Pi Lambda Zeta held it’s biannual NAFD food drive on October 16 & 23 and according to Arnold Food Pantry this was the biggest semester yet! Congratulations to Jon Day for orchestrating the event.

We kicked off the start of  “Movember” recently. Movember is Lambda Chi Alpha’s month-long awareness event for Prostate and Testicular Cancer. We have hosted BBQs and a Dodge-ball tournament with all the proceeds being donated to charity. We have raised about $800 so far. On the horizon is a Testicular/Prostate Cancer speaker,  possibly a banana split/donut sale. Most importantly about Movember, is that we are all not shaving throughout the month to raise awareness and we’re encouraging everyone else to grow their mustaches out as well! Prizes will be awarded to the best mustache!

And for the main event, Pi Lambda Zeta held its initiation ritual last night and welcomed 12 new brothers into the bond of Zeta Alpha Chi. Congratulations Pi Lambdas 96-107.

Pi Lambda 1 & 100

Welcome to a new semester at Pi Lambda Zeta! As our first month draws to a close, I would like to update the few of you that come here for updates.

We had another officer installation with Brandon Eldridge presiding. The officers installed were

Kyle Amelung (High Beta)
Logan Schmitz (High Iota)
Shane Peck (High Delta)
Skyler Mitchell (High Phi)
Justin Boudeman (High Epsilon)

Tyler Dinkelaker arranged an alumni lunch at Llewelyn’s Pub. Delicious food was had by all as alumni and actives mingled.

And now for the part you really came here for.  We welcomed 14 new Associate Members. The new Theta class members are

Andrew Slavens                     3^rd year

BJ Byland                                2^nd year

Cody Stroud                           2^nd year

Thomas Schallom                  2^nd year

Jordan Murdoch                    2^nd year

Adam Joelner                           2^nd year

Kevin Appelbaum                  3^rd year

Lingyu Dong                           3^rd year

Carey Unthank                      2^nd year

John Love                               2^nd year

Daniel Kowalenko                 2^nd year

Carl Wayne Hendrix              2^nd year

Joseph “Tyler” Edwards        2^nd year

Drew Pansing                            2^nd year

Former Grand High Pi and Grand High Phi Lynn Chipperfield gave a speech on hazing on September 21st which was widely attended by the new Associate Members and current Brothers alike.

The big brother ceremony was held on September 23rd in Whelpley Auditorium and Theta Class was finally introduced to their big brothers!

Light the Night was held on the September 24th

STLCOP Cares was held on September 25th but nobody thought to take a picture. So shame on them.

All in all, Pi Lambda Zeta has had a busy month as always.

Appologies for the lack of updates, this has been a busy month for the chapter as well as he who writes the updates. Some highlights are:

Our High Iota John Paule hosted a rousing Risk Management seminar complete with videos from HQ and delicious Jimmy John’s Sandwiches

Appologies to brothers on the far left of the room (myself included).

Our High Theta Jon Day organized our spring food drive. The neighborhoods hit were The Hill and the area around the Wise House. He also organized a clothing drive with LKS. 435 pieces of clothing were collected and donated to Goodwill (and may or may not be repurchased by next year’s AM class for their variety show performance).

Brother Davin Patel and others organized a widely attended leadership workshop  with Phi Lambda Sigma.
Also the White Rose Formal was attended by many, and Brothers Sam An and Cody Steele attended an Inner Circle retreat at headquarters.

At tonight’s meeting the 2009-2010 Dedicated Brothers were announced. Their names are

Logan Schmitz

Ben Rieke

Tyler Dinkelaker

Logan Fiscus

Brian Chronister

Jon Day

Greg Jennings

Evan Schnur

Brian Ogweno

Adam Bohn

Cody Steele

And this year’s Dedicated Brother of the Year is:

Sam An!

Congratulations to all! Give them a pat on the back for showing up to things

  Events to look forward to!
Watermelon Bash is this Tuesday,  Graduation ceremony will be heldthis Friday, and the Brotherhood Retreat will be held at the Koentz farm on May 13th and 14th.

Actually it’s last week in Pi Lambda. But anyways — last week in Pi Lambda the Gold Volleyball team won the intramural volleyball championship against The Bombers aka the STLCOP Girl’s Volleyball Team. The members of LXA Gold are:
Adam Sharpe
Joe Jennings
Blake Sorensen
Jessy Marin
Ryan Cook
Congratulations to them! Give them a high five if you see them.

Also, three of our members have been inducted into Phi Lambda Sigma the pharmacy leadership society.
Evan Schnur
Kyle Amelung
Brian Ogweno
Congratulations to them as well.

Pi Lambda Zeta’s proud to add another championship to our trophy room as Green Team won the championship intramural soccer game 11-9!
LXA Green team members are:
Matt Baker
Mitch Gardner
Chris Schloss
Lee Zbichorski
Tyler Edwards

Go them!

We also had a recruitment event at Tropicana Lanes where your High Tech bowled an 80.

And once again our lovely mugs graced the cover of www.stlcop.edu

UPDATE 3/2/10
The final count is in and we now know Lambda Chi Alpha raised approximately $200 for Haiti. Thanks to all those that donated!

Today the brothers of Pi Lambda Zeta raised money for the victims of the Haitian earthquake by giving away root beer floats for a suggested donation of $1.

Lambda Chi Alpha has started the semester out strong with a 1st place victory in the Homecoming Olympiad. Here is a video of us overcoming our foes Phi Delta Chi in the tug of war.

Congratulations to the Eta class for taking home 1st place in the Variety Show for the second year in a row!  Also congratulations to Ben and Paule for taking first place in the group bracket.

Pi-Lambda Zeta is happy to announce that 18 men have taken their first steps towards becoming a part of our brotherhood.

Aaron Null (4^th)
Adam Ivie (3^rd)
Anthony Sindel (3^rd)
Brandon Luong (2^nd)
Chris Burke (2^nd)
Daniel Hagen (2^nd)
Davin Patel (5^th)
Jonathan Day (2^nd)
Joseph Jennings (3^rd)
Justin Berge (3^rd)
Kyle Brennan (2^nd)
Logan Schmitz (3^rd)
Matt Baker (2^nd)
Mitch Gardner (2^nd)
Sean Craig (3^rd)
Shane Peck (2^nd)
Skyler Mitchell (2^nd)
Zac Walter (2^nd)

On Friday, September 11th, 2009, Pi-Lambda Zeta participated in the annual Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s Light the Night Walk in Forest Park. Walking among us was our advisor, brother, and leukemia survivor, Dr. Ken Schafermeyer. We raised over $1300 putting our grand total over $3400 for the amount of money we’ve raised since beginning our participation in 2006. The money will go towards finding and funding cures for leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease and myeloma, as well as improving the lives of patients and their families.

The Society’s nationwide Light the Night walk was created to build awareness of blood cancers, and celebrate survivors, and honor those whose lives have been touched by cancer and ranges from two to three miles.
To make a donation to The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society please click here.