August 8 Starts Final Weekend for House Maintenance

It’s August in Texas, what better time to join your alumni and active friends and brothers and put some sweat equity into this summer’s house maintenance? The crew will get started on Friday, August 8 and work through to Sunday. On the to-do list: Parquet floors patching, sanding and finishing Patio stones, laying the base …

Floors In Focus For Summer Work Weekends, May 31, June 28

Preserving and protecting the parquet floor will be the focus for the first work weekend, beginning this Friday afternoon May 30 and concluding Sunday. Brother Sparks has led this effort and will manage the work. Regarding the floors he writes, “This will be, and should be for all of us given proper future maintenance, the …

UPDATE: Alumni Weekend 2014 To Take Place April 5th

UPDATE: Planning your Alumni Weekend 2014 Saturday, April 5th 8:30am: coffee and donuts 10:30am:  active/alumni meeting 11:30am: meet the Spring class Noon-2pm: catered BBQ lunch 2pm: softball (location: Round Rock Memorial Field) 7pm: reservations for up to 45 at Walburg Restaurant 10:30pm: back at the House After that, it’s up to you… Sunday, April 6th …

Pictures and News from Spring 2013 Alumni Weekend

Weekend highlights: A great turnout this year. It was a big surprise. Jeff Allen told the story of the first alumni weekend 40 years ago – way cool and worth retelling. Chapter news: Iota Chapter scholarship report ranks them number one among all fraternities and above the all men’s average. Great work actives! House: The …

Ben Aderholt Recognized as Outstanding Adjunct from the University of Houston-Downtown

This news item, like so many, comes from Brother David Wilson, who came across an article about Brother Ben Aderholt in the Texas Bar Journal: Ben L. Aderholt, a member in Looper, Reed & McGraw, P.C., received the 2012 Outstanding Adjunct Faculty Award from the University of Houston-Downtown.  Aderholt has taught a commercial law course …

Alumni Weekend Schedule

As promised, here’s the schedule of events of this weekend, Iota’s 39th Alumni Weekend. Friday, March 30: 7:00 p.m. – late:  Alumni and Guests Welcome Gathering at the House Saturday, March 31: 11:00 a.m.: EC Meeting of Active and Alumni 12:00 p.m.:  Lunch 12:30 p.m. General Meeting 1:30 -4:00 p.m.:  Softball Game (played again this …

Thomas Randall (“Randy”) Lankford dies at 69

We are saddened to report the passing of Brother Randy Lankford this past Saturday, February 18th, in Galveston, Texas. As reported in the Galveston Daily News, a Memorial Celebration of Life will be held from 2:00 pm until 5:00 pm Saturday, February 25, 2012 at his residence in Galveston. You can find Randy’s full obituary, …

Brother Larry Rydell dies at 75

Brother Larry Rydell, a lifelong resident of Williamson County, died today at the age of 75. Larry was a 1960 graduate of Southwestern. Visitation will be Friday, February 10th from 6:00 P.M. to 8:00 P.M. at Providence Funeral Home in Taylor.  Memorial services will be held Saturday, February 11th at 3:00 P.M. at Hutto Lutheran Church …

A plea from struggling Actives

Greetings Iota Brothers, We are Douglas Thayer and Stephen Brown, Iota Fall ’10 pledge class, and we’d like to help you with your next technical project. We’re both artistically as well as very technically inclined: Stephen is a third year computer science major with a background in software development and web-design, and Douglas (a senior) …

Roger Edward Davidson, 1926 – 2011

We learned this week of the recent passing of Brother Roger Davidson. Roger was well known and loved by brothers of every generation. Brother Alan Haworth reflected, “I remember, Roger came down in the summer of ’07 and helped us paint the house. I think he was 83 at the time. Flew down from Colorado to …

Update: 125th Weekend Packages & Costs

Brothers, I hope this letter finds you well on this October 12, 2011, the 125th birthday of The Iota Chapter of Kappa Sigma. We have a grand celebration planned for the weekend of November 4-6. We are getting concerns and complaints that Iota’s Celebration is too expensive. We are adding two categories to the registration …

A call to all the brothers of Iota to pony up for the remodel of our old House

From Brother Joe Abel: This is a call to all the brothers of Iota to pony up for the remodel of our old House. We are going to redo the Head, Kitchen, replace the Main Doors south and North, repair all the other exterior doors, replace some of the room doors upstairs, do some electrical …

Stage 1 of House Renovation: Demolition Weekend, May 21st

Iota Alumni News interviewed Brother Erik Harpst by email: What’s the tear down all about? “We will completely remodel the kitchen and upstairs bathroom among other things. We need all the hands that we can possibly get. All composites and historical items will be removed from the house and put in climate controlled storage. This …

Reminder: Alumni Weekend, April 15-17

UPDATE 4/15: Weekend Schedule Friday Night: House is open for alumni & guests. No formal activities. Saturday: 10:00 AM: Welcome – enjoy coffee & donuts at the House 11:00 AM: Alumni / Active Meeting, planning for Iota’s 125th, house improvements, state of the chapter, report from the alumni association Noon: Lunch – please plan on …

Announcing the 125 Year Anniversay Celebration of Iota Chapter

We have the privilege and honor to officially announce the 125th Anniversary Celebration for the Iota Chapter of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity. The celebration will take place during the weekend of November 4-6, 2011 on the campus of Southwestern University in conjunction with the SU Homecoming festivities. We have a full schedule of events planned, …