Georgia Tech TKE Alumni Reunite Annually to Keep Brotherhood Alive
By: Jennifer Herseim | Categories: Featured Stories
With shared memories like building “The Walking Wreck”—an early ’60s entry in the Wreck Parade that stepped forward on feet rather than rolling on wheels—the fraternity brothers at Tau Kappa Epsilon forged bonds that have lasted a lifetime. A group of TKE alumni who graduated between 1963 and 1975 come together once a year to share stories and carry on the fraternity’s tradition of brotherhood.
“We did everything together at Tech. We didn’t have a big student union back then. The fraternity was your social life,” says TKE alumnus Dwight Sedgwick, IE 67, MS IE 70. “We weren’t the wildest party animals, but we had some good athletic teams and good scholarship.” The TKE fraternity brothers played football, softball, and basketball, shared meals, woke each other up for early Saturday morning classes or those dreaded three-hour chemistry and drafting labs, and generally spent their free time together.
TKE Annual Reunions
The first TKE reunion happened in 1997 and started as a two-day golfing outing at Callaway Gardens, which today has evolved into a four-day event with golf, tennis, fishing, tours, and loads of storytelling. The reunions have continued every year since then, with the exception of two years during the pandemic. Past reunions, which usually bring about 20 to 30 attendees, have included tours of the port in Savannah, Ga., the Naval Air Station in Jacksonville, Fla., and historical points in Charleston, S.C.
“Sharing our past stories about life at Tech, and seeing what each person has accomplished since Tech, has been a wonderful and rewarding experience,” Sedgwick says.
TKE alumni at the 2026 reunion in Savannah, Ga.
