S PRING 2013 A PUBLICATION OF ALPHA DELTA FRATERNITY AT WASHBURN UNIVERSITY TRIANGLE EST. 1912 ALPHA DELTA LOOKS AHEAD TO FOUNDERS DAY I t’s hard to believe spring break is past us and in just a couple weeks we will celebrate our 101st Founders Day, April 19-21, and then the 2013 commencement. Throughout this 100th year of Alpha Delta, the alumni board and active chapter have successfully worked together to carry on the traditions of Alpha Delta. First and foremost, the chapter earned the first place academic award for the fall 2012 semester with the highest GPA among Washburn fraternities. As a Washburn faculty member, and the chapter’s academic advisor, I can sincerely say I am proud of this achievement. The academic culture within the chapter has been transforming for the positive over the past several years. Those efforts paid off this past fall, and the entire university community is now taking notice. Brotherhood amongst the members is growing, as well. This is due in part to maintaining higher recruitment and academic standards for membership. Our members are learning how to strive for the good of the organization and to maintain the dignity of all concerned. They are putting into action the meaning behind a part of our purpose as Alpha Delts, which is to “be truly concerned with the betterment of each individual member, the fraternity, and Washburn.” The 101st Founders Day is shaping up to be another great event (full lineup on page 4). I am especially pleased to announce that Trey Burton ’86 will be our featured speaker of the evening. He was president of the chapter in 1985-86 and is now assistant deputy chief United States probation officer for the District of Kansas, where he has worked for more than 22 years. He is going to speak on leadership and his experiences with Leadership Topeka. Because of your generous annual campaign donations last year, we were able to not only renovate the kitchen, but also install privacy partitions for the two main bathrooms in the back part of the house. This has been a needed upgrade for many years, so thank you for helping us make it happen. Finally, we are making it a priority to raise funds for new dining room and and active chapter meeting room chairs and tables during the coming months. We have only 14 of the original wooden chairs left (70 years old), and most of them are cracked, patched, and on their last legs. We need 65 new sturdy, matched chairs, a head table for the dining room, and a table for the active chapter room. Last summer, we remodeled the kitchen and dining areas of the chapter house. They are now the focal point of our house, and all we have now are a sad-looking group of folding and mismatched chairs. It is time we finish the project we started last year by furnishing the dining room with new chairs. We are going to extend an opportunity to alumni to purchase chairs for the dining room with names designated on brass plaques attached to the back of each chair. Furniture can be purchased and your name placed on the plaque or you can have the name of someone you wish to honor placed on the plaque. It would be a nice way to remember someone special to you, perhaps a brother or special faculty member who has passed on, a housemother who helped you during your school years, or your pledge father. We will have more information on this important effort out to you in the near future! With your support, we will have strong and good- looking furniture for another 70 years! In the meantime, please don’t forget to fill out the gift form on page 4 and return it with your generous check to support the Annual Giving Campaign for 2013. We need your ongoing support for needed house maintenance, alumni communications, taxes, and insurance. Please join us for the 101st Founders Day Celebration April 19-21. The years pass quickly, and we hope you will take time to spend the weekend with your brothers and to share the many great memories that are part of your Alpha Delta heritage. As always, your loyalty and support of Alpha Delta is sincerely appreciated. Fraternally, John Burns ’92 Alumni President [email protected]Annual Giving Campaign Support Appreciated, Still Needed ALPHA DELTA ONLINE STAY UP TO DATE WITH ALPHA DELTA ONLINE AT WWW.ALPHADELTA.ORG! Send your e-mail address to [email protected]to receive our e-Triangle newsletters! Our dining room chairs are wearing out after 70 years of use by many brothers. Watch your mail soon for an opportunity to help us replace these in your honor.
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Sp r i n g 2013
A publicAtion of AlphA DeltA frAternity At WAShburn univerSity
T r i a n g l eest. 1912
AlphA DeltA looks AheAD to FounDers DAy
It’s hard to believe spring break is past us and in just a couple weeks we will celebrate our 101st Founders
Day, April 19-21, and then the 2013 commencement. Throughout this 100th year of Alpha Delta, the alumni board and active chapter have successfully worked together to carry on the traditions of Alpha Delta. First and foremost, the chapter earned the first place academic award for the fall 2012 semester with the highest GPA among Washburn fraternities. As a Washburn faculty member, and the chapter’s academic advisor, I can sincerely say I am proud of this achievement. The academic culture within the chapter has been transforming for the positive over the past several years. Those efforts paid off this past fall, and the entire university community is now taking notice. Brotherhood amongst the members is growing, as well. This is due in part to maintaining higher recruitment and academic standards for membership. Our members are learning how to strive for the good of the organization and to maintain the dignity of all concerned. They are putting into action the meaning behind a part of our purpose as Alpha Delts, which is to “be truly concerned with the betterment of each individual member, the fraternity, and Washburn.” The 101st Founders Day is shaping up to be another great event (full lineup on page 4). I am especially pleased to announce that Trey Burton ’86 will be our featured speaker of the evening. He was president of the chapter in 1985-86 and is now assistant deputy chief United States probation officer for the District of Kansas, where he has worked for more than 22 years. He is going to speak on leadership and his experiences with Leadership Topeka. Because of your generous annual campaign donations last year, we were able to not only renovate the kitchen, but also install privacy partitions for the two main bathrooms in the back part of the house. This has been a needed upgrade for many years, so thank you for helping us make it happen.
Finally, we are making it a priority to raise funds for new dining room and and active chapter meeting
room chairs and tables during the coming months. We have only 14 of the original wooden chairs left (70 years old), and most of them are cracked, patched, and on their last legs. We need 65 new sturdy, matched chairs, a head table for the dining room, and a table for the active chapter room. Last summer, we remodeled the kitchen and dining areas of the chapter house. They are now the focal point of our house, and all we have now are a sad-looking group of folding and mismatched chairs. It is time we finish the project we started last year by furnishing the dining room with new chairs. We are going to extend an opportunity to alumni to purchase chairs for the dining room with names designated on brass plaques attached to the back of each chair. Furniture can be purchased and your name placed on the plaque or you can have the name of someone you wish to honor placed on the plaque. It would be a nice way to remember someone special to you, perhaps a brother or special faculty member who has passed on, a housemother who helped you during your school years, or your pledge father. We will have more information on this important effort out to you in the near future! With your support, we will have strong and good-looking furniture for another 70 years!
In the meantime, please don’t forget to fill out the gift form on page 4 and return it with your generous check to support the Annual Giving Campaign for 2013. We need your ongoing support for needed house maintenance, alumni communications, taxes, and insurance. Please join us for the 101st Founders Day Celebration April 19-21. The years pass quickly, and we hope you will take time to spend the weekend with your brothers and to share the many great memories that are part of your Alpha Delta heritage. As always, your loyalty and support of
Alpha Delta is sincerely appreciated. Fraternally, John Burns ’92Alumni [email protected]
Annual Giving Campaign Support Appreciated, Still Needed
AlphA DeltA Online
StAy up to DAte With AlphA DeltA online At WWW.AlphADeltA.org!
Send your e-mail address to [email protected] to receive our e-Triangle newsletters!
Our dining room chairs are wearing out after 70 years of use by many brothers. Watch your mail soon for an opportunity to help us
replace these in your honor.
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this past semester we initiated five new members, and we are confident that they will be able to help build
the fraternity with their hard work and dedication. The last semester pledge class was a very successful one, and we look forward to seeing them in action as full actives with all the responsibilities it entails.
The overall chapter GPA was a 3.0, making us first among fraternities on campus. We are looking to raise our GPA this semester even higher and remain in first place.
We have started a new recruitment committee put together by Nick Morse ’13, our vice president and recruitment chairman. With help from alumni, our goal is to have a pledge class of 25 for the fall semester. With those numbers, our chapter will be stronger on campus and have a greater influence.
Several of our new active members have already started taking responsibility and now hold chapter leadership positions. Two new actives also hold executive positions on campus. They are working hard for the university and for the fraternity as a whole. Brothers are also involved on campus in WSGA and the Campus Activities Board so that we get Alpha Delta out into the community and show everyone what it means to be an Alpha Delt.
This semester, we have enjoyed events with Delta Gamma and Zeta Tau Alpha, and we plan to hold a formal social with Delta Chi and Kappa Alpha Theta. We also invited professional NFL football player Michael Wilhoite over to the house for dinner. Wilhoite played for Washburn’s football team a few years ago and now plays for the San Francisco 49ers. It was a great chance for our new actives to meet with a Super Bowl player (see picture below).
The culture within the house is creating strong bonds between brothers and helping us become men as we make the chapter and ourselves better. We are also encouraging our members to get into the Greek and
Washburn communities to establish lifelong relationships with others and to further Alpha Delta’s reputation as gentlemen and as scholars.
We are committed to keeping Alpha Delta the strongest, most well-known, and most respected fraternity at Washburn University. Thanks to all of the alumni for your continued support of our great fraternity!
AlphA DeltA hAs success in RecRuitment, AcADemics AnD events
Former Washburn football star and current San Francisco 49ers player Michael Wilhoite (back center) enjoyed dinner
at the house with several of the actives recently.
Maroon & White Sustainer ($500 and above) Alan W. Rolley ’55William D. Pantle ’58James S. Maag ’61Terry L. Marshall ’63Eldon R. Turner ’63Thomas A. Adrian ’66Michael L. Worswick ’68*Kenneth R. Moran ’70Ron E. Wurtz ’70*Timothy S. Durst ’84*Thomas J. Schultz
Alpha Delta Spirit Squad($100 to $499)Joseph P. Logan ’39
R. Bob Rhodes ’50Richard J. Miller ’51Donald E. Moore ’51Fred R. Guild ’52Harold L. Hula ’52Frank M. Rice ’52James W. Sloan ’52William H. Walters ’53Aspet V. Merijanian, Ph.D. ’54Lt. Col. Donald E. Robson ’54Dwane L. Spohn ’54John P. Slater ’55Gary A. Cook ’57Harry E. Parratt ’57Lowell F. Hahn ’58Don B. Rolley ’58Art Glassman ’59
David R. Oldham ’60Jack R. Shutt ’61David M. Dunford ’62Richard J. Rathbun II ’62Hayden B. St. John ’62Larrie C. Bates ’63Barry K. Wilkes ’63Richard R. Rosetta ’64John H. Resing ’66Francis E. Reardon ’67Robert A. Maxwell MD ’68Fredrick J. Dodds III ’69Charles N. McLeod ’69Bruce E. Jones ’70John D. Minnick ’70Lawrence S. Mitchell ’70Robert L. Edwards ’71Keith D. Adams ’72Danton C. Hejtmanek ’73
Charles A. Morgan III ’75Keith D. Olson ’76Norman R. Kelly ’77Martin L. Toews ’82Whitney B. Damron ’84James F. Zimmerman ’85Michael J. Kuckelman ’86John W. Burns ’92Blake Cornish ’93Chris Shelton ’96Clayton D. Pykiet ’00Jesse Long ’06Nancy N. Scherer
Others (Up to $99)Wendell L. Gibson ’53Larry A. Miller ’66George D. Sloop ’66
Joe T. Casper III ’69Donn A. Land ’70John R. McNee ’71Paul K. Stuewe ’72Richard K. Friedstrom ’73Larry D. Geiger ’73James R. Hanni ’74Bruce C. Perney ’77Steven A. Ferbezer ’78Ronald G. Schweer ’80Alexander T. Escandon ’85Scot W. Ferrell ’85David A. Uphaus ’87James B. Wilmoth ’01Jarrett Kitch ’08
*Centurion donor ($1,000 or more gift for Centennial)
($12,700 to College Ave. Building Co.; $3,700 to Macvicar educational Foundation)January 1, 2012 – December 31, 2012
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to Brig. Gen. Larrie Bates ’63, joining a fraternity was an opportunity to broaden his college experiences through social and
academic success. He chose Alpha Delta because of the active members he met. “They were the only local fraternity, and the quality of the guys I met were top notch. I knew these were the kind of guys I wanted to associate with.” Larrie also had several friends from high school who chose to pledge Alpha Delta.
While earning his bachelor’s degree in business administration, Larrie served as the social chairman, vice president, and president of Alpha Delta. Through Alpha Delta, he was able to participate in many activities, make friends, and open doors to working in the community and on campus. He fondly remembers all of his experiences, because without the fraternity he would not have had the same opportunities. “There was never any doubt in my mind that I made the right choice. The fraternity helped me develop leadership skills and learn that the group is more important than the individual.” One of his favorite events was the Fireman Ball. “It was where my wife, Judy, and I got pinned, so it is always a special memory.”
Larrie serves as a member of the Alpha Delta alumni board and is a Trustee for the WU Foundation. “I believe very strongly that it is important to give back to organizations that played a positive part in your life and the lives of others, so that it will continue to grow and flourish. It seems like a natural thing to support the Annual Giving Campaign. Alpha Delta is the kind of organization that enhances a student’s life. Without belonging to fraternities and sororities, I think students miss out on a part of college that is very important.”
He urges all alumni to take a moment to think back on the role Alpha Delta played in their life, and consider making a gift. “When you realize the important part the fraternity played and how it shaped your life, everyone should want to give back because only through giving back can the fraternity grow and succeed. If every alumnus gave a few dollars, think of what a difference it could make. I also think it will make you a stronger alumnus; once you have invested your time and money. You will have a stronger tie to the organization and want to see it succeed.”
Larrie visited the Alpha Delta house last fall, while attending a WU Foundation meeting. He met the actives, took a house tour, and saw the improvements made to the kitchen. He was very impressed! As always when he is back in Topeka, he stayed with hayden St. John ’62, a longtime family friend and fraternity brother.
Larrie lives in Arizona with his wife, Judy, and they have two sons, Kevin, 49, and Brian, 45. He retired from the United States Air Force after 28 years, rising to the rank of brigadier general. He then went on to be employed as the Safety Recommendation Program Administrator for Aviation at the National Transportation and Safety Board for four years in Washington, D.C., retiring in 1994. He now has a part-time job in security at the Charles Schwab Investment Company, but he and Judy’s favorite activity is gardening. They are past co-presidents of the Arizona Herb Association and are horticultural aids at the Desert Botanical Gardens where he also serves on the Planned Giving Committee. They enjoy family activities and travel.
Why I Give to the Annual FundlArrie bAteS ’63
John A. Bausch ’49 (88) of Topeka passed away on March 3, 2013. He was mobilized and called into federal service with the Kansas National Guard in 1940, one year prior to Pearl Harbor. John was wounded in action, received the Purple Heart Medal, and was awarded the Silver Star Medal. He also received the Combat Infantryman’s Badge and earned sergeant’s stripes in WWII. John was commissioned
as an officer in the Kansas National Guard after WWII and retired at the rank of major, infantry. John was an original member of the Kansas Bar Foundation and a member of the Goodell, Stratton, Edmonds & Palmer LLP law firm at the time of his death. He was a member and past commander of Capitol Post #1 of the American Legion, past commander of the 1st District (Northeast) Kansas, and past president of the 35th lnfantry Division Association. He was married to Mary Bausch for 54 years; she preceded him in death in 2011. Survivors include his three children: Sarah, Susan, and Stephen.
Col. (ret) karl L. Losey ’49 (91) passed away February 17, 2013, in Topeka. He was active in sports and ROTC during his Washburn days. Karl enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1942 and served overseas during WWII and two separate tours during the Korean conflict. He served three years during the occupation of Germany and three years in Puerto Rico as an advisor to the National Guard at El Morro
Castle. In 1969, he retired from the military and was awarded the Combat Infantry Award, the Purple Heart, and the Bronze Star. Upon his retirement, he worked for the State of Kansas as a research analyst for the Department of Labor. He and Julia E. Tanquary were married for over 62 years. She preceded him in death in 2008. He is survived by one son, Karl; four daughters, Victoria, Kris, Kim, and Karen; 11 grandchildren; and 12 great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by one daughter, Kathryn.
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AlphA Delt’s 101st FOunDeRs DAyFRiDAy, ApRil 19, 20137:30-11:00 p.m.Informal Welcome GatheringThe Loft at Pigskins BBQ & Sports BarBrookwood Plaza, 2833 SW 29th St.No fee to attend. Buy your own food & drink. RSVP to Beth by April 17 at [email protected] or (785) 272-4200
sAtuRDAy, ApRil 201:30 p.m. Annual Business Meeting for College Avenue Building Co. & Macvicar educational FoundationOpen House Refreshments Served 6:00 p.m. reception/Social hour7 p.m. Founders Day GalaTopeka Country ClubCash Bar Keynote Speaker: Trey Burton ’86Alumnus, Active & Pledge of the Year AwardsCost: $45 per personrSvP to Beth by April 17 at [email protected] or (785) 272-4200
9:30 p.m.-12 a.m. Post-Dinner CelebrationTopeka Country Club LoungeCash Bar
sunDAy, ApRil 216:50 a.m. Pre-Tee Off Meeting7:00 a.m. First Foursome Tees OffCypress ridge Golf Course2533 SW Urish RoadWe have been allocated only 28 spaces for a total of seven teams, so slots will go quickly.Cost: $34 per person with cart RSVP with your foursome to Lance Quilling ’06 at [email protected] or (785) 640-2212
9:15 a.m. Pre-Tee Meeting9:30 a.m. First Foursome Tees OffTopeka Country Club18 Holes on Championship CourseCost: $75 per person with cart rSvP by April 17 with your foursome to Beth at [email protected] or (785) 272-4200
Hotel block of discounted rooms Capitol Plaza hotel, 1717 SW Topeka Blvd.$79 per night (complimentary parking)Reservations: (785) 431-7200Book by April 17 for discounted rate
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taxes, alumni communication, house maintenance, and other important projects at the Alpha Delta house. To make your gift, simply fill out the form below and mail it and a check to our PO box using the enclosed envelope. Your support of the Alpha Delta is greatly appreciated and truly makes a difference!
