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ST. ANTHONY HALL | SUMMER 2012

Karen Caswelch T’80, Roun McNeal Φ’04, Lila Claghorn E’06, Peter Barlow, E’86

FROM THE EDITOR

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I remember fondly the days of walking into the Trinity College Koeppel Center Ice Rink before anyone got there. It was quiet and peaceful, and smelled cold and crisp. Next stop, locker room … quite a different smell, but still I loved it and frankly, I miss it. My teammates entered one by one getting ready to step on the ice and face our opponents. Yes, this was all an amazing feeling. But nothing topped the moment during each game when my Brothers walked through the doors to cheer me on. I was perhaps the luckiest girl in college; I had two teams—my Varsity Women’s Ice Hockey Bantams and St. Anthony Hall. It is plain to see that we are one huge team. We try out during rush, practice and get to know one another during our meetings, taking on big risks and challenges. We remember Wayne Gretzky’s words, “We miss 100% of the shots we don’t take,” and perform and compete during our annual G.C. Convention and throughout the year within each of our undergraduate communities. Diane Arias says “Team spirit is knowing and living the belief that what a group of people can accomplish together is much larger, far greater, and will exceed that which an individual can accomplish alone.” As you will see in this edition of The Review, I don’t think I could describe our Order any better. As you may have guessed, The Review’s focus this summer is athletes in St. Anthony Hall. You will hear from a coach, an Olympian and many other alumni and undergraduate athletes. The G.C. was so proud to hear of the amazing accomplishments of our undergraduate athletes as we visited each chapter this past spring that I thought there was no better way to honor their sense of teamwork than to devote this issue to them. I am extremely excited to continue the promotion of the new MacNelly Award and the ever-wonderful L.D. Award within our newsletter. The 2012 G.C. award-winning work of Bro. Colin Stone Peacock K’10 and Sis. Lauren Beck A’11 is printed within this issue as a wonderful example of what we heard this spring. Adhering to tradition, there is a bit of history in this edition, and not just any history: a story about the Titanic. Yes, you read that correctly, get excited. Continuing last year’s addition of Alumni in Print you will hear from poet Brother Keith O’Shaughnessy A’90 and Sister Mara Rockliff K’88. And, as promised, I have continued the Milestones section, so please check it out and continue sending me updates about your lives! Oh, and are you one of the Brothers or Sisters who didn’t receive the environmental-themed Fall Newsletter via email? No worries. Read all about Catherine Carmichael’s E’06 adventure at sea and so much more online at www.stanthonyhall.org/?page=stareview . I would like to thank the Communications Committee and the rest of my current team of G.C. members for their support and guidance throughout this process. Creating a newsletter is a total blast but certainly needs people who give it their all and this group of talented individuals did just that, so I thank you. Thank you to the phenomenally talented and creative alumni and undergraduates for their delightful submissions. Tad Tharp, Ellen Sweeney, Donald Beeson, Betty Bartolotta and the incomparable Katherine Kubel— what more can I say than, you are just the best! I couldn’t have done any of this without you. Enjoy! XO Respectfully Submitted, God save it, YITB, Lila Strawbridge Claghorn E’06, H.Fpop.

A LOOK INSIDE

THE REVIEW | SUMMER 2012

AWARDS

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Awards from the 2012 G.C.

SOCCER

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Bro. Anson Dorrance Ξ’72, University of North Carolina

ROWING

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Bro. Clemens Auersperg A’11, Columbia University

SHOOTING

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Bro. Enas Alkhudairy T’08, MIT

E.Sis. Mary O’Connor Σ’76 p.

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TITANIC

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One brother’s connection to the fateful voyage

CHAPTER REPORTS

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The latest news from around The Hall

PASSINGS

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Necrology

MILESTONES

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MacNelly Award p.

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RETROSPECT A REPORT FROM OUR FORMER H.D. E.Sis. Ann Kennedy Σ’71

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When I accepted the honor of serving as H.S. (and presumably then as H.D.), I assumed that my focus while traveling from chapter to chapter would be on judging the quality of L.D.s and ritual. It never crossed the remotest part of my mind that in the next two years I would be machinegunned by a cold-blooded dean of students; have a blonde administrator who looked like a Texas sorority girl tell me that it really was okay my “kids” let the door slam in her face—everyone on campus did that; drive 600 hours to Rochester, Canada, in a mom-mobile; send endless emails begging grad orgs to have lunch with me and undergraduate leaders to meet with us; or stay up until 2 a.m. drinking four nights in a row, many times. While I could look to Ex. Sis. Thornton or Ex. Bro. Beers for an explanation, no doubt my own limited background has something to do with this narrow perspective. My challenges as Sigma Bt. in 1973 were keeping the “freaks” (loosely characterized as those with long hair who opposed the Vietnam War, smoked dope and questioned paying dues) getting along with the straight kids (short hair, ambivalent about the war, more beer than dope). We had six-hour meetings, and my biggest dilemma there was whether or not to cut off the long winded or let them go on and on. We had no interaction with other fraternities, which we referred to as “societies,” and no parties for “outsiders.” Also, I didn’t know there was a “National” until someone told me I had to go to 1-2-3. [I missed G.C. because of a death in my family. Given that I was the first female Bt. and that Sigma had nearly been expelled because of taking women, I guess that was a big G.C. to miss.] So it was shocking to me to come face to face with today’s operating environment. It’s not possible to talk about the health of our organization without focusing on the harsh realities of the binge-drinking party culture and largely ineffective, but increasingly unforgiving resulting policies from college administrators. (I’m not blaming the administrators, necessarily. There are a lot of factors out of their control, such as the drinking age.) However, I would say every one of our chapters

is at risk because of this environment. At best, administrators at one-third of our campuses are “not worried about us today” (but that indifference will change instantly with one bad incident); another third of the administrations are wary of fraternities, maybe including us; and the last third are outright hostile—one having outlawed fraternities and three threatening to do their best to follow. There’s no question in my mind that all fraternities, including us, would be outlawed at several of our campuses if it weren’t for wealthy and influential fraternity grads. Most shocking was the realization of how dangerous and potentially disastrous are the circumstances our undergraduate leaders must contend with. At the extreme, breaking and entering, assault, larceny, crowd control issues approaching riot-like circumstances, hostile faculties, unclear or illogical administrative policy, regular life-threatening binge drinking, and drug abuse. Even in the best of circumstances, chapters with strong “party policies,” for example, are subject to non-members, uninvited strangers, arriving drunk, passing out, and thereby bringing negative university attention, even when our officers behave well. Different universities have different policies about binge drinking and overdosing. But all fraternities operate with heightened scrutiny from the press and from administrations who, correctly in my view, expect that disasters involving physical danger are inevitable. My view is that every single one of our chapters is vulnerable. The culture is such that something terrible will happen at a fraternity, not necessarily at St. A, but it will happen, it’s inevitable, and St. A will be grouped with all the other fraternities on campus in the eyes of the administration, faculty and press, and will suffer the group punishment. In response to this environment, we G.C. officers made it a priority to meet with every administration over the course of this year, except in the few cases where the graduate organization and undergraduates urged us not to. In our meetings, we stressed our literary mandate, shared history, community service, campus leadership, and leadership training, attempting to differentiate St. A from the other fraternities in the minds of the administrators. In all chapters except the Vermont Literary Society, we urged both undergraduate and graduate organization leaders to develop an ongoing process and assign responsibility for creating and maintaining a strong, positive relationship with the administration and profile on campus, emphasizing those things that differentiate us from other fraternities, so that when the inevitable disaster occurs, whether at St. A or elsewhere, we have a reputation and relationship to fall back on. We have asked to assist chapters whenever wanted, and we have attempted to step up National’s leadership training activities and sharing of best practices at 1-2-3 and G.C. continued on page 21

PROSPECT A REPORT FROM OUR CURRENT H.D. M.H.E.Bro. T.A.D. Tharp A’75

I would like to begin by thanking my immediate H.D. predecessors Ann Kennedy Σ’71 and Alex Cook Δ’74 for leaving the Fraternity a far stronger and better institution, so that my position as I take the reins as H.D. is sanguine. In my Inaugural Address at the G.C. in January at Xi in Chapel Hill, I laid out some of my biggest goals for the Fraternity this year. Chief among them is to have the fourth volume of our Fraternity history finished and published as soon as possible. For the last few years, former H.D. Nick Noble E’77 T’11 has been working on updating the history for the period from 1953 to the present. The last volume of our history to be written was published some 60 years ago. The Fraternity needs to and will support E.Bro. Noble in whatever way it can to get this history of our last half century finally finished and published. Brother Noble will be contacting many of you for your recollections and I ask you to assist him in whatever way you can and tell him everything you remember for our history books. I have taken a keen personal interest in the remarkable 165-yearold history of Delta Psi. As we have made our G.C. officer chapter visits this spring, I have tried my best to emphasize to undergraduates our Fraternity history and how important it is as a unifying force. I am constantly impressed at how fertile is our Fraternity history. Elsewhere in this issue, you will read about our two brothers who survived the sinking of the Titanic 100 years ago in 1912. Recently, I discovered the hitherto unknown fact that Kate Scott Anthon, the wife of one of our three founders, John Anthon A’1847, was a close friend of the poet Emily Dickinson, and Dickinson dedicated some her finest poems to her. The well of our Fraternity history is deep and fascinating. I encourage each and every one of you to brush up on your Hall history. Go to Wikipedia and search “St. Anthony Hall.” You will be surprised by what you learn—about everything from the architecture of our chapter houses, to the number of brothers who have served in Congress, to various references about The Hall in modern fiction. The list of our most famous brothers on Wikipedia is long and stellar. These brothers no doubt learned their leadership skills in our meetings! I occasionally reread our three Fraternity histories (Volume One 1847 - 1902 by Edward Hall A’72, Volume Two 1902 - 1934 by Van Cartmell Λ’17 and Volume Three 1935 - 1953 by Winslow Ames A’29) to refresh my memory about our venerable history. Also make sure to go to our own website, www.stanthonyhall.org, which is a veritable fountain of Hall information. When I read through the various necrologies in our newsletters, I am saddened by the loss of older brothers of often extraordinary accomplishment. But then I stop and think about the up-and-coming undergraduates and how they, too, will excel and change the Fraternity and the nation for the better. It is important to note that our Fraternity is growing significantly in

number every year. On average, over the past few years, about 175 new pledges have been initiated each year, versus some 50 or so brothers who on average have died each year. So we are growing every year by about 125 members. Right now, we are larger in number than we have ever been. (We had the largest pledge class in the history of our Fraternity—32—at Phi this Spring!) All told, as of this writing, there are some 7,500 living Hall brothers and sisters on our rolls, and nearly 500 undergraduates at the twelve chapters. It is noteworthy that we have more and more brothers who are foreign. More than 10% of our undergrads call places outside the U.S. their home. Remarkably, we have some 100 alums now living in the United Kingdom. In light of this, we are now founding a St. Anthony Association of London. At the current rate of growth, we will most probably have 10,000 members in time for our 175th anniversary in 2022. One important new initiative I am planning this year is to undertake a formal Census of Delta Psi. Hopefully this can be done every decade in the years ahead like the U.S. Census. In this new Internet age of information, we should know as much as possible about who we are as individuals and use that information to better meet our fraternal needs and goals. For instance, once the census is completed, we will know such things as how many doctors and lawyers and professors are in our ranks. And how many Presbyterians and Unitarians. And how many Libertarians. How many of us are of Irish or Italian American heritage? How many are legacies? What percentage of us went to public vs. private vs. parochial high schools? How many have graduate degrees? It will be quite useful to have this detailed demographic information in our national database. Knowing more about each brother will help enormously with Fraternity outreach. Each of you will be receiving a census form in the next few months and I encourage you to participate in the 2012 Delta Psi Census so we can know who we truly are as a body. Another new initiative I am pursuing this year is to acquire copies of each and every book ever written by a Hall member for permanent placement in our national archives, now located at the Sigma Chapter at Yale. This Hall authors collection is named after Robert Hillyer E’27, our Pulitzer-prize-winning poet brother. Those of you who are reading this who are published authors please send a copy of your book(s) to the National Fraternity office. Please inscribe and sign it with your full name and chapter year. We will make sure your book gets placed in the Hillyer Library Collection in our national archives for all posterity. If any of you know of any other Hall authors—dead or alive—please let us know and we will endeavor to acquire their books for the library as well. After all, as I sometimes have to remind not-so-like-minded college administrators, we are not just a run-of-the-mill fraternity—we are continued on page 6

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continued from page 5 a literary fraternity which prizes our L.D. heritage. Perhaps the greatest joy for me in the first half of this year as H.D. has been getting to know the undergraduates, particularly the officers at our twelve chapters. Let me assure you that they are among the finest the newest generation of college students has to offer. They have a healthy appreciation for ritual and tradition and are united in bonds of brotherhood. I would like to single out for praise the Bt.s at the various chapters this spring semester. These brothers and sisters have been chosen and elected by their fellow brethren for their exemplary devotion to the Order and their leadership capabilities. I myself feel a personal bond with each of them because at this moment in our history, we have been brought together in our unique leadership roles in the Fraternity. I remember quite clearly who the H.D. was when I was Bt. at Alpha in 1977—Excellent Brother Malcolm Barlow E’57, and I will always feel a special kinship with him. The Bt.s for the spring of 2012 are: Alpha – Cristian Lopez-Balboa A’09 Delta – Andrew Pohly Δ’10 Epsilon – “Oz” Osborne E’10 Iota – Erik Meinhardt I’10 Kappa – Anna Costello K’10 Phi – Chris Patterson Φ’09 and then Adam Stanford Φ’10 Sigma – Alexandra Dennett Σ’09 and then Sam Huber Σ’10 Tau – Rand Hidayah T’09 and then Eyas Sharaiha T’09 Theta – Dan Abromowitz Θ’10 Upsilon – Tom Ellington Υ’09 Xi – Sal Elrahal Ξ’09 The annual 1-2-3 Fraternity Leadership Conference is taking place again in September and the 2012 Hall leaders (undergraduate and graduate officers, etc.) will be in attendance to compare notes and learn from each other in order to strengthen our fraternal organization. One of the things which has greatly pleased me as we have visited the various chapters this spring has been learning about the so-called cross fertilization between chapters. Some chapters have commendably close relationships with other chapters— Kappa and Xi and also Alpha and Theta immediately come to mind. When we attended Founders Day at MIT in April (what a fete!), there were brethren there from Yale and Brown. We strongly encourage undergraduates to visit and get to know other chapters and their members. Get outside your chapter cocoon and meet the hundreds of other undergraduate brothers and sisters nationwide. Learn from their unique rituals and traditions and expand your horizons. Furthermore, when chapters are having events, please remember to invite other chapters. In order to prepare for this year in my new position, I read the last 40 years of Fraternity newsletters. What an incredible treasure trove of information! For me, to reread them now in chronological order altogether has been really eye opening. It reminded me yet again of the great continuum which is our Fraternity and all the many of you who have given of your time and treasure. On behalf of Uncle Tony, I want to thank those of you who have done so much for Delta Psi— sometimes unheralded—those of you who have served on the G.C., or as an undergraduate officer, or on an alumni chapter

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board, or as a regional alumni group leader, or served on a NationalFraternity committee; and in addition, those of you who have given generously to the Saint Anthony Educational Foundation (SAEF) and/or the Saint Anthony Fund (SAF) for NationalFraternity operations. You are the true heroes of Delta Psi and part of the fabric which has made us strong. Your efforts are the reason we stand in the very top rank of national fraternities. In this regard, I would like to encourage each of you, if you have not already done so, to get involved with the Fraternity, particularly those of you who have recently retired—those initiated in the 1950s and 1960s—and may have some time on your hands. Now is the time to get involved again in Delta Psi. We need you on graduate committees and boards and such. We need the breadth of your knowledge and perspective. Please consider volunteering your time and abilities and contact me if you are willing and able to help Uncle Tony. One more thing—I want to thank those of you who have helped recruit fine new pledges in recent years. By this, I mean those who, when they heard that a Hall prospect—perhaps a nephew or cousin or child of a friend—was planning on attending one of our 12 colleges or universities, have told them about Delta Psi and encouraged them to join. And thank you for having followed up with a letter of introduction and recommendation to the chapter. Of course, legacies are incredibly important in the makeup of our Fraternity. I strongly believe that very special preference should be given to all prospective legacies. We should continue to strive to choose only the best and brightest as new members so they, too, will one day be listed as famous Hall alumni in our history books. I would like to heartily congratulate all Hall seniors who graduated this past semester. There are some 130 who have moved beyond their Hall chapter walls. Thank you for all you have done in your undergraduate years to make The Hall strong and united. We wish you all the luck in the world. I ask those of you who are graduating to please stay connected to The Hall—to join chapter alumni groups and regional groups. And come to the G.C.s when you can. The G.C. in Cambridge at Tau in January 2013 will be terrific. In closing, I would like to thank my fellow G.C. officers for the really grand job they have been doing so far this year. H.Sis. Karen Caswelch T’80, and H.Bro.s Roun McNeal Φ’04, Gary Stahlberg Ξ’89, Lila Claghorn E’06 and Peter Barlow E’86 are really top-flight devoted officers and are doing their parts to strengthen our order. Bro. Claghorn yet again has edited a fantastic newsletter herewith. In addition, I want to thank two of the leading eminence gris of our Fraternity, E.Bro. David Beers E’54, H.D.’03, who is the new head of the Policy Committee, and E.Bro. Billy Peelle E’68, H.D.’96, who continues to serve as President of 1847, Inc., for their sagacity. And then there is the redoubtable Sandy Carielli K’95, who does an extraordinary job as head of SAEF. We are all in a most felicitous league together this year and for that, I thank the mercies of our patron Saint Anthony himself. I am looking forward to seeing many of you at the annual most convivial Toast to Uncle Tonys nationwide in mid-June.

G.C. 2012

Lauren Noel Beck A’11 H.D. BOWL FOR BEST MEETING — Alpha MACNELLY TROPHY — Colin Stone Peacock K’10 RIDGWAY FLASK FOR ORATORY — Allen Paltrow-Krulwich Θ’11 AMES SINGING CUP — Xi L.D. PITCHER —

awards

TRINITY BOWL FOR COMMUNITY SERVICE — not awarded this year

DANFORTH AWARD FOR SINGING AT THE G.C. —

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L.D. AWARD

Sis. Lauren Beck A’11

UNTITLED I think of the last years in perpetual summer – Brown skin and hair tangled, like his in salty chunks unwashed but between white water, roaring, and sand.

the coast and the waves and a woman, for a oncemining camp, home to fur traders and ex-hippies; for an unfinished geodesic dome, left

“Jungle baby,” he called me, barefoot in those days, trying my best to be to be as wild as his highways, the waves breaking off the point, the redwoods up north.

untouched since the seventies, seated on a road that each winter snowed him in from the valley and the seashore and the town, called Idyllwild.   “Yes baby, he does that,” she said. 

In the first eleven years of my life, my father managed to suppress within himself – or perhaps, more likely – avoided the triggers and stayed. My mother, living up north, had tethered herself to a man, twenty years older, successful, who tried his best to be a good father for me. On weekends my own dad rumbled in, in cars fast and driven recklessly delivered me northward: up mountain passes to gold rush ghost towns, diners. We wandered to where banks of dirty snow bordered the road. Between giant pines I grasped for glimpses, fleeting, of mountain crowns, in summer topped with snow. Most Sundays we discussed – at his urging or mine I can’t recall – my not returning, our simply driving (northward still). In the end, we always turned. Eighteen I searched for memories of those early years and found distressingly few. Had I shredded them? (In retrospective self defense? In spite?) Or had they never stuck? (Overshadowed in the end by the weeks in between, my longing.) Eighteen I dwelled on the summer snow and the dogs that later I saw in Mexican deserts dancing, and the clapboard churches, the old oaks of the pioneer cemeteries where we used to walk. Eighteen I feared my father was only ever a vision.

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When I was young my mother liked to say that I was born with her fire in my belly and somewhere deeper my father’s darkness – the darkness that pulled him away from people, that told him, she said, to build so many walls.    I remember once, with him, before the first time, driving north as far as Donner Pass. Where, once, he claimed and my mother confirmed, he had lived, for years alone, in a cabin. “Yes, baby, he does that,” she said then, I’m sure, as she does often now, as she did, when I, sixteen, struggled to understand why, without notice, he had removed himself from  

Nineteen, I struggle to understand him despite far greater removal. Struggle despite distance and years, and his being gone this time truly to remember (nowadays so much more urgently than at eighteen, or at sixteen even I tried). In the hours leading up to his funeral, I sat on the floor of his mother’s house, preparing. Sifting through photos, notes, drinking tea with honey and with tears. She passed me a box of pictures, most taken in my father’s early youth. One, I steal – as surely he would have done. Last week I framed the photo, square, small. Sundrenched, As I imagine every picture taken in California in 1975 might be. My father is eleven years old, shuffling toward the camera, away from waves folding evenly onto shore. Good long-board waves he might have told me, his hair blonde like mine when last I saw him, his frame boyish and slender, like mine when last I saw him. He kicks up sand, twists round to watch it rise. A sun spot washes over where the earth would have flitted up. An imaginary photograph. My father, his face turned away, an age I never knew him. The age at which he chose to best know me. Perhaps a whimsical age– of easy, vivid love. Weighted, but sweetly unselfconscious of the burdens that bear down on it. For now at least it is here where my father makes most sense to me. Our last years, the august of us, I think of in perpetual summer – brown skin and hair tangled, like his in salty chunks unwashed but between white water, roaring, and sand. Sundrenched, I imagine us.

CREATE A LOGO FOR SAEF AND WIN $250.00 The St. Anthony Educational Foundation (SAEF) invites all undergraduate and graduate members to design a logo for the foundation. The purpose of the logo would be to help publicize SAEF’s sponsorship of educational events. For example, the logo might appear on an advertisement for a SAEF-funded lecture, or on the acknowledgements page of a SAEFfunded publication. The winning designer will receive a prize of $250. The rules and fine print: 1. Please submit entries to [email protected] by October 31, 2012. Entries should include the name(s) of the submitter(s) and contact information. Please include a high resolution image of the design. We would prefer images of the design in color and in black and white. 2. Entries will be reviewed by the SAEF Board of Directors and announced at the 2013 G.C. 3. The winner shall receive a check for $250.00 (US). 4. Designs may be submitted by individuals or groups. If the design was submitted by a group, please list the names of everyone in the group. The prize will be evenly divided among all members of the group. 5. All undergraduate and graduate members of the Fraternity are eligible. 6. Entries should abide by official Fraternity style guidelines, which are available at www.stanthonyhall.org/styleguide. 7. Please keep in mind that the logo is meant to be used publicly; therefore, entries should not include any secret aspects of the Fraternity. 8. Selection of a winning entry may be contingent on the designer’s agreement to modify the entry to fit style and other criteria. 9. By submitting the entry, the submitter agrees that if their entry is selected, they will license use of the design to SAEF in perpetuity. The winner will be expected to sign an agreement to that effect in order to collect the prize. 10. Questions? Contact the headquarters at [email protected].

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Hymn to St. Anthony

Bro. Roun McNeal Φ’04

(To the tune of Battle Hymn of the Republic) To the desert went a man of God This world to leave behind So he might commune with Heaven For his righteousness to find In humility and honor He could purify his mind Our patron saint to be. REFRAIN: Glory, Glory to the Patron Glory, Glory to the Patron Glory, Glory to the Patron ANTHONY! ANTHONY! ANTHONY! His life shall be a model To the nations young and old Seeking pleasures pure and lofty Azure blue and brilliant gold Those who live the life of piety We welcome to the fold Our Brethren they shall be. REPEAT REFRAIN Finding empty life built only On one’s fortune and one’s fame He resolved to find his fullness In a God he called by name So the Saint who came from Egypt Shall in Oxford have acclaim So may it ever be. REPEAT REFRAIN

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THE MACNELLY TROPHY IS NAMED IN HONOR OF BROTHER JEFF MACNELLY Ξ’66, WHO WAS THE PULITZER PRIZEWINNING, WIDELY READ AND ESTEEMED CARTOONIST WHO PASSED AWAY TEN YEARS AGO. THIS PRIZE IS AWARDED TO AN UNDERGRADUATE WHO IS JUDGED BY THE G.C. OFFICERS TO HAVE PRESENTED THE BEST SO-CALLED “ALTERNATIVE” (I.E. NOT WRITTEN) ART FORM EXPRESSION OR PIECE DURING THE G.C. CHAPTER VISITS IN THE PREVIOUS YEAR. WE ARE PLEASED TO PRESENT THE WINNER FOR 2012: BROTHER COLIN STONE PEACOCK K’10.

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MACNELLY AWARD

BRO. COLIN STONE PEACOCK K’10

REFLECTIONS ON HDR PHOTOGRAPHY The images [on the previous page] are the result of my exploration into the world of HDR photography. During the fall and winter of 2011, I found myself with an ever-increasing need to express my creative side as I delved ever deeper into the confines of a fifth-year master’s program in forest ecology. Instead of dating tree cores in a lab, I found myself spending much of my time hiking in the long winter light, trying to capture the sad moments of beauty that I found in the natural world. I was seeking something of the other in my seemingly mundane academic environment. HDR photography became my means to see beyond the walls and windows of the ivory tower and find other worlds of seeing and expression. HDR stands for High Dynamic Range. In this technique, you shoot several different photos of the same exact scene, expose each photo to optimize the detail in a different part of the image, and then combine the bunch of them into a single master photo. This master photo has incredible detail throughout the entire photo that would be impossible to achieve with a single photo. Producing HDR photos is complex and often frustrating, easily resulting in garish, unrealistically rendered images. While I do strive to make some of my HDR photos closely approximate what I see with my eye, the truth is that I want to capture an aesthetic sense, a mood, or something unique more than a simple realistic well-composed rending of a scene. As an artist and a scientist, this is why I love the process as much as the finished result. It is one of discovery where hidden elements of beauty or unseen worlds are being captured and brought to light.

Reflections in the surface of a whiteboard, JWW building at Brown University, Rhode Island This photo was taken in a meeting room where I was supposed to be studying Spanish, but was distracted by the previous occupant’s use of the whiteboard for what appeared to be an Arabic language course. I thought it might make for an interesting photo, but to my chagrin it turned out to be quite a boring shot. Luckily, I had taken around 15 exposures and decided to give HDR a try. Woe and Behold! I can now see writing, handprints, and doodles that were previously undetectable! Also, and strangely, the only words in English that I can clearly make out are feces and plums.

Ice crystals in snow, Mount Wachusett Snowshoe Trail, Massachusetts

More than anything else, I had spent much of the last winter trying to capture two aspects of the season—the brilliance of ice and the evocative power of the long light of winter. This photo accomplishes both, where normal still photography would fail spectacularly to capture either. Case in point, since each single shot can only properly expose one part of this scene, by focusing on one thing (say the bark and trees), you will end up having the snow, sky, and sun completely blown out or overexposed to the point where it is simply registering as blank white canvas. Vice versa properly exposing for the ice crystals made the trees completely black. And in none of the still shots could you see the incredible sparkle of light on freshly crusted snow, which in truth I had never expected to be able to capture.

Moss, fern, and redwood filled canyon, 12 Falls Trail, Oregon

See, I am from the west, and why I began taking photos in the first place was to try and capture and share the wonder that landscapes bring to me. Here I wanted you to see how beautiful, verdant, and textured the forest can be. My normal shots had left something to be desired and only through HDR was I able to show you a fragment of how these landscapes capture my fascination. Thank you all for being the space in which I get to be inspired to share and create meaningful work. And most of all, thank you Bro. Berliner for helping me transport, set up, and share my work with you all. Bro. Colin Stone Peacock K’10

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alumni IN SPORTS

BRO. ANSON DORRANCE Ξ’72 Well, what can I say about UNC’s own Coach Anson Dorrance … other than what an honor!! I had the oh-sodistinct privilege of interviewing the coach, the athlete, the mentor, the leader, the Brother, the award winner, the Hall of Famer, the public speaker, and let’s face it … the legend … this past Spring and I am so thrilled to be able to share our discussion with The Review. I could tell right away what a funny, great man the UNC women’s soccer team head coach was on the phone, as he joked about his experience at the La Villa St. Jean boarding school in Switzerland as a young boy and his epic stories which have continued throughout his wonderful life. He has even had the sheer joy and pleasure of playing inline hockey with the likes of ice hockey star Cammi Granato and football star Doug Flutie … I mean, this is a guy we NEED to get to know better … so why don’t we?

Lila Strawbridge Claghorn E’06, H.Fpop.

SOCCER UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA Q: What position did you play during college soccer? A: Every year I was a different position; I basically played every line but goal. Q: How did you manage playing a sport and being a part of St. Anthony Hall? A: It all kinda worked out. A lot of my fellow officers were also soccer players, so I had this athletic culture with a collection of people and this same group would essentially do a 180 and we would then perform mime skits and readings – like the Dead Poet’s Society really … it was an extraordinary and rich undergraduate life there at St. A. Q: What drove you to want to coach?

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A: One of the big issues that I have had to deal with is that I have always been relatively conservative. As an undergrad, we had a main building and an Annex and I always felt that we shouldn’t mix living quarters. And of course, once I got the group together, there was a massive rebellion … and this was the first really interesting experience where politics played a major role … the experience propelled me in a good direction when I was given my first women’s team. First I was a men’s soccer coach, then I did both, then starting in 1989, I coached women and this really gave me an insight into the politics of the gender. Politics were challenging because I wasn’t really used to convincing the women and they really objected … they didn’t want me to direct them to do anything, they wanted to talk things over with me. I learned

about this completely different leadership dynamic and it was a challenging in a similar way to my undergraduate experience. On top of all of that, being a coeducational fraternity enabled me to appreciate the gender differences and I learned early that I wasn’t in Kansas anymore. This was a brave new world for me after attending an allboy’s boarding school. Q: Who is your biggest inspiration? A: I think I have mentors in all sorts of directions. Dean Smith, the former men’s basketball coach at UNC, taught me how to treat young players, and showed me so much support and guidance. I owe my coaching life to the guy I played for at UNC, Dr. Marvin Allen. After he retired, he insisted that I be hired as his replacement. As a soccer coach, I have a huge amount of respect for him. I owe them both an enormous debt.

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E.SIS. MARY O’CONNOR Σ’76, H.D.’00

IN SPORTS

As former Major League Baseball player and manager Tommy Lasorda once said, “The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man’s determination”—or in this case, a woman’s. No truer words could be spoken when describing Olympian, Orthopedic Surgeon, Sigma Sister and mother, Mary O’Connor. After graduating from Yale in ’79, she went on to be selected for the US Women’s Olympic Rowing team and then became one of the top orthopedic surgeons in our country. But don’t let me ruin it for you … find out for yourself just how absolutely inspiring and fabulous E.Sis. O’Connor really is, and what an honor it was to be able to get to know her just a bit and find myself chatting with true greatness. Lila Strawbridge Claghorn E’06, H.Fpop.

ROWING YALE Q: How do you think that crew shaped your life? A: I think crew and the experience of being an athlete in a team sport was critical to me getting into an orthopedic surgical residency. The essence of why sports is so important for young people, and especially girls and young women, is that it teaches you how to win, how to lose, how to have a sense of teamwork, self discipline, focus, and can push you to be more than you thought you could me. Boys learn these skills through sports early on, while girls are doing different activities like playing house and dolls which socializes them differently. I know that in our current era, many would say that girls and boys are raised the same, but girls are still socialized to be nice and popular while boys are socialized to be winners. Of course we want our children to have all these skills. But I will give you an example of this socialization in my work. In the operating room, sometimes it’s easier for me to have a male scrub nurse because I can simply give a direction and it is followed. The male scrub sees me as the quarterback on the football team and understands that there is a heirarchy and that while he is an important and essential member of the team, his job is to follow the commands of the quarterback. If I have a female scrubs, they do not always respond as well to a direction; they prefer that it be presented to them in the form of a request. Instead of “I need this instrument” they prefer “Do you think you could get this instrument for me?” That is because girls are socialized that when playing dolls or house with other girls, that all the girls are on the same level. Now, please do not misunderstand me. I speak nicely to the male scrubs! But I don’t have to put as much emotional energy or sensitivity into the request to the male scrubs. Sports often allow individuals to develop personal excellence.

When I am selecting a resident or fellow to train in orthopedic surgery, I am looking for someone who has shown the ability to excel. What they excelled in is not so important, it could be that they were a fabulous dancer, cook, runner, etc. But when you are really good at something, it is likely that you could be really good at something else (like orthopedics) because you have developed the personal skills needed to succeed. You developed those skills and they led to you having a more successful career—sports are so critical to developing the skills that will allow someone to be successful in any chosen career. Q: How did you manage a fraternity and sports? A: I didn’t find any conflicts except time pressure. Every college athlete is busy, but The Hall gave me a different social and intellectual outlet. I knew all the crew people, but my Hall siblings were for the most part a non-jock group that I could be a part of and that I could love. I really appreciated that. Q: What’s your craziest or most fun memory of being on the team? A: Probably the craziest thing I did on crew was in my freshmen year. At the time, the Yale boathouse did not have any locker facilities for the women—we showered in a trailer. We had been told that the boathouse would be expanded but with no timeline or real commitment. So the two senior women on the team planned a demonstration in the athletic director’s office. We all met in the basement of the gym, took red lipstick and wrote TITLE IX across our bare backs, put on our sweats and walked up to the office. Then we stripped down and our captain, Chris Ernst, read a statement which started with “THESE ARE continued on page 14

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continued from page 13 THE BODIES THAT YALE IS EXPLOITING.” There was a photo taken of us from behind and an article was published in the Yale Daily News. The New York Times picked up on the story and there was then tremendous interest in our situation! We were just college kids who knew we were not being treated fairly and wanted to protest this injustice. We really expected more of Yale. The alumni were vocal and supportive. Certainly this demonstration may not have been the most mature thing we did, but it was highly effective. In the fall, we had an addition built on to the boathouse. A year later, a short film was made, A Hero for Daisy. So in addition to our national championship, that’s my other claim to fame as a Yale oarswoman. Q: Tell us a little about your journey to the Olympics and what came next. A: As is true of so many things in life, once you see that someone else can do something, you believe that you can also achieve that. Two senior women at Yale were in the 1976 Olympics. So I thought if they can do it, I can too, with hard work and dedication. Before Yale, I never would have thought I could be an Olympic athlete. I went to the national team selection camp in 1978 and didn’t make it, but came close. I stroked the Yale Women’s Varsity Eight to the Eastern Sprint and National Championships my senior year in 1979. I went to the camp and made the team and stroked the US Women’s Eight. We set a world record time in our heat. We won a bronze in the final, should have had a silver but one of us caught a crab (bad stroke). It was a time when the iron curtain was still up; we trained at one site in West Germany where on the other side of the lake was East Germany. We would see the East German guards with their machine guns in the watch towers from the water. The Russian, East German and Romanian women were all on steroids. It is incredible how much the world has changed! Anyway, it was a wonderful experience with bonds which you develop (like The Hall!) that last a lifetime. So then I went to medical school in Philadelphia, and then moved to Rochester, Minnesota, for my orthopedic residency and fellowship which I completed in 1991. I was asked to join the staff at Mayo Clinic in Florida where I have practiced now for 20 years (!!!!) and am the department Chair. Our three children have all rowed and our youngest, Riona, age 14, has just been invited to the national junior sculling development camp! Q: What was it like to be told you were not allowed to go the Olympics? How did it make you feel? A: The honest answer is anger. We felt used and that we were just political pawns. President Carter just made an announcement, “Ours will not go.” The worst part was that summer; we went to the pre-Olympic races in Europe which were part of the summer training schedule. There we saw our athlete friends from other countries, particularly Canada and New Zealand (we had trained with them the year prior). I felt so horrible. It was one thing for me to be the victim of a judgment from my President, but I really felt terrible for the other athletes who couldn’t go, their Olympic dreams crushed because of my President. Q: Why didn’t you go back to the Olympics the next time around?

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A: It was just a question about how much time I wanted to spend doing this and honestly, how poor I wanted to be and for how long. It is very difficult to be working on a career when your other career is training for the Olympics. You cannot have a real job; you need one that allows you to take time off for racings, training, etc. You live paycheck to paycheck. I lived in a rental house with three other athletes; we were so poor that we couldn’t afford to really heat the house to a comfortable temperature in the winter. I would sleep in my sweats with a hat on because the house was so cold. I would tell myself that when I was grown up and with a real job I would be able to just wear regular pajamas to bed like a normal person! Now I know this sounds like whining, but we didn’t have financial resources. We spent our money on training and traveling for training. So I had to ask myself if I wanted to spend another four years at rowing, or if I needed to move on to the next phase of my life. I also had been deferred for one year for medical school. So if I decided to train for the next Olympics I would have had to decline the acceptance I had to medical school. My parents were most anxious about my decision. I remember them telephoning me in Europe, which at that time was very unusual (and the only time they ever called me overseas) and very expensive to discuss my decision. I think my parents thought I was losing it as I did seriously think about going for the next Olympics. I can look back on that decision now and know that it was the right one. Unless you become a rowing coach, you cannot make a career out of rowing. I started medical school. Someday, however, when I retire from medicine, I could see myself coaching some at a local club … you never know! Q: How do you think rowing and going so far as the Olympics helped you later when you decided to go into medicine? A: Rowing helped me get into orthopedic surgery. Twenty years ago when I was off to get a residency program, I was asked questions like “are you getting married,” “are you going to have a family”—questions that would never be asked today—and I think that one of the reason I got in was because the men could identify with me being an Olympic athlete. There were very few women in orthopedics; we are, I am embarrassed to say, still the surgical specialty with the lowest number of women. Being an elite athlete was evidence that I could excel, that I had discipline and focus. And I think the men (they were all men who made the selection decisions) were more comfortable selecting me because they could relate to my athletic background. Q: So you’re an Olympic athlete and a top surgeon … any advice for your fellow alums? A: I could say what everyone already knows: let your children follow their dreams and support them in their journey. For my younger siblings I would tell them to find their passion. That is what I tell my children. If you find your passion you will be engaged, successful and rewarded in your work. But what I will tell you as advice for all my fellow alums is that we need to make sure that our children are engaged in sports. The obesity epidemic is tragically very real, and sports for children is so good for their mental and physical development. Every Brother and Sister should make sure that their children are physically active. The skills learned through sports will be invaluable to them in life.

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BRO. CLEMENS AUERSPERG A’11

IN SPORTS

ROWING COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY Earlier this spring, I had the pleasure of interviewing an undergraduate athlete who shows us that skill and talent can come with any age, as well as poise and humility. Austrian born Clemens Auersperg A’11, a 6’8” heavyweight nationally ranked rower, actually preferred an interview rather than writing a piece about himself as he didn’t want to “show off,” and I am so excited that I am the one who has the honor of showing him off to all of you. Now before you dive in, please note that I have never been in a crew boat of any kind and am privy to NO rowing terminology whatsoever and so I would like to give a quick thank you to my fellow Epsilon Brother, friend and rower, Hadley Wilmerding E’04 for helping me with the questions. Lila Strawbridge Claghorn E’06, H.Fpop.

varsity team. Last year, I stroked the freshmen boat for most of the season and was 6 seat the other rest of the time.

Q: What boat do you row in?

A: We are now at the beginning of spring season, which means that we are about to race all our dual races against other universities, in May the Eastern Sprints, and in June hopefully the IRAs, our national championships. In the fall, we only had two races, both longer than our usual racing distance, and they went pretty well. Over the winter, we made some great improvements, our training camp in Florida in January went really well, and now we are looking forward to a great racing season.

A: Here at Columbia University, the priority boat is the 8+ (eight rowers with one coxswain). In the fall and early on in the spring, we train in fours and pairs as well, that helps assess and improve our skills of moving a boat, but the closer we get to racing season, the more time we spend in our group of eight. Q: What seat are you in the boat (what position)? A: We won’t have a fixed lineup until the end of March, but it looks like the coaches like the idea of me sitting in 6 seat. However, I still have to go through some seat races in which I will be switched with another guy between two racing pieces and I have to prove that I am making the boat faster than he does. So far, seat races and erg assessments went really well and I am positive I have a good chance to make the first varsity boat. One thing that is unique about US collegiate rowing is that freshmen are not allowed to race with the

Q: Can you please describe the position you are meant to bring to the boat? A: If the coaches decide to put me into 6 seat, they expect me to be one of the more powerful guys in the boat, while also absorbing the rhythm the stroke pair sets and passing it on to the rest of the boat. That is why I really enjoy 6 seat, the perfect 6 seat brings a combination of great power and strong technical skills and although this combination should be found in every seat, I think the other positions are either more physical or more technical. Q: How has the team done in the past, either fall or spring seasons?

Q: How is the team, compared to recent years? A: We are in a great position right now—not only for this racing season, but also for the future. We have the physically strongest team Columbia University has ever had, and among the top ten guys there is only one senior. That means that at least seven of the guys that will be in the first boat this spring will return next year, and I think that is a chance that Columbia hasn’t seen in the past

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and I am really excited about that. Although being a sophomore, looking back over the last few years, I think there have been continuous improvements and there have been some great results recently that we can build on. Q: What is the personality of the team? A: Columbia rowing is very small in number compared to almost all other universities, which is not necessarily a bad thing as every single person gets more attention. The focus is clearly on quality than on quantity. Being so few also means we get really close and so we all live with each other, party together, and oftentimes spend our holidays together. Q: Did you row in high school? Where? A: High school athletics doesn’t exist in Austria. I started rowing in a club in Linz where I also went to high school, but it was totally independent from one another and I always had to ask for special permission to miss classes when I was away racing. Q: How do you balance rowing (or training for national teams) and an Ivy League education? A: First of all, our practice schedules are well organized, and because we run at a very strict practice with practices very early in the morning and late in the afternoon, we are able to take pretty much any class we want to. To successfully master both, training and studying is mostly about time management and being efficient with the time you have. Being passionate about rowing and being eager to improve definitely taught me to make the most out of my time when studying as well. There are definitely sacrifices you make being a full-time rower, so the daily Jack Daniels is not an option any more, but I would say that if you acquire good timemanagement skills, you can definitely get good grades and have fun while being good at rowing. And lastly, it is also about figuring out which reading is important and which can be skipped. Because, let’s be honest, who has ever done all his reading?! Q: What does The Hall bring to your life and also what does being a rower bring to your being a brother? A: Rowers are usually very close to each other. I think that is natural, as we practice twice a day together, we all get up at 6 a.m. every day and we win and lose together. That makes us really close. And although it is nice living with my fellow athletes and I really enjoy spending most of my time with them, it is great to have a life outside of rowing as well. I enjoy being surrounded by my brothers and sisters at The Hall and not having to listen to endless discussions about rowing techniques and races because that’s most of what rowers talk about when they are together. And regarding your question of what being a rower adds to being a brother, I guess you have to ask my fellow brethren. I think that coming from a background where teamwork is one of the most important things, I know what it takes to rely on each other, trust each other, love each other, and sometimes even argue with each other. I think being an athlete means that you have to be a little bit thoughtful about the decisions you make on weekends and I think the strongest brotherhood is the one where people from different backgrounds and with different lifestyles come together, sharing a passion, and enjoying each other’s time. And that is certainly the case over at the Columbia Chapter of St. Anthony.

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Q: Do you think you will continue training for the National Team after graduating or will collegiate rowing be the end?

A: Well, I am a sophomore right now, so there is a lot of time between now and then. It is true that you have to be diligent about your training, and even more so if you plan on continuing after graduation. But I think my training here is at a very high level and I am able to do it while doing all the other things I want to do so there is no reason of making my decision right now. The environment I am in right now, my teammates and my coaches are of such a high caliber that I am positive that if I want to continue rowing after graduation I will be in a good shot to successfully do so. In fact, one of our assistant coaches is Bro. Clement Huyghebaert A’07, who was captain of the crew team while being a brother at The Hall and graduated two years ago. But again, two years is a long time and a lot can happen such as getting injured or losing the motivation. As of now, I definitely consider pursuing the rowing path a little further after graduation, be it in an attempt to win the boat race for Oxford or Cambridge or trying out for the Olympics in 2016. Therefore, I will make my decisions regarding internships and classes always with the intention of not sacrificing rowing and so far it worked out well. Q: When did you decide he was going to start training seriously and who has helped you along the way? A: The first time I got exposed to rowing was when in 2004 when my club coach came to my school and let us do a short piece on the ergometer, our main indoor training tool. I have always been tall and at that time also pretty chubby and so I literally had a “big advantage”—my body. On the erg, it is all about physical strength and power, and unlike the boat, your weight doesn’t drag down the boat and is in fact actually beneficial. So, I did pretty well on this test and as a result, the coach tried to recruit me, and although I persistently didn’t want to start rowing, he didn’t give up until I raced a few races and eventually started seriously in the winter of 2006/07. It was actually my national coach who told me that if I managed to pull a certain erg score I would sit in our development Junior 8+ that would try to qualify for the Coupe de la Jeunesse, an invitation-only regatta between 12 European countries. Q: What were your best experiences in the National Team? A: In 2007, when I we made the Coupe de la Jeunesse I learned a lot. It was my first year of practicing more than once a day and although we were the development boat and had an age average of 16 years, we competed against mainly 18-year-old guys and did much better than expected. Since then, I have always been on the national team, had my ups and downs and I am very close with most of the other rowers on the team. I consider myself very lucky because I always enjoyed the crew I was in and even when my teammate got sick right before the Junior World Championships in 2008, we still had a good time together and have great races we can look back to. But I think it is great to have experiences and memories to look back to, but my focus right now is on the future and what other chapters I might be able to add to my collection of national team experiences. Q: Did you have family members who rowed or encouraged you to row? A: Haha. If you look at my family you will see a lot of talent in music and even lots of people playing tennis and sailing, but those are only leisure time activities and rowing was never part of them. I guess it was my lack in talent with instruments that continued on page 18

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BRO. ENAS ALKHUDAIRY T’08

IN SPORTS

SHOOTING MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Load, Lift, Inhale … Align the sights … Hold your breath … Smooth trigger release … Follow through … Exhale … Over the course of an hour and 45 minutes, the only thing that interrupts that rhythm is the occasional stepping away from the bench to stretch my arms and legs. Repetitive and focused, the sport is nothing if not mind-clearing. Standing in the middle of a row of 30 people. Between two West Point students, or two Coast Guard students … or was it two Yale students? I can’t remember at the moment. All I can think of is my next shot. How can I improve on the last one? What did I do right? What did I do wrong? It starts with 60 shots, and they’re taken one by one. I started shooting when I was six or seven. Don’t get me wrong, I wasn’t going hunting or anything; I just had a father and uncles who cared for the focus it took to aim at a target. They cared about teaching us in the younger generation the safety necessary to handle firearms, first and foremost. And of course, the art of aiming consistently, and being able to score well. When I started at MIT, I decided to try out for the Varsity Pistol team. I wanted to take up the sport in a more serious setting. It was the most relaxing time of my freshman year; it was my escape from homework, my way of clearing my mind, and my Saturday morning wake-up call. We practiced two hours a day during the week, and often shot matches against other teams on Saturday mornings. Our team made it to the top three in national rankings, which brought great pride. However, when somebody hears that I shoot guns, I get mixed looks of confusion and fear. “That’s violent” is a common response, but it saddens me to hear. Shooting at a paper target

(or glass, or cork) is in no way the same as going hunting, or even more different, going into war. Pistol and Rifle, as sports, are about concentration and clearing one’s mind, thinking of nothing but the one shot at a time. They are unrelated to the stereotype of violence people associate with firearms. I don’t disagree that guns can be used for violent purposes, but that’s not all there is to them. I continuously urge people who don’t believe me to try it at least once, to see the calming nature of being in a bubble where you hear no sound, and think of nothing but what is at hand. You focus on every breath, every movement, and you PLEASURES HAVE COME FROM FINDING forget all the troubles you have, all the stress WAYS TO OVERCOME OBSTACLES. that weighed down on — JOHN WOODEN you. You leave your life at the shooting range door, and despite the physical strain on your body, you give your mind a break, and a chance to refresh. It’s an art that requires practice and dedication, and the willingness to immerse oneself in something new, something different, something atypical. It’s a chance to not think about the guy who cut you off on the road, or the cab driver who ripped you off by taking the long road home. Not the exam you just blew, or your boyfriend, or rather ex-boyfriend, who you just had a fight with. It’s an escape from your reality and into your deeper, clearer mind.

some of my greatest

Respectfully Submitted, Enas Alkhudairy T’08, MIT’12

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UNDERGRADUATE ATHLETES So, if we have learned anything from the amazing stories and interviews from our successful athletes, we should officially start keeping an eye on the younger undergraduate athletes … clearly they are bound for some sort of greatness. Here is a list of CURRENT Undergrad Chapter Athletes.

A Δ E

ALPHA

Danielle Cosentino A’10 Field Hockey Phillip Fletcher A’11 Crew Clemens Auersperg A’11 Crew

DELTA

John Dudzik Δ’11 Squash Thomas Mattsson Δ’09 Squash Trevor Mcguiness Δ’09 Squash Tosan Eyetsemitan Δ’11 Football Anthony Adler Δ’09 Lacrosse Garon Smith Δ’10 Cycling

EPSILON

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Megan K. Leonhard E’10 Lacrosse Jay Kramer E’10 Squash Zak Helmerich E’11 Football Alex Bermingham E’09 Golf Courtney Leigh Daukas E’10 Equestrian Tucker Callanan E’12 Soccer Hedley Jennings E’12 Football (starting quarterback)

PHI

Justin McDaniel Φ’11 Baseball (walked on the Ole Miss baseball team)

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SIGMA

B. Cameron Best Σ’10 Lightweight Crew

TAU

Kathleen Inman T’12 Varsity Crew Alexander Mitkas T’15 Varsity Crew Javier Ramos T’12 Varsity Sailing Santiago Cuellar T’12 Varsity Sailing Angelique Nehmzow T’14 Varsity Sailing

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THETA

Will Booz Θ’10, Princeton 2013 Soccer

UPSILON

Matt Fortin Υ’11 Football (starting long snapper) Alec Vozenilek Υ’11 Football Punter Rob Vozenilek Υ’12 Basketball (walk-on for the UVA basketball team that was ranked #22 in the nation)

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Jenn Ruff Ξ’10 Equestrian

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made me look for something else to prove myself. However, my family always supported my interest in rowing and once it started defining my lifestyle they were behind me and helped me wherever they could.

peaceful and rewarding moments you can have as a rower. It is almost as great as crossing the finish line, every inch of your body aches, but you crossed the line first and won. Those two moments are definitely why I love this sport so much.

Q: What is your favorite memory from being on the water or generally rowing crew … if you have one?

Q: Do you row on another team besides Columbia?

A: There are many favorite moments. Although I am generally not a fan of getting up very early, being on perfectly flat water with your teammates, taking long and powerful strokes and gliding on the water while the sun rises is one of the most

A: Columbia takes up most of my time, but I still row and compete in Austria. I am still a member of my club in Austria and we won the nationals in October. And I am doing all my testing at Columbia and the national coach sees the improvements I make here and so I am still part of my national team and as such I want to compete at the Under 23 World Championships this summer.

St. Anthony Educational Foundation This spring, the SAEF Grants Committee received 25 proposals for grant funding, totaling more than $53,000 in requested funds. Fourteen of these grants were approved for full or partial funding, totaling $18,476. These funded grants represent the best of St. Anthony Hall and the efforts of its members to engage in creative and charitable education and scholarship. For all of you whose donations helped to fund these grants, we thank you and would like to let you know a little bit more about where your kind donation is going. Included below are excerpts from the application summaries of some of the proposals funded this cycle. For those of you thinking about donating, here’s just a small sampling of the educational uses of SAEF funds; we hope you’ll contribute in the future! I’d also like to thank all of our applicants for making this an exciting competitive grants cycle filled with many fine proposals. We’re sorry we couldn’t fund them all! Yours in the bonds, Greg Friedman K’94 Chair, SAEF Grants Committee • I am applying for a grant for the summer of 2012 to travel to Ecuador to work with at least three other Brown students, through the organization Esperanza International, to set up a jewelry co-operative in the Secoya community in the Amazon. This project is the culmination of work that has been going on since the summer of 2011. The co-operative would provide community members with a reliable source of income, which the community currently does not have and which would provide both educational and economic benefits, as well as preserving a traditional Secoya art form for future generations. This project would also provide the participants with valuable community organizing experience as well as giving them an immersive cultural education. • On May 28, 2012, I will travel to Katosi, Uganda, for two months to work in an unpaid internship for the Katosi Women’s Development Trust (KWDT), a non-governmental organization whose mission is to improve “the general living standards of poor, rural peasant communities.” I will teach English to children in rural primary schools and to adult women. I will also design and implement a program focusing on reusable menstrual pads as part of a general educational campaign for women’s health and sanitation. I am requesting a grant to support travel to Uganda and to purchase supplies for developing and implementing a health curriculum for women and adolescent girls. • … to facilitate the printing of two issues (One in both the fall and spring semesters of the 2012-2013 school year) of a campus and community literary magazine: The Reliquary. The initial issue will showcase members of St. Anthony Hall, but we wish to later accept outside work from non-members. The magazine would provide another outlet for writers and artists at UNC to share and publish their work to be seen by each other, the UNC community, and the general public. • The proposed summer research project is a 15-week comparative study of the political role of religion (both historical and contemporary) in Europe and Israel as it pertains to the development of future constitutions for the European Union and Israel. The research will consist of studying the relevant work of the political philosopher Jürgen Habermas and other political and legal thinkers, of examining treaties, court cases, and constitutional drafts in the archives of Strasbourg and Jerusalem, and of interviewing important politicians, jurists, and public intellectuals in a representative selection of European member-states and religious groups within Israeli society.

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Bro. John Borland Thayer III Δ’1912, and the The night of April 14/15, 2012 marked the centenary of the loss of the White Star Line passenger ship Titanic, which sank after striking an iceberg in the North Atlantic Ocean about 380 miles southeast of Newfoundland. Among the survivors of the horrific sinking were William Ernest Carter Δ’1894 (college class of 1897) and John “Jack” Borland Thayer III, who later that year matriculated at the University of Pennsylvania where he, too, joined the Delta Chapter of St. Anthony Hall. It is remarkable that The Hall would have this double tie to the century’s most infamous (but by no means worst) maritime disaster. That they were members of the same chapter, though they apparently had no other connection to each other, seems astonishing. The story of the Titanic has been told and retold many times, but even without recourse to hyperbole and unnecessary (and usually incorrect) superlatives, a few salient facts stand out: The ship was travelling at high speed through a well-advertised ice field that extended further south than usual that unduly warm spring. The odds of survival correlated to class: You had the best of odds of surviving (63%) if you were booked in first class; they were less than passable if you travelled second (43%); and they were terrible if you travelled in third class, the accommodations for immigrants and poorest passengers (25%). They were even worse for the ship’s crew and staff (only 23%). The appalling loss of life was due not to lax enforcement of safety regulations, but to a lack of corporate common sense and wholly inadequate legislation. Although fully loaded the ship could carry more than 3,500 people, British law required lifeboats for only 1,060, and the Titanic’s boats could carry a total of 1,178. This was far fewer than the design originally called for, but additional boats were removed for aesthetic reasons. In the event, 2,228 people were aboard for her maiden crossing; only 705—less than a third of them—reached New York.

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Olympic and Titanic—Largest Steamers in the World, circa 1912. Courtesy of the Norman H. Morse Ocean Liner Collection, Osher Map Library, University of Southern Maine.

Titanic, 1912-2012

Brother Thayer’s recollections are among the clearest and most reliable. Shortly after the collision, he went on deck with his father, his mother, Marian, and his mother’s maid, Margaret Fleming. His mother and Miss Fleming were bundled into lifeboat no. 4, but his father held back for the time being. Separated from his parents, the young Thayer remained aboard the Titanic until moments before its final plunge, when he jumped into the icy water and resurfaced just in time to witness the ship’s death throes. “I saw the ship in a sort of a red glare,” he recalled, “and it seemed to me that she broke in two just in front of the third funnel. At this time I was sucked down, and as I came up I was pushed out again and twisted around by a large wave, coming up in the midst of a great deal of small wreckage.” Thayer providentially surfaced next to the overturned collapsible B, which though never righted, supported 25 survivors, including the ship’s junior radio officer Harold Bride, second officer Charles Lightoller, and nineteen other crew, most of them boiler room stokers. Although the water temperature was only 28°F (-2°C)—roughly the temperature at which saltwater freezes—these castaways survived the night and shortly after dawn were picked up by lifeboats no. 4 (which Thayer entered, not knowing his mother was there until later) and no. 12. Brother Thayer’s recollection of his harrowing experience was published in one of the first books printed about the disaster, Logan Marshall’s Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters: A Detailed and Accurate Account of the Most Awful Marine Disaster in History, Constructed from the Real Facts As Obtained from Those on Board Who Survived … (Dayton: Thomas Manufacturing Co., 1912). Nearly 30 years later, Thayer wrote his own privately published account for family and friends. This spring, Thornwillow Press is reissuing this recently rediscovered work as A Survivor’s Tale: The Sinking of the S.S. Titanic, 1912-2012. Following college, and service in World War I, Thayer had a successful career as a banker and administrator at the University of Pennsylvania, and married and had two sons, and he published his account of the Titanic in 1940. Plagued by depression following the death of one son during World War II, Thayer took his own life in September 1945. He was predeceased by his mother, Marian, who died April 14, 1944, the 32nd anniversary of the Titanic disaster. Brother Carter was travelling with his wife and two children, and the family was accompanied by his wife’s personal maid, Auguste Serreplan, his manservant, Alexander Cairns, and his chauffeur, Charles Aldworth. After depositing his wife, children and Serreplan in boat 4, Carter remained on the ship and was fortunate enough to find his way aboard collapsible C, but only after no more women and children could be found and it was being lowered. Though Carter

Brothers Thayer and Carter are the only two Hall brothers known to have been aboard the Titanic. While it is unlikely that there were others, if anyone knows of any, they are asked to inform Brother Nick Noble ([email protected]) who is writing the new Hall history.

FURTHER READING:

Sketches by John B. Thayer, Jr., as they appeared in Logan Marshall’s Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters (Dayton: Thomas Manufacturing Co., 1912), p. 212. Courtesy Osher Map Library, University of Southern Maine.

never wrote of the sinking, at least publicly, he is responsible for one of the more indelible—if wholly fictitious—images brought to the screen in James Cameron’s film, Titanic. Poor Aldworth was present on the ship for the simple reason that Carter was travelling with his 1912 Renault Town Car, which was the same make and model as that used for the steamy love scene between Jack and Rose in the movie.

continued from page 4 I think our organization is like a ship whose guiding North Star is our core values: our vows and our bonds, our commitment to literary duties and ritual, to leadership and excellence, to our shared history. We tack back and forth, avoiding shoals and currents, sometimes blown further in one direction or the other than would be ideal, but striving constantly to abide and be guided by our values. T.A.D. (M.H.E.Bro. Tharp) tells me that if one reads the histories of our chapters, virtually every one has been on the knife’s edge at one time or another. Maybe as a group, we have veered a little too far toward the fraternity party culture, pushed by the winds of our time. Given the risks we face, maybe it’s time to alter our course—to have the self-confidence to focus more on our brothers and sisters than on having the best parties on campus; to take advantage of our ritual to bring out the best in ourselves and each other at meetings; to share the best of ourselves both with our siblings and with our fellow chapters; to unabashedly be leaders on campus; to consciously seek members who we think will thrive in and enhance our meetings. Looking internally, we G.C. officers found the spirit of St. Anthony to be notably strong among the members of all chapters, a very happy finding. In several chapters, we found the level of ritual and quality of L.D.s—in terms of both literary merit and personal sharing—at the highest levels. As Ex. Bro. Cook did last year, I urge undergraduates to attend regular meetings at other chapters. Even the best chapters can learn from others. I also applaud the hospitality of several chapters who regularly open their space to fellow chapters for initiation.

The Titanic saga has generated enough books to sustain a small publishing empire. The following is a brief, highly personal selection of books chosen for the diverse perspectives they offer on the subject, in chronological order: • John “Jack” Borland Thayer, III. A Survivor’s Tale: The Sinking of the S.S. “Titanic” 1912-2012. 1940. Reprint Newburgh: Thornwillow Press, 2012. (This was previously reprinted in Jay Mowbray, ed., Two Survivors’ Accounts of the Tragedy at Sea. Chicago: Academy Chicago, 1998.) • Walter Lord. A Night to Remember. New York: Henry Holt, 1955. • Donald Lynch and Ken Marschall; introduction by Robert D. Ballard. “Titanic”: An Illustrated History. New York: Hyperion, 1992. • Steven Biel. Down with the Old Canoe: A Cultural History of the “Titanic.” New York: W.W. Norton, 1996. • Stephanie Barczewski. “Titanic”: A Night Remembered. London: Hambledon Continuum: 2004. • John Maxton-Graham. “Titanic” Tragedy: A New Look at the Lost Liner. New York: W.W. Norton, 2011.

Last year, I told you my goals were to involve more graduate brothers and sisters in the operations of the national organization principally via the new committees mandated by the amended bylaws. As is not surprising in any volunteer organization, and especially in the debut year of a new committee structure, some committees functioned better than others; a couple truly excelled both in involving their committee members and in progressing against their goals. I fault myself for not participating more actively to assist the chairs. Looking forward, some chairs have offered ideas for improvement, and the Law Committee has included cheat sheets for committee chairs and G.C. officers in their revised Administrative Manual. I also fell short on emphasizing community service, and no Trinity Cup for outstanding community service was given this year. This is not to minimize efforts of many brothers and sisters in this area; it is more to comment that none truly stood out. In my view, community service is extremely important, not just as a means of impressing the administration, but more as a means to provide shared experience for siblings—and because it is important in and of itself. (You’re talking to someone who serves on the Executive Committee of three nonprofit boards.) Personally, I would encourage you to consider actually serving together—for example, regular service at a soup kitchen—instead of or in addition to raising money for causes. I hope every chapter blows the socks off the new G.C. officers with their respective accomplishments in the community in 2012. The greatest pleasure of the past two years of G.C. leadership has been meeting so many of you—undergraduates and graduates, not to mention my fellow G.C. officers, friends for life. There are very many extraordinary people in this Fraternity, and I’m privileged to have served.

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BRO. KEITH O’SHAUGHNESSY A’90

“Keith O'Shaughnessy has composed Incommunicado with extraordinary thoroughness. Sensuous images, swelling syntax, and haunting recurrences are here organized into a set of varied patterns at once intricate, gorgeous, and rigid. Incommunicado arranges its paradoxical shards—art, appetite, beauty, decay—into a lush and austere design. I know of no book like it.” —Rachel Hadas

“Keith O’Shaughnessy’s book of poems Incommunicado is a marvel of craft and passion . . . These poems are bold, they are well made, and they dare the reader to drop everything and join the dance.” —Ifeanyi Menkiti

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Keith O’Shaughnessy teaches English at Camden County College in southern New Jersey. His poems have appeared in Columbia Magazine, Measure, and Able Muse. He is also the author of three chapbooks—Carnaval, The Devil’s Party, and Snegurochka—all published by Pudding House Publications. He lives in Princeton.

INCOMMUNICADO

“Incommunicado, yes. But not in the way one might first guess. The poems in Keith O’Shaughnessy’s collection are . . . accessible and memorable, full of vivid images . . . These are poems—in the tradition of Augustine, Lao Tzu, Christian mystics, Zen—about the ineffable, that which must be spoken to but cannot be spoken of.” —H. L. Hix

KEITH O’SHAUGHNESSY

Later, sometime Last spring, by a series of bad breaks for the state of contemporary after taking my Master’s American verse, my book Incommunicado won the inaugural in Creative Writing at Grolier Discovery Award, sponsored by the legendary poetry Rutgers, I went on to bookshop on Harvard Square of the same name. Its publication author three chapbooks— in April and my multiple subsequent readings of it in and around Carnaval, The Devil’s New York represent the culmination of years of development as a writer, the inception of which might very well be traced back to Party, and Snegurochka— my experiences both composing and performing literary duties all with Pudding House at The Hall. It is for this reason that my book’s acknowledgments Publications, as well as page includes, among other dutiful expressions of gratitude, a note individual poems in a of thanks to St. A’s for the “capaciousness of (its) spirit.” Which is variety of periodicals, to say, The Hall created this monster, as it has so many others for most notably, Columbia well over a century and half. Magazine. In fact, it was I joined the Alpha Chapter in the Spring of 1990. Like there that my first two published poems appeared, including one, “Il Mio Tesoretto,” about a reading I attended of Dante’s Inferno so many of my compatriots, I thereafter swiftly, and gladly, all held each year on Maundy Thursday at the Cathedral of St. John but disappeared into the black hole that is life at 434 Riverside the Divine. (For what it’s worth, it’s a blast, so should you ever Drive, from which I would not re-emerge for approximately find yourself in the neighborhood come Holy Week, and a certain five years. During this dark time, I inflicted scores of “respectful Spirit moves, go to Hell, as it were.) submissions” upon my brethren. Though my Delta Psi œuvre To my alarm, a few months after the poem’s publication, consists mainly of poems (my drug of choice), on occasion I I received what turned out to be a fan letter from one Ifeanyi would read short fiction or essays, and once even challenged Menkiti, a Columbia graduate himself who is now a poet, an especially sporting brother to a Renaissance Man contest, complete with events in music, acting, and painting. If the current professor of Philosophy at Wellesley College, and—most membership knows what’s good for it, the comprehensive volume importantly—the proprietor of the aforementioned bookshop. of submissions I bequeathed to The Hall upon my departure— He asked that I send him copies of my books. Problematically, not only did I not have any “books,” but at that time I didn’t even have entitled “The Surviving, If Not Necessarily Fit, Literary Duties a book. What I did have, however, was a manuscript—what was to of Keith Devlin O’Shaughnessy”—still resides somewhere on the become the book in question. chapter house library shelves. Improbably enough, said book is set in an unidentified In the final months of my tenure, I applied for and received a Mexican village during the carnival season and populated with grant from the St. Anthony Educational Foundation to found and most all the stock characters—flamenco dancer, bullfighter, publish, under The Hall’s auspices, The Antonian Review, a literary American exile—familiar from romanticized visions of the region journal containing all manner of material—from the customary (accurate accounts being well outside my personal experience poems, stories, and essays, to book and art reviews, an interview and/or research willpower). Structurally, its poems function less (with Louis Auchincloss, of all people), and even a translation as individual “pieces” than as “movements” in a larger, intricatelyof a 19th-century Colombian manual on urbanity and manners. patterned symphonic arrangement. Needless to say, considering Not to get sentimental, but I still consider the banquet we held to the almost aggressive unmarketability of what commemorate its release to be perhaps my least every other indicator had suggested was a shameful moment as an active member. deservedly unrecognized work, it was with Even once I’d rejoined the civilian WINNER OF THE FIRST GROLIER DISCOVERY AWARD _________________________________________ INCOMMUNICADO POEMS realistically low expectations that I handed Mr. population as—what else?—a teacher of KEITH O’SHAUGHNESSY Menkiti my plain manila folder one Boston British Literature at an all-boys Catholic high afternoon and asked that he give it a look. school in Jersey City, in my behind-the-scenes _________________________________________ My well-founded fears notwithstanding, life I continued to keep company almost in less than a year Mr. Menkiti was calling to exclusively with Hall types, most of whom tell me that the store was establishing a book had become bankers and were therefore _________________________________________ award in its name and that, inadvisably enough, favorably positioned to spot the penurious he had selected Incommunicado to be its first scholar near-infinite rounds of drinks at a winner. I cannot tell you how grateful I am to collection of hotel bars I still frequent. Even ________________________________________ whatever force of providence/serendipity/dumb then, for lack of a proper venue like that I luck in the literary cosmos it was that brought enjoyed as an undergraduate, I pronounced myself a coterie poet after the old style and my manuscript into the hands of the one man proceeded to circulate my songs and sonnets crazy enough to like it—and unwise enough LOGO HERE GROLIER POETRY PRESS among those acquaintances of mine too polite to print it. On the strength of its publication, I Cambridge, Massachusetts GROLIER POETRY PRESS to refuse them. have since received fellowships to conferences

and numerous invitations to give readings on a variety of programs— including series at Fordham and Rutgers, among others. Meanwhile, work on my second book, Snegurochka—the stylistic and thematic counterpart to its predecessor—proceeds apace. This time, the action has relocated to Russia, about whose culture I have likewise managed to maintain a near-pristine ignorance. But if it’s a factual primer you’re after, I suppose there’s always the Discovery Channel … So, if I cannot yet be said to have “arrived” or be feted in the literary community as the true genius/virtuoso my fellow practitioners inexplicably continue to refuse to admit I am, what measure of success I have achieved has been both on and in my own terms. And it is a great pleasure to be reminded, on occasions such as this, of the institution that played so significant a role in giving me the opportunity to do so. It is also of great comfort to know that now it might be that much less unreasonable for me to dream that I will one day be remembered at our beloved St. A’s for at least one activity that was not entirely disreputable. If you would like a copy of Incommunicado, please contact the Grolier Poetry Book Shop at www.grolierpoetrybookshop.org or 617-547-4648. Alternately, email Brother O’Shaughnessy directly at [email protected]. Keith O’Shaughnessy teaches literature, creative writing, and composition at Camden County College in southern New Jersey. His first book, Incommunicado, won the inaugural Grolier Discovery Award, sponsored by the legendary poetry bookshop on Harvard Square of the same name. He is also the author of three chapbooks— Carnaval, The Devil’s Party, and Snegurochka—all published by Pudding House Publications. His poems have appeared in Columbia Magazine, Measure, and Able Muse. In the summer of 2011, he attended the Sewanee Writers Conference as a Dakin Fellow. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

SIS. MARA ROCKLIFF K’88

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Mara Rockliff ’s new picture book, My Heart Will Not Sit Down, has just been released. The latest in the Milo & Jazz Mysteries (#8), The Case of the Diamonds in the Desk, is also now available. If your local bookstore doesn’t have them on the shelf, they’ll order them for you. You can find your nearest independent bookstore (and order books online) at IndieBound.org. Rockliff recommends betterworldbooks.com, because they offer free carbon-neutral shipping on all orders and donate money to literacy and libraries. And now … the books! When Kedi hears about America’s Great Depression from her teacher, her heart will not sit down. Men and women are unable to find work. Children are going hungry. In her teacher’s village of New York City, people are starving because they do not have money to buy food. But can one small girl in Africa’s Cameroon make a difference all the way across the great salt river in America?

BRO. AMANDA COBB E’01 These days all I get in the mail are bills. Birthday wishes are delivered to my Facebook wall, thank you notes are lost in my email box, party invitations are brightly colored evites, and catching up with friends happens in 140 character tweets. I only recognize the handwriting of a handful of friends and family members. What happened to the personal note? I opened Brown Dog Ink to bring back personal, to help find joy in my mailbox, to show people that a pen and paper are remarkably easy to operate. Brown    Dog Ink is a “concierge stationer”—meaning, I value my clients’ time. If someone wants to stop by before work or after Glee, that is fine with me. If someone is busy during the week, and wants to shop during their lunch break while hovered over some lo mein, I will come to their office. In this busy, busy world, I want to make buying stationery easy and personal. Brown Dog Ink sells personal stationery, wedding invitations, party invitations, birth announcements, and personalized gifts. Please visit the website www.sitandstaytionery.com for samples, the trunk show schedule or to set up an appointment.

A jewelry store is robbed. A diamond necklace mysteriously shows up in Milo’s desk at school. The connection is crystal clear … isn’t it? Detective duo Milo and Jazz tackle their eighth case in this exciting mystery!

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CHAPTER REPORTS

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ALPHA CHAPTER

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

Report by Cristian Lopez-Balboa A’09

The Alpha Chapter of St. Anthony Hall is poised to continue the successes of the past year. Returning from the G.C. with two awards for L.D.s and the coveted accolade of Best Meeting has been a boost to our spirits, and the Membership will certainly strive to maintain this high standard going forward. The spring semester brought Senior Biographies, L.D.s that members of the senior class present at Thursday meetings, which never fail to impress, inspire, and demonstrate the literary prowess of our own brethren. Having worked diligently to improve our fiscal situation, our D.U., Harper Leahy, continues to smooth our balance sheet, allowing us to function more efficiently and, ultimately, make sure that we take advantage of our funds as we would like. We finished fall semester with a considerable surplus, which we will use for preservation and improvement of our Chapter, potentially increasing our storage space for literary and historical documents so that we may safeguard our history for years to come. We have also recently secured the much-awaited return of a stack of Fraternity documents, which were in the hands of E.Bro. Beers II E’54, H.D.’03. We keenly await the return of these pieces of our history and feel immense gratitude to Brother Beers for his devotion to the Order and the defense of its past. Our community remains as strong as ever. In the spring semester, we have enjoyed a variety of cocktail parties and gatherings, including our traditional Super Bowl party and its younger brother, the AFC/NFC Championship party. Our Thursday night meetings are well attended and the cocktails and dinner beforehand provide much inspiration for the meeting’s events. The Valentine’s Day Gala was the highlight of the Alpha Chapter’s social calendar. Last fall’s lecture by Professor Robert McCaughey titled “The Shrinking WASP” discussed changing admission standards at Ivy League universities. It was enlightening both for the membership and for the many guests who were present that evening, and we hope to use it as inspiration for further talks in the coming months. This semester, we have hosted several Siblings from the Theta Chapter to dinner and a Thursday night meeting, and Iota is planning to come for a visit later this year. We always extend a warm welcome to any Brothers or Sisters who find themselves in the New York area. We welcomed our new Brothers and Sisters in early December and our Membership now sits at 35. We strive to bring in all qualified candidates, but this past semester the truism “Quality over quantity” was particularly apt. We continued our record of recruiting from the crew teams by bringing in another heavyweight rower and we are optimistic about the possibility of gaining a complete set. Alumni from Alpha and other chapters have provided us with

recommendations for next semester and we have a large group of talented potential Friends to consider; it certainly appears that our Qq. Colin Stokes A’09 will have the opportunity to lead a sizeable pledge class through the Process. Overall, Alpha is doing pretty well for itself. Our future at Columbia is relatively secure. The next step for Alpha isn’t only to continue those practices that have brought us to where we are, but to consider how we can further improve. Our improvement as a chapter is always directed towards those values we share in common: intellectual rigor, literary exercise, secrecy, constancy, and devotion.

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DELTA CHAPTER

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA Report by Andrew Pohly Δ’10

The Delta Chapter had twelve pledges this spring, including two football players, one rower, and three squash players. Ties with the Delta Alumni Association are as strong as ever; the alumni played an integral role in rush this semester by hosting an event at the Philadelphia Racquet Club. We hosted our annual Speaker Series event, as well as a charity squash event slated for this semester.

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EPSILON CHAPTER TRINITY COLLEGE

Report by Oz Osborn E’10

On behalf of the elected officers and the active brothers of Epsilon, I am pleased to report on the order of our chapter. We are continuing our process of archiving L.D.s and the preserved documents that managed to persist through the many decades of our order. The task is constantly attended to and many brothers regularly contribute their time. Our treasurer, Brother Smith Alpert E’11, is in the process of conceiving plans for a renovation of our chapter room using a generous donation from VLS. They visited us Sunday, February 12, 2012, for their initiation. It is important for us to retain our strong relationships with other chapters and we would love to host any brothers traveling through the Hartford area this spring. Brother Walker Berning E’11 remains as our community service representative for this spring and he will be going with brothers to the Thomas J. McDonough Elementary School to register for their Big Brothers Big Sisters program. Epsilon regularly visits a soup kitchen in Hartford to serve dinner to the homeless with our Eating Club chef and this has become a favorite event for several brothers. We are also in the process of contributing to Trinity College’s green effort by constructing a compost station in conjunction with the Eating Club. Brother Jay Kramer E’10 and the squash team fought to eclipse their first loss by defeating every school since that tough match against Yale, including the number one seeded

REPORTS, Harvard team. Brother Alex Bermingham E’09 earned all NESCAC second team as well as the all-sportsmanship team for his successes with the golf team. Brother Courtney Daukas E’10 continues to ride with the Trinity equestrian team and she earned faculty honors this past fall as well. Brother Zak Helmerich E’11 finished strong with the football team and started at safety several times, he is currently abroad in Argentina and we look forward to hearing about his travels. Brother Tim Carson E’09 has invited Thomas Ridge, the former governor of Pennsylvania and first director of Homeland Security, as our Clement Lecture for this spring and we are excited to learn and converse with him. Brother Carson was also offered several venture capital investments for his Internet startup this past fall, and we wish him luck. After rush was over, it was clear to the brotherhood that many strong candidates existed within the group of sophomores. After voting as a brotherhood we selected a pledge class of eight that includes several athletes, musicians, and two legacies, Olivia Anderson and Eliza Ziebold, and it is clear that the potential for leadership outside the walls of our Chapter House is exceptional. We are looking forward to our next formal dinner and faculty mixer, these events allow brothers to intermingle with friends, dates, professors, and sometimes even our own parents. Lastly, a new social policy is in place at Trinity College and The Hall aims to lead as an example as well as be an active participant in studentadministration discussions here on campus. I hope that this report finds the G.C. and all other chapters well, we wish you the best from Epsilon.

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THETA CHAPTER

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY

Report by Dan Abromowitz Θ’10

It’s certainly an exciting time to be a Theta. In October, we initiated 17 pledges, our largest-ever class, bringing our ranks up to 44 active members, our largest-ever membership. You can hardly swing a dead cat in Princeton without being arrested by public safety, but first you would probably hit a Theta. This year’s rush has reached record numbers as well, with more than 130 students rushing, constituting more than 10% of the freshman class. In December our sophomores organized our annual literary-themed first rush party; their theme this year was George Orwell’s 1984, complete with security cameras, wall-to-wall Big Brother posters, and looping propaganda, and by all accounts it was a memorable event. We look forward to extending bids in early March. Our members continue to be integrally involved in campus culture and arts, with Thetas in campus theatre, jazz bands and a capella, dance, graphic design, varsity and club sports, and public service, among other extracurriculars. Especially notable is Bro. Ben Taub Θ’10, who, during his semester abroad, was voted a top-ten finalist in a British national singing competition out of 7,500 entrants. Unfortunately, at the end of this past summer the

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university administration announced its intention to implement a ban on freshman year rush conducted by Greek organizations. It has since convened a student committee, drawing on both unaffiliated and Greek-affiliated students, to advise on the terms of the ban, to be put into effect in the 2012-13 academic year. We are not represented on the council, though our contact with committee members indicates that the administration does not consider us separately from other Greek organizations on campus. We will continue to communicate with those members in order to try to ensure a favorable set of terms as we consider our options for restructuring rush in future years. Our chapter is nothing if not flexible, though, and we remain cautiously optimistic. In light of this, my predecessor, Sis. Patricia Bandeira Vieira Θ’09, spearheaded a successful SAEF grant proposal to establish a faculty speaker series, both in the interest of contributing to campus culture and creating a distinctive and positive public presence for Theta. We have also obtained a SAEF grant to send Thetas to a meeting at Alpha. We hope that both of these will be a great boon to the chapter going forward. Though we have yet to obtain a formal meeting room, we have been lucky enough this year to have four members living together in apartment-style housing, whose common room has afforded us some degree of locational stability. While this is only a temporary solution, Theta remains committed to someday, somehow, securing a place of our own, and we continue to appreciate the support that the G.C. and our graduate organization has provided. I would like to formally extend a huge thank you to Alpha for hosting our first and third degrees, and to Delta for offering to host us and for their advice on coordinating the speaker series. I would also like to thank the G.C. for their unbelievable gift of a gorgeous silver platter for Theta’s 25th anniversary, which has become a centerpiece at our meetings, classing up the proceedings immensely. As ever, The Hall is strong.

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IOTA CHAPTER

UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER Report by Eric Meinhardt I’10

Greetings from Rochester! We are happy to say that the newest chapter of The Hall continues to grow and establish a name for itself on campus. Last autumn, we welcomed the officers of the Grand Chapter for the first time in over a century. Our archives now contain a collection of the original Iota’s meeting notes, brought to us by M.H.&E. Bro. Tad Tharp A’75; thanks to a gracious offer from our university’s special collections library we have a secure place for these historic papers. We are grateful to the G.C. and to the many Hall alumni who have made the journey to our home in the frozen north, and extend an invitation to any brethren who may find themselves in the Rochester area to join us. Last semester, we tapped six new pledges and our membership currently stands at a dozen undergraduate

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members. If the brothers and sisters of Iota are few, they have nonetheless distinguished themselves in academics and extracurricular activities on the University of Rochester campus in many ways. Several of our members, including Bro. Eric Przybylski I’11, Bro. Gregory Bocko I’11, and Bro. Gregory Sutherland I’11, are active in the studentproduced literary journal LOGOS, and Sis. Leigha MacNeill I’11, is its editor-in-chief. Last autumn, Bro. Sergei Kriskov I’10 curated an exhibition on the life and work of the late Rochester professor and poet Hyam Plutzik for the occasion of the centenary of his birth. Sis. Antoinette Johnson I’11 regularly contributes articles to the campus newspaper. Sis. Dana Belles I’11 and Sis. Julieta Gruszko I’10 have both participated as cast members in campus productions of The Vagina Monologues. Our membership consists of a fine balance of students in the humanities and the sciences, and they have made achievements in both their academic research and their extracurricular interests, in dance, music, poetry, the fine arts, and other areas. Our sights are currently set on increasing the quality of our public events, incorporating charitable work into chapter activities, and on finding a house to serve as a residence and permanent meeting place, while continuing to use our current space (Warner Castle) for special occasions. We thank the Saint Anthony Educational Foundation for the travel grants recently awarded; these funded our pledge camping trip and visits to two other chapters this semester. The chapter’s finances are now in their best state since Iota was refounded, thanks to these grants and the entrepreneurship of Bro. David Mack I’10. We are also happy to say that Bro. Nic Hammond Φ’99 I’10, who was instrumental in the refounding of the Iota Chapter, has accepted an offer of employment from the University of Rochester and is now once again present.

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KAPPA CHAPTER BROWN UNIVERSITY

Report by Anna Costello K’10

Hello from King House! I am glad to report that the Kappa Chapter is healthy, vibrant, and loving as always. Last spring, we initiated Kappa’s largest ever pledge class of 21 new members. The K’11s are already well integrated into our chapter. Many served as officers in the fall and many more have stepped up this spring. Our events have been an enormous success. Our long-standing tradition of Sunday morning pancake breakfasts continue to draw a crowd. This year, we also added a series of Writing Workshops open to the Brown community to our rush calendar. We hope these workshops contribute to the creative community at Brown and give prospective members a good idea of what The Hall has to offer. Relations with our alumni and our alumni board continue to be strong. We are grateful for the support they provide to us throughout rush in the form of boxes of homemade cookies and for all the advice they provide to us in matters of dealing with the

University administration. Additionally, we are very grateful for the wonderful job the SATRI Grants Committee does of editing and improving our SAEF Grant Proposals. The chapter received a grant to organize and restore our archives this semester. Bro. William Barnet K’09 participated in a theater program in China in January thanks to an SAEF grant. Currently, two Kappa SAEF grant recipients are taking a semester away from Brown to pursue their interests abroad. Sis. Nicole Jone K’11 is in Italy studying music and Sis. Sinead Crotty K’11 is traveling throughout Latin America learning Spanish and working on various service projects including coaching soccer in Nicaragua, volunteering to help form a reforestation program in Ecuador, and researching the health of puma populations in Chile. We are also pursuing various community service endeavors. We are continuing our writing workshops at EPOCH, an assisted living home near campus. We are also helping with a new project here at Brown that transports unused food from dining halls to soup kitchens in the city of Providence. Additionally, we have many members who are pursuing individual education-based community service projects. These include Bro. Tariq Adely K’11 and Sis. Kaley Curtis K’09, who both teach English to adult immigrants in the Providence area and Sis. Caitlin Naureckas K’10, who coordinates a group of students who teach science classes in Providence schools. This semester, we received visits from our siblings at Tau and Sigma. You are always welcome here at King House. Please let us know if you are ever in the area.

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XI CHAPTER

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA Report by Salem Elrahal Ξ’09

I am pleased to report that the health of the Xi Chapter is in outstanding condition and is getting better each day. In the fall, we pledged seven new brothers and sisters, and they have proved to be excellent additions to our family. On the weekend of April 14, we had SwingOut. We also have many members active in the community and I would like to take this chance to share a few of them. Sis. Kimberly Gormley Ξ’09 has been strongly involved in the Chapel Hill art scene. Through her position as director for Carolina Creates Visual Arts, an offshoot of the Chancellor’s Innovate program, she has organized the art show “Don’t Be Intimidated By This Painting” and designed an interactive art piece for a recent TEDxUNC conference. She organized a community-wide art show in April entitled “The Grand Show.” Sis. Camilla Brewer Ξ’11 is a co-director of the Unity Conference and has served on the Interfaith Women’s Panel. Sis. Julia Christy Ξ’09 served on the directors’ board of MANO (an English-as-a-second-language organization that serves the latino population of Carrboro/Chapel Hill) as academic director last fall. She studied abroad in Buenos Aires for spring semester. Sis. Allison Hussey Ξ’11 works as the assistant editor of Diversions for our school paper, The Daily Tar Heel. Sis. Jenn Ruff Ξ’10 is on the school equestrian team.

REPORTS, Sis. Caroline Nagle Ξ’11 is going to Honduras with the Public Health Brigade. We also have members who are actively working to better themselves and our family such as Bro. Dave Madinger Ξ’10, who gives us weekly history lessons on the Fraternity. Sis. Martha Miller Ξ’10 and Sis. Courtney Coppage Ξ’10 are both improving themselves by making efforts to improve her personal health and by reading about 3,500 pages of primary texts this semester respectively. Bro. Matthew Leader Ξ’09 is working towards his career by pursuing an internship with a UNC hydrogeologist, doing his own research project, and attending a Geology Field Camp later this year. We also have a literary magazine in the works, headed by Bro. Jordan Hopson Ξ’10 and Sis. Martha Glenn Ξ’11, that will feature art from many brothers and sisters. Through the efforts of our current President, Bro. James Brennan Ξ’11, we are also starting the process of joining a council to solidify and help our relationship with the University. Our numbers are strong in quality and quantity, and we will soon extend bids to a new pledge class. Chapel Hill is lovely this time of year, and we would love to host any and all brothers and sisters who can make the trip to see us.

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SIGMA CHAPTER YALE UNIVERSITY

Report by Alexandra Dennett Σ’09

The Sigma Chapter started the spring semester in excellent spirits! We only do tapping in the fall semester, so we have no new members to report on. However, our group of 55 members has been incredibly dynamic. The atmosphere is a very happy one, and members have been spending even more time together outside of regular meetings through various activities—cooking projects, book clubs, film screenings and more have become more and more frequent. We also have a few more formally organized group projects. Two siblings organized a reach-out trip to volunteer in orphanages in Vietnam over spring break. Approximately ten siblings were involved in directing, producing, acting in, creating the costumes and set for a play that a sister wrote last semester. The production went up this semester and the rest of The Hall attended en masse! We also are working on turning part of The Hall into a space where we could have regular exhibits showcasing artwork by members. Our annual black tie ball, Pump and Slipper, was held on Saturday, April 21 this year.

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TAU CHAPTER

MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Report by Rand Hidayah T’08

Here at Tau, we’re having a most excellent semester. We’re excited about our new members, who we are completely enamored with, and looking forward to meeting the challenges

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and reaching the goals that this semester poses. We have 17 new members in our house who completed their initiation last November. These members are already well integrated into the culture of the house and are as varied in their backgrounds and nationalities as ever. A large percentage of them have already stepped up in the last elections to take positions in the house, and are doing excellently in fulfilling their responsibilities. Our members are, of course, dedicated to applying themselves in all aspects of MIT life. Our interests are varied and our activities are plentiful. We have members who direct plays and act in various theatrical productions, one brother had a creative piece gain honorary mention in MIT’s Ilona Karmel Writing Prize Competition. One sister writes her own slam poetry and performs it around Boston, a sister sings beautifully in an a capella group, another in a choir, and yet another sister performs in a jazz band, and one new brother is a competitive ballroom dancer. If music and performance aren’t to your taste, then try athletics: one of our brothers plays with Boston’s official rugby team, one sister has been rowing with MIT’s crew team for three years, and they were doing well last season. As always, we have a fleet of Sixers sailing boats with MIT’s sailing team. Our passions in our fields are also noteworthy; so many of our members are deeply involved in research at MIT, some publishing papers and making good progress in their respective research, while others have patents pending for their projects. From battery cells, to natural language processing, to cancer research, to soft materials, to biomedical devices, we have our hands in everything. Our lecture series continues on, and is attracting more people since we started restructuring it last year, with members of the MIT administration involved with Fraternities, Sororities and Living Groups extremely interested in that program. Our academics are solid, we have one of the top six grade point averages out of all fraternities, sororities, and living groups on campus, which are 38 in number. Our members are part of engineering and science honor societies; both departmental societies for members who have done extraordinarily well in their own major, and institute-wide societies for engineers and scientists with excellent academic standing and who organize career fairs and networking events for the rest of campus. Three of our brothers started a mobile applications competition at MIT this year, the first of its kind, and were able to run a very successful, professional and impressive operation with industry leaders and various companies involved. Our members also maintain a high commitment to cultural groups with which they are affiliated at MIT, and this results in a rich experience of food, dances and festivals for all of us to share. And while our members are individually active in community service efforts, we are trying to revive a Fraternity-wide community service program; our community service chairs have committed the chapter to the MIT community service challenge this year, to motivate and revive our commitment to community service. One of our alumni, Sis. Heather Knight T’01, was featured in a TEDTalk a year ago showcasing robots reacting

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to emotion. Another alumnus, Sis. Isabel Mattos T’06, has gained a lot of the spotlight as an entrepreneur with her new startup, lemon.com. Our newsletter, with news from the membership and written pieces from our members, is coming out soon, and will be delivered to Tau alumni and current members. Our relationship with our graduate organization, St Anthony’s Association of Boston, remains strong.

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UPSILON CHAPTER UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA Report by Tom Ellington Υ’09

The Upsilon Chapter of St. Anthony Hall gave out 27 bids during Spring Semester Rush. Only 7 of those bids were returned, leaving our chapter with 20 pledges. Our current total of brothers, including pledges, is now at 60. Matt Fortin Υ’11, a second-year brother, is a starting long snapper on the UVA Football Team. Alec Vozenilek, another second-year brother, is punter for the UVA football team. Rob Vozenilek, a first-year pledge, is a walk-on for the UVA basketball team, which is ranked #22 in the nation. We continue to maintain positive relations with our graduate organization. We greatly value their time committment and support and never hesitate to reach out to them. Our chapter is strongly committed to maintaining a strong presence within the Charlottesville community with members being involved in all aspects of service. A large proportion of brothers are active in programs through Madison House, a UVA-run student volunteer organization. Over a quarter of our chapter is involved with Madison House’s Big Siblings program, in which brothers develop long-term one-on-one relationships with local Charlottesville youth. Brothers are also active with tutoring in local middle schools, the Central Virginia Food Bank, Habitat for Humanity, the local Boys and Girls Club, Toys for Tots, and coaching local youth league sports teams, just to name a few organizations. The Upsilon Chapter recently held a philanthropy event for the Cancer Research Institute in which more than $500 was raised. In addition, a large donation of more than $250 was also given to Toys for Tots during an in-house Christmas fundraiser this December. More than fifty percent of the brotherhood volunteered to donate blood in the annual Virginia Blood Drive held this past fall, giving us the second highest percentage among all fraternities on grounds. We also maintained the tradition of participating in UVA’s Fall Festival, where brothers worked to turn our house into a haunted house for local children. The traditional Billy Hill 5K is held in the spring. St. Anthony Hall has always had a strong presence on UVA grounds, and this year is no exception. We maintain a vital role in the Inter-fraternity Council and the Inter-fraternity Council Judiciary Committee. Our members constitute almost half of the IFC-JC executive committee, and we have supporting members serving as both counselors and judges. Brothers are also active with the University Guide Service, Naval ROTC, the Miller Center, University Advisory Committee for Alcohol and Substance Abuse, One in Four Sexual Assault Awareness group,

and with both intramural and club sports. Our chapter has also been involved with alternative spring break trips, particularly the Seeds of Hope trip to Brazil. A large percentage of St. Anthony Hall members receive the distinction of being included on the Dean’s list every semester. Last semester, nearly 1/3 of brothers were included on the Dean’s List, and this semester should even improve that percent even further. Our chapter’s cumulative G.P.A. last semester was not only above the G.P.A average for Fraternities at UVA, but it was also above the average G.P.A of those not involved in fraternity life. Several members are also involved with honor societies, including the Raven and IMP Societies here at UVA. Third-year brothers Bo Swindell Υ’10 and Andrew Johnson Υ’10, are finalists for the most prestigious award given to a rising 4th-year member of the Greek Community, the Gray-Carrington Memorial Scholarship.

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PHI CHAPTER

UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI

Report by Christopher Paul Patterson Φ’09

The past year has been extremely successful for the southernmost chapter of St. Anthony Hall. We’ve continued our tradition of success on campus while constantly breaking new ground for the chapter. The Phi Chapter continues to set a high standard for all Greek organizations at Ole Miss. This past spring, Phi won the Chancellor’s Cup, the award given to the best fraternity on campus, for the third consecutive year. We have also held the highest GPA out of any fraternity on campus for the past five years. Phi continues to maintain a strong relationship and avenue of communication with the Chancellor’s office, the IFC, and the Dean of Students. Our charity events have been varied and well attended. We have produced a Greek talent show, a blood drive, and a kickball tournament. The Phi chapter is firmly ingrained on the campus of Ole Miss, and our reputation is constantly improving. This past fall, Phi had the most successful rush in its history. After formal rush, the chapter distributed 66 bids and had 40 accepted. The pledge class of 2011 was the largest in Phi history. We initiated 34 pledges this spring, bringing our total membership to around 80 actives. This successful rush improved the already strong relationship with our alumni board, as more pledges point to our competitive status during rush and on campus. The most exciting development is the renovation and expansion of our Hall. A joint effort between actives and young alumni has lead to a complete renovation and expansion of our CR. The construction was done to accommodate our large pledge class and to modernize a space untouched since our re-founding. Other improvements to The Hall included completely refinished wood floors and an expanded social area. Phi invites all active and alumni members of St. Anthony Hall to visit in the coming semester. We have a brand new Hall to show off and are planning a formal dedication of the new meeting room. So come on down. We’ll drink sweet tea and stuff.

ARCHIVES ST. ANTHONY LINE ART HEADING TO ARCHIVES The original artwork commissioned during the development of the logo commemorating 1997’s 150th anniversary of the founding of St. Anthony Hall is heading to our national archives after being presented to the membership at the G.C. Convention in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, by Sis. Jamie Jacobson Ξ’75. The line art by North Carolina artist Scott Eagle that is featured in the logomark depicts our favorite monk as he reads a scroll with the roll of chapters active at the time of the sesquicentennial. It had been resident in the files of the design firm who created the logo pro bono. The drawing on illustration board is accompanied by a rendering on vellum of the Greek letters of recognized chapters in horizontal order of original founding. “The grey cloud of the day when first viewing the mark felt that the chapters should read horizontally rather than vertically on the scroll as originally drawn,” explained Sis. Jacobson. “Since the overall design was created digitally, at that time in QuarkXpress, it was a simple matter of altering the scroll.” A sartorial accessory of the patron’s completes the roll of chapters. The logo has been tweaked since then to put less emphasis on the letters ΔΨ as we are publically known by St. Anthony Hall. “I imagine there are other modern relics like this in the hands of individuals among us,” commented Sis. Jacobson. “It was time for this one to be back in the fold.”

NECROLOGY

(deaths recorded since fall 2011)

David M. Clinard Ξ’52, Washington, DC. Naval Officer and Assistant Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA)

John K. Sands Ξ’42, Glen Cove, NY. Retired Morgan Guaranty Trust Company

Hugh Ashley Cole A’41, Vero Beach, FL and Basking Ridge, NJ. Died April 17, 2003.

John Alston Sargent E’57, Boca Grande, FL and Cleveland, OH. President, Unicorn Development Co. Survived by son John A. Sargent III E’81.

John T. Fisher, II Υ’53, Memphis, TN. Prominent businessman and civic and church activist.

Constantine Sidamon-Eristoff A’55, New York, NY. Retired environmental attorney and civic activist.

Merle St. Croix Wright Hubbard A’55, New York, NY. Artist Rep.

Edward T. H. Talmage, Jr. A’39, Denver, CO. Retired Real Estate.

John F. McCormack III A’69, Reno, NV. Bank Senior VP.

Dr. John Woodbridge Φ’35. WW II US Army Major and Flight Surgeon and Retired Chief of Cardiology.

Alberto “Tito” Mejia E’05. New York, NY and Locust Valley, NY. Investment Banker at UBS. Died April 9, 2010. Henry F. Mixter T’39, North Hampton, NH. Thomas Motley, Jr. A’63, Nahant, MA. Retired Boston lawyer. Henry S. Ruth Σ’50. Retired lawyer. Special Prosecutor, Watergate Investigation 1974.

The St. Anthony Hall website has full obituaries for some of the members listed above. Please visit www.stanthonyhall.org/necrology to view.

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weddings John Lynch Φ’07 married Emily Carlisle in June of 2010. Matthew Stephenson Φ’07 became engaged to Kristen Boswell in the fall of 2011. They will be tying the knot on January 26, 2013, in Jackson, Mississippi, with at least 20 St. Anthony Brothers in attendance.

Tyler Craft Φ’07 was married on June 12, 2010, to Susan Margaret Craft (née Barfield), who was the Phi Chapter sweetheart at one time, in Oak Hill Stables in Oxford, MS. There were more than 40 Brothers in attendance. H.Bro. Roun McNeal Φ’04 was the best man. Bros. Vince Chamblee Φ’07, Ben McMurtray Φ’05, and Cole Walters Φ’09 were groomsmen. Bros. Matthew Mazzone Φ’07 and Matthew Henry Φ’08 were ushers. Bro. Matthew Duck Φ’09 sang. Everyone had a good time singing the Phi Chapter song with Susan in the middle of the circle. (photos above and below)

On August 20, 2011, Shelley Krause K’84 and her longtime partner Terri Riendeau (Princeton ’83) eloped and were married in a lovely garden in Hillsdale, New York, after a rather long engagement. Their son, Dominic, served as both ring-bearer and photographer. (portrait above)

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births

Nicole Eugenie Oncina Θ’02 married Jeffrey Traer Bernstein on Saturday, July 23, 2011, in La Jolla, San Diego. Brothers and Sisters in attendance were Meghan Muntean Θ’03, Adam Brenner Θ’03, and Mike Swetye Θ’99.

Samantha Love Darnell (pictured above) is the daughter of John Darnell Φ’06 and his wife Emily. She was born July 9, 2011, at 7 lbs. 8 oz., 21 inches long. She was born in Mississippi but they now live in Costa Rica. Nancy Proctor Ξ’88 and Titus Bicknell Ξ’92 are thrilled to announce that a stork called UA898 direct from China, on January 9, 2012, deposited at 703 Dale Drive a big bundle of joy called Magnolia Pearl Ruhua Proctor Bicknell (with plenty of nicknames to choose from too), born October 29, 2009.

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