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Question for all former ThKN chapters....
Question for all former ThKN chapters and any chapter chartered
between 1920-1950:
If you have access, could you check your Zeta roster and see
if there you have a #1 brother?? I have a theory that
Zeta #1 was never assigned for chapters chartered 1920-1950,
including the ThKN chapters (whose Zeta#s were all done
in 1939).
Our chapter (Kappa-Omega) doesn't have a #1 on the list...
all the old alums tell me there never was a #1 (at first I
thought #1 might have resigned, etc., but apparently not).
It seems to have been done intentionally. ThKN numbered
initiates at each chapter. But when we became LXA, "1" was
added to everyone's ThKN number to get their LXA Zeta#.
Thus my old friend Claude Shouse was originally ThKN #8,
but now is KOme#9. (I've met a few old alums who don't
even know their # was bumped by 1!)
My theory for why?
Cole (Alpha#1) was "expelled" in 1919/20, and they made
a big deal of removing A1 from all records and the official
chapter roster (a little unfortunate vitriole here, I think).
I believe it became "Lambda Chi tradition" that Zeta #1
be left blank (for all "new" chapters chartered after 1920).
Of course Cole was re-instated about 1950, so if the
tradition still existed at that point, it was probably done
away with.
Looking forward to your replies...interested in solving
this mystery!!!
Thanks,
KJ
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