Have you used our Xi Chapter directory lately? Our website has a full directory of our alumni – including the people who made your undergrad years so unforgettable. Take some time to reconnect. Here’s some tips on ways to search for other brothers. 

After you log in, the directory can be found under the Alumni tab. From there, hit “alumni directory,” and if you are logged in, you can let your searching begin!  

Search by location: With our map feature, you can see where Zeta Beta Tau brothers currently live. This is a helpful feature for reunions, tailgate plans or an impromptu meetup on your next trip.   

Search by name: Have you lost touch with your old roommate? Use the advanced search feature to find by first or last name.   

Over and over, we hear that being part of Zeta Beta Tau was a formative part of life at Georgia Tech … and the rest of our lives. Get reconnected to an old friend this year. You’ll be glad you did. 

Thank you to the following brothers who have helped support Zeta Beta Tau this past giving year. Your support helped us raise $11,956 towards our Annual Fund. Alumni support is at the heart of everything we do, and we can’t thank you enough for your continued support.  

We hope to see your name listed on the Honor Roll of Donors again as we enter the 2023-24 Give Year. 

DONATE HERE

2022-2023 Honor Roll

Founders ($1,000+)
Christian Xavious Botkin, 2015

Presidents ($750 – $999.99)
Greg Wombough, 1992

Superiors ($500 – $749.99)
Mr. Howard Fleisig, 1972
Douglas Bodner, 1987
Chuck Patel, 1993

Trustees ($250 – $499.99)
Barry Benator, 1966
Yale Finkle, 1966
Dr. Peter Schwartz, 1968
Mr. Robert Shulman, 1969
Rusty Stoeckel, 1973
Christopher Muller, 1982
Anonymous
Class of 1967

160 Sixth Street Society ($160- $249.99)
Harry Lutz, 1967
Leonard Greene, 1968
Morris Nussbaum, 1973
Mr. Allan Quiat, 1973
Michael McCormick, 1974
Thomas Sanders, 1974
Nicholas Vasti, 1980
Christopher Fryer, 1982
Mark Turner, 1986
Malcolm Reeves, 1987
Bradley Martel, 1990
James Dallas, 1994
Evan Bates, 1994
Eric Bostick, 1998
Kevin Warstadt, 2013
GT / ZBT Class of 1972

Gentlemen ($125-$159.99)
George Ragovis, 1955
William Blumberg, 1967
Neal Williams, 1969
Jeff Goodman, 1971
Irving Silver, 1972
Alan Rosen, 1973
Mr. Marcus Thalheimer Jr., 1973
William Fairchild, 1982
Mark A. Rhodes, 1988

Xi ($75-$124.99)
Ronald Pohl, 1969
Charlie Cohn, 1972
Joel Ackerman, 1973
Steven Seiavitch, 1973
Joseph Moskowitz, 1975
Jeffrey Barab, 1977
Michael Orbon P.E. J.D., 1982
Robert Josephs, 1982
Thomas Tate, 1986
Stephen Wassell, 1990
Andrew Rodrigues, 2009
Richard Threlkeld, 2012

Buzz ($50-$74.99)
Stanley Cohen, 1964
Martin Itzkowitz, 1965
Richard Woolf, 1966
Laurence Bauman, 1976
Ira Margolis, 1978
Martin Mancuso, 1985

Other (Up to $49.99)
Michael Weinstein MD, 1970
Mr. Thalonius Stone, 1992

This year, Georgia Tech homecoming is taking place October 26-28, and we want to see you there!

Every year, alumni from all over flock back to Atlanta for homecoming to see all of their old Georgia Tech buddies, reminisce about the great times they shared together, and celebrate all of the things that make Georgia Tech so special.

Zeta Beta Tau alumni are no exception, of course. For us Zeta Beta Tau alumni, homecoming is a chance to get together with our brothers at our old stomping grounds and relive the glory days.

Don’t miss the chance to rekindle old Xi Chapter friendships and blaze new Zeta Beta Tau alumni traditions this year. Reach out to a brother and make a plan to come celebrate homecoming with your fellow alumni on October 26-28.

We hope to see you there!

This year, Zeta Beta Tau celebrates 125 years since its founding on December 29, 1898, at the City College of New York. 

At its founding, Zeta Beta Tau served as a central organization for Jewish students, because existing sectarian practices meant that they could not join any existing fraternities.

In those 125 years, over 140,000 brothers have been initiated into the fraternity across over 80 chapters. Xi chapter is proud to be a part of this broad, enduring brotherhood, and we look forward to a bright future for our brothers. 

For more information about Xi chapter, head over to our about page! 

Zeta Beta Tau alumni, we want to hear from you!  

As you know, our communications regularly feature alumni profiles from brothers across all decades. We love publishing these stories because our alumni are the heart of everything we do, and now, we are looking for more alumni to participate! 

CLICK HERE TO TAKE THE SURVEY

When life gets in the way, it can become increasingly difficult to stay in touch with our Xi buddies. That is why we want to hear from you.  

By filling out the survey, you can share what you have been up to since the Zeta Beta Tau days, your favorite memories at the house, and what being a brother means to you. We will publish your responses in an upcoming communication in your own alumni profile. 

We look forward to hearing from you! 

With summer winding down, it means a new school year is right around the corner. Soon, another class of students will be back on campus and in town, ready to experience another great year at Georgia Tech.

Of course, students aren’t the only ones who will be back in town!

What are some places around Atlanta that you can’t wait to get back to this year? Are you planning any nights at 617 Social Club or Northside Tavern with your Zeta Beta Tau buddies?

Is your favorite hangout spot the same as it was when you were a student? How have things changed around town in the years since you graduated?

We want to know! Share your thoughts with us HERE and be featured in an upcoming eLetter!

The brothers at the house this summer are staying active with a number of activities.

• Summer rush is going well with the summer freshmen on campus.
• The brothers are hosting alumni barbeques at the house, with the next one being on August 4.  Contact [email protected] for further information.
• Profits from summer rent are being invested into recruitment and brotherhood activities for fall.
• We are having a variety of work done on the house over summer, including recarpeting, a new exterior lock system, painting, and light fixture replacement.  The brothers are also working to keep the house clean and prepare it for fall rush.
  
  

We look forward to a successful fall.

Did you receive your Spring 2023 edition of Xi-Lights? If not, you’re missing out!

If you didn’t receive your copy in the mail, send your current mailing address to us at [email protected] and let us know to add you to the Xi Chapter at Georgia Tech mailing list.

To read the digital newsletter on our alumni website, CLICK HERE.

Thank you to these fine gentlemen listed below in the 2022-23 Honor Roll for their continued support of Xi Chapter! Because of them, we have been able to not only support our chapter, but support the alumni through communications, reunions, and financing.

View the Honor Roll here!

Our giving year ends 8/31/2023, and we are so close to our goal. If you have not already given this year, please consider a gift and earn your spot on this year’s Honor Roll!

DONATE HERE

Zeta Beta Tau is the place where we had a lot of firsts. It’s the place where we first ventured out of our hometowns, the first place we bonded to on campus, and the place where we first learned the true meaning of friendship. Read on to see what one brother said on how Zeta Beta Tau impacted their life.

For Tom Sanders ’74, the lasting legacy of ZBT is the bond of friendship that stands the test of time. “I’ve stayed in contact with a few brothers over the years and manage to see a couple who live in Florida on my road trips to see relatives/in-laws who live in the southeast Georgia area,” he said. “No matter how much time passes since seeing a brother, it always feels like yesterday.”

How did Zeta Beta Tau impact you? CLICK HERE to share your story with us and be featured in an upcoming eLetter!

When you’re in middle age, you start to realize how very much you need your friends. After decades of relentless striving — kids, house, career, spouse — we find ourselves coming up for breath at some point in these middle decades. And what remains? With any luck, our friends.  

An Atlantic Monthly article (do yourself a favor and read it at tinyurl.com/lifelongfriends), says that according to the Stanford Center on Longevity, those of us over 40 have aged out of the friendship-collecting business, which tends to peak in the tumbleweed stage of life, and move into the friendship-enjoying business, luxuriating in the relationships that survived as we put down roots. 

The problem? Those friendships are awfully hard-won. Life’s significant upheavals and changes can prove too much for many friendships to withstand. As years go by, some of the dearest people in your life have gently faded away.  

But these bonds with friends are more than an extra in your life story — they are the story. Over and over, we hear stories of how Zeta Beta Tau friends drove overnight to be in weddings, wept together at funerals, cheered at the news of new babies, toasted promotions, and gathered together in adversity. In a nutshell: the friendships we gained — and still have — with our fraternity brothers are exquisitely rare in today’s world. 

Author Jennifer Senior says, “Practically everyone who studies friendship says this in some form or another: What makes friendship so fragile is also exactly what makes it so special. You have to continually opt in. That you choose it is what gives it its value.” 

Our Xi chapter friendships have seen us through so much, but don’t take them for granted. Take a minute to text or call your roommate, or intramural teammate, and tell them that you are thinking of them. Our friendships have fueled these decades since graduation… Let’s keep it going.  

P.S. Don’t have the most recent contact information? We do! Log in, and then head over to our alumni directory.  

It is with great honor that we announce our newest fraternity alums! Join us in welcoming the following graduates to the alumni brotherhood! 

Jonathon Kirkland 
Brunswick, GA
Major: Civil Engineering 

Robert Lyle 
Ringgold, GA
Major: Economics 

Brothers, we have less than 4 months left in our 2022-2023 giving year, which began on 9/1/2022. So, we are reaching out to you with a reminder to donate before the giving year ends on 8/31/2023, and earn your spot on the Honor Roll of Donors. Alumni support is the heart and soul of our fraternity, here’s why giving back is so important… 

Because being a donor is being a leader—seeing your name on the Honor Roll of Donors inspires others to join you by making their own gift. You don’t have to stop there, make a personal invitation to a fellow brother to join you on the Honor Roll. Remind him that without alumni support, we cannot carry on. Help keep us strong so we can succeed.

Because—if you’re like me—your fraternity experience helped to shape the person you are today and gave YOU invaluable gifts like leadership experience, interpersonal skills, lifelong friendships and more. Because of these invaluable experiences, we remain resolved that as long as Georgia Tech exists, Zeta Beta Tau – Phi Epsilon Pi will thrive there. 

We would like to thank those brothers who have generously contributed to Zeta Beta Tau – Phi Epsilon Pi Georgia Tech this giving year. Can you help us reach our goal before 8/31/2023?   

If you have not yet made your gift, add your name to the Honor Roll by using any of the following methods:   

• Click here to give online;   
• Call our toll-free Donation Hotline at 1-800-975-6699;  
• Mail a check to our donation processing center:

Zeta Beta Tau – Phi Epsilon Pi – Xi Chapter

Alumni Relations Processing Center

P.O. Box 7007

Albert Lea, MN 56007-8007 

From past to present, our ZBT family stays strong. Our undergraduates had an amazing time connecting with our alumni at the retreat this month!

Did you attend the retreat? We want to know! CLICK HERE to share about the retreat and we will feature it in an upcoming eLetter or newsletter!

While Jeff Goodman’s job as a sales rep in the men’s apparel business took him all over the country, he’s never moved from his native Atlanta. He attended Georgia Tech on a track scholarship and returns to campus often, recently taking in the men’s hoops victory over Notre Dame with fellow pledge brother Sam Schwartz ’71. 

“I’d give anything to be back at school again. Every time I’m back there with my kids or down there with my friends, I say that. I said it last night when we went watch Tech play basketball. I said to Sam, ‘I wish we were back in school.’ He said the same thing.” 

One of Jeff’s standout memories from his fraternity days involves Schwartz and a sticky situation. 

“Sam was ‘kidnapped’ and brought out to Stone Mountain. There was a lot of wilderness between Atlanta and Stone Mountain back then. So the brothers left Sam out there in his underwear and poured maple syrup all over him and then poured cornflakes all over that. He finally got to a house where he borrowed the phone, but it took numerous houses, because he would knock on the door, they’d look out the peephole, and there he was with no clothes on.” 

Schwartz did eventually make it back to campus, and maybe even tracked down chief syrupy perpetrator Mike “Fog” Weinstein ‘70, but there were no hard feelings afterward. “Sam happens to be the most successful person in our pledge class, but you’d never know it by talking to him, a real down-to-earth guy,” Jeff said. 

“The year after me exploded. My pledge class (1967) was only 18, and that made about 50 brothers, I think, but then the next pledge class was, I believe, around 52 members, and that was the largest pledge class ever. They doubled the size of the fraternity.” 

Jeff recalls that the jump in size allowed the house intramural teams to become much more competitive over the next several years, although his obligations as a scholarship athlete precluded his participation. Academics also kept him very busy. “I tried studying my freshman year the way I tried studying in high school, and I couldn’t do that at Tech. I almost flunked out! I figured out that if I wasn’t in class or at practice, I had to be in the library.” 

But he also remembers fun nights spent chowing down on Lums’ beer-steamed hot dogs at the corner of Spring and Peachtree as well as some not-so-subtle subterfuge in sneaking his way into Underground Atlanta night clubs: “Someone in our fraternity house, somehow, got a blank New Jersey driver’s license, and everybody was duplicating it and making a license saying you were over 21. We would all go down there with a group or with a bunch of dates, and everybody had a New Jersey driver’s license. I’m sure they knew there was something suspicious, but back then things were not as strict as they would be today.” 

“I still have friends from 50+ years ago,” Jeff reports. “At Georgia Tech, in the fraternity, running cross country, some of the best times of my life.” 

Source Courtesy of Blueprint

Check out this blast from the past, all the way back to 1983! Zeta Beta Tau is featured in Georgia Tech’s Yearbook, Blueprint, for the annual Panama City Retreat! Do you remember the trip, were you there, did you participate, do you recognize these fellas in the photo? We want to know!  

CLICK HERE and we will publish them in an upcoming e-letter or newsletter. 

In the last month, the brothers wrapped up Get on the Ball and held a number of fun events and activities.  For Get on the Ball, the brothers gathered 1800 signatures and had a great time at the campus-wide Dance Marathon, at which funds raised were presented on behalf of Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals.



For one activity, the brothers got away from campus and enjoyed some “escapism” at an escape room.  They set a record for the escape room location of 35 minutes for their escape.

Spring is just around the corner, and with the warmer temperatures now on the rise, it has us thinking about getting back together with Zeta Beta Tau brothers.   

Mark your calendar now for Georgia Tech Homecoming 2023!: October 26th – 28th 

More details will be shared as soon as they are available, but it’s not too early to start making your travel plans.   

In the meantime, summer is the perfect opportunity to plan your next fraternity reunion. So, here are some tips for planning the perfect Zeta Beta Tau weekend:   

FRIENDS: Head to the directory page to reconnect and catch up with brothers you haven’t heard from in a while!    

FOOD and DRINKS: Atlanta is always changing. Our old favorite restaurant or bar may not still be in town, but here are some great options to have a get together!   

• Red Phone Booth 
• SkyLounge 
• The Anguished Barber 

FUN: Fall semester means football is back in-season! Check out the fall football schedule here, and don’t forget about homecoming on October 26th – 28th either!   

Planning a get-together? CLICK HERE to let us know, so we can share it in our next e-letter!