My Last Visit to the House

In May 1998 I happened upon the boarded up chapter house during a quick stop over on the way to Cooperstown with my son Robbie (pictured below). A bittersweet scene for me - my son's first introduction to the house, and the house teetering on its last legs.

The location was still majestic. The bones of the house, as dignified as ever. But its fate was clear, looking at the boards blocking our entry from the front door.

I'm not sure what you knew about the tearing down of the house, but even though I might have been made aware of it, it never registered with me... until that visit.

Last week I was on campus and tried to take a photo of the location of soon-to-be-erected memorial. There was too much snow there to do it justice. But I believe the tree just to the left front of the entry way still stands and the memorial will be just to its left.

Les

Delta Phi Chapter House Print

Thanks for the great responses to the email and letter. It certainly seems like we are going to have a great event with wonderful participation from the brotherhood and friends. Be sure that anyone you know who might be interested in aware of our celebration. We've had a few returned letters and email and we want to be sure that everyone is able to attend.

This is a photo of the Chapter House print that we described in the letter. Anyone with any other photos, please feel free to send them my way and I'll be sure to publish them on this site.

In the bonds,
Les

Email from Neil Brickley

I received the following email from Neil Brickley that I copied below (with his permission). All of us that had the good fortune to know Mark certainly do miss him.
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From: NBrickley@aol.com [mailto:NBrickley@aol.com]
Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 3:17 PM
To: TrachtmanL@aol.com
Subject: Re: Delta Phi ReUnion Planning & Memorial


Hi Les:

Thank you for heading this up. I will send a check in in the memory of Mark Brickley. He had a great love of Delta Phi and all of the great friendships he had with his fraternity brothers there. It was good to see the 1973 composite to remember all of Mark's good friends (brothers).

Regards,
Neil Brickley

1973 Composite

I just received this "suitable for framing" version of the 1973 Delta Phi Composite picture from Lenny Gelman who was President of D Phi during my pledge year. Thanks Lenny and we look forward to seeing you at ReUnion.