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Centennial Planning
Brothers,
I am very interested in your thoughts about IHQ's tentative plans for celebrating our Centennial. This month's C&C Magazine has an article about the basic plan.
GammaZeta has made some important and relevant comments about the Boston Area events. I basically agree with him on his take that Gamma had our first Chapter House.
(By the way, I hope somebody gets over there to photograph and film the place before it is taken down! I also hope that someone has gathered together the historic documents and so forth. That would just add loss to loss.)
However, I think that there is evidence that Alpha Zeta did meet on at least an irregular basis in as many as 5 different locations in the area surrounding the Boston University campus prior to the issuance of Gamma's Charter. I also think that it can be established that Alpha Zeta was "active" by late 1911 as a Zeta.
Hopefully, some space can be reserved for these, and other issues, that surround our early years in the Centennial History Book. Time will tell.
Having said all that, I really appreciate GammaZeta's comments. How about the rest of you?
Something specific: I would like to get an Historic Marker for Warren A. Cole and for Jack Mason. I have worked on this type of project here in Ohio with success. The markers are not real expensive (about $2,000 for everything) and the paperwork is not a "back breaker."
My problem is that I can't get anybody in the Massachusetts Historical Society or State Government to give me the time of day!
I have requested information with no response.
Maybe this is the Mass. way? I hope not.
Can anybody help me secure the proper information and forms to to get the marker process started?
Let me know....
Again, what are your thoughts about our Centennial Plans?
Yours in ZAX,
Mike Raymond, ZUZeta
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