Erik Conard, TKE and Great Exponder!

[Tom Earp]

I had the pleasure of Seein Erik Conard, a TKE from way back.

Call it a small GC meeting but with two very old Friends!

It is to long a story to get into but we sat for 3 1/2 hours discussing Greeks and our rememberences of Yores of Gone Buys!

Here is his reply to mine on TKE thread:


Erik P Conard
Senior Member

Registered: Jun 2001
Location: Arvada, CO
Posts: 174


minutae
Did indeed have a marvelous visit with Tom Earp; he is a credit
to Lambda Chi, and like many of us, our outfits send but rarely
receive. Some timely thoughts after forty-plus years as a Greek:
---now is time to grow. Young folks hungry for mentors, for a sense of belonging. Double your size, double your chapters on campus and you will automatically double your clout.
We are upping our size, now up yours.
---sororities, dump those damned quotas and let others on. And although many will not join the bottom ones, quotas will not
help, but the new blood will.
---IFCs, be what you were supposed to be: helping each other,
not making stupid rules.
---Greek Advisors...insist that each chapter have an active advisor and a functioning board which meets each month. You
will cut your brain damage in half and produce top chapters. And
all will love you...rightly so...and it'll be a fun trip.
---if you drink, be a drinking scholar. Quit pissing on the Pike porch or barfing on the SAE lion. Get busy, get positive, get real.
---try to help reactivate a nearby chapter who stubbed its toe some years ago. We will all be wealthier for it.
---FINALLY, do not deny a good person a chance to be a Greek.
Have over half your pledge class made before school opens. And, remember, Fraternity is for Life! Enjoy....'uncle Erik'


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Erik P Conard

E C has more knowledge and still retains a vast store of Knowledge and keeps up with the goings on for all Greeks and Colleges!