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San Fernando Valley State College
Team Meetings
Grand Reunion Alumni
Banquet for
50th
Anniversary of
California State University, Northridge
April 25, 2009
 There is a major effort underway to get as many alumni to attend the banquet as
possible. Check out the link for the Grand Reunion website (including the
Matador Fight Song): http://www.csun.edu/50/
Pismo
Retreat May 1-3, 2009
Our Retreats began in October,
1996 with a visit to Rick Krieger in Bend, Oregon. Of the 30 brothers in
attendance, I'll bet none of us envisioned that we were creating an institution
that would ensure the ongoing viability of the Pi Kappa Tau Fraternity until the
last of us is gone. The Retreats are held the first weekends in May and November
at 18 month intervals. The next one will be May 1-3, 2009 at the Mission Inn of Pismo Beach. The regular schedule helps avoid calendar
conflicts, provided our aging members remember to mark their calendars.
Since the Retreat of November,
1998, one of the highlights of the weekend has been the passing on of the
Krieger Award, the closest thing Pi Kappa Tau has to the Nobel Prize. This
honor has been bestowed upon Stu Olster, John Cagle, Gerry Adams, Rick Turton,
Dick Eisman, and Curt Ebbesmeyer, and Bob Kari. At the 2007 retreat,
Bob Kari presented this honor
to Bob Richardson.
Please send your reservation as soon as possible (it makes the arrangements easier and in fact possible)
with your check to:
Rick Turton C/O
Pacific Leisure
610 Cypress St.
Pismo Beach, CA 93449
We have a confidential fund to help brothers who otherwise could not attend, so contact Rick if you'd like to talk about it. Rick also needs to arrange roommates, so please let him know ASAP.
Early Arrivals
Wednesday, April 29 and / or Thursday, April 30 Night Lodging
$65.45 per person - double occupancy
$119.90 per person - single occupancy
As an extra inducement for those that show up on Thursday. The Mission Inn will provide us with a hospitality room plus 1 Hour Reception (times to be determined as the date nears), Heavy Hors D’oeuvres/Small meal buffet, and Hosted Beer & Wine
 Basic Package $300.00 per person - double occupancy
(Note: single occupancy would be $425.00 per person)
Package includes:
Friday, May 1 & Saturday, May 2 - 2 nights lodging
and
Friday
1 Hour Reception (times to be determined as the date nears)
Heavy Hors D’oeuvres/Small meal buffet
Hosted Beer & Wine
Saturday
Hosted Beer & Wine from 5pm – 6:30 pm
Hors D’oeuvres platter during reception
6 pm - 3 course meal – salad, mixed plate & dessert
NOTE: Included with each guests stay is a full hot American breakfast buffet as well as a drink voucher for our evening manager’s reception. The breakfast buffet offers a daily chef’s special, eggs, potatoes, sausage, bacon, cereals, toast, fruit, yogurt and assorted pastries.
Team Meetings
In 1966, "the Pi Kappa Tau Drinking Team" meetings began. They have continued
until today.
The second Thursday of each month, brothers gather at the Lannathai restaurant on Van Nuys Blvd. about
seven o'clock in the evening. Any given night there will be eight or ten brothers or as
many as sixty. These meetings have gone on since the 1960s and continue. Everyone is
welcome. The meetings are at:
4457 VAN NUYS BOULEVARD
SHERMAN OAKS, CA 91405
(818) 995-0808
The origin of these meetings began when the Benevolent Order of the Silver Flagon was
created as a beer drinking honorary fraternity at Valley State and got a charter from the
Associated Students. Some brothers, notably Gerry Adams and Larry Castro, thought any
brother should automatically be a member, but for some reason or another Cagle insisted
the BOSF was an honorary like Blue Key. Adams and Castro were so upset that they started
their own beer drinking fraternity, which they simply referred to as "the Drinking
Team" or generally just "the Team." Well, whereas the Benevolent Order
(BOSF) had actual chapters at several other universities (including Oregon State, Chico,
San Jose, Fresno, and other universities), when the initial members graduated, BOSF
disappeared. Even Cagle admits this fact.
The Team continues, however, to this day. None drinks alone.
Send calendar announcements to Cagle. Thank
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