ALPHA SIGMA

OF CHI PSI

The Sigmascope
Volume 2, Issue 1

Alumni Weekend November 5th 2016

Inside this issue:

Undergraduate
Spotlights

September 15th, 2016

Alumni
Spotlights

Alumni
Spotlights

All of the announcements below should be a reminder at this point, however it is still not too
late to RSVP.
Alumni Board Meeting & Elections
At 10:00 am in the Lodge library, all are welcome at the meeting of Alpha Sigma of Chi
Psi, Inc. (Lodge corporation), Alpha Sigma Foundation, and Alpha Sigma Advisory Board.
Activities at the Lodge
If kickoff is midday, then food and other Lodge activities will be after the game. IF kickoff is midafternoon or evening, then food and other lodge activities will begin two hours prior
to kickoff.

Alumni Weekend Reunions

This years homecoming weekend at the Lodge will be a busy one. Both the class of 1976 as
well as the classes of 66, 67, 68, and 69 will be having their own events. For specifics on
either reunion please see the contact information for your fearless leaders below.
For the classes of 66, 67, 68, and 69.

For the class of 1976.

Please email or call Bob Neely

for further details!

Please email or call Tom Oxholm

for further details!

Bob.neely@ymail.com P:(832) 401-9979

tomoxholm@wakestonecorp.com P: (919) 266-1100

Undergraduate Update
The fall semester has been moving along nicely. Many brothers spent the September 30th weekend at Carolina Beach for
the semesters pledge retreat. This offered a great opportunity for relaxation and bonding among both the pledge class
and the brotherhood. We also celebrated our annual Outdoor Cocktail on the 7th. Hurricane Matthew held off just
long enough for us to have dinner in the side yard under the
lights. The brothers look forward to having a lot of alumni
back for Homecoming/Alumni Weekend on November 5th!

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Walt Winslow `18

Walt Winslow is a junior from Indianapolis, Indiana majoring in Health Policy
and Management and minoring in Computer Science and Business Administration. Currently serving as the #4.5, he
has also served the lodge as a rush chair
for two semesters as well as a social
chair.
On campus Walt is involved as the
treasurer of the Jon Curtis Student Enrichment Fund, which awards scholar-

ships dedicated to helping students

pursue personal, professional, and
academic interests away from Carolina. Additionally, he heads up fundraising for the UNC Chapter of Timmy
Global Health. The money raised goes
towards funding student-led brigades
to help provide healthcare to impoverished communities in Tena, Ecuador.
Professionally, Walt has worked as a

marketing intern in the Indiana Health

Insurance Marketplace and done policy research on emergency management. He is currently looking for an
internship for next summer in
healthcare consulting, the field he
plans to pursue after graduation.

While at school, Scott is the head

coach of a Chapel Hill Parks and Recreation youth basketball team with
two other brothers.
Scotts interest in healthcare
spurred him to volunteer at the UNC
Cancer Hospital providing coffee and
tea to patients receiving chemotherapy. However, he is taking a year off
from serving in the hospital to work
as a barista at Meantime Coffee Company started by Scott Diekema (Sigma
19) in the Campus Y. After gradua-

tion, he plans to take a gap year during

which he will travel and work for a
local start-up company, MedScribes,
Inc. Following the gap year, he plans
to attend medical school.

Scott McCraney `17

Scott McCraney is a senior Biology
major from Cary, NC. Most of his time
has been devoted to research about
DNA damage and cellular replication
errors that can be implicated in cancer
treatment. Outside of the Biology department, Scott has spent much of his
college career working with children.
He and another brother spent both
the summer after his freshman year
and the summer after sophomore year
at Camp Mondamin in Hendersonville,
North Carolina as a camp counselor.

The Monroe Brothers: Clem `89, Fred `91, Ed `94

While most leave the Lodge feeling as if they have known their fraternal brothers all of their lives, a select few can
actual say it as truth. Clem, Fred and Ed Monroe are some of the select few who have that privilege. They grew up in
Moore county as the last three of four boys. Their mother was a disciplined home economist (in Freds own words)
and their father was an otorhinolaryngologist.
Competition came naturally among the four brothers as it often does with a house full of boys. The age difference was
responsible for assuring the competitiveness never really left the home. All played a number of sports around the calendar year, but each excelled in their own particular interest. Clem captained the high school football team, Ed won
the 4A state championship in pole vaulting, and Fred shined on the theatre stage. Get them all in the house together
and you were sure to end up with a couple of sore losers over air hockey, bumper pool, or pool. As Clem put it
childhood with these brothers helped me perfect the art of "needling." It was pretty predictable that any game
where someone had a winning pool shot there would be a gesture or comment made to distract and harass. This art

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of distraction, needling and or gesturing was also exercised around the dinner table if there was, for example, a
piece of leftover fried chicken.
When it came time for each Monroe to decide where to go for school the decision was an easy one. That is if it was
a decision at all. Chapel Hill had been the college destination for many generations on both sides of the Monroe
brothers family tree. The list is longer than you would care to hear according to Fred. And when your father tells
each of you You can go to any school you want As long as you go to Chapel Hill. there is little chance of ending
up at any other school.
Clem, while the oldest of the Monroes to join the Lodge, was not the first of the brothers to attend Chapel Hill. The
oldest of all four brothers, John, led the way and became close friends with many of the brothers at the time. It was
those friendships, as well as the ones Clem himself made with fellow classmates from his year at the Hill School
which led him to the Lodge during his freshman year (Dan Goldstein, Jim Crutchfield, Ted Ridgeway, and Chris Fetter
being those Hill School brothers). Fred soon followed in Clems footsteps, but was also recruited heavily by one of
his own Hill School buddies in Drew McNally. Such recruitment efforts consisted primarily of driving his 10 year old
Buick down to south campus to pick up Fred from his room at Morrison so he could join in lunch at the lodge.
I would be remise if I did not mentioned the effect Ernestine Edwards, the Lodge cook, had on recruitment. In
Freds own words At that time, the Lodges cook, Earnestine Edwards, put on a great spread. The combination of
Clem, Drew and Earnestine helped seal my decision to pledge. We all need to make sure to remind the current
undergrads that the best recipe for a great pledge class is to focus on family, friends, and great food during rush.
By the time Ed was to get to Chapel Hill the only thing he knew about fraternities was from the Lodge. Choices were
available but by no means desired knowing it would mean Thanksgivings, Christmases and the Monroe Brotherhood would not exist as they have.
The memories are like so many that we all have at the lodge. Relaxing in the side yard, having the occasional pig
pickings, bringing their mother by the Lodge but only to see the Alpha room cause it was sure to be neat and tidy,
and even a mean game of snow football. But while the brothers cherished their time at the Lodge for what it was
on its own, having the extra bond with their own biological brothers is something each cites as making the time
much more special. In their own words below.
Having family that were also fraternity brothers certainly made my experience in the Lodge enriching. I can remember both of them being present when I was inducted and that was wonderful experience. I think we are all just
that much closer because of those years in the Lodge. - Ed
It is fantastic to have my brothers as fraternity brothers. It is neat to catch up with their group of brothers that
they developed relationships with over the years. Also, my Chi Psi brothers always want to know how my
blood brothers are doing. -Clem
Getting initiated into the Lodge and learning its rituals with my older brother Clem, and subsequently, my younger
brother Ed made the differences in our relative ages less meaningful and gave us an additional bond beyond family. To this day, when we get together we still share stories about our friendships and certain cherished moments at
the Lodge. -Fred

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Clem graduated in from Carolina with a BA in Economics and Religion in 1989.

He followed his undergraduate degree with a DDS degree from Carolina in
1995. He now practices dentistry alongside his wife Kamron Monroe at their
practice in Pinehurst NC. Together Kam and Clem have worked to host the
Moore County Free Care Clinic, a health services organization that serves limited-income people who cannot afford access to health care. They have a
daughter, Arianne who is age nine.
Clem Monroe 89

Fred graduated from Carolina in 1991, A.B., English. From there he went on
to law school at Mercer University, where he graduated in 1996. While practicing law Fred returned to Carolina and received his MBA from the KenanFlagler School of Business in 2013. He now continues to practice as a civil trial
lawyer in Charlotte with the firm James McElroy & Diehl. Fred is happily married and has two young children. When he has spare time, he enjoys almost all
outdoor sports including fishing, hunting, and boating.

Fred Monroe `91

Ed graduated from Carolina with a BA in Chemistry in 1994. He later completed

Dental School, also at Carolina, in 2001. He currently runs his dental practice in
Southern Pines NC. He and his wife Virginia, an interior designer, reside together
in Southern Pines with their three children Janie (9), twins Hunter and Charlie (5),
and their labrador retriever.

Ed Monroe `94

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