a little about everyone
 

Hey brothers of Lambda Chi

I dont know if this has been done before but lets put info about our selfs up here.

Jonathan Nathan

Lambda Iota 905

Spring Of 2004

I rushed Lambda Chi for two reasons. One reason was that one of my good friends is a member and he told me how awsome Lambda Chi is. and two we have one of the best reps on campus and across the country.

I am a sociology major with a crimial justice emphasis. i am also gettting ready to leave for army basic trainning in January of 2006, to become a Military Policeman. I also already have a son, who hopefully will be a legeicy, he is a year and a half old.

Brother Jonothan,

Mike Raymond
Zeta-Upsilon Zeta at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio
Late Summer, 1964
Current House Corporation President
Member Centennial Planning Committee
OoM

Welcome aboard!

Eric D. Berger
A888

Initiated into the Alpha Chapter on March 30, 1982
Refounding Brother of the Alpha Chapter
Treasurer, Alpha Zeta Alumni Association (1992-present)
High Pi, Alpha Zeta (1997-present)
Impact Leadership Coach
Chairman, Alumni Training Committee (2001-present)
Member, Undergraduate Programming Committee (2003-present)
Order of Merit

Robert Cooper

EE755
High Rho (01-02)
High Delta (02-03)
Chapter Historian (00-02)
Alumni Board - Communications (Present)

Let see currently completing classes to up my GPA for a Masters and possible PHD. My specialty is Celtic Studies, with an emphasis in post Roman Britain. As for my current employment... Military Intelligence - anything more specific is classified :)

Edited 03/03/05 - I'm no longer with Military Intelligence - I choose not to renew my contract with them, and instead concentrate on school and my health (had severe problems as of late).l

Tom Earp,

Founded Beta Chi as a Local in 1965.

Colonized at the end of the School Year 1966.

Dont think they did colony Numbers back then but is a long story between George Spasyk and myself on how We got LX Z!:cool:

Currently on the House Corporation, member of the mentoring committee, started the house building committee, started the Alum Assoc. and keeper of the LX Z email listing.

Other than that, not much!:)

Welcome aboard to GC and Our Band of Merry Brothers!:D

Mike, I may be a bit older than you, dont remember from our talk and libations in Jono and my room at G A!;)

One must try to remember, I was an Active member for one year so am still learning and meeting a LOT!:cool: Almost 40 years this next one coming up!

Oh, can tell by my Sig. my Zeta # !

Guess it is true what some of the older Alums call me from back when, "The Old Fart"!!!!!!!:D

Jono Hren
Beta-Nu 41
Florida Tech (F.I.T.)
Initiated April 29, 1972
President, B-N Alumni Association
51 (and a half :p )

Brother Mike, your still a kid to me!:D

63 in March:( Ergo, "The Old Fart" from my Alums.

Wish was younger so could be more involved in LXA:cool:

Name: Mark Brenneman
Zeta Number: Phi-Tau Zeta #246
AM Class: Spring 1991
School: Shippensburg U., Shippensburg PA
Graduation Year (Degree)Class of '94 (B.A. Public Relations)
Offices held:High Kappa, High Beta, Alum Housing Corp.
Trivia: Became a brother on March 16, 1991 at 6:48 p.m.
Rush career consisted of 1 rush. I went to a Lambda Chi rush with my roommate, who was also rushing. I had never been to a rush, and had no intention of joining a fraternity. Then, I walked into Lambda Chi, and before the evening was over, I had decided "I have to be a part of this!"
Took my bid the next week
Never regretted that decision
Still wear my 80's style satin LXA "disco jacket" to Fraternity events.

Current Employment: Employed as a Public Relations guy for 4 Guys Firetrucks in Meyersdale, PA. We build custom-designed all stainless steel fire trucks. I'm in charge of magazine advertising and the company web site: http://www.4guysfire.com/

Matt Troy
EM 1843
University of Florida
Initiated Fall 2001
Offices Held,
Rho (Fall 2002-Fall 2003)
Phi (Spring 2004-Fall 2004)
International Ritual Team member 50th General Assembly Summer 2004

I guess that's about it. I'm a History major, waiting on my LSAT scores. I'll find out what the rest of my life will consist of on Oct. 25.

Name: Kevin Joiner, Kappa-Omega 958
Initiated Nov 1986 @ Kappa-Omega Zeta (Georgetown College)
Served as High Phi and historian (87-89)
Graduated 89

Became active with Colony 310 @ Vanderbilt (now
Gamma-Delta Zeta) 1991-93 as a grad student.
Served as High Phi and historian.
Received a recognition plaque at Chartering Bqt. (woo woo!
Graduated 1993
On alumni board for a while; asked to be High Pi
just as I accepted a position out of state! :)

Visited Ball State chapter a few times around 2000
(was teaching at Ball Sate part time), considering
becoming High Pi there when they desperately needed one,
but suddenly got a new posiiton back at Gtown.

Now on Kappa-Omega's alumni board, (2001-present)
Historian (and probably secretary again)
Becoming new Webmaster

College professor 94-2004,(Anderson Univ, IN and
Georgetown College, KY) in Computer Science
Currently full-time PhD student @ UK (Eps-Phi Zeta)
Teach one course and coordinate other sections.

Name: Shawn Harmer
Zeta Number: Sigma-Omega Zeta #162
AM Class: Winter 1986
School: University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO
Graduation Years (Degree)BA, Speech Communications, 1992, MA Organizational Communications 1993
Offices held:High Rho, High Pi (Gamma-Pi, Colorado State University), Alumni Advisory Board (UNC)
Trivia: Helped recolonize and recharter UNC after a 12 year absence. Member of the Loyal Order of Moose, International Ritual Champion individually 3 of the last 4 years, member of International Champion staff 3 of last 5 years.

Current Employment: Senior Loan Consultant for Accent Mortgage Specialists (www.accentmortgage.us). Adjunct Professor of Speech at Aims Community College. Communications Director for local Colorado State House candidate. Married for almost 13 years to a former Miss Deaf Colorado: 2 sons, 1 daughter.

Lynn Chipperfield
St. Louis, Missouri
Drury University '73, Theta-Sigma 795

In order of importance, there are only two items on my resume:

1. Being there as my son Andrew was initiated into our Fraternity in November 2003.

2. Everything else.

Keep up the info, it is so interesting to see what others who are still movers and doers in LXA are still doing so after Graduation.

Lynn is a little remiss, I think. We, LX Z were Chartered by the Ritual Team from Drury in 1969 , Theta Sigma, and if not for a small fluke of one year, we would have first met back them instead of 2004 at General Assembly!:)

Matt. I am waiting for Oct 25th too

Richard Fong III
Delta Nu 98
Univ of Calif Riverside
Engish Major, Econ Minor
Initiated March 1, 2002
High Theta (2002)
High Gamma (2002-Present)
Graduation in June 05

Jacob Ciha
Lambda Iota 901
Spring 2004
-Love Lambda Chi Alpha! Last semester seriously changed my life and I am having the greatest time in my life! I wonder what life would be like for me if I had not rushed. I know that it wouldn't be this great. I feel that everyday I am changing and growing into the person I want to be.


"Vir Quisque Vir"

COOL!!! A Shiny Pin.

Let's haze him!

Just kidding. Welcome Jacob! Good words there. Who did you give the...I mean how do you pronounce your last name?

In ZAX,
Jono

Oh boy, you guys are going to have some fun with this. My last name is pronounced chee-ya as in the "Chia Pet". No my uncle does not own the company that makes them, although that would be pretty cool.

Jacob, welcome to G C!:)

Jono and I met a Brother from Whitewater at Gen. Assembly, Dave Smith I beleive. Barrowed a Coat from me for the Dinner Sat. Night.

Biggest welcome of all is To LXA!:D

Hey, Joiner! I wish I would have known you were at UK working...we were looking for a High Pi because Bob Brown had to resign...

Well, now, we have Brian Ayers who graduated not too long ago, we are trying to get him approved, even though it hasn't been two years since he graduated.

Maybe we can use you as our faculty advisor next year, hehe.

ZAX,

Tim Hill, E-Phi 1450
Former High Beta/High Theta
SAC Member, Midwest Conclave

I knew you were looking for a High Pi, but
Bobby McD (a previous EPhi High Pi from Gtown)
told me he was it now/again!

Bobby's been known to "exxagerate" a bit....but I
know his mom has been very sick so maybe he
changed his mind.

Haven't had alot of time to "drop by" the
EPhi house, eventhough I pass it every weekday.
You might suggest a good time for some old
alum from a "foreign" chapter to drop in.

in ZAX,
Kevin
kjoiner@uky.edu

Kevin,

A good time to "drop by" would be November 12. I am not quite sure on the exact time yet, as I am in Owensboro tending to family matters. But, I will be there in full stride, for what may be my last big dog appearance, after which I will pass the torch for my most sacred position, just as it was passed to me. I will email you about the times and what not as soon as I find out from my big bro, who is now the High Phi.

In ZAX,

Tim Hill, E-Phi 1450
SAC Member, Midwest Conclave

Chris Young
Epsilon-Rho 887
University of Alberta
Expected Graduation: 2006
Program: Bachelor of Commerce
Associated: Fall 2003
Chapter Offices: High Tau

ZAX!

Hi Chris,

When was your chapter colonized? When was it installed?

My old roomates last name was pronounced the same way, but was spelled 'Chia'. Just like the pet. His dad was Cuban. He said thats where it came from.

My last name, Ciha, is Bohemian. Although the seeds that come with Chia Pets come from the Chia plant which grows in
Central and South America, just FYI.

JOHN1082
 

NAME: John Gezelius
ZETA: Mu
ZETA #: 1082
SCHOOL: University of California
GRAD YEAR: 1978
CURRENT INVOLVEMENT: High Pi at Cal State Fullerton (Phi Epsilon Zeta). Past High Pi at the University of North Dakota (Epsilon Zeta Zeta) and Texas Tech University (Sigma Nu Zeta).
EMPLOYED AS: Private practice attorney in Tustin, California. Elder law practice to include wills, trusts, probate, conservatorships, special needs trusts, Medi-Cal planning. In a prior life I did insurance defense work.

Hi Jono.

We started as a local founded in 1940, and were installed in 1945.

Chris, does it take longer for Colonies longer in Canada to be Chartered than In USA?;)

Kidding, dont be to serious!:D Damn long time to be around and Congratulations for sure.

Chipster, I can feel for your plight and What You Went throug, ALMOST!

What is nice is that you have a place to come to or a if not many Brothers to come to and find Solace and Help. Am I aware of your situation, yes I am and you know from whom. While I never had the pleasure of meeting you. I feel that I know you as a Brother. Maybe one of these days We can sit with a Flaggin of a Tody of sorts along with Jono and just kick back and BS and have a Great Time!:cool:

In ZAX,

Damn Chip. Great essay. Its amazing how the fraternity continues to inspire all of us. Its something indescribable that resides deep within each of us. Its what keeps me involved 12 years after I was initiated. I care more about it and it continues to grow in meaning for me. You did a damn good job of describing it in your essay. Hats off to you bro.

What lifesaver said.

It came home a lot when I was at General Assembly.

Meeting many of the Brothers from GC there, not as strangers but as Brothers bonding as one and meeting for the first time.

Jono of course as I visited BN and He in turn LX.

But then the first day, meeting Mike, Kevin, and Andy in the Alum meeting. Oh, cannot forget Bud one of My Guys who is High Pi at UNLV.

The nightly meets in Jonos and My room with a Few of the Brothers where We just talked and relaxed.


While We were strangers in a sense, We really werent at all. Out smoking with Kevin and some of the other Brothers, there was a feeling of electricity amongst us. The Picture of G C Brothers is near and dear to me and is hady to look at remember us all there.

It matters not that John G. and Jon S. are in Cal. or Matt is in Fl. or Chip is NM or Cooper is in Canada, Andy is in Tx. Kevin is in Ky, ETC! We are all there for each other.

This is what makes me proud to be a LXA!

Dan Johnson,
Sigma Epsilon Zeta 417

Initiated Fall 2004

I'm the current Iota for my zeta which consist of 19 active members. We are located in Montevallo, Alabama at the University of Montevallo.

At the current moment, my major is music education with my instrument being vocal. I may switch that to History in the near future. I was never much of a fraternity person and I never thought I would be. I'm thankful to have known guys in the fraternity that invited me to hang out and to go through rush. I became an Associate Member in September, and a brother on November 19, 2004. I've loved every minute of it, and would not change a thing.

Sigma Epsilon Zeta: www.lambdachise.com

Brother Johnson, welcome to G C. You are the first from Montevello.

There are a Great Bunch of Brothers Brothers here. If you need any help or information, there will be someone here to be of service for you!:cool:

Nice web site. Be sure to check Jon Sagaras at the top of the thread. It is fantastic.

Vijay Kaul
Theta-Kappa 1552
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, IN
Joined in the Fall of 2000
With my chapter I was heavilly involved with both service and ritual, although I was neither High Theta nor High Phi.
Now, I'm looking to go back to school, I want to wind up with a PhD in physics, eventually... ...

inZAX,
Vijay

Vijay


My appologizes, for not giving you A Big Welcome to G C!

Give My Best to Steve Corbin, hopefully you are staying in touch with Him! If Not, do it now and tell Him I said High!:)

Small World isnt it!:cool:

Hm, Can We call You a Jr. Egg Head along with The Chipster from Beta Nu, Fl Tech. Inst!

The Chipster is also in a move mode and is tough anytime you do it especially with a Family!:(

I would be happy to move to Indy, Hint, if asked.:cool:

Have a good eventing for the Hollidays!:)

Hope everyone is getting settled in!

Wow. Simply wow.

I'll co-sign onto this thought - LXA and it's Ritual in one perspective is a very powerful witnessing tool - it brought me to Christ as a result of first seeing it.

To bring it full circle, I was recently elected a Deacon for our church, and during the Church Board's interview with me during the search process, I told them my testimony about how a fraternity initiation did it for me. Their perception of ritual is what they see in the news: initiation=hazing. I gave them a new perspective (without revealing specifics, of course).

It's amazing how often sermons touch on parts of the ritual - I wish sometimes I could tell other Church members about that...just so they know the truth about an initiation ritual, not what the media does to their perceptions. It just increases my faith all the time.

Guess its about time for this one :)
 

Matt Griffin
Delta Tau Zeta # 206
Initiated: April 9, 2004
School: Millersville University of Pennsylvania
Major: History
Minor: Environmental Hazards and Emergency Management (all one program)
Expected Graduation: Eventually....when I get the piece of paper. After starting 2 years late and transferring, as long as I graduate, I dont really care when.

Current Position: Fundraising Chairman (anyone with ideas?)

I could probably say more, but I'm just too tired to type more...

In ZAX-
Matt

My name is Matt. I'm a junior at Hanover College is SE Indiana. I am Theta-Zeta 1251. I served as High Gamma last year and now I'm our High Alpha and I'm getting excited for the Council of Presidents conference next weekend down in Orlando!

Then, at our regional conference in Valpo I'll be completing Impact Leadership level IV. So lots of exciting things for me right now.


Docroc67, what part of SW Ohio are you from? I live there too but go to school just over the border in Indiana.

Hello, Brother Matt!
 

Matt,

I live in Eaton, Ohio which is about 16 miles east of Richmond, Indiana. I work in College Corner, Ohio and I am the School Superintendent. Our school district is very unique because it is operated by both Indiana and Ohio! As a matter of fact, our school building sits right on the state line. You can actually make a basket in a game in Indiana and then Ohio because the state line runs right through the middle of the gym! It is a special place.

When our oldest daughter was searching out colleges we visited Hanover College. We were all impressed with the campus and I got a chance to wander through the Lambda Chi House. She eventually followed our path and went to Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

Thanks for the question.

Yours in ZAX,

Mike Raymond, ZU-Z

I live in Harrison, OH, which is west of Cincinnati, and also right on the border. The state line runs through our back yard.

I looked at Miami U when I was searching for colleges, but eventually decided on the smaller, more personal, atmosphere at Hanover.

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