Founders Day afficianados Spencer Van Ruiten, Paul Dinh, Pablo Rivas, Jay Ross and Tim Howell puff away on Cubanos, courtesy of Pablo and Mr. Van Ruiten… making Sigma Pi great again!
Month: February 2016
1950s brothers at UNLV game
The Old Men’s Club is going strong in its 7th decade. Bob Eggert, Bob Hillerman (Florida), Werner Benjamin (Indio), Fred Crebs (Ensendada, Mexico) and Dean Cameron gathered to watch the Bruins in Las Vegas. Ralph Rea also joined the trip.
Adytum on High: Daryl Gustafson
Brother Gustafson passed to the Adytum on High on Dec. 10, 2015. A native of the San Joaquin Valley, he graduated in 1957 and worked for General Telephone’s Office of Governmental Relations. He was a lifetime true blue Bruin and was married for 55 years to his campus sweetheart, the former Miss Doris Popovich.
Adytum on High: Robert Doumakes
Brother Doumakes, one of Upsilon’s last WWII veterans, passed to the Adytum on High on Aug. 9, 2015. He ran confectionary companies for many years, and was a wise father and grandfather for generations of his Greek family.
Adytum on High: Douglas Walter Bastyr 2/5/1928-1/29/2016
Brother Bastyr, an Army veteran in Europe during the Cold War, past Province Archon, and Past Housing Board Member, passed to the Adytum on High on Jan. 29 at age 87 in Lawrence, Kan. Bastyr attended North Hollywood H.S. and matriculated to UCLA, where he pledged the fraternity and earned his B.A. He also met his wife Beverly, who died in 1997.
Brother Alvarez speaks to Chapter
In between designing and launching satellites, Michael Alvarez (Y1993) visited Upsilon Manor as the Alumni Guest Speaker. He explained how to seek opportunity with start-ups, not necessarily take the big paycheck from the old-school companies. His new FireSat combs the earth in 10×10 meter grids to seek out hotspots and help firefighters quickly extinguish fires before they engulf swaths of land.
