1993 Volume 116 No 1–4 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

Alumni Notes
Missouri Beta's class of '78 holds reunion
fter 15 years, 19 members of
luri Beta's dass of '78
returned to Westminster College to
relive old memories at the College's
armual Alumni Weekend. The event
was held April 23-25 and drew
brothers from 10 states.
The returning classmates were
joined by wives, friends, and other
Phi alumni at the Fulton Country
Qub where a billboard-size enlargement
of a 1974 chapter portrait was
unveiled.
Event organizer, Steve Calabria,
urged alumni to assist their loccd
MO Beta's class of '78 with friends
undergraduate chapters. Calabria is
Texas Omicron's chapter adviser.
Other attendees induded Art
Hoge, a '78 Westminster graduate
and dean of the Leadership College;
Lorene Payne, Missouri Beta's house
mother of 20 years; and Rosie Gillett,
the chapter chef for 25 years. •
Virginia Beta
celebrates 120
rirginia Beta alumni will be
returning to Charlottesville,
November 5 - 7 to celebrate the
chapter's 120* birthday.
The main event will be a ditmer/
dance at the Boar's Head Inn. Tickets
for a Wake Forest football game and
accommodations for the weekend
have been arranged. Alumni should
call Peter Stout at 804/973-5014 or
Hany Marshall at 202/514-0018. •
I Footnotes
j James L. "Skip" Rutherford, Arkansas
"72, was named senior vice
president and diredor of pubfic
policy at Cranford Johnson Robinson
Woods, Arkansas' largest communications
and marketing firm.
Rutherford was a senior member of
the Bill Clinton campaign staff and
the transition team where he served
as spedal assistcint to Mack McLarty,
White House chief of staff. From 1979
to 1984, Rutherford was administrative
assistant to VS. Seruitor David
Pryor. "I have had the distind
privilege of working for David Pryor,
Mack McLarty, and BUI Clinton. I'm
now privileged to join the fine team
at CJRW," he said. "My family and I
are exdted about being part of our
state's future."
WiQiam Ireland, Auburn '79, retired
vice president of Vulcan Materials
Co., received Aubum University's
123"* honorary degree in March. The
Birmingham, Alabama, philanthropist
has supported Auburn's wildlife
and fisheries programs. He has
served on the board of Big Brothers
& Big Sisters of Greater Birmingham,
Boy Scouts of America, and the
Alabama Wildlife Foundation. He
also played a key role in Auburn's
recent $67 million capital campaign.
Thomas C. Eakin, Denison '56,
Skip Rutherford
Gilbert Smith
founder and president of the Ohio
Baseball HaU of Fame, was induded
into the Cy Young Tuscarawas
County Oldtimers Baseball Assodation
Hall of Fame for his outstanding
\ contributions to Tuscarawas County
j baseball. In 1992, he ^vas induded
j into the American Athletic Assoda-
' tionof the Deaf Hall of Fame as an
I honorary member for his contributions
to the hearing impaired.
• Fred Ropkey, DePauw "77, hcis the
I largest private collection of tanks in
i the United States. He has been
collecting historical military equipment
for most of his life. Some of his
! restored equipment has appecired in
I motion pictures and veteran's
I parades and shows, eaming worldj
wide recognition for his collection.
j Glen P. Taylor, DePauw'71, has
j been elected president of the
International Order of the Golden
• Rule, an assodation that serves
I nearly 1,500 privately-owned funeral
homes around the world. Taylor
Ralph Gilbert
Michael Lewis
1 owns the Owensboro, Kentucky,
i funeral home that has been in his
I family for four generations.
I Richard L Robinson, Eastern
Kentucky'80, legislative director for
U.S. Congressman Jim Buiming of
I Kentucky and assodate staff member
to the House Ways & Means Com-
I mittee, joined the law firm of
Graydon, Head & Ritchie in February.
Gilbert P. Smith, Florida State '59,
\vas named EVP and president of the
U.S. division of Helene Curtis
j Industries, a Fortune 500 company
' and leader in the hair care industry.
Ceirlos D. Greenway, Georgia '49, a
j landscape archited in Alma, Georgia,
was recentiy named Bacon County
j Qtizen of the Year for his dedication
j to the conununity and his involve-
I ment with the University of Georgia.
Geoff Paddock, Indiana '78, was
I named executive diredor of the
I Headwaters Park Conmussion in
I Indiana.
108 The ScroU * Summer 1993