A chance meeting with a TKE.

The1calledTKE · #1 10-01-2001, 07:57 AM

Has there ever been a time you met a TKE from another chpater somewhere? I have met plenty but the furthest from home was when I met a TKE from NY while I was in NY.

StrokerTKE · #2 10-01-2001, 12:53 PM

Myself and one of my brothers were walking through the mall one day, wearing our letters, when some guy walked up to us and said "i'm a teke from Purdue". Kinda scared us cuz he was just kinda sittin on a bench then got up and started walkin straight towards us, but then once we found out we were all brothers we stood there in center court talking for an hour or so.

GmuTeke · #3 10-02-2001, 10:33 AM

3 stories for you guys...

I was selling hotdogs for a fundraiser at a semi pro football team game, and I was wearing letters, and up walks this guys, and he says "where are you at teke at?" and I say i'm from gmu. and he says "i'm from X chapter" and does the grip. it was insanely cool to just run into a person. that was my first random run in as a frater.

Then earlier this semester, we were out bowling on a Saturday night, and one of my pledge brothers sees me walking by and flags me down saying "hey, i want you to meet someone" and i offer my hand and he introduces himself and does the grip. it was just neat by the way a man shakes your hand you know what he's done and to a certain extent who he is.

Finally, this happened a couple weeks ago, we were going to a Dennys at about 1 in the morning, and I had a lettered sweatshirt(hey, it was cold), and someone said "mason tekes, I was a mason teke" and I met an inactive member of our chapter, who was taking time off from school and getting his act together.

just my cents

yitb
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mu omega 645

jmagnus · #4 03-09-2006, 10:12 PM

I was in Rome over christmas break and did a pub crawl. I was wearing my letters *sorry* and met 3 Tekes...from 3 different areas. Two were from California and I don't remember where the other one was from, but I thought that was really cool.

USCTKE · #5 03-14-2006, 12:31 PM

we were at one of our tailgates back during football season and this guy that I had went to high school with walked into our tent. after talking to him for a few minutes he said that he was a TKE from Francis Marion, found out that day that there was another guy that went to high school with us that was in the chapter at FMU, and another one that was in a chapter at another small college in the state.

Erik P Conard · #6 03-14-2006, 12:37 PM

I have pledged over a thousand, met many more, but the best
one...in the late 50s...I was in L. A. shopping for fishing lures...
and I saw this highly recognizeable man, talked, shook his hand.
It was Clarence A Mayer. YITB, Erik of Denver

USCTKE · #7 03-14-2006, 12:41 PM

forgot to mention earlier but 3 of the guys from our chapter went on a cruise this past week (which was our Spring Break), on their cruise they said there were 52 TKEs from FSU and they got a chance to party with the International Sweetheart.

JonInKC · #8 03-15-2006, 01:35 AM

Hey Erik, I was around your neck of the woods last week when I went to Breckenridge.

Anyway, the only ones I can think of- years ago when I ran into a TKE inside the Polo store at the outlet mall in Lake of the Ozarks. And then of course in the outlet mall in Branson I saw one of the guys from my chapter working in the Tommy Hilfiger store.

And then the most random, when I was at my parents house the guy who came out from the electric company or whatever to ask us about cutting some trees or something was a TKE. He saw the letters on my truck.

CrusaderTKE · #9 03-15-2006, 02:06 AM

Was home one weekend and I got a bunch of buddie that go to the University of Buffalo. I walked in to their student union wearing my letter and on my way out two EX tekes came up and stoped me. Talked to them for a while they were pretty cool guys

SurfinDBeach · #10 03-15-2006, 01:26 PM

Wow Erik! That must have been something to meet Clarence!!!

BTW, guys from our chapter meet Tekes EVERYWHERE... We meet Tekes from different states here in California... Tekes from different chapters that transferred to our school have either met us or have joined our chapter...

We've seen Tekes in airports, on the street, in Las Vegas, etc... You name it...

The one that sticks out is when my little bro was a pledge, he took me to his home town (El Segundo) to the beach - we saw a guy on the beach with his girl friend and he had the Volknot (3 interlocking triangles) on the top of his back/neck. My little bro said - isn't that a Teke symbol? I said yeah...

So we go up to him, and he turns out to be a Teke from the NorthEast (like Maine or Rhode Island - can't remember which one)... His girlfriend then remarked: "Man, you guys are everywhere!"

YITB

SOTKE242 · #11 03-16-2006, 05:39 AM

I met a Teke about a year and a half ago at an Ozzfest concert. I knew there would be thousands of people there so I wore a TKE shirt for an occassion for someone from another chapter to see my shirt at random and come talk to me. I do it all of the time when I go out to places where there will be lots of people.

Anways, I'm in line to buy some beer from the vendors, and some guy pushes me from behind lightly. I figured someone bumped into me by accident so I didn't bother turning around. Then I get pushed again harder. So I turn around and standing before me is some 250 lb man with no shirt, atleast 10 piercings on his face, and tattoos all over his arms and chest. A real hell's angel looking type. Go figure, it was an Ozzfest. So I think homeboy is going to beat me up for money or worse yet, my spot in the long line. I'm damn speechless because I didn't know what he wanted, then he asked, "Are you a Teke?" I replied, "Yes." So he reached out to shake my hand and introduced himself, "John Doe from the (yada yada) chapter in Virginia." This guy was cool as hell. We ended up talking in line the whole time while we were waiting to purchase stuff. I invited him to come sit with my friends and I back in the grass seats, but he parted with me so that he could go backstage to meet Slayer. That dude was awesome. I told him to stop by my chapter (which was less than an hour away) if he had time, but he couldn't make it. I wish I had brought a piece of paper or something with me to stay in contact with him.

A few months later, I went to a NASCAR race at Talledega. I went with some family and one of my fraternity brothers. Once again, I wore a TKE shirt as hundreds of thousands of people would be there. When we first arrived in our parking/tailgating spot, I stood up on my brother's tailgate of his truck to look around at everyone. We weren't there for more than three minutes and a man comes up to me introducing himself as a Teke from a school in Georgia. Pretty cool stuff. We didn't talk for long though.

Erik P Conard · #12 03-16-2006, 09:58 AM

Yes, it was impressive to meet Frater Mayer. I had met him at the
Bedford Springs Conclave in '57. He was a snappy dresser and had a genial countenance. You know he wrote the Closing Ode,
and we knew several people in common.
Not only was he a founder of Teke, he was a nice, nice man and I
shall always treasure that. Clarence Mayer, a true frater!

USCTKE · #13 03-16-2006, 09:05 PM

Erik,
didnt you meet one of the other founders as well?

slytle · #14 04-05-2006, 11:37 PM

I meet a lot of tkes considering i do the expansion program but I was in Jamaica in January this year and went on a tour to the waterfalls... well my girlfriend actually noticed a guy on our tour with the crest on his calf... i started talking to him and he was from oklahoma.. a now defunked chapter but it was awesome to meet him nevertheless...

Stephen M. Lytle