The 5th annual Fresno EX wine tasting was held on April 28. For the second year the wine tasting was held in Debbie and Dave Reuland’s (69-F) backyard located in Fresno’s Old Fig Garden. The total attendees were 82. Besides being a fun social event tasting great wines selected by T.A. Heckel (82-F), we use this opportunity to raise funds for the Fresno EX endowment. This year we raised $15,375 which brings the total of our several endowments to $720.706.

The endowments are held by the Fresno State Alumni Association and generate monies annually that are used for scholarships for our undergraduate brothers at Fresno State. For the fall 2019/spring 2020 school year we will award at total of $28,000, fourteen scholarships of $2,000 each. The scholarships reduce the cost of living in the house from $625/month to $400/month, more than a 1/3 reduction.

Most of the brothers who attended were from the Fresno area, but several drove a long way to enjoy this opportunity to get re-engaged. Steve Bachand (79-F) came from Pleasanton, Dave Berry (90-S) from Rocklin, Ken Blom (66-S) from Clio, Jon Hollenbeck (79-F) from San Francisco, Buck Levis (60-F) from Cambria and Rob Millard (79-F) came from Fair Oaks.