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News and announcements below
Taus serving in harm's way in the US Armed Services:
Other alumni on active duty or recently active duty with the military, but NOT currently deployed to Afghanistan or Iraq:
- Captain André Cunningham (1998) is stationed with the Africa Command in Stuttgard, Germany. André has served in both Iraq and Afghanistan since hostilities began
- Sergeant David Humfleet (2003) is stationed at Fort Meade, MD.
- Captain George H. Johnson III (2000) of the US Army Chemical Corps after three deployments to the middle-east since 9/11 (Qatar, Afghanistan, and Iraq) has taken over leadership of the ROTC department at the Pittsburgh State University in Pittsburgh, KS. This posting should keep him out of the deployment cycle for another year or so.
- Sergeant Tricia Roll (2002) of the US Army Reserve has been deployed to Iraq twice since graduating from Ripon.
- LT. Matt Woodard (04) is an active member of the armed services stationed in El Paso, TX. We do not know if he has been recently deployed or not.
News and announcements!
- ° Website Updates {25-MAY-2011}
- Congratulations to our graduates! And a warm welcome to alumni status!
- The new Officers of the House have been listed .
- A number of member pages were updated.
- The Family Trees have been updated.
- The most recent three pledge songs were added to θσ-τunes.
- ° Website Updates {12-APR-2011}
- A warm welcome to the thirteen new actives!
- A couple member pages were updated.
- ° Website Updates {2-FEB-2011}
- A warm welcome to the fifteen people who have decided to pledge the House this spring!
- The Centennial Reunion went very well. Well over 100 alumni, spouses, and friends of the House shared in the festivities. The graduation years of the alumni in attendance ran from 1987 - 2013. President and Mrs. Joyce also joined us for cocktails. There were drinks, an excellent dinner, dancing, visiting and an excellent time was had by all. Pictures will be posted soon (hopefully before the one year anniversary!) at the Reunion page.
- A couple member pages were updated.
- ° Website Updates {1-JAN-2011}
- Many apologies for the tremendous delay in news of updates. Updates should occur with greater frequency again. We can only attribute it to post-Centennial malaise.
- The Centennial Reunion went very well. Well over 100 alumni, spouses, and friends of the House shared in the festivities. The graduation years of the alumni in attendance ran from 1987 - 2013. President and Mrs. Joyce also joined us for cocktails. There were drinks, an excellent dinner, dancing, visiting and an excellent time was had by all. Pictures will be posted soon (hopefully before the one year anniversary!) at the Reunion page.
- A couple member pages were updated and several deaths were recorded.
- A slight editing change has been made to all pages to change the name of the audio-related pages on the site from "Tau-Ster" or "τ-Tunes" to "θσ-τunes." The first term was considered badly dated and the second was considered to be a little hard to interpret.
- ° Website Updates {19-MAR-2010}
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- The Centennial Reunion RSVPs continue to roll in! We're up to eighteen confirmed attendees, including President and Mrs Joyce! Don't forget that we've set up a Google documents page that will allow you to see Who's Coming. It's organized by class year to make it easier for you to find your classmates.
- Several pledge songs were added to the Pledge Songs page. This page is now up to date.
- A podcast was added to the new Other Audio page. This podcast is from the Ripon College website and features a talk by Thomas Ashley-Farrand (1962).
- A couple member pages were updated.
- A couple new non-executive officers have been added to the Alumni Association.
- A slight editing change has been made to all pages to change the name of the audio-related pages on the site from "Tau-Ster" or "τ-Tunes" to "θσ-τunes." The first term was considered badly dated and the second was considered to be a little hard to interpret.
- ° Website Updates {6-FEB-2010}
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- The Centennial Reunion RSVPs have begun to roll in! Less than a dozen so far, but it's a start! Don't forget that we've set up a Google documents page that will allow you to see Who's Coming. It's organized by class year to make it easier for you to find your classmates.
- A new page was added to the Centennial page about Alumni Weekend
- Welcome to all twelve pledges (we had a late addition to the pledge class)!
- Sadly, two of our brothers, James Bronson (1954) and William Steaffens (1950) passed away in the past year.
- ° Website Updates {1-FEB-2010}
- ° Website Updates {22-JAN-2010}
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- The Centennial page has been updated as has the Centennial Reunion page. This latter page now contains much more comprehensive information, paralleling that found in the invitations. There is also a link on this page to an RSVP page that permits you to pay for the evening online!
- New officer positions have been filled.
- Pref party and pledge party are this weekend. Expect a new list of pledges to appear soon!
- ° Website Updates {23-DEC-2009}
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- MERRY CHRISTMAS!, HAPPY {belated} Hanukkah, SUPER SOLSTICE & SATURNALIA, and CHEERY KWANZAA. Sorry if we missed anyone!
- The latest of the Alumni Newsletters is available on the newsletters page. Four pages of news, quotes, and pictures.
- The Centennial Committee has completed deliberations about the menu for the Centennial, the commemorative glasses, and is now working on appetizers, music, decor, and the invite list. Things are rolling along!
- Sergeant Tricia Roll will be coming home very soon from Iraq.
- ° Website Updates {16-NOV-2009}
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- Seven pledges activated this semester. Welcome to Nathan, Caitlin, Mandy, Lucas, Katrina, Rachel, and Vicki!
- One student was inducted as an Honorary this semester. Welcome to Michelle.
- Welcome to Clint McCully (1969), who recently found the website and got in touch! Great to have you back!
- The Centennial Reunion Committee has been working on designing the two glasses that will be used to commemorate the event. The Committee has also begun to discuss the menu options.
- With the permission of the House we have obtained most of the House photo albums and will be scanning many of the pictures we don't yet have scanned.
- Thanks to Rachel Tennyson, one of our newest members, we have had a number of Crimson's added to the Alumni Association collection. We will scan portions of these, as well, to add to the Crimson pages and to individual's pages.
- As another step in making the site more complete, we are considering making an archive of the Activation stories. This archive would not be available or accessible by many: perhaps the President of the House and the Historian. But recording the stories for the sake of posterity would be a good thing since many older ones are no longer told and many of the details get fuzzy over the years.
- Thanks go out to recent donors to the House, Alumni Association, and Centennial Reunion. Thanks to Bruce Davis, Bryan Kuhn, and Cat Wood.
- ° Website Updates {20-SEP-2009}
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- The house has six pledges for the Fall pledging period. Welcome to Nathan, Caitlin, Mandy, Lucas, Katrina, and Rachel! Good luck with pledging and we hope to be able to welcome you to the house later this term!
- The dates for live-in, activation, and Halloween are not yet set in stone. The plan for Halloween is Friday, October 30, but that's not official yet.
- The Centennial Reunion Committee has been quiet of late, but is gearing up to get the planning and organization for our Reunion Dinner taken care of. The Centennial Reunion Dinner will be June 27, 2010, a Sunday, in Oshkosh, WI. That's the Sunday of Alumni Weekend 2010, so go to alumni weekend and cap it off with our reunion!
- A few other minor updates here and there on the site have taken place.
- ° Website Updates {5-JUN-2009}
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- As a result of the Centennial "save-the-date" mailing, several alumni have gotten in touch. These include:
- Robert Hess (1952), who sent a couple of home DVDs from the 2007 Alumni Weekend where he reconnected with a few old friends. Robert has corresponded with Plenz several times and is a wealth of information about his time at Ripon.
- Ken Luber (1960), who intends to try to make it to the Reunion dinner and also let us know about the book he just published, Match to the Heart.
- Lawrence TeSelle (1949), who sent us a package with several alumni newsletters that date from just after World War II until 1949, a dance card from one of Theta Sigma Tau's annual Barn Dances, several group shots of members of the House, and his certificate of membership! The newsletters have been scanned and posted to the Newsletters page of this site. The other items will be scanned and posted soon.
- The Members' Websites page has been updated to eliminate some link rot and to add a couple new items.
- A new exploder was created and populated with the addresses of actives and alumni living in the greater Milwaukee area (and anyone who lives close enough to take an interest) to make regional announcements and activity organizing easier than ever. If alumni and actives in other regions would like to have an exploder created for their area, simply contact Plenz
- A few other minor updates here and there on the site have taken place.
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