Salhab's Park was where we had one of our pledge exercise rallies. Some of the pledges had been sipping a suds or two before the meeting and this may have led to some of if not most of the pledges throwing up. The actives led us in several exercises, including running, push ups, sit ups, jumping jacks, and running in place. The intent was to get us all to throw up, but I wasn't cooperating with throw up, so the actives kept at it. The final exercise was we had to push a car up a hill with the brakes on. I suppose some would call this hazing, but not for me; it was only a short time since I had participated in my high school football coach's workout routine and this was easy. The rest of my brothers didn't think so. Walks Once the actives took us on a walk and dropped us off somewhere in the boondocks, north of Beaumont. Little did they know that we were in walking distance of Phil Hall's uncle's place and we beat the actives back to Lamar. They were mad. Hell week for Kappa Phi Pledges were required to go to classes with toe sacks under their clothes, you know; the scratchy kind. We also had to have an egg with a string attached to it, so if anyone pulled it, the egg would break inside your pants. Of course, if your egg lasted a week, it was beginning to smell. When hell-night came, we were scheduled for some more fun things with the actives at Salhabs, but as luck would have it, it snowed. Check the records, 1959, snow in Beaumont, either in January or February. Wow!! It was rumored that we would have been syruped and floured, but nature saved us (or providence). GO TO SNOW IN 1959 RETURN TO KAPPA PHI MEMORIES |
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