• Kelly and Don Murphy have a new baby boy - Carter Patrick Murphy. Everyone is doing great and Paige loves her new brother.
• Hector “Luis” Eugui is serving our country: “I’m currently in Camp Doha, Kuwait with the Army. I’ve been here since early February. Over a year ago, February, 2003, my Army Reserve unit got called up to support operation Iraqi Freedom. I spent that first year mobilized but assigned to FT. Eustis, Va, so I thought I would get lucky and avoid the middle east, unfortunately my luck ran out and my unit got extended and we were sent to the region. Other than that all is ok. My wife, Cherie, is doing well in our house in Valhalla, NY (Westchester) and awaiting my return. She is currently about 5 months pregnant (we conceived over the holidays before I left) and I should make it home next month in time for the beginning of her third trimester.”
• Alumni weekend was fairly well-attended and a fun time. The Actives did a nice job welcoming us and showed a lot of psyche. I finally remembered to send around an address update sheet so I got the addresses of a lot of new alumni.

300 Pawling is in good physical condition and a new kitchen is the next big project.

The hockey game was an 11-11 tie, which is a good showing by the Alumni. None of the Actives could touch my wiffle ball greatness. Six strikeouts in two innings. Jamie Thomson claims he got a hit off of me, but I find it highly unlikely. More likely is that he looked silly striking out and then cried. Even though the Red Sox fans beat the Yankee fans 10-0 in Wiffle Ball Challenge — it clearly was not my fault. Ty Cobb never won a Championship and neither did Ted Williams. See my point? I can’t do it by myself.

Special guests at alumni weekend included Steven Mirer class of ‘62 and Armand Gillman class of ‘60.

The Sunday breakfast — supposedly back by popular demand — was not well-attended at all. I guess it was back by unpopular demand.

Lots of the new alumni or soon-to-be alumni had lots of good ideas about how to improve Alumni Weekend. Gavin Olender suggested name tags and more activities, all of them really good ideas. My hope is that these guys bring some energy to the Kappa Tau Alumni Association and stay involved.