re: Authorities investigating death at LSU Phi delt house

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The Tri Delt president my senior year was the daughter of a truck driver. She was also a smokeshow with a 4.0 in petroleum engineering.


Aren't you an early 80s graduate? Was she able to get a job in her major or did she become a pharmaceutical rep?

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Yeah, Im still friends with her. She worked for a variety of outfits, including Enron, and always came out ahead. She now has her own oilfield service company that supplies a niche product. She's super smart and focused, but her being a hot female has undoubtedly played a part in her success.

Sweet! Good for her.

I was still in school and working on weekends, holidays and summers for an oil field service company as a sample catcher on drilling rigs and gofer/flunky/general labor around the district warehouse. It was bottom of the totem pole work, but the pay was relatively good and the district manager got me work almost whenever I asked. I was thrilled to have the job.

One weekend, in 1984 or '85 when things were going to shite in the oil patch, I had to repaint the exterior of a mobile unit that was used on offshore rigs. Basically a shipping container. I'm on the top with a new guy, rolling paint like they asked me to. The new guy just can't stop bitching about anything and everything. I finally told him to shut the frick up and paint or shite the frick up and don't paint, but he had to shut the frick up because I was tired of hearing him whine. I also gave him a brief lecture on how lucky we were to have jobs when people were getting laid off everywhere. It turned out that the dude had a PetE degree from Alabama. He was quite bitter about the situation. I actually admitted that as happy as I was to be working, I'd be pissed too if that was the only kind of work I could get after graduating with a petroleum engineering degree.

Had a friend graduate from Tulane in Geology in '82 (I think. Might have been '83.) The job market was soft, so he went back for his masters. Two years later it was even worse. He's never worked as a geologist.

On topic note: There was hazing and heavy drinking in my fraternity. But even in the early '80s we were smart enough not to make a pledge drink a fifth of Everclear.

Yeah when it crashed it was overnight. I remember Angelle Parlange was a Kappa at that time. She was one of the insanely rich Parlanges from Point Coupee, and majored in petroleum land management with an eye to taking over management of her family's holdings. After oil cratered she went to NY and became a pretty successful fashion designer so I guess it worked out for her.

Friend from Indiana contacted me about, making National news

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we might know each other. you would definitely know my brother. not going to say names on here, but I was very proud with what y'all did over the last decade.

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Thank you for the sentiment. It's sad that all of that hard work went by the wayside. Maybe one day they'll be back, but I'm not banking on it and not with this crop of guys.

I can only imagine who you could be. A couple of people come to mind. So, yeah, we probably know each other.

A very poor strategy, but it's a strategy especially if somebody thinks they need to hold a lot of alcohol in a competitive situation.

I'd bull doze all those m-f'ing houses. All of em.

Just got word from someone on campus that apparently the Phi Delt pledge trainer committed suicide last night.

eta: Luckily it sounds like fake news. Friend of a friend works A/V at a local news station and said they had someone contact them with the story but after looking into said its false. Apologies for causing a stir.

Ouch


This is a horrible story all around