In 1954, the Tennessee Gamma Chapter became the first national fraternity to charter at East Tennessee State and remains the premier fraternity on campus. Sixty years later, celebrations began with a campus-wide, all-Greek reunion. Seventy alumni gathered at the annual meeting to remember highlights of the past sixty years and plan for the future. Lunch was catered at the affectionately named “White Castle,” the chapter house since 1959. Over 1,000 men have passed through its red doors, including a number of family legacies. House tours were extra special for the men who had lived there as they met the current occupants of their old rooms.
The main event took place at the Millennium Centre on Saturday night with over 130 alumni and their guests joining 45 undergraduates and their dates. The celebration was attended by two charter members, Denny Brewer, ’54, and William Sikes, ’57, and five other brothers from the chapter’s first decade: Ben Earnest, ’59, Joe Henley, ’65, Bill Frank, ’65, John Albright, ’66 and Preston Wright, ’64. Throughout the weekend, alumni from all six decades gave undergraduates a firsthand view of SigEp’s “Lifetime Responsibility of Brotherhood.”
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