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On Saturday, April 25, 2009, a dedication ceremony was held outside of Adelbert Hall at CWRU in honor of Dr. Ignacio Ocasio.  Doc Oc as he was commonly known was a beloved chemistry professor and served as our faculty advisor for many years before he suddenly died of a heart attack in May 2005.  A student-led effort brought about the creation of a statue of Doc Oc to serve as a lasting memory on campus of such a great teacher, mentor, and friend.

On February 16, 1957, Russell J. Warren was initiated into the Alpha Delta chapter of the Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity.  After graduating with a degree in electrical engineering from Case Western Reserve University, Warren continued his education at the Harvard Business School, receiving an MBA and quickly becoming the president of Association for Corporate Growth and M&A International, Incorporated.

Warren has advised clients from all over the world; as an expert on cross-border acquisitions and mergers, Warren held the position of president at the TransAction Group for twenty-one years.  At present he has stepped up to the role of senior dealmaker and overseer of business at EdgePoint.  He is also currently a trustee emeritus of Case Western Reserve, and a member of the Visiting Committees of the Weatherhead School of Management and the Case School of Engineering.  Speaking of his new position, Warren said, "we've worked together before in the past.  We've known each other and respected each other for a long time," just as the Alpha Delta brothers respect him, especially since he is another reason this chapter can be very proud to be.

Another initiate of Valentine's Day, 1948, Dr. Paul Christian Lauterbur is another Hall of Fame brother of the Alpha Delta chapter.  After a tour in the military and upon graduating from the University of Pittsburgh in 1962, Lauterbur came up with, researched for, and developed an MRI machine that could differentiate between types of water, something impossible for any other imaging technique in existance at the time.

His first paper on the device submitted to Nature was rejected, but Lauterbur kept his head up and made sure that they reviewed it again; finally, it was published.  The Sidney High School graduate,who grew up fiddling with his own chemistry lab as a kid and who taught at the University of Illinois for over two decades, recieved the Nobel Prize in the autumn of 2003.  He died in 2007, but as University of Illinois Chancellor Richard Herman once said, "Paul's influence is felt around the world every day, every time an MRI saves the life of a daughter or son, a mother or a father" and he is just one more reason the Alpha Delta brothers can be very proud to be.