I knew Ken for just a blink relative to his life - three years during undergraduate college. But they were intense, coming-of-age years, a few dozen young men governing themselves under one roof while figuring out the world. Ken was always an optimistic and positive personality in that environment in which, as absurd as it may seem to outsiders of Sigma Chi, we were paradoxically self-teaching high ideals to live our lives by while engaging in all the sophomoric antics that the undergraduate experience tends to elicit. Ken handled the tensions of this environment with aplomb. And he learned the high ideals and lived by them, not only in those years, but in his years since. His life accomplishments are evidence that he believed in and worked for something bigger than himself, which is a courageous, meaningful, and worthwhile endeavor. We are all poorer with his departure. My deepest condolences. ##imported-begin##Robert Vallas##imported-end##