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October 12, 2024. Union South, Madison, WI

On Saturday, February 10, 2024, a joint Special Membership Meeting of DAA and DHC was held at Union South, Madison, WI. In attendance were DAA President Jerry Peplinski (D916), Vice-President Scott, Woods (D823), Treasurer Samuel Hurley (D1238), Secretary Parker Jorenby (D1402), Director, Joe Muehlenkamp (D893), alumni Sam Erickson (D1393) and Mike Stemper (D833), active chapter President Jack Rollins (D1447), Treasurer Patrick Brophy (D1449), and Exec Board member Karan Kapur (D1462).

Left to right, back row: Karan Kapur, Parker Jorenby, Joe Muehlenkamp, Jerry Peplinski, Jack Rollins, Sam Erickson, Sam Hurley. Front row: Mike Stemper. Not pictured: Patrick Brophy, Scott Woods.

On Saturday, August 19th, 2023, a combined DAA and DHC Membership Meeting was held. For the first time in recent years, the meeting was held in person at Union South, UW-Madison. In attendance were the DAA officers – President Jerry Peplinski (D916), Secretary and Treasurer Samuel Hurley (D1238), and DAA Director Scott Woods (D823). Delta alumnus Michael Stemper (D833) was also in attendance, as well as Delta Chapter President Kira Israni (D1419), Treasurer Patrick Brophy (D1449), and Delta active Daniel Zimmerman (D1433).

Over the summer of 2022, our major DHC project was refinishing of the wood floors in the common areas of the Delta Chapter House, including the first floor living and dining rooms, the chapter office, second floor library, and second and third floor hallways. Old carpet was removed in the chapter office, library, and second and third floor hallways. This work was performed by Sergenian’s Floor Coverings, and paid for by DAA through the generous donations from alumni to the House Improvement fund. See below for before and after photos of this work.

On Saturday, August 20th, 2022, a combined DAA and DHC Membership Meeting was held. For the first time in recent years, the meeting was held in person at Union South, UW-Madison. In attendance were the following (as pictured, left to right):

Pictured left to right are Sam Hurley (D1238), Sean Scannell (D1216), Andy Koch (D1182), Jerry Peplinski (D916), Dwight Swacina (D1179H), and Scott Woods (D823). Also attending was chapter president Parker Jorenby (D1402) (not pictured).

Our other major outdoor project involved cleaning and staining the front and back porches of the house. The porches were previously stained eight years ago, in summer of 2013, and were in need of a refresh. Staining the porches was a process over multiple days, involving obtaining stain and other supplies; two days of prep to clean the wood so it would be ready to accept new stain, a day of staining decks and interior railings and posts, a second day staining the exterior surfaces with a ladder, and several visits for inspection and touch-up.

Helping with this massive project were alumni Sam Hurley (D1238), Andy Koch (D1182), Joe Muehlenkamp (D893), Jerry Peplinski (D916), and Roy Rasmussen (D917), as well as members Ethan Amundson (D1364), Bryce Belgarde (D1457), Dewansh Bista (D1372), Samuel Erickson (D1393), Ronald Li (D1403), Abhishek Mhatre (D1404), and Sathwik Pattem (D1378).

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The back parking lot at the house was becoming muddy, with ruts forming in the ground due to car tires driving in and out frequently. A project to resurface the back lot with gravel was undertaken, utilizing the Hamm’s pickupntruck to haul gravel from the supplier over to the house. In total, five tons of gravel were moved over five trips.

Helping out were DAA officers Jerry Peplinski (D916), Roy Rasmussen (D917), and Sam Hurley (D1238), as well as actives Ethan Amundson (D1364), and Bryce Belgarde (D1457).

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Ed Sykes (Delta #680) has a newly published book on Amazon, “The Patch and the Stream Where the American Fell”.  A 1967 EE graduate he went on to be a fighter pilot flying the F-105, F-4 and F-16, with 118 combat missions in SEA in 1969.  In the book he describes life in Madison in the 1960’s including a nice section on KHK.  40 years after the War he spent 9 years recovering the remains of an MIA fellow warrior with whom he flew.  He frequently returns to KHK for Homecoming and still enjoys hanging out at the bar just like he did over a half century ago.

You can use the following link to purchase the book on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Patch-Stream-Where-American-Fell/dp/1735251909/