The Creed of Lambda Chi Alpha
 

Brothers,

I am doing some research for an article. I have checked my usual sources wthout luck. I need some background information about our Creed. Who wrote it? When? That type of thing.

I would appreciate any help anyone can give me.

Yours in ZAX,

Mike Raymond,
ZUZ

Jack Mason :confused:

Mike, I've tried looking into the Creed also, and it sure is a tough one.

One odd fact I discovered is that it does not appear in the Paedagogus until 1995.

Whenever I read it I get the impression that the first part and the second part were written by two different people.

No idea who wrote it, but how many of us, after all these years, can still recite it from memory?

Out of curiosity, might it have changed with the 1939 merger?

Just a thought.

Tom, Brother John Tesh wrote it! DUH!!!!

I don't recall hearing or seeing it while I was an undergrad.

Well John, you do know that Brother Tesh wrote the theme song for the NBA on NBC right? Well, that instrumental was supposed to be the music to our creed. Very little known fact...

Cool, I do not know why everyone is against John Tesch one of Our Brothers?

Do any of you remember what Zeta He is from?

What is the School?

Is there a Zeta still there?

:D

He does good along with others!

Tom, how did the ketchup get on the ceiling? But this thread is about the creed, not John Tesh.

John G, we didn't learn it in school either, although it was probably read at formal meetings. At one recent Founders Day banquet all the undergrads stood up and recited it, while the older alumni just stood there dumbfounded. We didn't know it - never even had a copy of it.

Again, it didn't appear in the Paedagogus until 1995.

ZAX,
Jono

PS - Happy Hanukkah to our Jewish brethren!

Hey Tom,

I can answer your question about John Tesh.

I believe he graduated from North Carolina State University - Gamma Upsilon Zeta.

They no longer have a charter (since 1992)

However, word from some sources claim that they are coming back next fall.

So that is all the info I have on Brother Tesh, and his Zeta

Jono, that is an interesting question! Maybe it goes along with the question I posed about the merger.

So, where does that put us about the the question?

Does anyone know?

Yes NCSU!:D Trey!

My reference was to a certain book from NCSU that you had been circulating.

I just love JOHN TESH!!!!

Wow, I can't believe some chapters rarely use the Creed. We were supposed
to have it memorized within 3 days after taking our bid! (bid day Friday,
first chapter meeting on Monday). We said it at every chapter meeting,
as is set out in the official "Business Meeting" script. Same at Vandy and
Gtown.

Of course I still know it, after having repeated it hundreds of times!

Kevin

Same here Joiner.

I took it for granted that because we, (Phi Theta), said the Creed at the opening of every Chapter Meeting, that every other chapter did the same. So I was a little surprised to read this. It was the first thing that I learned after I received my AM pin.
I never realized it carried such a mystery, as to its origins. I never learned the story behind, and for that matter never questioned it. I just assumed that Jack Mason wrote it. But, nowhere is it written where it came from, or who wrote it. Now I am curious.