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inactive chapters....
This will not be a popular item to discuss with some. I helped make TKE #1 in number of chapters...and by '59 we were indeed.
Then the next 35 years were disastrous. We now have more inactive ones that most fraternities have active...why? There are
a goodly number of reasons, but principally due to not having an
active board and adviser...bad behaviour, no manpower have
killed the most. Of the colleges which have closed where T K E
has been...Milton, Tarkio, Alliance, Parsons...and those who have
banned greeks...(TKE has none there, all have revived the Greek
system, like at Furman...who forced 'em all local...but recanted)
At any rate, we'll discuss TKE's shame and failure along with the
victories...and perhaps it will induce some of you good fraters to
try to reactivate some of these once-great chapters!
Our oldest dead one is Eta, U of Chicago, heavily Phi Beta Kappa,
we went with most of the others in the '30s when football was
banned, and a less-than-social atmosphere was introduced. We
have never returned...over 65 years gone. The Greeks, while a
few are there, have never regained the gloss once displayed. We
failed, stumbled but not fell, to furnish the needed formulas to be
a good chapter...and TKE left orphaned alums galore...by the thousands, in fact. We need all your help in returning....please....
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