SC Delta Chapter of SAE — DELTA DRUMMER APRIL MAY 2016

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I N S I D E T H I S

I S S U E :

Spann Laffitte and

Thomas Gremillion

2

Allen Hughes and

Campbell Powers

3

2016 Officers and

New Furniture

4

Notes 5

Brothers and Sen-

iors in the Chapter

6

JP Gamble and

Annual Dues

7

SC Delta Drummer University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina—Founded 1882 A P R I L M A Y 2 0 1 6

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Alumni Assn

PO Box 11521

Columbia, SC

29211

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Reunion, Brothers Abroad, Parents Weekend

SAE Big Chill.

For those of you

who didn't

attend the fall

alumni reunion,

we missed

you. —

with Field

Wardlaw,

Cole Church,

Bucky McQueen

and Bobby Price.

Watch for our new web site that is supported by Member Planet.

Details coming soon!

Parents

Weekend

Oct 22,

2016, the

UMass/

USC

Football

game.

Details to

come.

Brothers Abroad

Joseph Stuhrenberg, Ben

Miller, Nick Murray and Simon

Walpole in Santiago, Chile.

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Alumni Notes

Thomas Gremillion, ‘01, is Director of Food

Policy with the Consumer Federation of

America in Washington, DC. He oversees the

research, analysis, advocacy and media

outreach for the CFA’s food policy

activities. He graduated from Harvard Law

School in 2007 and also obtained a Master of

Arts in International Studies from the La

Universidad Andina Simon Bolivar in 2004.

At Carolina he majored in Mathematics and

was a member of the South Carolina Honors

College and Phi Beta Kappa,. Reach Tommy

at email

Michael Otten Receives Award

Michael Otten '16, past Eminent Archon, has been awarded the SAE

Foundation Dr. Charles A. Preuss Medical Award (Medical) - $2,000

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Alumni Notes

Campbell Powers ‘14

Campbell is an Associate Manager, Inbound Sales with Lanyon in Dallas. His company created the industry's leading cloud-based software for managing corporate meetings, events and travel programs. Campbell completed his B.A. in Economics from the Darla Moore School of Business. At Carolina he was a member of the Capstone Scholars Program and the National Society of Collegiate Scholars. He attended Highland Park High School. In the summer of 2011 he was the Recreation Coordinator at the Fripp Island Resort. Reach out to Campbell at email Powerscs18@gmail.com.

Found Alumnus - Allen Hughes '89

Allen is Counselor General for Leadership

Advancement and Mission Stewardship for

Anglican Mission in the Americas in

Charleston. The Rev. Dr. Canon Allen Hughes

serves as Canon Missioner due to his capacity

for intuitive organization thinking. He has

helped many Anglican Mission churches,

networks, and church leaders. He is used in

effective transition coaching and/or collaborative process planning. He can be

reached at email allen@theamia.org.

Help us find these lost alumni!

George L David, III, ‘86

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New Chapter Officers for 2016-2017

President – Dixon Collins (Greenville)

Vice President (External) - Will Kitchens (Columbia)

Vice President (Internal) - Worth Bryan (Asheville)

Treasurer – Anthony Fontana (Virginia Beach)

Recorder – Ben Hoopes (Albany, GA)

Social Chair – Simon Walpole (Virginia Beach)

Rush Chairmen – Bernie Herbkersman (Columbia); Jackson Dunaway (Charleston); Henry Sullivan

(Greenville); Xander Spears (Charlotte)

New Member Educators – Chris Kraft (Charleston) & Wil Watson (Asheville)

Philanthropy Chairman – Cam Stringfellow (Columbia)

Correspondent – Will Myers (Greenville)

Herald – Tim Beard (Rock Hill)

Tailgate Chairman – Stephen Humphreys (Charleston)

Warden – Pierce Slagsvol (Columbia) & Nick Pizzo (Charleston)

Intramural Chairman – Hayne Wilkerson (York, SC)

House Manager – Harrison Lapin (Columbia) & John Ross Miller (Greenville)

Chaplain – Jack Kelly (Chattanooga)

Risk Manager – Jack Gould (Greenville)

Scholarship Chairman – Ramsey Stephenson (Greenville)

Steward – George Loizou (Virginia Beach)

T-shirt Chairman – Henry Sullivan (Greenville)

Senior Adviser – Joe Stuhrenberg (Atlanta) & Adam Bayless (Rocky Mount)

New Patio Furniture Thanks to Diane Reid Horne, the Mothers of Minerva purchased new and updated patio furniture for the fraternity house deck

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Notes

An SAE is now president of IFC (Fraternity

Council) at Carolina. Joe has succeeded to that

position due to the unfortunate closing of the Sigma Chi Chapter, and

the resignation of the current president and

member of that fraternity. Congratulations to Joe, who will serve out the

rest of the term through December 2016. He can

be reached at email jhs@email.sc.edu.

The chapter wrapped up the week of April 11 of their Paddy Murphy events with the 2016 David Simo-ne Softball Classic. The game was against the Lexington County Sherriff's Department. The funds raised goes toward David’s medical bills.

Jeff Ammons

'92, is a

partner and

attorney

with the

firm of Walker, Clark, Allen,

Grice & Ammons, L.L.P in

Goldsboro. He obtained his law

degree from Campbell

University in 1996. Marred to

Lesley, they have two children -

Sarah Jane and Emilee. Reach

out to Jeff at email

jeff@nctrialattorneys.com.

Robert B Webb '65

Robert B Webb Sr, '65, is an agency manager with State

Farm Insurance in Charleston. He attended McClellan

High School and majored in Marketing at Carolina.

Married to Julia Rowan, he can be reached at email

bobwebb1@att.net.

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Chapter News—Brothers and Seniors 2016

Congratulations to the Class of 2016. A social was held at the Carolina Ale

House on Friday evening, May 6, 2016 in honor of our

new graduates.

Have a great summer from the Brothers of SC Delta 2016!

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In Memoriam—JP Gamble ‘51

Julius Pendergrass (J.P.) Gamble, Sr., 87, of Lane, SC died

peacefully on Thursday, November 19, 2015 after a brief illness. He was

born on April 11, 1928, to Samuel Wayne and Theresa Register Gamble

in the Gourdin community near Lane, SC. He was educated in Greeley-

ville schools and graduated from the University of South Carolina with

a degree in business administration in 1950. At USC, he was a member

of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. He was an avid Gamecocks fan

throughout his life, and enjoyed attending their football games and flying to their bowl

games. After college, he returned to the Gourdin area to join his father on the family

farm. In addition to farming, he would later work for the US Department of Agriculture

and in the Williamsburg County Economic Development Office as Economic Develop-

ment Director and Grants Administrator. He married Eunice Temple Ford of Holly Hill,

SC on July 18, 1952, and they celebrated 63 years of marriage together this summer.

2016 Alumni Annual Dues

Your voluntary annual dues of $25 can now be

accepted online at our web site here.

You can also mail a check made out to SC Delta

Alumni Association to:

Mitch Kiser, Treasurer

SC Delta Alumni Association

PO Box 11521

Columbia, SC 29211