Founder's Day

[Erik P Conard]

After fielding a year as Prytanis at Beta Theta (Mizzou), he then headed for KC and planned to go to law school. He took a job
with Teke, then headquartered in KC...thanks to Alex Barket,
and was on the road about a semester. Hall called him in to be
his assistant in the office. I think Bruce began the fall of '56,
and he left for a brief hitch in the army. Returning to TKE and to
Law School, he married Barb...soon thereafter Dick Hall was to
leave TKE, to work for Stew Howe Alumni service. Melchert was
offered the position of Executive Secretary. He decided then
to quit law school. The corporate tax advantages of Indiana were so strong that HQ moved to join the other GLOs there. So
Bruce went along to Indy. The Logan era of intrigue was over.
Had two daughters, now grown. Barb died, he remarried, spent
a few more years at Exec Sec, became Grand Prytanis, bought a
sailboat...and retired--but emerges from his boat from time to time to great some of us old codgers...