More Info About All ’60s Reunion June 2009

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Brothers, what has happened to your wingmen? Come to Reno and see the ones who can still fog a mirror! The big TC party will be at Steve Brennan’s house on Saturday, June 27th. We are reserving a block of rooms at a hotel from Thursday 6/25 through Saturday 6/27. The hotel is just a short walk to Brennan’s house overlooking the Truckee River in Reno.

Reno is hosting Brewfest that weekend. You can buy a bottomless mug for a few bucks – and refill it with suds from micro-breweries.

More details later. For now mark your calendars, and pass the word to brothers who were actives in the SJSC house during the 1960’s. Please register your interest in participation by calling Ron Smith at (775) 230-0642 or emailing him at smithistry(at)aol(dot)com.

Homecoming ’08 Tailgate; Summary and Pics

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The Theta Chi 2008 Homecoming tailgate was a huge success, with over 50 paid attendees and dozens more alumni stopping by just to hang out for a bit. We had guys from all eras enjoying each other’s company (along with the beer provided by brother Dave Coburn and professionally made-to-order tacos) before heading in to enjoy San Jose State’s pounding of Utah State. Here’s a few pictures to save me from typing thousands of words. (The only pics I have so far are totally 90’s centric, so if you were there and got pictures of the 60s, 70s, or 80s guys that were in attendance, send ’em to me at gregbarr23@yahoo.com.)

The chapter sold over 60 of the awesome blue and yellow shirts you see in lots of these pictures. A preview of the artwork is shown here. The shirts will soon be available as appreciation gifts for alumni that contribute to the 2009 capital campaign.

Late 60’s Reunion in June 2008

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There is a reunion in the works for brothers who pledged Gamma Xi from ’64 to ’69 It will be at Steve Brennan’s place in Reno, Nevada in June 2009. Anyone from those years that’s interested in attending should comment below and/or contact Ron Smith at a special address I set up to forward to him: ron.smith@thetachisjsu.com.

Homecoming is 10/11

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I hope you’ve got a circle around Saturday 10/11 for SJSU Homecoming. In addition to being a hell of a fun day, it’s an important one: the morning of the game is the annual alumni board meeting and elections. We have a good group of guys working hard right now, but need to bring in some fresh blood for new ideas and to share the workload, etc.

Please do your best to join us, and if you have any questions, let me know.

Here’s the agenda:
9:00 to 11:00 — Alumni board meeting at the chapter house
11:00 to 12:00 — Open house at the chapter house
12:00 to 4:30 — Alumni tailgate by the Stadium
4:30 to 8:00 — Football game vs. Utah State

T-Shirt Design

Blog Moving Right Along

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Man, wordpress makes this SO easy! I integrated a Google-powered search function that spans all posts, pages and even PDFs. I set up categories for each decade, so “where are they now” profiles and information about little get-togethers will be organized and easy to find.

The first big project is to post those ‘where are they now’ information that people submitted with their capital campaign contributions. We had the best of intentions to get a printed newsletter out, but this is a far more cost-effective and far-reaching medium. I made one about myself to give you a sense of what they’ll be like. People can share as much or as little info as they want.

I’m also going to send a notice about this new site to the Yahoo! Group, and encourage people to submit info and check the site out. I am confident that this new site will be a powerful tool in helping to establish communications with and build brotherhood among the alumni (and hopefully actives) of Gamma Xi.

Please fill out the comments field below to let me know where you’d like to see this site go in terms of content, functionality, etc.

New Site/Blog

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This is the new web site of Theta Chi Gamma Xi’s alumni board and housing corporation. It’s based on the popular open source WordPress blogging software so it’ll be easy for a number of board members and even undergrads to contribute to the content, and for you as alumni to comment and contribute and provide feedback.