[Erik P Conard]

You, unfortunately, came on the tail end of what I would call the
"halcyon" days of TKE. I cannot imagine riding around in the same car with Pete & Wilma. I will pass no judgement on either,
simply state that they grew apart.
Tex did, in the last years, carry on at an interminable rate, and he
was often asked to cut it short. Too bad, for there were good times, too. He was treated rather badly by HQ in the end.
I was a grad student at Illinois '63-65, and did little with HQ after
that time. From '60-63 I did help train field men, Bill Muse being
one of them. After moving to Indy, TKE went thru a lot of field men, many fired for misbehavior, some cost us charters, like at
Baker....About a hundred or so came and went...so far as I know
none are active now. It is hardly a bright time in TKE history, the
early Indy years...more braggadocio than anything else. And the
unceremonious departures of Kane, Woolery, Georgeff, Kollintzas,
Bishop, Aspinwall, Moe, and others...were distasteful...a shame.
Kollintzas, the originator of the TKE Survey commission, which was buttressed by Logan, Hall, Georgeff, Woolery, Young, and
PiKA Wilson Heller, was a Loyola Teke who has been gone a
good many years. He was not in favor at the end, but why I know not, there were a lot of comings and goings for the next twenty years, and literally hundreds of angry alumni, with a GC
totally oblivious. This festered for many years and we are still at
odds...trying to ameliorate...the schism.
My point in this posting, though, is not to air the dirty laundry, and
I could say a lot more...but to memorialize those who gave a lot
of their care and time to our Fraternity.