On the Banks

On the Banks

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On the Banks episodes

  • Leading with Yes

    Host: Bill Martin (Mississippi State 1975) 
    Guest: Memme Onwudiwe (Ohio Wesleyan 2015) 

    In this episode, Memme Onwudiwe shares his experience as a member of Phi Gamma Delta from his time as an undergraduate at Ohio Wesleyan, to a law student at Harvard Law, and now as a leader of a tech start-up, Evisort. 

    Additionally, Memme won the Fraternity's 2015 Wilkinson Award as the most outstanding senior, and he received Harvard Law School's 2019 Dean's Award for Community Leadership.

    36 min
  • When Truth Is All You Have

    Host: Bill Martin (Mississippi State 1975)

    Guest: Jim McCloskey (Bucknell 1964)

    In this episode, Bill Martin interviews Jim McCloskey about his new book, When Truth Is All You Have, and his life’s work exonerating innocent people who were wrongly convicted and received life or death sentences.

    Jim is the Founder of Centurion Ministries, and he retired in 2015. For more information about Centurion, visit https://centurion.org/.

    1 hr 13 min
  • Back to the Banks of the Sweetwater

    Host: Doug Draper (Kansas 1992)
    Guests: Dean Plager (Iowa State 1964) & Rob Wilkes (Iowa State 1964)

    In this episode, Iowa State brothers Dean Plager and Rob Wilkes share their story when they reunited with fellow pledge brothers to explore the banks of the Sweetwater River. The full back story about their reunion and journey to the Sweetwater River can be found at www.phigam.org/Sweetwater.

    22 min
  • Teaser

    Hosts Doug Draper (Kansas 1992) and Bill Martin (Mississippi State 1975) welcome brothers to Phi Gamma Delta's new podcast, On the Banks. 

    On the Banks is a six-part podcast series, where we will meet brothers through interview and storytelling. On the Banks pays homage to the chance meeting of John Templeton McCarty (Jefferson 1848) and Bolivar G. Krepps (Jefferson 1849) on the banks of the Sweetwater River on July 7, 1849. Two brothers who never met, connected 1,500 miles west of Canonsburg when heading to the California Gold Rush. No GPS and no cell phone…they found each other. 

    On the Banks will focus on the power of that connection, meeting new brothers for the first time and embracing our shared values.

    2 min

About On the Banks

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On the Banks is a podcast series, where we meet brothers through interview and storytelling. On the Banks pays homage to the chance meeting of John Templeton McCarty (Jefferson 1848) and Bolivar G. Krepps (Jefferson 1849) on the banks of the Sweetwater River on July 7, 1849. Two brothers who never met, connected 1,500 miles west of Canonsburg when heading to the California Gold Rush. No GPS and no cell phone…they found each other.