Beta Pi:ANNOUNCING THE WINNER OF
THE LEGEND OF LOWENSTEIN ESSAY CONTEST:
The competition was intense. Here is a recap. The thrill of victory, the agony of defeat . . .
THE ENTRIES: There were 7 "essays" that qualified as entries: Pierce Hodnette, Art Landry, John Stein, Marc Darling, Chet Brewer, Chris Regas, and Mark McGann. The Beta Pi Blog staff determined that all seven entries "qualified" and none of these would be disqualified for technical ommissions. All seven entries were considered. These entries are posted at Issue No. 24, LEGEND OF LOWENSTEIN ESSAY CONTEST. Go to that page, check out the entries.
THE RULES: The rules are posted at Issue No. 24, LEGEND OF LOWENSTEIN ESSAY CONTEST.
THE JUDGES: Blog editorial staff named 
"The Three Stooges" as sole judges. Since no e-mail "votes" were received (see rule #6), the Judges had only their judicial discretion on which to rely.
THE DELIBERATIONS: Each Stooge donned his black robe, read all essays, and picked his top 3 choices in preparation for deliberations, which were held in secret, by tele-conference. The Judges agonized over the entries, and emerged with a consensus. A motion was made to announce that a winner had been chosen, by smoke-signal a la The Vatican. That Motion failed. It was decided in lieu of smoke signals, the decision would instead be by e-mail. And now, will the bonded representative from the Accounting Firm of South, O’Dee & Border please hand me the hermetically sealed envelope . . .
. . . AND THE WINNER IS . . . SPLIT DECISION. TWO WINNERS:
PIERCE HODNETTE and 
ART LANDRY!
CONGRATULATIONS, VENERABLE WINNERS.
THE PRIZE: Dinner for two at Flemming's Steak House next to Vanderbilt, during Art’s next VU Reunion in 2006, and Pierce’s next VU Reunion in 2009. Prize delivery is contingent upon each Brother showing up at his next 5-year Reunion, in other words, a no-show at Reunion means forfeiture of prize. Art and his significant other, and Pierce and his significant other, respectively, will be escorted to dinner by a contingent of ATO Alums and their spouses. The prize is inclusive of the cost of winner’s and guest’s dinner (steak, chicken or fish, with drinks included, except if the Brother orders "Pony-Peckers" which will be at the Brother’s sole expense). Prize is underwritten by The Three Stooges. The Stooges, along with Boss Stein, and all venerable Beta Pi brothers in town for such reunion are invited.
THE FLUKE ACCIDENTAL DELETION: In the course of online-teleconference deliberations, Judge Bozino Lorenzo accidently hit the "delete" button to Issue No.24. It is now "lost" in cyber-space, forever. There is blame to be laid: this was due to intense harassment dished up by Judge Vinny on Bozino. Thankfully, Judge Bozino was able to "reconstruct" and re-post Issue No.24 as a "Special Edition Reprint" - and it was duly posted today, with 6 of the 7 entries. Your Blog Staff was unable to find, let alone re-post Pierce Hodnette’s entry, but Pierce has been contacted, to assist in this historic reconstruction effort. Contestants be assured, this fluke deletion did not play any role in the decision, other than the embarrassment of a screw-up (although the bribe money went a long way towards the success of this contest).
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VTL,
Larry Simons
Beta Pi, '72
3 comments:
I don't know anything about any Lowenstein. The thing I most remember about Alex was how he would come to the edge of the food room and announce, rather shyly, "lunch s'on" or somethimes "eee lunch". Then we would run in like hungry wolverines.
Alex and Laura were very loyal to the swimmers. They held back food for swimmers at night because the swimmers were always late for supper due to their daily practice. It always seemed that the swimmers got more to eat than the rest of us, but I can't prove that.
One night at supper I lofted a tater tot toward Jim Cordner at the back table. Unfortunately, it hit his girlfriend square in the face. Laura refused to serve tater tots after that. Jim Cordner's girlfriend was the kind of nice, smart girl that I wish my sons would be interested in. I would like to formally apologize to Jim Cordner, his girlfriend, everyone present that night, and to Alex and Laura. In retrospect, throwing that tot was the wrong thing to do.
Postscript: I accept the generous offer of the stooges to dine at their expense in 2009. Thanks for this opportunity to get the tater tot incident cleared up.
E-MAIL RECEIVED FROM CO-AWARD WINNER, ART LANDRY, October 5, 2006:
"Larry, I have gotten your message and will call you in next few days. Been out of office in trial for a number of days. Reunion remains completely iffy with a trend to most unlikely. However, if the rules of the contest prevent me from assigning dinner rights to any other Tic, I assume I can at least refer the Shrimp Cocktail to Wimp. Wimp, eat it with my compliments.Let me express my appreciation for the Stooge Honor bestowed upon me. Best regards, Arthur Landry, Esq."
RESPONSE OF THE STOOGES TO ART: Art, on behalf of the Stooges, sorry your prize rights are unassignable ("Pony Peckers" excepted) - you are one-of-a-kind, truly an All-Time-Great, we love you and continue to hope you will commit and show up. We miss you (is this drippy enough yet?) - do it!
Larry
AWARD WINNING ESSAY - LEGENDS OF LOWENSTEIN CONTEST
BY PIERCE HODNETTE
"I don't know anything about any Lowenstein. The thing I most remember about Alex was how he would come to the edge of the food room and announce, rather shyly, "lunch s'on" or somethimes "eee lunch".
Then we would run in like hungry wolverines. Alex and Laura were very loyal to the swimmers. They held back food for swimmers at night because the swimmers were always late for supper due to their daily practice. It always seemed that the swimmers got more to eat than the rest of us, but I can't prove that.
One night at supper I lofted a tater tot toward Jim Cordner at the back table. Unfortunately, it hit his girlfriend square in the face. Laura refused to serve tater tots after that. Jim Cordner's girlfriend was the kind of nice, smart girl that I wish my sons would be interested in.
I would like to formally apologize to Jim Cordner, his girlfriend, everyone present that night, and to Alex and Laura. In retrospect, throwing that tot was the wrong thing to do.
Postscript: I accept the generous offer of the stooges to dine at their expense in 2009. Thanks for this opportunity to get the tater tot incident cleared up."
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