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Post(s) filed under November, 2008

An excess of personality

Justina Lakinger, Epsilon Iota ‘02 (RPI)
The Epsilon Iota was once described best by the biological brother of one of my then fellow undergrads. He had spent the weekend living in the chapter house with us and, as he was making his way out the door, paused and turned back.
“I’ve been trying to figure out all [...]

A lone wolf

Peter A. Howley, Delta ‘62 (NYU)
My life story is long, exciting, and most unusual, but this note will be short. I entered NYU and became a Psi U pledge almost against my will. My father and older brother had both been Psi U’s there, as would my younger brother the following year.
But I followed no [...]

Lady on the corner

Howard “Bunky” Baker, Xi ‘48 (Wesleyan)
There she was, over 50 years my senior, standing proudly erect, commanding the quadrangle of Wesleyan University, and showing none of the tension, challenge and distress that would have been the undoing of a mother her age. Yes, she was a mother, many times over, and even flowering in another [...]

Sands of time

Howard “Bunky” Baker, Xi ‘48 (Wesleyan)
Until the sands of time are run, we`ll sing to you Psi Upsilon. Psi U Finch.

Greetings from the Founders

Henry B. Poor, Gamma ‘39 (Amherst)
At the celebration of Psi U’s sesquicentennial anniversary 25 years ago, Alexander Turner, from the Theta chapter’s class of 1934, greeted those in attendance with a story he heard at the centennial anniversary in 1933.
Brother Turner recalled that Earl Babst, one of Psi U’s most distinguished alumni, talked of a [...]

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