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Here are this issue's highlights
Page 2: From the International President
- International President Toby Roth echoes a call to alumni issued by then-Inter/National President Howard Alter nearly 60 years ago
- CEO Mike Mayer’s op-ed reviews the challenges facing higher education with regard to male students and how fraternities can be the solution
- Check out our recently (re)installed chapters and current colonies along with other opportunities
Page 8: –Cover Story– "The Internationalist"
- Bob Woodruff (Iota/Colgate 1983) discusses his Theta Chi experience, his career in broadcast journalism, his recovery from a traumatic brain injury sustained while reporting from Iraq, and more
- Updates from brothers and chapters from all over
Pp. 18–21: From the Foundation Chapter
- Alpha Rho/Washington’s Centennial Celebration
- 2023/2024’s Top Donors
- The Legacy Society and how you can join these esteemed brothers!
- My Baseball Story by Nick Del Calzo (Gamma Mu/Bowling Green 1960) honors the game’s influence on America and provides a gift back to Theta Chi
- Make your tax-deductible gift at thetachi.org/give
Page 22: Feature: “For The Kids”
- Omega/Penn State brothers and THON, the world’s largest student-run philanthropy
- Updates on Theta Chi alumni from around the world, along with several submissions from brothers, including:
- Theta Chi for Life Awards are presented to:
- Mike Kistler (Epsilon Upsilon/Central Michigan 1973)
- Tony Tetley (Epsilon Phi/Central Missouri 1967)
- Gamma Rho/Florida State’s Mark Hillis (1964) is FSU’s inaugural inductee into Distinguished Greek HOF
- Alpha Phi/Alabama: from Loss to Legacy
- Gamma Kappa/Miami (OH) plans for an overhaul of their chapter house
- Epsilon Beta/Lycoming and Eta Zeta/Edinboro alumni meet and compete in the pool
- Eta Zeta/Edinboro’s Jared Brown (1999) earns his Ed.D.
- Eta Pi/East Stroudsburg’s 50th Anniversary and a kidney donation!
- Delta Beta/Georgia’s 75th Anniversary and the return of Roster Number 1, Robert Brown (1950), their first President
Page 32-33: Blast from the Past
- Alpha Sigma/Oregon’s late-‘70s intramural football team and TOPGUN pilot Jack “Coney” Fields (1977)–who appeared in Top Gun!
- A reprise of Gamma Rho/Florida State’s 1972 trip to the Grand Prix at Sebring
This issue includes obituaries for:
- Distinguished Service Award recipient and Past Norwich Housing Corporation President Jim Thompson (Beta/MIT 1979)
- Automotive Innovator Hal Sperlich (Alpha Gamma/Michigan 1951)
- Entrepreneur Pete McNamee (Delta Pi/Indiana State 1983)
- Venerated Faculty Adviser Prof. Don Kleinsmith (Zeta Beta/Adrian 1987)
- Chicago P.D. Chief of Patrol Jim Maurer (Delta Xi/Valparaiso 1972)
- Former Growth Specialist Jacob Moore (Eta Gamma/Morehead 2021)
- Collegiate Brothers
- Nico Lamb (Zeta Psi/Western Illinois 2026)
- Tyler Solomon (Beta Theta/Drexel 2025)
- Mark your calendar and join us July 10-14, 2026, in San Antonio for Theta Chi’s 170th Anniversary Convention! Learn more at thetachi.org/convention
*This issue of The Digital Rattle was emailed to all members who have an email address within our database. A print version of this issue has been mailed to all alumni who have an address within our database; The Summer 2025 edition of The Rattle should be hitting mailboxes in September.
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