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Everyone’s heard my story a thousand times — most even finish the story for me, “It’s hard to believe this all started with me spending a weekend at Southwest Missouri State (now renamed Missouri State University).” I got the grand idea for expanding Lambda Chi Alpha to St. Louis College of Pharmacy from spending a weekend with a friend from high school. I returned home and found the expansion website, filled out the information form, and with the click of a mouse, started a yearlong journey which culminated in the chartering of Colony #287 as Pi-Lambda Zeta on November 4, 2005. It was a long and winding road filled with peaks, valleys, and sharp turns, but time and time again, it has proven one of the best decisions I’ve ever made. I’ve seen 50 men initiated into the Bond of Lambda Chi Alpha (so far) and had values instilled into me that I would have never known without many deeds done by those that came before me.
I’ve benefitted by the hard work of others that proceeded me, and I have therefore dedicated myself to work hard to insure those that follow after me have the necessities needed to make their Great Passage more than beneficial. I’ve had my courage tested, and every time, I fought for what I knew was right. I will continue to hold dear the values of Lambda Chi Alpha long after my college years are through.
Χαλεπα Τα Καλα - Naught Without Labor
Vir Quisque Vir - Every Man a Man
Per Crucem Crescens - Crescent in the Cross
I leave this first blog post on the Pi-Lambda Zeta Website with this quote, which rings more true every time I read it:
“Even if later we are preoccupied with important things, even if we fall into misfortunes, still let us remember how good it was here once, when we were all together, united by a good and kind feeling, which made us, perhaps, better than we were.” ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
In ZAX,
Brandon Eldridge
Pi-Lambda 001
