On Friday, September 12th, the Brothers, Associates, and friends of Pi-Lambda Zeta joined together to participate in the Light the Night walk put on by The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. A total of over $1,200 was raised in this event. Article on StLCoP’s website
Pi-Lambda Zeta is excited to welcome 16 new Associate Members. Their names are up on the Brothers page and their pictures will be posted soon:
Nathan Aldrich (3rd)
Sam An (2nd)
Brian Chronister (2nd)
Tyler Dinkelaker (2nd)
Logan Fiscus (2nd)
Jake Halter (2nd)
Greg Jennings (3rd)
Nathan Koentz (2nd)
Brian Ogweno (3rd)
Ricky Patel (2nd)
John Paule (2nd)
Ben Rieke (2nd)
Dave Robbins (3rd)
Evan Schnur (3rd)
Cody Steele (2nd)
Josh Weidler (2nd)
We will be performing the AM Ceremony on Sunday, September 14th. If you’re interested in attending, let me know.
In ZAX,
Adam
High Tech
AP (St. Louis, MO) – For the second time in five years, the Pi-Lambda Zeta of Lambda Chi Alpha has won the St. Louis College of Pharmacy Organization of the Year Award. Presented tonight at the STLCOP Top100 Dinner, several Brothers were on hand for the award presentation. “I couldn’t believe it when I heard it. I was so surprised and happy at the same time,” said James Houpt, 5th year.
The Award which is sponsored by Shop N’ Save Pharmacy comes with a $1,000 stipend which will come in handy as budgets get tighter every year. “We’ll definitely put this money to good use. We have a Brotherhood Retreat coming up, so that will allow us to put our minds together to find the best way to use this money in our community with some going to charity and perhaps a little bit for a rainy day. I’ve the the joy-joy down in my heart!” said Brian Scholfield, 3rd year and Chapter President.
Pi-Lambda Zeta last won the Organization of the Year Award in 2004 under the watchful eyes of High Alpha Brandon Eldridge. “It was a different time then,” said Eldridge, 5th year, “There was 19 of us when we won the award, and we all lived in the dorms. I’m proud that the tradition of winning [and rocking out] continues.”
Hey there,
After talking with the High Phis from local Missouri Universities, I have the initiation dates for all 4 of us.
Mizzou Friday, February 8th
SEMO Friday, April 18th
StLCoP Friday, April 25th
Drury Friday, May 2nd
As far as the High Tech side goes, I updated the new officers to reflect the most recent elections. I changed the Event calendar and exam schedule to Excell files, but I have to fill in the blanks with our events. I updated our chapter’s contact info (PO box, new High Alpha, chapter’s email address) and the files for download to show the new semester. I plan on changing our poll soon as well.
In ZAX,
Adam Bohn
PL 39
High Phi
High Tech
From the office of High Tech:
I’ve fixed and updated some things. Files for Download is restructured and files are updated (by-laws, family trees, greek council by-laws, etc). I fixed the polls so that the archive works properly now. After elections this Sunday, I’ll update officers.
During Christmas break (especially after the High Zeta Retreat), I’ll be making some changes – changing both the calendar‘s format and the events on it for next semester, updating the past events, a possible updating of the theme, and whatever comes up. I ask that anyone that has comments, questions, constructive criticism for the website, from within and between the Zetas and passerbys, email me at abohn@stlcop.edu and I’ll take a look-see at how I can’t make an improvement.
In ZAC,
Bohn
High Tech
PL 39
I just want to say congratulations to the Associate Members for bringing home 2nd place (our best finish since the historic 2004 skit) in the 2007 St. Louis College of Pharmacy Variety Show (with a little help from Brother’s Nick Dryer and Brian Scholfield). You guys did absolutely amazing. It was the funniest, most intricate display of interpretive dance that I’ve ever seen. We also must put our hands together for the ladies of Lambda Kappa Sigma for putting on the most creative and difficult act I’ve ever seen. Rewriting an entire song with such on-point lyrics was quite a feat.
Adam Bohn and I will get the video up for the world to see as soon as possible.
ATTENTION VISITORS AND LAMBDA CHI’S FROM OTHER ZETAS: Do you know of a Lambda Chi that is buried in Jefferson Barracks National Cemetary south of St. Louis? If you do, please shoot me an email at beldridge@stlcop.edu – We are attempting to get together a list of names together so we may periodically pay our respects to our departed Brothers and appropriately decorate their graves/headstones with a few white roses.
In ZAX,
Brandon Eldridge
Pi-Lambda 001
Hello all, Chris Koentz here, your resident Most Beautiful Brother. I just wanted to let the entire interweb know that I appreciate your votes at last years award ceremony in bringing me my second MBB win in two years. With out all of “u” there would be no beautiful. I wake up every day and think why do I have to be beautiful today? It is because I have to live up to my title. I hope all of my supporters will continue to back me in my campaign for three in a row. Thank you all once again, you stay beautiful LXA!
Chris Koentz – Pi Lambda 33
Most Beautiful Brother ’06,’07
Hello. My name is Patrick Harper… and I’m addicted to Lamba Chi Alpha.
I’m doing my best not to let it consume me to the point that I completely ignore other facets of my life. School for one. But when I ran for the office of High Kappa I never in my wildest dreams imagined that it would get into my blood like this. And the new Kappa, AM, and Big Brother manuals that HQ put out as part of the True Brother initiative are like Kappa Crack Cocaine. I can’t put them down!
See, here’s the thing. At first I expected to have a dozen or so AMs to educate on the history of Lambda Chi Alpha. I was going to give them what they needed, teach them the creed, show them the crest, go through the timeline and then shuffle them off to Initiation and call it a day. Now I realize my duty is to instill the ideals of this blessed Brotherhood into sixty young men so that every minute of every day the actions of every Brother shine with the immutable principles on which we were founded and on which we still stand today. The time has come to truly make good men great, and great men excellent.
So… I gotta go. I’ve got programming to plan and lesson plans to write. There’s manuals to be read and meetings to schedule. I need dates, times, locations, speakers. No time to waste, we’ve got leaders to mold boys! I’ve got a Brotherhood in one hand, fourteen great possibilities in the other, a Ped. under one arm, a lamp under the other, a world full of stress, a mind full of ideas, and a heart full of fire. It’s time to Do Work!
And in the words of Brother Chesney… I’ve never wanted nothing more!
Patrick Harper – ?? 21
High Kappa
Lambda Chi has taught me more than I expected. I never would have been involved on and off campus and involved in caritable events had it not been for Lambda Chi. Lambda Chi has taught me a ton of leadership skills.
In ZAX,
Max Wittler
Pi Lambda 5
Well right now I’m losing this bout with my little case of insomnia, so I figured I could start on my first blog instead of staring at my bedroom ceiling for the next 4 hours. The only blog I usually read is the angry pharmacist’s (www.theangrypharmacist.com in case you wanna check it out), so I instinctively want to cuss and gripe about idiots for a few paragraphs, but for the sake of everyone reading I’ll try to keep it clean.
Alright, time for a little story. Tonight after the meeting, Scholfield decided to do some last minute training before the pizza-eating contest tomorrow by drinking as much fluid as he could in 20 minutes. He started off by bringing out some ice cold pink lemonade. He downed 64 oz. in less than 2 minutes (that’s 4 pounds of lemonade!) Little did we know, he was just getting started. He followed that up by drinking four 17 oz. bottles of water over the next 14 minutes. By the time he finished his last bottle of water, his stomach was so full it looked like he just swallowed a watermelon. For those of you doing the math at home, that’s 132 oz. of fluid (that’s over a gallon… 8+ pounds of fluid) in about 16 minutes.
Well he kept those 132 ounces in his stomach for about 7 seconds… Then it started coming back up, and it came up a lot quicker than it went down. Scholfield looked like ole faithful for the next few minutes as the gallon of water/lemonade/some chicken he ate for dinner made its way from his stomach out to the pavement.
After that amazing display of intestinal (well in this case it was more stomachal) fortitude and incredible stomach capacity, I know one thing going into tomorrow regardless of who’s competing in the pizza-eating contest: I’ve got my money on Scholfield.
- Chad