Our brothers’ careers have been productive, constructive, spirited, and prosaic. They displayed impressive skills, talents, and abilities They were, and we continue to be, a beautiful and lively expression of our enduring fraternal beliefs, and that underlying harmony is far-reaching in expectation for all brothers’, undergraduate and graduate. It is the core of what our fraternal founders asserted in 1848 and 1874 and 1899: to live active, commendable, and responsible lives, and to build up community. Clearly and compellingly, they added, and continue to add, positive value at the local, state, national, global, and fraternal level because they engaged life fully and responsibly. In short, they were authoritative pillars throughout life. They were-are exemplary in their citizenship, character, and their sense of dutiful responsibility, and, in many instances, they were leading voices in their career fields. They prove that success of any kind does not occur by luck or accident, and we remember them because they continue to provide that message for our time. We have long been, from one generation to the next, proud to be Omega Mu Fijis. We continue to cherish our fraternal friendships, our shared memories, and our evolving, forward-focused history at the University of Maine. These things, above and beyond everything else, are the underlying rooted connections that make us proud to be Omega Mu Fijis. Why, after all, should we believe otherwise? We have been doing it well since 1874, and we will continue to do so.
Perge!

There are many witty, hilarious, and irreverent stories about our fraternal life in the Castle that we vividly recall when we come together for Pig Dinner; it is almost fraternal law to do so. The honing skill and humor, year-to-year, in telling each of them never grows old. The emotional rhythm and tempo in telling them is upbeat, and what an extraordinary collection of generational stories we have from the RAM, the football field, bagging brothers, the dining room, Fiji Island, mud bowl, cherished traditions, and the undergraduates continue to create them, and the story collection will grow ever-larger for many generations to come. These stories are irreplaceable in our fraternal history, and each story generates smiles of proud remembrance and gratitude, as they should. That is not mere sentimentality; they mean a lot to us because they speak positively of sincere friendship, brotherhood and fellowship. They speak to the joy and fun of what makes fraternity life so memorable. Candidly, that is brotherhood, a lifelong gift, for which we are all proud of, always. In the end, with only a few unfortunate periods in our fraternal history when we fell woefully short because we did not have high fraternal standards, generations of Omega Mu brothers have created the right fraternal culture that is positive and uplifting rather than degrading and destructive. Living cooperatively and responsibly together, studying hard, having fun, and contributing to the overall good of university life is a matrix for success we have always embrace. With fraternal integrity, we have always regained our good fraternal sense after self-inflicted destructive periods and reestablished higher fraternal standards in living and acting positively. High standards and commitment to excellence are the gold-standard that always point the way to success in anything in life, and we, as a brotherhood, continue to believe in creating the right fraternal mindset to be a positive and engaged undergraduate and graduate chapter of Phi Gamma Delta, because brotherhood is a trust from generation-to-generation, and ours started in 1874.
 
We have always been an active and engaged brotherhood since our fraternal beginning in 1874, achieving success in all areas at the University of Maine. It has been well-documented about the number of talented athletic brothers Omega Mu has had since the early 1870’s, as well as the number of brothers who worked diligence and enthusiasm and made significant and lasting impacts on many University of Maine committees and organizations as talented leaders or hard-working members, and that is an equally important historical legacy to smile at with Omega Mu pride. From managing editors of the Maine Campus, class presidents, and other leadership positions, we have been a strong, supportive pillar within the University of Maine community. In athletic achievement and community involvement within the university, we have a lot to be proud of as a brotherhood; nevertheless, there is one area were we have left our mark but rarely, if ever, celebrate: scholarship. Our brotherhood has been blessed from our beginning with many brothers who stood fast were industrious and hardworking in their respective academic fields of study, and one of them, Carroll S. Chaplin, 1904, was academically preeminent and was chosen to be class valedictorian. 

​Carroll’s warm, reflective valedictorian address was a simple, eloquent exhortation to the graduating class to remember their collective journey at the University of Maine. In many ways it was an unoriginal valedictory address, but it was the kind of message that is always pleasant to hear because his references and imagery were emotionally celebratory. He spoke of things that resonated in their still-active present collective memory: pleasure, enjoyment, friendships, and the life of the mind in studying, and that many of these memories will not persist in our memory but only diminish with time. That is a sad but real truth. Simultaneously, Carroll exhorted each graduating senior to ‘Persevere in all things’, and that is a timeless, uncompromising truth that does not diminish with time, age, or career calling that each senior would soon transition to around the country, applying their competence and skill to make an effective difference. And, after al, it was fitting that Carroll S. Chaplin, our Omega Mu brother, would choose to include persevere in his address. And, in truth, he probably was thinking of Coolidge’s admonition, which we all say regularly as Fijis: “Perseverance and determination are omnipotent.”
 
Undoubtedly, Carroll knew our storied fraternal past at the university, and he was proud of it. Persevere is a distinctive word, a commanding word, our rallying fraternal word, our collective doctrinal attitude as undergraduate and graduate brothers, our expressive word we love to say, and our grounding historic principle that we remain champions of in being fraternally committed and upbeat in all matters as Omega Mu Fiji brothers.
 
Carroll dovetailed persevere with a proper perspective of the word in how one lives and works in the world to make a difference as they each commence on their ‘little narrow foot paths’ to live in the world with ‘care and responsibility’. Care and responsibility, two words that really count in making a difference in allowing good ideals and good visions to become effectively real for the good of humanity. Carroll wanted the seniors to sustain the fond memories of their university years, but he wanted every graduating senior to persevere, to care, and to be responsible in their distinct career callings, their families, their friends, their university, and their faith as they each started their unique journey on the ‘narrow path’ Each word is a faithful word commanding in both word and action, and doing them, as Carrol so beautifully stated, ‘shall be the crowning of a ‘well-spent lives’ - ‘fruitage’. That is well-stated and can never be over-stated.

Carroll S. Chaplin was a sharp young man, and his ‘narrow foot path’ led to a dedicated life as a lawyer, judge, and mayor in Portland, Maine. In the 1923 mayoral election in Portland, Carroll was aggressively opposed by the KKK. By the mid 1920’s, the Klan politically controlled seven states, and it was gaining organizational unity and strength in many Maine cities: Rockland, Saco, Hallowell, and Portland. Of course, Carroll opposed Klan ideology in its entirety: racial, religious, and political, and he openly expressed his criticism and condemnation of their intolerant beliefs, and he subsequently lost the election. He was the last mayor of Portland until 1991. Our fraternal history is richer because of the durable, persistent grace of character that guided Carroll S. Chaplin throughout his career. He truly understood and lived the virtues of responsibility and care. 

In all that we do now, we continue to hammer home the virtue of our historic identity and how the sustaining, practical grace of a caring, persevering attitude is the sole reason for our historic pride at the University of Maine for the past 146 years. May we continue to ‘persevere in all things’ and not break the chain of our brotherhood as we continue on our historic path.
 
The conclusion of the 1904 was the singing of the class ode in tune with the University Hymn, a hymn that was written by our fraternal brother, Horace M. Estabrooke. In  conception, it is a mild, tender and comforting ode encouraging historic memory, love, and loyalty to beloved friends and the University of Maine. That belief mirrors our deep-rooted, generationally interlinked, fraternal belief as Omega Mu Fijis that we promote and foster from being Zobies to graduate brothers. Expressed or not, we believe, and have always believed, in simple perseverance, and to compromise on that is historically unthinkable!
Perge!

Fraternally,
Chip Chapman, ’82
Perge!

Our brothers’ careers have been productive, constructive, spirited, and prosaic. They displayed impressive skills, talents, and abilities They were, and we continue to be, a beautiful and lively expression of our enduring fraternal beliefs, and that underlying harmony is far-reaching in expectation for all brothers’, undergraduate and graduate. It is the core of what our fraternal founders asserted in 1848 and 1874 and 1899: to live active, commendable, and responsible lives, and to build up community. Clearly and compellingly, they added, and continue to add, positive value at the local, state, national, global, and fraternal level because they engaged life fully and responsibly. In short, they were authoritative pillars throughout life. They were-are exemplary in their citizenship, character, and their sense of dutiful responsibility, and in many instances they were leading voices in their career fields. They prove that success of any kind does not occur by luck or accident, and we remember them because they continue to provide that message for our time. We have long been, from one generation to the next, proud to be Omega Mu Fijis. We continue to cherish our fraternal friendships, our shared memories, and our evolving, forward-focused history at the University of Maine. These things, above and beyond everything else, are the underlying rooted connections that make us proud to be Omega Mu Fijis. Why, after all, should we believe otherwise? We have been doing it well for since 1874 years, and we will continue to do so.
Perge!

Edwin Ladd

Edwin F. Ladd, our Q.T.V.-Phi Gamma Delta brother, was born a little over a year before the start of the Civil War in Starks, Maine, and he died about two years before Black Tuesday. Interesting bookends in a lived life. Within those years, he would have heard, undoubtedly,  about Civil War battles around the dinner table, and he may have even followed the chronology of Lincoln’s political actions, policies, and speeches. You never know. He certainly may have seen soldiers return home at the wars conclusion, and he may have even known one or two. His family had been in the New England ares since 1634, and many of them were innovative, independent-minded, adventurous folks who were fearless. With the same characteristic fearlessness, Edwin F. Ladd would lead the same type of life as his ancestors and make a significant contribution in American History during the Progressive Movement during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
 
Being progressive in both speech and action was natural for Edwin F. Ladd, almost genetic, truly. An intrepid spirit led Daniel Ladd to sail on Mary and John in 1633 for New England, settling in Salisbury. 

​Two centuries later, William Ladd, a graduate of Exeter and Harvard, would exhibit the same intrepid spirit of Daniel Ladd who had sailed to the new world on the Mary and John. Like Daniel, William was not fragile at all; however, unlike Daniel’s driving, liberating spirit to come to the colonies, and to struggle in the new world, William Ladd’s spirit was more progressive, even radical and evolutionary, grounded in the Christian message of peace, in the hope to improve American society by addressing one primary issue: war.

​With apostolic conviction, he believed that humanity needed to liberate itself from the long-suffering chain of human wars. He believed that Christian theology is not indifferent to war, it opposed it without exception. Consequently, he believed it must be abolished in conceptual thought and destructive reality because war was a ‘soul-destroying sin’ contrary to message of Christ, and he repudiated war in all circumstances, offensive and defensive, foreign and domestic. He was a true believer in the Gospel message of liberation and peace at all costs, and he had no problem whatsoever in going opposite to the majority opinion on any issue, and this included his belief that slavery must be abolished in the United States. William Ladd was a man of impeccable honor and integrity, and for that he was a challenging figure in history, just as Edwin F. Ladd would be during the Progressive movement. They both had a way of the seeing America, as well as the entire world, with different eyes, even better eyes, to make it better.
 
The initial stimulus for William Ladd’s theological and historical belief about war was the growing prospect of war with Britain in 1812, and even though he had been financially hurt by the England blockade of New England ports, he opposed the growing shibboleths to go to war with England. Soon after the war started, he moved to Minot, Maine. In the end, we are all guardians of his ideas because everyone believes in peace. 

With tireless energy, William Ladd lectured and preached that peace should not be the aberrant outlier in human history but the enduring lived reality between all people, and the only way to achieve that goal was through the tangible, secular application of Christian Theology in embracing pacifism to avoid any type of war. William Ladd became known as ‘Peace’ Ladd because he believed that the unending sinful chain of human wars could only be stopped by everyone uniting in the cause of peace around the world, and to pursue that reality of that Christian truth by every peaceful means possible. To spread his message, William created and edited two papers: The Harbinger of Peace and The Friend of Peace. This was of as absolute importance, and he called it “the diffusion of light respecting the evils of war and the best means of effecting its abolition”. He would have felt very comfortable in the 1960’s at Cal Berkeley, University of Wisconsin, and Columbia, and he certainly would have applauded Allen Ginsberg’s “America”, most particularly the last line, “America you don’t really want to go to war.” William was a true believer in the need to abolish war and any references to wars by statues, monuments, and plaques, no matter how aesthetically tasteful and humble. He did not see them as historical checks or critical points of reflection, and he did not believe that their absence would be injurious to our national consciousness. Plain and simple, he believed military monument was a direct affirmation and glorification of war and should never be erected. 
 
To further champion his morally progressive vision for a more peaceful America, a more peaceful world, William Ladd founded the first pacifist organization in American History,
initially called the Minot Peace Society, but later renamed the American Peace Society. The first meeting was in a blacksmith shop in Minot, and William Ladd was the first president. 

​His noble vision of peace on earth between all people widened in 1840 when he advocated the creation of a Congress of Nations and a High Court of Nations to resolve disputes to prevent wars. President Woodrow Wilson would use Ladd’s ideas to shape the functional ideals of League of Nations, and his stated principles are clearly evident in the United Nations Charter. Moreover, his ideas are evident in the International Court of Justice. Peace, for William Ladd, was the essential condition for all of human society to survive, and local and international organizations were essential for it’s continuing proclamation.
 
William Ladd remained committed to the Christian Gospel of peace to the very end of his life when he died, in 1841, while giving a speech in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on the soul-transforming nature of peace, consistent to the very end. Idealist like William Ladd, more often than not, are dismissed for that very reason. Ladd was an idealists, and he had the common good of humanity in mind with every sermon, lecture, essay, and article that he wrote, always advocating simple human solidarity around a simple word: peace. Naive, maybe, but he believed it and lived it. Nothing more, nothing less, William Ladd was a champion for peace, and he left a profound influence on American History and World History with numerous organizations in existence dedicated to cause of peace, each the lineal offspring of his American Peace Society that still exists in Washington, D.C. Each of these organizations have their reason of being based on the ideas that were formally shaped and forged in the mind of ‘Peace’ Ladd, fittingly in a blacksmith shop in Minot Center, Maine, and he believed to the very last day of his mortal life that peace work is never done in thought, expressed word, and action. He was a remarkable man at peace in working for long-lasting peace in human society. It was his vision, his calling, to wage peace in changing the moral consciousness of people, and in the fullest sense he performed it in being a Christ-bearer for peace, and that is a life-changing progressive legacy in any age and time. William Ladd was a peaceful, challenging inspiration for radical human reform.

​With open mind and heart, both Daniel Ladd and William Ladd were drawn to a narrative thread to do something different, compellingly different, to take on a massive undertaking and remain committed. Their respective, daring faiths made their ancestral thread resiliently strong and purposeful. That single narrative thread of commitment would continue with Edwin F. Ladd, and his accomplishments would improve the quality life for millions of American during the 20th Century because he had a vision based on science to be a reformer, and he would not be denied.
 
Eighteen years after the sudden death of William Ladd in 1841, Edwin F. Ladd, our Q.T.V. - Phi Gamma Delta brother was born in Starks, Maine. After attending Somerset Academy in Athens, Maine, he attended Maine State College, class of 1884, after studying agriculture and science. He was in the Coburn Cadets, and one of his Q. T. V. brothers was Mark L. Hersey.

​After a short teaching stint in upstate New York, Edwin Ladd went west to the plains of North Dakota to become the first chemistry professor at the newly established North Dakota Agricultural College, now North Dakota State College. He would serve the school from 1890-1921, and he held many responsible roles in his tireless service to the students and faculty of the college: chief chemist, dean of the school of chemistry and the president of the school. 

​In personality and mood as a professor and leader, he was always hard-driving, practical, and exact. He always followed the truths he discovered in chemistry, and he applied those truths for the greater good of everyone. His significance as a chemist, college president, North Dakota food commissioner, and senator was remarkable. He always merged robust scientific thinking and experimentation with broad creative thinking, dedicated to truth and facts, in his service to his students, the citizens of North Dakota, and all American citizens. In 1910, the new chemistry building at the college was named Ladd Hall. 

​His extensive scientific research would lead to truths that would breathe health and life into things that concern everyone today: ‘truthful label’ on paint and flour, the pure-food and drug laws, fair railway rates for farmers, and a standard grading method for wheat. These were sweeping reforms, and in achieving them Edwin Ladd positively shaped and improved American society through his efforts. In so doing he became, along with Senator Robert M. LaFollette and President Theodore Roosevelt, a leader in the Progressive Movement. It was even said that He was ‘the most militant’ progressive. 

​After the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act, Edwin served on the Standards Committee for Food Products. In addition, he served on many civic organizations and boards in the United Sates and in Europe: the American Association for the Advancement of Science; the Society of Chemical Industry of London; the Society for the Promotion of Agricultural Science; the Association of State and National Food and Dairy, the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists, and ex officio Flood Control officer. During World War I, Ladd served on the Food Administration Board to assure that food and supplies would be given to American troops fighting in Europe and elsewhere, and this led to calls to the American public to conserve and have ‘meatless’ Mondays and ‘wheatless’ Wednesdays, so forth.

​At the conclusion of World War I, Edwin Ladd made speech reasserting everything that he had always about the American Farmer that he had consistently championed and advocated for in every role he had held: “Will all America awake to the importance of the farmer. Only now do they realize how very important a part of this nation and the world is agriculture. See how dependent out government is today upon out production of wheat in the Northwest. With the war over, the farmer can expect much liberal consideration than he has enjoyed in the past.”

​His resolute convictions, grounded in accrued scientific wisdom, often aroused intense opposition. It never ruffled him in the least. When Republican senators wanted to quietly end the Teapot Dome scandal in order to not hurt the Republican Party, Ladd, a Republican himself, stood firm and aggressively opposed his fellow Republican senators because the first and most important factor guiding him was finding the truth in any matter and not covering up something with political falsehoods for the sake of the party. Facts had always guided him as a chemist, and the truthfulness of the facts of Teapot Dome guided him his unwillingness to turn a blind eye and disregard them. 

​He would not be appeased by their appeals to simply go along for the sake of party image. That was his outlook, and after he openly supported Robert M. LaFollette and not Calvin Coolidge in the Republican primaries in 1924, he was persona non grata in the Republican Party, and he was kicked out of the Republican caucus. 

​Edwin Fremont Ladd died in 1925, and many tributes poured in attesting to his lifelong integrity to do the right thing for his students, the state of North Dakota, the United States, and the world. One person wrote: “He believed in direct action. It did not take him long to make up his mind as to what side of a question he should take; he wanted to know simply which was the right side. If the right side was popular, he was not deterred from espousing it for that reason; it it was unpopular, he seemed to be more eager to uphold the right.” Lynn Frazier, North Dakota’s Governor, expressed his admiration for Edwin Ladd: “one of the foremost workers for pure-food legislation” and “a citizen…universally loved and respected.

​Without a single pause or hesitation, Edwin F. Ladd was independent and courageous, just like Daniel and William Ladd before him. Determined idealism or determined realism, it does not matter, Daniel, William and Edwin Ladd each provide a lesson on perseverance and determination. They were like-minded in following their vision and ideals, and though their life-stories were different, the guiding motivation for each of them was the same: truth. They each had a great life-journey because they were each true to their unique pioneering spirits, and that is authenticity at its best, with each of them adhering to a guiding truth that they could not be swayed from, and that is the indivisible Ladd legacy, a progressive truth since 1633.
 
Truth was the unmatched devotional light that guided Daniel Ladd to sail to the new world on The Mary and John in 1633, empty-handed yet hopeful. Truth guided William Ladd, with his Christ-like winning manner, to preach, lecture, and write about peace and pacifism to his last day. Like his family ancestors, in speech, policy, and personal conduct, Edwin F. Ladd always stood for truth, a truth grounded in the verifiable results of science, and that truth made him a powerful advocate for the passage of effective, down-to-earth acts for the greater public good in improving the safety and quality of life for all American citizens during the Progressive Movement. In sum, Edwin Ladd tangibly achieved extraordinary results. He was a man of significance, and he made a real difference, and in doing so he left a lasting legacy that we can all be proud of as Omega Mu Fijis, and that is why we continue to say that perseverance and determination are omnipotent. It’s true. Boris Pasternak said it best: “It is not revolutions and upheavals that clear to new and better days but…someone’s soul, inspired and ablaze. 

Fraternally,
Chip Chapman, ’82
Perge!

​George P. Dulac
Omega Mu, 1970
1966-67 Pledge Class
When the Freshman Football Recruits arrived on campus in August of 1966, I think I was not alone in being unable to see beyond the three weeks of grueling preseason looming ahead. What we did not know at the time was that the seed of a new brotherhood had been sown and was being nurtured with every passing day. 

​Forty young men ranging in age from 18 to 25 years old descended on UMO’s campus that August determined to play Freshman Football for the University. We came from all over New England, New York, New Jersey and some most recently from Vietnam. This class was eerily similar to the UMO Freshman class of  1945-46. In each case 18 year old kids found themselves coming together with war veterans to form a freshman class. 

​Jimmy Fitzgerald, ex-paratrooper for the 82nd Airborne played on the defensive side of the ball that late summer. Famous for saying, “God, this is fun” in the midst of the rest of us throwing up after doing wind sprints. At the time none of us thought that maybe jumping into the jungle while being shot at by North Vietnamese Regulars might be a little more daunting than our rigorous practices. 

​Johnny Rhodes (71), Staff Sargent, USMC had returned from tours as a Jarhead leader in the jungles of Vietnam in 1967, only months before landing on the UMO campus. He wanted to play football for the Bears. The veterans of this era were all about 24 years old and had seen much more of life than the rest of us strapping on shoulder pads at the same time. I remember all of this like it was yesterday, but it was 56 years ago.

On a warm late August afternoon in 1966, the Freshman Football players gathered at the Student Union relaxing in shorts and flip flops. We were looking at the recent female arrivals on campus.  It was nice to see the fairer sex after weeks of tackling guys in the dirt, but the conversation that afternoon centered not on girls but on fraternity rushing.
 
The fraternity brothers from various houses were already starting to recruit freshman football players. The “Jock Houses” on campus, at the time, were Phi Mu, Kappa Sig, Phi Eta and Sigma Chi. Phi Gamma Delta, as a recruiting house, was conspicuously absent.  Many of us were not particularly interested in the houses most active in asking us to consider pledging. Almost simultaneously, a few of us asked each other this question, “Why don’t we pick a Fraternity and all pledge it so we can stay together over the next four years?” Many laughed at the notion, but some of us did not. We were seriously considering the idea that we could further our relationship with one another off the field as well as on it. Why not? Just because it hadn’t been done before.

​FIJI was not in the running initially because Grant Watkins was the only FIGI brother playing football. Everyone liked Grant a lot but other houses had 12 to 15 football player brothers all of whom were working on us at once. The Freshman Football Team for the next month or two continued to discuss the notion as we visited all the “Greek Getaways”.  We partied and attended the social events.  The process of elimination was almost unconscious; certainly not deliberate, but eventually the idea crept to the surface: “Let’s give FIJI a try!”

​At the end of the day, ‘wet behind the ears’ 18 year olds like me partnered up with other Freshman Football Players. We arrived at the “Castle” fully prepared to take it over, sort of?  We engaged in many activities, many conducted by my future brother-in-law, Tyler Libby, (Uncle Ty Ty’s Tasty Treats) and in spite of all this brotherly love we continued to laugh our way through it.  Johnnie Rhodes seemed to chuckle his way through spitting the fire out in 67.

I remember my 1966-67 UMO Freshman football team FIJI Pledge Class very well. We began as brothers on the gridiron and then continued as FIJI brothers.  Today we sometimes see each other in April at Pig dinner and reminisce on these times, and they remain some of my fondest of memories. You may recognize some of these very grand brothers: the late Johnnie Rhodes (honorary 66 pledge class member), John Collins, Mike O’Leary, Tony Flaherty, Johnny Kimball, Paul Pooler, and myself.
 
Paul Dulac: FIJI Pledge Class of 66-67
Captain of the University of Maine football team, 1969
UMO 1966-1970

​Perge!

Bill Martin
Mississippi State, 1975
Surprises and Lessons from Omega Mu
 
Never let them know they’ve surprised you.

This was an attitude I adopted early on as a field secretary for the Fraternity. I had heard that chapters sometimes liked to play tricks on the field secretary or do other things to put him off balance, and I was determined not to give anyone the satisfaction of knowing they had done that.
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As I drove out of Lexington, Kentucky, in early September 1976, everything east of Ohio was a new adventure for this small-town kid from Mississippi who was still figuring out how to be a field secretary. After a visit with the Vermont Chapter, on Friday morning, September 10, I headed out of Burlington across New Hampshire and the backroads of Maine. As I made my way farther east and north, I had the sensation that I was nearing the edge of the earth. 

​My trip diary, which I still have, says that I arrived at Omega Mu at 5:00 p.m. As I pulled up, the brothers had just chosen sides for a touch football game. One of the teams graciously took me – a late arrival of unknown talent -- in the supplemental draft. It was a great way to work out the kinks from a day in the car and begin to build rapport with the brothers. 

Here was my first surprise: These Yankees would have been pretty competitive on the intramural fields at Mississippi State.
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The second surprise came that evening, when some brothers took me out for a few beers at a bar. On campus!! The county where Mississippi State is located was dry until midway through my junior year, and even after a majority of the voters decided that their fellow citizens could handle the temptations of demon rum, it was still illegal to have alcohol on campus. I was now in a whole new world.

The next surprise came later that night when I settled into my bed in the guest suite at the house. Who knew that a mattress could feel like sleeping in a canoe?
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On Saturday morning most of the brothers pitched in to clean up in and around the house. Then, after a quick lunch, we all headed to the football stadium to see the Black Bears take on St. Mary’s University of Halifax, Nova Scotia. Wait! I thought. After working all morning, aren’t you brothers going to shower? Don’t you wear a blazer and tie to the games? Don’t the coeds dress up like they’re going to a fashion show? That’s how we did it in Mississippi, late summer heat be damned. Surprise, Bill! It’s a football game, not a cocktail party. Mainers are not as status conscious as southerners. Never since have I worn a blazer or tie to a football game.

​On Sunday afternoon, I joined the brothers at an intramural football game. I don’t recall which fraternity was the opponent, but I do recall being surprised at the amount of contact that was allowed along the line of scrimmage and that, whatever the rules about contact, Craig Shaknis pushed them to the limit.

​Somewhere among all the amusements of the weekend, I conducted my formal field secretary duties, meeting with each of the chapter officers, a number of the committee chairmen, and Dean Dave Rand. I don’t recall any details from those meetings, but I do recall that Omega Mu was well lead and that the brothers cared about their chapter and made fraternity fun.

On Monday afternoon, September 13, I headed south to continue my swing through New England. I had many surprises during this visit to Omega Mu, all of them pleasant – except for the canoe bed. But here were the most meaningful surprises, and lessons: Fiji hospitality has no regional limits, and Fijis everywhere are a lot more alike than we are different.

I had a new perspective on Phi Gamma Delta and a much more positive expectation about my experience as a field secretary. ​

Fraternally,

Bill Martin
Mississippi State, 1975
Executive Director Emeritus

​Perge!

Eugene D. “Buddy” Cote III
His Impact on Phi Gamma Delta
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Buddy Cote (Omega Mu 1981) is one of the most consequential leaders of Phi Gamma Delta of his era. I say this based not just on the scope and length of his service, but on the impact he has had on the strength of the International Fraternity and its standing in the interfraternity community.

Buddy’s Omega Mu brothers recognized his innate leadership abilities and elected him president of the Chapter. In this role, he caught the attention of the Fraternity’s headquarters staff, who targeted him as a prospect for the Field Secretary position. Phi Gamma Delta won a tug-of-war with Procter & Gamble for Buddy’s post-graduate services, and from 1981 to 1983 he served as a Field Secretary, traveling to chapters in the western and southern regions of the Fraternity. 

As Buddy’s term as Field Secretary neared its end in spring 1983, Executive Director Bill Zerman (Michigan 1949) persuaded him to remain on the staff as Director of Chapter Services. He served in that position until the fall of 1985, when he accepted a job in the private sector with the Balfour Company, and he and his new bride, Lisa, returned to New England, settling in North Attleboro, Massachusetts. 

Then began a lifetime of volunteer service to Phi Gamma Delta, in both formal and informal roles, that continues to this day. At the 2000 Ekklesia, Buddy was elected Archon Councilor, a position on the Fraternity’s board of directors, and in 2002 he was elected Archon Secretary, serving until 2004. He then served on the board of the Phi Gamma Delta Educational Foundation until 2006, when he was elected to a two-year term as Archon President, the top position in the Fraternity.

Through Buddy’s leadership and inspiration, in fall 2006 the Fraternity embarked on a growth initiative known as “170 X 170” and grew from 113 chapters and colonies to 165 in spring 2018. This effort greatly expanded the Fraternity’s footprint, influence and strength. Notably, the growth initiative brought the chartering of four new chapters in New England, at UConn, UMass, Quinnipiac and Northeastern. 

In 2010 Buddy was elected to the board of the North-American Interfraternity Conference (NIC), the trade association of men’s social fraternities. He served as chairman of the NIC from 2014 to 2015. This was a time of tremendous change for the NIC, and Buddy managed the process with skill and diplomacy. Since 2016 he has served as Phi Gamma Delta’s representative on the NIC Governing Council.
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Over a number of years, Buddy advocated with fraternity leaders to select Boston to host an Ekklesia. The last Ekklesia in New England had been in Swampscott, Massachusetts, in 1958. However, hotel rates in Boston in late summer, when the Ekklesia is held, were appreciably higher than the Fraternity found in other regions. But Buddy was patient and persistent, pressing the point that, while Boston might cost a little more, the brothers who attended would have such a great time that the cost would not be an issue. Eventually he made the sale, and he chaired the Host Committee of area brothers who would assure a memorable experience for the attendees. When the 168th Ekklesia was held at the Westin Boston Waterfront on August 10-14, 2016, over 900 brothers and guests attended, and there is no record that any of them complained about the cost. Only one other Ekklesia in fraternity history has had a higher attendance. 

Even as Buddy has done so much for greater Phi Gamma Delta and the fraternity movement, he also has contributed at the local level. He has served as president of the Boston Graduate Chapter and chairman of the Board of Chapter Advisors at Northeastern and has been continuously engaged with Omega Mu and the other graduate brothers who support the Chapter.
​
Seeking neither recognition nor applause, Buddy has worked tirelessly for the glory of Phi Gamma Delta. His direct impact on the Fraternity and his devotion, character, temperament and personality mark him as one of our truly great leaders.

​Fraternally,

Chip Chapman, 1982
​
Perge!

Our brothers’ careers have been productive, constructive, spirited, and prosaic. They displayed impressive skills, talents, and abilities They were, and we continue to be, a beautiful and lively expression of our enduring fraternal beliefs, and that underlying harmony is far-reaching in expectation for all brothers’, undergraduate and graduate. It is the core of what our fraternal founders asserted in 1848 and 1874 and 1899: to live active, commendable, and responsible lives, and to build up community. Clearly and compellingly, they added, and continue to add, positive value at the local, state, national, global, and fraternal level because they engaged life fully and responsibly. In short, they were authoritative pillars throughout life. They were-are exemplary in their citizenship, character, and their sense of dutiful responsibility, and in many instances they were leading voices in their career fields. These things, above and beyond everything else, are the underlying rooted connections that make us proud to be Omega Mu Fijis for the past 120 years.
 
Unreservedly, these Omega Mu brothers’ are worthy of emulation because of who they were, what they achieved in their respective careers, and in their fraternal dedication in providing timely, relevant, and practical advice through many years of brotherly service to our Omega Mu chapter. They were especially helpful during times when our fraternal reputation was tarnished. Each of them were a vital component advocating for the good of fraternal life throughout their respective lives because they believed that fraternal life can be a life-changing experience for the good for all young men, always. Due to their authentic and genuine character, and the unreserved nature with all of their commitments, these Omega Mu brothers are witnesses to our proud fraternal history at the University of Maine. In fraternal doctrine and practice, year-after-year, their actions had a far-reaching effect in sustaining our deep-rooted fraternal kinship at Maine. They are telling portraits of the life-long good of fraternal life, and they continue to shine for us today, and we say thank you again and again for their manifold achievements and the indispensable role they each played in our history. They prove that success of any kind does not occur by luck or accident, and we remember them because they continue to provide that message for our time. We have long been, from one generation to the next, proud to be Omega Mu Fijis. We continue to cherish our fraternal friendships, our shared memories, and our evolving, forward-focused history at the University of Maine. Why, after all, should we believe otherwise? We have been doing it well for 120 years, and we will continue to do so.
Perge!

​“Adhere to your purpose.”
Abraham Lincoln

Fraternally,
 
Chip Chapman, ’82
​
Perge!

Our brothers’ careers have been productive, constructive, spirited, and prosaic. They displayed impressive skills, talents, and abilities They were, and we continue to be, a beautiful and lively expression of our enduring fraternal beliefs, and that underlying harmony is far-reaching in expectation for all brothers’, undergraduate and graduate. It is the core of what our fraternal founders asserted in 1848 and 1874 and 1899: to live active, commendable, and responsible lives, and to build up community. Clearly and compellingly, they added, and continue to add, positive value at the local, state, national, global, and fraternal level because they engaged life fully and responsibly. In short, they were authoritative pillars throughout life. They were-are exemplary in their citizenship, character, and their sense of dutiful responsibility, and in many instances they were leading voices in their career fields. These things, above and beyond everything else, are the underlying rooted connections that make us proud to be Omega Mu Fijis for the past 120 years.
 
Unreservedly, these Omega Mu brothers’ are worthy of emulation because of who they were, what they achieved in their respective careers, and in their fraternal dedication in providing timely, relevant, and practical advice through many years of brotherly service to our Omega Mu chapter. They were especially helpful during times when our fraternal reputation was tarnished. Each of them were a vital component advocating for the good of fraternal life throughout their respective lives because they believed that fraternal life can be a life-changing experience for the good for all young men, always. Due to their authentic and genuine character, and the unreserved nature with all of their commitments, these Omega Mu brothers are witnesses to our proud fraternal history at the University of Maine. In fraternal doctrine and practice, year-after-year, their actions had a far-reaching effect in sustaining our deep-rooted fraternal kinship at Maine. They are telling portraits of the life-long good of fraternal life, and they continue to shine for us today, and we say thank you again and again for their manifold achievements and the indispensable role they each played in our history. They prove that success of any kind does not occur by luck or accident, and we remember them because they continue to provide that message for our time. We have long been, from one generation to the next, proud to be Omega Mu Fijis. We continue to cherish our fraternal friendships, our shared memories, and our evolving, forward-focused history at the University of Maine. Why, after all, should we believe otherwise? We have been doing it well for 120 years, and we will continue to do so.
Perge!

Fraternally,
 
Chip Chapman, ’82
​
Perge!

From multiple angles, our QTV and Omega Mu brothers have richly contributed to the civic body of the University of Maine since our founding, and this due to one of our hallmark traits: we like to succeed. In addition to all of our Omega Mu athletes and campus leaders, many brothers enlarged and enriched the meaning of what it means to be a fraternity brother in Omega Mu in writing beautiful music. We are proud of their dedication, creativity, and commitment in adding such a joyful historic angle in our fraternal history at the university. Their many musical compositions to pay homage to the University of Maine and our fraternal brotherhood. In musical thought, chromatic rhythm of language, and historic pride for the University of Maine, these brothers’ composed an immeasurable body of work that we are justifiably proud of as a brotherhood. These brothers enlarged and enriched the meaning of what it means to be a fraternity brother in Omega Mu. In compositional thought, style, and historic-fraternal context, we are immensely proud of these brothers, and there will no closing line, coda, chorus, or measure on our continued success as a brotherhood at the University of Maine. Proud to be Fiji, always.

 Doug Baston
Omega Mu, 1969
Until about two weeks ago I still had my ticket stub for the Pete Seeger concert. Finally tossed it.

​Robert C. Mennealy
Omega Mu, 1971
Mennealy, Goudey and O’Leary drove to Lewiston to see a Jimi Hendrix concert that was cut short because he blew the sound system twenty minutes into it.

Anthony Flaherty
Omega Mu
Mennealy, there were five of us in Cliff Gowdey’s VW Bus. I remember Cliff had a little notched wooden rig so the bus wound not pop out of 4th gear. My memory is that Hendrix played a full set. I know he played most of the Are You Experienced album. Played behind his head, played with his teeth on “Hey, Joe”. He finished the set with “Purple Haze”. He encored with “Wild Thing”. He came our alone and riffed for a couple of minutes using only his right hand on the neck. Mind boggling. I think the cost was $2 or $3.

​Andrew T, Soloby
Omega Mu, 1971
I remember when you guys came back. O'Leary was doing "sets" on the bed in the Purple Room for most of one nite !! And yes, I played "back up" for him once in a while.. ..1969!!

​John L. Collins
Omega Mu, 1971
“Sets” refers to O’Leary playing air drums along with the records of Hendrix tunes.  He would close his eyes, and really wail on the invisible drums with a huge grin on his face.  I was too stoned to be able to tell whether he was any good at it or not, but it sure looked like he was enjoying himself!  I think he also played along with Ginger Baker with Cream songs.  Those are the ones I recall specifically.  The purple room may have been off the living room behind the fireplace - not sure, though.  

​Here’s another personal story related to concerts in that era.  See link below for the poster for the Supremes performance at the gym.  I was a pretty “straight” guy in those days, and felt we all should play by the rules, pay our way, etc.  But a rebellious side of my personality seemed to be coming out.  So, when Mennealy suggested we try to sneak into the concert, I eagerly agreed!  We crept around the field house in the dark till we found a window that wasn’t locked and climbed through it.  From there it was easy to walk around to the halls leading to the gym and get in.  We got front row seats, too!  Other than Mennealy, I’m not sure who else participated.  Maybe Greg Papasodora.  It was a great concert, I thought!  

​Robert W. Doyle
Omega Mu, 1972
I recall the John Sebastian concert. He came on by himself and explained that the backup band was late due to a bus breakdown. He played solo all night. At the end he explained that he didn’t have a band. Great goof. 

​Gary R. Sawyer
Omega Mu, 1967
Also, a great Bob Dylan concert. Even though it was in the old Memorial Gymnasium; and two visits by the Brothers Four. I mention the later concerts not only because they were quality and fun, but because they were so-named because they were four Fiji brothers. On both occasions they came to the Castle after their concerts. 

​Andrew T. Soloby
Omega Mu, 1971
The Turtles at the Fiji Castle
Oh, yes, what a beautiful night! On a fateful fall night in 1969, I had a front row seat at the Tur-tles concert that was held at the University of Maine: “So Happy Together”!

​Drinking and other embellishments had occurred earlier, and during I screamed loudly, obnoxiously, and frequently to the band: “Fiji, Fiji, Fiji”. Once they played their last number, everyone rushed the stage, including me. The lead singer, Howard Kaylan, asked me, “You have been screaming Fiji, Fiji all through the show, what the hell is it?" It was explained to all of them in detail, and we invited them to the house, and they showed up an hour later, a memorable night in Fiji history. Being normal guys, they wanted to know what fraternal living was all about, and we showed them. “No matter how you toss the dice, it had to be.”

Fraternally,
 
Chip Chapman, ’82

Perge!

The start of the school at Maine always begins with a feelings of enthusiasm, joy, excitement, and celebration to be moving back into the Castle to begin another year filled with fraternal routines and traditions that have defined our Omega Mu brotherhood for over one hundred years. There is a distinct feeling of pride and satisfaction in living in the most beautiful fraternal house at the University of Maine. Moreover, there are many other markers that have defined our successful fraternal focus, energy, and success through the decades: academic, athletic, social, social service. All these accomplishments give all Omega Mu brothers’ cause to smile and be proud. But we are also deeply proud of the career accomplishments of our Omega Mu brothers’. That is the Omega Mu way as we enter this new year academic year. It is our nature.
 
Our brothers’ careers have been productive, constructive, spirited, and prosaic. They displayed impressive skills, talents, and abilities They were, and we continue to be, a beautiful and lively expression of our enduring fraternal beliefs, and that underlying harmony is far-reaching in expectation for all brothers’, undergraduate and graduate. It is the core of what our fraternal founders asserted in 1848 and 1874 and 1899: to live active, commendable, and responsible lives, and to build up community. Clearly and compellingly, they added, and continue to add, positive value at the local, state, national, global, and fraternal level because they engaged life fully and responsibly. In short, they were and are exemplary in their citizenship, character, and their sense of dutiful responsibility, and in many instances they were leading voices in their career fields. These things, above and beyond everything else, are the underlying rooted connections that make us proud to be Omega Mu Fijis for the past 120 years. Unreservedly, these Omega Mu brothers’ are worthy of emulation because of who they were, what they achieved in their respective careers, and in their fraternal dedication in providing timely, relevant, and practical advice through many years of brotherly service to our Omega Mu chapter. Each of them were a vital component advocating for the good of fraternal life throughout their respective lives because they believed that fraternal life can be a life-changing experience for the good for all young men, always. Due to their authentic and genuine character, and the unreserved nature with all of their commitments, these Omega Mu brothers are witnesses to our proud fraternal history at the University of Maine. In fraternal doctrine and practice, year-after-year, their actions had a far-reaching effect in sustaining our deep-rooted fraternal kinship at Maine. They are telling portraits of the life-long good of fraternal life, and they continue to shine for us today, and we say thank you again and again for their manifold achievements and the indispensable role they each played in our history. They prove that success of any kind does not occur by luck or accident, and we remember them because they continue to provide that message for our time. 

Fraternally, 

Chip Chapman, '82

​Perge!

​This, above
All, we all
Knew and
Believed,
 
Happily so:
JT was a
Great gentleman
And our Omega
 
Mu brother,
Dedicated to our
Omega Mu
Brotherhood
 
Because his
Natural outlook
Was always
Graciously
 
Charged with
Civility,
Calm, and
Compassion

Toward each
Brother with-
In the
Energetic rhythm
 
Spirit of the
House, our
Historic human
Wilderness,
 
Creating mood and
Emotion with
Affectionate
Well-Being and
 
Respect; a gentle,
Gracious force
Of nature,
Just as
 
Tom
Tear had been,
For generating
The enduring
 
Good will of
Our brotherhood and
Creating a legendary
Reputation that
 
Will never
Be forgotten
Because JT
Brought a
 
Cohesive love,
Strength, and
Happiness to
Omega Mu
 
Each day
Because he
Was, simply,
Utterly, those
 
Very things that
He gave for
Our fraternal
Welfare:
 
Human love,
Strength and
Happiness,
Each day
 
In how he was
Toward each of
Us in how he
Took love,
 
Pleasure and
Fraternal pride
In being
Attentive in

​Cooking faultless
Meals for our
Brotherhood
That we
 
Savored each day
From the devouringly
Beautiful smell of
Home-

​Made bread to
Rib nights to
Chocolate mousse
And sharing
 
A beer, or more
Likely a carafe of
Wine,
And being 

One with us at
Christmas parties, or
In the basement
With brothers and

​Little sisters, or
Sitting in
The house,
His house,
 
Reading the
Newspaper,
Relaxed and
Embracing 

​The heart of our
Omega Mu
Life, each day,
Moment-to
 
Moment with
Loving grace and
Kindness, hospitality and
Generosity, just
 
As he had
Honorably served
Our nation and
Was timelessly
 
Animated in
Many theater
Productions
With the

Warmth of
His nature,
And so
On,
 
Always a
Man of
Consequence
And
 
Beauty,
Grace and
Perseverance,
And
 
As things do
Slip from
Memory, we will
Never forget the
 
Practical
Niceties of everything
JT did for us with
Charming
 
Confidence and
Joy in making
Our life in
The house
 
Timeless,
And he remains
A life-long
Link in our Omega
 
Mu brotherhood
On the Stillwater,
A genuine
Providential
 
Gift and our
Dear friend and
Fraternal brother,
JT. 

…Nothing in life shall sever the chain that is round us now…

Fraternally,

Chip Chapman, 1982
​
Perge!

Summer is a great time to do so many things, as we all know. Several days ago, I started thinking about my bicycle trip across the United States in the summer of 1980. Without any pretense or bragging, I did it, and I am really proud that I did it. I kept smiling at each memory: a 145 mile ride through Mound Saint Helen’s ash and rain to get to Corvallis, waking up one night in Big Hole National Battlefield to see a herd of mustangs sniffing and looking in our tent, the extreme kindness of the people in Kansas, and many other vivid memories that kept me smiling as I thought about them with authentic pride and how I did it. I thought it was a superb thing to do, and I would gladly do it again, but I would go from Cape Breton to Vancouver, and I can assure you I will succeed if I do decide to do it. Unfortunately, I have yet to find the pictures of the 1980, but I will find them. 

​Besides thinking about my bike journey across the United States, I have thought about the pictures I finally received from the Special Collections Department at the University of Maine that I found this past April, on Pig Dinner Day, (See photos below) and I smiled at the knowledge that we are not a run-of-the-mill fraternity at the university and how the things that we do show what we have stood for 145 years when those brothers’ first lived in a rented house on Maine Street in Orono: honor, true friendship, loyalty, will power, and purpose. These things always matter, and in historic breadth and depth, we are inextricably linked with them in fraternal pride. Their patience and tact took them from the rented house on Main Street to our first fraternal home where Coburn Hall is now, and to all the succeeding homes after that, and they were durably committed to each transition and change. Their collective talents, abilities, and pride showed that nothing comes easy. They went on to shape, influence, and guide, with their individual energy and creative vision, the world around them in local, state, national, and international arenas. These men were good fraternal citizens and they became good, effective leaders in many different fields of endeavors: economics, architecture, psychology, engineering, ministry, teaching, medicine, law, and government. In some instances, they established legendary reputations with their unprecedented accomplishments, pioneering even. With authentic power, they had impact, and they are honorably remembered. They created a better world at the local and state level, national, and international levels, and they remain models to us of the correct and noble use of will power and purpose, individually and collectively, for the good. They are remembered and recognized today for the simple things they did with integrity and forthright honesty. They kept at it; they always found a way to care and to be involved. They did not sway. 

​But they always knew, I believe, that what was most important was the brotherly friendships, and they showed it by the brotherly grace of their continued commitment to each other after they graduated. That’s what makes for a good, sound, healthy brotherhood. What really matters endures, always! Old fashioned, maybe. But I will take a good friend over the junkyard of technology any day, any hour, any second: cell phone, I-Pad, and whatever else that is coming along to supposedly connect you with others. By that measure, we remain strong as a brotherhood, and we continue to attract good men to our historic brotherhood. And so it goes for our illustrious brotherhood and our beautiful fraternal home. For us, it has always been about the long haul in everything we have envisioned since those QTV brothers were sitting in their rented rooms in Orono smiling at their fraternal present, and their next fraternal move to the Maine State campus, and in the whirlpool of history and chance, we continue to thrive at the University of Maine.
 
Taken altogether, my memories about my bike trip in the summer of 1980 and the pictures of the QTV brothers’ studying and relaxing and enjoying made me feel simply grateful for the choices I have made with life to be a teacher and minister, my beautiful wife, Sandy, and my children, and being a Fiji in our deep-souled and deep-rooted Omega Mu brotherhood at the University of Maine. That deep-long souled fraternal character is on display now as the restorative work continues on our beloved fraternal home, The Castle. Clearly and thoughtfully, step-by-step, with unbound fraternal enthusiasm and commitment, our fraternal home is being architecturally redeemed from the accrued layers of dirt, grime, and damage. Last summer work was completed in the living room, dining room, library, and the basement, and it was an unqualified success. Many brothers’ were at a loss for words when you saw the completed restoration work last October, or at Pig Dinner.  It is breathtaking and powerful, and now the RAM is being restored, and as with the work that was completed last summer, the work in the RAM is not being done casually. Taking things lightly is simply not our style. 

“Ethan “Ike” Eisenhaur and his team, along with ACE Construction, have attend to every matter with scrupulous detail. With great care, the floors have been sanded and revarnished, new partitions have been installed, new drawers have been made, new curtains will be put in, and there are thirty new frames and mattresses. And, I can assure you, it looks equally fabulous to the work that was completed last summer. In doing this work we continue to embrace, as our QTV brothers did in 1873, and our Phi Gam brothers’ did in 1924, our fraternal future with pride because we embrace the long-view in cherishing our rich historic past and embracing our ongoing future, a great journey to travel, and I can state without any romantic-adjective excess, which I am easily prone to do, but we are the historically richest and finest brotherhood at the University of Maine since those young men packed up their suitcases to move into the house on Main Street to start our fledgling fraternal beginning with energy, resourcefulness, and vision. They started our extraordinary life-enhancing and life-enriching fraternal experience, in human structure and fraternal tradition, 145 years ago, and we are the beneficiaries of their work and determination. Both perfectly cohere now in what we continue to do, with the same driving force, for the generational good for all future Omega Mu brothers’. Simply carrying the gift of all it forward. Life rolls on like climbing a steep grade or letting it totally rip on the downhill descent on a touring bike. 

The willingness to do both, a difficult virtue in anything and everything, transcends all problems, and that defines our 145 year history, and it will continue to define, shape, inform, and guide our brotherhood into our future at the University of Maine. This is our proud  historic narrative that has, in work and spirit, in fraternal character and outlook, sustained the positive and visionary beliefs of our QTV and Phi Gamma Delta heritage. They are clear, reliable, practical, perseverant, and determined principles that all good ideas, ideals, goals, adventures, and things are built upon.

Fraternally, 

Chip Chapman, 1982
​
Perge!

​Wayne R. Allen, 1951 (Grandfather)
Simeon M. Allen, 2005 (Grandson)
 
Thomas A. Anderson, 1902 (Father)
Bryant W. Anderson, 1927 (Son)
 
James M. Bartlett, 1880 (Father)
Edmund H. Bartlett, 1926 (Son)
 
Merrill D. Bartlett, 1956 (Father)
Kenneth C. Bartlett, 1982 (Son)
 
Malcolm E. Brown, 1946 (Grandfather)
Christopher S. Brown, 1998 (Grandson)
 
Stephen S. Bunker, 1897 (Father)
Paul S. Bunker, 1929 (Son)
 
Harry Butler, 1888 (Father)
Harry Butler, 1920 (Son)

Joseph B. Chaplin, Jr., 1945 (Father)
James S. Chaplin, 1971 (Son)
 
Charles F. Colesworthy, 1874 (Father)
J. B. Colesworthy, 1919 (Son, University of Washington)
 
William C. Cote, 1983 (Father)
Kyle W. Cote, 2014 (Son, Syracuse University)
 
Hugo S. Cross, 1919 (Father)
Hugo H. Cross, 1952 (Son)
 
John P. D’Antonio, 1976 (Grandfather, Lehigh University)
John B. D’Antonio, II, 2005 (Grandson)
 
Harry W. Davis, 1885 (Father)
Raymond W. Davis, 1911 (Son)
Manley W. Davis, 1918 (Son)
 
F. L. Eastman, 1888, (Father)
Arthur F. Eastman, 1924 (Son)
 
Horace M. Estabrooke, 1876 (Father)
Carl B. Estabrooke, 1912 (Son)

James S. Fassett, 1983 (Father)
Spencer J. Fassett, 2014 (Son, Gettysburg College)
 
Walter Flint, 1882 (Father)
Ralph J. Flint, 1912 (Son)
Donald T. Flint, 1923 (Son)
 
Thomas E. Foster, 1967 (Father)
Thomas F. Foster, 2019 (Son)
 
Charles C. Garland, 1888 (Father)
Philip Garland, 1912 (Son)
George Garland, 1948 (Son)
 
Donald T. Hanson, 1967 (Father)
Thomas S. Hanson, 1992 (Son)
 
James N. Hart, 1885 (Father)
Clarence E. Hart, 1926 (Son)
 
Chandler C. Harvey, 1890 (Father)
Thomas G. Harvey, 1930 (Son)
 
Edwin J. Haskell, 1872 (Father)
Ralph W. Haskell, 1905 (Son)
William D. Haskell, 1911 (Son)
Benjamin E. Haskell, 1912 (Son)
Theodore W. Haskell, 1914 (Son)
 
Dale F. Hersey, 1961 (Father)
Garth A. Hersey, 1997 (Son)
 
Maurice Hickey, 1956 (Father)
Tim Hickey, 1979 (Son, Michigan State)
Sean Hickey, 1979 (Son, Michigan State)
 
Mark E. Hill, 1979 (Father)
Michael A. Hill, 2009 (Son)
 
John H. Hinchliffe, 1903 (Father)
John H. Hinchliffe, Jr., 1931 (Son, Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
W. H. Hinchliffe, 1932 (Son, Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
 
Edson F. Hitchings, 1875 (Grandfather)
Samuel L. Hitchings, 1917 (Uncle)
George P. Hitchings, 1937 (Grandson and Nephew)
 
Jeffrey W. Hussey, 1987 (Father)
Charles P. Hussey, 2019 (Son, Tulane University)
 
David E. Hutchinson, 1961 (Father)
Jeffrey D. Hutchinson, 1990 (Son)

Alfred J. Keith, 1882 (Father)
Ballard F. Keith, 1908 (Son)
Alfred J. Keith, 1946 (Grandson)
Edward H. Keith, 1949 (Grandson)
 
Jack Leet, 1951 (Grandfather)
Benjamin M Leet, 2019 (Grandson)
 
Mathew L. Madeira, 1977 (Father)
Mathew Madeira, 2112 (Son)
 
Donald H. Marden, Sr., 1958 (Father, Cornell University)
Donald H. Marden, Jr., 1987 (Son)
 
N. N. Martin, 1876 (Father)
Bertrand C. Martin, 1901 (Son)
George N. Martin, 1927 (Grandson)
 
Paul F. McCarron, 1963 (Father)
David C. McCarron, 1987 (Son)
 
​Fred C. Mitchell, 1900
Donald D. Mitchell, 1926
Robie L. Mitchell, 1907 (Father)
R. L. Mitchell, 1943 (Son, Amherst College)
W. C. Mitchell, 1949 (Son, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
 
Joey J. Morton, 1978 (Father)
Benjamin J. Morton, 2012 (Son)
 
Charles W. Mullen, 1883 (Father)
Charles E. Mullen, 1917 (Son)
Joseph N. Mullen, 1918 (Son)

​Byron F. Porter, 1897 (Father)
Byron B. Porter, 1928 (Son)
 
Harold N. Powell, 1929 (Father)
S. H. Powell, 1965 (Son, University of Tennessee)
 
Maurice H. Powell, 1899 (Father)
Donald W. Powell, 1925 (Son)
Harold N. Powell, 1929 (Son)
 
Freemont L. Russell, 1885 (Father)
Luther S. Russell, 1912 (Son)
 
David L. Smith, 1961 (Father)
Jeffrey L. Smith, 1984 (Son)
Jonathan B. Smith, 1990 (Son)

​Charles E. Stickney, 1910 (Father)
Charles E. Stickney, Jr., 1944 (Son)
 
George A. Sutton, 1883 (Father)
Harry E. Sutton, 1909 (Son)
 
Hans M. Thoma, 1953 (Father)
Mark F. Thoma, 1993 (Son)
 
John S. Williams, 1887 (Father)
Hugh M. Williams, 1921 (Son)
Matthew Williams, 1928 (Son)
 
Bert E. Witham, 1968 (Father)
Jason C. Witham, 1997 (Son)

Fraternally,
 
Chip Chapman, 1982

Perge!