Legends Of Iota Nu Chapter
Collected here are Legends and Treasures of Iota Nu. These have been submitted by your fellow Brothers as they fondly recount the days of Hillsdale's TKE Chapter. As with most legends, they tend to grow as time goes on. Please enjoy these stories and, if you feel inclined to share some of your own, please send Tom Veale your story via Email. We encourage TKE Trivia here as well.
Mr Lisey, do you have anything for your "bum" that your roommate can apply for you before or after racing?
"Hey, does anybody have a tape recorder that could be loaned out to a certain frater so he can continue to have evidence of his finesse in dumping his girlfriend? Seems he lost his last one.
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Clayton was a popular recipient of harrassment. I seem to remember a special date he had lined up with his honey who was preparing to dump Clayton for another young gentleman. As a last resort, Clayton had talked the young lady into one last date. He had an evening of wining and dining planned, with a final farewell set up in frat room.
Unknown to Clayton, his roommate and a couple of friends decided to help out his cause by decorating his room for him while they were out. When Clayton and his girlfriend returned to the room for a little relaxation, she pulled back the sheets on his bed to find that his friends had decorated the sheets with a body outline, anatomically correct, with instructions on what to do to what. I understnad that his young love took exception to such things, and not only never dated Clayton again, but refused to share her favors with him. She ran out of the room, and never spoke to him again.
Does anyone remember the Parent's Weekend where a few of the brothers, with a Daughter of Diana at the wheel, borrowed a few bushes from a local store to help decorate the front yard?
The first fall party of the year, 71 or 72, was a lovely event.Clayton Evans had sampled a brew or two during the evening, and was feeling a tad morose as he had no date for the event. After meandering outside for a little sample of country air, he returned with a large grin on his face. For the rest of the evening, he would wander around randomly sticking out his tongue, on which he seemed to have acquired a little friend, a toad was sitting on his tongue, and he would stick it out to show off his "date".
During the 1964-68 time frame, does anyone remember:
A. Raiding the county dog pound and freeing most all of the residents?
Leaving behind the quarantined ones, of course.
B. Getting our own wild turkey for Thanksgiving at the local turkey farm? This was done about 3AM, and the bird was alive when we got it!
C. Using Steve Carey's VW bus, "borrowing a few Xmas tree" for holiday decoration
at the house?
D. As pledges in the 64/65 time frame, with construction campus, someone drove a backhoe up the steps of Central Hall and left it there.
Jim Mitchell '68
It seems to me that I introduced Chip Houghton to the wonders of Iodine as a disinfectant one evening after we'd hidden someone's car. Chip fell and cut his hand as we finished the deed. Upon returning to our dorm room, I assured Chip that Iodine didn't sting so he let me pour the stuff directly into the gash on his hand! Chip always was a trusting soul!
-------- Tom Veale '71
Does anyone else remember the night "Vulture" came into the house bleeding from multiple face wounds? We all thought he'd been beaten up, but he said he had run into a tree. We asked "Who's car were were you driving?"
"I wasn't driving," Vulture replied, "I was on foot!"
---------Anonymous
Homcoming 1997 gave me the chance to catch up with Frater Graham Jones, '70. We discovered that we both have taken our love of cars to another level in that we both are involved in racing sportscars. Graham drives a Porsche 911 while I pilot a Jaguar XK 120. Maybe one of these days we'll manage to get to the same track on the same weekend!
Homcoming Dinner at the Country Club was spectacular. Thanks Bergee!
----------- Tom Veale '71
One evening we tried to get into the Kappa house to retrieve our composite that they borrowed without asking. Our main objective was a faliure, and we even had the keys to the house.
But, all was not lost, we lifted, yes lifted Kerry Baker's VW Golf on to the front lawn of the Kappa house. The funny thing is, she thought she did it! It was her 21st. birthday that night and had no idea what had happened that evening.
I seem to remember that Randy Knicely was doing all that lifting....
-----------YITB, Slider '92
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The following is a test of the memory of the men of the chapter during the period 1965 - 1969:
1, What was the method, most effectively employed by the pledge class of Fall "65 to extinguish the fire in the back parking lot during one of our evenings at the house?
ANSWER: Condoms filled with a white milky fluid, carried in the teeth of the pledges, and dropped on the fire. What was that stuff anyway!
2. In the Spring of 1965, what did the pledge class do at the House as their Tribute?
ANSWER: They seized the house from the active chapter, claimed it to be theirs and proceded to completely tear out the walls of the upstairs, insulated it, and put all new sheet rock up, thereby making it a better place to live (it was barely inhabitable prior to that).
3. Who taught "Marriage In The Family" in those years?
Bonus Points - What was the text book?
ANSWER: Dean Hendey and Masters and Johnson, Human Sexual Response
4. During the late 60", what was the Sorority most closely aligned with the TKE house?
ANSWER: Pi Phi's
5. One evening during "Hell Week" the Dean of Men went to the Arboratum with the President of all the Houses, and later all of the pledges from each house were marched into it and let loose, what was the occassion?
ANSWER: To help officiate the search for the Greek Jug. During which many attrocities were inflicted on pledges by bands of pledges from rival fraternities.
YITB, D.L. Beebe
After dropping his date off one Saturday night, Tom Veale was stopped by one of Hillsdale's finest. In all likelihood, Tom had probably sampled a few brews that evening, but was admitting to nothing while being questioned by the officer. Finally, the cop told Tom that the city had spent a fair amount of money painting new centerlines on College Street and either the city had been ripped off or that Tom was weaving over the lines a bit. They locked Tom’s car and he walked home. I would have been tossed in the clink for sure.
Chip Houghton
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