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Odessa House History On Wednesday, I got an email: "Have you guys seen this??? This is awesome!! Check out Rumor Mill (better be glad Leo's not the owner anymore), Girl of the Week, and Guide to Eric's Poll. Amazing. I'm almost in tears. Ian - congratulations. You have lived up to the worthiness of Munson's room." This was from Cody Dick, former BYX secretary, graduated in 2001. Before there was Anton, before there was Blake, before there was Ravanesi, there was Cody Dick and the "Odessa House Five": Cody, Scott Munson, Andrew "Rip" Ripley, Chris James, and Travis "Ogre" Stuntz. First, I respond to thank Cody, and to set him straight that I don't live in Munson's old room, or even in the Odessa House. Well, that opened the floodgates. Apparently Cody has a lot of free time at work and he does a lot of emailing. I got another email Wednesday from Rip, and about 10 (mostly Cody) and also from Stuntz, Rip, and Munson. So here begins, some Odessa History and other ancient facts about where BYX guys lived before there was the Wabash House and before there was BYX Row. Next email: "FYI, before there was a BYX Row, Odessa or Wabash, there were the "BYX Shanties" (where the remnants contain Ripley, Moser and Majin Sierra). The BYX Shanties consisted of about 12-15 guys in 4-6 apartments. Also nearby, the "Nunnery." This housed many of the future wives of old BYX guys. Despite having boyfriends, I'll let you figure out why we called it the nunnery. Anyway, you've now given me a way to stay connected and a new way to procrastinate other than the Frog Fan Forum (killerfrogs.com). I am eternally grateful. One for Rumor Mill hall of shame: "Travis 'Ogre' Stuntz, a former cookieman of BYX lore, dissed his old roommates & a well planned reunion trip to Atlanta for the former Odessa House Five (Munson, Chris James, Travis, myself and Rip) because he has Mavericks tickets. Also, do you guys currently have a parliamentarian? That is a crucial role previously filled by guys like Will Pryor and Mark Galanos. I suggest that the old guys nominate someone. Three jobs: 1) Make sure VP calls Flash; 2) Make sure secretary orders Beefy T's; 3) Convince as many people as possible that he's actually an officer. Tell Godley to stand up. Cody" I'm going to work on this parliamentarian thing. As far as the comment about Godley standing up, I'm not quite sure if Cody is teasing Geoff for his height or he thinks Geoff should volunteer to be the BYX parliamentarian. Cody is just now gaining speed as he begins to send me photos: Rip, Dick, Chris, T-Stuntz, and Munson, at the Ballpark in Arlington formal
He also sent this one, just to prove that old guys get hot chicks as dates, I guess.
The emails keep coming, including this one from Rip: "Ian, tell everybody to stay in school... don't ever graduate. And yes, we need to put the Ogre in the Hall of Shame. And can my sister be one of the girls of the week? All my friends think she's hot. Rip" After this, most of the emails just started going over my head with old college jokes that were funny before I even got my driver's license. I lost track, but was still inspired nonetheless to report on these crazy guys. Munson, Rip, and Ron Mayott showed up at the fire on Saturday night. He said that he normally ignores Cody's emails and wasn't familiar with THE VOORN PROJECT. He asked what my major was at one point during the night. As I reply "e-business", he says, "so do you have like a webpage or something?" Yeah, something like that, Ron. Odessa Tidbits:
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