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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

CSUN 50thThere 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

Mission Inn pictureBasic 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 you.

CSUN 50th Link to Mission Inn