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NU NEWS
TAU KAPPA EPSIL ON FRATERNITY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

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V<?lume 40, Numbe r 2 Berkeley, Galif. October, 1959

MEET THE MEN WEARING THE TKE PLEDGE .BADGE

Left to right. tirstrow: Bob Reinhardt. Bob Butts. John Diskon. Arohie Swaney,
Sonny RobirJScn. Seoond rOVT: John Lenhart, Jim Seger,Keith MoKeag. Edward Pollaok.
Gar y Dinkins, Jim Kean· and Rufus Crawford.

TWELVE TOP-NOTCH PLEDGES ADDED THIS FALL

TwelveI5Tomis-ing candidates for future membership-were pledged-to-the-Chap

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during formal rush week in September. All are residents of California and two are
from Bay area homes.
They are: Bob Reinhardt '63, Menlo Park; Bob Butts '61, San Jose; John Diskon
'63, Atherton; Archie S waney '6 2, Los Angeles; Sonny Robinson '61, Ventura, and
J:>hn Lenhart '61, Fontana.
Jim Seger )62, San Jose; Keith McKeag '62, Sacramento; Ed Pollack '61, Ontario;
Gary Dinkins '61, Santa Barbara; Jim Kean '62, Oxnard and Rufus Crawford '63, Palo
Alto.
THANKS to all alumni for their r..ecommendations -- your cooperation is appreciat­
ed. Drop by and meet the new pledges.
During the fall semester we will continue to seek prospects and rush them at the
start of the next seme ster. Your recomm endations of men whose matriculation at
Berkeley has just been learned by you will be appreciated.
It is interesting to note that our pledge group COITlpares favorably in terms of
size, with those of the 47 carnpus social fraternities which pledged approximately
517 men or an average of lImen.
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.,COME. join in on Teke fellewship be at theBig Game Eve Party.

Special plans will soon be announced for the 61st Teke Founder's DayBanquet
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that will be held at the Ch�pter House in January. And, keep you social ca.lendar
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open for the monthly alumni meetings. Among those present at the October
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<BUl De Martini, Lafayette; Se th Burdell, 'So.Faidax$ Ivar Petterson, Oaklaad;
Al Nelsen, San Francisco; George Dove '51. Lafayette; Austin Walther, Berkeley; .�
John Bell, San Francisco and John Tilbury, Albany. ,
NEWS FROM YOUR TEKE FRATERS HER� THERE AND EVE.RYWH:ERE

HYour May edition of Nu News impressed me very favorably. Keep up the good
work, It writes HARRY RASlv1USSEN '2.2.. Harry is contract agent attorney in
Fact £�r Standard Oil Co., of California He lives at 1685 Chestnut St., San Fran­
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Living and working in Southern California....DON F. SAMPSEL '51.. Sam is

supervisoT of the mold shop for Owens I lli noi s Glass Co., in Vernon. His home
address is 4410 Los Feliz Blvd., Los Angeles 2.7 • .

ALFRED H. CLi�RK 'Z3 is active in var-ious enterprises: farming, insurance. and

dairying. Among all the various interests Al has time for Rotary,
�d l and live in Soledad. The
Commonwea.1:tn.
E k s . He his wife,. Ellie, address is POBox 6g5�

DANIELB. COSTELLO '51 is a drug sa lesman and medical representative for

Lederle Lab's in San Francisco. Danny, as a-n undergraduate, helped organize
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Danny's hoine address is 101 Fredrick St San Fr

From the East coast we heard from VICTOR V. S CK '49, Vic is with In(lussa
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. -��a 'l'ld:<'C'0a"'¢h tbe-di£:£-e-rnt-at};d- ettc� te'a;m__s�of�ttre_lro'U._s-e__a:_s--wel·ira;s:-pal,ttid"Pati:n�e---..--.·-..:.,
was i�campu$ politics and advised and encouraged othe-r Tekes to run £01' aff( ces
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·C?rpora. tion an ir:'port firm imperting steel and I ire pr?ducts from Belgium,
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, V1C wrltes, HWe miSS theBay area although the E . st has ;ltS share of good
points.H In 1954 he was president of The Junior World Trade Assoc-i:ation
{San Francisco Chamber of Commerce). Vic and his wife, Dorothea (Calif ...
�·lpha Xi De lta) have three sons: Douglas; 5 1/2; Roland, 3; and Peter, 7 months.
The family reside - nce is 39 Four Broeks Road. Sta1l1ford, Conn.

News of Teke servicemen reaches us from far and near: Don Romeo is with 'the
A.rmy in Europe; Ray Young is flying jets for SAC in Washington; John Tilbury,
-J:l".�Js Hamilton
. servi.cemen inc1\l.de Bob Keasbie '-55, who is back at Cal ... the and his Wife reside
statiened in Texas; 10hn Boland is at Field, Ca1i£. Ri=turning

at 2 6 1 -C ollege .rive., B rk el ey ; JerryBlalQck is back in school and he lives at

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DID , YOU KNOW ..... Bill Thompson and Julie- Halsey were marrled in Pi�dmont
last summert, .....Bill Deady left the Bay ii-rea to enroll in the University of
-Nevadq., ••• Ray Love- '55 is nOw attending' Harvard Graduate 'Sch9ol' of Business
Administration ........The San F-rancisco Emporium recently adddd a' whole con­
tingent of Tekes to their staff: Howard Nemir, Carl .anderson, and Dick Schimmel�: •
••• the gr()wingMcPherson Clan (Bill and Gwen) of 873 Estancia, San,Raf?\el,
now includes young son. Scott ....D�. Walt Janssen and Diane of Seal Beach also
thought Scott the right name for their r,ecent addition.u.Bill and Charlott Ru!?s
welcomed a son, Robert, in October_ • .,and a ·new daughter, Jud y , for Roger and
Grace Stansfield" ... Ed and Kris Dermott became parents of a new daughter
last May:. John Bell came down to earth (he's been flying the Hawaiian route
for Pan Am) to associate himself with Dawson's Sporting GoodsStore in San
Francisco. Our rOving Teke reporter (part time) Frank Smith covered the
opening of the Stanford Hospital in Palo.Alto to report that it includes a
"Sophus C.,-Goth Room" that w�s furnished for conference� ••congratulati.ons to
you Soph for an example of non-parthian spirit with that other Bay Area Uriiver­
sity.
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An J:Humnus Personality:
WENDELL R. SPACKMAN '34PROlvllNENT AND BUSY TEKE ALUMNUS

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The esign of the 1960 Olympic Winter Games Facilities at Squaw. Valiey .
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is among the accomplishment of Vvendell R. Spackman '34, a busy Teke alumnus�

l'1ftet his graduation from the University "Weenie" remained on campus�
acting aT a teaching assistant in the architecture department and working on his
master'� degree wlich he received in 1936. .' . .

Frorp 1936 to1938 he was employed by the architectural office of Kent and
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Hass of an Francisco. And rorri then until 19�4 he worked in the a�chite.�tural
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department of the Standard 011 Company of Cahfornla. spendmg the .Last three
years as supervising arch:i.tect. ,
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Fo:!; he last ten years II NeenieH' has been in private practice with Willi<;l.m
Co,:!;lett 'nSan Francis£o. Besides the Squaw Valley project, he has some �oo .
projects to·hios credit, including buildings of the tJnlve'rsity's Radiation L,a bo,rat-:
ory" te�e hone buildings, b'V.Hdings for oil' companies in' Arabia,'' and a variety of
scho.ol" tores,. churches and office 'bUildings., .

. While at the Univ.erst'iy H 'Neenie"'- w�s elected to Phi' Reta Ka:ppa and Tau
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Sigma D lta, the national architectural _honorary society. " ,

His �onors didn't end when he left the University.' however. HWeenie"" was'
elected president of the Northern Calif., Chapter of American Institute of .E..rchi-
__:-t � c.ts _in 15!o57_and....oLthe...i..-B.u lding- I-n4,ustries Conf.�enG- �-oa':t:.d�i-n 1.,% ' � ·i". .......
. year he is serving as president of the State Board of Architectural' Examin�rs"
He and his wife, Lucille, make their home at 27 Sycamore Road, in Orinda,'

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of C ali f ornia for alumni a.nd friends. News and changes of ad d res s showd b�
sent t o Tau Ka p pa Epsi lon, Alumni Recor ds Of fice, Suite 211-213, 2490 Channing
Way, B erkeley 4, Calif. Office'r, Bob Cr abtree '62.'
Alumni Relations
. GRADUATE CHAPTER O FF I ClliS:> : ·PRYTANIS, John Tilbury" 'Albany; EPIPRYTANIS,
Bill DeMartini '50, �faye tte; Crysophylos, Ivar Pe�rson. O a kla nd ; Grammateus,
George Dove 151, Lafayette. UNDERGRADUATE OFFICERS: PRYTANIS, Eric Lindberg 160,
EPIPRYTANIS, Bob La. Liberte 161; CHRYSOPHOLOS: Don Shawl 160; HA GEMMON , T.om
Wilson 161; GRAMMATEUS; Jere Geurnsey 162; HISTOR, -Bob Crabtree 162; HYPOPHETES,
Tom Newell. -61"a.nd Pylortes" De nis Viney 162.