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Originally Posted by Coramoor
We had a few legacies from the WVU Delts become brothers at my chapter. Their fathers put hundreds of thousands into that house after the first destruction back in 94 (I think). Then it got messed up again...and needless to say the Delts there lost a lot if not all of their alumni support this time.
It's a shame because it is such an old delt chapter and had a great location and strong alumni. Thrown away.
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If you go back to the very early days, it was one of our first chapters. In the official hisotry, the chapter is mentioned as one of the chapters present at the very first national gathering. It had been closed and then recolonized.
The alumni loss of support is much like the situation at Colorado. Local alumni had refurbished the really grand house to the tune of $1.5 Million. It was trashed within months, and the charter was pulled again.
Many local alumni have no interest in recolonizing at all.
That shouldn't surprise anyone -- but somehow it always does.
ETA This is also too bad since our next Karnea will the the 150th Anniversary of the Fraternity and will be held in Pittsburgh, not far from WVU and will include a pilgrimage to Bethany College, West Virginia, where we were founded in 1858, (formerly Virginia when Delt was founded) to the Founders House which still stands as a shrine to Delta Tau Delta.