Kappa Phi 1959 memories and or Sigma Chi- I really do have some foggy memories, but here are
a few that I remember.
Kappa Phi Dance 1959 Kappa Phi 1960
Kappa Phi as a pledge
Salhab's Park was where we had one of our pledge exercise rallies.
Some of the pledges had been sipping a suds or two before the meeting
and this may have led to some of if not most of the pledges throwing up.
The actives led us in several exercises, including running, push ups, sit
ups, jumping jacks, and running in place. The intent was to get us all to
throw up, but I wasn't cooperating with throw up, so the actives kept at
it. The final exercise was we had to push a car up a hill with the brakes
on. I suppose some would call this hazing, but not for me; it was only a
short time since I had participated in my high school coach's workout
routine and this was easy. The rest of my brothers didn't think so.
WalksOnce the actives took us on a walk and dropped us off
somewhere in the boondocks, north of Beaumont. Little did they know
that we were in walking distance of Phil Hall's uncle's place and we beat
the actives back to Lamar. They were mad.
Hell week for Kappa Phi
Pledges were required to go to classes with toe sacks under their clothes, you
know; the scratchy kind. We also had to have an egg with a string attached to it,
so if anyone pulled it, the egg would break inside your pants. Of course, if your
egg lasted a week, it was beginning to smell.
When hell-night came, we were scheduled for some more fun things with the actives at Salhabs,
but as luck would have it, it snowed. Check the records, 1959, snow in Beaumont, either in
January or February. Wow!! It was rumored that we would have been syruped and floured, but
nature saved us (or providence). GO TO SNOW IN 1959