Author: Bradley Reichard

Drew and his daughter have a ugly face contest, with Drew winning big!

Michael Chung graduated from medical school at Univ. of Kentucky (with brother Past Sage Andrew Chung). He now matriculates to Duke University’s Integrated Plastic Surgery residency program.

Brother Drew hit a huge homer to centerfield, and Kevin Monte threw some sharp strikes on the mount. But Upsilon fell to the steroid-infused Fullerton, Irvine and USC teams at the Sigma Pi World Series on May 10 in Fullerton.

Jake Loughridge (real estate finance), Gabor Fabian (information technology) and Dan Nguyen (engineering) spoke at Upsilon’s Annual Career Night. They advised the chapter to dress in suits, plan their career path early while still in college, get their foot in the door early, always push themselves to learn more while on the job and night classes, and show initiative to their bosses.

Barry Maiten, classic LAPD car collector and reserve officer, met Mickey Rooney at the “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World” 50th Anniversary event in Hollywood – Mickey Rooney. He led a motorcade of four of classic and restored LAPD police cars to bring all of the (fortunately still alive veteran actors & actresses), to this 50th anniversary event and movie on Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood. Photo of Mark Rooney (Mickey’s son), Barry, Barry’s son Shawn, and Mickey, the film legend himself.

Josh Brooks heads to Coachella for the 15th year, site of many of his legendary DJ sets. It all began when his mom took him to Huey Lewis & the News at the Concord Pavillion decades ago.

The pride of Upsilon before a 1956 formal (photo courtesy of Richard Edic). Can anyone identify these gentlemen of chivalry?

In 1955, Arthur Smith recorded “Feuding Banjos,” which featured the interplay of Smith’s tenor banjo with Don Reno’s 5-string banjo; the number became a popular bluegrass tune that was featured in the film “Deliverance” but giving no credit to Smith. The song has been the Upsilon Manor house theme for Moonshiner since John Snodgrass founded the legendary party in 1976.

In 1992, “Dueling Banjos” was used in a commercial for Mitsubishi automobiles. Smith told the Observer this experience was much more pleasant than the one he’d had with “Deliverance.”