May, 2008
Josh Sykes, SMC, has graciously yielded this space for several important announcements.
Even though the Hogcaller is 8 pages in length, space was a major problem in this issue.
Rush 2008- Need Rushee Recommendations
The three rules of real estate: location, location, location. The three rules of fraternity life: Rush,
Rush, Rush. Despite AZ’s competitive housing disadvantage, we are holding our own in rush.
AZ is once again a 100 Man Chapter, and 10 Pikes are either Chancellor Scholars (including the
SMC), Honors College Fellows (including the IMC), or Honors College Scholars. Alumni can help maintain this tradition by providing names of quality rushees who would make good Pikes.
ALUMNI CAN SEND RUSHEE RECOMMENDATIONS DIRECTLY TO THE RUSH
CHAIRMAN, CHRIS PETRAWSKI, AT cpetraws@uark.edu
OR MAKE THEM ONLINE
THROUGH THE AZ WEB SITE. Go to the DATA PAGE, then click the Rushee Button, type in the name(s), and click submit. (You can also update personal information on yourself and others, make tentative Reunion 08 reservations, submit favorite PiKA Memories, etc. at the same time). If you are electronically challenged (no internet), please send written recommendations to Chris Petrawski at 975 54 th Street, Fayetteville AR 72701. You can also call Chris with rushee names. His cell number is 214-893-7866.
Monticello Corporation Request
The Monticello Corporation is seeking the assistance of alumni who sell, provide, or have access to goods, materials, and services that are commonly used and needed in the operation of the fraternity house. The MC is not asking for cash donations. Rather, the housing corporation IS asking for assistance in acquiring goods and services at wholesale. At present, the industrial refrigerator is in need of replacement, so if any alum is in the restaurant supply business or has access to good, serviceable restaurant equipment and supplies, please contact Michael Cooper,
President, at Michael.Cooper@saralee.com
. We are also looking to equip the house with wireless internet connections and will be purchasing equipment to do this over the summer break.
Janitorial supplies are always needed, and some wooden drawers and ceiling tiles are currently in need of replacement as well. If you can provide these and other goods, materials, or services at wholesale, please contact Michael and let him know how you can help.

Go to www.hogpikealumni.com
, then the DATA PAGE, and you can now:
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Update Personal Information (on yourself and others)
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Compose and Post Favorite College Memory

Compose and Post Favorite PiKA Memory
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Fill Out and Submit Questionnaires (Information about you since college)
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Make Rush Recommendations
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Request/Post Football Tickets (except Florida)-If You’ve Got’em or Need‘em,
We Match You Up
Under the Reunion 08 button on the DATA PAGE, you can:
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Make 2008 Reunion Dinner Reservations, Request/Post Florida Football Tickets
By clicking the IMPORTANT NEWS BUTTON on the home page, you can:
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Find information on accommodations for the upcoming Reunion 08, as well as how to independently find Florida game tickets.
The number of LOST alumni from 1940-2005 is down to
!!! The complete list is posted on the web site under a new LOST ALUMNI button that is located on the
DATA PAGE of the web site. (Be sure to scroll down.) If you have ANY information on any alum on the list, please provide it. You can submit the information electronically.
The AZ web site is in need of composites, college era photographs (party pics and candids), recent pictures, and vacation pictures for posting on the internet. You can
EITHER scan pictures and submit them to the webmaster online
( whneubert@hotmail.com
) OR you can mail them to William Neubert, 1615 Forest
Street, Carthage, MO 64836. Please enclose a return, pre-addressed and pre-stamped envelope with submitted pictures, and include the names, the event, and the year he photo was taken. The pictures will be returned after they are scanned. Note: The web master is on an assignment out of state and it may take 30 days to have the photos returned.
PiKA has always had the pick of the crop when it comes to having members with distinguished military careers. If you served in the military with distinction, or received significant military decoration(s), please tell us about them. I know that Congressman
John Paul Hammerschmidt, Jim Arnold, Thomas Furlow, and Bob Fabinsky all received
Distinguished Flying Crosses. Who else among us has received a Silver Star, Legion of
Merit, etc? This information can be provided online by noting and submitting same on the interactive Questionnaire (found on the Data Page), or by writing in the information on the Questionnaire and mailing it to the address on the last page of this newsletter.

Pre-1966 1966-69
Springdale Country Club Hog Haus
1:00 Golf 4:30-7:30 Cash Bar
Cost: $50 pp
(Includes Sat. Lunch)
Cost: $20 pp
Saturday Lunch $5 pp
*Johnny “Black and Blue” Tolleson
1970-Present
Inn at Carnall Hall
7:00-9:00 Buffet
6:00 Cash Bar 7:30 Finger Food Buffet 3 Entrees/3 Veggies/
7:00 Sit Down Dinner Social Hour Until? 2 Salads/Dessert/Tip
8:30 Entertainment* 9:00 On- Maxine’s
Cost: $40 pp
(Includes Sat. Lunch)
CONTACTS
Bill Brady Brant Croxdale
Bill@williambbrady.com
BCroxdale@hilanddairy.com
Cell: 501-312-9027 Cell: 479-841-6262
David Love
DLove5555@aol.com
Cell: 501-627-3142
For planning purposes, we need tentative head counts for Friday events. You can make NON-BINDING dining reservations online via the AZ web site. Click the
Reunion 08 button on the DATA PAGE, then click Reunion Event Form. If you need game tickets, you can request them on this form as well.
For those whose schedules do not permit attendance at the Friday get together of your age group, a catered lunch (Buddy Wray, Chairman) and cash bar will be provided at the fraternity house on Saturday. Suggested Contribution is $5 pp. As yet, the starting time for the game has not been announced. Check the AZ web site, www.hogpikealumni.com
, for exact times, once the game time has been set. Tentatively, cash bar opens at 9:30 am; finger food brunch is from 10:00-Noon; Cash Bar Noon-1:30; Kick-off 2:00 pm.
The annual meeting of the Monticello Corporation will take place at the fraternity house at 10:00 am on Saturday, October 4, 2008. In September, check the AZ web site
(Monticello Tab) for the proposed slate of 2008-09 Officers and the Business Agenda.

George Kok ’44, Arkansas’ first 7’ center on the basketball team, is retired
Ernest Oakleaf ’68, political guru and consultant extraordinaire. PhD in and living in Louisville, KY. George is an original member of the Wall of Fame.
William Neubert ’57, Electrical
Engineer and Computer Systems
Engineer. Web Master for AZ. He and
Willie have one son, Steven. Email of record.
Bill May ‘58, Emeritus banking executive, Arkansas Bankers Bank. His beloved is Becky, and they have 2 children, Susan and Nancy. Email of record.
George Coffman ’60, recently retired
Major of the Arkansas State Police.
Presently Chairman of Commercial
Transportation for Executive
Consultants, Inc., LLC. Email of record
Richard Goff ’62, is in the public warehousing business in Little Rock.
Customers include Maybelline, L’Oreal,
Tyson, IP, and Wal-Mart. He and his wife, Linda, have 5 children, Richard Jr.,
Michael, Mark, Kerby, and R. Hunter.
Email of record.
James Arnold II ’64, Recipient of the
Distinguished Flying Cross and retired
Delta pilot of “big birds.” F-4 pilot in
‘Nam. Favorite Memory- Roaring 20’s party. Email of record.
Don L. Gibson ’66, Pres/CEO of Ark.
Legacy Bank. BSBA and MBA. He and
Carol Lynn reside in Springdale. Email of record. sociology and paired with his hipmate,
Zoe, PhD in demography (Fulbright
Scholar-Cambridge). They are the definitive source for opinion research for elections in Arkansas. Period. Email of record.
Dr. Jim Berkowitz ’68, ‘BSBA ‘70.
Coordinator for Georgia Tech research projects. Translation: Visionary. (Linda hasn’t left him for 30 years, so the over and under bet has been decided.)
Seriously, he is a player in the academic world.
Gary Karnes ’68, suffered a personal tragedy when one of his sons predeceased him (Jack). While tragic,
Jordan (’01) is a loyal PiKA. Their personal email addresses are of record.
Larry W. Adams ’71. Speaking of over and under bets, who would have thought that Larry would ever graduate (’84)?
And he has a Masters, too! Great success story, and well deserved, too.
Hard worker. Email address of record.
Richard Neil Haley ’71, ME. Some are still mystified as to how he landed
Debbie. The old adage “For better or for worse” was amended when he married:
“He couldn’t do any better, she couldn’t do any worse.” Seriously, he is the Sr.
Structural Engineer for Hawker
Beechcraft, and that IS serious. 2 children, Garrett and Gayle.

SPRING SEMESTER CHAPTER HONORS
Joshua Sykes, current SMC, Order of Omega Outstanding President Award
Order of Omega: Joshua Sykes, Jacob McConnell, Andrew Ellenburg, and Miles Ritter
American Chemical Society Achievement Award- Miles Ritter (current IMC)
SMART Grant- Zachary Lambertson
Mark Kimbrough- Gamma Phi Beta Honors Society
Congratulations to Ryan Van Pelt, immediate past SMC, Honors Graduate-Walton
Business College
Alpha Zeta can now contact 900 (up from 225 last August) living alumni electronically.
What does this mean to the alumni? For starters, the cost of putting out a newsletter is reduced from $1,200.00 per issue to $400.00. The undergraduates cannot afford to send out 3 or 4 newsletters a year at $1,200/issue, but they can afford $1,200 for
3 issues. This means better communication with, and more information of interest to, alumni. 7 of the 8 pages in this newsletter are about alumni, not the actives.
You can help in this project. How?
Most alumni keep up with between 3 and 5 of their brothers. Write David Love an email ( dlove5555@aol.com
) and provide the names, email addresses, and cell numbers of any alum that YOU keep up with. This is not a research project. Just provide the information in your email directory and your pda/blackberry/palm pilot. It will take you 5 minutes max. Alternatively, you can provide the information online by going to the AZ web site, Data Page Tab, then the
Personal Data button.
A number of pledges, and perhaps other persons with special ties to AZ, never were initiated for one reason (grades) or another. If you have a worthy candidate for special initiation, please provide the details on the person. You can write the information in the blank space provided on the last page of this newsletter and then mail it to the address provided on the back of the newsletter, or you can (preferred) provide it online (web site, Data Page, Personal Data tab).

Lynn Forrest and Gene Hoggard Provided this story of Bo Diddley at the U of A
Lynn: Bo Diddley and his band came to Fayetteville to play at the Uark Bowl in 1960.
Jim “Mouse” Hockersmith, himself an accomplished musician, hooked up with Bo somehow, as musicians often do, and invited him to come to the Pike house when he found out that Bo couldn’t get a motel room. Mom Sorrells pitched a fit, but he was allowed to stay around.
After the dance, Bo and his band came back to the house and jammed to the wee hours.
Bo and some of the band and some of the brothers all crowded into our (Lynn and Lyle
Adams) room and Bo began an impromptu session of some of his “raw” material. Adds
Gene: “Naturally, we had some spirits available and Bo was receptive to having a toddie or two with us.” Lynn’s description: “Anyway I had a new jug of vodka. We had nothing to drink it with so someone went to the coke machine and got some NuGrape. If you have never had a pucker on vodka and NuGrape, consider yourself very lucky, because I sure bought one that morning.”
Richard L. Fawcett ’38 isn’t the oldest living Alpha Zeta alumnus. That distinction belongs to
Ernest Holt ’34 (yes, one of those Holts). Richard currently resides in Hot Springs, Arkansas. He can be reached at 501-760-4096, rlfawea77@hotmail.com
. When Richard was walking around campus, the Pike house was located at the other end of Arkansas Avenue, the total enrollment at the University of Arkansas was 5903, and the only personal electronic devise was a radio. Only one member, Stanley G. Price, even had a car!!
After college, Richard started a hardware business, then bought a Ford dealership, got interested in sawmills, and finally bought a bank (First National Bank of Ashdown, now Regions).
Richard fondly remembers his college days, and the men of Pi Kappa Alpha. Men like the
Fittons, Thomas Furlow (1 of many war heroes-Distinguished Flying Cross), and Jimmie Baker,
ABC Television Producer and winner of 6 Emmy Awards.
A rose by any other name may smell as sweet, but you just have to wonder how someone ends up with an email address of bluedogmckenzie@hotmail.com
. Those who were walking around the Pike house from 1972-75 know about “Tin Man,” and 1953-56 guys know how Tommy Glen White earned his nickname of “Sam.” Fair notice is given that all will be exposed- the above 3 and others will just be given an opportunity to tell your side. Everyone with an interesting nickname is encouraged to tell the rest how you got it.
Go to the Data Page, then Personal Data Tab, on the web site, and post it.

This Questionnaire can be filled out and submitted electronically by going to the DATA
PAGE of the web site. For those without internet access, please fill in the information and mail it to Miles Ritter, Vice President. The address is on the Questionnaire.
FULL GIVEN NAME: NICKNAME:
PREFERRED NAME AND ADDRESS: Home Telephone:
Business Telephone:
Cellular Telephone:
WIFE'S NAME:
CHILDREN/AGES (OVER 18=ADULT)
Preferred Email Address:
COLLEGE DEGREE/YEAR
Occupation (Brief Description)
Military Service (Y/N)?
Favorite College Memory
SECOND DEGREE/YEAR
Name of Business/Firm
Medals/Citations Awarded?
(Please Provide Narrative)
Year Initiated:
Area Code-Number
THIRD DEGREE/YEAR
Title
Send To: Miles Ritter, 2710 Turtle Creek Rd., Jonesboro, AR 72404
Favorite PiKA Memory (Please Provide Narrative)
Send To: Miles Ritter, 2710 Turtle Creek Rd., Jonesboro, AR 72404
Who Do You Keep Up With From College?
Your Hometown: Your High School
Their Email Addresses
If Living, Names of Parents
Today's Date:]
Their Current City and State of Residence

The space below is intentionally left blank, so that alumni without internet access can write in any information that they deem important and return it to PiKA. Comments on how to improve the newsletter, a narrative on your favorite PiKA and/or college memories, information on yourself and other alumni, rushee recommendations, etc. are welcome. Attach additional sheets if necessary.
Miles Ritter, IMC
2710 Turtle Creek Road
Jonesboro, AR 72404
Address Service Requested