Alpha Chapter
initiates its
166th Line

Nineteen neophytes
took the Pledge Oath;
fourteen of them became brothers
on Sunday, November 10, 2002:

Bjorn Philip Beer of Wilmington, NC,
Bryan Matthew Stockton of Burbank, CA,
Alexander Thomas Sanjenis of Miami, FL,
Michael Anthony Taormina of Oyster Bay, NY,
Charles Henry Perin of Reynoldsburg, OH,
Ily Zislin of Rockville, MD,
David Emerson Littlejohn of Mendon, NY,
Benjamin Joseph Coté of Scarborough, ME,
Keith Robert Krause of Buckeystown, MD,
Michael Thomas Parker of Bowie, MD,
Daniel Griffith Boyle of East Hartford, CT,
Sriranga Sundararajan Dattatreya of Summit Township, NJ
Timothy Gary Heck of Zionsville, IN,
Benjamin Andrew Ernst of Chatham, NJ

The Initiation Team:
Bro. Matthew Axelrod, Al-'99, was the Line Captain,
Bro. Christopher Hajduk, Al-'01, was the Senior Assistant Line Captain,
Bros. Kiran Kadekar, Al-'00; John Givens, Al-'00;
Marc Gersen, Al-'01; Daniel Hyde, Al-'01;
Yang-ming Tham, Al-'01, and William Morrissey, Al-'01, and
Seán Duffy, Al-'01, were the Junior Assistant Line Captains;
and Bro. Keith Gerver, Al-'99,
was the Line Chaplain.
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Gallery of Photographs
Taken at the Initiation
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Brother Ron Davidson, Al-'54,
a former President of the Washington Alumni Association,
died on August 10, 2002 at his residence in France,
just outside of Geneva.

Brother Davidson had a long career
with the U.S. Agency for International Development,
culminating in the Bureau of International Telecommunications and Information Policy
of the U.S. Department of State.
Brother Davidson then moved to Geneva
to take up a second career in the Bureau of Telecommunications Development
of the International Telecommunication Union,
where he was instrumental in the rapid spread of
telephone access in the developing world during the 1990s.

A popular member of the French community in which he resided,
he became connoisseur of regional wines and cheeses.
Brother Davidson had great pride in his brotherhood in Delta Phi Epsilon.
He took particular delight in noting that years ago he once brought Kofi Anan
to a Founder's Day Banquet,
when the future Secretary General of the United Nations was still a junior diplomat.

In the early 1980s Bro. Davidson played a critically decisive rôle
to ending the internal crisis affecting Alphas Chapter.

He willl be much missed.

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Bro. Denis P. Coleman, Al-'65,
90th Line,
appointed U. S. Consul General
in Bermuda

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TWO ALPHA BROTHERS BECOME
U.S. FOREIGN SERVICE OFFICERS

Recently sworn in were:

Bro. Mark A. Stamilio, Al-'87,
135th Line, to be posted in Colombia,
Bro. Robert H. McCutcheon, Al-'94,
149th Line, to be posted in Pakistan,
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On Sunday, March 24, 2002,
Alpha Chapter
initiated its
165th Line

Thirty-four neophytes originally took the Pledge Oath;
Twenty-two of them were initiated on March 4, 2002, as Line Brothers:

Richard Steven Krashevski of Alexandria, VA,
an economist with the U.S. General Accounting Office

Some of the alumni at Founders' Day shown welcoming
newly initiated Bro. Richard Krashevski
(l to r, Bros. Jeffrey Mooradian, Vincent Chiarello, Charles Skuba,
William Dirlam, Richard Krashevski, Christian Pearson and Gary Sauner)
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