From my position on the timeline of life, it is honestly difficult to comprehend what has taken place over the years. As a freshman, in the fall of 1963, it was still called Newark State and there were only rumors of changing the school’s name. It was physically a small campus and you could easily …
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Read more about David and his life. Thank you Ray Westfall for providing this information.
Worked on getting various devices to display the image and the menu to accommodate the change in sizes. So many options to work with. Still hoping to get the website over to the original website (https://sigmabetataualumni.org/) by the end of the week.
Thanks to Axl Hirsch and Freddie Falcon for the images that they sent me and are now in the Memories > Random gallery. Scroll to the bottom of the gallery to see them as they are in ascending order from 1958 to most current. At least they are supposed to be!
Sigma Beta Tau’s origins began in 1958 with a group of men, many of them veterans, who decided to form a fraternity different than those that then existed on the campus of Newark State College, newly located to Union, NJ. They did not want to be part of the practices of humiliation that new pledges …
February 29, 2020 Alpha-Pi 1995 Joseph T. Scelfo, 44, of Farmingdale, passed away peacefully with his loving family by his side on Saturday, Feb. 29. 2020 at Riverview Medical Center, Red Bank after a yearlong courageous battle against lung cancer. Joe was born in Point Pleasant and raised in Wall Township. He was a graduate …
December 10, 2019 Lambda 1968 – 1969 Dr. Kenneth Paul May, 70 of Westfield, was called home Tuesday, December 10, 2019 after a sudden and brief illness. Ken’s visitation will be from 4:00-8:00 PM Friday December 13th, at Gray Funeral Home, 318 E. Broad St., Westfield. His funeral service will begin at 11:00 AM Saturday …
December 10, 2019 Alpha 1958 – 1959 George Sisko, of Matawan, was born February 28, 1939 in New Brunswick, NJ. He grew up in Cartaret, NJ where he excelled in both football and baseball. He attended Newark State College where he earned his BA and his first MA. He began his teaching career in his …
April 29, 2019 Gamma 1960 Richard Kurt Meisenbacher, died peacefully surrounded by family and friends on Monday, April 29, 2019, at Robert Wood University Hospital at Somerset in Somerville. He was born in Bronx, NY and then lived in Irvington and Union, NJ. After graduation from Union High School, he served his country by enlisting in …