From left, Brothers Chuck Colton, Bill Gibney, Jack Wright, Dennis Harmon, Steve Schuyler get ready for some barbecue.
About 90 Beta Phis and their guests on April 30 attended the 90th anniversary celebration of the initiation of the chapter at the University of Arizona.
Brothers attended from as far away as Connecticut, Montana, Missouri and California to celebrate the chapter’s anniversary at
Brother Bill Gibney’s house in the Phoenix foothills. Representatives from the decades of the 1940s to the ’10s enjoyed the festivities. Steve Schuyler, president of the Tucson Alumni Chapter of Sigma Chi, gave a presentation on the history of the chapter and read a copy of a letter from Sigma Chi headquarters dated March 1921 informing the colony that it had been accepted into Sigma Chi Fraternity and to prepare for initiation and installation on April 23, 1921. Click here: “About Us – Beta Phi History”
Jon Underwood also discussed the progress on the campaign to raise funds to build a new chapter house. Among those attending was the new Beta Phi Consul Jon Eastman, who told Schuyler that he enjoyed meeting past Consuls and other alumni and wives.
“Special thanks to Brother Gibney and his lovely wife, Cheryl Parker. They graciously volunteered the use of their charming home. It was a lovely setting for the brothers to gather,” Schuyler said.
