NU NEWS

TAU KAPPA EPSILON FRA TERNITY AT TH E UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

VOlume 41, Number 1 Berkeley 4, California February, 1960

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I CARNA TION BALL

i SATURD.AY, APRIL 2nd 9 - 1 a.m.

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A LU lv1NI • • • The Carnation Ball will be held Saturday, April 2nd, in the

Italian Room of the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco. Festivities will start
at 9 p.m .. During the evening Scholarship Awards will be made. The committee
is going all out to make this a big TEKE event. You'll want to attend! The
price is very modest • • • only $ 5,00 per couple. A return reservation envelope
is enchsed for your advance reservation. JOIN IN, you're sure to have a good
time.

CRAPT I!::R ROSTER TO BE INCRE!�SED BY NINE NEW FRATERS

On February 27th, nine new Teke fraters will join the brotherhood. They are:

Bob Butts '61, Fort Ord 8d Pollack '61, Ontario

Gary Code '62, West Covina Jim Seger '62: San Jose
John Lenhart '61, Fontana Russell Stubbings '62, Bakersfield
Bob Reinhardt "63, Menlo Park Arch Swaney '62, Los Angeles
Sonny Robinson '61, Ventura

Alumni will be interested to know that with the addition of these new fraters
that the chapter scroll will reach number 496.

MOTHERS' CLUB CONTINUES TO BE TOPS

Not many fraternities can match the Teke Mothers' Club. They are not only
our staunch supporters but they are a big help. By themselves, they have con­
tributed many worthwhile additions to the furnishings and kitchen equipment,
Their most recent addition is an item that was very much needed - a vacuum
cleaner.
Mrs. Jeannette Sally is president of the group. Her home address is 4468
Ewing Road, Castro Valley,
Heartfelt thanks to the Teke Mothers' Club for the! r continued interest and
loyalty.

NU HAS EXCELLENT REPRESENTATION IN qAMPUS i-!.CTIVITIES /A THLETICS

This school year finds NU represented in many extra-curricular activities,
Bob La Liberte '61, Palo Alto, is the head yell leader. Ray Rasmussen '61,
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NP ACTIVITI.8S!A THLETICS - continued

Alameda, is an IFC oUicer and Jim Seger �62., San Jose is on: Sophomore Class.
Council. Gene Bo17g�s '·59, Sacramento-, is on the Blue and Gold s'taff and � m·ember
of the m'odel United Nations., Gary Code '62, West Covina and Keg Davis '62,
CloVis, are mempers of Gave1 and Quill ..... Keg is seeretary.� Gary serves as
assistant edit.o r. of the Cal Greek. .
Sportswise ••••Frank Sally '60, Castro Valley, received the hondr of being the.
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J\/fost Valuable player on varsity football Other honors he received are ' : Foqtball
Player of the Year by the Norther,n California Sports' Writers ' Associat,ior.l;' Bric,-<
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l\4uller Award for Outstanding Lineman, and honorable mention for All-American,
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Tac.1cl.e'• . Jerry Mann '61, is varsity basketball forward.' Steve.Slauson ·63�'Alameda.
is on the varsity crew and Russell Stubbings '62, Bakersfield, 'is 2nd baseman,,' 1
varsity basebal1�

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has reach.ed the semi ... finals .in tennis,..still going. strong' in 'voUeybail and bowling!!,
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The outlook for, BWi,mming, softball. track and badtnintnn look good.

TWO FRATERS R E'rURN TO SCHOOL AFTER EUROPEAN JAUNT

John Phillips '6l, Los Altos, and John Slaughter '61, Sherman Oak�, 'just re.>
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turned to school from a four months tour of Europe via a Citroen,
The tWQ Johns visited Fr ance, the Low Countries: , Germany, East Germany,
Yugoslavia, Austria" Czechoslovakia, Italy; Spain, England, Tangiers and MorocC;9,1I .'
They report many interesting eX�'eriences and th'e trip high�ights wer-e the celebrat':'
ion of King Mohamad V in :Morocco, :pope Johris t first anniversary in Rome, a.nd the­
Inte. rnatiorial Beer Festival at Munich., They report that East GeJ."manyis a tense :
.situation and that fear seems to be on every face wUh very little �'honest..;to-good­
ness" laughing or smiies. .Every third person is in uniform .. soldie". or policema�(>

FRA TERS GA THE R FOR FOUNDERS .PA Y BANQUET

Alumni and undergraduates joined together to celebrate 'Founde�s Dayan

January 9th. The banquet was held at the chapter house and Bobbie Roberts on and
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Soph Goth wer'e the'inspirq.tional s.peakers.

Some of the alumn�, attending,were: Soph Goth ·tI8� H a'rryRasmussen '22, "
Bo� Ro?_eds,?�' Bill.de Mar.ti.n�·l Geor.ge·DoY'e �5J�.·Joh,n Bolandi.Fred L,W�k'5�, ..
Bill Russ, Tomlyiorgan, I?an C9�telio "Sr,'Ivar Peterson, A�lan NelsontS.5, Bill
Kuhn, Dick ?chirnmel '50,·B.. i11·Dozier ,'59, Don 'BreUner "59� Bill Orum and Don
G r?ma'ux t 5 9,.

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:The Spring -semester started off·with five' neW pledges: Ken Stampp:-t63, El
Cerrito; Rich Cullen '63, Burlingame; .John McCubbin ;62� Fresno; Duncan Cambell
',163. Orinda anrl Jim Singleton·6l, H?-yward. .
, Scholarship . .... - the undergraduate chapter came up 3/lOth of a 'grade point
from last semester.· Jim Seger ·62, San Jose, obtained a 3.2 - interesting to note
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that Jim is on a four year Ford scholarship .. Nominations for scholarShip awards
f170m the 'Alumn,i Association 'and Mothers' Club have been submitted. Each yea:t:
the 'Alumni A ssociation 'pre�ents five scholarship awards and the Mothe rs t Club
pres'ents two,
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IF YOU, ?JDN'T-.'O. :pl�ase.do it nowu�i1l 6utaI).q send in 'YOUl' "Wh'a's Who';;'

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An Alumnus Per-sonality:
Eo ROY HIGGINS '19 COMPTROLLER, PEPARTMENT Olf PUBLIC WORKS

Srnce 19: 31',. Frate·r Higgins has held the position of Comptroller, Dep�t:tmentQ(
Publi'c Works,. State of California. His 'first association with the State. wa,s. in, 1922
when he was an accountant. with the Department of Finance .. in 1928 he became
GhiefAccountant and upward on to his present positon�
RoV's ac , tivities are many and varied his professional affilitations include,
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members-hip in the Advisory Committee to the Uniform Accounting Committee"

and American Association of State Highway Offidals,_ He is also a m,ember o�
the American Legion" Elk"s C�ub" University Club and the Sutter Club. Being an
ardent devo, tee of boating,. he is a m ember of the FOl,"t. Sutter and Sacram.ento
Yacht Cr1i1bs ,.
Civic-wise,:, ,he dev.otes much time to the Boy Scouts. and has been a m.ember C>f
the Executive Board since 1941. He served as president of the Golden Empire-
CounciL�L952 .-He: -is-a'n- a€tiv-epartic-ipa-nt>in- --eomm'l.IDity-we#aTe-p-roiec'tp-'��--lie
'- has been a director of the Sa.€ramento County Communi-ty Chest, SutteT Hospitall�'
Community Advisory Committee, and a director of the United Crus.ade o£ Sacramen�
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, Roy and his wife� Helen (Cal Alpha Gamma DyHa) have a grown son and
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daughter" The home reSidence is 2762 10th Avenur, Sacramento 18.

NEWS �ROM YOUR TEKE FRATERS, HERE, THERE AND £VERYWHE.!\E

Of the Class of '20, DOUGLAS D. STAFFORD writes, HI was happy to read in�h�
NU NEWS of Sophus Goth and Ivar Peterson- they take me back to the old Seq..
uoyah Club and establishment of the T EK.E chapter." Doug is a physician and
suregon in Alameda .. He and his wife, Regina. make their home at 912 Grand St4

EARL W • BOYNTON '56, is a chemical engineer and with Aerojet General Corpor-:-'
ation in Sacramento. �Ea.rl is enjoying batchelorhood and makes his home at 1047
Rodeo Way, Apt. 6, Sacram�nto. He'� active in the Ame1"ican Rocket Society!

qThank you for tracking me down," writes, JOHN A, DIRKS JR, '53. i'A£ter
spending two years hel,"e at Sewanee I spent the summer of '58 in New York work�ng
at Norman Vincent Peale's Psychiatric Clinic. It was there that I m e t ,my wife
who was a nurse .. she came out to California in Jan1J,a.ry a:Q,d we were ma,rried ;n
March. Last sumrn;! r I wo:rke�for the _!3ish9P of Neyada_,�t his s�e:t.,G.amp at
Lake Tahoe. This fall we are once again at Sewanee for my last year, Next June
J: hope to graduate and will in due time be ordained to the Episcopal P;riesthood. I
will be stationed somewhere west of the Cascades in Washington State� Do keep
me on your mailing list, and best regards to all. H Johp:'s current address is
. 8 Woodland�, Sewaneet Tennessee.

LOREN L. RYDER '24, is owner and president o! Ryder Sound Services, Inc" in
Hollywood .. Loren has received the honor of winning an ..A.cademy Oscar for sound
recording and for applicati,Qn of magnetic sound recording p.lus th:ree Motion Picture
Academy plaques for techni�al deVelopments in motion pictures,. An outstanding.
accomplishment of his is Vista Vision. Loren. and his wife, Isabel, live at ,3506 Be;rl"Y
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Drive, North ,Hollywood., Their two da'Ughters are grown and married.

BILL O. LEACHMAN "32:1 repo\rts a change of address .... 210 9 Middleberry Road"
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North Sacra-mento. Bill is owner of Bill Leachman's. Del Paso Heights Lumber
Company .. B-il1�$ other .b u�r�ness inte;rests al."e. sales pl"omotion.,auctioneering.
aPPl"aising<l;nd liquidating.,. He alld his wif�.� Beda.,ha.ve two chHdren" Betty Lou, 10:1
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and W'ilI�am.,i' 5.
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PERCE E. ALLEN 'IS, died at his Clearlake Highlands summer home on July 12.
1959. Perce had been retired two years from Tidewater Associated Oil Company
after 42 liz years of service. A t the time. of his retirement he was vice-president..
He is survived by his widow; Charlotte - 245 }·Aoncada Way, San Francisco.

Another sad note - Diane Oertel writes, "I d�eply regret to tell you that KEN
OERTEL '52, died April 3, 1959, in San Jose after a very brief illness of only two
weeksduration� U Ken at the time of his death. was a designer-engineer with IBM.
HiS widow and three young daughters reside at 3464 Irlanda Wa.y, Sa.n Jose.

HJ!:NRI HA.BENICHT '29.. is assistant director of the Sa.nta Clara County Welfare
Department in San Jose. uHabtt and his wife, Dorothy, have two children, Richard"
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13, and Suzanne. 9. The family hOme is 1651 Shasta Avenue.

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let me know,". George is a feature writer for the Pa,sadena Independent star­
News and head of publicity for the Shrine North-South Football game. He and:his
wife, Beverly, live at 4820 N. Willmonte Ave., Temple City. The family circle
is completed by sons, Edward. 5 l/Z p,nd Stanley, 2 1/2. uGive my best regards
to Soph, George Dove. Bill DeMartini. my big brother Roger Stansfield and all
the rest of the ·old timers', .. you never know when we'll bump heads again. "

.of the Class of '34, CLAYTON E. WARD informs US that he is freight traffic
manager for Southern Pacific Lines in Chicago. "Corky" and his wife. Jane�
live at 411 Fullerton Parkway, Chicago 14, Illinois.
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WENDELL "BUD" JAMISON '52. writes, "Many thanks for the news about fellow
alumni. rve heard from the following Fraters recently.,. Foster Shannon '53. has
finished his clerkship in the ministry and now has his own church in a small Kan­
sas town (Note: our records indicate Foster's address to be .East Side Presbyterian
Church, East Omaha, Ne.braska) .. John Petrie '52 is in South America working in

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a mining"camp in the Andes. Apparently he's a fine good will ambassador and has
been entertained by many the n ative fa milies. His hobby there is grave digging
---pre,. historic only·.... and ha�s rare collectors items a.1ready, (Note: our add­
ress for John is a stateside address - 17,700- Vista A venue, Los-Catos). HAs for
myself, I 'hope to 'enter private practice' next July. when my three years of residency
in obstetrics and gyneco1ogy.a3:e completed. I'm looking-around £01' 'a ��_,�lium __-
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t-�-� ---size town where�my wif�a1so a. -M.tr�;-·-andyear-'oId son would like-to"'-spehd, tKe'- . 0 "l
rest of our lives. The Bay Area ha.s a lot of ahar;m that both of·us enjoy, so. per-
haps we may become Northern Ca,liforians again." WendelPs current address is
4055 F�ont Street, Sa� Diego.

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Office , 2490 Channing Way, Berkeley 4. Alumni Relat ions Officer: David Flippin fSl".
GRADUATE CHAPTER OFFICERS: UNDERGRADUATE OFFICERS .,. C o:rtt:in ued
PRY':l;ANIS: John THbury,Albany REGAMoN: Ray Ra smussen 161, Alameda
EPIPRYTANIS: Bill de Martini too, Laf aye tte CRY SOPHOLOS: DanB aker '62, Arling"-
CRYSOPHYLOS: Ivar Peterson, Oakland ton, V;irginia
GR,AUIMATEUS: George Dove '51, Lafayette HYPOPHETES; De:rmis Vineys '61, Pitta-
UNUill GRA DUATE OF FI CER S: . bur g
PRYTANIS:Paul Clarlmon '60, Menlo Park GRAt\1MATEUS; EtlgeneBor ges '60, Sac-
EPIPRYTANIS: Don Kendall t61, Burlingame ranento
PYLORTES: Tim lIopkins '60 Redwood City
HISTOR: David Flippin t 61,. Stookton