What's YOUR Story?

Wouldn't it be great if someone could make a movie about our KA experience? Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately, for some) the cameras weren't rolling during our days at the University of Georgia. The experience we shared can only live on through our memories, stories and photos.

Thanks to Phil Lee '88 for sharing the following story:

"The story I want to tell is of the 1986 Old South Parade. Many KA's will remember that day as a bad day because I was the brother who was run over by the flat-bed that carried all the sweet Southern ladies through campus. I was riding on the gas tank(dumb) with my friend Whit Byrum when the truck stopped. As I jumped off the tank, the truck moved forward throwing me back towards the tires. The first set of dual tires rolled across my waist and the second set stopped on my right leg. I remember Roy Fickling, who was a paramedic back home, checking me out before the ambulance got there. My brother John(Gamma Graduate1985) worked in Atlanta at that time and drove to Athens immediately. I was in the emergency room waiting on my parents to drive in before they could operate. The scene that John encountered when he walked into the Emergency room department is the main reason for my story. He said it looked like a scene from a Civil War movie in the emergency waiting room with all those KA's dressed for Old South. The number of KA brothers, including Batman, that left the festivities of Old South and sat in the waiting room to hear how I was doing was so incredible and is still a source of pride for me as a KA at UGA.

My injuries were a torn colon, broken pelvis and a blown out knee. All were repairable with the only reminder today being some scars and a sore knee from time to time. Overall, I was a very lucky young man considering all the possibilities.

May 8, 1986 is a day that I will never forget for many reasons and one of them is the visual that I have in my mind of all those brothers in that waiting room.  Thanks to all you guys and for the entire fraternity for supporting me when I returned to campus the following Fall.

KA will always hold a special place in my life."

While we all shared the same great experience, we each have our own unique stories to tell from it. And we need your help to document them! Click here to tell us a great story or two that you fondly remember from your undergraduate days.