How Did Beta Influence You?

Thank you to Ferdinand Del Pizzo, Jr. MD '58 for submitting the following story.

I have several special memories of the chapter. The first was when we got started. TAD DUKE had come to me and asked how he could start a BETA Chapter at UMKC so that he could have the same experience that he had watched his father and I have. I gave him a BETA talk, a Beta record of our songs, some Beta literature and told him, if he could find a group of men who wanted to start a chapter to call me, and I would do what I could to get a provisional Colony started. I was a VP on our 6 man BETA BOARD of the General Fraternity at the time and knew I could do that part, but really never though, I would hear from TAD again. I was surprised and thrilled when he called and put 15 men on the line telling me they wanted to start a BETA chapter. The rest is history."

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