Friday, February 10, 2012

copy of email sent today in case you did not receive it





















if you did not get this email, please send me your current email address. my email is chris.adair@oc.edu.



Delta Brethren,



One of my brothers gently reminded me not everyone is on Facebook, which is where I have been posting most of my updates so please forgive the late notice on some of this info. I’ll take this moment to encourage any FB resisters to consider opening an account and joining the Delta group to be kept up to date on all that’s going on with our brothers. If you can’t bring yourself to do that, I’ll continue to send emails and post to the blog (http://www.deltagammasigmaalumni.blogspot.com/) when I can.

Ryan Stratton ’88 is hospitalized in Bartlesville with congenital heart failure. He went in with a case of pneumonia and they found severe blockages and a faulty mitral valve. He will have open heart surgery at St. John in Tulsa Monday. I do not have the time. I just spoke to Ryan and he will post it to his Facebook page when he finds out.

Since I don’t send out so many emails anymore, I’m going to cover several things. The 2012 Delta Golf Classic will be held at Silverhorn Golf Club in OKC on Saturday, April 21, 2012. Cost is $75 per player and it’s a 4 man scramble as always. I will send more info including registration and payment info shortly. I will also post that info to the blog as well as Facebook. If you are on Facebook, there is an event page set up for this year’s golf tourney.

Delta’s 40th anniversary is just around the corner. Delta began during the 1972-73 school year and we will celebrate Delta’s 40th in spring 2013. An alumni committee is currently being organized by Eugene Howland ’90 to plan this big event. If you would like to be involved, please contact Eug at Eugene.howland@gmail.com. Make plans to be in OKC around April 2013 for Delta’s 40th!

Several more things since some of you not on FB may have missed. Delta Ex Prez Phillip Maple ’93 donated a kidney to his father Mike Maple a few months ago. Phillip has recovered nicely but Mike still needs prayers as his body continues to heal. Dave Butts (85-90) is awaiting a kidney transplant. He was set to have this done and it fell thru so he is awaiting an available kidney. Darren ‘Keymaster’ Carpenter ’90 is the very recent recipient of a new kidney donated by his wife Karen. They are both recovering well. I know this seems like a strange series of events and its entirely possible that Diet Skipper is to blame. Please keep these families and brothers in your thoughts and prayers.

Leon McDonald, father of Delta Ex Prez Clay McDonald ’94 & Ryan McDonald ’00 has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and will begin chemotherapy shortly to reduce the tumor so he is a candidate for surgery. Ian O’Daniel’s ‘11 mother has multiple myeloma and is having treatment for that. Several of our brothers are on the hunt for jobs.

I know we could have never imagined an email like this when we were rollin in maroon & gold back in the day, but we are definitely a band of brothers and will suffer with each other as we rejoice with each other. Strength thru Unity, Dependability, and Pride means as much now as it ever has. BROTHERS!