Spring Initiations

[EM1843]

Last weekend I had the pleasure of watching 7 men initiated at Epsilon Mu (Univ. of Florida). This brings the chapter up to 85 men and total initates to around 1885. Next semester should see our 2000th initiate.
In addition to myself we had a number of distinguished guest including John G, Doc Smith, Doc Dirghalli, Ed Leonard, Daniel Shouse, Tony Dunn, and Andrew Holcomb.

[GammaZeta]

2000 is a number to be very proud of.

The last man GZ initiated was 1,500.

[docroc67]

Brothers,

Zeta-Upsilon initiated six new members last Friday. We now have 17 Actives and 2 AMs. We will be doing a Spring Rush in hopes of picking up 2 or 3 more AMs.

Yours in ZAX,

Mike Raymond'
ZUZAA

[GammaZeta]

Doc, I'm a little confused. you have 17 actives and 2 ams after initiation? Are the 2 holdovers?

[docroc67]

Originally Posted by GammaZeta

Doc, I'm a little confused. you have 17 actives and 2 ams after initiation? Are the 2 holdovers?

Brother GammaZeta,

No, we are doing continuous recruitment. The two AMs have not gone through their associate member period. They have all the proper qualifications; they just have not gone through the required "education" period. They were brought in too late to be initiated now.

They will be initiated, along with any new AMs we get this Spring, at the start of the next school year.

We will do continuous recruitment next school year too. This means that our Colony will non-stop recruit upper class men in the Fall and all eligible students in the Winter and Spring.

Most chapters at Miami do very limited recruitment in the Fall, their heavy effort is in the Winter, with no recruitment in the Spring. We can't follow that schedule and build a strong Zeta.

We are looking for quality men at all times. We are small in numbers right now, but the continuous recruitment approach is netting us some outstanding men.

I hope that this helps explain our situation.

Yours in ZAX,

Mike Raymond

[docroc67]

Brother Tom,

We are very small at this time. Just laying the foundation for a strong return! There are 26 active fraternities on campus. About 30% of our undergraduates are in a fraternity or sorority.

It is a very old and traditional fraternity system. Lots of legacies and wealthy patrons. A million dollar gift from a fraternity Alum to our Greek Affairs Office is just one example.

Our big Chapters are Beta Theta Pi and Kappa Alpha Order with over 130 members each. Lambda Chi Alpha is at number 24 in the line-up. But, not for long!

I would guess that the average fraternity has about 70 members. Of course, our sororities are huge with a number of them with 175 members or more.

Our campus has all kinds of monuments, memorials, traditions, and events that are part of our Greek heritage. Someday we will even have a Greek Letter Society Museum on campus!

I hope this answers your question.

Yours in ZAX,

Mike Raymond,
Z-U Zeta

[Tom Earp]

Originally Posted by docroc67

Brother Tom,

We are very small at this time. Just laying the foundation for a strong return! There are 26 active fraternities on campus. About 30% of our undergraduates are in a fraternity or sorority.

It is a very old and traditional fraternity system. Lots of legacies and wealthy patrons. A million dollar gift from a fraternity Alum to our Greek Affairs Office is just one example.

Our big Chapters are Beta Theta Pi and Kappa Alpha Order with over 130 members each. Lambda Chi Alpha is at number 24 in the line-up. But, not for long!

I would guess that the average fraternity has about 70 members. Of course, our sororities are huge with a number of them with 175 members or more.

Our campus has all kinds of monuments, memorials, traditions, and events that are part of our Greek heritage. Someday we will even have a Greek Letter Society Museum on campus!

I hope this answers your question.

Yours in ZAX,

Mike Raymond,
Z-U Zeta

It is the first step isnt it?

The very best of luck. It is a great school and We should be there of course!

Maybe in answer to GammaZetas point, Recruitment should never stop!

We used to have Major recruitment in the Fall Semester, but Spring Semester was not forgoten like it is today!

It should be an on going process!

[LXA grits]

Epsilon-Xi Zeta at Florida Southern College recently initiated 7 new brothers (one being a holdover from last semester), which brings the total initiates to about 1025ish...with the current chapter around 40ish.

Epsilon-Omega Zeta at University of Miami (FL) hopes to initiate 10 associate members in Mid April. After that initiation, the total chapter count should be at 1540ish...with the current chapter at 50ish.

On a side note, anyone who's interested in visiting us in Miami for initiation on the 14'th of April can email me and we can set it up. We'd love to have you.

Yours in Z A X ,

Chris Hall

[GammaZeta]

Thanks Doc,

My school didn't have continuous recruitment, so it seemed a little odd to me.

At Umass, about 75% of the recruits were in the Fall semester, and the rest during Spring.

Now that I look back on it, we really only had 2-3 weeks to recruit! Pretty much by late September, eveything was done.

[Tom Earp]

Originally Posted by EM1843

Last weekend I had the pleasure of watching 7 men initiated at Epsilon Mu (Univ. of Florida). This brings the chapter up to 85 men and total initates to around 1885. Next semester should see our 2000th initiate.
In addition to myself we had a number of distinguished guest including John G, Doc Smith, Doc Dirghalli, Ed Leonard, Daniel Shouse, Tony Dunn, and Andrew Holcomb.

Wow, what a line up of dignitaries.(SIC).
2000 is a milestone that is unbeleivable! I hope you reach it soon and be very proud!

Does this include TKN?

Mike, how does this compare to the other GLOs at Un. Miami Oh?

Good to see us back on campus!

[EM1843]

Yes, it includes TKNs but we aren't sure how the numbering etc. went. That part of our history has been "lost."