Executive Officers - Spring 2016
Billy Mayer | Consul (President) | billy-mayer@utulsa.edu
Ray Fitzgerald | Pro-Consul (Vice President) | therayfitzgerald@gmail.com
Wyatt Evans | Quaestor (Treasurer) | wbevans55@gmail.com
Richard Song | Magister (Pledge Educator) | rsong@smu.edu
Jon Jones | Annotator | jonesjonathan784@gmail.com
Zac Losconcy | Rush Chair | zdl742@utulsa.edu
Riley Young | Risk Manager | rfy063@utulsa.edu
Ray Fitzgerald | Pro-Consul (Vice President) | therayfitzgerald@gmail.com
Wyatt Evans | Quaestor (Treasurer) | wbevans55@gmail.com
Richard Song | Magister (Pledge Educator) | rsong@smu.edu
Jon Jones | Annotator | jonesjonathan784@gmail.com
Zac Losconcy | Rush Chair | zdl742@utulsa.edu
Riley Young | Risk Manager | rfy063@utulsa.edu
Active Brothers - Spring 2016
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Ahmed Lavenue
Alex Crook Billy Mayer Brian Flake Brian On Chris Norman Christoff Orr Dakota Baldridge Dan Trost Dave Doherty Dennan Wheeler Dominic Vella Jeremy Sabo |
Kevin Schilling
Kody Hicks Korbin Gage Lance Buttry Matt Webber Mike Collett Nabeel Hefzi Neima Seirafipour Nixon Brooks Ray Fitzgerald Richard Song Riley Young Rod Sanchez |
Ryan Bray
Sam Kemper Sikandar Batra Simon Bower Spencer Hartwig Terrence Brown Thomas Adams Thomas Taggart Tom Wilmes Wyatt Evans Zac Losoncy |
The Founding of Delta Omega of Sigma Chi
It was a recognition of the needs of the University of Tulsa that brought Seven Sigma Chis together to form the Sigma Chi Alpha Colony in the autumn of 1947. For years, more than 250 Sigma Chis living in Tulsa had felt that the school was fertile ground for a chapter. After World War II, seven Sigma Chis were among the many veterans at TU, creating the perfect opportunity to plant the seed of Sigma Chi, in the form of a petitioning colony. With the unanimous support of the Tulsa Alumni Chapter, Clifford William Langley, James Ray Nichols, Russell Vedder Brown, Thomas Beason Detjen, Caycee Ellard, R. R. “Bill” Barbe, and their leader, Jacob Blaine Miller led the installation of Sigma Chi Alpha on November 17, 1947.
For the first pledge class of Sigma Chi Alpha were chosen three outstanding men, Bill Hackathorn, Ed Wiley, and Hugh Moguin. The Founding Seven pledged these gentlemen under the instruction of the Norman Shield, and they were initiated on May 18, 1948, under a ritual written by Russell Vedder Brown.
The very next day, the petitioning colony purchased a home at 559 South Gary place, one of the largest on campus, for $14,000. It was furnished and decorated entirely by the active membership, had seven bedrooms and accommodated 18 men and house mother “Mom” Nedom.
On February 16, 1949, two investigating officers of Sigma Chi, C.Y. Cannon and Richard H. Wagstaff, visited Sigma Chi Alpha, learning all they could for several days about the group’s qualifications of becoming brothers of the Fraternity. After meeting with officers, the University president, and even “Mom," Wagstaff wrote to the Executive Committee that he was “completely convinced on all counts as to the worthiness of the petitioning body.” Secret ballots were cast to all active and alumni chapters and to the members of the Grand Council, and word of the results came on the eve of Thanksgiving, 1950, in the form of a telegraph from Fraternity’s Exective Secretary: “Petition for a Sigma Chi chapter carried by substantial majority. Congratulations. J. Russell Easton.”
On the third of February, 1951, three years after Jacob Blaine Miller and the Founding Seven had begun to discuss plans for a chapter, the members of Sigma Chi Alpha became brothers of Sigma Chi in a beautiful Ritual installation ceremony. From then on, those leaders of the campus of the University of Tulsa were to be known as the Delta Omega chapter of Sigma Chi.
-Luke Normile '1227'
Since then, the Sigma Chi chapter at the University of Tulsa has grown and evolved, but has always kept those same crucial rituals which bind all brothers, old and new, together in sacred bonds. The Delta Omega chapter has received both the Peterson Significant Chapter Award, and is recognized as a Bell Chapter!
For further information about our International Fraternity, please visit the Sigma Chi Fraternity website.
For the first pledge class of Sigma Chi Alpha were chosen three outstanding men, Bill Hackathorn, Ed Wiley, and Hugh Moguin. The Founding Seven pledged these gentlemen under the instruction of the Norman Shield, and they were initiated on May 18, 1948, under a ritual written by Russell Vedder Brown.
The very next day, the petitioning colony purchased a home at 559 South Gary place, one of the largest on campus, for $14,000. It was furnished and decorated entirely by the active membership, had seven bedrooms and accommodated 18 men and house mother “Mom” Nedom.
On February 16, 1949, two investigating officers of Sigma Chi, C.Y. Cannon and Richard H. Wagstaff, visited Sigma Chi Alpha, learning all they could for several days about the group’s qualifications of becoming brothers of the Fraternity. After meeting with officers, the University president, and even “Mom," Wagstaff wrote to the Executive Committee that he was “completely convinced on all counts as to the worthiness of the petitioning body.” Secret ballots were cast to all active and alumni chapters and to the members of the Grand Council, and word of the results came on the eve of Thanksgiving, 1950, in the form of a telegraph from Fraternity’s Exective Secretary: “Petition for a Sigma Chi chapter carried by substantial majority. Congratulations. J. Russell Easton.”
On the third of February, 1951, three years after Jacob Blaine Miller and the Founding Seven had begun to discuss plans for a chapter, the members of Sigma Chi Alpha became brothers of Sigma Chi in a beautiful Ritual installation ceremony. From then on, those leaders of the campus of the University of Tulsa were to be known as the Delta Omega chapter of Sigma Chi.
-Luke Normile '1227'
Since then, the Sigma Chi chapter at the University of Tulsa has grown and evolved, but has always kept those same crucial rituals which bind all brothers, old and new, together in sacred bonds. The Delta Omega chapter has received both the Peterson Significant Chapter Award, and is recognized as a Bell Chapter!
For further information about our International Fraternity, please visit the Sigma Chi Fraternity website.