2011 REUNION
April 9, 2011: Reunion at the BL Teke house!
Fraters and current BL Fraters kneeling (Carlos Perry, Ben McWilliams, Branden Digan, Mark Rapp, and Tom Houston)
After over forty years, we had our major reunion back at the Teke house, on the Auburn campus! This was a once in a lifetime event, and everyone had a great time. The only problem was that there was far too little time to really spend much time with our old fraternity brothers. All together, 42 Fraters and 28 wives showed up.
We are grateful that the current BL Fraters went to a lot of trouble to prepare for our event...and we give thanks to the current Prytanis Carlos Perry. Special recognition goes to Mark Rapp (the current Histor), who greatly helped coordinate things for a couple of months, and also to Tom Houston, who helped with a lot of the photography.
Activities started the Friday night before, and about thirty folks gathered in the Hotel at Auburn lobby. We split up into about four smaller groups and all walked to Toomer’s Corner and had dinner in one of the local restaurants.
Saturday morning, many of us took a tour of the Auburn campus. Much has changed in the last four decades! Frater Gary Webb, who works for the university, gave us the tour, while Sam Momary drove the tour van. The tour started at the site of the old Teke house...now long gone.
Saturday from 1 pm to 5 pm we all gathered at the Teke house. The first couple of hours we spent reminiscing amongst ourselves and the current BL Fraters. Everyone checked out their old rooms and the rest of the house. The house itself has been remodeled from what many of us remembered it long ago.
Then we had a “chapter meeting”, and everyone gathered in the dining room / party area. Our most senior Prytanis in attendance, Jim Dunlap, gave an excellent welcoming talk, emphasizing how we all worked hard to build and outfit our new fraternity house in 1966, and how as a chapter we set new standards for float competitions and much more. All of us benefitted by working as a team and developing lifelong attributes because of our Teke heritage.
We gave the local chapter some Teke memorabilia, then presented Benny Bliss of the Board of Advisors a cash donation of over $2,000. Benny gave us an update on the state of the chapter.
Next we had a viewing of the “Teke Movie”, followed by our group pictures in the front of the Teke house.
That night about fifty of us gathered in the fine restaurant at the hotel, and had a fabulous dinner. Many of us stayed in the back dining room reminiscing until midnight.
Sunday we all left to return home...a great weekend, that went by very fast.
Here is the Frater and wife attendance list:
Danny and Jill Bailey
David and Sandra Bell
Benny Bliss
Ed Bonieski
Pat and Carol Burkholder
Nick Carbone
Bob and Lisa Creel
Mark and Jennie Dobbins
Tom and Becky Dollman
Jim Dunlap
Tom Dunlap
Jim and Cheryl Dykes (sadly, Jim died four months later)
Dave Edwards
Paul and Pam Ellen
Bill and Nancy Futch
Mike and Ann George
Jody and Susan Haley
Tommy Hardy
Tommy and Pam Harper
Tommy and Donna Hebson
Carl and Debbie Jones
Larry and Shirley Le Croy
John and Emily McGiboney
Gordon and Susan Mills
Sam Momary
Mike Nix
Dave Nordness
Lewis Page
Tommy and Leslie Parham
David Phillips
Marshall Phillips
Luke Prescott
Brad and Donna Pruden
Dave and Katherine Rees
Ovid and Brad (son) Ricketson
Tommy and Gail Sawyer
John Self
Bruce and Ok Su Sprague
Bo and Kat Tucker
Gary and Marcia Webb
Sam and Janice Wester
Pam White (J.C. White’s wife)
Frank and Debi Wingate
Video of the Reunion:
After over forty years, we had our major reunion back at the Teke house, on the Auburn campus! This was a once in a lifetime event, and everyone had a great time. The only problem was that there was far too little time to really spend much time with our old fraternity brothers. All together, 42 Fraters and 28 wives showed up.
We are grateful that the current BL Fraters went to a lot of trouble to prepare for our event...and we give thanks to the current Prytanis Carlos Perry. Special recognition goes to Mark Rapp (the current Histor), who greatly helped coordinate things for a couple of months, and also to Tom Houston, who helped with a lot of the photography.
Activities started the Friday night before, and about thirty folks gathered in the Hotel at Auburn lobby. We split up into about four smaller groups and all walked to Toomer’s Corner and had dinner in one of the local restaurants.
Saturday morning, many of us took a tour of the Auburn campus. Much has changed in the last four decades! Frater Gary Webb, who works for the university, gave us the tour, while Sam Momary drove the tour van. The tour started at the site of the old Teke house...now long gone.
Saturday from 1 pm to 5 pm we all gathered at the Teke house. The first couple of hours we spent reminiscing amongst ourselves and the current BL Fraters. Everyone checked out their old rooms and the rest of the house. The house itself has been remodeled from what many of us remembered it long ago.
Then we had a “chapter meeting”, and everyone gathered in the dining room / party area. Our most senior Prytanis in attendance, Jim Dunlap, gave an excellent welcoming talk, emphasizing how we all worked hard to build and outfit our new fraternity house in 1966, and how as a chapter we set new standards for float competitions and much more. All of us benefitted by working as a team and developing lifelong attributes because of our Teke heritage.
We gave the local chapter some Teke memorabilia, then presented Benny Bliss of the Board of Advisors a cash donation of over $2,000. Benny gave us an update on the state of the chapter.
Next we had a viewing of the “Teke Movie”, followed by our group pictures in the front of the Teke house.
That night about fifty of us gathered in the fine restaurant at the hotel, and had a fabulous dinner. Many of us stayed in the back dining room reminiscing until midnight.
Sunday we all left to return home...a great weekend, that went by very fast.
Here is the Frater and wife attendance list:
Danny and Jill Bailey
David and Sandra Bell
Benny Bliss
Ed Bonieski
Pat and Carol Burkholder
Nick Carbone
Bob and Lisa Creel
Mark and Jennie Dobbins
Tom and Becky Dollman
Jim Dunlap
Tom Dunlap
Jim and Cheryl Dykes (sadly, Jim died four months later)
Dave Edwards
Paul and Pam Ellen
Bill and Nancy Futch
Mike and Ann George
Jody and Susan Haley
Tommy Hardy
Tommy and Pam Harper
Tommy and Donna Hebson
Carl and Debbie Jones
Larry and Shirley Le Croy
John and Emily McGiboney
Gordon and Susan Mills
Sam Momary
Mike Nix
Dave Nordness
Lewis Page
Tommy and Leslie Parham
David Phillips
Marshall Phillips
Luke Prescott
Brad and Donna Pruden
Dave and Katherine Rees
Ovid and Brad (son) Ricketson
Tommy and Gail Sawyer
John Self
Bruce and Ok Su Sprague
Bo and Kat Tucker
Gary and Marcia Webb
Sam and Janice Wester
Pam White (J.C. White’s wife)
Frank and Debi Wingate
Video of the Reunion:
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