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Last call to arms as UPSILON goes global

A number of last-minute registrants are signing up for the “Otso Otso sa Toronto” world frat reunion of Upsilonians so we expect the numbers to swell some more. Meanwhile, the Upsilon and Sigma Delta organizers are leaving no stone unturned to accommodate all latecomers.

 

Upsilon Sigma Phi has come full cycle. Our fraternity is 88 years old today. Our founding brods have gone to the Great Beyond and some early batches have become dinosaurs, remembered only in yellowish photographs and hazy memories.

Eighty eight years to most of us is a lifetime. But to a successful organization, it is just the beginning of life. The Phi Beta Kappa, the oldest Greek letter society in the U.S., is 230. The Society of Jesus is 472, Freemasonry is 299. Compared with these organizations, the Upsilon is still a baby.

Being in the first stage of its existence, the Upsilon may well consider some serious thoughts. Already there are second, third, even fourth generations of Upsilonians in our midst. There are now more than 30 fraternities in the UP system, about a dozen Upsilon chapters in North America, and maybe another dozen chapters in Europe and Asia. Nobody knows. Even our Upsilon archive cannot say for sure.

We have scattered the Light, we have passed on the Torch all over the world, but in the process we probably forgot to link them together in one seamless brotherhood.

To the brods, in this time of uncertainties, it is time to transform ourselves like tempered steel. It is time to move forward by adapting to present day realities and adjusting to the temper of the times. It is a time for mobility, improvisation and innovation. To be sure, the Frat thrives on recollection and resolve.

It is time to be one again. Alumni and residents. Provincial, city and world based. Senior and junior brods. Let’s get out of the confines of Diliman and Los Banos and think global.

We have all helped gather and scatter the Light. We all believed in that noble cause. Let us all come together then, back into one seamless brotherhood, under the one Fraternity that we all cherished as alumni.

We pride on the Upsilon Sigma Phi as a fraternity that speaks with one voice and feels and acts with one heart, wherever the brods are.

Despite our differences and diversity, we all still look at the world with the same eyes. This is the essence of our conference theme: Global Upsilon.

(as published in Atin To Newspaper by Eddie Lee '53, Toronto July 2006)