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Founding Father(s)?
Brothers,
While I was working in my deep fraternal archive last week, I came across a document, probably put together in 1996 judging by the content and internal dates, that contained the following question:
Who were the fictitious "first members" of Lambda Chi Alpha? The answer, marked by a *, is Percival C. Morse and A.E. Long.
Note the word "fictitous" in the question. Most recent editions of the Paedagogus give Warren A. Cole exclusive credit for founding our Fraternity and give little or no mention of the other two. Even the rare 1992 edition of the History of Lambda Chi Alpha... characterizes the meeting at which our Fraternity was founded as "apocryphal!" Having only read that word in relationship to the Christian Bible, I looked it up in my trusty MacMillian Dictionary to find, to my amazement, that it means of doubtful authenticity; false; spurious! Does this mean that the meeting was fabricated by Cole to create a start date for our Founding? Does it mean that Morse and Long did not participate in the meeting or, even more interesting to me, that they never existed?
What is your take on this issue? I am surprised to find this out. I thought I knew something about the shadowy days of our Founding...but, I keep finding out more interesting things by effort or, in this case, happenstance.
Yours in ZAX,
Mike Raymond, Z-U Zeta
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