Centennial Planning

[Tom Earp]

Originally Posted by bman

It is right next to Penn, we happened upon the people who are the preservation people during one of our visits, and they love to have information about famous people buried there. I do have a phone number for the society if anyone should need it.

Great, give us a link if you can or a name!

Heck, we found Coles sight and pictures taken!


But when you do the search on G C, you will find, it took a lot of LXA Brothers from all over the country to do it!

You are talking with all of them on this site!

Now throw us something! Pix would work!

In ZAX,

[GammaZeta]

From our website:

"Early in 1912, Warren Cole, as was his custom in attempting to establish a chapter at a school, wrote to a student at Massachusetts Agricultural College (MAC) in Amherst (now the University of Massachusetts) asking the names of the Greek-letter fraternities on campus and the names of at least two "good, non-fraternity men." Herbert E. Cole responded with the names of six Greek-letter groups and two names, including that of Lewis Drury. Warren Cole wrote to Drury asking if he was interested in forming a Greek-letter society. Apparently Drury was quite interested, as he had his agronomy professor write a letter of recommendation to Warren Cole.

The MAC petition was duly submitted and quickly approved—after all, it was Cole's first success in attracting a group after more than one hundred futile efforts. Lambda Chi Alpha's first established chapter, Gamma Zeta, was born."

However, you will soon have the title of OLDEST chapter house, but not FIRSt. Gamma Zeta will soon be turned into a parking lot within the year. Demolished. Torn down.

[GammaZeta]

Ahhh, ok I misunderstood.

I do know that the house itself is well over 110 years old.

Don't know if that makes it the oldest physically or not.

Glad you had a good time in 95. I'm friends with a lot of brothers from that era, great guys.

Yes, unfortunately Gamma Zeta will soon be demolished. We tried to recolonize several years ago to start a chapter to live in the house, but forces at HQ decided against it. Since then 4-5 fraternities have successfully recolonized, one of which is living in our house right now.

Unfortunately, HQ no longer wants to keep or maintain the house, and the Gamma Zeta Alumni do not have the means to keep the house for the amount of time necessary to get another LXA chapter into it.

So......here comes the wrecking ball.

[bman]

Well I am in Texas right now and we were informed that each conclave will be hosting its own Celebration in march of 2009, as well as Nationals efforts with alumni programing over about 18 months in different cities.

[LXAAlum]

Its interesting all these "plans" have been created to celebrate our history...and...I was put on the History Committee years ago - and as far as I can tell, there hasn't been one...one meeting of the committee, nor can I get any information out of HQ as to who is running it, am I still on it, etc...etc...

rant over...feel better now....

[docroc67]

Brother,

Check with Brother Josh Lodolo at IHQ.

Yours in ZAX,

MJR-ZUZ