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Alpha Iota Alumni A LIFELONG COMMITMENT
2006 Alumni of the Year - Billy Norrell
Contact Kyle Tiedt with any updated Alumni contact information or questions. Alumni Updates
Matthew S. Evans, III A.I. 1244 Class of '91 evans@cbknlaw.com "I am practicing law in Annapolis, Maryland and Have been for 8 years after graduating from the Cumberland School of Law in Birmingham, Alabama. I am married to Margaret Rose Evans. We have one son, Matthew Strohm Evans, IV, born May 1, 2006. We are expecting our second child on May 14, 2007. I try to make it to 1 football game a year and cannot wait to bring the family and children back to Auburn in the Fall for a game. Any and all Brothers in the Balt. – D.C. area are welcome to contact me. I would like to hear from you." Mr. "Pete" Van Robinson Comfort, Jr. A.I. 343 Class of '51 vcomfort@bellsouth.net "I retired in '86 after 33 years with Sonat and Southern Natural Gas Co, VP of Personnel. I have twin daughters (now 48 yrs of age) who are both Auburn grads. I enjoy Auburn sports( particularly the Tubberville football era) and golf (3 times a week). My golf started when I won a set of old golf clubs in a poker game there in the frat house. My last year at AU (it was API then) we lost every game 0-10. Even Wofford beat us but in '48 we beat UAT in Birmingham 14-13." Lt. Col. Charles William Beaird (Ret.) A.I. 259 Class of '48 au48gdad@comcast.net "This is Charles W. Beaird graduate of Dec. l948 after about 2 and 1/2 years of service with almost one year in Japan for occupation duty. Retired as a Lt Col from the US Army. Had about 37 years with the Veterans Administration as an Administrative Assistant to the Chief of Staff. Playing a lot of golf and fishing. My wife is a graduate of Sept. 1948. We married in Dec. of 48 in Sheffield, AL. We have 3 daughters and later 2 Sons. We have 4 granddaughters and one great granddaughter. My wife and I have traveled overseas several times and to Hawaii a couple of times and over most of the United States. Thank you for the apparently good job you are trying to do." Jimmy Lee Butt A.I. 184 Class of '43 jimmybutt@webtv.net "I'll provide a brief summary of my career after graduating in February of 1943. We were in the midst of WW II and were in ROTC. We thought we would be inducted into active duty immediately. However, they allowed us to continue in school until we graduated in February of 1943. As we moved out of the fraternity house, girls from the dorms moved in and the dorms were taken over by the army for Army Specialized Training Program (ASTP) students. We had been asked to go to summer school so we could graduate early. Two weeks after graduating we were inducted and sent to Officer Candidate School (OCS). This was in lieu of summer camp which we had missed to attend summer school. I was in Field Artillery so I went to Ft. Sill, Okla., for training. After getting my commission, I was assigned to the 63rd Infantry Division at Camp Van Dorn, Miss. in the town on Centerville. There we trained for combat and went to Europe at Christmas, 1944. We were in combat in the southern sector near Saarbrucken, Germany where we breached the famous Siegfried Line and then "rat raced" into Germany down toward Austria. We then began training to invade Japan until the atom bomb was dropped and ended the war. I was then transferred into U.S. Military Government to help get German governmental functions working. Following WW II, I felt I needed to go back to school as I had not practiced my profession for 3 1/2 years. I was talked into going for a Masters Degree and then was invited to join the staff as a research engineer. So I was on the Auburn faculty for the next ten years, Department of Agricultural Engineering. In 1956 I was among six candidates interviewed for the position of Executive Vice President of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers in St. Joseph, Mich. I was the candidate they chose and we moved here that summer. I held that position for over thirty years and retired here. Along the way, I have been honored to serve as President of ASAE (now ASABE), President of the national Council of Engineering and Scientific Society Executives, President of both the Auburn and St, Joseph Lions clubs; and I received Auburn's Outstanding Alumni Award from the College of Engineering in 1968. I feel that my Pi Kappa Phi experience was to a very great extent responsible for my successes. My Brothers were of the finest caliber and a most constructive influence on me. They pushed me into campus politics which led to my being President of the Executive Cabinet (Student Body), class of '43. Unfortunately, I have lost contact with them due to the responsibilities of my work, but I will never forget what they meant to me." Donald Worth David, Jr. A.I. 578 Class of '63 d2david@cox.net "I retired December 21,2006 after practicing architecture for 43 years and am not having any trouble adjusting to retirement. I was Archon when I was at Auburn and married the Rose, Madelon Murfee, in 1961." A. Jared Scheeter A.I. 1414 Class of 2004 jscheeter@mail.com "Served as Chapter Archon 1998-1999. Graduated Building Science in '04. Presently living in Birmingham and working for Hoar Construction as a Project Manager. Getting married March 31st to Elizabeth Meadows from Toccoa, GA." |
