and then and grab a dinner together, do a cocktail night, play some poker and whatnot. I know we'd definitely like to meet some of guys who helped make our collegiate experiences as good as they were.

Peace UP, A-Town Down.
John M. Kitson, III

I know that there are a lot of Marietta Delts in Columbus, maybe you guys can make something work. Lets see, there is JP Clowes, Ted Smith, and Hartsy that I know of. Good luck.

Tim Parsons sent me the following. He is starting out in his own business, if you are interested, give him a call. Good luck Tim, Glad you are coming back for the 40th. See you then.

Hello Rick,
I wanted everyone to know that I have joined the ranks of Arbonne International as Independent Consultant. Arbonne International is a 28 year old network marketing company that got its start in skin care and has since expanded to represent a well-rounded health and wellness line.

I am looking for clients, consultants and business builders to join me. I believe this works for four main reasons:
the products really work, each monthly check gets bigger and bigger,
clients keep coming back for more and Arbonne has a tremendous catalog of professional development curriculum (i.e. Arbonne University).

Could you please pass this along to the rest of the alumni? I would love to get some samples out to the guys and their wives. Believe me, the wives will love it as well. My wife has almost the entire catalog. In the meantime, if people are interested in learning more about the company please go to www.arbonne.com.

Thank you very much Rick.

Hope to see you all at the 40th. In health and wellness,

Tim Parsons Your Arbonne Independent Consultant

I got the following correction from Patty (Ritchie) Hoppa, it seems that I gave the wrong address for her in the last email. Please make the correction.

Rick,
Thanks for the update - I know what you mean about time getting away from you! Wanted to let you know that in the message my address was wrong - it's **removed for privacy reasons**. I'll try to get more on top of things now that school is finally out.
Take care,
Patty

By the way, Hops has set up a special section in the email list for our Little Sisters. Check it out and help us fill in the blanks!

Chris Lieb sent the following email address correction. Thanks Chris and I'll see you in October.

I'm Chris Lieb - just graduated. My new email is **removed**. Thanks, I look
forward to the 40th

Along the same line, the chapter website got the following note and new address. If you know Mike, drop him a line and say "hello"

I hope that you can make it to the 40th Mike, we seem to be a bit light in the decade of the 80's. Here is his address: **removed**
I saw on your blog that one James Mason was looking to get in touch with certain 80s Delts. I would like to know the whereabouts of Adam Pyles, Osler, Mason, Cruse, MB and Marlene, Marphy, Chuck, etc. as well.

This is Mike Malone 85, and wondering if anyone is going to make it to homecoming. If anyone knows how to get in touch with these folks, i would appreciate it.

Nice website by the way, you guys must be much more motivated than we
were.

Anyway, good to see some info on old Marietta and of course the Delt house.

Those were the best days of my life.
Mike Malone, class of 1985.

Tracey Howard sent in the following RSVP for the 40th. If you know them and haven't seen them in a while, make plans to reconnect. Time is getting short.

At this time I am planning to attend the Homecoming program in October.

I am bringing one guest, Heather Zoller-Gritz, who is a Marietta Alum of '91, and who was good friends with many of the late 80's and early 90's Delts.

So please accept this RSVP for 2.Tracey Howard, '91 Heather Zoller-Gritz, '91
-Tracey

There have been a few questions about the cost for the weekend, and it is $50 per person. So if you are bringing someone with you, the cost will be $100 for the both of you. Please let us know that you are coming, so we can make the reservations for the banquet and know how many will be here for the riverboat ride. This is important for our planning purposes.

Ken Kavula, I sent you a copy of the picture from the last email, did you manage to help Dave Broome out with nameing people for him? If you didn't get it, let me know and I'll try again.

The speakers that we have lined up for the banquet so far are: Ken Kavula, Greg Maloof, Rich Wolf, Shawn Selby, Brian Rothenberg, Don Wolfe, Jordan Herrick, and Chris Goebel. If you don't see your era listed from those speakers, we are interested in what you have to say. Let me know if you want to speak, and I'll send you the ground rules.

Below is the Itenerary for the weekend and the list of those who have let us know they are coming. That's all I have for now, have a great week.
Rick Neel '73

Thursday evening for early arrivals Meet and greet-Town House around 8:00
Friday The day will be free to see Marietta Noon - Midnight Registration at DTD 8-10 pm Valley Gem river cruise-Bottom deck enclosed
Saturday 9:00-9:25 Doughnuts and beverage at Delt House 9:30-10:15 Campus tours 10:30-11:00 507 Putnam visit 11:30-12:00 Parade 12:00-12:45 House Corp meeting 12:45-1:30 Tailgate at Stadium 1:30-4:30 Football game 6:00-7:00 Social Hour @ Shrine Club 7:00-12:00 Dinner, Program & Socialization (um, I think we mean Socializing. Socialization is the process of converting private property to state-owned property -- Shawn)
Sunday 9:00-10:00 Breakfast at Delt house 10:00-11:00 Ritual not at house 11:00-1:00 Alumni-Undergrad Football game 1:00- Free time

Delt 40th Anniversary Attendence List
Advisor - Bob Ferguson +1
1960's - Greg Maloof + 1, Ken Kavula +1, Frank Hirsch (I think)
1970's - Ted Smith +1, Lance Koved +1, Don Wolfe, Ron Rees, Bruce Miller +1, Bruce Masatsugu +1, Darrell Pritchard +1, Joe Matheny, Randy Williams, Rich Wolf +1, Bob Peterson, Al Head, Bob Kavula +1, Rick Dunsker, Peter Weiner +1, Chuck Robinson +1, Bob Burns, Rick Neel, Neal Mettler +?, Joe Mester +1, Bob Bayer +1, Rob Weidenfeld, John DeVito, Joe Kirby +1, Bob Exten +1, Scott Gilmore
1980's - Drew Kern, Jon Hartshorn, Brian Rothenberg, Chris Goebel, Michael Tita +1
1990's - Shawn Selby, J.P. Clowes, Matt Christman-Lees, Tim Cox (I think), Greg Manko, Jeff DeWerth +1, Charley Maghes +1, Kevin Oliphant +1, Tracey Howard +1, Tim Parsons
2000's - Craig Sundstrom, Andy Byers, Justin Nethers, Matt Dole, Corey Medina, Casey Trail, Chris "Smitty" Smith, Seth Wolfson, Trent Elliott, Jordon Herrick, Jake Dornan, Ashley Woolam, Joshua Downey, Doug Orr +1, Jay Read, Matt Rouhier, Chris Lieb, Brian Ashton (I think)

DTD at MC #65

2008-07-06T16:28:00.002-04:00

Hello everyone,

For only the 2nd time I'm including some of our Little Sisters in this email, welcome ladies. I hope that you can find some of your lost friends as a result of these emails. We are still missing most of them, so if you are in contact with anyone, either brother or sister, pelase ask them to get in touch with me so I can add them to the mailing list.

Well, summer is here, and the college has emptied of students again. Good news on the grades front for our Delts, they finished the spring semester with a 3.05 GPA. That's a great accomplishment for them.

Because Ferg was on vacation, I got to do the final walkthrough of the house with the college so the chapter wouldn't be hit with any fines for not taking care of the place. Aside from a couple of holes in the walls that needed patched, they came through with flying colors. It shows that guys can indeed clean up after themselves (except for Hops, who had to have his parents come to town to help him - wonder why that was?) I'm just joking there, I had the chance to meet his parents and enjoyed my conversation with them.

On the college front, they are making pretty good progress on the library and have broken ground for the planetarium. That is the project that really excites me, I just love the sky shows that those things put on. It is supposed to be avialiable to the public as well as being used for the college community.

I don't have a lot of news for you this time, because nobody sent me any. That's probably my fault since it has been so long since I wrote anything. Please guys, send me some news to share.

Some good news, at least I think so, Joe Mester sent me several of the old emails that are missing from our Blog, and I found a couple more while I was cleaning out an old email box of mine. So I"ll be getting them added when I get a couple of minutes and have some motivation. It's hard to get both things at the same time. It's funny, I moved back to "slow, sleepy Marietta" and have less time to do things than I did in the big city of Tucson. Wonder why that is?

Karnea is coming soon, it's only a couple months away. If you have had a change of mind at the last minute, and would like to go to part of it, get in touch with Fergie. Remember it is in Pittsburgh this year, so it won't get much closer to Marietta, it is fraternity's 150 anniversary. There will be a side trip to Bethany, for those interested.

The big news, of course, is that our own celebration, #40 is only 4 months away. That's right, after all these emails we now are just 4 months from the 40th anniversary of DTD on the Marietta campus.

We have heard from several people about thier plans to come to town, I hope that the rest of you are making your arrangements also. I read at the college alumni site at www.marietta.edu that Beth (Thompson) Miller, one of our little sisters and the wife of BAM is in the process of putting together a reunion of the AST's at homecoming this year. If you know an AST let them know please so they can get in touch with Beth. You can reach her through BAM at **Removed for privacy reasons** Good luck Beth, hope you have a great turnout.

This is the note that Patty (Ritchie) Hoppa sent me when I got in touch with her.

Hi Rick!
Yes, this is the former Patty Ritchie. How are you? What are you doing? I am a first grade teacher here in Baltimore. I am married and have two kids - the oldest is completing his doctorate at Oxford University (England) doing research on diabetes as a neuroscientist, and the younger will start her masters/doctorate at Univ of CA, Santa Barbara as an anthropologist. Do you still play bridge??
Take care, Patty

From Sharon (Czajkowski) Dinunzi I got this note:

Hey Rick,
Wow, what a surprize to hear from you!! Yes, I was a little sister of DTD. I am glad that you reached out ... I always scan the MC newsletter for updates on the Delts I went to school with. I defintely remember you (I graduated in 1976) and a lot of the guys from the Delt house. I'll defintely check out the DTD website and blog. Your email brought a smile to my face and good memories. Thanks.
Best regards,Sharon (Czajkowski) Dinunzi

And Barbara Chandler sent this note to me:

Hi Rick,
I would love to be a part of the festivities. Please keep me informed.
Barbara

It was a real treat for me to hear from them, hopefully as we go forward, I'll get the rest of them added to the list.

Justin Rosenberg sent me the following address change, please make note of it. **removed** And here are the little sisters addresses. Patty (Ritchie) Hoppa, Sharon (Czajkowski) Dinunzi, and Barbara Chandler **removed**

We have several Delt speakers lined up for our Banquet, but still have room for a few more, should you wish to share your experiences as a Delt. The requirements are pretty simple; your talk can be whatever you choose so long as it pertains to DTD at MC (bear in mind, this will be a mixed group of people) and it needs to be kept to 10 minutes or so. We will have a computer with power point availiable if you wish. We also need more pictures or other memorabelia to share during the weekend. The speakers we have so far are: Ken Kavula, Greg Maloof, Rich Wolf, Shawn Selby, Brian Rothenberg, Don Wolfe, Jordon Herrick, and Chris Goebel. Let me know if you would like to join them.

David Broome asked me to include the following link because it has a picture that he needs help with. It is of our initiation banquet, and he needs names to go with the faces. I hope I did that right... Below are the names of the people that will be attending the 40th, please let me know of your plans, so we can make our arrangements to take care of everyone. You can find our iterary at the Delt website www.marietta.edu/~delts The cost is $50.00 per person, please make your checks payable to "Crescent Colony of Marietta, Inc." and send it to Bob Ferguson, **removed**. Please do not send the 40th payment to the college when you are making your reservations with them for homecoming, send it to Bob. Thank you. The college will be sending information about the college activities and costs to you shortly.

That's all I have for you this time, hopefully I won't be so long next time. Have a great week! Rick Neel '73

Delt 40th Anniversary Attendence List
Advisor - Bob Ferguson +1

1960's - Greg Maloof + 1, Ken Kavula +1, Frank Hirsch (I think)

1970's - Ted Smith +1, Lance Koved +1, Don Wolfe, Ron Rees, Bruce Miller +1, Bruce Masatsugu +1, Darrell Pritchard +1, Joe Matheny, Randy Williams, Rich Wolf +1, Bob Peterson, Al Head, Bob Kavula +1, Rick Dunsker, Peter Weiner +1, Chuck Robinson +1, Bob Burns, Rick Neel +1, Neal Mettler +?, Joe Mester +1, Bob Bayer +1, Rob Weidenfeld, John DeVito, Joe Kirby +1, Bob Exten +1

1980's - Drew Kern, Jon Hartshorn, Brian Rothenberg, Chris Goebel, Michael Tita +1

1990's - Shawn Selby, J.P. Clowes, Matt Christman-Lees, Tim Cox (I think), Greg Manko, Jeff DeWerth +1, Charley Maghes +1, Kevin Oliphant +1

2000's - Craig Sundstrom, Andy Byers, Justin Nethers, Matt Dole, Corey Medina, Casey Trail, Chris "Smitty" Smith, Seth Wolfson, Trent Elliott, Jordon Herrick, Jake Dornan, Ashley Woolam, Joshua Downey, Doug Orr +1

DTD at MC #64

2008-05-18T12:17:00.002-04:00

Good morning Delts,

I hope that all of you remembered that today is Mother's Day, but if you forgot, there is still time.

Let's see what's been happening in the world of EY. We had our golf outing on April 26th and the attendence wasn't all that great, which is kind of what we expected with the 40th coming up this fall. We had 2 alums (Hartsy and myself), 2 undergrads (Hops and Nick Aylward), and 2 guests. So we split up into 2 groups for our round. Hartsy and Nick in one group and Hops and me in the other. Hops tried valiently to keep our group in the hunt, but unfortunately his handicap (me) was too much for him to overcome so we lost. But it was a great day, the sun was shining and it was warm so we all enjoyed ourselves. Next year the golf weekend will be the same time as this year, the last weekend in April. Hope to see you all out playing then.

Next weekend marks the end of another school year. The college commencement (the 171st) will be on May 17th. That is when the newest members of EY's alumni association will officially be welcomed. So for now, let me just offer my congratulations to the new graduates to be. Good luck in your future, may it be all you hope and dream it will be.

Sunday May 4th marked the newest renewal of a time honored EY tradition; Ferg Fest '08. About 34 brothers and friends attended the annual wrap up of the college year and final break before finals week. As usual everyone had a great afternoon. I was invited, but unfortunately I had to miss due to having to work. I think it might be fun to see if there are any good stories to be shared about Ferg Fests of the past. If you have anything to share, send me a note and I'll share it with everyone. To all of the undergrads, have a great summer. We'll see you in the fall.

The undergraduates have published a new issue of the Protimoi. Check it out at the chapter web site - http://www.marietta.edu/~delts/ Nice job, as usual.

Let's see the notes and news that I have gotten since the last email. Two teaser bits (to make you go read the Protimoi) Hunter Jonsson announced his engagement and the undergraduates won the newly reintroduced BattleAx.

James Mason sent the following challenge;

I've got a challenge for Todd Spence. Get more of your pledge trainees to attend than your pledge class. I know he trained the fine pledge class of 1980. I'd be interested in where Tom McVey is also and Bruce "West, by God, smile when you say it, Virginia" Goldfarb and Bill Cruse. James

How about it Todd? Care to try? I asked James if he was going to be able to be here, and here is his response:

Rick: I am considering it and have been in contact with a few of the 1980s brothers (Dean Didato, Steve Bennett and Adam Pyles), but cannot commit at this point. Todd is one of the guys that came to mind early on after receiving your first emails. I think everyone's pledge trainer makes a significant impact on their fraternity and college lives. I'm glad to hear he's out there and will keep up with the 1980's guys to try and drum up some attendees. James

I agree with you James, the pledge trainer is probably the one person who either starts a new member out on the right path, or who doesn't. I think that we have been pretty fortunate over the years in having pretty strong pledge trainers.

Joe Kirby sent me the following note. I heard from Bob Exten a day or so ago, Joe. He's coming. How about the rest of you, have you contacted any of your long missing friends and brothers and made plans to get back together? Our 40th anniversary would be a perfect time.

Rick, I will be traveling back in space time to attend the 40th reunion. Please reserve 2 spots at the reception dinner. I told DeVito and Exten I wouldn't make the trip back unless they showed - John committed, X10 said he was coming, We'll see. Good work on getting Roger Coffman's email - I sent him an email -
haven't heard anything. I guess we'll see on that one too.

Here is the note I got from Bob Exten, so there will be at least one group of "3 Amigos" in attendance.

Rick-Please add me and my wife to the list of attendees. Could you also please send me Bob Ferguson's address,or do i send the check to the House?
Thanks-Bob Exten.

For any others who needs Fergies address, it is: Bob Ferguson, **removed for privacy reasons** The cost for the weekend is $50 per person. Please make the check payable to: Crescent Colony of Marietta, Inc.

Matt Dole sent me the following note, unfortunately we missed making connections while he was in town, sorry Matt. But he did point out something that I need to correct, and perhaps some others do also. When you change your email address, please send me a short note so I can correct it in my files and the chapter can make the correction also. Thanks in advance for that!

Hey Rick - I'm going to be in Marietta tonight and tomorrow. I'm not going to play golf because, well I suck. But I also have a lot of folks to visit since I'm just a visitor now. Anyway, I'd love to get dinner Saturday night if there's a group that's going to go after the outing.Who's coming in that you've heard from? My cell is**removed**. Let me know what's going on post golf outing and I'll try to catch up with you guys. By the way, the Delt email list on the website still has your comcast address... I sent this email there first and had to track down your email from one of the updates rather than the email list. Thanks,Matt Dole

Speaking of address corrections, I got this one from Ashley Woolam; **removed** That's about all I have for this time.

Here are some brothers that still remain amoug the missing. Any help you can give me is very much appreciated. Steve Newton '66, Joe Baker '67, Joseph Farrell '68, Joseph Cohn '69, Tom Lindvall '71, Doug Shaffer '71, Gordon Turner '71, Mark Ewald '72, Peter Grob '72, John Alligood '73, Paul Craft '73, Lawrence Brown '74, Scott Elger '74, Eric Gough '74, Mark Russell ' 74, William Snyder '74, Rodney Stoltz '76, Richard Hruska '77, Gregory McComas '77, David Mogill '77, Gregory Carriera '78, Peter Denio '78, Steven Dennis '78, and Scott Gilmore '79. I also need the addresses of our Little Sisters, the only one that I have so far is Marianne Paul.

The following is the list of people that have committed to coming for the 40th. When your plans firm up, please let us know so we can be sure to have enough dinners for the banquet and the river cruise.

Delt 40th Anniversary Attendence List Advisor - Bob Ferguson +1 1960's - Greg Maloof + 1, Ken Kavula +1, Frank Hirsch (I think) 1970's - Ted Smith +1, Lance Koved +1, Don Wolfe, Ron Rees, Bruce Miller +1, Bruce Masatsugu +1, Darrell Pritchard +1, Joe Matheny, Randy Williams, Rich Wolf +1, Bob Peterson, Al Head, Bob Kavula +1, Rick Dunsker, Peter Weiner +1, Chuck Robinson +1, Bob Burns, Rick Neel +1, Neal Mettler +?, Joe Mester +1, Bob Bayer +1, Rob Weidenfeld, John DeVito, Joe Kirby +1, Bob Exten +1 1980's - Drew Kern, Jon Hartshorn, Brian Rothenberg, Chris Goebel, Michael Tita +1 1990's - Shawn Selby, J.P. Clowes, Matt Christman-Lees, Tim Cox (I think), Greg Manko, Jeff DeWerth +1, Charley Maghes +1, Kevin Oliphant +1 2000's - Craig Sundstrom, Andy Byers, Justin Nethers, Matt Dole, Corey Medina, Casey Trail, Chris "Smitty" Smith, Seth Wolfson, Trent Elliott, Jordon Herrick, Jake Dornan, Ashley Woolam, Joshua Downey, Doug Orr +1

Have a great week. Rick Neel '73

DTD at MC #63

2008-04-14T18:39:00.002-04:00

Good afternoon everyone,

Well today is just a beautiful day here in Marietta. Makes me remember why I moved back here in the first place. Also made me get off of my butt and make the reservations with the golf club for our Annual Delt Golf Tournament.

Our golf day will be April 26th. That is the last Saturday in April. Make your plans to be here. Let me know if you will be here, please. I need to keep the golf course updated as to the number of us that will be playing. We have reservations at the Golf Club of West Virginia in Waverly. It is about a 15 minute drive from the fraternity house. Our tee times begin at 10:30 am. The cost will be $35.00 per person, and that is for 18 holes and a cart. As usual, we will be playing a best ball fromat. The green fees will be between $28 and $33 per round with the rest of the $35 going to the House Corp. Are you going to be here Hartsy??? I haven't heard from you for quite a while now.

As most of you remember, last year we had a fundraising program to replace the ritual equipment for the chapter. Last Sunday, I attended an activation of the spring pledge class (5 men), it was the first formal meeting that I have attended since we built the new equipment. It looks really nice, the undergrads did one heck of a job putting it all together. We still need some more equipment, but what we have now is nice. Add the new equipment with the new robes that the College purchased for us and the hard work that the ritual team put into the ceremony and it was very impressive. Thank you to all that donated to the project.

I mentioned last time that I had been in contact with the college in an attempt to secure the email addresses for some of our missing brothers. The alumni office found several men for us.

Here they are, if you know any of them, please drop them a line and say Hi. Roger Coffman, William Costello, Dave Caldwell, Jim Bailey, Duane Stokes, Brian Clark, Jimmy Long, Adam Mermer, and Brent Blackburn **addresses removed for privacy reasons** This gives us the addresses of over 285, spectacular I think.

Since the last time I wrote, I made an attempt to contact our Little Sisters. I only have the names from the composites to go by and I wrote to the ones I could get addresses from. The only person who wrote back is Marianne (Paul) Mahoney, her address is **removed** . Welcome back to DTD Marianne. I am looking for the email addresses of the rest of them. If you are in contact with any of the girls, please send me an address. Here are the names that I have, Dona Jenkins, Beth Thompson (I have her address since she is married to BAM), Tina Chapin, Patty Ritchie, Lelia Woods, Ellen Schreiber, Denise Rizzolo (she married Joe Pitrone one of our pledges), Sharon Czajkowski, Wendy Binder, Deborah Smith, Barbara Foster, Kathy Strauss, and Karlene Betts. There may be others who never made the composite and girls that should be included in the group even if we had disbanded the Little Sister Program. If you are aware of anyone who I should be inclulding, please let me know.

Marianne sent me this note when she contacted me:

Hi Rick,
Hope all has been going well for all former and current DTD's. Am currently
living in central VA. Have one son at home in his last year of high school and
one in his freshman year of college. Am semi-retired and enjoying life but keep
very busy with the yard and home when not working in one of the labs over at
UVA. It would be interesting to learn what other DTD's and Little Sisters have
been doing.All for now.Marianne (Paul) Mahoney '75

Michael Tita sent the following, I guess that treasurers are the same no matter the era. Glad you are coming back Michael.

Hi Rick,
Just wanted to RSVP that my wife and I will be attending Home Coming this
year. Thanks for all your work on this. Also, tell Fergie hi for me. He may remember me as the treasurer that helped bring the Chapter from persistent red into the black. Yes, I was (am?) a S.O.B. :-)
Michael

Bob Peterson sent the following note to Fergie and a copy to me. If you are planning on going to Karnea and want to let the rest of us know, drop me a line. As close as we are to Pittsburgh, there is the offer for us to have a reception for the chapter. If interested, let me know and we'll se what we can set up.

Hi Bob,
Some weeks ago I think you sent me an e-mail about the Karnea. Since January I have been to Budapest, two trips to Tokyo, two trips toBrussels & Paris and one trip to Boston & NYC. So somewhere during all this traveling I lost track of the communication. I am now in Rome and getting ready to go to Brussels, Boston, LA and then to Tokyo again all in next 3-4weeks.I am planning to attend the Karnea as part of the EU undergraduate and alumni delegation in August. Please let me know how to register and I would like to know who or how many are planning to come from EU so we can all congregate as a united force. I have been in contact with Norval Stephens by e-mail lately and looking forward to seeing him there too. FYI, my wife and I are in the process of selling our home and property in Roma and will be out of here hopefully by the summer. I am renovating our family home near Boston on Lake Wickaboag and converting it from a summer home to proper year round residence. Most likely I will be moving back to Tokyo with my wife and re-establishing residency there again from January 2009 as most of my business activities are shifting to Asia. I will then shuttle back and forth between Japan and my Lake Wickaboag house during the year.Still on track to by at EU 40th.

Fraternally,Bob

PS: Rick, welcome back to Marietta and great job on the alumni
communications!

Steve Pouliot sent me the following note. It shows that some of us are in contact with others that we don't even realize are amoung the missing. If this applies to you, contact that brother and get him involved. Thanks.

Rick:
didn't know buzzy was among the missing. I knew where he was hiding all
along.

Steve Pouliot

Todd Spence sent the following challenge. Now, I'm not sure how you can issue a challenge when you haven't committed yourself, but here it is. I have a challenge for you Todd, join us in October. It'll be fun.

OK where is all the 1980's people?

I want to put forth the challenge (I am not committing to going yet) I want
all my pledge class to atend the event there were 9 of us. Where are all of you?

Plus where is Jim Berry, Jim Blumenfeld... and Tom Mcvey?????

Todd Spence Grad 1981

What a long stange trip its been...... Good to hear that Al Head is
stil alive and kickin....

Joshua Downey sent the following note, not for the first time. I had dropped the ball. Sorry about that.

Hey Rick,

Joshua Downey here, '07. I think I sent something to Jordan Herrick, but
maybe something got lost in translation. Sign me up for the 40th!!

Joshua Downey

Doug Orr sent me the following note. It raises and good point. Please send the $50 to:Bob Ferguson. Make it payable to the Crescent Colony of Marietta, Inc. The sooner you send it the better because we earn interest on the money! Rick the fundraiser, that's me!

Rick,
I will be attending the homecoming in October and I will be bringing 1 person with me. I was also wondering when we needed to have the $50 in? As I work with Ferg it will not be hard for me to get it to him but I just wondered when it needed to be in by? Let me know and great job with the e-mails.

Thanks, Doug Orr

Charley Maghes sent in this note, and then he followed it up with another. A friend of the Delts will be coming with him.

Rick and Jordan,

Just wanted to let you know that I am planning on attending Homecoming and
the 40th celebration. I will be coming alone so I only need one ticket. Please let me know who and where to send my money.

Thanks! Charley

Rick & Jordan,
I'd like to add an additional person to my reservation. A college friend of mine (Charla Nutter) was close to several of the EU Delts of my era and I invited her to attend with me (since my wife is staying in Columbus with our three kids). I'll forward the check for both to Fergie within the next week.

Thanks! Charley

Hops sent me this bit of bad news, my condolences go to Paul's family.

Hey Rick,

I received a note from Paul Schoenfeld's mother that he passed away following an emergency surgery in August of 2005. I had sent the save-the-date card to their address, because it was the only one I had. This is a very unfortunate update that I thought we may get from sending those postcards.

She goes on to say that his wife and children remain in New Jersey, where
Paul was in business.

Hops

Joe Mester has offered to send me the emails that we are missing from the blog, so when he gets them to me, we will have a complete set over there. Check it out as needed, and if you have something to add, please feel free. http://mcdeltalumni.blogspot.com/ Remember, we are still looking for your stories from your times as a Delt. Dave Broome and I are going to be sitting down with them at the golf outing. Please join us at that time Frank (thought I had forgotten about you didn't you????) Marianne (and the rest of you), please check it out. I think it is kind of interesting (I should - I wrote most of it. LOL) If you need any addresses of missing brothers, the chapter website http://www.marietta.edu/~delts/ can give you the information. You will need a password to access it **removed, if you need it please contact the chapter**

Let's see what is going on with the undergrads. They have gotten thier grades for the last semester. And congratulations are due to them. The chapter got a 3.0. That's great news. Hopefully they can make it 2 in a row. For Northern Division awards (from the Rainbow) EY got the following: Outstanding Alumni Service - Robert Ferguson (Fergie), Outstanding Alumni Newsletter - thanks to the Protimoi (a new one is scheduled to be published soon), above AMA/AFA grade point average, Adopt a School (the fraternity philanthropy project). and finally, the chapter was awarded membership in the Court of Honor, one step shy of the Hugh Shields Award. That means that EY is one of the Top 20 chapters in the whole Fraternity. That is a wonderful year guys, keep up the good work.

Here are the brothers that have committed to attend our 40th Anniversary at homecoming October 24 -26. I hope that you will join us. The cost is $50 per person, and you can get the schedule of events at the blogspot. There is a possibility that the college will try to collect the fee for us. If they ask you, please decline and send the money to Fergie. That way we will have a better idea of how many are coming. That's all I have for this week.

Have a great week and let me know if you are coming and how many will be in your party.
Rick Neel '73

Delt 40th Anniversary Attendence List
Advisor - Bob Ferguson +1

1960's - Greg Maloof + 1, Ken Kavula +1, Frank Hirsch (I think)

1970's - Ted Smith +1, Lance Koved +1, Don Wolfe, Ron Rees, Bruce Miller +1, Bruce Masatsugu +1, Darrell Pritchard +1, Joe Matheny, Keith Zak (I think), Randy Williams, Rich Wolf +1, Bob Peterson, Al Head, Bob Kavula +1, Rick Dunsker, Peter Weiner +1, Chuck Robinson +1, Bob Burns, Rick Neel +1, Neal Mettler +?, Joe Mester +1, Bob Bayer +1, Rob Weidenfeld, John DeVito

1980's - Drew Kern, Jon Hartshorn, Brian Rothenberg, Chris Goebel, Michael Tita +1

1990's - Shawn Selby, J.P. Clowes, Matt Christman-Lees, Tim Cox (I think), Greg Manko, Jeff DeWerth +1, Charley Maghes +1,

2000's - Craig Sundstrom, Andy Byers, Justin Nethers, Matt Dole, Corey Medina, Casey Trail, Chris "Smitty" Smith, Seth Wolfson, Trent Elliott, Jordon Herrick, Jake Dornan, Kevin Oliphant +1, Ashley Woolam, Joshua Downey, Doug Orr +1

DTD at MC #62

2008-03-23T22:15:00.002-04:00

Good morning to everyone,

I have a confession to make. In order to try to find more of our missing brothers, I went to the Alumni Office at the college the other day. I spoke to Hub Burton, who is the VP of Alumni Relations. He is a Delt (from the UofA - where I used to live) and I shared our email list with him. If anyone does not want the college to have your email address, please let me know and I'll get him to remove it from the college database.

I did, so far, get the addresses of 3 of our brothers that I didn't have. So it is a good thing in one way. The new brothers that are found are: Peter Noll , Bill Buzzell, and Todd Myers **removed for privacy reasons**. Welcome home guys.

Let me take a minute to get you up to speed as to what this email is for. Originally it was to encourage attendence at the chapters 40th Anniversary on the Marietta Campus. By the way that will be at homecoming this fall, October 24-26. I hope that you will be able to join us for the festivities. I will list below the names of the brothers who have let me know of thier intentions to be here in Marietta.

The email, over time has kind of taken on a life of its own, thanks to the efforts of several brothers. Almost every edition has notes from alums about what is going on with them. Also, from our email directory several brothers have gotten in touch with friends that they haven't talked to in years. You can access the directory at the chapter website www.marietta.edu/~delts the password is: **removed, if you need it please contact Rick Neel or the chapter** Please take advantage of it to contact some brothers you have lost contact with over the years. Also, if you are in contact with anyone that we don't have listed, let me know.

We also have a Blog - http://mcdeltalumni.blogspot.com where we have collected almost all of the emails, as well as messages from some other delt alums. Again, welcome back to EY, I hope to see you at homecoming.

Time is getting closer for our annual Alumni golf outing. It will be held the 4th weekend in April, that is the 26th. Dave Broome is coming in and we are planning on sitting down and going over some of the material he has collected for our 40th anniversary booklet. Anyone interested is welcome to sit in with us and throw in your 2cents worth. And if you have any memorabelia to share, bring it with you.

Steve Fox sent me the following note:

Hey Rick,
Steve Fox here (71). I will be unable to attend the reunion in October. My wife is retiring and we are going to Hawaii the for two weeks starting the 25th of October. Maybe I will make the next one. Enjoy your updates. Keep up the good work.
Steve

I just don't understand Steve, what possibly could Hawaii offer in October that Marietta doesn't? Just kidding, congratulations to your wife, may she have a very happy retirement. See you next time.

Neal Mettler sends the following;

Rick At this point in time I think I will be able to make it. Several of my daughters are planning on attending also.

How many daughters are you bringing Neal? Do we need to lock up the undergrads? Smitty Smith sent me the following note:

Rick,
I'm glad that I have been comfirmed for the 40th, but I have a few questions...!st to what address and to whom do we write the check to for the $50/person payment? And if we have pics from back in the day, would anyone want them to digitize and add to a slide show or the booklet? The reason I ask is cause I got some. Let me know.
your friendly neighborhood Smitty '00

I think I answered you Smitty, but if not, here goes. You can mail your check payable to Crescent Colony of Marietta, Inc. to Bob Ferguson at **removed**. Note on the check that it is for homecoming 08. You can mail your slides to me at **removed** and I'll see that they get to Dave Broome. Thanks for the slides, those are like gold to us.

From Greg Maloof I got this note and new address;

Rick,
As usual an excellent job !! Moving is a big pain for me; computer challenges are worse; and you seem to conquer both. Bruce Miller never ceases to amaze me. He had another great idea. Pam & I will be attending. Also, new e mail: **removed**. Thanks for all you do.
Greg

I have to agree with the statement about BAM. He seems to do that alot.

I have a commitment from Randy (AWK) Williams to lead the memorial service for our departed brothers at the banquet. He is an excellent ritualist and I'm sure he'll do a good job for us. This will be an opportunity for you to share a thought about one of our departed brothers. Let me relist the schedule of events for the 40th for those of you who may have missed it the last time.
Thursday evening for early arrivals
Meet and greet-Town House around 8:00
Friday
The day will be free to see Marietta
Noon - Midnight Registration at DTD
8-10 pm Valley Gem river cruise-Bottom deck enclosed
Saturday
9:00-9:25 Doughnuts and beverage at Delt House
9:30-10:15 Campus tours
10:30-11:00 507 Putnam visit
11:30-12:00 Parade
12:00-12:45 House Corp meeting
12:45-1:30 Tailgate at Stadium
1:30-4:30 Football game
6:00-7:00 Social Hour @ Shrine Club
7:00-12:00 Dinner, Program & Socialization (um, I think we mean Socializing. Socialization is the process of converting private property to state-owned property -- Shawn)
Sunday
9:00-10:00 Breakfast at Delt house
10:00-11:00 Ritual not at house
11:00-1:00 Alumni-Undergrad Football game
1:00- Free time

The cost is going to be $50/person. And we have had an additional speaker step forward. We now have: Ken Kavula, Greg Maloof, Rich Wolf, Shawn Selby, Brian Rothenberg, Don Wolfe, Jordon Herrick, and Adam Hopkins. The new speaker is Chris Goebel.

Here are the people that have said that they will be attending. I have also listed any other persons that will be with them, if I have you listed incorrectly, let me know. Check out the list, and if you are coming, let me know. Also, if someone is coming that you would like to see, be sure to make your plans to be here. Let me, or Jordan Stryker (the chapter coresponding secretary) know. We need the information for planning purposes for the banquet and the cruise.

That's all I have for this week, have a great weekend. Rick Neel '73

Delt 40th Anniversary Attendence List
Advisor - Bob Ferguson +1

1960's - Greg Maloof + 1, Ken Kavula +1, Frank Hirsch (I think)

1970's - Ted Smith +1, Lance Koved +1, Don Wolfe, Ron Rees, Bruce Miller +1, Bruce Masatsugu +1, Darrell Pritchard +1, Joe Matheny, Keith Zak (I think), Randy Williams, Rich Wolf +1, Bob Peterson, Al Head, Bob Kavula +1, Rick Dunsker, Peter Weiner +1, Chuck Robinson +1, Bob Burns, Rick Neel +1, Neal Mettler +?, Joe Mester +1, Bob Bayer +1, Rob Weidenfeld, John DeVito

1980's - Drew Kern, Jon Hartshorn, Brian Rothenberg, Chris Goebel,

1990's - Shawn Selby, J.P. Clowes, Matt Christman-Lees, Tim Cox (I think), Greg Manko, Jeff DeWerth +1,

2000's - Craig Sundstrom, Andy Byers, Justin Nethers, Matt Dole, Corey Medina, Casey Trail, Chris "Smitty" Smith, Seth Wolfson, Trent Elliott, Jordon Herrick, Jake Dornan, Kevin Oliphant +1, Ashley Woolam

DTD at MC #61

2008-03-07T12:45:00.002-05:00

Good morning Delts!

Let's see what is new and exciting on the DTD front. First of all, there is only about a month and 1/2 until the 2008 golf outing. It will be held the 4th weekend in April. That is the 26th. I hope that we have a good turnout for the day and that the weather cooperates with us. That also is DooDah day for the college, so it is a big weekend for the undergrads also. Make your plans to play.

Also, we are only 7+ months away from our 40th anniversary. I hope that everyone is making plans to come back to Marietta for that occasion. October 24-26th are the dates. I have been lining up speakers for our banquet, hopefully by the time I get done, I will have someone from every decade of our history. If you are interested, please contact me or Hops at the house. So far I have commitments from: Ken Kavula, Greg Maloof, Rich Wolf, Shawn Selby, Brian Rothenberg, Don Wolfe, Jordon Herrick, and Adam Hopkins. That covers the late 60's, early/mid 70's, mid/late 80's, early 90's, early/mid 00's, and the undergrads. So you see that we are still missing a few time periods.

The guidelines for a presentation, are about a 10 minute talk, covering anything you wish to talk about, covering your time period as a Delt at Marietta. We will have a computer availiable for a power point presentation, if you are interested in using that.

The undergrads have pledged an additional man this spring, his name is Brendon George. Congratulations Brendon and welcome. He gives the chapter 5 pledges for the spring.

Working with Ashley Woolam, we have found a public ceremony for our Brothers that have gone to the Chapter Eternal, and we are planning on having that at our banquet at the 40th. If you have a thought that you would like to share concerning one of our departed brothers, this will be an opportunity for you to do so.

Speaking of the banquet, and the rest of the weekend, we are planning on holding the cost to $50/person. That is for both the cruise and the banquet. We are asking for you to let us know that you are planning on coming so we can make arrangements for the # of seats we will need for the banquet. Also, the price for the cruise is dependent on the # of people that go. Please drop me or Jordon Stryker, the new chapter corresponding secretary, a note, just telling me what you will be attending and how many will be in your party. Jordan can be reached at jns001@marietta.edu, or at delts@marietta.edu That is important, for planning reasons.

Speaking of Jordon Stryker, he has recently posted the most recent issue of the Protimoi. It can be found at the chapter website, http://www.marietta.edu/~delts/ When I spoke to him at the last chapter meeting, he told me his goal was to publish 2 of them a semester. Check it out and let him know what you think.

I mailed this past week a box of pictures and articles from our history to Dave Broome, who has volenteered to put a booklet together for us. We are still looking for more material, but time is getting a bit short. Please send any stories or other stuff to me or Dave. Thanks.

I received the following note from Bruce Miller the other day, and I think it is a great idea.

Rick- How about listing everyone who's coming to the reunion so far? List
them by class & keep it updated and that may encourage more brothers to
attend. It could be at the end of each of your emails or listed on the
chapter site. Keep up the incredible work!~BAM

Unfortunately, for whatever reason (I moved recently and have misplaced many things, so I'll lay the blame there) I don't have the names of everyone who has let me know they are going to be there. I'll list those names I have, and as I hear from more people I'll keep it updated. Hopefully we can get it listed at the chapter website also. Here goes...

1960's - Greg Maloof, Ken Kavula, Frank Hirsch (I think)

1970's - Ted Smith, Lance Koved, Don Wolfe, Ron Rees, Bruce Miller, Bruce Masatsugu, Darrell Pritchard, Joe Matheny, Keith Zak (I think), Randy Williams, Rich Wolf, Bob Peterson, Al Head, Bob Kavula, Rick Dunsker, Peter Weiner, Chuck Robinson, Bob Burns, Rick Neel

1980's - Drew Kern, Jon Hartshorn, Brian Rothenberg

1990's - Shawn Selby, J.P. Clowes, Matt Christman-Lees, Tim Cox (I think)

2000's - Craig Sundstrom, Andy Byers, Justin Nethers, Matt Dole, Corey Medina, Casey Trail, Chris "Smitty" Smith, Seth Wolfson, Trent Elliott, Jordon Herrick

I'm sure that I have left several names out, if I left you off, I'm sorry. Please drop me a line and let me know...For the rest of you, make your plans now to hook up with your friends that you haven't seen in a long time.

Here are some new addresses that I've received in the last month or so. Welcome back to EY guys, hope to see you in October. Brendon George '12, Jeffrey Myers '81, Dennis McNaboe '94, Dave Faunce '94, and an updated address, Craig Sundstrom '07. **addresses removed for privacy reasons**

Here is some brothers that I don't have any contact information for. If you are in touch with them, let them know we are looking for them. Steve Newton '66, Joe Baker '67, Joe Farrell '68, William Warner '68, Roger Coffman '69, Joseph Cohn '69, Paul Schoenfeld '70, Thomas Lindvall '71, Doug Schaffer '71, Gordon Turner '71, Mark Ewald '72, Peter Grob '72, John Alligood '73, Paul Craft '73, Larry Brown '74, Scott Elger '74, Ric Gough '74, Mark Russell '74, Bill Snyder '74, G. Curtis Brown '75, Carson Dye '75, Rdney Stoltz '76, Richard Hruska '77, Greg McComas '77, Dave Mogill '77, Greg Carriera '78, Peter Denio '78, Steven Dennis '78, Scott Gilmore '79.

That's all I have for today, have a good weekend. Rick Neel '73

DTD at MC #60

2008-02-23T14:07:00.002-05:00

Hi everybody,
I guess that I'm waiting too long to write these things. I caught heck for it again the other day. I'll try to do better. So let's get on with it and see what is happening.

Some good news has come from the undergraduates lately. They received word that they have made the Court of Honor for 2007. That is a prettty high honor, just short of a Hugh Shields. I'm very proud of them, and send my congratulations to the chapter.

Also, the chapter just completed it's spring rush. They got 4 new pledges and had the pledging ceremony last Sunday. The new members are; Tim Crandall, Josh Derry, Derek Ensinger, and Dave Hood. Welcome guys to the chapter.

The first meeting of the west coast branch of the EYDTD alumni council was held on Feb 12, 2008. It was held in Tucson Arizona at the Tucson National Golf course. And while I haven't yet gotten my copy of the minutes of the meeting, I have been informed that the temp. was about 70 and the day was exceptional. The Delts in attendence were Bruce Masatsugu, Jim Neel, and Darrell Pritchard. I have to tell you guys that I'm envious, it was snowing here on Tuesday. Also, I have been told that Bruce has made reservations at the Lafeytte Hotel for our 40th, hopefully he will have his wife with him. Darrell told me that he has convinced his wife, Lori to come to Marietta for the weekend. How about you, Jim. Did the golf outing convince you that it will be a fun weekend? I hope so.

I got the following message from Bob Burns, he is planning on bringing the next Delt Legacy to campus for a visit this summer. Give me a shout Bob, I'd love to get to see you, perhaps have dinner.

Rick,
I just had lunch with Angel Anderson, Assistant Advancement for
MC. When she asked when would be the next time I might be on campus, I
mentioned maybe this Summer on a campus tour with my longer son and then maybe this Fall for the 40th Anniversary of MC's DTD. I mentioned that you
had taken the led in organizing (or at least coordinating) the event. She
mentioned that she might be able to help you and others find extra hotel rooms
if there is a late heavy turnout of members. I expect that she call you offering her assistance if it is needed.

Bob "Alki" Burns '75

So as you see, if you are having trouble finding affordable rooms, give me a shout and I will go check with Angel and see what we can do to help. I really don't mind, so don't feel that you are being a bother.

From Rich Miller I got the next note. He is referring to Zak Gay qualifing for the Nationals in the high jump. And I have to say, he is correct. It never would have happened in our day.

Hey Rick,
Where the Hell did we get all these track and field medalists??? They never would have been seen while you and I were at 507! This is Great! Don't know if I'll be able to get there yet, but through your efforts, Mettler and I have touched based for the first time in over 30 years. That means a lot.

Hope to see you in October, Rich

Again, like the last email, I can take credit for 2 old friends reconnecting. I think that is so exciting, we all spend a long time at Marietta and make friends that last a lifetime, to have this email listing help friends reconnect is something that I truely enjoy. If you have a story of someone you got back in touch with as a result of this, please share it with us. You can access the email address list at the chapter website; http://www.marietta.edu/~delts/. The password is; **removed**. Please take advantage of it. It is there for you.

Here is an official notification of attendance at the 40th: Ted Smith writes;

Rick… Although I have inferred that I will be at the 40th...in reality, my
wife and I WILL be there! Also, please include Murray Talasnik on any e-mails to brothers re: THE EVENT. I see Mike Stein was included on the latest.
Thanks! Ted

Not to worry, Ted. If I have an email address I send these emails to them. I have found that in order to avoid "spam filters" I have to keep my groups under 100 addresses. So I send these out three times so I reach everybody.

Ferg sent the following note to Bruce Miller. I feel that it is a great honor, I had the opportunity to do it a couple of years ago, and was really touched. Shawn Selby did it before I did, and had to pull off of the road on his way home because he was so touched to have had the privliedge. I know that Ferg has asked other Alumni to participate, and all of us have felt honored and very moved.

Good Morning Bruce,
As we begin to tie up loose ends for the 40th, I have a request for you. Would you like to do the charge for the initiation at the 40th ? I think it would be very meaningful to the whole group of brothers. This will be done on Sunday morning.

Bruce has accepted the invitation. So for all of you who were Undergrads during Bruce's time as Chapter Advisor or while he was an undergrad, he will be in Marietta for the 40th. Be sure to join us.

If you are planning on being in Marietta, and are interested in being a part of an initiation, please contact Ferg. You won't regret it.

I have gotten so carried away with the 40th that I have not mentioned the Annual Golf Outing. It is normally held the 4th Saturday in April. That would be the 26th. Make your plans now to attend this annual event. We will play a round of golf and have a House Corp meeting.

I'll try to get my stuff together so we can have a hamburger cookout at my house. (I'll have to replace my grill, since I left it in Arizona, so if you will be here and have a desire to grill some burgers, let me know.)

One last thing, Don't forget to send in your stories about your years at MC. We have several, but need more, and the time is getting short.

That's all I have today. Have a great weekend. Rick Neel '73

DTD at MC #59

2008-02-21T15:44:00.004-05:00

Hello everyone,

Well my vacation is about to end. I have to report to work on Monday, that is kind of too bad, I could easily get used to this "no work" thing. But the bills still have to be paid. So I'm back at it starting tomorrow.

Let's see what is happening in Delt land. First, I think that I need to remind you that there is only 10 days left for the rooms that are being held for us at the Best Western here in Marietta. The phone number is: 740-374-7211. We have 20 rooms being held for us, and the cost is about $75 per night. If you want to do a little leg work yourself, you can probably find a better price online. For other hotels in the area, check the chapter website and click on the link in the 40th anniversary section. That is in the middle top of the front page. Here is the link to the website: http://www.marietta.edu/~delts/ Time is getting short, there are only 278 days to go. We have put together a bit more inclusive schedule for the weekend. It is still tentative but this is where we are so far:

Thursday evening for early arrivals

Meet and greet-Town House around 8:00

Friday

The day will be free to see Marietta

Noon - Midnight Registration at DTD

8-10 pm Valley Gem river cruise-Bottom deck enclosed

Saturday

9:00-9:25 Doughnuts and beverage at Delt House

9:30-10:15 Campus tours

10:30-11:00 507 Putnam visit

11:30-12:00 Parade

12:00-12:45 House Corp meeting

12:45-1:30 Tailgate at Stadium

1:30-4:30 Football game

6:00-7:00 Social Hour @ Shrine Club

7:00-12:00 Dinner, Program & Socialization (um, I think we mean Socializing. Socialization is the process of converting private property to state-owned property -- Shawn)

Sunday

9:00-10:00 Breakfast at Delt house

10:00-11:00 Ritual not at house

11:00-1:00 Alumni-Undergrad Football game

1:00- Free time

You will notice that we have a tour of 507 Putnam scheduled, that is assuming we can make arrangements with the owners. Also, there is a tour of the campus listed. For those of you that haven't been back to Marietta in a while, the campus has changed quite a bit. There has been a lot of new construction, with more scheduled for the next couple of years.

I have had several people ask me about cost. The plan is for the weekend to cost no more than $50 per person. That will not include the cost of lodging or what ever the college will charge for its functions. There will be a cash bar at the Shrine Club and on the Valley Gem. We felt that there was no way we could afford to have an open bar at any of these functions, not only because some of the brothers may not drink, but also, we are talking about a FRATERNITY here. My goodness there isn't that much money in the world.

We have commiments from 4 brothers so far to be speakers at the dinner Saturday night. Greg Maloof, Ken Kavula, Rich Wolf and Adam Hopkins. We are still looking for speakers from the other eras of EY. If you feel comfortable speaking, drop me a line so we can save time for you. We are looking for a 10 minute limit. Ken has already committed to a power point presentation, so the computer will be there if anyone else wants to go that route.

We are also hoping for some representation from the International headquarters. I have had a commitment from Jim Russell, so hopefully he will be with us.

Now on to the letters that I've gotten from you guys this week.

Mark Schlicker sent this note. I hope all is well with your wife, Mark, but for sure she comes first. It does show that people are contacting others, I hope that the rest of you are talking the 40th up. See you all there.

Just got a Letter from BAM asking about homecoming. It s
really up in the air with the wife's back problems. Hope to get you the slides I
promised.
Best Regards,
MARK SCHICKLER '69

Trent Elliott sent me this note, but I still haven't contacted him ... I'm bad, but I will. You can count on it.

Welcome back to town!
I got thirsty and drank your drink ....but we can probably find you another.
Tell me when is a good time for you, and we'll arrange to meet.
Trent

Al Head sent me this note, he is planning on being in Marietta. To those of you who may be on one of the 5 year cycles that the college pushes, that gives you 2 reasons to come back.

Rick!
Congratulation on moving back to Marietta. I look fondly back on my time
there, and I would probably view living there as a return to my youth. Pay no
attention that what little hair I have left is white. Obvously, 2008 is also the
30 year for class of 78.
I know many from that class will also be in attendance. Your letters are
great Rick. It sounds from these letters that indeed DTD-EU chapter is doing
well. Thanks for the update. See you in October!

Neal Mettler sent this note, it works that way with me too Neal. And when I hear from one of them, it's almost a rush. Hope to see you in October.

Rick,
Nice to hear from you again. Just looking at those names from the early 70's
brought back many memories.
Neal Mettler

Lance Koved sent me this note, I don't know if it is true that he and Joe got together again because of these emails. But I'm going to take the credit anyway. Glad to see you guys got together again, bet the stories were funny!

Hi Rick:
Hope you are enjoying Marietta. Spoke to Joe Doniger. By the way, Joe and I
were roommates for 3 years at Marietta. We had dinner last night with our wives
here in Florida and saw each other again for the first time in 32 years.
Really had a great time.
Lance

I wrote Shawn Selby concerning the blog he was going to write about his move to England. Here is the response he sent me. I haven't seen the blog entry yet, when I do, I'll let you all know.

Hi Rick.
Sorry I've been so out of touch. Things have been crazy here. We published
the first issue in December and have done one for January already and are doing
a second one this week for January. We go weekly the beginning of February.
We've also launched our Web site with daily breaking news and I've been
overseeing that as well.
But anyway in my precious spare time I've been looking for a flat. I'm
lodging in someone's spare room right now. But I've found a great flat in
Manchester's City Center, near my office. I get the keys tomorrow (Tuesday) and
I'll be moving in this week. Once I do that, I'll be ready to do a blog post. I
didn't want to do one earlier as I wanted to get "settled" first. And getting my
own flat makes me officially "settled."
I haven't heard from the undergrad you mentioned, so go ahead and forward the
note he sent to you to me!
Cheers!
Shawn

We have some news about a couple of our undergrads doing well. I got this information from the Delt website. Anthony Wind did well in the WVa theatre tryouts. Congratulations and good luck Anthony.

Four Marietta students advance in W.Va. Theatre Auditions

Front row —
Maggie Smith and Stephanie Tett; Back row — Andrew Wind and Patrick
SimoneNovember 30, 2007 -- Theatre students are accustomed to entertaining
audiences with their performances. But part of studying the performing arts is
learning how to be successful in the audition process, which even for veteran
actors is a nerve-racking process.
"While being a theatre major I am
certainly used to performing onstage, the stakes are raised so high at an
audition that it is hard not to get a bit nervous," said Patrick Simone '08.
In November, nearly a dozen Marietta College theatre students participated
in the first-round of stage tests during the West Virginia Theatre Conference
Screening Auditions, held in Inwood, W.Va. Four Marietta students—Simone, Maggie
Smith '09, Andrew Wind '10, and Stephanie Tett '10—scored in the top 40 percent
of the auditioning group, qualifying them to move on to the next round of tests,
which take place in March in Chattanooga, Tenn. Success at the next level will
ensure them a summer internship with the West Virginia Theatre Conference. Of
the 142 students who auditioned in November, only 58 students plus two
alternates were invited to the March auditions.
Theatre professor Jeff
Cordell accompanied the students to the auditions. Proud of what the students
learned and accomplished during this process, Cordell has high hopes for his
qualifiers and for the College's theatre department.
"The event is a major
experience for all students who attend it, as it allows them to see more of
their peers, to compare their work, and to recommit to their training in theatre
and to their education in general. I remain proud of both their preparation and
their professional attitudes at the event," Cordell said.
Auditioning for a
role can take months of preparation, but the audition itself may last only 60 to
90 seconds.
"It is mind boggling to think of how much time we put into such
a short period of acting. Now that is dedication," Tett said.
The students
agreed that what drew them to Marietta College was the theatre department. Each
of them saw something in Marietta's faculty and curriculum that they couldn't
get anywhere else.
"I saw that I would be able to explore all facets of
theatre including directing and playwriting, as well as technical aspects. After
visiting the college and meeting with the faculty of the theatre department, I
knew Marietta was the perfect fit for my personal style and needs," Wind said.
Cordell is proud of what the students who represent Marietta College have
done and very thankful for the students he has the chance to work with.
"For
my second year of teaching at Marietta, I am so grateful that I have great
students to work with and that the preparation in our department is connected to
the real world of working theatre," Cordell said.
-- Brenda Puckett College Relations

Zach Gay qualified for the nationals in track and field. Hope that the qualification stands Zach. Interesting thing when I read the article, there was another Delt who had his college record beaten this year. Chad Showen is the Delt. Congratulations on an outstanding season so far Zach. Keep up the good work.

Gay provisionally qualifies for NCAA Championships at Marietta's First
Glimpse Meet. Five school records also fall on Saturday Dec. 8, 2007
MARIETTA, Ohio — Marietta College track & field officially kicked off its
indoor season Saturday (Dec. 8) afternoon with a First Glimpse Meet at the Dyson
Baudo Recreation Center. The non-scoring meet, which also featured Concord
University from Athens, West Virginia, produced its share of individual
highlights. The story of the day came in the men's high jump, when sophomore
Zach Gay (Elyria/Oberlin) cleared 2.01 meters (6-07), which provisionally
qualifies him for the NCAA Division III Indoor Track & Field Championships.
The event, hosted by Ohio Northern University, will take place March 14-15 in
Ada, Ohio.Five school-record performances accompanied Gay's effort on Saturday.
Junior Jered Mitchem (Marietta/Warren Local) set a new school record en route to
winning the 800m Run. Mitchem finished in 1:57.60, breaking Pat Gragan's 1984
time of 1:57.70.Freshman Anthony Williams (Columbus/Bishop Hartley) broke the
school record in the 200m Dash, finishing in 23.63 seconds. Alex Axelson held
the previous record with a 24.08-second performance in 2004.Freshman Seth
Beckner (Red House, W.Va./Buffalo) set a new standard in the Pole Vault,
clearing 4.30m (14-01). Chad Showen had the old record, a 4.26m (14-00) vault in
2005.Sophomore Randi Robertson (Avon Lake) broke the Lady Pioneers' school
record in the 3,000m Run. Robertson crossed the line11:07.72. Teammate Shannon
McDonald (Lorain/Amherst Steele) set the previous record, 11:35.66, at the meet
a year ago.Freshman Tara Leach (West Lafayette) broke Marietta's long jump
record with a mark of 4.97m (16-04). Melissa Schulte held the previous record, a
4.91m (16-01.50) jump at a meet last year. Beckner, Gay, Leach, Mitchem and
Robertson all qualified for the Ohio Athletic Conference Championships, which
will be hosted by Otterbein College March 7-9, 2008. Six other Pioneers joined
them in qualifying for the Conference championships; junior Jesse Larrison
(Batavia) in the 800m Run (2:29.66), freshman Olivia Holiday
(McConnelsville/Morgan) in the Pole Vault (2.75m/9-01), senior Breanne Kosar
(Wheeling, W.Va./Wheeling Central) and freshman Ericka Shafer (East Canton) in
the High Jump (1.52m/4-11.75), senior Harrison Potter (Rochester, N.Y./Gates
Chili) in the 3,000m Run (9:19/71) and junior Brian Pallini (Medina) in the Shot
Put (13.47m/44-02).Marietta is back in action January 19 when it plays host to a
group of schools for the Marietta Open #1, the second of six home meets during
the 2007-08 indoor season. Sophomore Zach Gay provisionally qualified for the
2008 NCAA Indoor Championships on Saturday

This is pretty long already so I will end it with the new addresses I have gotten since last time. Thanks to Joe Mester for most of them. Peter Ross, Mike Stein, David Duffy, Rick Eckstein, Duke Weller, Kelly McKerahan, Adam Pyles, John Rhein, and Jeff Gardner. **email addresses have been removed for privacy reasons**

That's all I have this time, have a great week. Rick Neel '73

DTD at MC #58

2008-01-05T11:54:00.000-05:00

Good Morning everyone and Happy New Year,

I'm sorry that it has been so long since I wrote, but I have gotten moved and am in the process of settling in here in Marietta.

I really had a pretty uneventful trip across country, with the exception of Texas. There the weather was pretty bad, with dense cloud cover and wet roads. Fortunately for me, Darrell Pritchard was driving that stretch, so he got the brunt of that, plus me being a backseat driver. I'm surprised that he didn't throw the keys at me and make me drive! Thanks so much for coming along and helping, Darrell, you don't know how much I appreciate it.

I also have to say 'Thanks' to Randy Williams and his children. They showed up Sunday morning and helped unload the truck, with their help and my 'supervision' we got it all off and into the house in an hour, with nothing broken.

One terrible thing that came out of the move though is that I lost my Comcast email account. I never thought of that happening so quickly. I had to reenter every name and address by hand here on Gmail, and what a pain that was, over 250 names. Please make note of my new address, if you want to get in touch with me. But even worse, I lost all the mail that I got since the last email I wrote. And I know that there was a couple of addresses in it that I didn't get to forward to Hops, so they aren't in my address list. Please, if you sent me something since the last email ( on December 8) send it again.

I don't have any 'Delt Stories' to share with you this time, obviously, so I can't send anything out for you, but please send in a story, or some pictures, or something for our booklet. Dave Broome is collecting all of that information so he can put it together for us. Only a few months to go on that. And now there is only 10 months to go till Homecoming. I hope that you guys have made your reservations.

I did hear from a couple of guys at my gmail address, Lance Koved sent me this short note:

Rick,
Hope that your move went well and you are now enjoying the cold
weather.

I have heard from a number of people planning on returning to Marietta this
fall. Hopefully I will see a lot of familiar faces.

I sure hope so Lance. That's what it is all about.

Then Steve Critchlow sent me the following note, with a new address. For Jim Meads. I'm glad to hear that things are looking up for you Jim, my prayers are with you.

Hi Rick!
Wishing you and all our brother Delts a most happy, healthy, and prosperous
New Year!!!

Just wanted to let you know of an E-mail address for a 'missing
Brother' you've previously requested, namely, Jim Meads -'72. His E-mail
is: **removed for privacy reasons** I spoke to Jim on New Year's
night.

He lives in Silver Spring,MD and had to retire from Graybar Electric Co.
last August after 33 years with that company due to serious health problems. Jim
was diagnosed with stomach cancer last January and has been undergoing an
ongoing treatment regimen for it since last February, He also had to undergo
gastric bypass surgery early last year as part of this battle.

He is still the same 'low key' guy that those of us from the early 70's
remember and is staying remarkably positive in his attitude. He did tell me that
this particular form of cancer does NOT have a very good statistical cure rate,
so he would welcome any support from his brother Delts in the form of prayers,
positive thoughts and encouragement, etc. as he continues to fight this very
tough foe in 2008!

On a positive note, his condition has improved and stabilized enough since
last summer that it looks like his oncologist will soon approve and issue the
medical clearance Jim needs to be able to return to work at Graybar on a
part-time basis in the near future.

Hope to make it back to Marietta myself this coming October to 'catchup'
with many fellow alums at the EU 40th celebration. Till then ...

Fraternally Yours,
Steve Critchlow - '72

My plan is to get in contact with Matt Dole in the next few days to find out where he got to on our plans for homecoming, so I should have more to report the next time. That's all I have this time, I'm here in Marietta. So if you should happen to be in town, give me a shout.

Speaking of that, Trent Elliott, where is my 'Welcome home' cocktail? Remember, you promised me one. And Chuck Robinson, I haven't forgotten our dinner on January 15th, before the basketball game.

Here are a few names of guys that I'm missing (in the move I lost my sheet, so I don't know who I've asked for and who I haven't - it's hell to get old): Joe Baker, Peter Rosenberg, Peter Ross, Joseph Farrell, William Warner, Roger Coffman, Joseph Cohn, Paul Schoenfeld, Thomas Lindvail, Doug Shaffer, Gordon Turner, Mark Ewald, Peter Grob, Mike Stein, John Alligood, Paul Craft, Larry Brown, Scott Elger, Ric Gough, Mark Russell, and Rodney Stoltz.

Have a great week, Rick Neel '73

DTD at MC #57.5

2007-12-08T23:22:00.000-05:00

Matt Dole sent me the following story from the late 90's. I'm sure that every era has a story (or 50) to share, put your thinking cap on. After his, I'll post my story. It's not to blow my own horn, but it is a bit more on the serious side, so you can see that there is room for both. I hope that you enjoy them. Rick Neel '73

I wanted to get a couple of the younger guys thinking, and no one who was around
in the late 90s has more stories than Tim Cox - who is now an "accomplished" actor in New York (sorry for the quotes... I just can't accept that my roommate is getting positive reviews in the New York press). Otis (his pledge name) could have a whole chapter in this booklet we're putting together, but with the presidential funerals topic I thought I would share his. It's an easier topic than delving into the time he took a leak on my computer printer. Apparently Hewlett Packard printers and American standard urinals look very similar early in the morning after St. Patrick's
Day. But I digress. Otis had a Viking funeral. After a beautiful eulogy affording Otis all the respect he deserved (none!), black-robed brothers lit up tiki-torches and loaded the table top holding Otis onto our shoulders and walked down Fourth
street, up Putnam and turned onto Fifth stopping at the Chi Omega house. What a sight. After convincing the house mother that Otis wasn't really dead (I told you he's an accomplished actor), she decided the dead body needed to be put on ice and promptly pored a nice sized bucket of ice down Otis' pants. Because he is a consummate professional... and because we weren't letting him off that table, Otis had to endure a rather cold ride back down the hill to the house before he was able to relieve himself (luckily, this time, not on my printer). I'm sure there are other stories out there not only about Otis, but others guys from the late 90's and early 00's. Of course, there aren't any stories about me... no matter what Otis or anyone else says.

And here is mine:

Building Brotherhood -1971

"It was a dark and stormy night." That is the way Snoopy always starts his novels. In this case it was true. Mid January, cold, snowy and drunk. That was the setting for the end of our "Help Week." We had already taken our fraternity exam and
initiation was right around the corner. Just this final thing to do. The "Bag Baker Memorial Walk."

Let me take a minute to explain what the "Bag Baker Memorial Walk" is. It took me many years to realize that it was designed to build brotherhood, and it really did. It also built friendships, I still feel very close to all of those guys, and wonder what ever happened to Patty occasionally. At any rate, the walk was actually a scavanger hunt, where the Actives went around town and hid empty pop bottles. Each of the bottles had a clue to find the next bottle.

Al Morrison, Randy "Awk" Williams, Andy James, Darrell Pritchard
(he had already activated but missed the Walk when he was still a pledge), Patty
Ritchie (my girlfriend and later one of our original Little Sisters), and me. That was the group that headed into our personal history.

As I remember, there were about 24 of those bottles that night. At midnight, we took the clue to find the first bottle and our bottle of vodka screwdrivers and headed out into the snowstorm. As the night went on and we found our bottles (and got our bottle refilled by the active assigned to keep track of us, Joe Mester. Thanks for that Joe!) crisscrossing the city. We had a great time and from time to time had to help each other find our way. I remember many things about that evening, but the one that really stands out to me is laying in the middle of the road making "snow angels" with my big brother, Darrell Pritchard.

The actives had hidden those little coke bottles from the college campus proper to Mound Cemetary, to the Hospital, to the college boathouse on the West Side (that is where we made the snow angels, coming off the Washington St. bridge), and many other places. It caused us to walk around town for 3 or 4 hours looking for bottles.

When we got done, sometime late in the night, we were very cold, very tired, and (can I say this, in this age of political correctness?) very intoxicated. But we all felt a feeling of accomplishment because we completed our assigned task as a team. Then we fell asleep.

Let's see what has transpired between me and that group from 37 years ago. Darrell Pritchard and I are still close friends and play golf with each other a couple times a
month. We both have season tickets to the Arizona Wildcats football program, and just generally try to spend some time together when we can. Al Morrison and I have been in fairly consistant contact for the last 10 years or so, and I helped him find his current wife and former college sweetheart after a seperation of about 25 years. We still get together when I make my annual trip to Florida to visit with my Mother. Al is responsible for getting me re-involved with the Delts, he talked me into coming to Marietta for the golf outing one year, thanks Al! "Awk" Williams and I have been friends since I moved to Marietta in time for my junior year of High
School. None the less, we had fallen out of contact, and it was my interest in the 40th anniversary that put us back in contact. We have rekindled our friendship like we never were apart. It's been really nice to find an old friend. Andy James and I had lost contact also. With the help of an address list we got from International headquarters, I found Andy's phone number and called him. I don't think that I've talked to Andy since graduation, but we had a good conversation and I hope that we can continue and build on our refound relationship. I feel confident we can. Patty Ritchie and I have lost contact, I hope that she is doing well and is happy. Perhaps as a result of our effort to build contact with our past members, we will be able to get in contact again. I hope so.

I'd like to express my appreciation for that night to Chuck "Bag" Baker, whom I have never met, the actives who planned our night, Joe Mester for keeping us lubricated and keeping track of us so no one got hurt, and most of all to my "Walking Group" for making that night one to remember.

When we woke up later in the morning, we got ready for initiation, and took our place as activated members of DTD. A big day.

But the one I remember best, was the night before.

Rick Neel '73

DTD at MC #57

2007-12-08T22:35:00.000-05:00

Hello everyone,

This information is important for those of you (all 250 that get this email I hope) that are planning on making the trip to Marietta next October. The Best Value Inn is now closed. It will be replaced by the Microtel Inn and Suites, but there is no guarentee that it will be open in time for homecoming. Fpr those of you that don't know, the dates for homecoming are October 24th thru the 26th, 2008.

Matt Dole has lined up some rooms at the Best Western for us. Here is his note:

Best Western Marietta
279 Muskingum Drive
Marietta, Ohio
45750
(740)-374-7211

20 rooms reserved for Friday, October
24, and Saturday October 25 Around $75 per night. If anyone is
coming in early, or leaving late, they can make those arrangements when they
call.

The hold up has been getting the rate, and it's not set yet,
but in the interests of time we'll have to run with "around $75 per
night"

The group of rooms is reserved under my name for Delta Tau
Delta.

The 20 rooms will be held until January 31, 2007, after
which any rooms not reserved will be opened up for the general public, so people
need to call and reserve a room quickly to get in on this group rate. For
those who don't want to stay at the Best Western, I have included a list of
other Marietta hotels below.

The selling points for the Best
Western are:

1. No further from MC than The Comfort or Holiday
Inns, just on the other side of town.
2. About a mile from the Valley Gem
boat launch
3. Walking distance to the Shrine where the dinner will be
held.

OTHER HOTELS

(The Best Value Inn - the old
Knight's Inn - has closed and they are building a new hotel on that
property. I'm not sure if it will be open for Homecoming or not, so that
isn't an option)

The Lafayette
Hotel
101 Front Street
740-373-5522
www.lafayettehotel.com

Holiday Inn
701 Pike
Street
740-374-9660

Comfort Inn
700 Pike
Street
740-374-8190

Hampton Inn
508 Pike
Street
740-373-5353

Super 8 Hotel
46 Acme
Street
740-374-8888

Econo Lodge
702 Pike
Street
740-374-8481

There is another hotel for you to consider, it is in Williamstown, W.Va. right across the river.

Days Inn Parkersburg-Marietta I 77 And State Road 31 Exit 185 Williamstown , WV 26187

Since this is a pretty busy time of year for Marietta, I suggest that you call and make your reservations as soon as possible.

One thing that you might want to consider while making your reservations is various discounts you may be eligible for: AAA, AARP, Corparate discounts, etc. Also, you might try Priceline.com and see if you can save some money by naming your own price.

I got the following note from Joe Mester the other day,

Rick,
I have the following addresses looked up from the recently published
Marietta College Directory - three with e-mails already. Recommend you
publish the list and ask the people who knew them to cold call them, let them
know what we are doing, and try and obtain an e-mail address with
permission to add to e-mail list.
Joe

He gave me 12 missing brothers names and addresses. I sent emails to a few of the guys that I have on the mailing list already and asked them to contact the ones we had addresses for. We have a large enough base now that I may start going that was for the guys that I have an address for, but no email. If you are interested in helping with any of this, let me know. Or who knows, I may call you and ask like I did with Rich Wolf today.

Kevin Oliphant sent this response to Shawn Selby's comment in my last email. Ollie, I can't believe that any Delt would suggest that your balls be cut off with a rusty knife. I'm sure they would want to use a clean sharp one!

Please inform Mr Selby that a few of the 7 are step children. Also i have figured out what causes children to happen and have taken steps so that no more children will come about. ...And no I didnt get my balls cut off with a rusty knife and a table saw as per the wishes of Mike Connaty and few other sadistic delts.
Sincerely,
Sterile Ollie

Rich Miller sent the following note praising the story that Rick Dunkser sent in, I thought it was a funny story also. Keep them coming in. Dave Broome is collecting them and is very happy with the response so far. One thing he requests though, please make sure to include the year that you are talking about. Whether it was Fall, winter, or spring, if that is important and any other information that will be helpful in establishing the time frame you are talking about. Thanks so much.

I had a huge laugh reading about Ed Holmes, a story I had not heard, that
happened just 2 years after my graduation and while I was still in Ohio. He certainly would have had my vote and probably won on a national level in 2002. Thanks, Rick, for doing all that you are doing to bring us all together, up to date and providing a forum that, among other things, let's me know that my little brother is not among those Marietta Delts who have passed on to the Chapter Eternal.

Rich Miller, '74

I sent Mark Schlicker a note to get in touch with Joe Cohn and he sent me this note in response.

Will send letter today.
Looking for device to change slides into .peg files for 40th. Hopefully I can find the time to change over all my slides. I know I had a step by step building of the first two floats.

Best Regards
Mark Schickler, '69

The comment about changing slides into Jpeg files falls right in line with something that Seth Wolfson said in a note that he sent me. Anyone else that has something like this, we are interested.

Hey Rick,
Im sure that someone has suggested this, but i missed it. I think we should do a slide show that can run during the reception. I am not sure if there would be enough images from the pre-digital age classes to make it worth it, but maybe you can poll people and see whats available.
Cheers,Seth

One of the addresses with emails that I got from Joe Mester was Frank Hirsch, one of our founders. I sent him a note welcoming him to our email group. He sent me the following reply. I hope that he can make it back to join us next fall.

Rick,
I was pleasantly surprised to receive your e-mail message and enjoyed looking at the websites included in it. I'm glad to see someone making such an effort to organize alumni and collect the past history.

I'm one of those (sort of) lost alumni, as mentioned in one place on the blog. I didn't realize I was considered "lost" since I have always been on the college's mailing and alumni list, but perhaps it is not coordinated with your own.

Actually, I'm not supposed to be found since I worked hard at school to earn the title of "The Phantom Delt!"

Seriously, I noticed that you are collecting Delt memorabilia. Being the proverbial "pack-rat," I have saved some of my college stuff (like a beanie, that was mentioned somewhere in the blog). I also have some old pictures and perhaps most unique, I have some old Super-8 movie footage I took while at Marietta. I am in the process of having it converted to DVD, but it is not very good quality. There are several clips that have many of the original members in them.

I don't know if anyone would be interested in these, but I would be willing to share them with whoever might be interested. I think I would need help from someone who may be more "techno-savvy" when it comes to converting and then editing these movies. I'd be happy to arrange to meet with anyone who would like to take on such a project.

I live fairly close to Marietta and still have in-laws in nearby Little Hocking. We often travel to the area and I could even make a trip to MC with enough advanced planning.

I am considering trying to make the 40th anniversary gathering during Homecoming. It would be great to see some of the gang again and to reminisce (which you tend to do a lot of when you get to be our age). Do you think anyone would like to see these movies during the anniversary?

Anyway, let me know what might interest you and the others. I'd be glad to help wherever I can.

Frank

Did you notice that he mentioned that he has movies from his time in Marietta. I wrote him and told him that what he had was gold for us. And a beanie, this is the motherlode for memorabelia. Who out there is technosavvy and can help Frank make this stuff work for us? Let me know.

I also heard from Neal Mettler, another address that I got from Joe Mester. Good to hear from you Neal. You asked what you could do, I only have one thing to ask. Come back to Marietta for homecoming. I hope to see you there.

Rick, Good to here from you. Let me know what I can do.

Ted Smith is one of the guys I asked to contact a couple of brothers that Joe sent me addresses for. He called both of them, got one and spoke to the wife of another. He let me know the results of his efforts in this note;

Rick:
I had a nice talk with Murray Talasnik ’71 today and informed him of the big shindig.
He is a criminal lawyer and, obviously, has a chaotic schedule…but I told him to try and block out the October dates.
He was treasurer, I believe when I was president.
I am hopeful he will attend.
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I talked with the wife of Mike Stein ’72 and he is supposed to email
me.
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The 40th Anniversary festivities include wives…yes/no????
Take Care, Rick,
Ted

It's always nice to talk to someone you hadn't talked to in a long time. I know because I called Rich Wolf today. We got to talk for a bit and it was really nice to hear from him. The reason I called him was to ask him to try to get ahold of Larry Brown and Dave Mogil, two brothers from his era that we are missing. He asked me an interesting question while we were talking, "Who all do you know is coming to homecoming?" I mentioned several of the names that I have heard from, but I know that there will be many others coming who haven't said anything to me yet. So here is a request for you all. If you are coming to homecoming 2008 to join in the celebration of 40 years of Delta Tau Delta. Drop me a note letting me know. I'll keep track of you and let everyone know who is coming. Just think about it, if a classmate of yours knows you are coming, that may be just what he needs to know to decide to come himself. You don't need to write a letter, just reply with "I'll be there" and that will be enough. Thanks, even if you have told me in the past, please let me know again. I didn't track it before.

One thing I need to mention. Our homecoming weekend celebration certianly includes wives and significant others. The only thing they would be excluded from is a ritual meeting and/or an activation. Everything else is definately open.

The alumni speakers that have stepped up so far are Greg Maloof, Ken Kavula, and Rich Wolf. That covers the late 60's and mid 70's so we are still looking for the late 70's, the 80's, 90's and 00's. The time frame we are looking for is about 10 minutes and the subject matter is entirely in your hands. Let me know if you are interested, or I may give you a call and ask. Ken is planning a power point, so the equipment for that will be there, if you wish to take advantage of it.

Here are the new addresses that I got this week, thanks Joe! Murray Talasnik, Frank Hirsch, Alan Head, and Neal Mettler **addresses have been removed for privacy reasons**

Here are the missing brothers for this week: Stephen DeLong '80, David Duffy '80, Theodore Haase '80, Stephen Marino '80, Jeff Salway '80, Kevin Gieger '81, Helmuth Hinz '81, Walter Meneses '81, Jeffrey Myers '81, Brett Burkey '82, William Costello '82, George Dee '82, Rick Eckstein '82, Duke Weller '82, Bruce Goldfarb '83, Richard Ptak '83, Donald Sirrell '83, Steven Bennett '84, William Cruse '84, Jay Ehret '84, Gregg VanDerLey '84, Mike Malone '85, John Marfy '85, Kelly McKerahan '85, Adam Pyles, '85, John Rhein '85, Jon Townshend '85, John Baxley '86, and Jeff Gardner '86.

I'll do my usual, under a separate email, I'll post another 40th anniversary letter. Or maybe 2. Keep your thinking cap on and send something in, just remember to include who you are, what year you are writing about, and what season it occured in (if appropriate).

That's all I have this week, I hope that your holiday season is special. Rick Neel '73

DTD at MC #56.5

2007-11-27T19:21:00.000-05:00

Here is the story that Rick Dunsker wrote for our 40th booklet. I hope that you enjoy it.

Delta Tau Delta - Epsilon Upsilon
Mid- 1970's

I'd like to thank Dave Broome for his note encouraging us to send in stories about our experiences as Delts at Marietta. I had talked to Rick about this exact thing a number of months ago, but never got my butt in gear to do my part. So Dave (and the Classes of '75 - '79), this is for you.

What made the Delts such a fantastic group to be a part of in those years was that we did everything our own way, which usually put us at odds with the conventions about Greeks of that time. We were by far the newest house on campus, yet we
retired the scholarship cup more than any other house. We were the smallest house on campus, yet the most ethnically diverse (before "diversity" became a buzzword). Our chapter was full of guys who, in their freshman years, swore they would never join a fraternity. Put politely, most other Greeks weren't quite sure we "belonged", and we loved it that way.

Case in point: Our '76 yearbook picture. While all the other houses that year had their pictures taken in or around their houses, we had ours taken... somewhere more interesting (see attached). What a bunch of miscreants.

In this spirit, I offer the following two stories.

The "Greek" Scholarship Bowl
In the Spring of '75 we'd been named a Top 20 Chapter. The following Fall we considered what we our next steps might be. Someone mentioned starting a regional DTD competition like the annual basketball tournament held by the Ohio State (or was it the OU?) Chapter. We wanted it to be something "different", but that would be supported by the administration.

Eventually we settled on a quiz bowl. We wouldn't need to book a heavily used facility like Ban Johnson and our chapter would actually have a shot at being competitive. We knew this would be a huge undertaking and were afraid to just go for it without any practice. We needed a dry run, but with whom? The answer was
obvious.... the Greeks of Marietta. Given our rep at the time, though, our odds of getting more than a few houses to cooperate were nil. If we were going to get our dry run, we were going to have to do it under different auspices.

Luckily alternatives were available. A number of us, including Matt Sutko, Bob Peterson, and I were members of honoraria and Trustee committees, giving us unusual access to faculty and staff who would be crucial to getting rooms and resources. (Ya, we were a regular house full of big shots!) We posed the idea to these contacts, they instantly loved it.

There had been a Quiz bowl on campus 10 years earlier. In fact the Communications Department still had the old buzzers in a closet in case the idea ever made a comeback. They were glad to help. Now how do we get the rest of the Greeks to join in? In the first planning meeting we came upon an idea: What if there was no official
administrative sponsor? What if we somehow got the Greeks to sponsor the bowl themselves?

One of the great things about Marietta College was (and still is) the degree of access students get to faculty and staff. There are very few people whom one couldn't just walk in on if you had an issue or concern. One of the exceptions was the Dean of the College. Few students had ever seen the guy much less talked with him. A few days after our first meeting, the Presidents of each house received a letter from Dean
Bosch, on his stationary, congratulating the Fraternity and Sorority Councils on their idea to hold a Greek Scholarship Bowl. Of course, none of them knew anything about it, and luckily, none thought to ask the administration for fear of appearing out of the loop. The trap was set.

While other Delts worked on logistics with our faculty supporters, Matt Sutko and I took on the task of recruitment. A week after the Dean's note was sent, we visited
all the houses asking their presidents if they had discussed participation with their members yet. After varying degrees of upset and frantic "What's this all about?", folks who normally wouldn't have given Matt or I the time of day, anxiously agreed to do whatever we wanted of them. No one asked who started this "College Bowl" thing or why the only students involved were Delts.

Long story short, both Greek Councils agreed to "sponsor" the event. Every house helped gather prizes from local merchants and fielded a team. The questioning and judging were completely handled by faculty members, and the contest, literally, came down to the last question (I'm not exaggerating). But what made the event Hollywood-perfect was, you guessed it, the Delt team won!

As I understand it, the Greek Councils took control of the College Bowl and held it for a few years after that, but Epsilon Upsilon never did hold a regional Delt event. Oh,
well....

Ed Holmes for President
It was the Spring of '76, and student council elections were only days away. By the
mid-70s the student activism you younger brothers may have heard about was long
over. The U.S.'s involvement in Vietnam had ended, disco music was on the rise, and no one gave a rat's petute about "getting involved" in student government, or any other serious distraction from book and beer.

The part that matters: Only one guy (not person... guy) was running for Student Body President. He was backed by the TEPs and a few other houses, and we Delts didn't particularly like him. So as a number of us partook(?) that evening in the newly completed attic common space (it was fun while it lasted), we complained at one another. "How can we let D.M. run unopposed?!? Someone's GOT to run against him!"

The only guys who were willing were myself and Bob Peterson, both seniors and
ineligible. The group of 6 or 7 of us regarded one another through squinty eyes, and applied our altered consciousnesses to the problem. The answer soon became clear. Well, actually one of us just blurted out a nutty idea for a laugh.

"Why don't we run someone who doesn't exist?"

The idea did get a good laugh, but the more devious of us saw the brilliance of the
proposal:

- D.M. would no longer run unopposed. He would be caught completely off guard and take days to figure out what was going on (Ashton Kutcher would have been proud, if he'd been born yet).
- We could have a great time stringing the campus along for a few days, making fun of an institution that never had a lot of relevance to most students anyway.
- Most importantly, no one had to give speeches, answer questions about his platform, and be humiliated when he lost, or worse yet, have to serve as President if by some chance he actually won.

Perfect!

So who is this mystery guy, what's his name? He had to sound like a good, old Ohio boy... someone with integrity who you could trust... just the sort of straight arrow you'd expect to run for student body president on sheer principles. We settled on "Ed Holmes".

Now for the hard part: Marietta is a tiny school. Why are the only people who know this guy in the Delt house, and why are we helping him? Like Occam's Razor, the simplest answer was the best (and the most believable). Ed had just transferred from Denison University, in central Ohio. He was a Delt there and very active in
student government (BTW: There was no Delt chapter at Denison). When he heard that D.M. was running unopposed he said he would give it a shot even though he knew the chances were slim. No one had seen him before because he was living with his aunt and uncle out on Greene Street just past the inte rstate. How could this not be the truth?

Ed needed someone to speak for him during his frequent absences from campus. For that, once again, my little brother Matt Sutko stepped forward. A Poli-Sci major, and excellent debater, Matt had his schpiel/platform together almost before our party (oops, I mean planning session) broke up for the night.

This was Saturday night. The polls would open on Wednesday. We had a candidate, a cover story and a spokesman. It was time for the mighty Delt political machine to swing into action!

On Sunday Matt and crew created a huge banner announcing that Ed Holmes' write-in candidacy for president with Matt as his running mate for V.P. They hung it across the front of Andrews Hall. I'm not sure who they bribed to pull this off, but
it remained there until election day.

On Monday the campaign started in earnest. There was only one hole in our plans that could sink Ed's legitimacy, the student files in the Admin. building. Luckily, another fine brother, Shea McGrew, had some pull with a relevant administrator... his mother, Louise, worked in the Records Department.

That morning Matt and I let her in on the gag. Once she understood that D.M. would win regardless, she put Ed Holmes' name on a manila folder and placed it in the appropriate file drawer. If over the next few days anyone came to inquire whether Ed was a student at the college, she agreed to look in the drawer and respond "Yes, I have a file for him." We Delts could also tell those who challenged us, "If you don't believe me just check the Records Office." We were ready to face the
voting public.

That evening we learned that many other students were unhappy with D.M.'s "inevitability factor". Delta Tau Delta was an exception to numerous rules in those days. One of them was that 507 Putnam didn't house enough people to warrant food service. Those who lived in the house had a choice of cooking their own meals, or making other arrangements. Three of us, Dave Barker, Geoff Dean and I ate dinner at the Tri-Sigma sorority on Fifth Street.

That night, completely unplanned, Geoff and Dave sat at one end of the long dining table and I at opposite end. As the food was being served I casually asked, just loudly enough for the 20 women at the table to hear, "So Dave... you think Ed's
got a chance of winning?" Without missing a beat Dave responded, "I don't know, we don't have much time 'til the election." Of course, everyone wanted to know what we were talking about. When, with unbelievable sincerity, Geoff added, "Ed just doesn't think it's right for D.M. to run unopposed," one of the Tri-Sigs responded, "I don't care who he is, I'll vote for him." The race was on.

By Tuesday evening students still weren't certain whether Ed Holmes was a hoax, but just in case D.M. declared that if he didn't receive a majority of the votes he wouldn't take office. On Wednesday, the people spoke with their ballots, and luckily, he didn't have to keep that promise. D.M. won, but considering he was running against a phantom his majority was less than impressive. In a 3 1/2 day campaign, Ed Holmes got 41% of the votes, on write-ins. Hoo-hooooo!

The incident so angered the student "powers that be" that even though it was one of
the events of the year, the only mention of it in the '76 Mariettana was in the Delta Tau Delta blurb (see attached). The campus was punked and the Greeks were pissed. Mission accomplished!

I encourage other brothers from the mid-70's classes to straighten out the errors in my stories and share their own concerning other memorable happenings.

I also want to give a huge THANK YOU to Rick Neel for all he's doing to pull us back
together. He was one of the first guys I met when first I wandered into 507 Putnam to check out the Delts. His unprovoked and irreverent insults towards a perfect stranger (think small-town Don Rickles) were among the things that convinced me the Delt were worth a second (and a third) look. You're doing a fantastic job!

Regards,
Rick Dunsker, Class of '76
(The Bicentennial Year!)

DTD at MC #56

2007-11-27T18:40:00.000-05:00

Hi everyone,

This is going to be a fun email to write, the response to Ted Smith's memories has been tremendous and gotten several new stories. A couple of them were forwarded to about a third of you, so if you have seen some of this, bear with me. I have to explain here, due to the number of us that are now in the email registery I have to send these out in 3 sections. I have found that once a distribution gets to 100 a lot of spam filters will kick the message out. So I have stopped at 99 and begun another folder. I have 2 1/2 folders now. Pretty good I think for the way we are getting them.

At any rate, we are less than a year away from our 40th anniversary and things are beginning to snowball. I have had a couple of brothers volenteer to speak at our banquet. Greg Maloof and Ken Kavula are planning on sharing some experiences with us. Both of them are from our very early years, Greg - our 1st President and Ken graduated in 1969. We would like to have speakers from every generation if possible, so please don't be shy. Ken has said that he was going to set up a power point display, so the computer will be there if anyone else wants to go that way. We'd like to keep the comments in the 10 minute or so range, so we can get as many stories as possible in. If there are any Undergrads that would like to share an experience with us, that would be fine. We have also had several brothers say that they have pictures that they are going to dig out and share with us, and some Delt memorbelia (sp?). So if you have something, make plans to share.

I think that I will continue to share some of the stories that I've gotten since Ted's went over so well. I don't feel that it will distract from our booklet, and it may encourage others. But before I do that, let me share the general comments that I have gotten since the last time.

J.P. Clowes sent me the following note;

Rick,
Hope everyone is doing well. We were in the Marietta area during homecomming, but had to stay away from campus, as we were meeting some close friends who were in from North Carolina.

I'm glad you sent the stories from Ted. We work together and hearing him tell some of these stories is great. I'm glad he was able to share them with the rest of the group. The tradition of having a "wake" for an outgoing president was something that survived even into the 1990's, and was a lot of fun. I will have to try to write up some of my memories of how the tradition changed over the years.

My wife Nina is a prolific scrapbooker, and would love to help out Wiona. Please have her contact us and let us know what we can do to help. Also, Duane Stokes was a lost brother from one of your earlier lists, it sounds like Wiona is in contact with his wife? (I know they live here in Columbus, but I don't know where,
sorry.)

Anyway, Please count us in as needing a room for next year. I will be there come Hell or high water.

J.P. Clowes '93

Hear that Wiona? There is some help for you. I'm still not sure how we can work the logistics of this. If anyone has any ideas, let me know. Also, since you are in touch with Duane Stokes' wife, could you get me the email address? I haven't been able to get it.

Rich Miller sent me the following. I don't know where he got the idea I as a big mouth though.

Hey Rick,

You were always a noisy SOB and you continue to be. Thank you! Keep blabbing.

What you have been doing for us is fantastic, especially in linking the generations of EU alumni who founded Crescent Colony, our generation of EU and the classes who
have come after us.

As to the thoughts and hopes sent forth by Brother Broome, what a perfect request, search and challenge? The response you have received from Brothers back to the founding of Crescent Colony to the present shows how he has hit the nerve to
release and share the memories and energies of our Chapter. I really look forward to meeting Brother Broome and more of my younger Brothers in October.

While reading of the demise of some early Delt hangouts, I, with you and possibly Joe Matheny, hope that we could educate our current generation of Delts to the skill of locating donuts at 2AM on a Sat. or Sun. morning. Kindly research this before my
arrival .

Thanks for all you do,
Rich Miller

Sorry to tell you this Rich, but Brownie's is gone. 2 floods and a fire were apparently more than he could take.

Lance Koved wrote to say that he has made his hotel reservations already. Great news Lance, I'm looking forward to seeing you also. I spoke to Matt Dole today and he is still working on the block of rooms for us. He promises to let me know soon. Hurry Matt, times a wastin!

Shawn Selby sent this note from Merry Old England:

Hi Rick.
Greetings from Manchester and greetings from the United Kingdom. I have been here two weeks now and it seems both like I have been here just for a couple of days and it also seems like it has been a lifetime.

I just wanted to pop you a note to let you know I made it here OK. I am still living in a hotel, but should be moving into a flat (apartment) as soon as tomorrow. I'll do a post on the Web site with pics in a couple of weeks, assuming our Brothers might be interested in my little life adventure. So far this is everything I expected and, despite being mentally prepared, far more overwhelming than I thought it would be.
The hardest thing has been adapting to the accents here. Manchester is a crossroads in the UK & Ireland, so almost every accent in the British Isles can be found here.
Depending on the person I'm speaking to, it ranges from me not being able to
understand him or her at all to not understanding every fifth or tenth word.

Also, I have experienced something I never thought I would experience: homesickness.

Anyway, I'm glad that there is movement among the alumni to carry on the writing project I had to reluctantly drop. Knowing my Brothers as I do, I know I'm forgiven for walking away from it, but I'm so proud that others are stepping forward. Reminds me of the flag and badge ceremony.

Anyway, as they say here in the Empire, "Cheers!"

Shawn
Duke of Manchester

P.S.: Someone needs to explain to me how Ollie has been allowed to
spawnSEVEN times!

Chuck Robinson wrote with the following;

Hey,
How are things going? Well I hope. If your still or are going to be in Marietta let me know. I'll be there sometime soon.

By the way you seem to have left out our little sister program in your addresses. I'm surprised that you forgot about them.....LOL

Chuck

I haven't forgotten Chuck, I just don't have the names or addresses, if any of you are still in contact with any of our Little Sisters, please let me know so I can include them. When I get moved back to Marietta, I'll get the names and begin to look for them. All help is appreciated.

Chuck also tells me that he is the Athletic Director for Athens High School and that he lives in Zanesville. We are supposed to meet and have dinner in January when he comes to Marietta to play the Tigers. I'm looking forward to that.

Here is an alumni story from Greg Hanson. Congratulations on quitting smoking, I did it in 2000 and am glad that I did. Hope that retirement goes well for you.

Nice to see the memories of our President of a turbulent times. Campus events included the largest hunger strike in the country in reaction to the "Invasion of Cambodia", several brothers participated. 10 days on crackers and water, yum.
Lots of fun memories as well. I cooked a Thanksgiving Turkey one year in the
old chapter house, forget how many it fed, but it was a good sized bird.
Quit smoking 26 years ago, now looking toward retirement as a clinical psychologist in CT, 30 years in the field, clinic, to private practice, to state
consultant.

Greg Hanson (72)

Rick Dunsker sent me a story for the 40th booklet, I think I will include in seprately for you all so I don't make this any longer than it already is.

Here is the list of lost brothers for this week: Joe Baker '67, Dr. Joseph Cohn '69, Franklin Hirsch '69, Doug Shaffer '71, Murray Talasnik '71, Gordon Turner '71, Peter Grob '72, James Meads '72, Mike Stein '72, Paul Craft '73, Scott Elger '74, Neal Mettler '74, Lance Zant '75, David Mogil '77, Greg McComas '77, Richard Hruska '77,Gregory Carriera '78, Peter Denio '78, Steve Dennis '78, and Alan Head '78. That is the 60's and 70's, can you help?

That's all I have this time, have a good week. Rick Neel '73

DTD at MC #55 1/2

2007-11-17T14:48:00.000-05:00

Hi again,
I just had a change of heart. I have decided that it is important to let you all see what Ted Smith wrote for our 40th anniversary booklet. Perhaps it will spark a memory from you and get a note for the booklet.

On a personal note, thanks for the compliment Ted. I don't know how much help I've been to the chapter, but like so many others, I try.

Here are the notes from Ted's memories. I hope you enjoy them.

Thoughts from my memory…

“Johnny’s”:

In 1967, when I was a freshman, I resided (with future-brother Sherm Koons ’71) in the now-defunct PUTNAM Hall, which was at the corner of Putnam & Seventh. Across the street was a dumpy little restaurant named “Johnny’s”. I ate there only
because, as many had told me, THEY will cash your checks. It was a dark, cramped, smokey, dismal place and thinking back, I’m pretty surpised I would have ever eaten anything served in that joint. As I remember, the burgers were good! (Who knows what was in them) I remember as you walked in the door there was a pinball machine off to the right and I spent time some great times with other brothers “flipping the solid metal balls”. I think Johnny’s was ripped down after my first year at MC.

“Burning of The College Bookstore”:

I remember the burning of the college bookstore which used to be directly across from the house @ 507. This was probably the spring of ’69 and it happened at about 4am. After the sirens woke us up, I remember sitting on the front stairs with Ron Rees & Greg Hanson smoking Marlboro reds---(that’s the only Marlboro that existed then) watching the fire, half-awake mumbling phrases of the times like “wow, man…check the flames”.
This was a VietNam War protest. I believe instigated by Dana Hibbard (a female college student ’70???) who, I believe, had founding ties to the college. She and her group took American flags off buildings in downtown soaked them with gas and set the old bookstore on fire. (The old wooden building was going to be torn down, but this fire certainly completed the process). I don’t remember the charges against the parties, but this was one of the many war protests that happened on campuses during VietNam---yes, even at MC. Look closely at composites of the 68-71 years and notice, the headbands, peace buttons, etc….real reflections of what was happening at the time.

"Fifth Street”:

You used to be able to drive right from the house @507 to The Fine Arts Center via Fifth Street…a regular street like any other in Marietta. I remember driving that route in my ’51 Ford while wasted on cheap wine, only to pull up to Fayerweather Hall to pick up a date…only to spill my guts in the parking lot and pass out. She was notified and I think that’s how I made it into her room for the rest of the evening. (NO CO-ED DORMS BACK THEN). The road that was once Fifth Street is now the gorgeous MC campus mallway.

“Cat’s Head”:

I don’t remember the year, but after we had nationalized, some of us had a great idea…let’s freak out the “worst” sorority Alpha Gamma Delta (long gone from campus). I am almost positive this was spearheaded by Joe Doniger ’71…I think he had “ins” at the Bio lab. He went down and got a formaldehyde jar with a cat’s head…with mouth wide open. A group of us got it to our house boxed it, and wrapped it with beautiful paper and ribbons. I think there was a note attached to “The Alpha Gams with love!…please open ASAP”. We set the box on the doorstep, rang their bell and hid in bushes nearby…later you should have heard the screams. We took off.

“507 Putnam Street Sun-Deck”:

They were countless times when we climbed up thru the narrow passage in the attic to get to top sun-deck. What a great place for drinking, and drooling over the Chi Omegas in their 2-piece outfits sun-bathing on their deck. Always a great time!

“The Ted Smith Memorial Mortuary Masquerade”:
All the brothers knew that during the summers I worked for the largest funeral home in Columbus (with thoughts of becoming a mortician). We always needed different concepts for parties…and one time a party theme was lacking and I said hey how about The Ted Smith Memorial Mortuary Masquerade. Obviously this would take some work, but what fun when we pulled it off. I was laid out on the large work table…in the front room @ 507 all overdone with makeup…and just “floured big time”…I was more than ashen. On the walls were pictures of me with black banners & wilted flowers and funerial music playing in the background. My pledge
brother, Steve Fox, was in the front row of seats…just in front of my head and
weeped incessantly until all came to “pay their respects”. Rabbi Joe Doniger
wrote and delivered the fabulous eulogy wh ich included something about each and
every brother. At the conclusion of his “powerfully touching message”…some
brothers slid me head first into a garbage can (at the head of the table) which
had painted on the side in dripping blood red paint “DEP IS DEAD”. (My nickname
in the house was Dep, short for my real first name, Deppen.). At this point, the
party music came on and the beer flowed and flowed. The party had started. This
theme took excellent teamwork to coordinate and all of the brothers made this
come off without a hitch. Speaking of Joe Doniger…he was respsonsible for
attaching “nicknames” to many of the brothers.

I think I have brochures and the eulogy from The Ted Smith Memorial Mortuary Masquerade. I will forward them for the Delt “achives”.

“Steve Fox”:
In 1968, Steve & I were suite-mates in Parsons Hall and became pledge brothers…just the two of us. As our pledge project we created the first wooden active pin to hang on the front of the house at 507 Putnam. Although it was our project, brother Don Wolfe was the guy who really helped us with the design and creation. We were both useless with mechanics and Don was a “wiz” (at almost everything). I
remember when Steve (“Foxy”) broke his leg…I carried his books, got his meals,
etc…as he hobbled around on crutches. It seemed like an eternity until he healed
up and could walk!!!!

Hope this helps,
TED SMITH ‘71

DTD at MC #55

2007-11-17T14:14:00.000-05:00

Hi guys,

I'm afraid that this will be a long email. I have received quite a few notes from brothers from my last email, as well as several comments from the email I sent from Dave Broome, so rather than my comments first, let's just get to the notes I've gotten.

From Nancy Matheny (Joe's wife) comes the following note concerning our undergrads. Nice news is always welcome!

As Joe(Matheny 75) was working the Ohio High School State Golf tournament as a rules judge, we were not able to attend the Homecoming events, I want to thank the underclass Delts; they are a great group of men and come through for their volunteer time, A very cold morning meet the men this Sat as they arrived on time to wash and wax the vans for O'Neill Senior Center for Make a Difference Day Oct. 27th.
Thanks to all!
Nancy Matheny
Event Planner
for O'Neill Senior Center
333 4th St.
Mairetta, OH 45750
740-373-3914
http://www.oneillcenter.com/
We will be posting the photos on our website soon.

From Peter Weiner, my little brother. Yes Pete, the message did get to me. About a week after this one did. Sorry we couldn't hook up, for sure next year.

Hey Big Bro
Sorry we missed you while my wife (Karen) and I were in the area.
Unfortunately I had just acquired a "new " laptop that I used to travel with. In
refurbishing the laptop I did not have the time to transferee my contact and
other stuff. About the only thing I did get loaded was the GPS software.
I did try to reach you thru the alumni site but I guess the message didn't get
thru to you.
Anyway we saw some great fall leaves and mentally sent our thoughts to you and all the brothers during homecomings. Oh well maybe next year

Petedageek

From Kevin Oliphant, who stopped by the house on Saturday afternoon. I missed him sorry to say, but I have to comment on the 7 kids thing! Wow, what is your food bill? Glad you have raised the next Delt legacy!

For now **removed for privacy reasons** is the best way to contact me but i will get any mail either way. It was good stopping by the house over the weekend. My kids enjoyed seeing my long hair and beard from my freshman year. For the record i am now working for Naitonwide Insurance as a Senior Claims Representative. Im still in Vienna WV and only 15 minutes away from the house. I have 7 (Yes! Seven kids that keep me busy.) One of which cant wait to turn 18 and become a Delt. Life is good here in WV.
Keep me up to date as to whats going on with the house!

Mike Biefus sent this email, it's short and sweet. Welcome home Mike!

Rick,You can remove me from the "lost brothers" list! Mike Beifus

Randy "Awk" Williams sent me the following, thanks for the effort Awk. Don't forget to get his address to me.

Rick, Is Kurt Frank from Marietta? If so, he was a DeMolay and I believe his mother is still living inthe "BIG" city and if so she attends my old church (also Fergie's). If this is right, I will be glad to get his contact info.
Awk

From Jmac McEldowney comes the following announcement. Congratulations! May your life together be long and happy!

Hey Rick. Thanks for including me in your emails. Anyhow, I have some news for you to share with everyone since I didn't make it to homecoming thisyear.Last week I got engaged to my now fiance, Alicia. I popped the big question at dinner last
weekend on a visit to Columbus. It was very nice but we have been trying to plan
this week as our school district gets a fall break. The wedding will be next July
here in Dayton. That's all I have for now. I am hoping to make it to Marietta in
thenext few weeks so maybe we can enjoy some beers at the Townhouse (areyou
living in etta yet??)! Thanks for keeping us up to date. Jonathan "Jmac"

Greg Maloof sent the following message. As you can see, he's planning on attending the 40th, I hope you are too!

Thank you for all you do. Had a great week end - even though the campus has
REALLY changed !! The few Delts I met seem to continue our original
guidelines. From all reports all of us have a lot to be proud of at the MC
Chapter. Looking forward to the 40th !! Take care. Greg Maloof '67

Ashley Wollam, the chapter guide sent me the following note, to those of you who are interested in something to honor EU Chapter Eternal, take note. Ashley is working on it. I'm sure, with how the chapter ritual work is now, it will be something special.

Rick,
Hello! I hope all goes well.
Unfortunately, Delta Tau Delta does
not currently have a ritual for our brothers who have passed to Chapter Eternal.
I believe we had a simple ceremony ages ago, but that in the past half-century
or so it has fallen out of our ritual books.
That being said, I have always wished there were one, and I don’t believe this should stop us from making our own. I’ll get some guys together and write one up for the 40th. I might hold this off until December (I’m caught in ending a busy semester), but we’ll be well situated before the 40th.
Thank you for this suggestion! We’ll have to get together with you to see what you think of the ceremony once it has been drafted.
Cheers, Ashley

It is both of our thoughts that this should be a public ceremony, so your wives, children and significant others will be more than welcome.

Fergie sent me the following note. We now have a place reserved for our 40th anniversary banquet. It should be plenty big enough to hold all of us.

I have reserved the Shrine Club for dinner for October 25,2008 and paid the
deposit to hold it.The Shrine can cater the dinner and I think that is our best
choice. More details to follow.

The following group of messages are responses from Dave Broomes letter. I hope that the rest of you are putting your thoughts together for a letter. And we will, evidently have some memorbellia around to share.

Seth Wolfson has some pictures from the flood that he will share with us. Seth, if you could let me know how I can get ahold of them so I can get them copied.

Bill DeLong sends the thought that our Hugh Shields awards came during the 92/93 and 93/94 school years. Do you have any recollection about how you guys felt at being so honored? That would be interesting reading.

Greg Maloof sent me the following, along with volenteering to speak. That would be nice Greg.

Hi, Right now I am planning to attend. I would be honored to say a word or two.
Unfortuneately I had a total house fire after graduation & Delt ceremonies.
Nothing was left, but I think we had a historian to keep all news clippings,
pictures, letters, etc. Who are the 4 deceased members ?? Thank you & take
care. Greg

Unfortunately, Greg we have lost more than 4 brothers. My list shows 7 men. They are; William Havens, Tom Robinson, Edward Ives, Kevin Miller, Peter Cartoun, Fritz Absolon, and Kevin Hayes.

Mark Schlickler sent the following note, I hope that you can find them Mark. How about you BAM, do you still have yours?

If I can find them(pictures) I will start sending them. Bruce Miller also took alot of pictures.
Best regards Mark Schickler '69 Beta Delta Epsilon pledge and founding Crescent Colony and Delt Chapter member

Ted Smith sent the following; and included some thoughts for the 40th's booklet which I won't include here, but will forward on to the correct people to get it included.

Rick:
I enjoyed the thoughts that Dave Broome included in his letter.

First of all, Dave’s idea of a recognition for brothers who have passed is important.
Through the years, I believe only a few have passed (Bill Havens, Roger Coffman (?), Ned Ives, Tom Robinson (?) and they should be acknowledged---Whether we knew them or not, they were part of our family and remain in EPSILON UPSILON’S “Chapter Eternal”.
The strength of Epsilon Upsilon has always been in its diversity. We offered
what no one else on campus could offer: we weren’t just jocks…we weren’t just
drinkers…we weren’t just scholars…we were and remain a complete mix of
backgrounds, ideals and philosophies linked by the solidarity of Delt
brotherhood.
In the early years, the Delts were the under-dogs…but we struggled,
strengthened and survived while other houses drifted into oblivion (Sigs, TEPs,
Lambda Chis)
Thoughts from my memory…

I don't have Roger Coffman listed as having passed on. Does anyone know for sure?

Bob and Pat Bayer sent the following. I sure hope that you can find that material Bob. And yes, 2008 will be my 35th. How time flies, the only way I can tell, is my hair! I don't have nearly as much now. See the 2 of you there.

Rick,
We have some things that may be of interest; things that go back to
maybe as early as '66 til '72. As soon as we locate them, probably after
Christmas at the very earliest, we will let you know what we have. Hoping that
we will be able to attend Homecoming as it will be the DTD 40th and my (and
your) 35th.Thanks for all the hours and effort you have contributed on behalf of
the house!Pat & Bob Bayer

I got the following note from Mike Porath's wife, Winona. It sounds like a wonderful idea, a scrapbook. I don't know if that would be something we could get done before the 40th or if it something that would have to be done after. What do you guys think? It is far outside my area of expertise.

Rick,

I love the idea of putting together a 40th booklet. I would be honored to volunteer to put together a permanent scrapbook of these submitted pictures (I would make copies and return the originals) to keep in the house.

I wonder if you would be willing to put out a call to the "Deltwives" Club, to see who might want to help. While we weren't Delts, some of our experiences so overlap with our Delt husbands, that it would be an honor to do something for the chapter.

I know Angie Stokes would help...she is my "Big Sis" from Tri-Sigma...seems like lots of us married Delts...

Do you think anyone would like us to get involved, or would it be better if we just supported :)

Thanks
Wiona
Deltwife of Michael Porath '90

I don't know which would be better, my off the cuff feeling is why not get involved? You were during the undergraduate years. How about the rest of you "Delt wives"?

I have some new, and updated addresses for you. Remember, you can get the whole list at the Chapter website. It is password protected. The password is: **removed, contact Rick Neel or the chapter if you need it**.

Jess Raines, Mike Beifus, Tim Tokarczyk, Lee Boveroux, Tyler Snell, Dan May, and our newest future alumni (otherwise known as our newest pledge) Andrew Norris. Since this email is so long, I won't include a "lost brothers" list this week. That's all I have, hope that everyone has a great weekend! Rick Neel '73

Stories for the 40th

2007-11-12T15:13:00.000-05:00

Hello everyone,

A few days ago I got the following note from Dave Broome. It has some suggestions for stories for the 40th booklet that we are going to attempt to put together. I thought it was full of great ideas but it is fairly long so I didn't want to include it in one of my regular emails (which I'm going to try to do today), so here it is, just as Dave sent it to me. Please take some time and write something, send it to me and I'll forward it along to the correct party. Remember, we are less than a year from the weekend.

Have a great week, Rick Neel '73

Hi Rick,
(Be warned, this is a long email)

We spoke briefly at homecoming this year about gathering stories from alumni for the 40th anniversary of the chapter next year. I don't know how much material Sean Selby was able to gather prior to his big move to the UK, but I certainly feel that the 'deadline' for submitting these recollections can be pushed wayout..probably to late summer of next year- that would give people plenty of time to ponder whether or not to submit a story. Also, if they have time to think about writing a little bit about their memories of the chapter... maybe some alums will also give some more thought about actually attending Homecoming 2008.

Regarding the stories that people submit: We all have stories about great times
with 'so-and-so' and 'what's-his-name'... but many guys may not feel like telling them because they don't see the point in telling a story about people that most EY Delts don't know.. and the fact remains that most of us don't know each other. Thats just the way it is.. but I think there is a way to submit stories that all of us - from
undergrads to the oldest alums - can relate to.

THE 'FIRST GENERATION': There are two items of interest that could be asked of these gentlemen:

These are the first group of Delts at Marietta- the ones who established Beta Delta Epsilon.. the ones who were there for the colonization of the chapter, and the ones who were there when our chapter received its charter on Saturday, November
23rd, 1968. The local history of our chapter is short on details to begin with... and, I think, completely absent of any first-person recollections. Personally, I have never read first-person stories of the early days from anyone- nor even seen a photograph from that period. Therefore- any alum from from that 'first generation' should be encouraged to submit his personal memories (whether or not he is going to attend Homecoming '08). Also, ANY photographs from the years 1966-1969.. and especially from the charter-installation date of Nov 23rd 1968 (not of the ceremony itself,
of course..but there was a formal held afterwards, I believe). Such stories would be of interest to all EY Delts, and hopefully these accounts would be incorporated into the 'permanent record' of our chapter history material. Regarding photographs from the 66-69 period.. of course it is asking quite a lot for people to dig up 40 year-old pictures- if they still exist at all... but someone out there may have a few snapshots which they feel are too amateurish or faded to bother showing. So what? A collection of images (regardless of quality) would be a nice addition to the permanent record referred to previously. Such pictures could be scanned and sent to you (or me), or copies provided- if any alum wishes to make that contribution. It would also be great if people in the photos could be identified individually.

THE COLLEGE EXPERIENCE:

For most of us, Marietta College provided our only college experience. There have been some trends and events which occurred during our time on campus that will not be repeated. Those stories would be interesting to hear about. For example:
>Freshmen were once obliged to wear beanies (I think this includes you).
>Some local hangouts where Delts spent their down-time (i.e. Keg Room during the
80s)
>There was a devastating flood in the fall of 2004..surely there have been others.
>The shelter was moved from Putnam St to Fourth St in 1984 (dead of winter, I
believe)
>There was a time when drukenness and/or students 'fooling around' was grounds for expulsion.
>The chapter won its first Hugh Shields award in 1990 or '91..lets hear from those who accepted it.

And not to mention historical events which occured while students were on campus:
>On Monday May 4th, 1970 there were the fatal shootings at Kent State University; presumably the school year was session at Marietta.. although at the end of the spring semester. Campuses nationwide were closed; protests followed. Was Marietta one of them? What did students at Marietta do?
>Thursday November 9, 1989- the fall of the Berlin Wall. Ancient history now, but
even as a recent alum at the time, I was in shock at the very thought of it.. the 'red menace' that I (and you) were always taught to fear was starting to crumble. Some of the more politically minded undergrads must have been following this closely and pondering its significance with each other.
>Tuesday Sept 11th, 2001... not so long ago, but all the Delts who were undergrads then are now alumni. What happened on campus that morning? Were classes cancelled? Were a large number of brothers gathered together in front of a TV all day? There was a need for people to experience their national grief with others..and college students were in a unique position to be among their peers.

Finally, I don't know if the events during the banquet next year have been worked out completely.. But, instead of one or two people doing all the talking, perhaps one (or two-at-a-time) from each era (1960s, early 70s, mid 70s, late 70s...etc., could say a few words about their time on campus and the Delt experience. Some people like to talk (if only to hear their own voice).. and thats OK... and, some guys speak in front of people for a living and are accustomed to it. Certainly, nobody should feel obligated to get up and speak. That's just an idea I'm throwing out there.

Another idea for the banquet is to set aside a table for the display of"Deltabilia"...that is, EY Delt memorabilia from the past 40 years. Do you still have your beanie? I've never seen one. Does anyone from the 'first generation' still have their dog-eared copy of 'The Good Delt'? I still have a couple of silk-screened t-shirts from Delt theme-parties from the 1980s. Items which are unique to our chapter or the Marietta experience might make for some interesting conversation-starters.

Also, this being the 40th anniversary of the chapter, there are still very few of us who have passed away.. the total may only be 4 or 5..., but I don't know if there has ever been a proper recognition of the passing of, or moment of silence for those brothers. A brief moment of remembrance for them (complete with the list of names and a moment of silence.. no commentary at all...just the names) is an idea. Some may find this upsetting or distateful (I didn't know any of the fallen, after all), and if that is the case, then it certainly doesn't have to happen at all. I just think its a thoughtful touch.

That's just a few ideas that I've had for next year. Let me know what you think..and I'll be getting back with you.

Fraternally,
Dave Broome, class of 1988

DTD at MC #54

2007-11-04T00:23:00.000-04:00

Good morning everyone,
Homecoming is over. I had a great time and got to see some people that I haven't seen in a while. I also got to meet Greg Maloof, our 1st president. We got to have a nice visit and then watch him walk in the homecoming parade the next morning. We had a pretty good turnout for homecoming this year, about 25 alums came back. For a list of who was there, check the most recent Protimoi, which was published after homecoming, http://www.marietta.edu/~delts/alumni/protimoi/Protimoi_-_Fall_2007.pdf It has quite a bit of news concerning the chapter. Check it out.

At the House Corp meeting following the parade, we learned something concerning the fate of our chapter house. The college is working on its next "5 year plan" and it has as the centerpiece of it student housing. With the exploding number of undergraduates, both in incoming freshmen and retaining upperclassmen, the college is really feeling a housing pinch. As a chapter, we are working with the college to try to assure that the housing we get in the future (our house, as we have discussed in the past is in serious need of being replaced) is something that we can be proud of and the type of shelter that the chapter wants. The college is planning on making its plan public in February, so then we will have a better idea as to what we can expect. More news will be forthcoming, as we get it.

We have come up with a schedule of events for our 40th anniversary. Times are still up in the air but here is what we have come up with so far. On Friday night, we are planning on a cruise on the river with the Valley Gem. Saturday will be the homecoming parade and football game. Saturday evening will be a banquet. On Sunday there will be the annual undergrad vs. alumni football game. During the weekend we will have a House Corp meeting and a Ritual house meeting. The price tag that we have decided on (since I have asked for input on this issue and gotten none) is no more than $50 for the whole weekend. This doesn't cover hotel or bar costs, of course. We will have a cash bar at both the river cruise and the banquet.

I got the following note from Matt Dole concerning a block of rooms for next year, as well as some volenteers to edit our reunion booklet that Shawn Selby has had to relinquish due to his moving to England. So please continue to write a story for us and send it to me. I will get it forwarded to the correct person for editing and inclusion in the booklet.

Hey Rick - I'll go ahead and work on lining up a block of hotel rooms this
week. I was going to try to comfort Inn, but Andy stayed there and said
the rooms were sort of ratty, so I'm thinking of going with either the Hampton
Inn or the Holiday Inn. Not sure what kind of rate we can get since they
probably already sell a bunch for homecoming, but at least we'll have a block of
rooms to choose from. I'll have an update shortly.

Also, late Saturday afternoon Kevin Oliphant stopped by the house. He has a new email address. It's *removed due to privacy issues*

Finally, I am going to email David Broome, Eric Gustafson and Brian Rothenberg about keeping the "stories of DTD" going, and will hopefully have a new deadline and instructions by the time you send out your next update.

Could you provide me a list of the class/era agents you have so far? I think we might be able to work through them to get something to us.

I'll be glad to help fill in any gaps left by Shawn after his move - I know he was helping out quite a bit on different things.

Thanks
msd

Unfortunately, the undergrads managed to break the alums winning streak in our annual football game. It was a pretty physical game with quite a few sore guys on both sides of the ball. Wait until next year, we'll take the trophy back. (Oh wait, there isn't a trophy. Damn!, there should be.)

Here are some notes that I have received from the guys since the last email. They sent me several new addresses. As you find some of the missing brothers, please let me know. Also, with this email I have included the new members, our newest "prealums." Welcome guys.

From Trent Elliott, an announcement on his newest daughter. Congratulations Trent! What did you name her?

Rick,

I have news on a couple of the names on your list. Seth Pitasky's mother and my mother are friends, so I was able to track down his email. It is *removed*.

As far as Todd Myers, he will be delivering my second daughter some time in the next two weeks. My wife had a checkup yesterday, in which she told him that the MC Delts are looking for him. He said that he would get his contact information to Fergie so that you can add him to your list.

Trent Elliott
'01

Trent and Fergie, don't forget to get in touch with Todd and get me his address. Thanks!

Hops sent me the following note, and I'd like to mention that the picture he mentions is Andy Byers new son. He did get it posted, in email #51 I think. Also, he mentioned that Tom Gray will be the homecoming King candidate. He won. Congratulations Tom.

Hey Rick,
I will be sending out a Protimoi shortly after Homecoming week with
all the events that havetaken place this semster. In the meantime, our
fall rush went really well, we have 9 new pledges that have started going
through their pledge education period. There are still a few guys that we
feel will join, but they will probably wait until the spring semester due to
personal reasons. I will be adding there names to the email list and hope
to have an updated one up tonight (tomorrow, at the latest).

Our fall break begins this Saturday and goes until Tuesday. We will be coming back
right into Homecoming week and all the activities that go with that, as well as
preparing you and the other alumni who are coming in. Our Homecoming
candidate this year is Tom Gray and he will be representing the House in all of
the activities.

I will try to get that picture up soon. It shouldn't take too long to do.

Other than that, I will see you in alittle over a week. Are you coming in Thursday or Friday next week?
Hops

Dean Didato sent me the following new addresses, thanks Dean and welcome guys. Hope to hear from you in the future. Hope that you had a good time at the baseball game. I'd like to see a game in Fenway sometime.

Rick:
Bill Ludington (84’) has been sighted. He is living in Weston,
Florida and can be reached *removed* . I am certain that he would like to hear
from a couple of Delts.
James Mason (84’) and I attended a Boston Red Sox
game against the Blue Jays last month and had a great time. Jim can be
reached at *removed* .
Keep the news coming!
Best regards,
Dean Didato – Germantown, TN

Hops sent me the following email addresses that he picked up from the database at the website. If you haven't checked that out and filled it in, please take a minute and do so, so we can have accurate up to date information. The link to the site is: http://www.marietta.edu/~delts/ You can also check the photos from the football game on Sunday and Delt Dah Day earlier in the semester. Kevin, I have 2 new addresses for you in this email, which one do you want me to use? Let me know please.

Kevin Oliphant - *removed* Jonathan McEldowney - *removed*

We are now up to 250 addresses, so we are getting closer to 100%. Thanks to everyone for the help.

I need some volenteers to call all of the brothers in your era to try to get them to come to our 40th anniversary, if you are interested (or willing) let me know, please. I have several, but need more.

Here are some brothers that I need help finding this week. Steve Newton '66, Peter Ross '67, Joe Farrell '68, Roger Coffman '69, Paul Schoenfeld '70. Thomas Lindvail '71, Mark Ewald '72, John Alligood '73, Lawrence Brown '74, G. Curtis Brown '75, Rodney Stoltz '76, Michael Beifus '77, Gregory Carriera '78, Scott Gilmore '79, Steven Blumenfeld '80, Kurt Frank '81, Brett Burkey '82, Bruce Goldfarb '83, Steven Bennett '84, Paul Kelly '85, John Baxley '86, David Caldwell '87, Jim Bailey '88, Mike Conty '89, Doug Stewart '90, John Morein '91, Dan Moorman '92, Brian Clark '93, David Faunce '94, Dean Kilton '96, Brent Blackburn '97, Shawn Spence '98, Colin Orsini '02, Leonard Labriola '03, Tim Tokarczyk '04, Charlie Wachunas '06.

That's all I have this time, have a good week. Rick Neel '73

DTD at MC #53

2007-10-07T15:46:00.000-04:00

Hi everyone,
Hope that you all had a great week, and remember that there is only 2 weeks left before homecoming 2007. I hope to see you at the house that weekend.

I haven't heard from the guys as far as any chapter news lately, so I can't tell you about that. I do know that rush is over now and the guys had high hopes on recruiting more high quality men to help the chapter continue to grow. I'll report on that next time.

Be sure to check out the Delt blog, Shawn Selby has posted an announcement concerning his future. I won't say more so go check it out yourself. Suffice it to say, he is really excited about it and it has prevented him from helping me out with the blog. http://mcdeltalumni.blogspot.com/

I have received a couple of new addresses, one correction and a found "lost" brother. The found one is exciting to me since he is from my era. The replacement address is Bob Burns ** removed for privacy reasons** please make note of the correction. And the new brother is Tim Roark, welcome Tim, I'm glad that we found you. His address is: **removed** . Thank you Bob Kubota for finding Tim. He tells me that Tim is living in Seattle and working as a computer programmer.

Bob Burns sent me the following note concerning his new email address, and what is going on with him.

Rick,
I did get the email. Actually, I've had two e-mail addresses here
at The Ohio State University: one on the osu.edu domain and one on the
nrri.osu.edu domain. The nrri e-mail address is no longer valid.
(NRRI, by the way, is the National Regulatory Research Institute, where I
worked for 27 1/2 years. ) I have switched departments because NRRI is
leaving OSU. I am not going with them. Instead, I will continue at
OSU as a Research Specialist in OSU's Engineering Experiment Station working on
and leading the regulatory task on the Midwest Regional Carbon Sequestration
Partnership. At the moment, the auto reply is being generated for both
e-mail addresses. That will continue until I am able to switch off of the
nrri server, which I hope will be sometime late this week or next. This is
university red tape at its best.
Thanks,
Bob Burns

A while back, #46 I believe, I wrote about a music video that was shot at the house and a video done by a brother (Jon Bolden). Well Jon finally got around to responding to my questions about the two issues. Here is what Jon had to say:

Hey Rick,
I was reading through the old newsletters and I totally missed the parts
about the Delt related music videos and wanting details. Here's the story about
the "Flinch" music video filmed at the beloved Delt House. Ken
Mard (a fellow Delt, class of 04?? maybe?), decided that he
wanted to shot a music video. The local band, Flinch, happened to be four of my
best friends and the perfect type of catchy-pop music. Ken decided to shoot it
in the house on the first weekend of school in 2004. It was a really long day
but a ton of fun. I think we could all agree the highlight was the guitar
player, Jeff Dutton, picking up a shirtless Bam Nethers. I remember making a remark towards Bam's size. I believe it was "Was that kid raised on pudding pops?" Casey Trail remembers better than I. As for my video, it was just something I threw together in my free time in Columbus. As usual, great job on the newsletters and I'm hoping to return for the formal next year. I hear it 's gonna be a doozy.I also heard you will be moving to Marietta? Something about a Walgreens opening. Whatever it is, good luck! I'm sure your close proximity will be a benefactor to the chapter.

Brother Boldenclass of `05

Brotherhood sustaining us over and over again...

Here are the links to the videos if you didn't look last time, or just want to see them again. http://youtube.com/watch?v=LR_2GqsTxFE&mode=related&search and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3QzesDiMv8

I got a copy of a message from Bruce Masatsugu concerning a golf outing he makes every year to Phoenix, it was sent to my brother Jim. Wouldn't it be neat if all of the guys that live in Arizona could get together and play a round when Bruce is in town? I know that I would play if I was still here. I hope that you guys have a good time.

Jim,
How have you been? Rick says that you've taken up golf. Great
game.Anyway, as Rick said, we normally go to Scottsdale around January
orFebruary. Been doing this for about 15 years. He probably
mentioned thatwe did Tucson rather than Scottsdale last year. I think we
played Vistoso,Tucson National and La Paloma.We don't have any dates yet for
next year, it would be great if we could gettogether for a round either before
or after our Scottsdale outing. We normally fly in Thursday night and
leave Sunday night after the Sundayround. So...., if you're interested, I
could either come in on Wednesdaynight/earlly Thursday morning or leave on
Monday night. We could eitherplay in Scottsdale or Tucson. I'll let
you know when the dates are set. Until then, hit 'um straight
andlong! Bruce

Matt Dole, I have had a couple of responses to your request to get an idea of the number of rooms you will need to book for our 40th. And it is so early, I bet we have a HUGE turnout. Make your plans now and if you need help with a room, be sure to let us know so Matt has an idea about how many to book. The earlier the better, for Marietta is a small town and homecoming brings in a lot of folks. The dates are October 24th thru the 26th, 2008. Here are the notes.

From Greg Manko;

Hi Rick and Matt,
My partner Tim and I plan to attend the festivities next
year, so please block a room for us.Thanks! Greg

and from Joe Kirby;

Rick,

I am planning to attend the 40th anniversary of EY chapter in
2008, so any help with a room would be greatly appreciated. At the 25th,
my wife and I ended up in Parkersburg... a little off the beaten
path.

Thanks for your consideration.

I mentioned last time that I was going to list the brothers who have bad addresses in my lists. Hopefully some of you are in contact with these brothers and can get me a current address. If they are current, they are being rejected for some reason, so if you can let me know a better way to reach them. I will be deleting them from my list after this attempt if I don't hear from someone. Thanks!

Gordon Keller, Seth Pitasky, William Warner, G. Curtis Brown, Jonathan Young, Todd Myers, and James Berry.

That's all I have for this time, next go around I'll start asking for lost brothers again. Hope you can help. Hope to see you in Marietta. Rick Neel '73

DTD at MC #52

2007-10-01T15:45:00.000-04:00

Good afternoon to everyone,
I tried to write this the other day, got almost all done and (because I'm an idiot) then erased it! Got me all frustrated, so it has taken me about 5 days to get back to it!

Anyway, I got some responses from my last email, so I'll share them with you. As you know, homecoming 2007 is fast approaching, the weekend of October 19th, I hope you can make it. We also have a firm date for 2008, the year of our 40th anniversary. It will be October 24th thru the 26th. Be sure to start making your plans now, and let us know. Matt Dole is going to try to get a block of rooms at a reduced price at a Marietta hotel. But he needs to have some sort of an idea how many rooms we will need . I think we will have a good turnout, so let us know that you are coming.

In my last email, I mentioned that I had been in Florida visiting my Mother. Well, my little brother, Peter Weiner, sent me the following email. Sorry Peter, it just slipped my mind, you can be sure that I will give you a call next year.

Big Bro,

How could you come to Fla. and not contact your Little Bro! Earl would be so ashamed of you (LOL). Next time you head south please
give us a call and/or a visit.

Oh by the way, my wife Karen and I will be in the area this fall, probably around Oct., dates have not been set. Have to visit the in-laws in Charleston and then children in Cincinnati. Hopefully we will make a pit stop in Marietta while in route. Will keep you posted.

Peter

Matt Dole sent me the following note, remember he got a job with a Columbus political organization.

Hi Rick - Another good update... except for the part about that "blogger,"
they're nothing but hacks! Actually, I am still in Marietta. Thanks to the internet and cell phones I am able to do most of the work from here for now. We'll see what the 2008 cycle brings, but in the mean time I continue with Trent Elliott at his family's company in addition to the consulting.

It was good to see an email from Wiona Porath as well. She helped me celebrate my 21st birthday in Marietta, which would make a great story for Selby... if I could remember anything from that night!

Speaking of the story that Matt can't remember, Shawn Selby is asking for your help in putting together a booklet of personal stories from your undergraduate days. You can pick up what he is looking for from our blog; http://mcdeltalumni.blogspot.com/ Please remember, he has a cutoff date of November of this year. I sent him one, you can too!

Andy Byers sent me the following announcing the birth of his legacy, one who will be a new alum in time for our 60th anniversary! Congratulations Andy. I sent the picture along to Shawn to post in the blog, but apparently he's been too busy, if he doesn't get around to it shortly, I'll give it a shot myself.

Hey Rick, It's a little different to be on the alumni end of these emails, but I
guess such is life. Anyway, my fiance (Katie Lantz, Chi Omega, 2007) and I just
had a beautiful, healthy little boy named Scott. Attached to this email
are some pictures. As for myself, I have a few little things lined up. First, I
am finalizing my agreement with Parkersburg High School to be the Assistant
Coach for their Crew Team. Secondly, I am working temporary, part time jobs that
don't really amount for anything (this is what happens when you major in math
but don't want to teach or go to grad school). So, if there are any Marietta-central alumni looking for a mathematical or industrial related career starter, please get in touch with me. As for Katie, she is starting work as a manager of the new Marietta Walgreens alongside you, Rick, in January. Anyway, looking forward to homecoming and all the shebangs of the coming year(s).~Andy

Mark Schlicker sent this note agreeing with Al Masons email of last time. It shows how far we have come in our first 40 years. May the next 40 be as successful.

Rick, As a another founding member I have to agree with Al. We were the smallest and least significant frat on campus in 1968. All of you through the years have really done a great job. Congratulations. I wish I could be with you all for Homecoming this year but unfortunately, my wife Patti '69 has three herniated discs that must be addressed surgically. Best wishes and continued success. Mark A. Schickler, DPM

Hops sent me an answer to my question concerning the Alumni Update project. As you can tell, there was a glitch in the system over the summer. So if you filled it out in the last 3 or 4 months, please do so again. We know that there is some bad information there, please help us straighten it out. It will only take a minute. The address is; http://www.marietta.edu/~delts/

Hey Rick, I want to apologize for it taking me so long to respond back to you. We have been very busy since getting back. We had a very successful Delt Dah Day yesterday; pictures will be on the site soon. But along with Delt Dah Day, the Sternwheeler Festival was this weekend, so we were busy setting up and taking down the stage and selling programs.We've had 35 people update their information on the survey. The number is probably low because I made a mistake in the coding we I last updated it, so the form would not submit itself. It was like that for probably the whole summer. So if you could please push people to update their information, especially those who tried in the last 4 months; I'd appreciate it greatly.I also wanted to let you know that Greg Maloof '67 called me the other day to let me know that he is coming for hom ecoming this October for his 40th anniversary since graduating. On top of that we have rented out the new side room of The Brewery on FrontStreet for Saturday night, October 20th, during homecoming this year. Please pass this information onto the rest of the alums, especially those who are still close to Marietta. We would love to see a lot of alums come out for this, but we realize many of them are waiting for our 40th anniversary to come back to Marietta. Other than that, we are preparing for our fall rush, which will be taking place Sunday,September 16th, through Friday, the 21st. I'll keep you updated, Hops

Did you also notice that Greg Maloof is planning on being in town? I don't believe that I have ever met him so I'm looking forward to doing so. How about the rest of you founders? I know that there are several still in the Marietta area, come back this year also. It doesn't cost anything!

Also, for the locals, the chapter has rented the new room at the Marietta Brewery for homecoming. Show up and help them fill the place up. I'll be there.

Joe Mester sent me the next note. Congratulations to you and Julie on 30 happy years. He also sent me a new address, Ken Weaver. Ken was our first 2 term President. Welcome Ken, hope you can make homecoming. I hope that you and Julie can make it Joe, it's been a long time.

Rick, Sorry for not responding sooner but Julie and I recently spent a week in Hawaii to celebrate our 30th wedding anniversary. Been trying to catch up ever since. I spoke with Ken Weaver and he sounded real positive about the delts 40th. He is still a math teacher and the varsity wrestling coach at Avon Lake HS and he was recently inducted into their sports hall of fame. His e-mail is **removed for privacy reasons**
I tried briefly to contact Mark Russell without success. I will try harder. Good luck with the new store. I remember working at Rinks in Marietta prior to and shortly after the store opened. It was fun (and a lot of work) setting up the store. I quit when they tried to move me from home improvements to toys right before Christmas. It just wasn't my cup of tea.

I assume you were visiting your mom in Florida? I hope she is doing okay. Tell her I was thinking of her. Say Hi to Jim and Darrell for me next time you talk with them. We don't know yet but there is a slight chance Julie and I may go to Marietta's homecoming this year as it is Julie's 30 year class reunion. Joe

That's about all I have for this week. Hope you all have a good weekend. Rick

P.S. I've gone all through the missing member list. So I"ll be starting over. Next time I'll give you the names of the bad addresses that I have, and am going to have to purge. If you can help with them, I appreciate it. If you are in contact with any of the missing (pick up the list at the chapter website the password is: **removed, if you need it please contact Rick or the chapter**) please pass this along to them and ask them to get in touch with me. Thanks!

In which Shawn becomes an expatriate

2007-09-22T16:42:00.000-04:00

Dear Brothers.

I shared this news with Rick a couple of weeks ago, but I wanted to wait until things were in motion to make a public announcement.

My company is starting a business newspaper in Manchester, England, in December. I have accepted an offer to be an editor there. The company and I are in the midst of getting my paperwork clearance from the United Kingdom, but it looks like I'll be leaving Oct. 15.

It has been a dream of mine for years to be able to live in the United Kingdom. And being able to help start a newspaper from inception is an opportunity I can't pass up.

The reality of how big of a decision I've made is becoming more clear by the day as I sort through my belongings to figure out what I'll ship to the UK, what I'll put in storage, what I'll give away and what I'll throw out.

It also is brought into sharper focus every time I tell my varied groups of friends.

It has been almost two years since I started regularly returning to Marietta and became a more-involved alumnus, both with the Undergrads and with my fellow Alumni through this blog. I cannot put into words what the experiences I have had these past two years have meant to me.

I'm now going to be an ocean and five time zones away, so my involvement will have to be scaled back and my visits to Marietta will become less frequent.

Since Homecoming this year is after my tentative departure date, I won't be there this year. I am especially saddened by that as it is 15th reunion.

But I will be back for Homecoming next year for the 40th, even if I have to swim back across the Atlantic.

I will continue to do what I can to help with the blog, but I'm going to have to back away from the writing projects that I wanted to do for the 40th. I'm sure you all understand that such undertakings are made impossible by virtue of living on a different continent.

So this post doesn't sound so sad, let me say that I've been walking around with a perpetual smile on my face. I'm so excited about this next chapter in my life. I'm looking foward to the new people I'll meet and the places I will visit.

I am very happy and I hope you all, my Brothers, will share in this happiness.

Cheers!

Shawn "Spotted Dick is a dessert?" Selby'92

DTD at MC #51

2007-09-03T10:21:00.000-04:00

Good morning everyone,

I have been a bit lax recently about writing this, but I just got back from vacation in Florida. While I was there, I got to visit with Al Morrison and his wife Patti. They are doing well, everyone is in good health and working hard. They are in the process of remodeling thier house so it was a bit of a mess, but you can see how nice it will be when it is finished. I really had a nice visit Al, hope to see you two again soon.

Here are a couple of dates for you all to mark down. Homecoming for this year is coming soon, October 19th thru the 21st. Make plans to come back to Marietta now. And we have a firm date for our 40th in 2008, October 24th thru the 26th, only 422 days from now. I hope to see everyone that year.

The school year has begun so the Marietta Delts are hard at work making sure they have another successful year. They have to be, since I haven't heard from anyone yet this fall. Good luck on a great year guys! If any alum happens to be going thru Marietta, be sure to stop by the house and say hello. The undergrads really do like to have the opportunity to visit with those of us who came first, and I can vouch for the fact that they are really a good group. So stop by and say hello.

While reading WMOA radio online, I got the following piece of news concerning Matt Dole, I suspect that it means that he has moved to Columbus. Congratulations Matt! Keep us informed as to how you are doing.

Ohio Political Blogger Takes New Post
Posted on: 08/16/2007
By Callie Lyons
A well-known, local political blogger has a new job.
Communications Counsel of Ohio announced this week that the Columbus- based public relations firm has added Matt Dole to the staff. Dole was formerly the publisher of LincolnLogsBlog.com, the only blog to be consistently ranked in the top ten most influential Ohio political blogs. Dole has significant experience helping businesses and political candidates. He's worked on more than 30 campaigns over the last ten years.
Dole is a 2001 graduate of Marietta College. He calls his new position the "opportunity of a lifetime".

I got the following letter from Winona Porath, the wife of Mike. They live in Tecumsch, Mi (wherever that is!) so if you are there and need a place to sleep, she has invited you. Thanks for the tip, I used it and managed to get in contact with Keith Zak. We had a nice long talk, and got caught up with each other.

Rick,
Well I am a bit better at communicating than my hubby, besides that, I
just LOVE all you guys. I feel like you are my family. Delts are always
welcome at the Porath Family Hotel…always open 24/7 for Delts.
Seriously, that http://zabasearch.com is a great way to locate people. I use
it at work all the time to track people down. I hope you can use it to
find some others.
Hope your move to Marietta goes great! It is such a great place, I wish I could move back there…although maybe that would take away some of the magic…
Take care, Wiona

I recently got an email address for Al Mason, one of our founders. I contacted him and got this reply, it's always nice to find someone from our past. Al, you may be hearing from Shawn Selby for a booklet he is planning for our 40th Anniversary. He may want to pick your brains, fair warning here!

Hi Rick, Yes, you have Al Mason, one of the original founders of the frat house
at Marietta. It was great visiting the house. I was pleasently surprised to see how well Delt is doing. I was surprised, no, shocked to see how poorly the state of affairs is for the other houses. Keep me posted of events, thanks for your e-mail.
Sincerely, Al Mason

Speaking of the booklet for our 40th, time is running short for submitting your story to Shawn. I have sent my effort to him and have had the pleasure of his response telling me it was pretty good. Bravo for me! I'm learning how to write. Send yours in, he has put a deadline of November 2007, so he can get it all put together. His email address is: **removed for privacy reasons**

I got the following note from Trent Elliott, thanks for the offer Trent I will take you up on your kind offer. And if I come back in a Uhaul, I'll let you know so you can help me unload!

Rick,

Now that you have secured your house, please let me know when
you are officially "in." I'm always in the mood to buy a brother a welcome
home cocktail.

Trent Elliott
'01

As a result of our email letters, Steve Fox and Ted Smith have gotten back in touch with each other, and I'm sure that others have used the email list to find lost brothers. You can access the email list at the chapter website, http://www.marietta.edu/~delts/ The password to access the list is **removed, if you need help with it please contact the chapter or Rick Neel**. While you are there, take a minute to update the alumni records. We know that we have some bad data, and need your help to correct the errors.

The new addresses that I have this week are from Matt Mancall and Keith Zak Welcome guys! Hope to see you back in Marietta soon.

The people that I need help finding this week are: Paul Kelly '85, Mike Malone '85, John Rhein '85, Jon Townshend '85, Duane Stokes '88, Steve Newton '66, Peter Rosenberger '67 and Peter Ross '67

Thats all I have this week, hope all is well in your lives! Rick Neel '73

DTD at MC #50

2007-08-05T15:48:00.000-04:00

Good morning to everyone,
Today is a pretty good day for me, I recently took possesion of my house in Marietta (as much possession as I can take while still in the desert), so it is one step closer for me to be going home. Come on Walgreens, get that store open!

As I mentioned last time, I got a couple of volenteers to help find missing brothers from the 90's. Smitty and Gib are looking for our missing. Well Smitty has found 3 so far! And with some help from a list Hops sent me, I found 2 myself. I'll be sending the appropriate part of that list to you two, to help you out. Bear with me. I also got an updated address from one of our newest alums, Doug Orr. The new names I have gotten are: Andy James, Bruce Masatsugu, Eric Knapp, Buel Hall, and Rob Keber **all removed for privacy reasons** . To all of you, welcome home. We now hav e 240 addresses out of a roster of 352. Of those we are missing, some have passed away, some deactivated, some were expelled, and one (unfortunately) has requested that we not contact him. So I think that we are doing pretty well, not good enough yet, but we are getting there. We still need volenteers to help with other decades, if you can help please get in touch with me.

For you new guys, the purpose of this email campaign started out to get the greatest turn out possible for our 40th anniversary on the Marietta campus. That will happen at homecoming 2008. Please make plans to join us in Marietta at that time. Let's have a HUGE turnout and take over the Town House!

Since then it has kind of taken on a life of its own, we now have blogspot, http://mcdeltalumni.blogspot.com/ . Please be sure to check it out and read what Shawn Selby has to say, and the pictures that we are now able to post. If you have any pictures that you want to share with us, please send them to me and I'll get the to Shawn for posting. We had requests for this and now that we have it, no pictures...

Also check out the chapter website, the undergrads have done a bangup job with it. While you are there, take a minute and fill out the Alumni Database form http://www.marietta.edu/~delts/ . While you are there you can also access the Alumni email list and get in contact with the brothers you went to school with (and let me know about anyone you are in contact with that we don't have listed). The password to access the list is; **removed, if you need it contact Rick Neel or the chapter**.

Now let's get on to what I have heard since the last email. Jake Dornan sent me the following email, and I have the answer you wanted Jake. Smitty came up with the address. Hope it is still good, let me know one way or the other would you? Thanks.

Rick,
You do such a good job at tracking down Delt alumns, I thought I might ask
you to help. A few of us Delts got together this past weekend in Marietta
(Trevor Brown, Matt Dole, Matt Joy, Brian Wolfe and myself),
and we started asking about a close brother, Buel Hall. Buel was my little
brother and a dear friend of mine and Brian's. We have no means of contacting
him because all the numbers that we had for him are no longer current, and the
listing in the phone book is also incorrect. So, if you don't mind... send out
the Delt-bat signal that Brian 'Wolfie' Wolfe and Jeremy 'Jake' Dornon are
trying to track his sorry self down. Any contact info that anyone might have
that is valid and current would be much appreciated!
Jeremy ' Jake ' Dornon, 2002.

Steve Fox sent me the following note and I sent the address. Hope that you and Ted have gotten in touch Steve.

Hi Rick,

Is it possible for you to forward me Ted
Smith's email address? We were roommates and I would like to
try and hook up with him. Thanks for your help.

Steve Fox

I read this article on the College website about one of ours, Ashley Wollam. Congratulations Ashley, and keep up the good work.

July 18, 2007 -- A paper written by Marietta College's Ashley Wollam'08 has been
selected for the 2007 Ohio Communication Associationconvention, which will be
held on Saturday, Oct. 6 at the Holiday Inn,Boardman, Ohio.The paper titled, A
Rhetorical Analysis of Instant Messaging and AwayMessages through the Critical
Lenses of Corey Anton, George HerbertMead, and Kenneth Burke, was written by
Wollam of Westerville, Ohio.Wollam is double majoring in communication and
English.His paper, which was selected the top undergraduate student
paper,examined the way college students use the Away Message function oftheir
Instant Messaging Accounts in attempts to achieve an authenticself, create an
authentic identity, and purge their guilt for theirlack of authentic connection
with other people while using threecritical perspectives."It was a pleasure
working with Mr. Wollam on his capstone project,"said Dr. Robert McMan us,
assistant professor of communication andmedia studies. "He shows great potential
as a scholar and his paperrepresents Marietta College well."The Ohio
Communication Association is a professional organization ofcommunications
teachers, professors, and scholars in high schools anduniversities throughout
the State of Ohio. The organization isaffiliated with the National Communication
Association. OCA offers anannual conference for scholars and presents awards at
this conferencefor teachers and students who have achieved excellence in
academics,student organizations, or professional work.-- HeeJu Kang College
Relations

From Delt Headquarters in Indy, I got the following email. Please note the link at the bottom where you can read each chapters reports from the last year. Check out what the Marietta Delts sent in (I have to admit I haven't looked yet myself). Also, the fraternity sesquicentennial year is here. Happy Birthday DTD.

SPECIAL SESQUICENTENNIAL ISSUE OF THE RAINBOWWhen the calendar rolls over to
August 1 on Wednesday, the sesquicentennial celebration which began at the 2006
Indianapolis Karnea will shift to another gear and race toward its culmination
in August 2008 at the Sesquicentennial Karnea in Pittsburgh. On August 1, 2007
the Fraternity will officially begin its 150th year. It promises to be a year to
remember. The Rainbow allows you to celebrate the sesquicentennial each day with
the special sesquicentennial edition of the magazine. Your edition will arrive
in your mailbox in the coming days.2006-07 CHAPTER REPORTSChapter reports from
the Fall 2006 and Spring 2007 semesters currently are on-line for you to catch
up on what your chapter and other chapters accomplished this past school
year.CLICK HERE TO READ CHAPTER REPORTShttp://www.delts.org/2 006-07ChapterReports.pdf

I guess that is about all I have for this time.

Here are some names that I need help finding. If you are in contact with any of them, please let me know. Keith Zak '78, Matthew Mancall '80, Stephen Marino '80, Kevin Geiger '81, Helmuth Hinz '81, William Costello '82, William Curz '84, Jay Ehret '84, William Ludington '84, Gregg Vander Lay '84, Paul Kelly '85 and Mike Malone '85. That appears to be most of the first half of the 80's. I'll get more next time. Thanks for the help!

Have a good week, Rick Neel '73

PS - I sent Shawn my story for the booklet he is putting together for the 40th, have you? Rick

DTD at MC #49

2007-07-22T11:29:00.000-04:00

Good afternoon everyone,

I have had a couple of volunteers to help locate our missing brothers, and ironically both stepped forward the same day. "Smitty" Smith and "Gib" Gibson both have volunteered to attempt to locate our missing brothers from the 1990s. Good luck guys, and thank you very much for stepping up.

I'm still looking for volunteers to look for the missing from the ’60s, ’70s, ’80s and the ’00s. Let me know if you are able to help.

Joe Mester sent me a note saying he is going to try to get in touch with a couple of ex-presidents.

Rick,
After reading your most recent e-mail I went in the basement and located a 1995 Delta Tau Delta Directory that I bought (I guess back in 1995), and looked up the 1995 addresses for Mark Russell and Ken Weaver. I then did a white pages search for them on the MSN internet site. I found matching addresses (which I guess means they haven't moved in the last 12 years).
(Contact information removed for privacy reasons.)

The 1995 directory lists Mark as a dairy farmer and Ken as a wrestling coach. When we had the 25th anniversary I called Mark to encourage him to attend but he couldn't get away from the cows. I would believe his situation would not have changed. So getting him to come to the 40th will probably not occur. I will call both and get e-mail addresses from them to at least get them in the e-mail loop.

DTD national could be a good resource for a print-out of EU Alumni members addresses (and other information) currently on file. It might require a vice-pres authorization (and hopefully at no cost).

If you need me to look up others that were established alumni in 1995 send me a note.

Joe

Thanks Joe, let me know what you find out, will you? Also, any of you that live in Maine or the Cleveland area that can, give the guys a call and say "Hi" and let them know we are looking for them.

Speaking of finding lost Brothers, we also had the good fortune of having a lost Brother find us. Just before graduation, Al Mason '68, one of our founders stopped by the Chapter house and spent some time visiting with the undergrads. That is great news, welcome back Al!

Here is the note I got from Hunter Jonsson with the information about Al as well as an update on him and his new job. Thanks Hunter, and good luck in Houston!

Hey Rick,

I do have the address for Al Mason. I apologize for not sending it right away, I had planned on emailing him myself but then finals came and graduation and the The Move. I should have just expedited right to you.
Anyhow, I'm sure Andy gave you the low down, but apparently Mr. Mason has had zero contact with the Chapter (or the school) and just happened to be driving by Marietta on I-77 and thought he would drop in. I know Andy mentioned the 40th but I don't know if he mentioned the Blog, Web site or newsletter.

(Contact information remove for privacy reasons.)

His little brother is Joe Ferrell (unconfirmed).

I hope you are excited about your move. I'm looking forward to visiting Marietta and seeing the folks in the community that I have missed, and I'm glad you will be joining those folks. As for me, I'm just about settled in The Woodlands, Texas, a suburb of Houston and I start work with Weatherford on Monday. It will nice to finally have a paycheck coming in!

Take care Rick and sorry again for the delay.

Hunter

P.S. - I don't know if Hops mentioned it, but www.mcdelts.org will also get you to the Chapter homepage now.

Did you notice the new link to get to the Chapter Web site? Hops keeps moving our site forward, we are lucky to have him, be sure to check it out. The password to access the address list and the Chapter meeting minutes is: (Removed. Contact the Chapter or Rick Neel for the password.)

I got a couple of emails from Shawn Selby concerning the stories we are requesting for the 40th.

I just did a post on the Blog about what I'm looking for in terms of the Delt stories.

He also sent me a response to my question about whether he had gotten any thing yet. So please start to think about what you have to share. Make note that he will quit taking stories in November, 2007.

No, haven't gotten anything. And that's why I decided to do a separate post giving some instructions. We really hadn't said anything other than "send us your stories" without any guidance on what exactly to do. So now that that's spelled out, hopefully we'll get some.

(Honestly, I hadn't really thought about what I wanted until your last email, and then I thought I needed to get off my butt and give some structure to the idea.)

In a few weeks I'll write and post my "story" as an example and that will be another way to encourage everyone. Hey, write up a story and we can post that one too as another example :-)

Plus, you should probably link to the post in your next email and give some more encouragement. Maybe even tell everyone not to be afraid of my editing techniques lol!

Please don't be afraid of what he will do to your story, he really doesn't draw blood when he edits. He does all of mine when they hit the Blog! (And I have to admit that they are improved.)

Matt Dole tells me that he is going to get in touch with the administration and firm up the dates for the 2008 Homecoming weekend. I don't know what Hartsy has with you either, but you tell us, is his comment deserved?

Hey Rick,

Thanks for the update. Glad to hear you're on track to return to Marietta. The Walgreen's construction is causing havoc with my favorite Chinese restaurant in town, but I won't hold you responsible for that.

I'll check with the folks at the college on the date for Homecoming, I assume they have it firmed up by now and I will let you know.

As for Hartsy's email, I just wanna know why that guy doesn't like me!

msd

I got some financial information from Fergie the other day. I'm going to include it here so you can see how we sit financially.

Financial numbers:
Checking: $750
Savings: $1,000
CD $5,600

He also sent me some information for an Alumni Development Conference, for people who are interested in volunteering to work with the fraternity. It is very low cost so if you are interested in going, contact Tim Nelson at International headquarters: delts@delts.net.

Another item for guys who want to get involved in the Fraternity is the John W. Fisher Alumni Development Conference. This year in Cincy on Aug 10-12. All expenses are paid except for $49. This would be something you might want to participate in this year or next year. If interested, you can still register by July 21, 2007. Tim Nelson is the guy in charge.

Fergie also tells me that he and Nick Aylward went to a leadership conference in May. Glad to know that it is helpful, and that the money the fratenity gets is put to a positive use.

I don't know if I told you or not that Nick Aylward, president of the Chapter, and I went to Indianapolis for the Presidents and Chapter Advisors in May. It was very helpful and helped with communications between the two of us. Well done but very concentrated.

I also got an updated address from Andy Byers. To all of you new alumni, when you pick your new address please be sure to remember us here. And your snail mail address to Hops!

That's all I have for this time, have a good week.

Rick Neel '73

In which Shawn becomes a Godfather

2007-07-22T11:07:00.000-04:00

I'm please to announce, somewhat belatedly, the birth of my Godson and future Delt Mykai Pierce Alvin.

He was born July 9, weighing 7 pounds, 4.7 ounces, and measuring 20.5 inches long.

Mykai Pierce and his parents are healthy and doing well.

-- Shawn "Make me an offer I can't refuse" Selby '92

The EU anthology

2007-07-10T11:07:00.000-04:00

Rick has mentioned a couple of times that I’m looking to compile a booklet of Brothers’ stories about their Undergraduate days with the Chapter.

This is my goal: To write a comprehensive history of the Chapter’s early days paired with first-person stories spanning all 40 years of Epsilon Upsilon.

To accomplish the first part, I’m going to be contacting and interviewing our founding members. But for the second part, I’ll need the help of everyone who is willing to participate by sharing a story.

Here are some guidelines that I think will be helpful for everyone, including myself:

1. Your story should be about one event or memory. Don’t try to sum up your four years of Undergrad Delt life. Pick your favorite memory and write about it.

2. Be as descriptive and as specific as possible in recounting the memory or story you wish to share. For example: Saying it happened in April of 1977 is better than saying it happened during the spring semester of 1977. Also, be mindful that places have changed or no longer exist. Say what they were. Example: “I lived in Putnam Hall, which was a large freshman dorm at the corner of Putnam and Seventh streets.”

3. We are all entitled to our histories and we shouldn’t whitewash them, but if your story does involve recounting something that would be embarrassing or harmful today to another Brother or Brothers, please seek their permission first.

4. I’m not going to set a limit on length. It can be as long or as short as it needs to be.

5. If you aren’t a writer, that’s OK. No one expects you to be. I’ll be editing what you write in order to help you tell your story. I’ll be asking you questions and giving you feedback. Don’t sweat the small stuff: I’ll clean up misspellings and bad grammar.

6. Submission: The best way to do this will be for you to write your story in Microsoft Word and email the file to me at sselby@crain.com. Put “Delt story” in the message line.

7. And finally, deadline: I will stop accepting stories on Nov. 1.

I hope that helps explain what we are looking to do and what our expectations are for this project. I’m really looking forward to reading your stories. Please write one. Your Brothers will appreciate reading them, too.

Oh, and if you have a background in journalism or literary stuff and would like to help with the editing of all this, please let me know! I am not Hell-bent on doing this by myself.

Now for the nasty-but-necessary stuff: Your submissions will become property of the Crescent Colony of Marietta Inc., which will serve as the owner of the copyright. I reserve the right, on behalf of CCoM Inc., to reject or edit any submission for whatever reason or reasons I deem necessary.

You also agree to give us your first born child, your Social Security Number and access to all your bank accounts .... blah blah blah.

— Shawn “Just sign here” Selby ‘92

DTD at MC #48

2007-07-08T18:43:00.000-04:00

Hello everyone,

It has been a while since I have written anything and I don't know where to start with this. So let's start out and see where we get.

On a personal note, I have closed on my house in Marietta. So I will be moving home as soon as the new Walgreen's is ready to open. I'm getting pretty excited about it, so I hope that nothing happens to delay the move. At present, it is supposed to be the first of the year. To all of you in the Marietta area, I'm looking forward to seeing you. My new address will be **removed for privacy reasons** Stop by to see me when I get there.

Hartsy sent me a note concerning my move:

Hi Rick,
Good to hear you’ll be in Marietta again. You can help Ferg keep Dole out of trouble.

Enjoy that dry Arizona heat while you still can. Then again, ovens are dry, and they cook turkeys!!!
JH

I don't know about keeping Dole out of trouble, you have probably noticed that Ferg is white-headed, I suspect that came from Dole. Concerning the Arizona heat, my air conditioner died yesterday, so I had to replace it with only about 4 months to go before I leave. Pissed me off, that was $250 that I didn't want to have to spend.

Shortly after I sent out my last email, I got a letter that kind of upset me. It was from Genworth Life Insurance Co. wanting to sell me long term care insurance. The mail was covered by a note from Jim Russell of our International Headquarters. I wrote to Jim asking for the reasoning behind this. He responded with the Fraternity's thinking. I will include our conversation here:

Hello Jim,

Today in the mail I received something that was of major concern to me. It was a letter from Genworth Life Insurance Co. wanting to sell me long-term care insurance. This letter had a cover sheet with your signature. Now granted, this is a service that I may need to consider in the future, and the price for it is skyrocketing out of control.

However, I find it very disconcerting to think that DTD would sell my address to anyone, for any reason. I don't think that this action fits very well with the "Four Fundemental Principals of Delta Tau Delta." Specifically Faith. I have faith that DTD will protect my privacy.

If this is a policy of DTD to help generate revenue to help the Fraternity in it's mission, I feel it is short-sighted. However, if necessary, I would like to request that my name and address not be released for this purpose in the future.

Fraternally,
Rick Neel,
Marietta College '73

Jim's response:

Rick,
Yes, the Fraternity does share its mailing list with selected vendors on a very limited basis. It has done so for several years, just as college and university alumni associations do. This is also true for professional associations and other membership groups.

The Arch Chapter has reviewed, given its approval and delegated this responsibility to the Central Office staff under the direction of the executive vice president. Delta Tau Delta works with a third-party source, Affinity Marketing, which also represents a number of other national fraternities and sororities. Affinity Marketing reviews and screens prospective vendors for Delta Tau Delta and we provide final approval. Only those vendors who meet the required criteria are accepted. Obviously, there are some vendor categories deemed not to be appropriate at all by Delta Tau Delta and other fraternal clients.

The revenue derived from this partnership goes to the Delta Tau Delta General Fund which helps to support the programming needs of the Fraternity. We believe this is a reasonable trade-off and has not been viewed negatively by our members. In the 5+ years I have served as the executive vice president, I believe you are only the second alumnus member to express concern about this practice directly to me.

Please be assured we will continue to conduct this program with care and respect to our members. Per your request, I also will ask that your name be deleted from future solicitations from outside the Fraternity.

Thank you for bringing your concerns to my attention.

Fraternally,
Jim Russell

My return to Jim:

Jim,
Thank you so very much for your response and explanation of the use of the Delt mailing list. I also appreciate your willingness to remove my name from said uses.

With your permission, I would like to include my email to you and your response in my next email (and subsequent posting on our Blog-http://mcdeltalumni.blogspot.com/).

With your help a couple of years ago and MC Delts forwarding addresses to me, we have developed an email address book of over 200 EU brothers, which is about 65% of the membership.

We are making plans for our 40th anniversary on the Marietta campus which will occur in October of 2008, and I would like to invite you to Marietta for the occasion. We are anticipating quite a turnout for the weekend.

I hope you can work us into your schedule.

Fraternally,
Rick Neel

Jim responded thusly:

Rick:
You are most welcome to include my response to you in your blog as you see fit.

I look forward to being in Marietta in October 2008 for the chapter's 40th anniversary. There will be plenty to celebrate.

Fraternally,
Jim

So there you have it. And I hope that you all noticed that Jim Russell will be joining us in Marietta for our 40th anniversary. Please come and introduce yourselves to him, he is a super individual and a great example of what a Delt should be.

Speaking of our 40th Anniversary, Matt have you gotten a firm date from the college yet? Seems to me that we were waiting for the OAC meetings that are scheduled for this summer to firm up the date. Check on that for us will you? Thanks.

As I wrote in email #47 we are still looking for people to contact brothers and encourage them to come to the festivities. Also, please send your stories to Shawn Selby, so he can get the booklet together. This is what I wrote last time:

Plans are beginning to shape up for our 40th anniversary. If there is
anything special that any of you would like to see included in the weekend, please let me know.

I'm looking for volunteers to get in personal contact with all of us. My thinking is that one or two people could get together and chase down all of the brothers in a given 1/2 decade. For instance, someone for the 60's, someone for 1970-1974, someone for 1975-1979, and so on. Please don't be shy, step forward and volunteer.

Also, don't forget to send your stories and memories to Shawn Selby sselby@crain.com for inclusion in the booklet he is working on for that weekend. Time is running out, remember, it takes time to put that type of thing together.

One of the things that we are kicking around is to rent the Valley Gem Sternwheeler for a night. We can keep the price reasonable if there is enough interest, but we feel that we should get a feeling from the group as far as interest. Please let me know what your feelings are.

On the same lines, we are 40 years old now so we have people on all ends of the economic spectrum, what do you feel is a budget that we can all live with for this event? Please let me know what your feelings are on this also.

Some news from our brothers; Craig Sundstrom sent me the following note, please check it out. It is pretty special that two Delts got to make Jewett Orations at the same Commencement.

Hey Rick,
Just wanted to let you know that both Dan May's and my own Jewett Commencement orations are posted on the school's Web site. It was definitely a treat to share the stage with a Delt brother at the ceremony.

As soon as I know my new contact e-mail for law school, I'll be in touch. I hope all is well.

Fraternally,
Craig Sundstrom '07

Richard Wolf sent me the following note, I wanted to point out that when we get older, we have to switch to Lite beer so we can keep our gut hidden!

Hey you old poop!!!! Have you relocated to Marietta yet?

Just checking in with you ... have a couple of things to update you on but meanwhile I am out with friends on lovely Lake Hamilton working on polishing off a 30-pack of icy cold Miller Lite.

Holler at me if you get a chance.

Richard

He hasn't sent me the update yet (perhaps it was the Miller Lite???) but he did let me know how his wife and daughters were doing:

Rick:
Running this business has been a 24/7 challenge ... not much playtime the last 2 years.

Sarah received her Master's and is employed as a Human Resources Generalist at a hospital in Waterbury, CT.

Megan will be a junior in the fall but is leaving for Australia on July 10 to do her first semester at a university in Perth; should be home mid-December. She is also studying for the MCAT which she will take this Friday.

Patsy is the rock ... 28 years on July 28.

Thanks for asking ... Very anxious to see you again at some point in the future ...

Richard

That's pretty special, 28 years of marriage. Congratulations to the 2 of you! May you make it another 28.

I got the following note from Dave Silverstein giving me an address change. Bruce Miller also sent me a new address. Be sure to update them in your records, and I hope I sent them to you Hops, if not you have them now! We didn't get any new addresses this time, so I'll throw some new ones at you. Help me out if you can.

Please change my e-mail address to **removed**
Thanks,
Dave Silverstein '79

BAM's new address is: **removed** He is also in contact with Ric Gough and is working on getting us his address. Don't forget Bruce!

All right then, that is all the news that I have for this week. Here are some names for you to try to locate for me. Remember, we need them for the anniversary. This week I am giving the names of the past presidents that we are missing. Help me out with them will you?

Mark Russell '74, Ken Weaver '75, Jeffrey Myers '81, Duke Weller '82, Steven Bennett '84, Adam Pyles '85, Jeff Gardner '86, and Mike Conaty '89.

Have a good week and come see me in Marietta next year!

Rick Neel '73

DTD at MC #47

2007-06-09T14:53:00.000-04:00

Good afternoon everyone,

Well if you haven't been checking out the Delt Blog, you have missed some exciting times. http://mcdeltalumni.blogspot.com/

We have learned how to post pictures! One of the recent requests is now up and running. These things take some time, but we got there. Thank you Shawn! At this point, if you have pictures that you would like to share with us, send them to me (and I will forward them to Shawn who will post them in the appropriate email). Since these emails go to some of you at work, we won't be able to post the pictures as an attachment to the email. Eventually Shawn will show me how to do this and I'll be able to.

Shawn has posted several articles in the blog, with the pictures he has posted. Check them out. He posted a link from WTAP TV in Parkersburg concerning the demolition of Dawes Library in preperation for the construction of the new one. He posted a few pictures he took at the Alumni Weekend,check them out.

He also got in contact with Matt Christman (his email address will be below) who sent him an update on his life. He and his partner Ray are the happy parents of a couple of children that they adopted. Congratulations you two! I won't tell the whole story here, go check it out and see the pictures. He also got an update about J.P. Clowes. Seems that he and his wife Nina are the parents of a new baby girl, Sarah Elizabeth. Congratulations to you two also. Check out that article and the pictures at the blog also.

Like I said, a lot has happened over there! Also, we have had over 1000 hits at the site now. Pretty good in 10 months.

Now on to the notes that I have received since my last posting. Tim Cox sent me the following, for those of you in the Danville, KY area go check out a play and say "Hi" to Tim.

Hey Rick,

Thanks for the updates.I love reading them.

I wanted to share some news with you for your next update.

I will be performing in four plays this summer at the Pioneer Playhouse, a summer stock company in Danville, Kentucky, from May 28th to August 6th. Danville is about two hours from Louisville and about 45 minutes from Lexington, Kentucky, so if anyone lives in the area, drop me a line at timcoxactor@yahoo.com.

Maybe we can catch up.

Have a great summer!

Tim Cox '99

Lance Koved and Ashley Wollam both sent me notes about my upcoming move home. Thanks for the thoughts guys, but I have already bought a house, and am just waiting for closing. It is on Harmar Hill and about 10 minutes from campus (isn't everything in Marietta just 10 minutes away?). Ashley, I would love to own 507 Putnam, but unfortunatly it is out of my price range.

Rick:

Thanks for the periodic updates. I always enjoy them. I am surprised that you are moving back to Marietta since I believe you have spent most of the time since graduation in Florida and Arizona. I guess you will have to invest in cold weather clothing. Personally I've had it with cold weather and we continue to enjoy our house in Florida. I'm still working in Pennsylvania so I get enough of the cold on my visits once or twice a month.

Lance

Rick,
Are you interested in buying the old Delt house? If so, I can put you in contact with the owner. He’s looking to sell badly.
Cheers,
Ashley

Randy Williams sent me this note, with Dennis McNoboe's address. Welcome Dennis! I wish I had known Randy was in Denver, I had that weekend off and could have gone to see him! Ah well, next time.

Rick,

It must be a slow week. Dennis McNoboe's e-mail is **removed**. It is spelled Alderson Broaddus. He is the Associate Dean of Student Services/Director of Residence & Student Leadership. I just went to their web site in good old West Virginia. I am back in Lancaster. I sure enjoyed my time in Denver. I did little that was scheduled outside of my classes. I came back very relaxed. I enjoyed talking with you last weekend.

Let me know if I can do anything for you back here in Ohio. If by chance you will be in the BIG CITY on July 7th (Saturday), Nancy always has a big cookout, horse shoe championship, beer drinking, fireworks display at her place out past Whipple. You are always welcome.

See you soon,

AWK

I got a note from Hartsy concerning the replacement of the Shelter (all of you know, I'm sure that the house on 4th Street is on its last legs and won't last forever). He is in contact with the college and hopes to have some news soon. As I find out more, I'll be sure to let you all know.

Plans are beginning to shape up for our 40th anniversary. If there is anything special that any of you would like to see included in the weekend, please let me know. I'm looking for volunteers to get in personal contact with all of us. My thinking is that one or two people could get together and chase down all of the brothers in a given 1/2 decade. For instance, someone for the 60's, someone for 1970-1974, someone for 1975-1979, and so on. Please don't be shy, step forward and volunteer.

Also, don't forget to send your stories and memories to Shawn Selby sselby@crain.com for inclusion in the booklet he is working on for that weekend. Time is running out, remember, it takes time to put that type of thing together.

Here are the new addresses that I have received, drop your friends a line and say hi, both of you will appreciate it. **the addresses have been removed for privacy reasons** Sean Bailey, Dennis McNoboe, Matt Sutko, Joshua Downey and Matt Christman.

This weeks missing Delts are (I've asked for most of the missing, pretty soon I'll be starting over!): Steven Blumenfeld '80, Stephen DeLong '80, Bruce Goldfarb '83, Richard Ptak '83, Kelly McKerahan '85, Rudy Harjanto '87, and Duane Stokes '88.

Have a good week.

Rick Neel '73

In which Shawn pretends he is Rick, episode two

2007-06-05T20:07:00.000-04:00

Via Charley Maghes '95, I am happy to report that J.P. Clowes '93 and his wife Nina became parents of a daughter over the weekend.

Sarah Elizabeth was born on June 1, weighing 6 pounds and 12 ounces. Mom, dad and older brother and future Delt Michael are all doing well.

Congratulations, J.P.! Virtual cigars for everyone!

Shawn "Stork. The Other White Meat." Selby '92

In which Shawn pretends he is Rick

2007-06-05T07:16:00.000-04:00

While giving updates on alumni is normally Rick's province, I recently made contact with Matt (Christman) Christman-Lees '94, so I thought I'd pass on what he's been up to.

Matt and his partner of 11 years, Ray, are living in Worthington, Ohio. Matt is a communications consultant in the IT department at Nationwide Insurance. Last June, Matt and Ray adopted two Haitian children -- Jenny, age 7, and future Delt Aaron, who just turned 4 this week. (A family photo is below.) Matt says they hope to add more children to their family soon.

Matt says he misses going to the Mountaineer in Parkersburg (hey, Undergrads, you didn't invent going there!).

Matt would love to hear from everyone. I'm passing along his email address to both Rick and Hops, so it will be added to the Alumni database soon, which you can access on the Chapter's Web site.

As you all can see, we've figured out how to post photos, so if you'd like to include photos with any updates you send to Rick, feel free to do so. We won't be able to have the photos be a part of Rick's emails, but we can add them to the blog when we post his email updates there.

Cheers!
Shawn

In which Shawn learns how to post photos

2007-06-03T15:44:00.000-04:00

Here are some photos I took at the Spring Alumni Weekend before my camera became temporarily disabled. (Click on the photo to see the rest of the album.)

Spring Alumni Weekend 2007

Cheers!
Shawn

Dawes Memorial Library, RIP

2007-06-01T21:12:00.000-04:00

Well, they've started tearing down the library.

Here's a link to a video story on it by WTAP. The one student interviewed is Undergraduate Delt Jeff Wojton, vice president of the Chapter. Go Jeff!

After watching the video, to which I was alerted by Sigma Sigma Sigma alumna Charla Nutter '95, I was struck by two things:

1. It was pretty upsetting to see the bulldozer crashing into the library. The library memorializes MC alumnus Charles Dawes, a former vice president of the United States. He's definitely the highest-ranking office holder this college has ever produced. Now that legacy goes unmarked. Plus, I worked at the library my first semester at Marietta and in the evenings one summer. So I got to go into all the nooks and crannies that we off limits to everyone else. :-)

2. WTAP, the Parkersburg TV station, still sucks. Really sucks. It was bad in the late 80s and early 90s. It is still bad today. A quote from the piece describes the library as "a symbol of knowledge the college departs on students year after year."

I guess I must have been there during the years the college imparted knowledge.

I hope the WTAP reporter didn't go to Marietta!

And now for something completely different ...

I have been AWOL on my blogging duties, namely formatting Rick's posts.

The day I returned to work from the Spring Alumni Weekend, we had two editors leave their jobs, and I've had to add a lot of duties temporarily to my portfolio, namely overseeing the content and production of the biggest issue of Crain's Detroit Business that we publish each year.

The last of it went to press this evening

I've been working 50-plus hours a week and taking work home on the weekend as a result. The worst of it is over.

I'm now going back through the blog and doing the appropriate clean up on Rick's most recent reports. I'll also have some housekeeping posts in the next few weeks as well.

I know Rick thinks that I have abandoned him, but I haven't.

In the imortal words of myself: "I'm baaaaacccckkkkk!"

Cheers!

Shawn

DTD at MC #46

2007-05-20T23:39:00.000-04:00

Hi Guys,

Well today is Marietta's graduation. So there are a number of new men joining the ranks of us "old guys." Welcome guys. Please be sure to send us your new email address when you get it, remembering that MC is going to delete your current one in the future. We are glad to have the new blood also to help the alumni football team continue it's domination of the undergraduates.

I have an announcement to make. I will be moving back home to Marietta, hopefully by the end of the year. My company is preparing to open a store in Marietta, and I will be transferred to it when it opens. I'm pretty excited to be able to go home. When you come to town for whatever reason, give me a call, so we can get together.

The chapter Web site has some pictures of our golf outing/ritual equipment building day, check them out at the Web site. You can see my magnificent golf swing - not (I understand that I was named a "greek freak" because the guys didn't care for it).

I have received some notes from the guys since my last email, so lets get to them, and see what the alums have to say. Joshua Downey sent me the following note, thanks for updating your address Joshua. And the best of luck with going out into the "cold hard world."

Hey there Rick,

My name's Joshua Downey. I just wanted to make sure to get this out of the way while I'm at it and to update your email list while I'm ahead. I'll be a graduating senior coming up and I wanted to make sure that you had my other email as this account will be stopped 6 months after graduation. My other email is staratsjd@aol.com I believe. If it's wrong I'll let you know soon. Also, to help you take this one off the mailing list, it's downeyj@marietta.edu. Thanks, and look forward to hearing from ya. Keep up the good work with this!
Joshua Downey

Steve Fox sent me the next note, and I am happy to forward things for any of you, if you wish. But for your use, the chapter Web site has our address book, with all of the addresses we have. It is password protected, with the password being; **removed**

Hey Rick, would you be able to send me Ted Smith's e-mail address? I would appreciate it.

Steve Fox

Robert Gibson sent me the following note, and as I've said before if you feel a brother may not wish to be included in these emails, forward them to him and let him make up his own mind. I hope that we can get everyone included, but I realize that may not happen. All we can do is try, so thanks for the effort Robert.

Rick,
Dennis McNaboe is a Dean at Alderson Broadus College in WV. I'll see if I can get an email address out of him that I can share with you.

Steve Pouliot sent me the next one, and just like he is interested in finding out about "Madbax," I'm sure that John would be interested in finding out about Steve, can someone help us out here?

Rick,
I would love to know what John "MADBAX" Baxley is up to.

Steve Pouliot

Smitty sent me the next question, and I'm sorry that I don't have much of an answer for him. I guess that most of my energy is focused on the 2008 homecoming (our 40th) but if the undergrads would like to share any plans with me, I'll be sure to post them.

Hey Rick,
I know we hve date for Homecoming, Oct 19-21, but do we have a list of things that we are planning as certain events? Also are we doing a large joint venture with a local hotel for the amount of alumni that will be attending this year? Just a thought.

Nick Smith a.k.a. Smitty '00

Finally, I got a note following up on the youtube video from the last email. Dave Broome sent me this heads-up about another music video from one of us. Jon Bolden has one of his original compositions posted on youtube. I really hope that you check it out, Jon is a pretty talented guy, in my opinion. Care to tell us something about this video Jon? I'd love to post something from you.

Rick,

Your last e-mailing included a 'heads-up' from Chris Kurtz about the music video that was filmed in the Delt house at MC. The Athens, OH-based group 'Flinch' apparently made that video 2 or three years ago! The undergrads seem to have forgotten to mention that interesting tidbit to us old dudes. In any case, in the "related" videos on the youtube page which shows that video, there is another one... one of our very own alumni, Jon Bolden (class of '05, I think) has a very impressive music video. Normally, I'd be reluctant to highlight someone else's accomplishments without their input, but hey, its already on youtube (and its
really good).

Dave Broome '88

http://youtube.com/watch?v=LR_2GqsTxFE&mode=related&search=

That's about all I have this week, we are going into the summer, so I won't have any input from the undergrads, all I will have to talk about is what you guys send me. So it's up to you, help me out.

The names of the "lost brothers" I need help with this week are: Gordon Turner '71, Neal Mettler '74, William Snyder '74 (he's been lost since I was an undergrad, last I heard he had moved to Houston), Greg McComas '77, David Duffy '80, David Caldwell '87, and Jimmy Martinez '87.

Have a good week, and to the undergrads, enjoy your summer.

Rick Neel '73

DTD at MC #45

2007-05-19T20:05:00.000-04:00

(This email was written on May 5th. Sorry it took so long to get it posted)

Hello everyone,

Well I am back from Marietta and a wonderful time there. The weather was nice, and I didn't freeze as sometimes happens to this desert dweller. Got to meet a bunch of the guys. And we had a better turnout for the golf than I expected.

I have to admit that I got my butt handed to me by AWK (and everyone else!) Darrell Pritchard was right, I left my shots here in Tucson. We did have a good time though. All 7 of us.

We got started on the Ritual equipment, but didn't get it finished. There were a couple of issues that we failed to take into account (does that really surprise anyone?) But what we did do makes me know that it will be pretty special when we get done. Hope that you all make it back to Marietta to see what the equipment looks like. It will be nice.

I took a few pictures of the work as well as the golf group. They have been left in the capable hands of Hops and Hunter, so they should make it to the chapter Web site sometime. Just don't expect them right away, the guys have finals and "Ferg Fest" to keep them busy for the next couple of weeks.

I did get a couple of notes since the last time I wrote. So lets get on with them.

Andy McIlivane '93 sent me the following.

Hi Rick,

Are you looking for Dean Kilton? He lives and works in Columbus, Ohio, doing his sports management thing at the exercise facilities at the Easton shopping complex.

Andy McIlvaine, DTD `93

I had an address for Dean, and sent him a note. He told me that he would prefer that I not use that address, and he would send me a more appropriate one. He hasn't yet. So any of you who are in touch with him, remind him will you?

Chris Kurtz sent me the following note, and I really suggest that you check it out. It is really neat. Also, I have to send my congratulations to Chris on the birth of his daughter. That is a pretty good excuse for not playing golf.

Rick,
Im not sure if everyone already knows about this but a band called Flinch (not sure if its made up of chapter guys) has a music video on youtube filmed at the house. Pretty cool way to see the house. I liked it a lot. Send my kudos to the guys at the house. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3QzesDiMv8
Chris Kurtz '93

PS: Sorry I couldnt make it to the golf outing. My wife and I had our second child (Katherine Rose) on April 26th. Her brother Evan turned 2 just 5 days before. Its been a bit busy.
Chris Kurtz '93

Some bad news, if true. I asked Hops to check it out through the college. But Ted Smith sent me this note about one of our founders.

Rick,

I hope I'm mistaken, but I thought I read somewhere that ROGER COFFMAN '69 passed away several years ago. I hope I'm wrong.

Ted Smith

Let's see who I need help finding this week ... Mark Ewald '72, Larry Brown '74, Peter Denio '78, Jeff Myers '81 (past president), John Baxley '86, Eric Strickland '94.

That's enough for this week. Hope that you all have a great weekend, and I'll talk to you soon.

Rick Neel '73

DTD at MC #44

2007-05-05T14:15:00.000-04:00

Hello again everyone,

Just a short note today, because I'm busy packing and getting ready for my trip to Marietta. I'll be there BRIGHT AND EARLY Wednesday (I have an overnight flight from Tucson). Hope that you have all made your plans and contacted Matt Dole to let him know that you are coming.

I got the schedule of events for the weekend. Remember, we are building the ritual equipment this weekend, hope you have made plans to help with that. Bob Kubota, seems to me that you are very handy with a hammer and saw! Here is the schedule that I got from Hops.

Hey Rick,

We finalized the schedule for Alumni Weekend; it is also posted on the Web site (http://www.marietta.edu/~delts/alumni/news.html).

Friday, April 27, 2007

Meet and Greet at the Shelter (5-8pm)
Unveiling New Letters Ceremony (6pm)
Build Ritual Equipment in Chapter Room (7-9pm)

Saturday, April 28, 2007 (Doo Dah Day)

Alumni Golf Outing (TBA)

Sunday, April 29, 2007

Breakfast at the Shelter (10am)
Finish Building Ritual
Equipment (11-2pm)
If you see any problems or conflicts, please let Nick and me know, and we'll try to adjust the best we can.

Cya within the week,

Hops

Our last email garnered some responses concerning Goose's note. I'll include them here, as well as his response. It's nice to know that it generated some interest. Let me know what you think.

Tim Parsons sent this note:

Why can't we alumni do an Adopt-A-Delt program?

There must be brothers in the Epsilon Upsilon Alumni Universe that can chip in to help guys on campus become part of our brotherhood. Just think of the experience and lifelong friendships we gained as undergrads. Why can't we pass that same joy onto others by helping others pay their dues. Why not a scholarship fund? C'mon, I know there are people out there are looking for a way to contribute to the house. We all realize that in order for the house to be there in the future it surely needs a few brothers left on campus. So, let's open our wallets and help a brother out.

Tim Parsons

David Broome sent this letter to express his feelings on the subject:

Goose,

I am writing in response to your 'call-out' (via Rick Neel's alumni-wide email broadcast) to any EY alumni who may have fundraising ideas for the Chapter.

Let me get to the point: I don't have any fundraising ideas; my only memories are of volunteer activities in the community - which is certainly still the case for the Chapter today. I have no idea where the Chapter got money in the 1980s, but college didn't cost over $32,000 a year, either (I know, inflation, etc).

Your request for ideas from alumni about fundraising opportunities is an excellent place to start, and hopefully some ideas will be forthcoming. However, you also indicated that "we [undergraduates] are not asking for alumni donations," to which I answer: "Why not?"

To explain: Alumni know quite a bit about being asked for monetary "contributions" in a way that undergraduates may not be aware of ... yet. Both Marietta College and DTD International are VERY diligent about making regular requests for money. At least three or four times a year - sometimes more - we get friendly requests (usually by mail, but the College also does the phone-a-thon fund drive at least
once a year) for "contributions." With all those requests going out, sometimes, some alumnus somewhere takes the bait (myself included).

Epsilon Upsilon Chapter of Delta Tau Delta, however, has not - to my knowledge in the 19 years that I've been an alumnus - ever, even once, made an appeal for money. And, unlike Marietta College or DTD International, our Chapter does not have thousands of alumni - nor (to date)any wealthy alums who are willing to designate a generous percentage of their fortune in their last will & testament when they die. To make the "contribution" process as straightforward as possible, both MC and DTD International provide a customized statement of current level of giving - and giving history - and even a pre-addressed envelope to send the check back in. To alumni this information falls under the "no kidding, so what else is new?" file, but undergraduates could probably take a few pointers from those two instututions when it comes to "getting all you can" out of the alumni.

MC and Delt International have every right to seek contributions from their alumni and, in my view, so does Epsilon Upsilon.

Unless there is some written rule that prohibits the undergraduates from specifically seeking financial contributions from their own alumni (and I re-HE-eally don't think there is), I feel that a formal appeal for "alumni contrubutions" -if only once a year - could be well worth the effort. Face it, the Chapter is currently succeeding in ways that were unimaginable in some previous eras, and a major anniversary year is approaching. You've earned the right to ask.

Again, hopefully there will be responses regarding fundraising ideas. As for making direct requests for alumni contributions, please give it some serious thought. For further indepth ideas in this regard, I remain available. I don't have fundraising experience, but I do have plenty of experience being asked for money ... which (this being the case for all of the other alumni) could nonetheless prove helpful.

Fraternally,
David Broome, class of 1988

Goose responded to David this way:

Brother Broome,

This is Brother Kitson. I really appreciate the speedy response and compliments at the Chapter's progress and thank you for helping to lay the foundation that we stand on right now. As far as asking the alumni for money, the undergrads have felt that asking the alumni for money might take them away from wanting to be a part of this process that Rick has been working so hard on to bring us all back together. Maybe it's because we don't have the thousands of alumni or anything, but we don't want to ask of our alumni financially.

We've discussed the idea before of possibly doing a "Delt Pledge" where alumni would pledge an ammount per new pledge we got or initiated, as well as attempting to establish a Delt Scholarship based on need and accomplishment. Both ourselves, Ferg, and the couple alumni agreed that it would not be in our best interest to pursue asking the alums and risk becoming another organization simply asking for the alumni to give as we really honor the idea that being a Delt is life-long. The Undergrads asking for the money just isn't something that we're willing to do right now.

However, if any of those ideas for fundraising seem like something you think the alumni would like to begin to undertake - I don't think it's unfeasible for House Corps to look for alumni donations for that. Rick has also been CC'ed from your
email as well as this response.

Thank you so much for the concern about the current Chapter. It helps to know that so many people have a vested interest in the how we do. It makes it known that it's that much more important.

Fraternally,John "GooSe" Kitson

I forwarded Tim Parsons note to Goose and he sent me this response. Please note that the Undergrads are not looking to get us back to Marietta so they can get money out of us, they sincerely want to see the Alumni come back to visit them. And I can vouch for that, I make it back to Marietta 2 or 3 times a year, and have yet to be asked for money (except for the ritual equipment fund drive - and that was my idea).

Thanks Brother Neel,

I responded to Brother Broome's email and CC'ed you to it. The undergrads really don't want to head up asking for funds from alumni - that's not the reason we are looking to bring them back and I don't want to give them any reason to think that's the reason. If the alumni would like to start something, I would suggest House Corps taking it over and then becoming the group that decides criteria and need and the like.

If this gets unveiled, however, I'd like to have some sort of undergrad base of
fundraising that could be done to bring with it so it doesn't seem like we aren't doing anything to help ourselves as well.

Once again and as always THANK YOU FOR ALL OF YOUR HELP WITH EVERYTHING,

John "GooSe" Kitson

I do have an idea for a fundraiser to try to help the guys, and I'll go over it with Goose this weekend. If any of the rest of you have any ideas to help them out, please send them to the Chapter.

One last thing, then I have to get back to the suitcase. I understand that some of you may be in contact with a brother and are hesitating to send me their address. I understand that completely, we all get enough crap in our inbox to make us hesitate. Not to mention protecting a friend's privacy. If that is the case, please just forward these emails to them and allow them to make up thier own minds. (And if you get this in that manner, please drop me a line and let me add you to our mailing list.) Also, remember that our 40th anniversary on the Marietta campus is in 2008 and we want a HUGE turnout of Delts. Thanks for helping.

See you in Marietta, have a great week.

Rick Neel '73

DTD at MC #43

2007-04-20T20:58:00.000-04:00

Good afternoon everyone,

I hope that everyone is getting ready for next weekend!

Our annual golf outing, and this year ritual equipment building event.I'm getting excited, I get a chance to beat a high school/college buddy.I went out and played a round yesterday AWK so I'm armed and ready. Are you?

Darrell Pritchard told me I'm in trouble, he hasn't seen me hit the ball that well in years. So he figures that my best shots have all been used up. Damn! If you are planning on going and haven't let Matt Dole know that you are coming, please drop him a line quickly so he can get a tee time for you. His address is: **removed** Matt, is that a new address? Do I need to update you again?

I don't have a lot of new today, so I'll just get into the messages I received.

Seth Wolfson sent this in.

Hey there,

I'm coming into town for next weekend's festivities read: Doo Dah Day. I won't be golfing but look forward to seeing everyone around the house.

Seth

Have a good time Seth, but come join us on Saturday for the ritual building. That should be fun too.

From Brian Stone I got this note:

Rick,

Great job on everything here. About one of the "lost" brothers, I think that your best option for finding Dean Kilton would be through Jess Raines. I don't know if they are still in contact, but they used to be.

Fraternally,
Brian Stone '97

Thanks for the note Brian, and Jess do you think that you could help out here? Thanks!

Last time there was a question about the Little Sister program. I got an answer from Ashley Woolam, one of our Undergrads. Hope that it answers your question, Pat.

Rick,

Good work on the latest blog posting!

A quick note about the Little Sis program. I’ve spoken with Jim Russell and a handful of other Delt Interationals officers about why the program isn’t allowed at undergraduate chapters any longer. Simple prudence is the real reason. Although Delta Tau Delta never had any really big issues with the program (no “situations,” I mean), other fraternities have, and we were trying to be progressive, while also responding to some Panhellenic complaints about respecting women. So, that’s the short of it.

For what it’s worth, Epsilon Upsilon still has a dedicated cadre of young ladies who are de facto Little Sisters (I’m sitting and eating lunch with one, Shauna Payne, right now while I write to you) – they just don’t get their pictures taken any longer. Instead we give them pledge names. Shauna’s is “Colonel Sanders.” You’ll have to ask her why when you meet her.

Cheers, Ashley

Colonel Sanders??? I am interested in hearing that story! Goose Kitson sent me this request. As you all know, the cost of a college education is getting higher and higher every year. And belonging to a Fraternity isn't getting any cheaper either. If any of you have any ideas to help, or jobs to offer, please get in touch with me or Goose. His address is: **removed** Thanks for the help.

Hey Rick,

This is John Kitson - GooSe. One of the problems the chapter is starting to face is the fact that on top of the 32k a year it's costing to attend Marietta College each year, we're cutting our budgets and still charging our members $600 a year to be a Delt because of national insurance costs. It's well worth the money, but finding the money for some members is hard with no financial support from family.

To find ways to proactively attack this, I'm coming up with a possible position of fundraising chair whose sole responsibility is to find ways for brothers to make money through the school year. First of all I want to say that we are not asking for alumni donations. Alumni donations are always welcome, but the reason for writing this is to attempt to find ideas that maybe past Delts have raised money for the chapter or a cause or something of that nature. As a Delt of another generation, I figure you would know ways that you guys raised money or something. If you have any ideas, let me know.
Thanks.

Be sure to check the Chapter Web site for the pictures from the hanging of the new Delt letters at the house. The Web site address is: http://www.marietta.edu/~delts/ While you are there, please fill out the Alumni questionaire so the Chapter can update everyones records including your Big and Little Brothers.

Here are some "lost brothers" that I need help finding this week. If you are in contact with them, send me the email addresses. Thank you.

Roger Coffman '69, Murray Talssnik '71, Peter Grob '72, Gregory Carriera '78, Duke Weller '82(past president), Charles Myers '88, Dennis McNaboe '94, Vince Li '05

That's all I have this week, have a good weekend and I'll see you in Marietta next week.

Rick Neel '73

DTD at MC #42

2007-04-06T10:47:00.000-04:00

Hello everyone,

Not a whole lot went on in the last couple of weeks, so I kind of got lazy. My apologies about that. But here we go. Hope that everyone had their NCAA brackets written right! It was a pretty good tournament this year I thought.

I read the chapter minutes from a couple of weeks ago, and Fergie reported to the Undergrads the following about the ritual equipment.

Received new checks for building ritual equipment – Have plenty of money. Plan to build during Alumni Weekend (April 27th – 29th)

So to all of you who contributed to the ritual fund, THANK YOU!! I have no idea who contributed, nor how much was given. To my mind it makes no difference, we gave what we could. Now for all of you, be in Marietta the weekend of the 27th so we can put the new equipment together. It is going to feel strange to not ask for money each e-mail though! Remember that on the weekend of the 27th we will be having our alumni golf outing, come play in that also. It is always a good time, and some of the funds goes to House Corp.

I haven't gotten any updates from Hops (he did send me a note that I haven't answered yet - oops) or Shawn concerning the photo link or section. I suspect that they are busy. I'll bug them in a few days and find out what is happening.

Also in the minutes was a notation that the shelter was going to get new letters for the exterior of the house.

Alumnus paying for new letters for the front of the Shelter

I have no idea who the Alumnus is who is paying for those letters, but a big thank you for the donation. The next meeting notes had the following.

New letters for the house have been bought, will be sending an email so everyone can be there for the hanging of the letters.

So it looks as if the new letters will have been hung by the time we all get back for the golf outing. Way to go!

I've been in contact with Joe Mester lately, and he is putting together a story about the "good old days" that he will be sending to Shawn Selby for inclusion in our 40th anniversary booklet. The rest of you that have something to share start to think and get it to Shawn. October 2008 will be here before you know it. And it will take Shawn some time to get all of this put together.

I have received a couple of letters from some alums this week and I got a new address or two, so I'll post them now. Mike Pantos sent the following message:

Hi Rick,

Thanks for including me. I'm glad Steve gave you my info. I'll check the form out to see what I can add to the brothers' info on alumni. Glad to be on board and thanks again for including me.

Mike Pantos
Class of '87

Welcome Mike and hope to see you at the chapter in the future. His comment about the board is in reference to the "Alumni Database form" at the Chapter Web site - http://www.marietta.edu/~delts. And it is to help the undergraduates keep accurate records about us, the Alumni (thereby helping me add names to my email list!) Also it is to help fix any errors in our big brother board at the Chapter. We know there are some errors and we want to get them corrected by the time our 40th rolls around. For your information, there are only 567 days left to make your plans!

From Bob and Pat Bayer (written by Pat) we get the following:

Dear Rick,
Among your missing are Mark SCHIKLER, and Doug SHAFFER. For Doug, you could check with MC Alumni office for Linda Bond Shaffer (AST '73). The last we knew Mark was living and had a practice in CT. BAM may know where he is now.

We both really enjoy reading your updates. Wish we were closer to MC so we could go back more often, but life here in Utah is pretty hectic. Bob is the managing principal in an environmental consulting firm he owns with a partner. I work with them part-time these days. He is also on the state board for the Division of Oil, Gas and Mining and the board for the Utah Mining and Mfg Assoc.

I have not seen any mention of the Little Sis program. Is it still in existence? I am sure you have fond memories of that, as I do.

Thanks for all you have done and continue to do to keep us all up on DTD at MC.

Bob '71 & Pat '73 Bayer

I have gotten the address for Mark, thanks to BAM. As far as Doug Shaffer goes, that is a good suggestion, could you check with the alumni office for me Hops? And perhaps, BAM, your lovely wife Beth has kept up with Linda. It is nice to hear from some people from my years!

As far as the Little Sister program goes, no Pat it isn't in existence any longer. I'm not really clear about the reason, but it is something that DTD International outlawed. Something about political correctness, I think. If there is anyone who knows the real story, kindly let me know and I'll pass it along to the rest of us. That does bring to mind another issue, we can use the email addresses of the Little Sis's. If anyone has any, let me know.

Charley Maghes sent me this:

Rick,

To follow-up on your lost brother list, I found Gordon Keller and have his email **removed**. He's in Connecticut and is married (in 2004).Just wanted to pass this along. Thanks a lot for doing this!

By the way, I assume that you have an email address for Paul Giannotti. I didn't see it in the email sent string below, but I wanted to get in contact with him (he's my Big Bro). Anyway, if you can pass my email address along to him so he can contact me, I'd appreciate it.

Thanks!
Charley

There we go, a little and a big getting back in contact with each other. Pretty neat don't you think? Check our address book at the chapter website and find your big and drop him a note. You can find it in the Alumni section of the website. The password to get in is: **removed for security reasons, if you need it, please contact me or Hops at the Chapter**

The new addresses that I received this week are: Gordon Keller , Mike Pantos , Mark Schickler, an updated email address for Dean Didato. **above addresses removed** To the new men, welcome. I started this in order to try and get a good turnout for our 40th anniversary on the Marietta campus, in 2008. If you are interested in reading all the other emails, as well as articles from Shawn Selby, and notices from Hartsy (Jon Hartshorn - president of House Corp). Please check out our Blog: http://mcdeltalumni.blogspot.com/

The missing brothers for this week are: Thomas Lindvall '71, Scott Elger '74, Matt Sutko '78, Kurt Frank '81, Jeff Gardner '86 (past president), David Faunce '94, Dean Kilton '96, Tim Tokarczyk '04. So far we have 233 addresses on the list, so we are making good progress towards getting everyone. We only have about 500 days to get the rest, so they will have time to make plans to invade Marietta. Wouldn't it be great to have over 400 of us in Marietta at one time? Geeze, can you imagine, we'd never all fit in the Town House. That's the goal, can we get there?

Have a great weekend, Rick Neel '73

DTD at MC #41

2007-03-22T13:57:00.000-04:00

Good morning everyone,

Let's see what has been going on in Delt Land over the last week or so.

First off, something new is being added to our Blog (http://mcdeltalumni.blogspot.com/) in the near future (I hope!). We have been talking about it for awhile now, but a note from Bob Farrell got us going.

Hi Rick,

Is there a way to set up the Web site for posting each year with current photos? Where the brothers can post their own pictures. Like 1978 page and a 1979 page etc. It would bring the alumni brothers together a little better. Or at least a link to myspace or myface for more information on the brothers. It would be great to catch up on what everybody is doing, where they are, their family, etc.

Bob Farrell

I'm not computer nerd enough to know where to begin doing anything like this so I forwarded the note to Shawn Selby and Adam "Hops" Hopkins to see what they could come up with. As usual, Hops figured something out and Shawn is playing with it to see how we can work it in. So, sometime in the not too distant future we will have a place for your pictures to be posted. Start looking for those shots you want to share with us, and I'll keep you informed as to how it is coming.

As I mentioned last time,I have some articles from the newest issue of the Marietta College Trailblazer. I assume that you all get the magazine, but if you don't, contact the college and update your address and you will in the future. To get started, G. Curtis Brown had the following written:

He and his wife Sally (Johnson) Brown have resigned from Al Root Candle Co. and American Red Cross of Medina County respectively, and are taking a temporary two-year assignment with the Mississippi Conference of the United Methodist Church in Jackson County, Mississippi, to coordinate work teams for rebuilding houses damaged by Hurricane Katrina.

What a great thing to do, my hat is off to Curtis and Sally. I do need his email address if any of you are in contact with him. Brian Rothenberg had written the following:

He has left the Ohio Democratic Party to be executive director of a newly formed nonprofit organization called ProgressOhio.org, which is a pro bono public relations and marketing organization for progressive and neighborhood causes from the grassroots level to Statehouse issues. Brian was recognized in 2006 by the Aurora High School alumni association as a Distinguished Alumnus.

Congratulations on the award Brian, and good luck with your new project! Eric Gustafson had the following news, and my sincere condolances go out to Eric and his wife, Maleah (Thorpe):

(They) welcomed their first child, Ethan Thomas Peaslee Gustafson, on June 2,2005. Unfortunately he was with them only a short time and passed away on June 14, 2005, but brought joy to all who met him. They are thankful to all of their Marietta College friends who have helped them through this difficult time. Eric is still director fo the annual fund and associate director of major gifts at Muskingum College.

Good news comes from Tyler Johnson and Jessica Sears.

They were married on August 4, 2006. Many other MC alumni were in attendance to help them celebrate the event. They are now living in Cincinnati, Ohio, where Tyler is a software engineer and Jessica is a teacher.

Congratulations to Tyler and Jessica, my they have a long and happy life together. Finally, we got from Paul Giannotti the following, and as a result of this note, I was able to contact him and add his emai to our directory.

Paul and Amy (Wooddell) Giannotti are pleased to announce the birth of their second daughter, Maren Gray, born June 6, 2006, in Winter Park, Florida. Maren, joins her big sister, Allie, who is almost 3! Paul serves as senior athletic trainer for Rollins College, and Amy works for the Florida Department of Environmental Protection and for the Cambrian Foundation, a not-for-profit underwater research organization.

Congratulations to Paul and Amy, on their 2nd child. Resposes from #40 are next.

From Steve Pouliot we got a new address and a short note.

well, so much for a week off. Try this for Mike Pantos: **removed for privacy reasons, contact me if you need the password to access the directory at the chapter Web site** Hope all is well. It's fun to read the guys as you're connect with these brothers. You should becommended. Well Done!

Steve Pouliot

I have to comment here, it is really fun when I open my email and find a new email address and/or a note from a brother telling what he is up to. So if you enjoy reading them, send me something and let the others enjoy reading about you! Shawn Selby has all the fun! As he related in this short note:

Hey Rick,

I was in Toronto over the weekend, and then was hit by a major snowstorm forcing me to spend Monday night and Tuesday night in London, Ontario. I finally returned to Michigan yesterday morning and got to the office at noon yesterday.

Bob Peterson sent the following note, please note that he is going to be at our 40th next year, I hope that all the rest of you are making plans to be there too!

Hi Rick,

Congratulations on #40!I just returned home to Rome after a month in Japan and Beijing. Heading for Geneva motor show today. The rest of the month I'll be bouncing around between Rome, Brussels, Barcelona and Madrid and will return to Tokyo April 3for about 3 weeks! I will be sending to Fergie later this month a check toward the ritual equipment and general House Corp. needs - so please add this to the budget plan. I will not make the golf outing this year. Looking forward to the 40th next year!

Fraternally,

Bob Peterson '76

I got this note from Bob Farrell (the same guy that got us started on the photo thing), welcome Bob!

Hi,

I am Bob FarrellI graduated in 1979 from Marietta as a DTD member. Could you add me to the e-mail list?

Bob Farrell

During the spring golf weekend, we will be (at least the plan currently is) working on the ritual equipment that we have been having a fund raiser for over the past six months or so. Please come to the golf outing to help build new equipment, as well as play some golf. Also, please consider making a donation to help build the new equipment, send your check made to: Crescent Colony of Marietta Inc. and send it to Bob Ferguson at 507 Wooster St., Marietta, Ohio 45750. Please make a note that it is for ritual equipment. Thank you.

There has been a pretty good response to the Undergrads' request to fill out a form to help update the Chapter records (and correct any errors that may have occured in the Big Brother board). So far Hops tells me that there have been about 30 forms filled out. Thanks for the effort, and if you haven't yet done so, please go to the chapter web site: http://www.marietta.edu/~delts/ and fill out the form. Also check out the update, if you haven't done so yet. As a result of people filling out the forms, I have some email address updates for you. Here they are: Todd Spence -**removed**, Brian Dobis - **removed**, Bob Farrell - **removed**, and Curtis Brown - **removed**. Drop them a line and say hello. You both will appreciate it.

My list of missing Delts for this week is as follows, if you are in contact with any of them let us know, please. Dr. Mark Schickter '69, Doug Scaffer '71, Michael Beifus '77, Theodore Haase '80, James Mason '84, James Rosenberger '89, John Weekley '93, Gordon Keller '97, and Tim Tokarczyk '04. Here's hoping that you guys can do as well this week as you did last time. Thanks for the effort.

Last week I went to the Delt International website, http://www.delts.org/ and went to poking around. I came across addresses for Chapter Web sites, so I decided to go look at the other Ohio chapters. I am happy to report that in my opinion, the EY site is the best. Yay!!! All of the sites had some interesting features, and some were very well done. However, the thing that makes ours the best was that it is current. Most of the other ones hadn't been updated for several months. Most were still sporting events from the last school year. That, in my opinion, is the downfall of most of them. Ours is current, and with Hops running the site, I'm confident it will stay that way.

One thing that I saw on several of them that I really liked is this:
DTD
These letters don't make me better than you.
They make me better than who I was.

I liked that. I hope you do to.
Have a good week.

Rick Neel '73

DTD at MC #40

2007-03-09T10:53:00.000-05:00

Good evening everybody,

Well here we are, No. 40!

Who would have believed when I started this thing that we would reach 40 of them? I don't think that I did. To think that the primary purpose for doing this was (and still is!) to try to get as many of us back to Marietta as possible for the Chapter’s 40th anniversary. For those of you that have been living in a cave for the past 18 months, it will be in October 2008. Make plans now to get some vacation time then. As soon as Marietta College sets the date (this summer after the Ohio Athletic Conference meeting), Matt Dole will let us know.

For now, the upcoming dates of interest are our Golf Outing, April 28th. By the way, does anyone know the cost yet? It is generally around $50. If you don't play golf, come anyway. Rumor has it that we will be building new ritual equipment that weekend. I have the following message from Fergie about that subject:

We have $360 in our ritual fund. Let me get out of tax season and I will give you a breakdown of all our monies.
Take care,
Fergie

As you can tell, I bugged him during the busiest time of the year for him. I don't dare do it again, but as you see, he will be giving us a financial breakdown in a while. Here is the first message I got from him on this subject:

Ashley (Wollam) is working on this and they are going pricing and completing their list. We have a formal Chapter meeting this week and I will grab Ashley since he is the Guide and get some answers and look closely at the equipment. Also, I received $100 for ritual equipment and $100 for House Corp. general needs.

Hopefully this means that we will get some further information soon. I would like to point out that Fergie got a donation for general House Corp. needs. We can never forget that part of the equation either. I know that I said that I wouldn't talk about this subject until we got some news about what was needed. Well, I lied. Sorry about that. Please consider a donation to our Ritual Equipment fund (and/or the general fund of House Corp.). Send the check, payable to Crescent Colony of Marietta Inc. to Bob Ferguson, 507 Wooster St., Marietta, Ohio 45750. Please note on your check what it is for. Thank you.

My last email got 10 responses. The most ever. I was thrilled. And now you get to see what Brothers sent in to be shared. It was mostly addresses, either new ones or corrections. Keep them coming. Hops and I love it when we can update our email lists. But we got one letter about what is happening in a Brother’s life. So here goes. Enjoy them, and feel free to send in some news as far as what is happening in your life. If you like reading about your Brothers, then it just follows that they will enjoy reading about you.

Scott Heckman sent this address to me:

Rick,
I think that the e-mail for Ben Weaver is [removed for privacy]. I haven't spoken to him in a while but this is the last address I used. Hope this helps.
Scott Heckman '96

Chris Goebel sent this address:

Rick,
I will not be at the golf outing this year but I wanted to pass on Drew Kern's ('87) email: [removed for privacy reasons].

The man is useless and can not help himself!

Thanks again for all the updates. It really makes a difference!!!!
See ya,
Chris

Thanks for the Atta Boy, Chris. I'm also sorry that you won't be able to make the golf outing. I was really looking forward to whipping your behind! (Not likely, as anyone who has seen me play will attest to.

I got the following addresses from Hunter Jonsson, who has a new address himself (which he didn't send me): Seth Pitasky, Seth Wolfson, Josh Harris, William Warner and Dean Didato [all removed for privacy reasons]

Some of those may be bad addresses, so don't be surprised if they come back to you. Hunter's new address is: [removed for privacy reasons].

Hops sent these addresses: Drew Kern and Mike McLaughlin [removed for privacy reasons].

Casey Trail sent the following letter (and two addresses). It is really nice that one of ours can return the favor that other Chapter’s have done for us. Keep up the good work, Casey. Oh, by the way, congrats on the MS!

Rick,
First off: you're the man. I'm sure you hear this all the time, but there's no way that you hear it enough. Thank you, thank you, thank you for keeping this email list and the blog going. I can tell you that this was something we were really missing when I was an undergrad and I am so glad that we have this thing running now that I'm an alumnus.

I guess I can take this opportunity to let you know what I'm up to. I graduated class of 2005 and am now in my last semester getting my MS in mathematics at Miami University.
While I've been at Miami I have been helping with the recolonization of the Miami Chapter of Delta Tau Delta. I've been their recruitment adviser since they started back up (Fall 2005) and a few weeks ago they got word that their petition to be a full Chapter has been accepted by the Central Office. VERY EXCITING!
So that's a little update on a Delt from Marietta and the Delts at Miami. Also, I got Seth Wolfson's and Josh Harris’ email [removed for privacy reasons].
Take care Rick, and thanks again,
Casey

Kurt Kleefeld sent me this letter, thanks Kurt. Note that it was 10 years ago that the wiring was redone. Wow. In answer to your question about Ritual, yes there is generally a formal meeting, or something during homecoming. So please come share that with the undergrads, they REALLY do enjoy it when an alumnus shows up for a meeting.

Rick,
I think this newsletter is just fantastic. I have unfortunately lost touch with every brother from 93-97, my undergrad time. And I have also unfortunately not thought about DTD much since then either. But those were some of the best and most educational times in my life. I'll be back to homecoming this October, and look forward to stirring up some memories, but curious, the Shelter looks excellent the new paint job makes her look great. Is there a Ritual during Homecoming? I would love to experience one again. It's great to see the EU chapter active and prospering, like that GPA, I was in the house as Academics for two years and we stood at a solid 3.2 for both years, so it's nice to hear.
I wonder if we could compile a list of successes among the years, for instance
Homecoming float winners, Greek Week places, and service projects. I bet just through this email tool we would be able to compile something quite formidable.
I'll send a check to Fergie for Ritual stuff because I remember sitting down with Dean Kilton (‘96) one Sunday afternoon and completely re-wiring those guys, and that was 10 years ago.
Thanks again for putting this together, it's a treat to receive.
Kurt "Chi-Chi" Kleefeld (97)

Rich Miller sent the following update. Sounds as if things are starting to look up for him. Good health and a new son-in-law to do all the work! Great news Rich. I'm not sure about the "responsible adult" stuff though. Eric Dunsker is the Little Brother that he is referring to:

While he was lost (for a while), I'm glad he is found. Happy to see my Little Brother's name at the top of the e-mail list of No. 39 (sorry, if he was there before I didn't see it. Knowing him then, I wasn't sure he was still alive). Help for Ritual equipment on the way, aside from the Brotherhood, the most meaningful part of being the Delt experience for me

FYI: After spending a most shitty last year that included both radiation and a nephrectomy, I am happy to report that I will be a Grandpa again in the fall (thanks to my eldest and the earnest efforts of a great son-in-law) and that one of my twins will be giving me a new Pittsburgh-born son-in-law in June.

Thanks Rick for all you have doing. Nice to see you've become a responsible adult!
Rich Miller

Drew Kern (one of our new contacts) sent this note. Drew and everyone else, please make note of the password to access the address book at the site. It is: [you guess it, removed for privacy reasons]. Please make use of it to get back in touch with those Brothers that you have lost contact with. And if you have any addresses that we are missing, let us know. Thanks!

Rick,
Talked to Fergie last night and Chris had sent this to me on Friday … please add me to your distribution. The site looks awesome!!!
Drew Kern ’87

Paul Giannotti posted an article in the Marietta College Trailblazer (I will post that, and several others by Delts next time — getting to long this post). As a result I got his address and sent him a note, here is his response.

Rick:
You got me! thanks for the efforts on the directory. I did visit the Web site the other day after the e-blast.

Best of luck on the plans for the 40th. Homecoming is not a good time for me to get away from work, but maybe something will work out. We'll see.
Thanks,
Paul

Bob Kavula sent me the following email with a problem. Hops gave the answer about the same time, so I'll post the two together. As far as the address book goes, it is at the Delt Web site: http://www.marietta.edu/~delts/ in the Alumni section, on the right side of the page. You'll see the gold “@” sign with the Delt email list. Click there. I gave the password earlier in this email.

Rick,

I went to the Web site indicated below. I tried to fill in my information and got "Request sent. Cannot open db file for save." Also, I don't see an address book anywhere on the site. If it's there it's not popping out.

Hops explanation of this problem is:

Hey Rick,

I've been meaning to email you about the redesign and to point out the database (but you already did, which I appreciate). The reason I had not emailed you yet was that the database does not currently work. I realize I should have contacted you earlier about this to let you know and for this I apologize.
The gist of it not working is as follows. In order for the form to work I need to get permission from the IT at Marietta, which I did. However, the permission somehow was overridden (I still don't know how this happened). Anyways, I have already sent two emails asking IT to fix it, but still they have not. I hope that it will be completely functioning by tomorrow.

Nevertheless, since it does not function properly, I ask that in your next email you could ask anyone who has already filled the form out to fill it out again. I am sorry for this hassle and that people will need to fill the form out for a second time in such a short period. I will email you once I find out that the form is working properly.

Again, I am sorry for the trouble and not filling you in about this problem.
Hops

So you see, it has been taken care of. The downside of it is that those of you who entered data in the first day or so, didn't get accepted. Please go back and do it again. The database is working now.

Alex Kalkhfer sent me the following note, if you are the person that he is talking about, please let him (or me) know, it would be nice to have new signage out front for our 40th.

Hey Rick,
I have been appointed the new House and Grounds Chair, surprise! Anyway I repainted the letters last fall and have felt semi-satisfied with the looks of them. However, if you know of any alumnus who is good with wood (I know for a fact there are a few, looking at some of these pledge paddles) let me know or let them know. I think it is about time to move away from these plywood letters in front of the shelter to some thing a lot nicer looking (no offense to the fellows who made them) it is time for an upgrade!
Thanks Rick!

Eric Dunsker sent me the following email and I saved it for last for a couple of reasons. Number one, Shawn Selby will be working on updating the official history of the Chapter from the one that he did for our 30th. So all of you history buffs send him the information that you have. He is also interested in doing something that is a bit less official but maybe more fun. Like the story that Eric posts below. If you know any stories that should be included, let Shawn know. Like the time my brother (and Delt legacy) jumped over the side of the Washington Street bridge, in the middlle of the winter to keep from getting hit with a water balloon. Or Joe Vogel going to the emergency room because he had torn up his knee while "High Stepping" around campus. Or Randy "Awk" Williams famous (or infamous) study table lectures. I'm sure that there are many stories out there that need to be share d.

Rick,
Great to see you're still working with good (getting to be) old EU.
Question: In terms of activities for the anniversary, will there be any facility to collect stories about significant events and shenanigans that occurred over the years. I'm thinking of things like the College Bowl we pulled off with no official sanction from the administration, or running "Ed Holmes" (a guy who didn't exist) for student body president and almost winning (41% of the vote in a four day campaign).
One other request. At the anniversary you get to call me "Hebe" once to get it our of your system ... But just once, OK?

The most important reason that I waited to post this is so that I could apologize to Eric and everyone else that might be affected. I was dead wrong to refer to Eric as "Hebe." I didn't mean anything offensive when I wrote it, but that is no excuse. I'm sorry, Eric. I pray that I never make that mistake again.

That's all I have this week, I'm going to take a week off on asking for help with missing Brothers. You guys did a GREAT job last week. Have a good week.

Rick Neel '73

DTD at MC #39

2007-02-25T11:34:00.000-05:00

Good afternoon everyone,

This has been a very eventful week for EU.

We had a great weekend at the Northern Division Conference. The story of that weekend was told by Shawn Selby here on our Blog. I hope that you all checked that out. A very well written article I think.

Then just after that, on Feb. 20th to be exact, the Chapter Web site was totally upgraded. Adam Hopkins (the Chapter webmaster) did a great job, please go check it out. I think you will be as impressed as I was.

There is one section of the site that I would like to bring to your attention. It is under the Alumni section of the site, the Alumni Database Form, The nice thing about this form, is that it allows the Alumni to keep the Chapter (and me!) updated about new email addresses, snail-mail addresses, life changes, etc.

PLUS (and this is important), there is a place for you to let the Chapter know who your Big Brother and Little Brothers were. This will allow the Undergrads to update and correct the errors that are in the Big Brother Board at the chapter. We are aware that there are some errors there, please help us get them corrected. Aside from that, I hope that you will go check out the new site, because there has been a lot of work put into the upgrade.

While Hops was working on the Web site upgrade (without letting me know! So much for being on the "inside"), I was bugging him for some help on the address list. And, as usual, he didn't let me down. He went through and put an asterick next to all of the Chapter presidents’ names. I know it isn't much, but I thought that it would be nice to honor those of us who served as president. Did you know that there were two who served two years? I had forgotten. Matt Dole, of course, was one. Do you know who was the other? Check out the address book and find out.

One thing that was a bit disheartening, there are several past presidents that don't have an address on file. I think that we need to be in contact with all of them. Check out the address book and help find the missing for us. Thanks for that.

I still have no news to report about the ritual equipment fundraiser. But I still have to ask that you consider making a donation so we can replace the worn out equipment. Send your checks to the Crescent Colony of Marietta Inc., c/o Bob Ferguson, 507 Wooster St., Marietta, Ohio 45750. Make a note on your check that it is for ritual equipment. Thank you. This is the last request until I get some information to pass along to you.

I have some new addresses to pass along to you and, as usual, some names I need some help with. So let's get started.

Trent Leupp and Jay Read both sent in new email address. I’ve removed them from this post for privacy, but they are available in Alumni section of the Chapter Web site.

Tom Tintera sent me a copy of a letter sent written in 1967. It may be the first effort in a Chapter mailing. Hops and Shawn will try to figure out how to get it posted here on the Blog.

Rick,
I came across this newsletter the other day. I am directly to the right of the left pillar. I thought you would enjoy this historical document.
Tom Tintera ’71

The names I need help on are below:

Willliam Warner '68, Ken Weaver '75, Scott Gilmore '79, Dean Didato '84, Rodney Wells '89, Seth Pitasky '93, Eric Knapp '99, Seth Wolfson '04, Joshua Harris '08.

That's all I have this week. Hope to see all of you at the golf outing in April (the cost is generally $50, though I haven't heard about this year) and if not then, Homecoming is in October. And our 40th anniversary is in October 2008, I hope you are planning on that special weekend.

Rick Neel '73

Excelsior

2007-02-12T13:11:00.000-05:00

Our Undergraduate Brothers continue to make us proud.

I returned from the Northern Division Conference in Columbus Sunday evening, and I’m happy to report that Epsilon Upsilon received from the International Fraternity three awards for recruitment (rush), one award for academics and a Programming Award for Showcasing the Delt Spirit.

But, just as significant, every Important Delt Person I talked to had nothing but good things to say about our Undergrads.

An example of the type of good things being said about them: I sat in on a session for new Chapter Advisors and Alumni Advisory Team Members. Jim Russell, the International Fraternity’s Executive Vice President, said that Epsilon Upsilon was one of the fraternity’s "few high-functioning chapters."

Those are words of high praise from the Delt who runs Central Office.

They’ve really got their act together, and it is being noticed by the rest of the Fraternity.

All weekend long I got to enjoy the spotlight being shown on our Undergrads for more than just the five awards they picked up:

Outgoing Chapter President Craig Sundstrom was offered, and accepted, a position as Chapter Consultant – the first Epsilon Upsilon graduate to be named a Chapter Consultant.
Undergraduates Ashley Wollam and Sundstrom each were asked to introduce speakers at the conference.
Our Undergraduates were active members on each of the conferences committees, including Adam Hopkins, who was the only Undergraduate on the Northern Division’s auditing committee.
Our indefatigable Fergie chaired the auditing committee, gave a speech in support of the winning candidate for Northern Division President and spoke Sunday morning on the topic of "Power."

With all that stage time, this really was Epsilon Upsilon’s show.

They’ve been working hard and it is really showing.

I know some of them were hoping that this would be the year that the Chapter could again lay claim to Court of Honor and possibly even another Hugh Shield Award for Chapter Excellence.

It was not in the cards. This time.

But, unlike those of us who were Undergraduates during the Great Disappointment of 1990, they handled it with a lot more grace and dignity. They resolved to continue doing what they do well and to work on what they can do better.

In short, they handled it like men. They handled it like Delts. Our Delts.

Drop them a note telling them how proud you are of them through Chapter President Nick Aylward at naa001@marietta.edu.

Shawn "I will NOT go to Ritual at 7:30 a.m. on a Sunday" Selby '92

DTD at MC #38

2007-02-11T13:57:00.000-05:00

Hello everyone,

I wanted to get this email out now, because starting today, the Northern Division Conference is going on in Columbus, Ohio. Several of the undergrads will be attending as well as a few alums. Shawn Selby will be one of the alums, and he has promised to post a message with his impressions of the weekend on our Blog, be sure to check it out sometime early next week. That is unless we get some incredible award during the weekend (read Hugh Shields) and then he promises to report that during the conference. The blog address is: http://mcdeltalumni.blogspot.com/

Since the last email, the Chapter has installed new officers, that report can be read at the chapter web page. I understand that all of the meeting notes will be posted on the site, so if you are interested in reading them, check them out. Also, since my last email, some increased security has been put in place. Both the email list and the meeting notes require a password to access them. The password is "***Removed - If you need the password, contact me***" please make note of it for purposes of consulting the email directory.

Here is the letter that Hops sent me concerning the password. He also had a request for a project that the house is working on. For those of you planning on attending the Golf Outing (the weekend of April 28th), drop Adam Hopkins a line and let him know if you are interested.

Hey Rick,

I added a password to both the email list and the minutes. The password for both is "***removed***" and that is all undercase. It will ask for the password whenever you try to open one of the documents.

Also, I am on the Member Education Committee and we want to do an event that deals with alumni networking. We were wondering if you and some other alumni (we're hoping for 3-4) would be willing to talk to us about your job experiences; it's very open ended about what you can talk about. We'll probably have more information in the upcoming weeks. This would take place during the alumni weekend at the end of April (27th-29th, i believe are the dates).

Please let me know if you are willing to do so, and you can have any interested alumni, who will at MC for that weekend, email me (aph001@marietta.edu) or the Delts account (delts@marietta.edu).

Thanks a lot,

Hops

James Kane sent this offer to me, about the ritual equipment project. It is a nice way to make our money stretch further. Thanks James!

Hey Rick,

Just something to keep in mind. If we can plan to buy any materials that we need from Lowe's on a weekend that I can make it to Marietta, I can use my employee discount card for 10% off the materials.

James Kane

Along that same line, I haven't heard any more from the undergraduates about thier shopping list, nor has Ferg given me an updated amount of gifts. Just to reiterate, we are in the midst of a fundraiser for new ritual equipment for the chapter. Please make your check payable to the Crescent Colony of Marietta Inc. send it, with a note that it is for the ritual equipment, to Robert Ferguson at 507 Wooster St., Marietta, Ohio 45750. Thank you.

This next bit of news is a first for us. I'm also sure that Steve Pouliot isn't the only guy that we are missing from our email listing, so if you would, please check the names on our address list for your era, and if someone is missing, please let Hops or me know, so we can try to chase them down.

Guys,
Web site looks great.I attended Marietta 83-84, did not graduate, but look at my time at the Delt house as some of my fondest memories. Feel free to email me at raceguy2000@yahoo.com.

Steve Pouliot

To the "eternal pledge" welcome, I am really glad that you found us.

We had a conversation after I got the above email from the Chapter, and I'll include it here.

Steve Pouliot,

My name is Rick Neel, I am a Delt from MC, and Igraduated in 1973. My job with the Chapter is to build a complete email directory of all of the EU Delts. So welcome to our group. I am sorry to say that for some reason your name doesn't appear on my list of brothers. I was aware that I was probably missing some names, so I'm thrilled to find you. What year would you have graduated, had you remained at Marietta? I ask this so I can tell where to put you. Did you activate with the chapter? Or remain a pledge?

Thanks for any information you can supply me.

Sorry it took me so long to get back in touch with you, but like I say, I just received the email today.

Fraternally, Rick Neel

Rick,

I did not graduate. I did not activate. For a number of years after I left I was the answer to trivia questions for pledges. I think it was worded "who is the eternal pledge?".

I would have graduated in 1987.

Pretty funny your email comes now, as a few of us were making very tentative plans to attend Homecoming.

Any other info you want/need?

Steve Pouliot

Steve,

I'm really glad that I got the chance to talk to you. I hope that you do decide to come to Homecoming, I'd like to meet you. I'd like to invite you to go to the Chapter Web site, www.marietta.edu/~delts/ and check it out. The Undergrads have made
some nice improvements to it. Also, there is a link to our Alumni blog, the Alumni newsletter (the Protimoi), and our email address listing (which I will have you added to very shortly). The password to access the email list (and meeting notes) is: *****, please make use of the list and contact some of the brothers that were around when you were. Both of you will enjoy the contact.

I started the emails (they are in the blog) with the intent of having a great 40th anniversary of DTD at the MC campus. That will occur during homecoming 2008.

I hope that you can attend. We also will be having our annual golf outing in April. You are cordially invited to attend that also.

Welcome aboard! My DTD email address is rneel11@comcast.net if you need or wish to contact me, please use it as I check it daily and respond pretty promptly. If you want to give the guys an update on what has been going on in your life, drop me a line and I will include it in my next email to the alums (I will add you to that list also!).

Fratermally, Rick Neel '73

It is pretty exicting to me to find a brother that I had no idea about. Hopefully we can find all of us and get in contact with them. Speaking of finding Delts, here is my list of missing brothers for this week. If you can help with an address, let me know.

Franklin Hirsch '69, James Meads '72, Bruce (Pineapple) Masatsugu '75, Jeff Salway '80, John Marfy '85, Doug Stewart '90, Ben Weaver '96, Jay Read '05.

That's all I have for today, have a good weekend. I hope to see you in April.

Rick Neel '73

DTD at MC # 37

2007-01-30T15:08:00.000-05:00

Good morning to everyone,

Boy, am I glad that the undergrads are back on campus! It gives me something to write about. Plus I have some new/updated addresses for you. And a discount offer from a Brother, limited to EU members.

Here is the first bit of news, as most of you undoubtedly are aware, the winter issue of the Protimoi has been released. Please go check it out — another fantastic job by Hunter and the undergrads. It can be reached at the Chapter Web site: http://www.marietta.edu/~delts/protimoi.htm

There is an article about one of our undergrads, Dustin Walker, who has joined the Marine Corps. There is a link to the chapter to let you know how to get in touch with him.

Peter Weiner, my little brother, sent me the following offer shortly after my last email and I thought that I would pass it along to you, in case you are interested. I’m not sure I want to get into the buying and selling thing, but this once I will. Peter is in business building, modifiying, and trouble shooting computers. With today’s launch of Windows Vista, he has made the following offer to EU Delts:

Hey Big Bro,
I’m going to take this opportunity to solicit business.
Attention all Brother Delts EU Chapter:
Many of you have heard that on Jan. 31, 2007, a new operating system for our great and powerful computers is going to be released.
There are many variations of the new OS from 32bit to 64bit from basic to Ultimate. As a OEM SYSTEM BUILDER registered with Microsoft and Intel, I will be dealing with the best of the breeds: Vista Home Premium, Vista Business, and Vista Ultimate.
If anyone is interested in obtaining this software at greatly reduced price (this offer is only for EU Delts) please feel free to contact me
Peter S. Weiner
President http://www.petethegeek.net/
786-267-3224

I sent him the following message, to clarify what he is offering. Following my note is his response, with pricing. I hope that it is helpful for those of you interested.

Peter,
Just a thought for you. Have you considered posting on the new Delt InCircle? Evidently that is what that site is for. I will post your message very shortly so if anyone is interested they will have the opportunity to contact you.
Tell me though, what is the advantage for a home user like me? I don’t really use the computer for work. Just to play, and I don’t really play games either. So why should I upgrade? Just curious. Thanks, Peter. Hope everything is going well for you.
Rick

His response:

Rick,
To be honest I haven’t taken the time to look at the Delt InCircle. Most home users use their computers to play. Reasons to upgrade to more stable platform, better built in security from the Internet (built in anti spyware and firewall and anti virus) For families, better control over of non administrator accounts. Great child controls built in. The ability to “roll back to an earlier state “if an inappropriate executable file gets installed while surfing.
Particular for the home user: smoother integration to create a home media center: better movie watching , music listening , TV watching and creating and burning DVD/CDs.
Overall with the new Areo interface much more fun and pleasant look and feel to the operating system. With multiple window open you can roll through them as if they were on a rolodex, flip though live windows. There are some of the positives now for the opposing view: needs more RAM, a video card with a min of 128 MB video RAM and a modern CPU to work properly.
Check here for minimum hardware requirements: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsvista/aa905075.aspx
Want to see if your Windows XP-based PC can run Windows Vista? Just download, install and run the Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/upgradeadvisor/default.mspx
Hope this helps,
Peter

My reply:

Peter,
Thanks for the information, I checked and my machine will take the update. Now to figure out if I want it ...
I’m getting ready to post your email. But I thought that I should ask this question, een though I feel sure that I know the answer already. I’m kind of embarrassed about it. So please don’t take offense. The upgrade that you are offering the Brothers is a legal and authentic issue, with the proper paperwork isn’t it? Like I said, I’m embarrassed to ask, but I feel like I really have to. Hope that you understand.
Rick

His response:

Rick,
Don’t be embarrassed, in these days of Internet scams it is an appropriate question.
ABSOLUTELY LEGAL! Full OEM license, not upgrade, completely legit. I do not need to face the penalties of $10k fines and possible 3-5 at the Graybar hotel or worse.
By the way just as an example Vista Ultimate is selling at Best Buy for 399.99 my price is $295.00, Vista Home Premium at Best Buy is $239.99 my price $195.00
All prices subject to tax and shipping.
Peter S. Weiner
President
http://www.petethegeek.net/
786-267-3224

There you go, that is the conversation that I had with Peter. Anyone interested, please give Peter a shout.

Since I wrote last time, I heard from Fergie that our donations are up to $260 now, on our fundraising effort towards new ritual equipment. I also heard from Ashley Wollam, the Chapter guide. More information should be coming from him shortly, I hope. Please consider a donation to help with this project. Send your check to Crescent Colony of Marietta Inc. c/o Robert Ferguson, 507 Wooster St., Marietta, Ohio 45750. Please note on your check that it is for ritual equipment. Thank you.

Here is Ashley’s note, along with my reply.

I just wanted to quickly touch base with you about getting new Ritual Equipment. Nick Aylward and I did an inventory today of our equipment and mapped out the things we need. We’re going to go pseudo-shopping here soon to firm up our estimates, but I can give you some rough preliminary ones now:
Rite of Iris: $95 (Plywood, paint, gloss, votives, purple and gold fabrics, window coverings).
Ritual: $153 (Light box, stain, column pieces, globes, bulbs, extension cords, pedestal, gavel, et cetera).
We’re thinking about possibly going wireless on the lights, depending on how fiscally viable the option might be.
Just to let you know, the Chapter is taking this as a serious investment. The goal, as I understand it, is to move towards equipment that will last, so we’re not going to bother with things we expect to replace in the near future. I hope that is what alumni are feeling as well.
Cheers to you, and I’ll talk to you soon with more accurate estimates!
Ashley

Ashley,
I agree with you that the plans and estimates that you come up with should be with the thought in mind that the equipment should be built to last (maybe not another 40 years, but last). While you are putting your list together, list it all. Fergie says that you need a new chair for the Chapter president, include that. You could use new tables for the officers to work from, include that. Include the cost of the wireless light controls. Do you want columns that are lit all the way up? (I think that would be neat), figure that in.
Don’t be extravagant just to be extravagant. But do ask for the things that you want. If you want things that cost $1,000 total, and ask for things that only cost $500, you will only get $500. If you ask for the $1,000 and only get $500, we can scale back.
Be aware that you may not get all of those things in the first go around. But that is what you would like to have. We may have to get part of it now, and continue to save for some other things (the president chair and work tables). Getting window coverings is something that you need, but remember we are hoping for a new shelter for you guys in the semi-near future, will they fit in the new place? Black trash bags are ugly, but they work.
There you have my thoughts on this. Do what you will with it, but I do hope that you can get us some sort of an estimate fairly shortly.
Welcome back to school!
Rick

So there you have the information so far. We’ll see what he comes back with.

From the Chapter meeting minutes, which have been newly added to the Chapter Web site, so you can all read them. (As can everyone else in the world, is this wise?) The Chapter GPA is over a 3.0, I think that deserves an “attaboy.”

The Chapter is leading in the new member education trial program with over 200 points, I don’t know what that means, but if we are in 1st place in something, it has to be good!

Finally, Feb. 4th is a formal meeting and installation of the new officers. I would like to extend my congratulations to the current group on a job well done! To the new group, you have big shoes to fill, and I am confident that you can do so, and build upon what has gone before! Good luck, if I can be of any help, let me know. For any alumni in the area on the 4th, stop by and attend the meeting.

I got the following email from Jon Bolden. I’m all in favor of getting together. I’m learning that there are several of us here in the West, perhaps we could all get together somewhere on a weekend for a round of golf or something. Have to keep that in mind, and try it.

I didn’t realize that you were in Arizona. Let me know if you are ever swinging through Austin, Texas, and we can stop and have a meal together. Also, Brother Corey Medina is in Albuquerque, so I might be making a road trip someday. Take
it easy. Back to work!

The new/updated addresses that I have received this week are: Graham Cochran, Jon Bolden and Robert “Gib” Gibson. Gib also sent me an address I had been missing, thanks Gib: Trent Leupp. Thanks to for keeping me updated on your address. And welcome Trent!

Here are some names I need help with this week: Albert Mason ’68, Andrew James ’73, Rodney Stoltz ’76, Lt. Walter Meneses ’81, Steven Bennett ’84, Adam Mermer ’94, Buell Hall ’00, Jay Read ’05. Thanks for your help with these Brothers. It seems as if this is working, about every week I get a new name from the list.

That’s all I have this week, have a good week. I hope to see you all in April at the golf outing, and in 2008 for our 40th anniversary on the MC campus.

Rick Neel ’73

DTD at MC #36

2007-01-24T19:20:00.000-05:00

Good Afternoon to everyone,

Hope everyone is satisfied with the two teams that made the Super Bowl this year. I know that I am pleased that Tony Dungy made it, that man is a class act and deserves it. (He built my team up to Super Bowl quality, then got fired. Tampa Bay Buccaneers). Enjoy the game all of you.

I have an address update for you all, along with my apology for having it wrong the first time! Here is the correction from Alex Kalkoffer, please make note of it.

Hey sorry I may have linked the wrong address ... Here it is https://incircle.delts.org/. Make sure in your browser that you put "https://" and not "www." That is why it is not working, it's a secure website.. Sorry about that! I also sent you an email invite to the site just in case.

Also a little more information about InCircle. It is a site that was put together by the Central Office in order to help Delts, both Alumni and Undergrad, build a network to help them in life. Be it job searches or employee searches, or about anything else. Check it out.

If memory serves me, Alex was originally looking for an internship in Radio/TV. I don't know if you found what you were looking for Alex, but I am aware of two guys in TV that may be able to give you a steer in where to look. Unfortunately, I can only think of one right now - Ted Smith is working for Channel 10 in Columbus. He may or may not be able to help you, but you might ask him (he's an EU Delt, look in the email address list).

For everyone else, that address list is availiable from the Alumni section of the Chapter web site: http://www.marietta.edu/~delts/. Please check it out and send me any addresse s that you may have that we don't.

Last time I included a list of brothers whose address we don't have. I got a location on one of them, so if you know Eric, give him a shout. Welcome Eric, a brother from my era. Bob Burns sent me this email with Eric's address:

I think I might be able to locate Eric D. Dunsker (Hebe). I have e-mailed someone who likely is he.
Bob Burns '75
Brother Alki
One of the Phi
Beta Kappas of MC DTD

He then followed it up with this:

The e-mail address for Eric Dunsker '76 is **removed for privacy issues**
I e-mailed the person I identified from the web and I was right, it turned out to be him. He is in Connecticut working in ergonomics. He called me back and we talked for an hour. Great memories and a chance to catch up. We hadn't talked since I graduated from MC. Yes, he wants your chapter newsletter/e-mails. Many thanks.
Sincerely,
Bob Burns
Brother Alki -- 3.2% (I know that's Not PC with DTD)

Alki, isn't that what it's all about? Getting in touch with someone you haven't heard from in years? I'm sure that you had a great visit. So when our 40th anniversary rolls around in 2008, you both can come and tell some more lies! I sure hope to see both of you there. (as far as the 3.2% beer, I'm sure the guys would laugh at you now!)

For you Eric, and anyone else that hasn't found it yet, there is an archive of my Pulitzer Prize winning emails at our Blog Site. There are also announcements from our House Corp President, Jon Hartshorn (Hartsy), as well as some comments by our resident newspaper guy, Shawn Selby. If you haven't checked it out, please do so. http://mcdeltalumni.blogspot.com/

I had asked for some help concerning John Simone, a pledge who transferred from MC. Ashley Wollam got me an answer. Thanks Ashley.

Rick, I had to call Headquarters today, so I forwarded your e-mail to my work address to remind me to ask after John Simone. Teresa, at Delt Headquarters, was unable to find anyone under the name of John Simone. She found a "Matthew" and a "Joseph," Simone, but neither had Epsilon Upsilon in their file. I'm afraid he may have dropped off the radar. If you'd like to consult Central Office, the number is (317) 284-0203.
Best regards,
Ashley Wollam

I got a letter from Fergie, he tells me that he thinks that we have an initiated total of about 350 members over our 39 years. Our email list is now at 219, that is pretty good, I think. However, we are running out of time before we get to our 40th anniversary, and I really want to contact every one of our brothers and get them back to Marietta in 2008. Help me out here, please.

Fergie also reported that we have collected $160 towards our new ritual equipment. That is an acceptable start, and I know that we haven't gotten a "wish list" from the undergrads yet. Craig Sundstrom promises me it is coming shortly. Please consider making a donation so we can build a new set of equipment. Send your check, made payable to: Crescent Colony of Marietta Inc. to Bob Ferguson, 507 Wooster St, Marietta, Ohio 45750. Make a note that your donation is for ritual equipment. Thank you.

I got the following email from Don Wolfe, he seems to be doing OK, just pining away for the mountians of Colorado. He does say that he and Ken Kavula are planning on being in Marietta for our 40th anniversary.

In October of 2008, make plans now to join them (and me!). Matt Dole, I hope that you are keeping track of these names so you know how big of a place to reserve :-) So far I know of these men: Don Wolfe, Ken Kavula, Rob Weidenfeld, Darrell Pritchard, Me, Jim Neel (I'm dragging him along kicking and screaming), Bob Peterson, and Randy (AWK) Williams. I'm sure that there will be spouses attending also, and many others that I haven't heard directly from (Hartsy, Shawn, the local guys, and many others). It's starting to shape up into a great turnout. One thought about our anniversary, we know that the undergrads can't afford to pay for this, so what kind of a budget would you like for us to use in our planning? Input will be greatly appreciated.

Aside from Eric Dunsker's address, I also have an updated address from Jordon Herrick.

Hey Rick,
I got a new e-mail, they are shuting down my marietta account. **removed for privacy reasons**
Thanks, hope all is well.
Jordan '06

This week's brothers that I am looking for help locating, if you are in contact with them, let me know:
Joseph Ferrell '68, Paul Schoenfeld '70, John Alligood '73, Steven Dennis '78, Rick Eckstein '82 (he gave a talk at MC last year and is a professor, shouldn't be hard to get ahold of), Mike Pantos '87, Brian Clark '93 (he has his information on the chapter map), Trent Leupp '95, Jonathan Young '02, Vince Li '05.

Keep in mind that the spring golf outing is coming in April. The 28th (It better be then, I have plane tickets and hotel reservations already). Come and watch the slaughter, I've been practicing, Awk. (In all honesty, Darrell Pritchard (my Big Brother), says I suck.)

That's all I have. Have a great week.

Rick Neel '73

DTD at MC #35

2007-01-11T14:45:00.000-05:00

Hello to you all,

Lots to talk about today, I have some new addresses, some new news, and some news that I have forgotten to talk about for a while now. So lets get started.

To begin with, I hope that you all have been checking our Delt Blog from time to time. Recently there have been a couple of new posts added. One from Hartsy and one from Shawn Selby. Also, for the first time there has been a comment added to an email of mine. Yippy!! It is from Hartsy and since it is the first one, I'll add it here.

Hartsy wrote:

Working on Ritual equipment as part of the spring weekend is a great idea. It could, however, be dangerous. I'm better with a golf club than a saw and hammer. (For those of you who have seen my golf game, you may think I tee off with a saw.)

I have to agree with you on that sentiment Hartsy, I think that screws should have directional arrows. Be sure to check out the Blog to see what Hartsy and Shawn have to say. Harsty is interested in setting up committees to try to see to it that our 40th anniversary is a great success as well as getting the drive for a new shelter for the undergrads underway. He is looking for volenteers or suggestions for people to serve on the committees. Shawn's post is about the Northern Division Conference that is going to be held in Columbus, Ohio in February. He has posted a link to the online registration site as well as some ideas about helping the undergrads attend. Check it out. For those of you who haven't bookmarked the site, the address is: http://mcdeltalumni.blogspot.com/

From the College website, here is some sad news for some of the older guys. The full article can be found at the college site http://www.marietta.edu/ in the alumni section.

June 12, 2006 -- Dr. Stephen W. Schwartz, who served on the faculty at Marietta College for 39 years and was affectionately known as the "Dean of Fun," died Sunday (June 11, 2006), in Brevard, N.C., after a 19-month battle with lung cancer. He was 66.

My last request for addresses of people that we are missing produced some results so I'll give you some more names today. Ken Kavula found one for us and also got some good news about our 40th!

Here's Rob's (Weidenfeld) email:

(removed for privacy reasons)

I just spent the last half hour with him on the phone and I think he'll be at our 40th!

Ken Kavula '69

Welcome Rob! I've been trying to get your email for a year or so now. I get one and find it's bad. Glad we finally found you. And I'm so glad you are going to be able to make it to our 40th anniversary.

Dave Barker sent this email in with the name of another missing brother. Thanks Dave!

I am sure JD (Jeff Dean - address below) would love to hear from you. Thanks for the "old school" talk and keeping up with everyone. This was a big part of being in the fraternity for me, the extended family and fellowship ....

Dave Barker '77

Jess Raines sent this:

Rick - lost brother John Simone was in my pledge class and transferred from MC to another university sometime in 1994, he didn't actually graduate from MC. Perhaps if he joined another chapter, central office would have his info.

Jess

Perhaps one of the undergrads can help with this one. Some of you are in contact with the International Headquarters fairly regularly. Let me know. Thanks.

Alex Kalkhofer sent the following note:

Rick,
Thank you for all these e-mails. They may seem long to non-Delts but I look forward to reading them every time I see them in my inbox.
I have posted pictures on the Delts Incircle networking site. If you haven't done so already, check out my profile (Alex Kalkhofer) to see some pictures from the house. Also this is a great service which is available to us to stay connected with our brothers as well as network with Delts everywhere. The site is http://www.incircle.delts.org/. I encourage everyone to join this and post any openings in your company for fellow Delts. For instance I am looking for an internship in a television station and would be great if I could get a job with a brother. Any how I am excited to get back to the house and jump right into what I have been doing.
Finally like you said Rick, we would love for any alumnus to stop by and hang out. Please feel more welcome than I feel in the house!
Fraternally,
Brother Kalkhofer

I think this is a great way for Delts to help other Delts in furthering their careers. I checked out the site but couldn't get it to work for me. But as I've said many time in the past, I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed about computers. So maybe you'll have better luck.

Here are the new addresses that I have received this week. The address listing at our website is current as of January 9th so all of these names are there. But for those of you keeping your list updated yourself.

Steve Critchlow, Rob Weidenfeld and Geoffrey Dean.

Welcome guys! Hope that you enjoy these newsletters and please, if you have some news to share with the rest of us, do so. Hope to see you at our 40th anniversary in 2008. To the rest of you, if these guys were in your era, drop them a note to say "Hi" they'll appreciate it.

We now have 216 addresses in our address book. I think that is pretty spectuacular and soon we will have more, I'm sure. Note to Hops, Fergie, or Craig Sundstrom: How many of us are there now? How many addresses do we still have to go? Let me know will you? Thanks!

Here are some names of brothers that are still missing, if you are in contact with any of them let me know:

Peter Ross '67, Mike Stein '72, Paul Craft '73, Eric Dunsker '76, George Dee '82, Jim Bailey '88, Dan Moorman '92, Shawn Spence '98, Colin Orsini '02, Pete Campbell '06.

That's all I have for this week.

Hope you all have a great weekend,

Rick Neel '73

Get thee to Columbus!

2007-01-10T16:41:00.000-05:00

The Northern Division Conference is in Columbus next month.

The dates are Friday, Feb. 9 through Sunday, Feb. 11.

The registration deadline is Jan. 26. You can register here.

The cost for the entire conference is $105, payable at the conference.

If you want to just go to the big dinner on Saturday evening, then the cost is $40, but you still must register online by the 26th.

The conference will be at the Westin Great Southern Hotel on South High Street. The special Delt rate to stay there is $104 plus tax per night for a room with two double beds.

The hotel, as well as the entire Westin chain is nonsmoking, which means I won’t be staying at the “host hotel.”

I have booked a suite at the Doubletree Guest Suites a couple of blocks away from the Westin. So thus I declare the Doubletree to be the official Marietta Delt Alumni Host Hotel. (Although you are welcomed to book at the Westin or anywhere else you please.)

Suites at the Doubletree range from $109 to $139 a night. The reservation link is here.

We have lots of Marietta Delt Alumni living within an hour or two of Columbus, so it would be great to get a whole bunch of us there. Even if just for the dinner.

Perhaps our Undergrads might win some REALLY BIG HUG(h)E (shields) AWARD that weekend. Maybe. Fingers have been crossed. Wood has been knocked on. Ritual animals have been sacrificed. Virgins have been tossed into volcanoes.

If you’re gonna go and stay at a hotel, and if you’d like to let some Undergrads stay in your hotel to help them cut their costs, drop Craig Sundstrom an email at sundstrc@marietta.edu.

Fraternally,
Shawn “Don’t Tell Me I Can’t Smoke” Selby ’92