Alpha Zeta now has a web site, thanks to the efforts of William Neubert ’57, a computer systems engineer (BSEE ’61). The site address is www.hogpikealumni.com. This is a PRIVATE web site. It is designed to avoid search engine detection. Even though no sensitive information is posted on the site, William has nonetheless provided a layer of security to avoid detection by the general public. The site is being expanded and enhanced on a monthly basis, so check the site once a month to see what is new. Please send any suggestions on improving the site to the web master, William Neubert, whose email address is whneubert@hotmail.com.

Photos for posting on the web site should be submitted to David Love at DLove5555@aol.com. Please scan the picture and include the names of persons in the photo, the event, and the year. For an idea of what we want the AZ Photos section to look like, go to www.uwpikes.com, and click on the Photos button. Please help in this effort.

What is your favorite PiKA memory? Please submit your narrative statement in the same manner as Favorite College Memory (next page). Note: These narratives will be posted on the AZ web site under Tabs being developed by the web master. Remember: The statute of limitations for all major crimes other than murder is five years, so most are safe.

Do you have a Favorite College Memory to share? If so, and if you have access to the internet, type a narrative in Word format, save it, and email it as an attachment to David Love at DLove5555@aol.com. If you do not have access to the internet, please type the narrative and send a hard copy to Josh Sykes, Vice President, Pi Kappa Alpha, 320 Arkansas Avenue, Fayetteville, AR 72701.

If you have any information on any of the lost brothers, please email David Love at dlove5555@aol.com or mail the information to Josh Sykes at 320 Arkansas Avenue, Fayetteville, AR 72701.

A tradition continues. In the 80’s and 90’s, prominent alumni were honored by having their pictures framed and hung on the Wall of Fame. Nominations for 2008 are now being accepted. Categories include Business/Professional Achievement, Government (Politics), Athletics, Academia, Military Distinction, and Service To AZ. Please send written nominations to Josh Sykes, Pi Kappa Alpha, 320 Arkansas Avenue, Fayetteville, AR 72701. Nominations via the internet can be submitted to DLove5555@aol.com. Ballots will appear in the next newsletter, which will be sent out in April.

I hereby nominate (up to 5):____________________ Category:__________________

Short Description of Achievements:

ATTACH ADDITIONAL SHEETS

Brian Barnett. Organizational Leadership, Business Management. Returning to school to become RN.
Eric Brown. Marketing. Searching for employment in Memphis, TN.
Justin Bulla. Recreation. Working at Billy’s Blue’s Club. Wanting job in event planning
.Jeff Corkran. Finance/Financial Advisor, Strategic Financial Partners, Retirement, and Planning/ Wealth Management.
Matt Gintonio. Degree in Kinesiology, B.S. Education. Grad. Assistant in academic support for Razorback football. Working on masters in workforce development. Wants job as Academic Coordinator at D1 univ.
Brandon Harris. 3.8 GPA Journalism and Political Science Major. First Place Sports Writing, Arkansas College Media Association Awards, 2006, 2007. Summer internship with MLB.com covering Cincinnati Reds. Open to help searching job opportunity after summer. Bdh02@uark.edu
Michael Meisner. Transport Logistics, Minor in Management. No job lined up, interested in transportation industry.
A. J. Rizzo. Marketing Management Degree. Internship with Big South Conference and Carolina Panthers. Future Plans: grad. School at Ohio Univ.- MBA and Masters in sports administration
Zach Rolle. Marketing Management, Minor in Organizational Leadership. Works for NW Arkansas Naturals Baseball team. Hoping to marry into and for money.
Lance Taylor. Degree in Finance, Minor in Economics. Selling houses at Kellen Williams Realty.

David Love ’73 has undertaken the task of developing and maintaining a master email directory, to assist in communications between and among alumni and undergraduates. He has made a commitment to maintain the directory for 10 years. Brother Love is well known to many alumni, since he sent out AZ newsletters for 10 years, from 1985-95.

In August, 2007, there were 225 valid email addresses in the directory. Today, there are over 750, and approximately 40 additional alumni have been confirmed to have no email address. The goal is to have electronic addresses for 80% of all alumni with valid postal addresses, which translates to 1000 of 1250 total living alumni. If you have addresses of Pikes in your email directory, please send them to DLove5555@aol.com.

Any alum that has a worthy candidate for membership into Pi Kappa Alpha is encouraged to submit the name(s) to Miles Ritter, SMC, mritter@uark.edu or to Josh Skyes, jsykes@uark.edu. Names may also be mailed to either Brother Miles or Brother Sykes at 320 Arkansas Avenue, Fayetteville, AR 72701.

William "Chappie" Allsopp ’53 "I was on the Deans List for the Engineering College for 4 years. Every year, the Dean of the College would call me into his office and ask me to explain why I should be allowed to enroll in classes for the upcoming semester."

Scott Alan Smith ’78 Comments after his first day of snow skiing: "I wish that I had fallen one more time." Response: "Why" Reply: "So I could have made it an even 100." Snow skiing is not Scott’s forte. However, he has been known to strike a golf ball pretty well. But for the record, John Bracken was the first Pike to hit a 2 iron 300 yards, and even Lee Trevino said "Even God can’t hit a 2 iron." Say hello to your good friend, Fred Couples, John.

Alpha Zeta Website Now Interactive

The number of LOST alumni from 1940-2005 is down to 62!!! The complete list is posted on the web site under a new LOST ALUMNI button that is located on the DATA PAGE of the web site. (Be sure to scroll down.) If you have ANY information on any alum on the list, please provide it. You can submit the information electronically.

The AZ web site is in need of composites, college era photographs (party pics and candids), recent pictures, and vacation pictures for posting on the internet. You can EITHER scan pictures and submit them to the webmaster online (whneubert@hotmail.com) OR you can mail them to William Neubert, 1615 Forest Street, Carthage, MO 64836. Please enclose a return, pre-addressed and pre-stamped envelope with submitted pictures, and include the names, the event, and the year he photo was taken. The pictures will be returned after they are scanned. Note: The web master is on an assignment out of state and it may take 30 days to have the photos returned.

PiKA has always had the pick of the crop when it comes to having members with distinguished military careers. If you served in the military with distinction, or received significant military decoration(s), please tell us about them. I know that Congressman John Paul Hammerschmidt, Jim Arnold, Thomas Furlow, and Bob Fabinsky all received Distinguished Flying Crosses. Who else among us has received a Silver Star, Legion of Merit, etc? This information can be provided online by noting and submitting same on the interactive Questionnaire (found on the Data Page), or by writing in the information on the Questionnaire and mailing it to the address on the last page of this newsletter.

Pre-1966 1966-69 1970-Present
Springdale Country Club Hog Haus Inn at Carnall Hall
1:00 Golf 4:30-7:30 Cash Bar 7:00-9:00 Buffet
6:00 Cash Bar 7:30 Finger Food Buffet 3 Entrees/3 Veggies/
7:00 Sit Down Dinner Social Hour Until? 2 Salads/Dessert/Tip
8:30 Entertainment* 9:00 On- Maxine’s
Cost: $50 pp Cost: $20 pp Cost: $40 pp
Includes Sat. Lunch) Saturday Lunch $5 pp (Includes Sat. Lunch)
*Johnny "Black and Blue" Tolleson

Bill Brady                     Brant Croxdale                     David Love
Bill@williambbrady.com BCroxdale@hilanddairy.com   DLove5555@aol.com
Cell: 501-312-9027     Cell: 479-841-6262              Cell: 501-627-3142

For those whose schedules do not permit attendance at the Friday get together of your age group, a catered lunch (Buddy Wray, Chairman) and cash bar will be provided at the fraternity house on Saturday. Suggested Contribution is $5 pp. As yet, the starting time for the game has not been announced. Check the AZ web site, www.hogpikealumni.com, for exact times, once the game time has been set. Tentatively, cash bar opens at 9:30 am; finger food brunch is from 10:00-Noon; Cash Bar Noon-1:30; Kick-off 2:00 pm.

The annual meeting of the Monticello Corporation will take place at the fraternity house at 10:00 am on Saturday, October 4, 2008. In September, check the AZ web site (Monticello Tab) for the proposed slate of 2008-09 Officers and the Business Agenda.

George Kok ’44, Arkansas’ first 7’ center on the basketball team, is retired and living in Louisville, KY. George is an original member of the Wall of Fame.

William Neubert ’57, Electrical Engineer and Computer Systems Engineer. Web Master for AZ. He and Ruth have one son, Steven. Email of record.

Bill May ‘58, Emeritus banking executive, Arkansas Bankers Bank. His beloved is Becky, and they have 2 children, Susan and Nancy. Email of record.

George Coffman ’60, recently retired Major of the Arkansas State Police. Presently Chairman of Commercial Transportation for Executive Consultants, Inc., LLC. Email of record

Richard Goff ’62, is in the public warehousing business in Little Rock. Customers include Maybelline, L’Oreal, Tyson, IP, and Wal-Mart. He and his wife, Linda, have 5 children, Richard Jr., Michael, Mark, Kerby, and R. Hunter. Email of record.

James Arnold II ’64, Recipient of the Distinguished Flying Cross and retired Delta pilot of "big birds." F-4 pilot in ‘Nam. Favorite Memory- Roaring 20’s party. Email of record.

Don L. Gibson ’66, Pres/CEO of Ark. Legacy Bank. BSBA and MBA. He and Carol Lynn reside in Springdale. Email of record.

Ernest Oakleaf ’68, political guru and consultant extraordinaire. PhD in sociology and paired with his hipmate, Zoe, PhD in demography (Fulbright Scholar-Cambridge). They are the definitive source for opinion research for elections in Arkansas. Period. Email of record.

Dr. Jim Berkowitz ’68, ‘BSBA ‘70. Coordinator for Georgia Tech research projects. Translation: Visionary. (Linda hasn’t left him for 30 years, so the over and under bet has been decided.) Seriously, he is a player in the academic world.

Gary Karnes ’68, suffered a personal tragedy when one of his sons predeceased him (Jack). While tragic, Jordan (’01) is a loyal PiKA. Their personal email addresses are of record.

Larry W. Adams ’71. Speaking of over and under bets, who would have thought that Larry would ever graduate (’84)? And he has a Masters, too! Great success story, and well deserved, too. Hard worker. Email address of record.

Richard Neil Haley ’71, ME. Some are still mystified as to how he landed Debbie. The old adage "For better or for worse" was amended when he married: "He couldn’t do any better, she couldn’t do any worse." Seriously, he is the Sr. Structural Engineer for Hawker Beechcraft, and that IS serious. 2 children, Garrett and Gayle.

Joshua Sykes, current SMC, Order of Omega Outstanding President Award

Order of Omega: Joshua Sykes, Jacob McConnell, Andrew Ellenburg, and Miles Ritter

American Chemical Society Achievement Award- Miles Ritter (current IMC)

SMART Grant- Zachary Lambertson

Mark Kimbrough- Gamma Phi Beta Honors Society

Congratulations to Ryan Van Pelt, immediate past SMC, Honors Graduate-Walton Business College

Alpha Zeta can now contact 900 (up from 225 last August) living alumni electronically. What does this mean to the alumni? For starters, the cost of putting out a newsletter is reduced from $1,200.00 per issue to $400.00. The undergraduates cannot afford to send out 3 or 4 newsletters a year at $1,200/issue, but they can afford $1,200 for 3 issues. This means better communication with, and more information of interest to, alumni. 7 of the 8 pages in this newsletter are about alumni, not the actives.

You can help in this project. How? Most alumni keep up with between 3 and 5 of their brothers. Write David Love an email (dlove5555@aol.com) and provide the names, email addresses, and cell numbers of any alum that YOU keep up with. This is not a research project. Just provide the information in your email directory and your pda/blackberry/palm pilot. It will take you 5 minutes max. Alternatively, you can provide the information online by going to the AZ web site, Data Page Tab, then the Personal Data button.

A number of pledges, and perhaps other persons with special ties to AZ, never were initiated for one reason (grades) or another. If you have a worthy candidate for special initiation, please provide the details on the person. You can write the information in the blank space provided on the last page of this newsletter and then mail it to the address provided on the back of the newsletter, or you can (preferred) provide it online (web site, Data Page, Personal Data tab).

Lynn: Bo Diddley and his band came to Fayetteville to play at the Uark Bowl in 1960. Jim "Mouse" Hockersmith, himself an accomplished musician, hooked up with Bo somehow, as musicians often do, and invited him to come to the Pike house when he found out that Bo couldn’t get a motel room. Mom Sorrells pitched a fit, but he was allowed to stay around.

After the dance, Bo and his band came back to the house and jammed to the wee hours. Bo and some of the band and some of the brothers all crowded into our (Lynn and Lyle Adams) room and Bo began an impromptu session of some of his "raw" material. Adds Gene: "Naturally, we had some spirits available and Bo was receptive to having a toddie or two with us." Lynn’s description: "Anyway I had a new jug of vodka. We had nothing to drink it with so someone went to the coke machine and got some NuGrape. If you have never had a pucker on vodka and NuGrape, consider yourself very lucky, because I sure bought one that morning."

Richard L. Fawcett ’38 isn’t the oldest living Alpha Zeta alumnus. That distinction belongs to Ernest Holt ’34 (yes, one of those Holts). Richard currently resides in Hot Springs, Arkansas. He can be reached at 501-760-4096, rlfawea77@hotmail.com. When Richard was walking around campus, the Pike house was located at the other end of Arkansas Avenue, the total enrollment at the University of Arkansas was 5903, and the only personal electronic devise was a radio. Only one member, Stanley G. Price, even had a car!!

A rose by any other name may smell as sweet, but you just have to wonder how someone ends up with an email address of bluedogmckenzie@hotmail.com. Those who were walking around the Pike house from 1972-75 know about "Tin Man," and 1953-56 guys know how Tommy Glen White earned his nickname of "Sam." Fair notice is given that all will be exposed- the above 3 and others will just be given an opportunity to tell your side. Everyone with an interesting nickname is encouraged to tell the rest how you got it. Go to the Data Page, then Personal Data Tab, on the web site, and post it.

This Questionnaire can be filled out and submitted electronically by going to the DATA PAGE of the web site. For those without internet access, please fill in the information and mail it to Miles Ritter, Vice President. The address is on the Questionnaire.

The space below is intentionally left blank, so that alumni without internet access can write in any information that they deem important and return it to PiKA. Comments on how to improve the newsletter, a narrative on your favorite PiKA and/or college memories, information on yourself and other alumni, rushee recommendations, etc. are welcome. Attach additional sheets if necessary.