April 2013 In This issue… Undergraduate Update . . . . 17th Anniversary of Tragic Fire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Annual Fund Update. . . . . . . Graduate Brother Outreach. . From the Archive. . . . . . . . . . . 2 2 3 4 4 Graduate Brother Spotlight Honoring Phi Gam Veterans for their Service Graduate Officers David Batten President Charles Bell Alumni Treasurer John Maddison Fund-Raising Chairman John Hughes House Maintenance Chairman Matt Vaughan Undergraduate Communications Chairman Oliver Wheeler Graduate Communications Chairman Jeff Cooke Undergraduate Communications Chairman Mini-Reunions Have you recently reconnected with fellow Phi Gams? Share your stories and photos at www.epsilonpgd.com or email them to content@ affinityconnection.com (mention Phi Gam at UNC). The Epsilon Owl With Memorial Day approaching, we asked veteran graduate brothers to share their experience serving our country. Brother Robert Wright ’68 responded: “I served three years in the US Army (1968‑1971). My story is a bit boring (nobody ever shot at me), but here it is: I had planned on spending those three years in law school, but in 1968 President Johnson suddenly did away with all graduate school deferments except for med school. So after graduation I enlisted a few days before I was due to be drafted. After a year I was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Field Artillery in 1969. Although the Vietnam War was going on and two friends had already been killed there, Uncle Sam had a different plan for me. I was sent to ballistic missile officer school at Fort Sill, Ok. and then shipped off to West Germany. The first year I was there, I spent one month out of every four sleeping in a bunker in the Black Forest next to three 40‑foot‑long Pershing P1A ballistic missiles that were counted down and ready to fire at Soviet targets in Eastern Europe. Then at the start of my second year in Germany, I was promoted to 1st Lieutenant and wound up commanding a special weapons storage site in Mutlangen, Germany. I must have done a decent job, as I was offered a promotion to captain if I would just re‑up for one additional year. I turned that promotion down to come back to the States and start law school in 1971.” Share your own stories or honor a fellow brother this Memorial Day at www.epsilonpgd.com. In Your Words Brothers Share Updates and Opinions Thanks to the Graduate Brothers below for sharing their updates and thoughts! If interested in reconnecting with graduate brothers by way of publication in this newsletter, please go to: www.epsilonpgd.com Graduate Brother Marvin J. Carver ’75 shares on this year’s Pig Dinner and the use of “Graduate Brother” versus “Alumnus”: “This year’s Pig Dinner was a great success. We had over 200 there and our Head Football Coach Larry Fedora spoke. I hope someone will provide pictures. I served as Archon President of Phi Gamma Delta from 2004-2006 and I used to cringe when other Phi Gam’s called themselves ‘alum‑ ni.’ Our motto, ‘Not for College Days Alone,’ is something we take very seriously. Other Fraternities do not have events remotely like www.epsilonpgd.com our Pig Dinner. We take pride in BEING a Phi Gam, not having BEEN a Phi Gam.” Graduate Brother Josephus L. Mavretic ’56 dishes on what he misses most about life at UNC-CH “I miss getting up at O-Dark Thirty so I could walk across campus to an 8 O’Clock class. I miss the Quarter System that went away after my freshman year. I miss my Faculty Advisor whom I saw once in four years. I miss sweating out my last exam in my senior year. I miss sweating out just about every exam I ever took. I miss Blue-Books! I miss the Goody Shop! I miss Paul and Albert and Ms. Mingle.” 1 \r\nUndergraduate Chapter News Upward and Onwards Annual Barbeque Cook-Off Raises $5k, Fiji Island Formal Brings Fraternity Together with Success By President Kevin DePopas We have 14 senior brothers that will be graduating this May. Sims Richardson will be working as a business analyst at Live Oak Bank in Wilmington, N.C. Andrew Bock will be working as a tennis pro in Wilmington, N.C. Smith Marks will be acting as a liaison between a research institute and a developing resort in the Bahamas. Phi Gam affiliate Ben Shuford will be working as an investment banking analyst for Morgan Stanley in Manhattan. Others are either actively engaged Graduate Brother David Bock ’80 poses next to son and Phi Gam legacy member Andrew Bock ’13. Andrew will graduate this May! in the job search process or plan on continuing their education. Our new cabinet is com‑ prised of brothers Wilkins Zollicoffer (Treasurer) from Durham, Gil Templeton (Recording Secretary) from Greensboro, Sam Duckett (Corresponding Secretary) from Winston Salem, Nicholas Graham (Historian) from the Outer Banks and me as president Guests enjoy the day at the Annual Barbeque Cook‑Off from Greensboro. In other news, we have tallied to approximately $5,000. recently held our annual Barbecue Cook‑off We also held our Fiji Island formal to raise money for the Chapel Hill Fire recently. After building the venue for nearly Department. The event is a competition two weeks and barely finishing on time, between participating IFC fraternities to see Friday night started off well as we welcomed who can produce the best chopped or pulled the freshman to Fiji Island with open arms. pork BBQ. While we have held the event For Champagne Cocktail on Saturday, we in the past, this year we strove to drastically rented out the great room at Top of the Hill increase the scale of the event by partnering for dinner. This was the first time that we with Delta Delta Delta sorority and signing have ever organized all four classes together on a record number of competing fraternities. for dinner before a cocktail. As you know, it is Ultimately we had 11 fraternities compete in always fun to get the entire fraternity together the event and estimate attendance in excess of at a single venue. The weekend was ultimately 350 individuals. Net proceeds from the event a success. The Past and Present of Phi Gam UNC May 2013 Marks the 17th Anniversary of Tragic House Fire The Legacy of Those Who Perished Continue to Live On through the Activism of Phi Gam Brothers Just 17 years ago this May, the age of many freshman pledges each fall, a tragic house fire at Phi Gamma Delta claimed the lives of five students: Mark Strickland, Josh Weaver, Ben Woodruff, Joanna Howell and Anne Smith. Amidst the heartbreak and tragedy, families, students and Phi Gam brothers rallied together to make sure that the event and their lives were never forgotten. Today, their legacy lives on in the activism that has resulted in changed fire safety legislation on the campus, local, and state levels. For instance, since 2001 all Greek houses and dorms on campus are mandated to have sprinkler systems installed. In 2011, these very 2 sprinkler systems helped put out a fire at the Sigma Chi house, saving the lives of those brothers present in the house at the time. The fire caused $15,000 in damage and all 19 brothers were forced to temporarily relocate. However, not a single life was lost due to the quick action of the sprinkler systems! 
 In 2009, 40 UNC students and parents of the students killed traveled to Washington D.C. to lobby for legislation that would eventually establish October as Campus Fire Safety Month in the state of North Carolina. This effort was organized primarily by US Representative David Price (D‑NC) and Phi Gam brothers. In 2010, Governor Bev www.epsilonpgd.com Perdue campaigned to increase the mandate for sprinkler systems in greek houses to include all off‑campus housing, as well. This campaign was a part of the larger program created to commemorate the tragic fire, called “Help Save a Life, Get on the Truck.” Perdue’s son, Garrett, was a Phi Gam brother at UNC the year the fire happened. Phi Gam brothers have brought the campus, local and state community together to work towards fire prevention over the years. As such, the lives of those lost continue to be honored 17 years later. April 2013 \r\nAnnual Fund Report 2012‑2013 Fundraising Efforts Give Back and Make the Most of your Alumni Experience! As of April 2013, Phi Gams have raised over half this year’s goal, but we still have a ways to go to hit our $25,000 mark! The money raised will go toward essential house repairs and improvements, continued alumni network communications via efforts like this newsletter publication and maintenance of our website, and alumni reunion events. If you would like to help Phi Gams reach this year’s goal, you can donate by calling 1‑800‑975‑6699 or going online to our website at www.epsilonpgd.com. We appreciate the loyal support that we’ve had this year from the brothers listed below. But we can’t rely on their support alone. We need participation from all our graduate brothers in order to ensure the continued success of the Phi Gamma Delta chapter at UNC! Goal: $25,000 Raised to Date: $16,429 Honor Roll List of Donors A Special Thank You to the Following Brothers Your Help is Felt by All of Phi Gamma Delta! Epsilon Legacy Circle ($1,000+) Norman S. Goode III 1963 White Owls ($500-$999.99) Eugene E. Record Jr. 1963 John W. Hughes III 1966 Stephen L. Cornwell 1974 J. Dixon Fleming Jr. 1976 William E. Chesson 1977 Charles R. Hardee 1978 Purple Club ($250-$499.99) Joe Lamb Jr. 1956 Laurence B. Maddison Jr. 1965 Charles A. McLaughlin 1969 Richard W. Zollinger 1973 David C. Burkhardt 1991 Thomas F. Darden III 2002 Russell E. Byrd 2003 1848 Society ($184.80-$249.99) Douglas Dillard 1946 Thomas P. Stratford 1948 Harry G Walker Jr. 1949 James M. Dillon 1953 Josephus L. Mavretic 1956 W Victor Venters II 1958 James B. Sloan 1962 John B. Beall 1970 Charles C. Green 1992 Laurence B. Maddison III 1992 Gregory P Wilson 1992 David G. McClure 1993 The Epsilon Owl Hut Club ($100-$184.79) E. Claiborne Irby 1948 James C. Lanier Jr. 1948 Alfred W. Griffin Jr. 1950 F. Rockwell Poisson 1950 Horace E. Stacy Jr. 1950 John S. Whichard 1950 Henry N. Lee Jr. 1952 William C Brewer Jr Jr. 1953 E Lewis Bryan 1953 Emsley A. Laney Jr. 1953 Joseph H. Nelson 1953 Howard A. Penton Jr. 1953 Rowland Burnstan Jr. 1954 Charles W Higgins Jr. 1954 Gene F. Lyon 1954 James W. Maynard 1954 Leon W. Sylvester Jr. 1954 Kenneth F. Anderson Jr. 1956 James Allen Hill Jr. 1956 Fredric C. Byrum 1957 William H. Redding Jr. 1958 Marvin E. Ward 1958 Welton Curtis Sewell 1959 Wayne C. Anderson 1960 Hugh L. Patterson 1960 Jack H. Spain Jr. 1960 W. Ward Marslender 1962 Cleveland P. Cherry 1963 Burt Aycock Jr. 1964 William C. Nelson Jr. 1965 Frank C. Cloyes 1967 James M. Tanner Jr. 1968 Charles P. Gaskins Jr. 1969 Hart Lee 1970 Ben G. Irons II 1971 John T. Stanley 1971 Edgar E. Woodward 1973 Edmund T. Buckman III 1975 Marvin J. Carver III 1975 Fairfax C. Reynolds 1975 Larry F. Smithwick 1975 Jeffrey R. Headlee 1976 Robert P. Hortman 1976 William S. Creekmuir 1977 Richard H. Barnhardt Jr. 1981 Ronald A Batchelor 1981 John H. Coffman 1981 Robert P. Holmes IV 1981 John D. Marriott Jr. 1982 Joseph Buckley Strandberg 1982 Stephen L. Wheeless 1982 Henry M. Kidd 1983 Curtis H. Hathaway Jr. 1984 Michael B. Holder 1984 Julian R. Williamson 1984 James M. Lilley 1985 William P. Mayo Jr. 1987 Stephen P Covington 1988 Edwin D. Miller 1988 Robert L. Edwards Jr. 1989 J. Franklin Wood Jr. 1989 Christopher H. Hunter 1991 George A. Worrell 1998 Benjamin Kyle Saylors 2001 Christopher Addison Nuckols 2002 Travis B. Moser 2003 William Randolph Robins Jr. 2005 Fijis ($50-$99.99) Ted E. Haigler Jr. 1946 Thomas B. Lathrop 1947 William P. Mayo 1948 William G. Quarles 1952 R. Bryant Hare III 1953 Kenneth Frank McCain 1956 www.epsilonpgd.com Richard C. Pattisall 1960 Hugh E. Eagleton 1966 William Holton Wilkerson Sr. 1970 Bruce W. Sharpe 1972 Kevin A. Shwedo 1978 Blair D. Shwedo 1979 Raiford Garrabrant 1989 John Isaac Southerland 2000 Jeffrey H. Cooke 2001 Wood Beasley Gibbs 2001 Matthew D. Vaughan 2001 David Avery Sparrow 2002 Edwin M. Braswell III 2003 Wood J. Farless 2003 Mark Breckenridge Gibbs 2004 Kyle H. Woodruff 2005 Thomas Ragsdale 2006 Alexander Christopher Bean 2007 Baker Hatcher 2007 Mitchell Culbreth Guy 2008 Graduates Club (Up to $49.99) Thomas L. Stockwell 1946 John K. Hoyt Jr. 1956 Edward Harvie Hill Jr. 1964 Wesley Hastings Elden 2000 Lewis C. Deans 2003 David B. Strickland 2003 Elliott Burton Farless 2008 William Presnell Keesler 2008 Michael Ryan Linden 2008 *as of April 10, 2013 3 \r\n778‑168 SN MH Graduate Brother Outreach: Lost and Found Email Addresses Epsilon Graduates without Active Email Addresses in Our Database Graduate Brother Lost Contact Information Update Still missing 47% of graduate brother email addresses In the last newsletter, we ran a story about missing 47% of the up-to-date email addresses for graduate brothers! Since then, we have been unable to improve that percentage at all. In order to communicate with graduate brothers, it is essential to have their contact information. Since this newsletter also publishes monthly via email, accurate email addresses allow graduate brothers to stay on top of the most recent chapter news. That means, therefore, that 47% of the graduate brothers in our database still have incorrect or missing email addresses. If you are in touch with any brothers that would like to be added to our contact list, or who use an address that we might not have on file, please encourage him to contact us with the most up-to-date information. Help us to reconnect graduate brothers that have for all intensive purposes become “lost” members of Phi Gamma Delta at UNC! 47% 53% Epsilon Graduates with Active Email Addresses in Our Database Total living graduates: 900 From the Archive Do You Remember this Class of 1969 Photo? Please visit www.epsilonpgd.com or email content@affinityconnection.com to share your memories from this day or any of the members in the photo! Bottom Front Row (L-R): H. Gurkin, H. Mayo, B. Boseman, B. Everett, J. Merrit, S. Manning, J.O. McCall, C. Gaskins, S. Edwards, R. Taylor, B. Byrd, T. Nisbet, S. Taylor, P. Greene, B. Reynolds, T. Caldroney, Treas., H. Lee, Pres., J. Elmore, Historian, C. Dunn Middle Rows (L-R): B. Wilkerson, C. McLaughlin, A. Aycock, G. Morehead, R. Carter, R. Honeycutt, J. Venters, J. Stanley, W. Perry, J. Hamilton, D. Balance, B. Patterson Top Row (L-R): J. Beal, Rec. Sec., F. Weed, Cor. Sec., S. Richardson, B. Griffen, R. Howard, G. Paschall, W. Woodward. 776‑168 SN • • • • Graduate Brother Speaks About His Service to Our Country Undergrad Chapter Continues to Impress 17th Anniversary of Tragic Fire Remembered And More! In this Issue... PRSRT STDFIRST CLASS MAIL U.S. POSTAGE PAID State College, Pa. Permit No. 2 4 www.epsilonpgd.com April 2013