Cal Nu Website

Brothers
You should take a look at the Cal Nu website:
http://www.calnu.com/
I think the website is extremely well done and gives a great picture of the fraternity today. There is information on each brother, a calendar, plenty of photographs, etc.
Check out the section, "About SAE," and read about the role of Gelson's in the history of the fraternity.
Phi Alpha
John Cagle

Cal Nu Charter Restored

I am pleased to say that on Saturday night, October 17, 2009, Martin Wiglesworth, Eminent Supreme Archon of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, presented the Charter back to California Nu.
The dinner was at the Warner Hilton on Canoga. The event was attended by the undergraduate brothers and pledges, of course, but also a great number of alumni attended, not to mention brothers from several chapters in the Province, representatives from sororities and fraternities at CSUN, and a number of guests.
Robert Fowlie, David Peterson, Robert Kari, Gary Jackson, and I were there from the Pi Kappa Tau era.
The evening began with an private initiation of the colony brothers. The national fraternity's leaders themselves were there to conduct the initiation--ESA Wiglesworth, Eminent Supreme Recorder Steven Priepke, Eminent Supreme Chronicler Brad Cohen, SAE Extension Coordinator Ryan Wise, Cockrell Regional Director Shay Stewart, and Province Chi Archon Howard Wood. Some of Cal Nu's alumni such as Dorian Quispe, David Peterson, and Jon Bonesteele also had important parts in the ritual.
On one table the Cal Nu Alumni Association gathered some of the fraternity's history--some Pi Kappa Tau pledge paddles, an album with a page for each pledge class from then 'til now, the Pi Kappa Tau & SAE correspondence from 1963 through the chartering in 1967, and so forth.
All in all, it was a great evening.
Phi Alpha,
John Cagle

Days 14, 15 &16

A couple of uneventful days. On Day 14 we stayed at our campsite in Bozeman to wait out the snow storm. I did laundry and made split pea soup in the crockpot. Day 15 we headed out for Glacier National Park. A fellow camper who had just come from there told us that we could still get in to see some of the sights if we used the east entrance. We already knew that the road through the park had been closed for the season. The east entrance would take us to some of the higher points of interest, after which we planned to head for Whitefish. We reached Shelby (near the eastern entrance) in time to set up camp in a rather sparse RV park. The wind had been howling for a good part of the afternoon and by nightfall was blowing a full gale. Bertha was rocking and rolling with us inside. During the night the wind abated and it snowed a little. The next morning, we found that the snow had closed the eastern entrance to the Park, so no Glacier this trip. We gambled on the weather in leaving so late in the season and it has cost us some delays and disappointments. We won't be the first to misjudge our chances this time of year, and' I'm sure we won't be the last. I'm very thankful to be traveling in a motor home instead of a covered wagon. We are warm and dry and have plenty to eat. On Day 16 we drove to Whitefish, which is about 70 miles south of the Canadian border. I have a cousin who lives here, and we haven't seen eachother for about 30 years. We're having dinner at his house tonight which will give us a chance to catch up on what each has been doing. We have 4 days to make it to the resort in Alberta where Jeff has booked a week at his timeshare. If the weather permits, we'll try to see some sights in the area before we give Bertha a rest and spend some time in real beds for a change.

je

Gary Buscome Recovering

Gary Buscome sent me the message below. Egad! What is worse? The heart attack or being a journalist with one hand in a cast? A few prayers are in order to speed his recovery and get him typing with two hands again!
Gary's message:

hello, brothers!

excuse the typing but i am using my right hand, and i am a lefty. wanted to bring you up to date on some things that have happened recently.

we were in big bear at our place there for a month, and two days before we left for oklahoma i fell off a ladder, and broke my left arm. then after we got back to tulsa i collapsed at a scout meeting soon after getting there. luckily one of the dads was a doctor and several knew cpr. my heart had stopped and i was no longer breathing. "sudden cardiac arrest," it is called.

they also had a external automatic difibrillator on hand which they used successfully to restart my heart!

i guess i really beat the odds and survived. the hospital has implanted a small defibrillator in my chest to prevent it from happening again.

i am resting at home now and things seem to be healing up ok, just wanted you to know...

phi alpha, gary buscome f-66
gbuscombe@cox.net