1. The 2nd annual “Habitat for Inhumanity” is scheduled for Saturday, April 21^st from 9am-1pm, prior to the Spring Game.

As you can imagine, a grand old lady like the DKE House sometimes needs a little help, especially given her role as an illustrious fraternity house. So to give her a little bit of a lift, last year the alumni started the tradition of taking on a few house improvement tasks before the Spring Game, working together with the active brotherhood.

We are looking for any and all kinds of help. This year’s challenges include replacing the kitchen wall oven, along with some landscaping, painting and other miscellaneous tasks.

If you are planning to be in town for the Spring Game we hope that you can stop by the DKE House on Roanoke Street beforehand. Coffee/donuts will be served!

Also, if you have time to clean out your garage we would also gladly accept any type of donations of used goods suitable for ‘frat house’ use.  Some examples are tools, a working lawn mower, painting supplies and bar stools etc. — things like these are always appreciated.  Also if you are wondering what to do with your old DKE paddle, you can always become immortalized and donate your paddle to the house collection for mounting on the wall.

We plan to quit (if we ever get started on) the House projects in time for…

2. The 1st annual Spring Game Tailgate, held at our usual Lot 4, Space 94 location starting around 1:30pm!

The VT DKE Alumni Tailgate Committee (i.e. Charlie Webb) has organized a large commercial-scale grill to set up at our usual Lot 4 location for a proper pre-game event! We’ll grill hamburgers and hot dogs for all comers — and we’ll even have beer. If you’re coming to the Spring Game, come tailgate with us!

Of course all this is somewhat dependent on Lot 4 being open for parking and the weather cooperating.  As such we could easily just end up grilling some burgers and few beers at DKE house, spin some tales, pretend we did some work, and talk about Hokie football.

Hope to see anyone and everyone in Blacksburg this weekend!

A total of 76 individuals and a few corporate matching gifts provided financial and in-kind contributions totalling $28,409.  WE THANK YOU!  If we missed your name, please let us know.  More than likely it is our error (e.g. Jack Baker getting extra credit for Jim Baker’s donations in past two years).  We have one anonymous donation out there that was sent directly on-line up for claim!

Please check our donor lists (under the Fundraising tab) for a cumulative listing of all supporters for the past 12+ years!

• Floyd Adams (Class of ’56) - New donor
• Dick Anderson (Winter ’64) – TEN-YEAR CLUB member
• Anonymous
• William Atwell (Fall ’58)
• Manly Aylor (Winter ’77) – New donor
• Jack Baker (Winter ’79) – TEN-YEAR CLUB member
• Jim Baker (Winter ’78) – New donor since 2010
• Jerry Ballengee (Fall ’60) – TEN-YEAR CLUB member
• Bruce Beam (Spring ’53) – New TEN-YEAR CLUB member
• Jim Borchers (Winter ’71)
• Jeffrey Bowman (1968)
• Chuck Bradley (Winter ’76) – TEN YEAR CLUB member
• Bert Burson (Winter ’79) – TEN-YEAR CLUB member
• Dave Calhoun (Spring ’76) – New SCHOLARSHIP SPONSOR tier!
• Greg Carneal (Winter ’76)
• Harold Cothran
• John Crawford (Spring ’61)
• Steve Cronemeyer (Winter ’75) – w/ matching Verizon gift
• Jack Cullen (Winter ’75) – New TEN-YEAR CLUB member
• Joe Czul  (Fall ’80)
• Jim Daniel (Fall ’84)
• James Day (’61)
• Jeff DeSchon (Fall ’85) – New TEN-YEAR CLUB member
• Bob Dreelin (Winter ’72)
• Dennis Dreelin (Winter ’75)
• Bill Driskill (Winter ’61) -  TEN-YEAR CLUB member
• Charles Eades (Winter ’66)
• Ralph English (Winter ’60) – New TEN-YEAR CLUB member
• Steve Gadinis (Spring ’76)
• Erik Gordon (Fall ’89)
• Ed Greene (Spring ’64)
• Michael Hawkins (Winter ’81) – TEN-YEAR CLUB member
• Mickey Hayes (Spring ’62) – TEN-YEAR CLUB member
• Brian Hoffman (Fall ’03)
• Raymond Huntington (Class of 1952)
• Daniel Johnson (Spring ’74) –  TEN-YEAR-CLUB member
• Pat King (Spring ’01)
• Tom Lawall (Fall ’77)
• Roger Leibowitz (Winter ’76)
• Cliff Lilly (Winter ’54) – TEN-YEAR-CLUB member – passed away in August 2011
• Billy Mason
• Dave Mason (Spring ’82) –  TEN-YEAR CLUB member
• Hank Mattox (Spring ’70) – TEN-YEAR CLUB member
• Mark Milsaps (Fall ’83) – New donor
• Ellis Monroe – (1954) New donor
• Brian Moody (Spring ’01)
• Dennis O’Neill (Winter ’67)
• Tom Overton (Spring ’85) –  TEN-YEAR CLUB member  w/ matching Verizon gift
• Ed Owens (Fall ’60) – New TEN-YEAR CLUB member
• Scott Pennington (Fall ’76) – TEN-YEAR CLUB member
• Brian Perris (Fall ’77)
• Cliff Phillips (Spring ’49) – TEN-YEAR CLUB member
• Adam Read (Fall ’92) – TEN-YEAR CLUB member
• Michael Renard (Spring ’02)
• Larry Renner (1965)
• Paul Rinaldi (Winter ’62) – New TEN-YEAR CLUB member
• Tim Riordan (Spring ’88)
• Lyman  Ben Robison (Fall ’65)
• Jame H. Scanlon (Winter ’76)
• James T. Scanlon (Spring ’02)
• Dan Sexton (Fall ’04)
• George Sisson (Fall ’74)
• Mike Smith (Fall ’79)
• Bob Snyder (Fall ’73)
• Jim Stein (Winter ’86)
• Bob Sullivan (Fall ’73)
• Jim Sutphin
• James Thomas – New donor
• Troy Turner (Spring ’93)
• Harold ‘Buzz’ Wainman (Winter ’75)
• Charlie Webb (Winter ’85)
• Peyton Winfree (Fall ’85) – TEN-YEAR CLUB member
• KC Wood (Spring ’76) – New donor
• Rich Worcester (Spring ’73)
• Rossane McLaughlin (parent) on behalf of Andrew McLaughlin (Spring ’09)
• Corey and Judith Reef (parents) on behalf of Colin Reef (Fall ’08)

Pat King (Spring '01) with DKE flag in Paktika Province, Afghanistan

We heard from Lt. Patrick King, USN (Spring ’01) yesterday…  he’s wrapping up his tour with an ISAF Provincial Reconstruction Team in Paktika Province, and will be home in San Diego next month!

Last month we got a DKE flag out to Pat for some photo opportunities. Check out the photo he sent back!

“Thanks much for the flag… I just took the flag out on a mission on the 11th……my 30th birthday……..and got some great pics of it with me up on a snowy mountaintop.”

Pat served as chapter president in 2004-05 before graduating Cum Laude in May 2005 with a BS in Chemical Engineering. He immediately entered the U.S. Navy, graduating from Officer Candidate School and Nuclear Power School, followed by a tour aboard the USS Eisenhower.

We’re still not sure how a Navy nuclear engineer ended up on a reconstruction team in an Afghanistan hot zone, but Pat’s been a good sport about the adventure. We’re all looking forward to having him home and dragging him into some projects with the Alumni Board.

Thanks for your service Pat!

Rampant Lion

The next two weeks marks the Sigma Alpha Chapter of Delta Kappa Epsilon’s Spring Rush.  We invite all Virginia Tech students to come out to our events to see what membership of our historic fraternity is all about.

We maintain the official rush schedule on our Rush DKE Facebook page.

If you have any questions contact our Rush Chairman Florian Maier at (609) 760-4372 or fmayer@vt.edu.

But overlooked in the post-reunion shuffle and the holidays madness was the very important news that you guys elected a new Alumni Board for 2012-13. This election saw one of the highest turnouts ever — a stunning five ballots returned. Clearly our dictatorial political process is strong.

In any case, much of the regular cast of characters is back for yet another tour of duty: Chairman Dan Johnson (Spring ’74), Secretary Jim Scanlon (Spring ’02) and Director-At-Large Charlie Munn (Fall ’74) were all conned into another two years of servitude.

But in a stunning turn of events, we dragged some new blood into the fold! (Well, not really “new” per se — these guys are both retreads from our original Alumni Board 13 years ago!) So please join us in welcoming (back) Treasurer Mike Beam (Winter ’85) and Director-At-Large Jim Daniel (Fall ’84) — as they say, misery loves company.

You can view the full Board roster, including committee members and other volunteers, at our Board Of Directors page.

Don’t remember how our Alumni Board operates and is elected? Want to join a committee, offer opinions on our next conference call, or otherwise get involved? See the Board Of Directors page for the scoop.

For those of you who joined us, THANK YOU! It was great seeing all of you and we hope you had as much fun as we did.

For those who missed out… we’re sorry we missed you, and hope you’ll catch us for another tailgate this fall.

If you took PHOTOS at the Reunion, we kindly ask that you upload them to our private Facebook Group’s Reunion Photo Gallery! You’ll see several folks have already shared their pics with the masses…

You have to be a member of the Facebook Group to view the gallery… to join, just go to the main Facebook Group page.

See you soon!

We were delighted to hear the many stories and memories that were shared at the banquet — especially the history of our friend B.C. Moose, who you can bet had a great weekend as well.

Saturday, with the exception of the final score, was a great chance for us all to be together and celebrate what makes us who we are, Friends From the Heart Forever. The house full of loud and obnoxious Dekes before the tailgate and the massive circus-sized tent next to Lane Stadium were images that will linger in our thoughts until we do it again… 50-80-110 anyone?

We welcome all to return and enjoy some time at the house with us soon. Next weekend is the Miami game and we hope to see you there!

FFTHF,

Active Chapter

If you’re signed up for our e-mail newsletter, you should have received several updates in the last week with all the details about the Reunion this weekend, specifically the Banquet and Saturday Open House and Tailgate events.

Didn’t get the emails? Check them out using the links below, and be sure to sign up for the newsletter:

• Details about the Friday Banquet event
• Details about the Saturday Open House and Tailgate events

This information is also now available on our Reunion page. Be sure to read carefully — there’s a lot going on.

It’s definitely not too late to join us for the reunion! All you have to do is REGISTER ASAP, so that we have a nametag  and can order enough food & drink for you.

• Haven’t registered yet? Buy a ticket for Friday, Saturday or both days.
• Already registered for one day, but want to upgrade to the full weekend? Buy an upgrade ticket to add a second day.

See the list of alumni, active and pledge brothers and little sisters who have already registered to attend!

We’re looking forward to seeing everyone this weekend!

Don’t forget to bring your DKE Pin!

DKE Pledge Pin

We look forward to introducing each of them to Alumni this weekend at the reunion!

Below is our rush schedule for the next two weeks.  We encourage everybody to come out to these events to get a chance to meet our brothers and to learn what it means to be a Deke.

• Tuesday, September 6th : Shooting Range
• Wednesday, September 7th : Driving Range
• Saturday, September 10th : VT vs. ECU Viewing at the House
• Tuesday, September 12th : Poker Night at the House
• Saturday, September 16th : VT vs. Ark State Tailgate and Game
• Sunday, September 17th : Closed Rush (Mandatory)