Beta Pi Blog, Vol.2010, No.14 - Guest Blogmeister Tison Keel

Beta Pi:



IS BETA PI BLOG WITHOUT ANY REDEEMING SOCIAL OR ARTISTIC MERIT?:

YEA . . . .

or NAY?

Beta Pi Blog exists for one reason: to bring ATO, Beta Pi Chapter Brothers and ATO Gal-Pals together. The blog does not take itself very seriously - it is meant for

fun, and therefore is non-political. It includes pictures, links, Archives of previous issues, and other time-wasters. To get there, go to web address: http://beta-pi-blog.blogspot.com .



GUEST BLOGMEISTER TISON KEEL:   Long ago (like - 2006), we opened up this Blog to guest writers, to contribute pieces to this Blog.

Many have met the challenge, among them

Frank J. Biller fbiller1@msn.com  ,

Matt Hart matthewjhart@yahoo.com  ,

Travis Parr parrfamco@aol.com  ,

Jeff Perout jeff@perout.com  ,

Steve Starr starr2456@comcast.net  ,

George Welborn gwelborn@mindspring.com  ,

Mark McGann markmcgann@prodigy.net  ,

Pierce Hodnette phodnette@eufaula.rr.com  ,

Art Landry awl@awlandry.net   ,

Tom Lovinggood tlovinggood@comcast.net  ,

Jimmy Grissett jimgrissett@aol.com  ,

Neal Crenshaw neal.crenshaw@gmail.com  ,

Matt Blankenship mattsb@texas.net  , and

Ezekiel Floose e.floose@loincloth.com  .

Now comes that Mighty-T a/k/a TOO TALL TISON KEEL tison.keel@hotmail.com  ,

who contributes the following:

Judge Earl Stover - The Law On (Treacherous) Village Creek, Texas


By Tison Keel

I looked forward to a short respite from the madness of Houston, as I drove to Silsbee, Texas to enjoy the operatic recital of Elise Stover, eldest daughter of Brother Earl  Tumbleweed   Stover - ATO and Texan of note. (Elise has some impressive pipes by the way - worthy of an American Idol tryout in my opinion, and studying music with a special interest in opera at LSU.)

Silsbee, population 6,393 is in East Hardin County. What could be a more relaxing short escape from the problems of the big city naked and the dead? Shades of bucolic Mayberry, RFD? Think again!

I stopped just inside the town line to gas up and spotted the latest edition of the Silsbee Bee for sale. With fond remembrances of the weekly editions at the ATO house, which Earl would drop off after he finished with them, I picked one up. I expected quilting circles, bake sales, Boy Scout good deeds, and entertaining marriage notices. Check out the front page! MURDER! SCALPING!! BEATINGS! BABY IN A DRYER!!

Baby in a dryer? We’re talking the Big Thicket of East Texas, and anything goes! And, standing on the thin line separating barbarism and civilization, who do we find? Why, past Worthy Chaplain and current Texas District Judge Earl Stover ebstoveriii@aol.com  , making front page news.

I venture to guess few other Brothers have made the news as frequently, and doing so through positive contributions to the steadfast maintenance of Law and Order, rather than investment scams or shameful public displays of bag-headed, naked drinking games. We little suspected, but must have sub-consciously known that Earl was The Man for the Worthy Chaplain’s post, for he has continued steadfastly to represent those   .   .   .  eternal and immutable principles,  to  .   .   . stand together and contend for the supremacy of good over evil.  (Otis A. Glazebrook, 1880).

Earl is still non-committal about our 35th reunion at VU.

Earl - you MUST be there!

TO TISON: Excellent article, thank you my friend! I will do my best to post the pdf image of the Silsbee Bee article you submitted, although I do not think this thing is wired for that kind of image.

In case it fails, I’ll add this editorial footnote:

Earl was the Judge who put the Baby-in-the-Dryer-Guy behind bars, not the baby.  Hey, here in

goober-ville-wacky Tennessee - where our politicians pass laws allowing us to  harvest road-kill deer meat   and

laws allowing us to  carry guns in public parks and bars  ,  and threaten to secede from the Union,

Judges   have been known to do weird and wacky things. Tennessee once had a Court of Appeals Judge write a contributing article for Penthouse Magazine, talk about a scandal. Just so ya know!

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ATO GAL PALS - NEW INDUCTEE:   My usual internet sleuthing led me to a semi-secret Gal-Pal e-mail - a sort of underground gossip network, and Beta-Pi-Blog brings it to you, dear reader, exclusively.

Here is the e-mail exchange between

Tuti-Fruity Beauty   BECKY BRUNING MANYAK  to none-other-than
that Rip-roaring Sex Symbol Extra ordinaire -

ATO Gal-Pal, BETTY INGLE BACH :



On May 26, 2010, at 6:02 PM, Rebecca Manyak wrote:

From: Elizabeth Bach

Betty-- See what you are missing? Please share this w/ Denham.... Do you have her e-mail? Katie, Karen, Ellen and I are all in for reunion... You and Denham had best show as well... Becky

Subject: Re: Beta Pi Blog, Vol.2010, No.08 - New Inductees
To: "Rebecca Manyak"
Date: Thursday, July 1, 2010, 3:18 PM

finally reading this wild site. do not understand why I am never mentioned.!?! if my memory is correct, I spent a great deal of time at the ato house! saw the wrong number of legs on that creature downstairs too many times.

TO BETTY: Thanks for the compliment, the Blog does enjoy

walking on the wild side!







However, the Blog hereby disavows any knowledge whatsoever of any alleged  3-legged creatures  in the Zebra Room.   Humanoids have only 2 visible legs, and Zebras have 5 - although there was once a

Humanoid Rat, a/k/a Biggie, with 3-legs. There must be a short circuit in your memory bank.



WITHOUT FURTHER TOO-DO, PLEASE WELCOME BETTY INGLE BACH e.bach@comcast.net  .   Betty, you are hereby invited to Reunion Weekend October 22 - 23, 2010. It is easy - Friday nite Class Party; Saturday afternoon Tail Gate and Homecoming Game; Saturday evening 4th Annual ATO Dinner, 7:30 p.m., at Cabana!


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BETA PI BLOG ROSTER STATS: As of August 5, 2010, the Blog roster stands at 102 Tick-a-lo men online who have e-mail addresses (plus 7 Brothers who do not have e-mail), and 14 ATO Gal-Pals. The blog needs e-mail addresses, please share!

VTL,

Larry Simons, a/k/a Wild Bozino

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Beta Pi Blog, Vol.2010, No.13 - Ziska Zurfaces

Beta Pi:

IS BETA PI BLOG WITHOUT ANY REDEEMING SOCIAL OR ARTISTIC MERIT?:

YEA

. . . . or NAY?


Beta Pi Blog exists for one reason: to bring ATO, Beta Pi Chapter Brothers - and ATO Gal-Pals - together. The blog does not take itself very seriously - it is meant for fun, and therefore is non-political. It includes

pictures, links, Archives of previous issues, and other time-wasters. To get there, go to web address:  http://beta-pi-blog.blogspot.com/  .

ZISKA ZURFACES: I had thought that all-time Great Schwimbag from Columbus, Ohio - Rick Super-Zit Ziska, had been lost forever. Wrong! The social networking tool Linked-In helped me find Super-Zit. His e-mail is  rickz@myroncornish.com  .

WITHOUT FURTHER TO-DO, BETA PI BLOG WELCOMES RICK ZISKA! In honor of Super-Zit, we shall have a re-telling of perhaps one of the greatest Tales of Tickle-dom ever told (formerly told at - see Archives, _____, 2006, Beta Pi Blog, Vol.2006, No.39).



BUCK LEADS PLEDGES IN PAINTING THE SAE LIONS

By Bozino Lorenzo

It was a lovely autumn evening, birds chirping, co-eds fluttering and bouncing, fratenity row was Electric Avenue! The SAE's had their formal going on, and ATO's had Wales Tales going on in the Zebra Room.

Keep in mind - ATO's had several E allies, they were in spiritual harmony with us - there was Tom Curtain, a.k.a., Nate, Jody Faison, David Dodson, just to name a few great guys.

There are many tales in the annals of Beta Pi of the ritual painting of the SAE Lions - and having imbibed heavily himself,

Frank J. Biller  fbiller1@msn.com  was educating the pledges on such tales. Frank was also promoting extreme imbibition among his young followers, namely Dirk Ewing, Rick Ziska and Jack Nichols jack.nichols@datawire.net  . The beer consumed, it was yet early in the evening, at twilight, Buck’s plan was hatched:

It would be a stealth mission - never mind waiting until dark of night - they would rely on speed and agility to avoid being detected by the E's. Oh, and never mind that the E's were casually mingling with their dates, all in formal attire on the E front porch, as they prepared for their soiree! Never mind that the SAE Lions were located a mere 5 yards from the porch. These were insignificant details. Stealth Mission, all systems GO!

Buck, having the presence of mind to remember a bucket of paint was in the store room, it was zero hour. The excitement was more than the brave comrades could contain, they were laughing so hard. Off they go, across the street, paint bucket sloshing, running toward the E Lions. Ewing and Ziska, being swimmers, and Nick being Nick, they easily out-ran Buck.

They could have merely poured the paint on the Lions quickly - but that would be too easy, and too boring a tale to tell. In the sheer excitement of the moment, it was

fling the paint toward the porch - riveting the unsuspecting E's, and their lovely dates, in a horrific spattering of paint splotches on E's faces, on E's formal attire, on E-date's faces, on formal evening gowns, on the E stone walls, on the E porch -

the brave lads laughing and howling!

They bolt (stumble) back into the Tik House, Buck out of breath, yelling - the E's are after us, they're gonna kill us, boys!

Actually, the E's were in a state of shock - culture shock might be more acurate - their evening having been so abruptly disrupted by drunken revellers.

One word: Shame. It was the most somber, focused Chapter Meeting in memory - no one even smiled. At the top of the agenda, University threats of revoking the Beta Pi Charter, National was contacted, an attorney was consulted, if we were lucky, Social Probation would result: a form of "supervised probation" overseen by Dean K.C. Potter, with financial restitution (for the ruined formal wear and dresses), and work scrubbing the E walls and porch, and most importantly, an apology.



It was a consensus: no matter how shameful, it was all for one, and one for all, we would face the music together, with dignity. This made a lasting impression on me.

Did I mention it was oil base paint? Beta Pi met the challenge, with dignity, in force the next Saturday morning, armed with wire brushes, thinner, paint stripper, and contrition.

I remember scrubbing the E stone walls with a wire brush, and busting a knuckle (no one thought of work-gloves) thinking it was right for us to do this. I think of Buck, Rick and Jack whenever I look at those E Lions.


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ATO GAL PAL UPDATE: Planning forward to October 22 - 23, 2010, Reunion Weekend, Saturday evening 4th Annual ATO Dinner, 7:30 p.m., at Cabana! This just in from a few of those great gals . . .

KAREN DEGERBERG karen.degerberg@gmail.com  : Thanks! I'll be there. Looking forward to seeing you, too. Karen

KATIE HERRINGTON TAFT nurseless1@att.net  : Yes, will be in attendance at reunion. Would love to attend ATO dinner. Count me in.





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BETA PI BLOG ROSTER STATS: As of July 29, 2010, the Blog roster stands at 102 Tick-a-lo men online who have e-mail addresses (plus 7 Brothers who do not have e-mail), and 13 ATO Gal-Pals. The blog needs e-mail addresses, please share!


VTL,

Larry Simons


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Beta Pi Blog, Vol.2010, No.12 - Saga of Stubbs

Beta Pi:




IS BETA PI BLOG WITHOUT ANY REDEEMING SOCIAL OR ARTISTIC MERIT?:

YEA . . . . or

NAY?



Beta Pi Blog exists for one reason: to bring ATO, Beta Pi Chapter Brothers together.

The blog does not take itself very seriously - it is meant for fun, and therefore is non-political. It includes

pictures, links, Archives of previous issues, and other time-wasters.






To get there, go to web address: http://beta-pi-blog.blogspot.com .

SAGA OF STUBBS:


I had all but given up on Cory Stubbs Clark, Class of 74, I had devoted blogs to him (See Archive, Vol.2007, No.24, April 2007),

and put out All Points Bulletins on him to try to smoke out his whereabouts. The last we’d seen Stubby

was at Olympic Tales in Nashville, 1984,  at which time he was working freelance in Interstate Commerce.

Alas, no one knew where on earth the Mighty Stubbs was to be found.

Echoing in the canyon, I could hear STUBBY ... stubby ... stubb ... stu ... s

So I’d given up hope. Today, out of the blue, I get this e-mail from Mighty George Aber Abernathy gabernathy@greshaminc.com  :

Cory and his wife, Margaret, spent the night with us last night, and they are doing great. They are headed to Jacksonville, FL to attend his 40th high school reunion. Please add STUBBS to the Beta Pi Blog distribution, and his email address is stubbs639@gmail.com  . He wants to hear from all the boys!

Aber

Thanks, Aber - well done. Without further - to do -

BETA PI BLOG WELCOMES THE INIMITABLE CORY STUBBY CLARK!

Welcome aboard, Commodore Stubbins! Keel-haul the Whale and Scally the Wag!

Just one question, Stubbins, how did you manage to stay incognito since 1984, for 26 freakin’ years?

The Yeomen have missed ya - ARRRGH!

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ATO GAL PAL UPDATE - NEW INDUCTEE:

Similar to Stubbs, a certain Pi Phi has been on our radar for several years, but until recent heroic efforts of

that All-Time-Great ATO Gal-Pal Becky Bruning Manyak rmanyak@yahoo.com  , that certain Pi Phi’s e-mail address has eluded us. No longer.

Drum roll please . . . For perhaps one of the greatest beauties on the planet . . .

BETA PI BLOG WELCOMES .   .    . 

BECKY DENHAM bejasy@comcast.net  !




My favorite Becky memory is when Becky was a famed attending wench at

historic Columbia Wales Tales, which my Dad, George H. Simons attended

and quicky became (because of no prior Tales experience) the Well. . . .

Becky, welcome - we hope to see you at Reunion in October.


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BETA PI BLOG ROSTER STATS: As of July 7, 2010, the Blog roster stands at 101 Tick-a-lo men online who have e-mail addresses (plus 7 Brothers who do not have e-mail), and 13 ATO Gal-Pals. The blog needs e-mail addresses, please share!

VTL,

Larry Simons

Beta Pi, 72