Thanks to brother Stephen Polunsky for the link! This is FREAKING AWESOME! (I wonder if she’s related to Fanny Ruth?)

We’re back!

On Friday, July 30^th, 2010 at 5:00PM the City of Austin gave the facility at 2807 Rio Grande the occupancy permit and the construction of the new house was officially completed!

Within minutes close to 30 of the kids living in Austin during the summer as well as a handful of alumni in town (including Donny & Amy Greenspan, Lee Steinfeld, Bobby’s son) got to work un-boxing and assembling furniture and breathing live into the facility! It was so very exciting! We also enjoyed the firstShabbat Dinner at the house!

You will be blown away by the new house the first time you see it and the time after that, and the time after that. It’s nothing less than spectacular and an obvious labor of love by the architect, our own Barry Bubis! This facility with its’ state of the art accoutrements, Wi-Fi, sound system, individually climate controlled rooms with ceiling fans (and their own bathrooms and showers), concrete floors, concrete walls, and furniture is a show palace!

Peter Pan was right…. you have to get older but you don’t have to grow up so…. I along with 6 other alumni spent the night at the house and we were up till almost 3:00AM exchanging stories and proposing toasts (with those of the kids over 21), shooting champagne corks off the back patio….. or not depending on who asks! To steal a line another line from Derek Jeter, “the ghosts walked across the street”! I could feel Fanny Ruth in the kitchen and Bullshiter in the porter’s closet. I could almost hear that teeth rattling sound of brother’s trading licks with newly initiated actives. I SWEAR I could smell a FASC meeting going on in one of the kid’s rooms. On second thought, that might have been exactly what I smelled. J

Circle your calendar for the weekend of October 15^th. You won’t want to miss the dedication and ribbon cutting! It’s going to be a memorable celebration of almost a decade of dreams and hard work!

If you want to be a part of the lasting legacy of this building, contact Scott Bishop at sabishop@sfs-lo.com to make a contribution of any size.

Broo ha ha and harump! No more Viking…. Viking is back!

Bill Rubinsky

The big question is:  will we start getting our pregame BBQ brought in from Joe Cotten’s?

Mazel Tov from all of us, Richard.

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Story from the Austin American-Statesman:

Leshin will lead Texas Exes

Richard Leshin has been elected president of the Texas Exes, the alumni association of the University of Texas. Leshin is a partner in the law firm Welder Leshin LLP, based in Corpus Christi. He will assume the position July 1.

The association was founded in 1885.

That goes out to all of our actives who managed to survive the rigors of college life!  You’ll be able to visit the new AEPi house just like the rest of us — as alumni!   Mazel Tov!

And to all of you who have kids graduating UT — and other institutions of higher edjicashun — right now, MAZEL TOV!

As for your old Brother X, I’ll be celebrating the graduations of my progeny, Jose and Josb, both of whom are taking the long walk off the short pier Friday morning here in Austin.

Then …I guess I’ll have to change the locks on the doors again!

Yours in Crisco,

BROTHER X

Here’s the “dining” schedule:

7:30pm Friday, April 23 — AEPi- sponsored Shabbat dinner at Chabad, 2101 Nueces.
12:00-4pm Saturday, April 24 –catered BBQ lunch at our house, 2307 Leon St.

RSVP – CLICK HERE!

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The Alumni Chair of Gamma Deuteron is having an Alumni Event in Austin on April 23rd and 24th and is calling all Texas alumni (via the link below) to try and get a head count right now.

Here’s the main info:
On Friday, April 23rd AEPi is sponsoring Shabbat dinner at Chabad.

On Saturday the 24th, there will be BBQ catered at the current house on 2307 Leon St. GammaD AND alumni Barry Bubis, the architect of the new house, will be giving tours throughout that afternoon of the construction at the site of the new house on 2807 Rio Grande!

The actives need a rough head count to buy food (via the RSVP link below).

I’m going to see if I can be there…

RSVP – CLICK HERE!

Call me or e-mail me if you would like an update on the House (sabishop@sfs-lp.com or 713.400.8010).

Scott A. Bishop, MBA, CPA, CFP^®

Click to read AEPi Spring 2010 Newsletter (2)

Our flickr account has been updated and we’ll be back up to full speed — even faster than your old Brother X is!

Follow the Progress of The New Pi House

BTW — Happy Birthday to Brother Chuck Green, April Fool’s Day 2010!  At 58, I guess the bread isn’t the only thing unleavened this year, eh Bear?

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