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DELTASIGnificants
Past Grand President Bob Busse Receives
Rotary “Service Above Self” Award
Past Grand President Bob Busse, , was honored with the Service
Above Self Award by the Rotary Club of Atlanta in September.
Brother Busse, 96, served as Delta Sigma Pi’s Grand President from 1953-
55. He was born in East Orange, N.J. After high school, he got a job as
a stock runner making $60 a month and began night school in Newark (a
division that later became part of Rutgers University). Tuition for the semester
was $50, which he didn’t have, but he was able to get a loan for that
amount payable over five years at 2 percent interest.
At Rutgers he was a charter member of Beta Omicron Chapter, installed in
1937. Brother Busse and Doug Clark (who served as chapter president after
Busse) went to Atlanta for their first Grand Chapter Congress in 1936. Busse
recalled they spent five days travelling from New Jersey and camped along
the way, since they only had $200 between them.
In another Deltasig connection, Brother Busse joined Burroughs Adding
Machine Company in 1939 on advice from Charles Staubach, . His
career at Burroughs spanned 36 years and six states, ending in Atlanta. For
two years he was Burroughs’ top salesman in the U.S.
Along the way, he met and married wife Dorothy; they were married for
57 years before she passed away six years ago. They are parents to son
Ronald and daughter Laurie, who joined the Fraternity when she was a
student at Georgia College. “We were the first father-daughter combination
in the Fraternity,” said Busse.
Busse became involved in Special Olympics Georgia in 1973. He served
as the group’s contact with the Ladies Professional Golf Association from
1977-84, raising more than $300,000 to benefit Special Olympics Georgia.
He served on their board from 1986-99, and in 1995 the organization
named their annual golf tournament the “Bob Busse Classic” in his honor. In
its 15 years, the classic has raised over $2.5 million.
Brother Busse joined Rotary in New Jersey 66 years ago, served in seven
different clubs, and joined Atlanta Rotary in 1974. For 35 years, he was
chief consultant to the Atlanta Rotary office.
The Rotary award recognizes his service to his family, his church, his
profession, his community and the Atlanta Club. He was recognized for his
many contributions to Delta Sigma Pi with the 1996 Lifetime Achievement
Award.
: Some information taken from a press release from the
Atlanta Rotary Club
28 MARCH 2010/THE DELTASIG OF DELTA SIGMA PI