Roll Call
 

Hey all, just wanted to do a quick roll call with you all.

Name: Richard
Location: UC Riverside
LXA Chapter: Delta-Nu Zeta
Zeta Number: 0098
Year Initiated: 2003

What brought you into Lambda Chi Alpha?

My roomate brought me into Lambda Chi Alpha. Well, both of them. He wanted me to go to the information night and check it out. I was like watever about it, cuz I didnt really want to join a fraternity at first. I then met the brothers and got to know them well.

Our chapter is proud to say that we the most diverse fraternity on our campus out of the 9 fraternities.

Welcome Richard!!!!!!!!

For a quick background, I founded a local (BX) 1965 and had no thought of LXA. The TKE advisor suggested LXA as being a Very Good Grrek Org. He and George S. use to fight head to head as Traveling Sec. as were known in the old day!

I contacted the Head Q and we were colonized at the end of the school year, 1966. It was really a fast track as back then, TKE and LXA were buting heads to see who would be the biggest.

We are celebrating our 37 th year. Damn, I am so glad We went with LXA!!!!:cool:

Hope to see more of you on this site as there are many gre3at Brothers from NY to Cal. and Tx. to Canada and all over!!!!!:)

Name: Jon
Chapter: Phi-Sigma Zeta (Cal Poly SLO)
Zeta Number: 600
Year initiated: 1997

I just randomly met some guy in class who invited me out to rush. Life hasn't been the same since. :)

Name: Billy
Location: UMBC (Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County)
LXA Chapter: Phi-Delta Zeta
Zeta Number: 279
Year Initiated: FA 98

I met a couple brothers at summer oreination when i was a pre-fresh and they called me up for a cookout the first day of classes. the rest is history, some a blur ;-)

Name: Matt
Chapter: Beta-Chi Zeta (Widener University)
Zeta #:546
Yr. Initiated: April, 2000

My joining the Fraternity had a coincidence. To start like most others do, I didn't care about rushing or anything until I was asked by a brother who I became an aquaintance of...I would sit with him and a bunch of people in the cafeteria during meals and just hang out and then during the events leading up to rush week and then while they were dorm-storming I was asked if I wanted to come down and check out the house and all. One of the coincidences was that one of the guys next door to me in my dorm was a brother--I remember seeing him the day after he "finally got his letters" and even then I didn't think much about it. After rush came and went, I was given a bid and then later on I finally got my letters. The other coincidence is that a friend I've known since I was still in high school is a Lambda Chi. There was this time I called him (I hadn't talked to him in a few months) and I was telling him about this great Fraternity that I joined and I was telling him how I'm not a pledge--I'm an associate and I can wear letters while not even a brother and all and when I finally let him get a word in...he said, "Matt, I'm a Lambda Chi Alpha brother." I was so surprised!! He wasn't able to be there for my initiation; but after I was initiated, it was so great. We had this stronger bond--we had become brothers through the bond that we all share throught the entire Fraternity. So, that's my roll call:):)

Name : Andrew "Cha- Chi" Gutierrez
Chapter: Phi Upsilon Zeta (UT- San Antonio)
Zeta #: 294
Year Initiated: July 2001

I'm not a frat guy, I'm an athlete, or was, so I joined for intramural basketball and then was going to quit. We ended up winning the Greek Basketball championship and I ended up liking the whole fraternity thing. It didn't help that both my roommates were brothers when I joined, and that there was always a party at our apartment my whole AM semester and the semester before. Then I found out right before pre-rit and rit that one of my cousins was a brother from the Oklahoma State Chapter, which was reassuring. I guess things happen for a reason.

God Bless Lambda Chi Alpha!

Back in the dark ages (Fall, 1973), I was a freshman at Illinois State in Normal. Having been involved w/team sports since junior high, I was dismayed to find myself living in the world's tallest dormitory (on the 26th of 27 floors).

I was just one of 2500 kids in the dorm, but I didn't have anything I could identify with or be affiliated with. This was important to me from having been a "team" guy.

Luckily for me, the man who would eventually become my big brother lived down the hall, and I've been a gung ho Lamb Chop ever since.

ZAX,
Bill Foltz
BO 130
Illinois State '77

Matt Troy
Epsilon Mu Chapter University of Florida
EM1843
Initiated Fall 2001

I was planning on joining a fraternity when I came to UF but really didn't know much about it. While visiting the summer before my freshman semester I stayed at the house with a brother I knew. After many nights and days visiting the house I was offered a bid and have never looked back. I've since taken 3 little brothers and have a grandlittle. Only one problem...how do you pick a best man from 3 awesome little bros? Hehe...well at least I have a while to decide...

Name: Andy (am alumni)
Location: UT-San Antonio
LXA Chapter: Phi Upsilon Zeta (Transfered in 1994)
Initiated at: A&M-Kingsville
Zeta Number: 0356
Year Initiated: 1993

What brought you into Lambda Chi Alpha?

Went to a party with the Sigma Chi's at the Lambda Chi house was introduced around by a guy who became my big brother. He was awesome, and the party was pretty cool. Greek life there really sucked at the time, but I felt at home with the brothers and wasnt that interested in the other two groups after I met them.

Its amazing how one night can change a life. Many lives. One of the brothers I met that night (who was Beta at the time) ultimately became my brother-in-law. Never wouldda met my sister had I not gone to that party.

Associate
 

Name: Nick Kilduff
Location: Marquette, MI
School: Northern Michigan University
Chapter: Lambda Upsilon
Zeta: Associate Brother
Chair: High Sigma

Well I will let you guys know if I get initiated this coming week (the week right after my birthday, what a present). My roomate and I decided to go for it. Nothing but positive comments and I feels great to be a part of something so vast. I took High Sigma to rebuild the position and academic integrity in my chapter. It only took a semester for be to care that much.

good luck Nick
 

Nick, when it comes to Initiation, I just want to say take in as much of it as you can because they really are words to live by. That's pretty much all I can say. I hope your experience is as fulfilling as the Ritual can be.


In ZAX,
Matt Jackson
Beta-Chi 546

As Matt said, try to take in as much as you can as it is awesome!!!!!!

Keep us updated!!:)

Name: Josh
University: Univ. of NC - Charlotte
Chapter: Beta Upsilon Zeta
Initiation: BY 767
Year: Fall 2002

Man being a Chop has changed my life forever and will NEVER regret the desicion to join the Most Prestigous Fraternity in the community.

I rushed LXA in the Fall of 2002 and several of my buddies were associated with me as well. We all for the most part are brothers now and dont regret our choice to go all the way. Several of the other associates didn't make grades but they are trying again.

It is truely great to be a Lambda Chi Alpha, and I encourage all who aren't greek that want to be, to check out Lambda Chi Alpha.

P.S. : Any Lambda Chi's in the North Carolina / South Carolina region or even in the South East, give us a holla we'd like to hear from ya.

In ZAX

Name: Robert Cooper
University: University of Toronto
Chapter: Epsilon Epsilon Zeta
Zeta: 755
Date: Fall 2001

What brought me to Lambda Chi?

Well... prior to Lambda Chi I had almost joined Sigma Pi but I didn't agree with the guys at all about almost anything (politics, parties, school involvement...) so I avoided the Greek system for a while... not know if Fraternities were for me. After a year I was considering joining a Fraternity, but this time I took the time to look at each house that I had an intrest in.... the guys, the house, their potential, their mission, their history, and most important their rep with the girls. Well Lambda Chi check-out as great, and Lambda Chi was recommended by a number of sorority actives and alumni. Well frosh week rolled around and I was ready to approach the guys as soon as it was done (I was VP of my college and had too much shit to worry about during Frosh), but that weekend I had a family dinner to go to: my uncles 50th. At this dinner/party I found out that all of his friends from University were Lambda Chi's (my uncle was a double major engineering/economics he did have the time or sanity to join), and they still got together and were really great guys (I remembered the parties up at my cottage when I was a kid.. oh well no kegs any more). That dinner is what actually sold me on Lambda Chi... that fact that 30 years on, these guys are still the best of friends, and that I had known them most of my life and respected them.

Re: Associate
 

Name: Shawn
University: University of Northern Colorado
Chapter: Sigma-Omega Zeta (currently a re-colonization)
Initiation: Sigma Omega 162
Year: Fall 1987

Nick, cherish the ritual - pay attention, although, as it was described to me by my big brother long ago, the first time through is "a crystal clear blur".

I'll be attending (and participating in!) Ritual this Friday for UNC (4/25)...it'll be at least my 30th ritual. I learn something new every single time I see it, and I become more convinced of it's true purpose each time as well (Jack Mason had more than one purpose in the ritual, so it seems to me, and, he was only 19 or 20 when he wrote it - think about that when you witness the grandeur!).

Most importantly, it's not four years, it is for life.