Theta Kappa Nu Rtual Book on eBay
 

Brothers,

There is a Theta Kappa Nu Ritual Book available on ebay right now. This is the first one on ebay that I have seen in almost eight years of buying.

It appears to be an original edition with Ritual changes made later in someone's handwriting.

Check it out!


Yours in ZAX,

Mike Raymond,
Z-U Zeta

Very cool!

The caption under the picture is, "CAPTAIN OF THE GUARD AT ATTENTION". Difficult to read much of anything else.

Brother Trey McGovern just called me about it and really wants to get this for the Zeta at U N A & T.

He is a great young man and Brother and I wished him the very best on bidding.

Will have to take a look see!

Thanks for the heads up.:)

Where is it listed?

Theta Kappa Nu Ritual Book Sets Lambda Chi Record
 

Borthers,

I may be mistaken but I believe that the Theta Kappa Nu Ritual Book on eBay just sold at a record high for any TKN or Lambda Chi Alpha item offered on that site. The book sold for $1,325.00!

WOW!

Any comments from the buyer? Or Lambda Chi GCers?

Yours in ZAX,

Mike Raymond

Yeah I am heartbroken....I though I had enbough to cover it considering it hovered around $300......but apparentley it was just a little too few dollars on my end......oh welll maybe one day I will have the distinct pleasure of owning a TKN ritual book. :(

WOW, OMG, this is amazing.

I hope both partys are happy!:)

I can't help but wonder who skywalker707 is. Anybody know?

I have no clue, but he and I have been crossing paths quite a bit here lately, :confused: He may be a brother, he did buy a lavalier, and considering he has been bidding on the same things I would guess that he was a brother, but as a definite answer I couldnt say. May be a collector, I dunno

It's me!
 

I am skywalker707



Brandon Eldridge
St. Louis College of Pharmacy
Pi-Lambda Zeta 1

It's only fair...
 

It's only fair for the person that bought the book to sell
us scans/copies of it. Otherwise, some of us will go our
entire life without even seeing a TKN ritual book.

Just a thought - I'd pay for it..



In ZAX,
Brandon Eldridge

IT'S GEORGE LUCAS!!!!

You My Brother are a trip.

Glad you as a Brother got it!

I am sure Your Zeta will reveare it for many eons as many of us who have given items to our Zeta!

By The way, remind Pick to email me! Nice phone convo Tues!:D

We didn't get it! I under bid by 5 bucks!

Some guy that's an alum of Ok State U got it - I ebay msged him about it
and he never got back with me about scans or anything...

I was serious about buying the scans...The brundt of the ritual has been
divulged on the C&C so I don't see an issue about spreading the wealth/
good word...

I too messaged him about getting scanned copies of the ritual, and I know of another nearby chapter also willing to pay for a copy. Yall completley outbid me, because I was the one holding on for dear life at 304 for like 3 days. Im just glad a brother got it and not a collector.

Ditto x2...keep it in the family...

an OK state alum got it? sweet deal! Tell him im AH 1711 and we'd love to see the book if he wants to bring it back to he house :D

Theta Kappa Nu was founded in 1924 by 11 local fraternities. The alumnus who won the ritual is from Theta-Delta Zeta (formerly Oklahoma Alpha) at Oklahoma City University, one of those original eleven.

It's more than just in the family. It went home.

That makes it even sweeter. :)

I still want scans...

Brothers,

Jono is right. It went to one of the brothers from Theta-Delta Zeta, where I'm an active right now. This brother has been extremely active on eBay, buying fraternity paraphanelia new and old for quite some and time. Along with the ritual book, he got a copy of "The Neophyte Book", which is like the pledge manual of TKN. He let me look at it about a week ago and it's quite neat...especially considering there are handwritten notes from the pledge that it belonged to.

I haven't seen the ritual book yet...and In fact last I talked to him he said he hadn't gotten it yet. As soon as I find out, I'll let you guys know about it, without revealing anything that shouldn't be revealed.

But no worries, the book is in safe hands, that of a buyer from one of the 11 original fraternities that Theta Kappa Nu originated from...now Theta-Delta Zeta at Oklahoma City University.

First, one must remember that Brother Jono while not 100 % of the time is only @ 99.9 % of the time correct.:)

It found a good home and that is good.:)

I have a TKN Pledge Manual and amazing as it may seem to those that have never seen one how actually close it is to LXA Paedagogus.

That is how close that the merger became. Todays New Associate ritual is part of TKN, along with the C of A and New Assocuate Pin.That was a hand in glove merger at the time. But never forget, TKN had many great days.

It normaly took 15 years to become a member of NIC and it took them 3 years. They became one of the fastest growing Fraternities of thier time. They spread far and wide because of their beleifs and as I said fit well with LXA in the merger.

This is something I've been wondering about ever since hillhouse3 listed all those items.

If The Neophyte Book is a TKN pledge manual, and the Vir Quisque Vir Est is a TKN pledge manual, then what's the difference between the two?

Well I have the Vir Quisque Vir Est......and it too is much like our Paedagogus.....I was wondering the same thing, and as far as the description goes, mine had more pages, and I dont really know the significance of that either. So any help info would be much appreciated.

Just like the Paed, TKN had a few issues of their pledge manual that
came out in different years. Sometimes publications change names
(ex. PG&G -> C&C). No big mystery there. I have a copy of the last
VQV and yes it is much shorter than previous versions (have photocopies
of those). That was because of the depression....everything was shortened
to save on printing cost.

I scanned and posted some of the more interesting pages of the VQV online
if you're interested:
http://einstein.georgetowncollege.ed...v/vqv1937.html

TKN Ritual
 

Hello everyone. I've been dropping by for a while but I never posted until now... The Hanover College Duggan Archives possesses a copy of the TKN ritualist manual and key left over after our merger. I stumbled across it when I was doing research on Theta-Zeta's local history. It is a fascinating read for sure, especially as High Phi. I'd be happy to make copies of it for anyone who is interested. Let me know.