The Sigma Chi Bond Spans the Generations
Age is Just a Number when It Comes to Sigma Chi Brotherhood

Buck and His Buttons
By David Fleming '90
From the Miamian, Winter 2010

I once tossed a football around with former RedHawk quarterback Ben Roethlisberger while standing atop the Swiss Alps peak of Jungfraujoch where – no pressure or anything – an incomplete pass from the Steelers' two-time Super Bowl champion would have fallen into a glacier 22 kilometers long. Last spring, during Miami's ultimately heartbreaking run to the NCAA hockey finals, I had a nice, long chat in a hallway below the United Center with RedHawk center Justin Mercier about – what else? – Green Beer Day. And this past summer, after a minicamp practice in Baltimore, Ravens coach and Miami graduate John Harbaugh and I spent most of our time reminiscing about Mother Miami instead of talking about the upcoming NFL season.

Yet it was a skinny, silver-haired, 85-year-old fraternity brother of mine, with a proclivity for plaid golf slacks, who taught me the real depth and power of the connection we all have to Miami.

In 2006 my wife, Kim, and I moved to the quaint little college town of Davidson, N.C., with its campus of shady slant walks and red-brick buildings. Soon after, Sigma Chi's newsletter mentioned our move and the release of my first book, Noah's Rainbow. Reading this, Robert "Buck" Jones '43, another Davidson resident, did something unheard of in our era of texts and tweets: he dialed our number and said hello.

"I believe we're fraternity brothers," he said, failing to mention our pledge classes were 48 years apart.

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Class of 1992 Reunion
A significant group of Sigs (classes of 91-93) gathered in Oxford from January 29-31st to celebrate:  our lasting friendships; the best college hockey team in America, and 20 years since “skating” through pledge ship.  Needless to say, the weekend unleashed a torrent of great memories and created several new ones.  We’d like to think we are in the same shape as 1992 and have the same amount of hair (just not parted in the middle) but the impression we made on campus was aptly summed up by a student we overheard talking to her friends at Top Deck, “it must be Sigma Chi Dad’s weekend.”
 
A special part of our weekend was the Friday evening gathering at the Chapter House.  Although the room designs have changed (no one could direct me to 3 rights, left, left), fortunately, not much else has---in particular, the active brotherhood.  We were greeted by a terrific group of guys eager to share their Sigma Chi experience.  We were relieved to learn the best of our traditions live on but one thing is quite different---they actually exceed the all man’s grade point average.  We want to thank the active chapter for their hospitality and for indulging us in our story-telling.  This is a group that is worthy of our support, financial and otherwise.

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Alpha EX Pledge List 2010 and Legacy Info

1.    Rex Anderson        Youngstown, OH
2.    Liam Byrne        Chicago, IL
3.    Brian Dougherty    Kettering, OH
4.    Taylor Hedric        Cincinnati, OH
              Craig Hedric (Father) – Alpha Chapter 1983, Darrell Hedric (Grandfather) – Alpha Chapter 1955,
5.    Brett Hoffman        Columbus, OH
              Dave Hoffman (Father) - Illinois




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