Volume IV Number 1 April, 1996 THE DELTA NEWS A For The Alumni and Undergrads of Alpha Gamma Upsilon Fraternity, Delta Chapter; Alpha Gamma Fraternity; 1702 Men's Club; and the Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity, Alpha Gamma Chapter from General Motors Institute and GMI Engineering & Management Institute April 11' Board Meeting 1958 President Passes Suddenly Take a break from your desk Our deepest condolences go out to the family of Forest E. overload! It's time for another Delta Donley '58, who presided over AGU while the House was being Alumni Board Meeting. Come on built. The following appeared in the Jackson Citizen Patriot on down! The details remain the same: 3/16/96 and was received from Jerry Fluegge '65. Forest E. chicken buffet dinner with all the Donley, of Jackson, passed away March 13, 1996, aged 59 draft beer or pop we need for years. He is survived by his wife of 39 years, Nancy; one son, $30.00 per graduate brother (we'll Clark F. of Columbus, Ohio; two daughters, Holly (Bob) be helping out the undergrads by Borghese of Columbus, Ohio, Arlene (Jay) Moss of Colorado underwriting their cost). This Springs, Colo.; five grandchildren; his mother, Dot Donley of includes tax, tip, bartender, Jackson. He was a member of Arbor Grove Congregational waitress, room rental and $8.00 for the kitty (now low again, as Church, president of Technical Services, Association, Executive usual). Buffet available from 8 only, bar from 6 11. Director of the Foundry Association of Michigan. He enjoyed Please call or FAX me if you're coming to dinner. golfing and traveling. Contributions may be made to Arbor Grove Congregational Church Easy Access Project. RIP Phone: (810) 543-5400 Fax: 543-5410 [Ed: I never knew Forest, but had a minor connection because pledges had We need a count by noon on Monday, Apr. 8th. to be able to recite the previous five House presidents - for us, those were: Bob Kimmel '56, Eric Mittelstadt '57, Forest Donley '58, We need your help; make a call & bring a brother! Bill Chamberlain '59 and John Kemerly '60] Location: Club Venetian (rear banquet room) @ 29310 John R, Madison Heights (1/4 mile N of 12 Mile Rd (810) 399-6788 And make a note of the next board meeting in the fall on Email brings more sad news October 10th, 1996. We may be changing our location, be sure Unfortunately, ! have some bad news. Brother James Housei to watch the fall issue. For future reference, we'll try to schedule B-section Fiji grad '88, has recently suffered a loss. His wife board meetings for the 2nd Thursday in April and October. Karen lost her battle with cancer and passed away, yesterday. Karen also attended GMI and was a member at Theta Phi Alpha October Board Meeting: 38 Men as well as being friend to many B-section brothers. James and Karen have one child. Please join me in expressing deepest A new record! 38 attended the October Board Meeting: sympathies. Services will be held at noon on Monday, March 25th Abbott Amano Arndt Baker in Milan, MI. If you would like more details, Feel free to contact Banyai Bechtel Berwick Blanchard me at 322-9421 (work). RIP Kurt Schieding (3/22/96) Brady Brooks Burke Cheesebrough Cousineau Daman Gabriel Gantt Gathen Goodrich Section Chief XIX to attend Gray Hall, Don Hanson Kline Lane Lovelace David Holub (DePauw '87 Fiji) our Section Chief, will pay our Marra Martel McFeely Michaels Board Meeting a visit on April 11th. He'll update us on the Mitchell Morgan, Pat Nelson Quattro extensive new developments at the House. The membership has Ray Rogers Schneider Schomer declined in recent years to the point that it was in serious danger Sedlock Werenski of losing its charter and, perhaps, even the House itself. A new Everyone had a great time and promised to be back in April. BCA (Board of Chapter Advisors) has been formed and things Well now it's almost April. are headed in the right direction again. We also hope some of the [Ed: First response this time: Eric Mittelstadt '57, CEO, Fanuc Robotics.] most active alum participants will attend to share their input. Last fall Dave sent a letter to a brief mailing list he had of Fiji Alums with clout! alums in which he described the problems. He asked for some financial help, which he got. So much that he was overwhelmed. The January, 96 SAE dinner which 1,100 attended, had two It was good to hear that the brothers really responded that way. alums at the 12-man head table: Mike Mutchler '57, Group He also mentioned that Wayne State and Western Michigan Exec, GM Powertrain and Don Barefoot '74, CEO, ASC, who chapters had had more serious difficulties than ours, and in fact, didn't even know they were brothers. [Ed: We let them both know.] they lost their chapter houses. Things are looking up for them too, and the bright side of things is that the Michigan chapter is one of the strongest on campus. They can lend a hand with Please RSVP several aspects of the rebuilding project. Rather than to steal Dave's thunder, why don't we all turn out to hear about it first Mon, April 8th! hand. Thanks to all you brothers who pitched in. The kitty donated $100 to the cause; wish it could have been more. Current Mailing List This is the list of brothers receiving the newsletter. If you know of anyone who ESL might like to be added to the list, let me know the vitals: name, year, home and Mail Bag work addresses, phones and fax. If you are not on this list, send in a Member-ship Survey (located on News about Delta alums page 4). Abbott 92 Ableson 59 Adams 70 Adams 72 Poker players show their hands Amano 71 Andrade 87 Arndt 71 Bailey 88 Brothers, Baker 66 Banyai 62 Bechtel 65 Bergemann 65 Just a quick note on what's up. If you're interested, a short bio Berwick 88 Bianco 58 Billis 67 Blain 88 on me Married to Kim Eaton - GMI '85 in December 1983; two Boran 88 Boran 90 Bieser Brady 62 kids - Megan, 5 and Jessica, 2. We live down the freeway from Breitenbach 66 Brodbeck 89 Brooks 72 Brown 58 Brown 88 you guys in Hartland, back in the woods on 11 acres. Makes a Brown 88 Buhl 84 Burke 68 Byrne 82 good place for a bash. Cabral 96 Chamberlain 56 Cheesebrough 77 Some more trivial info Clarkson 89 Coffer 67 Cook 65 Corbit 66 Cousineau 66 I happened to get a new boss last summer, and it just so Croom 49 Daman 68 Davis 70 Delmastro 69 happened that he's a GMI FIJI from '73 or '74 named Jeff Deyer 69 Draper 69 Eddy 36 Fiesselmann 50 Fleck 49 Fluegge 64 Frame 86 Spitzer. Even more interesting reading your newsletter, my Gabriel 73 boss's boss was Fred Cook '65 another FIJI ! With all these Gates 51 Gathen 65 Gauthier 71 Gibson 59 Gifford 80 Goodrich 59 Gray 63 brothers in high places, you would think you could get good Greenleaf 37 raises. Guthrie 65 Hall 69 Hansen 87 Haun 93 Helwig 88 Hetke 64 Heutel 66 As the years seem to roll on by, there are quite a few of us early Hresko 80 Hugan 65 Jaycox 61 Jehn 57 80's brothers who still get together semi-frequently to play poker Jurca 62 Kadolph 84 Kania 66 Keller 86 and the usual reminiscing. We had a good turnout a couple Klett 43 Kline 73 Krentz 87 Kyne 73 weeks ago with quite a few brothers able to make it: Bill Keller Lane 61 Lauer 93 Lee 66 Lovelace 65 '85, Dave Witucki '84, Doug Kadolph '84, Jim Engardio '82, MacKool, K 71 MacKool, 71 Malone 90 Marra 91 Steve Byrne '82, Paul Tobakos '81 and Dennis Zabinski '80. Martel McFeely 68 Meek 94 Mills 85 We seem to be doing a pretty good job of staying in touch after Mittelstadt 57 Morgan 78 Morgan 87 Munger 73 10+ years with most of our B-section brothers from 80-85. Mutchler 57 Naples 57 Nelson 64 Norman 73 Hopefully, I'll be putting together a FIJI bash this summer which Oberholtzer 77 Parks 66 Parsons 87 Pelton 88 hope to have Bill "Maytag" Keller wield his mean ax! It's Potter 94 Quattro 67 Ray 70 Repetto 88 amazing how much better he's got since we've all graduated. Robbins Robinson 90 Ronayne 69 Rowley 68 Hopefully, I'll fare better than at my last FIJI party where I Rysenga 84 Sales 73 Santelices 87 Schmidt 95 managed to break my arm free-falling 20 feet. (I have a cable 20 Schneiden 68 Schomer 65 Searcy 91 Shortt 64 feet up that goes over my pond which you swing down a pulley Tate 90 Tavarozzi 64 Thelen 93 Tisch 95 and drop in the water. The rope on the pulley happened to break Tobakos 81 Tobiczyk 62 Tosch 62 Twork 91 on me as I was traveling over land. OOPS!) So, some things Vatalaro 89 Veazey 48 Werenski 61 West 65 never change. We still try to be as wild as we were when we were Wheaton 68 White 64 Wickens 96 Wise 60 YOUR AGE! Witucki 84 Wong 93 Yates 66 Yauch 56 Keep the spirit alive! AI Buhl '84 Perge! (4/17/95) York 66 Zibell 66 [Ed: Bud Cook and I pledged together; also, he was at the Board Meeting in April, 95. As for the poker gang bring 'em down, and why don't you get surveys filled out for the mailing list? Several only have addresses on file.] Distant Deltas We've received a few more requests from out-of-state guys Wall Street items wanting to be on the mailing list for this Rag. Some have even Gary, sent a check to cover costs. We appreciate that -- thanks! If I was pleased to have Rick McFeely's forwarded copy of "The anybody else wants to contribute, the kitty could sure use it Delta News". I've been out of touch for a long time and would like (suggest $25 every 5 years or so; best subscription price to be on the mailing list. around). Be sure to tell us about yourself and other brothers Jerry Kania is a client & friend and Rick (twice my Best Man) you've seen or heard from lately. McFeely and Bob Adams have always been close friends. The Many of the younger guys have asked to hear about the good rest of you "Great Guys" I've lost touch with and would like to fix old days. How about some more 30's and 40's stuff, men? We'll that. Alpha Gam/FIJI represents some of the greatest memories accept typed, handwritten, audio tape, floppy disk or just call, fax, of my life. Thanks for all your efforts, Joe Burke (4/18/95) email, FedEx, pony express, carrier pigeon or whatever. [Ed: Letterhead from: McDonald & Company Securities, Inc. of Ann Arbor. Got word from Jerry Kania's '66 office that his mail is routed Anybody need a hot tip? Call Joe!] to Ford Shanghai, where he's currently on assignment. Skully ties the knot [Ed: Remember, little brother, all wok and no play,