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The Beta Campanile, Summer 2010 while I attended Wooden Institute at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.  The bells that reside in the tower are shown in black and white.  The other pictures were taken with my trusty iPhone.  

The Campanile was presented as a Centennial gift of the Beta Theta Pi national fraternity, founded at Miami in 1839. The cornerstone was laid on November 10, 1940 and the tower dedicated on May 17, 1941. The bells, arriving in Oxford in July 1939, were temporarily hung in the east tower of old Harrison Hall, pending construction of the Beta Tower. Individually inscribed with the Greek letters Beta, Theta, Pi, and “1839-1939,” the four bells weigh 3,000, 1,200, 800, and 600 pounds and ring in the keys of E flat, A flat, B flat, and C respectively. They were first sounded August 8, 1939, on occasion of their presentation to the University at the Beta Theta Pi Centenary Convocation. They were moved to the Campanile during Spring vacation 1941, and sound the Westminster series on the quarter hour, the large bell striking the hour.

Every Beta should get the chance to visit the birthplace of our Fraternity.  The area is filled with Beta history and monuments like this, and the administrative office located close to the Miami campus is beautiful.  Not pictured is my favorite Beta landmark located just behind the office: The Hall of Chapters, a building in which only the initiated may enter… pure beauty.