Lambda Chi Alpha

Involvement and Leadership

Joey Katz — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:11:34 +0000

Congratulations to the following brothers:

Epsilon-Mu Zeta at the University of Florida is proud of the following brothers for their involvement on campus:

Wilfredo Hererra, Order of Omega President

Josh Hernandez, Order of Omega Vice-President of Membership

Jimmy Carlsen, Dance Marathon Overall Operations Chair 2009 and Student Government

Joey Katz, UF Homecoming and Gator Growl Director of Sponsorships

Tommy Rodriguez, IFC Director of Educational Programming

Javier Rodriguez, Florida Cicerone

Daniel Popper, Florida Cicerone.

We also have leadership in various areas of campus, such as Gator Walk 2008, Dance Marathon Staff and Captains, SavantUF, Student Government, and plenty more!

Epsilon Mu Initiates Seven New Brothers!

Andrew Holcomb — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 05:16:20 +0000

This weekend seven new brothers were added to our bond. Congratulations to the following new initiates:

William Travis Patterson
Lei Lu
Charles Smith
Ty Welt
Corey Thornell
Michael Stromquist
Brent Keller

We look forward to celebrating the wonderful accomplishment of our new brothers, and we wish them all the best in their time as undergraduate brothers of our chapter.

Spring Rush Brings Ten New Associates

Andrew Holcomb — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:30:24 +0000

The brothers of Epsilon Mu are proud to announce the association of ten new members. This recruitment period, our recruitment chair was very selective in the process, giving bids to only men of the highest caliber. We are proud to welcome the following new members:

David Choo
Brent Keller
Charles Kramer
Lei Lu
William Travis Patterson
Giacomo Savardi
Charles Smith
Michael Stromquist
CD Thornell
Ty Welt

We welcome these new members proudly to our brothers, and we wish them luck that they may soon share in our brotherhood.

ΛΧΑ Spring Rush 2008 Begins

EJ Vincent — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 21:17:40 +0000

We welcome you to visit our chapter throughout Rush Week (Jan. 13-18), and hope your experience with us and the Greek community is one you will never forget.

Here is a list of our events…

Sunday: Rush Forum at the Reitz Union at 6:00 p.m.
Open House at 8:00 p.m. with Hooters Buffet

Monday: Moe’s Southwest Grill and Meet the Brothers 8-11 p.m.

Tuesday: Luau Night - Best food on the Planet! 8-11 p.m.

Wednesday: Sonny’s BBQ Feast and Meet the Brothers 8-11 p.m.

Thursday: Pool, Darts and Hungry Howie’s Pizza 8-11 p.m.

Friday: Formal Steak Dinner (Invite Only)

Dinner with the Brothers: Monday -Thursday 5-7 p.m.

Congratulations to the High Zeta 2008!

Joey Katz — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 09:28:57 +0000

High Alpha (President) - Joey Katz
High Beta (Executive Vice President) - Mike Spegele
High Theta (Administrative Vice President) - Javier Rodriguez
High Gamma (Secretary) - Billy Sims
High Tau (Treasurer) - Josh Webb
High Iota (Risk Manager) - Jerome Morrison
High Epsilon (Social Chairman) - Mike Lytle
High Phi- C. Frye
High Delta (Rush Chairman) - Zack Parsons
High Kappa (Fraternity Educator) - Brian Geoghegan
High Rho (Alumni Relations Chairman) - Wilfredo Herrera
High Sigma (Scholastics Chairman) - Mike Thompson
High Facilities Officer - Jimmy Carlsen

Fall Recruitment Enormously Successful!

Andrew Holcomb — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 04:34:26 +0000

The chapter had an overwhelmingly successful rush this fall. While recruitment numbers fell five percent along the row, Lambda Chi Alpha boasts a 40 percent increase in overall recruitment. Zack Parsons, the active High Delta/rush chairman, took a different approach on recruitment involving what the fraternity has coined “value-based recruitment.” The brothers vigorously recruit all 365 days of the year (even the extra day on a leap year) looking for the many qualities our institution instills: loyalty, duty, respect, stewardship, honor, integrity and personal courage. Almost half of the active brotherhood attended classes in the summer, which opened the door for the chapter to recruit many freshmen before fall rush week began. As of October of 2007, the chapter is already prepared for the upcoming spring and even fall rush of 2008.

Watermelon Bust ‘07 is a Huge Success!

EJ Vincent — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 21:18:07 +0000

Lambda Chi Alpha at the University of Florida has always had a great reputation for its service to the community and the ideals our members retain after they graduate. Our chapter’s most recent achievement was Watermelon Bust 2007, our annual philanthropy benefiting the North American Food Drive (NAFD). This boasted higher participation and more donations than ever before! From conducting a food drive at Westwood Middle School, to marketing and executing Watermelon Bust 2007, Lambda Chi Alpha was able to have a great time and benefit enormously from this year’s event.

With the assistance of Gainesville Harvest, a local food distribution center, Lambda Chi Alpha was able to successfully explain to the Greek community the impact that one can of food would have for a struggling family. The members of the Greek community were excited to participate in our event sending 13 sororities and a total of 28 teams. They also donated twice the amount of food from last year (622 cans = 11,440 pounds of food). This year, the food drive was a large percentage of the overall points! We even had to order more watermelons than in the past because we were not expecting such a large turn-out. Not to mention, with great shirt designs, the women bought 240 shirts this year, allowing us to donate $517 of the profits.

The record number of teams and food indicated to our chapter that we were in for a ground-breaking philanthropy. With traditional events such as the Watermelon Toss, the Watermelon Obstacle Course, and a Greasy Watermelon Hand-off, we added a unique field event: Slip-and-Slide Watermelon Bowling. The bowling event ended up being the most enjoyable event of the day. Our unique philanthropy provides excitement and competition throughout the day, as it is not often that people bust watermelons for a good cause.

Total Number of Sorority Teams = 28
Total Number of Sorority Participation = 13
Food Cans Donated at Watermelon Bust = 622
Food Cans Donated at Westwood Middle School = 530

Profits Donated to Gainesville Harvest = $2100
Total Amount Donated to the North American Food Drive = 31,736 pounds!!!

The scoring points indicated some great competition with only 1 point making the difference for each winner: the Overall Winner for Watermelon Bust 2007 was Phi Mu, and the Best in Field Events Winner was Kappa Alpha Theta. The brothers of Epsilon-Mu would like to thank all our supporters and the sororities for participating in this year’s philanthropy making it the most memorable philanthropy for our chapter in recent history! The following are various photos from the event - a special thank you to Brothers Jay Moore and EJ Vincent for the collection of photos. A more extensive collection may be found in our gallery!

Gamedays Attract Alumni in Hordes!

Wilfredo Herrera — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 03:39:02 +0000

The 2007 football season has proven to be awesome, as the National Champion Gators have defeated each of their opponents thus far. The Tennessee game proved to be a very exciting time at the chapter house as well, as over twenty-five alumni stopped by at some point either before or after the game in order to catch up with the brothers of the past, present, and future.

A big thanks to all those that stopped by, as many of the current brothers had the opportunity to finally meet several alumni we had only heard legendary “stories” about. Also, a special thanks to those that have donated money thus far, as the donations are greatly appreciated. We have almost reached our goal of covering the cost of the Dirghalli Library/Conference Room, and we hope that all alumni (from our chapter and others) continue to come by for Florida Football!

GO GATORS!

ΛΧΑ Summer 2007 Newsletter

EJ Vincent — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 02:45:13 +0000

The summer edition of Epsilon-Mu’s newsletter has finally arrived!

This edition features updates on our new Dirghalli Conference Room & Library and our Capital Campaign, information on our up-and-coming Alumni Weekend (planned for October), an “Alumni Spotlight” interview with Brother Daniel Shouse (EM 474), and finally a shot of our new Donor Plaque!

Download the newsletter here:
Summer 2007 Epsilon-Mu Newsletter (.pdf format)

ΛΧΑ gears up for Watermelon Bust 2007!

EJ Vincent — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 01:22:27 +0000

The gentlemen of Lambda Chi Alpha are excited to announce Watermelon Bust 2007. This philanthropy benefits the North American Food Drive and all proceeds collected from this event will be donated to Gainesville Harvest, a local food distribution center. Although we have already completed a successful food drive at Westwood Middle School, our goal is to collect more food than ever! After having collected 1000 pounds of food, we are hoping to collect 7000 MORE pounds of food with this event to feed the homeless for the holidays and to make an incredible difference in our community.

Watermelon Bust 2007 will take place on September 16th from 12:00pm – 5:00pm at the Lambda Chi Alpha chapter house. This event will include penny voting, t-shirt sales, a banner contest, attendance at the field events, and a new watermelon bowling contest. The sorority teams will consist of five (5) members and you may enter as many teams as you wish. The teams will be competing against other sorority teams in the field day events.

The deadline for team registration will be Monday, September 10.

Click here or on the philanthropy link above to view more detailed information about this event. Stay tuned for more updates. Here are the current shirt proofs for both men and women, as well as some photos from last years event: