This Saturday was the 3rd annual “Omega Chapter Memorial Golf Tournament”. I played in the inaugural tournament in 2008 but skipped last year’s. Unlike last time, and despite the name of the event, it really wasn’t a tournament at all, but just an annual golf outing. This year we played at Cramerton Mountain Country Club. [...]
On December 6, 1845, Alpha Sigma Phi Fraternity was founded at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. The fraternity established several other chapters over the years, but all except one at Marietta College in Ohio – including the original chapter at Yale – closed by the end of the century. On March 27, 1907, the [...]
On Saturday I played golf for the first time in many many years. I’ve played only three times in the past 10 years, but I don’t think I’ve played a full round of 18 holes since I was a teenager, and I’ve definitely never played in a tournament before. This story begins earlier this year [...]
On Saturday we visited Northport. First we briefly stopped by Northport High School where Patty and I first met. (No, we never dated back then.) Then we had lunch at Shipwreck Diner on Main Street and walked around the docks and Northport Village Park. Our trip to Northport made us a bit late for our [...]
After catching up with a long lost college friend a few weeks ago, I called up another long lost college friend last night. Mike Harding (a.k.a. “Flintstone”) was my fraternity pledge brother in ’91 and an usher at my wedding in ’97 (when I still lived in New York). It’s now been almost four years [...]
It’s been more than a week since my last post. There’s been plenty to blog about but I just haven’t had the time, so I’ll give a brief recap. Darah is doing fine, as are Patty and Maegan too. Every three hours she wakes up hungry, cries until she’s fed, gets her diaper changed, wants [...]
Chapters of Alpha Sigma Phi national fraternity are identified by assigning Greek letter designations in the order by which each chapter was founded. My chapter at SUNY Plattsburgh was designated as the Delta Xi chapter. However there is no school designated as Omega. The reason is that Omega is the final letter in the Greek [...]
Last week I got an unexpected phone call from a representative of Alpha Sigma Phi National Fraternity. A brother Mike Finelli (Bowling Green, class of 2003) said that he would be visiting Charlotte on fraternity business next week and he wanted to schedule time to speak with me about the state of the fraternity and [...]
I just learned the sad news today that a friend and fraternity brother of mine has died tragically. Guy Moran, known to everybody as “Bugsy”, was mountain biking in California and got separated from his group. Although we never attended college at the same time, Bugsy was the reason I became a brother of Alpha [...]
Alpha Sigma Phi National Fraternity is holding it’s bi-annual national convention right here in Charlotte this weekend. Part of the convention featured a minor league baseball game at the Charlotte Knights. Since I’m an Alpha Sig alumnus (Delta Xi ’91), I like baseball, and Knight’s Castle is just a few miles away it was a [...]