The classes of 1955 and 1956, who were initiated in 1952 and 1953, will be the honored guests at the Fraternal ’50s ceremonies to be held in Oxford, Ohio, at the Beta Theta Pi National Headquarters during the weekend of June 21-23, 2002. This special weekend reunion schedule will be as follows: Friday, 21 6 p.m. Register […]
Theta Data – March 2002 Edition
March 1, 2002 by Leave a Comment
The Theta Data – March 2002 edition is now available!
Richard A. Colver ’58
February 13, 2002 by Leave a Comment
Richard A. Colver ’58, of 57046 Hummingbird Ct., Goshen, IN 46528, died on January 20, 2001. His wife informed us that he passed away only a few days after a successful mitral valve replacement.
Ron Pettegrew ’56
February 13, 2002 by Leave a Comment
Ron Pettegrew ’56, originally from Upper Arlington and most recently living in Denver, Colo., died May 18, 2001, after a short illness following the discovery of severe complications from prostate cancer. Upon notifying us of his death, Ron’s son Parke wrote “… my father cherished his memories with his fraternity brothers and spoke warmly of the 1994 reunion you […]
Charles L. “Johnny” Ecker ’56
February 13, 2002 by Leave a Comment
Charles L. “Johnny” Ecker ’56, died May 13, 2001, after a long illness. He was a dear classmate of the editor as both pledged in 1952 and graduated from OWU in 1956. “Charlie” was one of the Ohio River boys from Gallipolis (along with Halliday, Thomas and Dailey), who found their way to Delaware in the 1950s. […]
Jim Graham ’51
February 13, 2002 by Leave a Comment
Jim Graham ’51 died in a one-car auto accident on May 20, 2001. The accident occurred in Montana only a few miles from the site of an accident that took the life of his son, Ben, 16 years earlier. Jim had spent that day at The Ben, one of two golf tournaments held each year in memory of this […]
Thomas Orr Jr. ’48
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Thomas Orr Jr. ’48, of 1069 Dean St., Schenectady, NY 12309, died on December 22, 2000. He was a retired pastor.
Richard A. Gregg ’45
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Richard A. Gregg ’45, of 6979 Winkler Rd., #322, Fort Myers, FL, 33919, passed away on August 12, 2001. As reported by his wife, Lucile, he was a 50-year member of Beta Theta Pi. He graduated from OWU in 1947 after service with the U.S. Navy in World War II. Besides Lucile, Richard is survived by a […]
John F. Mansfield ’40
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John F. Mansfield ’40, of 1449 Tewksbury Cir., Cuyahoga Falls, OH, 44221, died of a heart attack on April 29, 2000.
William J. West ’39
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William J. West ’39, of 865 Lincoln Wood Ct., Dayton, OH, 45429, died on May 11, 2001. He was a captain in the Army Medical Corps in charge of the Polio Surgical and Rehabilitative Center at the Army-Navy Hospital in Hot Springs, Ark. He practiced general medicine for four years before starting his orthopedic surgical practice in 1955 and founding […]
