Chi Psi

While there, he played rugby for the California Golden Bears and won the national championship twice.

He was also elected president of his fraternity, Chi Psi.

I think that's how you pronounce that.

He was described as being incredibly popular, outgoing, adventurous, and energetic.

Mark, her only child, was one of the Flight 93 heroes.

Mark Bingham, a very interesting guy, born in 1970, UC Berkeley grad, president of the Chi Psi fraternity, rugby player, and gay.

All of those things.

He almost missed the flight that day, rushing to Newark to board a flight to San Francisco to be an usher in a friend's wedding.

But even though we were separate fraternities, like, you know, I loved Vino, loved Eric Smith, loved, uh, a lot of the ATO guys.

I was in, in Chi Psi with John Bussey and Ted Berkery and, and those guys.

So we, we all had, like, our, our friendships in our houses, but we also crossed over a lot as well, and Vino was a big bridge, you know, with everyone.

I think Vino was, was a, was a big bridge that was, was f- was friends with both places.

More lately, a collection of books and papers assembled by the author's father-in-law, the late William W.

Gay, newspaperman, bibliophile, and loyal member of Chi Psi fraternity, had added substance and stature to what otherwise might have remained a dim family legend.

As the volume has taken shape, its author has felt increasingly the imperative need to stress its factual nature.

Though cast in narrative form, the tale is not fiction.

It was the pristine force that brought about the establishment of the Naval Academy at Annapolis.

It drove at least one man to suicide, created a protracted enmity between two members of Tyler's cabinet, painfully disturbed the Navy's high brass, roused James Fenimore Cooper to one of his more violent eruptions, distressed Washington Irving, patron of the brig's commander, and became, for unnumbered others, a terminus to friendships and a starting point for feuds.

Finally, a highly distorted version of the tragic episode was incorporated into the ritual of the Chi Psi fraternity, which Philip Spencer had helped to found.

Slighter and less important episodes in the national annals have not been so generally disregarded, nor, when they have been dredged out of the past, have they been equally beclouded by misstatement and prejudice.