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
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I’ve had my fair share of arguments with my Brothers. Heck, I’d even admit that for a spell, I hated one or two (that’s not the case anymore — everything always gets resolved). I’ve shouted, contradicted, and nearly gotten combative with my Brothers. But, you know what? It’s 5am as I right this. I can’t sleep. If I called any one of them, I have no doubt in my mind that they would answer (so long as their phone isn’t on silent). I have no doubt that any single one of them would jump in their car, drive to my house, and watch Paid Programming with me if I asked it of them.

 You can’t buy Brotherhood. You can’t teach Brotherhood.

It’s something instilled in you over time. It’s cultured through experiences. It’s grown through trials and tribulations. It grows better through time, much like wine. It can’t be explained…it can only be experienced.

I hope that every young man can experience true Brotherhood in their life.

In ZAX,
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Whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks around in the darkness; he does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded him (1 Jn. 2:11)

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.

?????? ?? ???? – 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
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