Phi Chapter Needs You
Phi at Yale is the founding chapter of Delta Kappa Epsilon. It is the only Yale fraternity which has never closed! Not that we haven’t struggled. In the 70s after the Winthrop Trust deeded the York House to Yale, the chapter managed an underground existence in the Colleges. Then in the early 80s when we bought the two Lake Street properties there were many times when we came close.

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Mother Phi takes over: A new Chapter in the History of Phi!

Mother Phi takes over: A new Chapter in the History of Phi!
Brother Bishop receives Henderson Award.

April 1, Mother Phi Foundation took possession of the two Phi properties on Lake Place in New Haven. On April 15, Brothers Jim Bishop ’56 and past executive director of DKE, David Easlick O’69, journeyed to New Haven to meet with Dan Griffiths from Whitney Management and the undergraduate leadership at the Phi houses on Lake Place.

Brother Easlick presented Jim Bishop with the William M. Henderson Award for 2008...

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Phi Alum Set to Revive Traditional Yale Pub
Mory's is making a comeback, thanks to the establishment's president, Chris Getman '64. Chris is leading a team to reopen the traditional Yale pub by early summer 2010. Read below for an update.

Reposted from www.morysclub.org...

To: All Members of the Mory’s Community
From: Chris Getman, President

It’s a go! Construction is going to begin in earnest next week. We have already poured the footings for the Temple Bar! We hope to open by late summer.

This exciting outcome is the result of many forces working together toward the common goal of creating a new, vibrant and welcoming Club. First and foremost it is testimony to the commitment of over 2,900 alums who recognized what an important part of Yale life Mory’s truly is. They stepped up generously to the tune of over $2.5 million, and we anticipate that there’s more where that came from. (check our website, www.morysclub.org to see what items have been spoken for and what remains).

The University has been a great partner in this endeavor by offering reunion credit for gifts made before December 31, 2009 it gave credibility to the effort. We are grateful to Bruce Alexander, his team, and the officers of the University for their support and guidance over the last ten months.

Tom McCance’s vision in creating the Friends of Mory’s, not only energized our supporters; it was literally responsible for our being able to keep the lights on as we were mustering our campaign.


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Tom McCarthy '10 Named Football Captain
The following article was featured in the Yale Daily News, by Sarah Scott

Tom McCarthy ’10 has come a long way from a 5-foot-10-inch sophomore at the Delbarton School in Morristown, N.J. Now standing at 6 feet 6 inches tall and weighing in at 255 pounds, the defensive lineman is Yale’s new football captain and a potential NFL prospect.
The announcement naming McCarthy Yale’s 133rd football captain came at the Bulldogs’ annual banquet in Commons on Nov. 22. McCarthy, who will replace linebacker Paul Rice ’10, was elected by the team in a vote.

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Meet Captain Freedom
The following article was featured in the Yale Daily News by Chelsea Janes

In a season of triumphant wins, bloody brawls and epic comebacks, plenty of heroes have been born of the men’s hockey team’s spectacular run to an ECAC championship. Yet one of the greatest heroes of this magical season is not on the team roster.

Through the efforts of the beloved Captain Freedom — in addition, of course, to the Cleary Cup champions with whom he shares the ice — Ingalls Rink has become a fortress of energy, excitement and enthusiasm from which opponents rarely escape unscathed. Who is this unsung hero? None other than Tim Handlon ’10.


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Navy Seal Dives into DKE
From the 2/5/10 issue of Yale Daily News...

Desert Storm seems hazy nowadays. But not to Joe Metzger ’11, a newly initiated brother of Delta Kappa Epsilon.

It was Metzger’s first night on the front of the Gulf War. The lieutenant stood before his group of Navy Seabees and said, “Gentlemen, tonight we’re going to war.”

“I was stationed at a sentry position on the perimeter of camp when the chemical warfare alarm went off. I put my suit on and I remember hyperventilating in my mask, struggling to get to the bunker. All I could think about was that my hands were melting. This was our routine for the next three months.”

Metzger recalls the tail end of Desert Storm when United Nations soldiers slashed and burned more than 700 oil wells. “It was an environmental catastrophe. The sky of Kuwait was blanketed with blackness with just a tiny sliver of light on the horizon. It was dark 24 hours a day. It was like a three-month dream.”

Click here to read the full story.

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The Founding of DKE
On Saturday, June 22, 1844, 15 Yale College undergraduates met in No. 12 Old South Hall and established a new society they called DELTA KAPPA EPSILON.

The Fraternity's open motto, "Kerothen Philoi Aei" or "Friends from the Heart, Forever" was adopted, as was the DKE pin and the secret grip.

THE FOUNDING OF THE FRATERNITY
AS RECALLED BY ONE OF THE FOUNDERS

Edward Griffin Bartlett, Phi 1846
from
The Delta Kappa Epsilon Quarterly,
Vol.1, No.1.; January, 1883

It is a worn little book which lies before me; the cover marred and scratched, the paper yellow with age and the ink faded to a dull brown. The first page is half filled with my handwriting, and below are signed, beside my own, fourteen names--each marking sharply the individuality of the writer, and recalling the face of an old friend, each turning my thoughts to the end of the earth where he who bore it lives in active usefulness or rests in honored grave--all carrying me back to the day, a full generation ago, when we, fifteen boy classmates at Yale, formally avowed the bonds of mutual friendship which has long held us.
The spring of 1844 seems a queer old time, as I recall it now. Yale was to us the great seat of learning of the world. Rivalry with Harvard had not been thought of, and in fact we knew too little and heard too rarely of the Cambridge school, to take even a languid interest in its welfare.

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