In the News
2012 Ski Weekend Plans
January 5, 2012
Steamboat Springs, Colorado - First Snow of
2011
Dear Brothers and Friends,
Just a reminder; our 10th Annual Gamma Lambda Chapter Family Ski
Trip will be combined with the 31st Annual National Theta Chi Ski Trip this
year in Steamboat Springs, CO. Because the ski trips will be combined, we are holding
the event a little later than usual: Friday
3/2-Monday 3/5/12.
We already have about 16 participants confirmed from the National
Ski Trip that is usually held at Mammoth Mtn., CA. Among this group are
the: San Diego Mafia, including some who were on the original National
Ski Trip 31 years ago and a number of present and past National Officers
of our Fraternity.
The main purpose of this e-mail is to seek confirmation from the
Gamma Lambda Chapter Family Ski Trip participants, so we can begin to
finalize arrangements. Please let me know if you will be attending
this year.
Once again, discount condo accommodations are available through the
great folks at Steamboat Resorts who accommodate us year in and year
out. Please call Leslie Knutson at Steamboat Resorts to make your
reservations: 800-525-5502 or
970-879-8000.
Candidly, we have not had much snow to speak of, but the Mountain
is open and the tourists are skiing. The locals are waiting for better
conditions. However, our forecasters are saying that once the snow
comes, we will be in for a number of huge dumps, so things will be fine
by March.
I am also alerting the undergraduates at the Gamma Lambda Chapter
at the University of Denver and inviting them to participate with us as
well.
Please check in, one way or the other, as to whether you can make
the 10th Annual combined with the 31st Annual. The price is $185.60[*] for
Brothers, no matter how many are in your party, i.e., we are not
charging per individual this year. This includes stocking the host condo
with Festive Adult Beverages for apres ski and pre-dinner and
post-dinner cocktails, ski trip souvenir, and the Closing Banquet Dinner
Monday evening at Riggio's[**], which has not been included before. Checks should be made
payable to: "Theta Chi Ski Bums" and sent to me at:
James J. Moylan and Associates, P.C.
P.O. Box 775965
Steamboat Springs, CO. 80477-5965
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.
I hope as many of you as possible can attend; it is going to be
amazing!
Fraternally and Sincerely,
Jim
So here are the facts:
● Weekend starts on Friday
March 2nd
● Weekend
ends at Riggios on Monday March 5th
To reserve lodging contact Leslie Knutson at Steamboat Resorts
800-525-5502. She has a block of condos for the group with discounted
rates. Use the link below to make your reservation on-line.
Theta Chi 2012 Lodging Link
* We will work out something with any Gamma Lambda Chapter
undergraduates who attend.
** Limited Guests at Riggios included in the $185.60.
Visit From Down Under
November 2011
Bob Held recently visited Denver, NYC and Florida from
Australia.
He stopped for 5 hours between flights in Atlanta. Attached is evidence
that OX men, pledge-fathers and pledge-sons (Bob was Morts and Don Woffard
is Bob's) stay together after nearly 45 years!
Gumbah says, "Now that’s worth a mention in the Gamma Lambda news.
Whadayasay?"
Bob Held, Don Wofford, and
Bill Mortensen in Atlanta
The following are pictures of Bob's mini-reunion in Denver.
Wolpie, Gumbah and Schroeds at Wolpie’s place
(Left Click on image to Enlarge Individual Picture)
Jim Conway's Book
February 15, 2012
Guys,
I wanted to let you know that today is the official release of my first novel, Dead and Not So Buried
From Library Journal:
"Screenwriter Conway hits the ground running with this entertaining, debut Hollywood potboiler with a likable PI and tongue-in-cheek humor. It's a clever mystery with one more satisfying twist at the very end. Great fun."
Here's a quick blurb:
Hollywood is rocked when someone breaks into the crypt of a 60's movie star and kidnaps her corpse. Dubbed the Gravesnatcher by the press, the madman then holds tinsel town hostage as he uses extortion, blackmail and murder to extract his own brand of revenge. And caught in the middle is quick-witted PI Gideon Kincaid, an ex-cop with a troubled past who is led on a harrowing roller coaster ride through the sun and sin drenched Hollywood landscape.
To learn more check out my website: jameslconway.com
James L. Conway
Back to the Future
In this rare shot, circa 1969, extracted from deep within the secret
photo archives of Gamma Lambda Chapter of Theta Chi, a teenage Jim
Conway is seen behind the camera, filming one of his earliest efforts.
Denver’s ice-crusted Washington Park served as the backdrop for a
murder-mystery-action short starring Bob Wolper, Don Skeffington and
Alan Moll and other OX extras including the late Paul Wallace.
Moll’s spookily prescient photo of writer-director Conway, taken during
a break in the action to allow his cast to fortify themselves against
the Colorado chill with Black Russians, was an unwitting predictor of
the Hollywood future that lay ahead for Conway. Note the subject’s
dramatic wide stance, conveying the machismo and authority needed to
maintain order on the set. Conway’s signature fedora, safari jacket and
Joe cool boots suggest latent costume notions to be drawn upon forty
three years later in his first novel: “Dead and Not So Buried”.
Photo Courtesy Catman Pix, LLC