Extremely Interesting Book

[GammaZeta]

Dever is right. Cole just seems like the guy you can have a beer with. I think it would take a personality like Cole's to have the balls to actually start a fraternity like LXA.

Mason, not so much. From what I read, he reminds me of the kid in class that reminds the teacher she forgot to assign the homework!

[dever860]

Originally Posted by GammaZeta

Dever is right. Cole just seems like the guy you can have a beer with. I think it would take a personality like Cole's to have the balls to actually start a fraternity like LXA.

Mason, not so much. From what I read, he reminds me of the kid in class that reminds the teacher she forgot to assign the homework!

Maybe, have to give credit where credit is due. It would be a very very different place without Mason, probably not for the better. Hard to say though, another Mason could have came along, but Cole was no Mason from what I have read. He had the big ideas but didn't have the literal skills to put them on paper. Compare coles ritual to masons, mason was on a whole different level.

[PiLambda1]

My school has the book through our interlibrary loan.

I think I can eat the $20 fine for "losing" this one...eh?

[dever860]

Originally Posted by PiLambda1

My school has the book through our interlibrary loan.

I think I can eat the $20 fine for "losing" this one...eh?

Is that all it is?.... I mean you are paying for it... I hope mine comes soon.

[Ottor 246]

I checked last night...the actual narrative runs 175 pages. That's where the lists start.

[Tom Earp]

Having an understanding of what Cole went through as I and others have started locals, it is never easy and a lot of hard work, with a lot of luck and drive.

I often wonder if I could have expanded Beta Chi to a national fraternity, but of course, I am very glad that I did not and affiliated with LXA!

The difference between Cole and Mason of course is like day and night.

But because of both of these men and others is the reason LXA is where it is today! It took and takes each and all members to climb where we are today in actually a short time span of Greek Social history.

Credit due when it is due.

[dever860]

Lambda Chi Alpha : a historical perspective / Charles S. Peyser with Ernest Vargo II ; with contribu IN TRANSIT CIRCULATION DESK

[Ottor 246]

Originally Posted by GammaZeta

Dever is right. Cole just seems like the guy you can have a beer with. I think it would take a personality like Cole's to have the balls to actually start a fraternity like LXA.

Mason, not so much. From what I read, he reminds me of the kid in class that reminds the teacher she forgot to assign the homework!

If you want to witness the founding of our fraternity, watch this clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdYdQ...elated&search=

It's from a 1999 TV movie called "Pirates of Silicon Valley." The first 1:30 of this particular part shows Bill Gates selling IBM an operating system he did not yet own. It makes me think of W.A. Cole convincing people to join his new and growing fraternity. The clip before this one shows him and his associates buying a necktie from a guy in an airport bathroom so they could make their pitch.