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Our founders didnt like the Fraternities at there College...Weselyn Illinois.... mainly because they where all about how much money you had or who your Daddy was...Our founders didnt fit that mold...from this comes "Not for wealth rank or honor, but personal worth and character".....from that comes us taking people other organizations would not look at, usually for monatary or lineage reasons... So they started the Knights of Classic Lore....They had planned on being their own Fraternity but, an Alumni of Phi Delta Theta contacted them about recolonizing Weselyn, he told them to pick letters in order to make them more appealing to the Phi Delts.....So they went along with it for a while, they petitioned four times and got turned down.....So from this came the "Oppurtunity out of Defeat" speach. The jist of that speach was that maybe it was a blessing in disguise....and that they should form their own national org and they should show up Phi Delta Theta for giving them the snub.........I think we took care of that goal......Other triumphs include going from almost bankrupt at the turn of the century to being the first fraternity to reach 300 chapters in the sixties, this has not been matched by any other Farternity since, even though many of our competiters where established 50 years earlier.....We know have around 270 and more being colonized this year.....I think the new ones are Oklahoma U. , Clarion, North Alabama, South Florida....soon to be this year are Colorado, and Umass Dartmouth, and Denver U. after that....and I heard rumors about College of Charleston, and Shippensburg....
So you better get ready, TKE is coming to your University next.....
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