Alumni Notes
NEBRASKA-KEARNEY
Iota Gamma
Matt Saathoff ’96 and his wife, Cat, announce the birth of their son, Jamison Dean, on June 10, 2008.
NEBRASKA-OMAHA
Delta Chi
The Reverend Dr. Gary A. Sallquist ’57 has penned a series of books
entitled “The Call; The Journey - A Series for the
Christian Life”. These books offer his reflections on the
teachings of such notables as Dr. Gardner Taylor and Dr. David Willis,
as well as his reflections on his choice of the ministry as a second career. Sallquist
has served Pi Kappa Alpha as international president, as well as president and trustee of the Educational Foundation. Formerly the headmaster at Miami Valley Christian Academy, he now serves as director of equipping and administration for North Cincinnati Community Church. Sallquist and his wife, Joyce, reside in Cincinnati, Ohio.
NEVADA-LAS VEGAS
Kappa Omicron
John O’Connor ’97 is a senior agent for the Nevada Gaming Control Board. He and his wife, Andi, have one child, Jaila Jean.
NEW MEXICO
Beta Delta
Robert Browning ’78 lives in Houston, Texas, where he is the director of admissions at The Ocean Corporation, a commercial diving school offering commercial diver training, underwater welding, ROV’s and NDT weld inspector training. He and his wife, Yvonne, have three children.
John Parson ’01 is a project analyst with Sandia National Laboratories, Lockheed Martin. Parson graduated first in his 2008 MBA class from the University of Notre Dame. He was recognized with the 2008 Dean’s MBA Award for demonstrating strong leadership amongst his classmates, showing promise for future professional success and achieving a strong record of scholarship. He was only the second MBA graduate in the last ten years to graduate with summa cum laude (4.00 GPA) recognition from the University of Notre Dame’s MBA Program. He is a graduate of the University of New Mexico where he also received summa cum laude recognition and served as Interfraternity Council President. His younger brother, Shawn Parson, is a 2007 initiate of Beta Delta Chapter.
NORTH ALABAMA
Theta Alpha
Gary Hendrix ’95 is the president of The Alliance, a community and economic development organization in Corinth/Alcorn County, Mississippi.
NORTH CAROLINA
Tau
Everette James ’57 is a board member of North Carolina Pottery center and is also a board member at UNC Center of the Study of the American South. He may be reached at everette@nc.RR.com.
NORTH CAROLINA-PEMBROKE
Eta Omega
Lane Hill ’85 and his wife, Johanna, announce the birth of their son, Samuel Joseph, on December 22, 2007. Hill is employed by Perishable Distributors of Iowa in Ankeny, Iowa, and may be reached at lanehill@hotmail.com.
NORTH DAKOTA
Zeta Rho
Brad Brackel ’96 is an industrial specialist with Grubb & Ellis/Quantum Commercial Group. Before joining Grubb & Ellis in 2006 he helped set up a contract to provide Google Earth with aerial photos. Brackel decided to pursue a career as a real estate broker and now specializes exclusively in industrial office commercial real estate. He is a board member of the Peak Venture Group and active in the Broadmoor Rotary, Colorado Springs Economic Development Corporation, the Colorado Springs Office of International Affairs and the Colorado Nanotechnology Alliance. He and his wife, Judy, have two daughters, Caralissa and Siteris.
NORTH TEXAS
Epsilon Delta
Terrence Hartwell ’90 and his wife announce the birth of their daughter, Charlotte Olivia, on May 27, 2008. He is the director of research with Actuality Productions in Woodland Hills, California, and may be reached at
tbhartwell@sbcglobal.net.
NORTHEASTERN
Kappa Delta
Adam Sinel ’94 and his wife, Meridith, welcomed their daughter, Ella Ruth, on June 10, 2008. The family resides in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, where Sinel is the vice president at Berger Recycling Inc. He may be reached at adam@bergerrecycling.com
NORTHEASTERN STATE
Theta Epsilon
Brandon Gilliland ’89 has relocated his family to Winston-Salem, North Carolina, to accept the position of controller for Wake Forest University. He and his wife, Laura, have three children, Cara, Holly and Alex. He may be reached at
Brandon@wfu.edu.
Scott Reed ’87 has completed his 18th year of teaching and coaching at Vinita Public Schools in Vinita, Oklahoma, where he is the head girls basketball, track and cross country coach. The girls basketball team lost in the state semi-finals, finishing the season with 27-1 record and ranked third in the state. He and his wife, Shelley, have three children, Nathan, Gunner and Hallie.
NORTHERN ARIZONA
Theta Rho
Kurt Kunselman ’90 is the owner of San Francisco-based Chameleon Music, and has recently formed a strategic partnership with San Francisco-based Independent Distribution Collective (IDC) to form IDCDigital which administers digital distribution of record labels that are a part of the IDC family. In addition, the strategic partnership has launched IDCLicensing which offers fee-based music licensing to its clients for tv, film, video games and other media.
NORTHERN IOWA
Theta Zeta
Michael McCain ’95 is an associate attorney working at the law firm of Seaton, Beck & Peters, P.A. in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He represents management exclusively in the area of employment law litigation. Mike has been selected as a Minnesota “Rising Star” by Law & Politics Magazine in both 2007 and 2008.
OHIO
Gamma Omicron
Joe Leslie ’68 and his husband, Michael Judge, have been together for 27 years and were finally married legally in California this year. They will be celebrating their anniversary and Joe’s 64th birthday with a 32 day cruise to the South Pacific this fall.
Roger Olds ’55 and his wife, Peggy, have published a new book series, “Questions For God”, and are marketing them to parents and grandparents so they can help 3-year-olds and beyond learn about their faith. Since they began the marketing in June 2006, it has been a real love to serve the Lord, to help the young ones learn, and to use their lovely water color illustrated and simply written books to reach families. More information may be obtained at www.questionsforgodbooks.com.
OHIO STATE
Alpha Rho
Bradford Baylor ’88 received a promotion to regional director for JP Morgan where he manages the infrastructure service delivery for all corporate technology assets in Europe and Asia. He lives in England with his wife and two children, and may be reached at villam@mac.com.
OKLAHOMA
Beta Omicron
James Ellington ’73 has recently had his left shoulder replaced and is having his right knee revised from his first total knee replacement ten years ago, all related to college athletic injuries He may be reached at jim0418@sbcglobal.net.
Richard Peaster ’95 and Stephanie Walker were married on July 5, 2008 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Brothers serving in the wedding were Billy Wolf ‘98 and Aaron McLellan ’98. Peaster completed the Tulsa Fire Department Academy on December 7, 2007, and is stationed at Firehouse 13 in West Tulsa on B Shift. He is currently finishing his paramedic training thru a joint effort between the Tulsa Fire Department and Tulsa Tech. He is proud of the fine young gentlemen of the Beta Omicron Chapter and the alumni who took the time to rebuild the chapter. It is because of these men that Peaster will always have a home at the University of Oklahoma. He may be reached at peasterrl@hotmail.com.
OREGON
Gamma Pi
James Williams ’61 retired after 37 years in academia, but continues to write and publish in the history of technology and the environment. He is an avid sailor with a cruising boat based in Oriental, North Carolina, and a bay boat on San Francisco Bay. His home is in Mountain View, California, and he would enjoy hearing from his Gamma Pi brothers at techjunc@pacbell.net.
OREGON STATE
Beta Nu
David Stamps ’92 is a captain in the United States Air Force. He graduated from the United State Air Force Weapons School / F-15E Strike Eagle Division. The top 1% of USAF officers are selected from their respected weapons systems to attend the most demanding leadership and tactics training course in the world. Stamps will return to the 336th Fighter Squadron and assume the position of chief of weapons and tactics
Brothers and Friends Now Business PartnersRensselaer Pikes Found Mimeo.com
The three, who met at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute back in 1987, first met on the second floor of their freshman dormitory. They became friends, and soon after pledged Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity on the advice of Uyttendaele’s older brother, Matthieu Uyttendaele ’85, who was an active member of the house. Almost immediately, they got their first taste of success in the business world, says Delbridge. The Calendar Committee oversaw the creation and distribution of a professionally photographed calendar, which was used as part of the annual rush program. The calendar featured female RPI students and Pike girlfriends. Stewart was in charge of ad sales. Uyttendaele was artistic director. Delbridge handled all the logistics and coordination. It was during this project that they saw their true collaborative potential, he says. “In past years we’d buy 1,500 copies of the calendar and have 500 left in the box at the end of rush,” says Delbridge. That changed when the three made the decision to hire a high-end photographer whose work had appeared in the women’s magazine Vogue. “It was a controversial calendar. It became a huge story on campus,” says Delbridge. “We sold quadruple the number of ads that we had in the past, and our phone was ringing off the hook with people trying to purchase the calendar.” For the first time since Gamma Tau Chapter had distributed calendars (more than 10 years), the ad space sold actually funded the entire project. It ended up being a very successful venture and it solidified a working bond between the Pike brothers; they knew they would work together in the real world. The first outside collaboration came soon after graduation. While Delbridge, who at the time was busy ascending to a vice president slot at Salomon Brothers, was completing his MBA, Stewart and Uyttendaele launched internet consulting company Square Earth, which was sold to Proxicom (now iCrossing) in 1998 in a very successful IPO. Looking for the next big deal, and wanting to bring Delbridge into the mix, Stewart and Uyttendaele founded Mimeo.com in 1998, an online, on-demand printing company that is taking on the likes of traditional copy shops like FedEx Kinko’s. Delbridge joined the founding team in early 1999. Mimeo.com gives businesses small and large a faster, easier, more reliable way to print and distribute documents and have them delivered wherever they need to be without ever leaving their desk. The company became almost an instant success. By the end of its first year the company employed 80 people and had 422 customers. By the end of the second year this had grown to more than 23,000 customers. Unfortunately, even with this tremendous growth, Mimeo.com was spending more than it was taking in, burning through $1 million each month Like other internet startups of the time, Mimeo.com appeared to be heading towards a death spiral despite its solid founding principles and business model. But, says Delbridge, failure was not an option for his long-time friends – or for him. And unlike other start-ups, the three had something unique to fall back on: their friendship. “Through the difficult times the bond and strength that we first discovered working together as Pikes allowed us to weather those bumps and be resilient to get the company through,” he says. “During the tough times I worked on raising additional money and reducing expenses. Jeff made sure we had a solid direction overall, and David was always watching the technology and product side of things making sure it was improving and evolving. Did we yell at each other and get crazy sometimes? Sure, but in the next breath we were working together undoing some bad habits and pushing the company towards profitability.” This included bringing in an outside person – Adam Slutsky, the founder of Moviefone – to take on the CEO’s role. And so Mimeo.com avoided imploding like so many other companies. Today the company continues to thrive under the combined tutelage of Stewart, Delbridge, and Uyttendaele, although Stewart has stepped back from the day-to-day grind, taking a role as the company’s chairman of the board. Mimeo.com is growing 40 percent each year, has over 500 employees and is printing over 3 million pages a night, three of the reasons that it found an additional $25 million in funding last fall from Goldman Sachs Principal Strategies Group as well as each of its current stakeholders including Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Harbourvest, and Hewlett Packard. Over the years, additional Pikes have joined the Mimeo team including Kenneth “Skip” Trevathan (Tennessee-Martin, Epsilon Sigma ’67) as Executive VP of Operations and Neil Armstrong (Carnegie Mellon, Beta Sigma ’94) as a senior developer. The success all goes back to the lessons they learned working on their calendar committee, says Delbridge. “Jeff is the entrepreneur; he’s the risk-taker. David is the innovative technical brains and I’m the operational and money guy,” he says. “But we’re all brothers, and we’re all in it together until the end.” Please feel free to contact John, David, or Jeff for more information about Mimeo.com. They can be reached at the following email addresses: John Delbridge - john@mimeo.com |
Plenty of people meet in college and say they’re going to change the world together, but few actually realize that promise. Jeff Stewart ’88, John Delbridge ’88, and David Uyttendaele ’88, executives and co-founders of online document printing and binding service Mimeo.com are the rare exception.