Lamar Cardinal Football at Lamar One of the really fun things we did at Lamar was going to football games. We always set together and pulled for our teams. Lamar won more than they lost. One particular game that I remember was when I was an alum, still single and living in Houston. I visited one weekend and my fraternity brothers asked me to go along with a joke on pledge Bobby Jackson. They took Bobby on a walk and gave me his date for the game. I have no idea who she was nor what she looked like, but when Bobby made it back for the 2nd half, he found his date with me . Float building was not only a ritual, but an art for Sigma Chi and Kappa Phi. HOMECOMING FLOAT I remember the Hawaiian theme and our pledges were sent out to get palm tree leaves for decoration. I don't think the cops liked their explanation of why they were taking the leaves off a tree in someone's yard in Beaumont. One year we worked all night and were still poking crepe paper into the wire holes as we were lining up for the parade, which originated downtown Beaumont and ended up in the Lamar stadium. We placed 2nd.
Derby Day 1961 This was a national day for all of Sigma Chi and was great fun with all of the sororities competing for 1st place. One of the events that I remember was: Which girl could wear the most overalls? Another was a tricycle race. Milking a cow into a coke bottle and President Dr. MacDonald participated in this one year. Derby Day 1960
The Beach Who could ever forget our end of the year parties at the beach. The entire Greek world of Lamar, both Sorority and Fraternity gathered at High Island in rented beach houses to wind down for the year. One year, Sigma Chi had a truck load of beer delivered and then wanted to order a 2nd. How many cases are on a truck?
THE SHACKS- Each fraternity was given a SHACK to fix-up as was desired. It was a place for frat meetings and certain social get togethers. It was also a place where many a grade point was lost because in between classes instead of using the time for study it was our prerogative to use our time to MORE IMPORTANT THINGS: like playing cards or shooting pool our just hanging out. I remember one time I saw two brothers sitting on the floor with money along side and they were gambling....on which FLY WOULD FLY FIRST. There were other equally silly gambles, but that is the only one I can remember. I cannot remember exactly when the SHACKS were given to us, but whenever it was, we began fixing ours up with things like panelling on the walls and a TV in the wall. Bill Pate's Grandfather, Bill and myself worked one summer re-doing the inside. We held our Rush parties in the shack as one of the more constructive things we did, along with having our Sigma Chi meetings. Our shack was also a convenient meeting place before our scheduled football games because our playing field was located nearby. GO TO INTRAMURAL SPORTS