2008 Woodie Awards
Zeta Chis celebrate their 70th anniversary
Paul Davis
Issue date: 4/24/03 Section: Arts & Entertainment
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 Zetas on a community service project at the Humane Society. |
Jesse Spearo, Zeta Chi president, wants the event to let people become more aware of the Greek history and the unity of the fraternity. The event is to allow the alumni and current members to share their experience and feel the unity a fraternity is to provide. The alumni may even teach some things to the current members about their own service experiences and the way the Greek organization was run in the past. Both sides will find a learning experience.
During the weekend there are enough events to keep everyone busy and keep them meeting new faces, young and old. Friday starts off with a registration and a welcome back party in the pub at 7 p.m. On Saturday they are having a golf tournament and playing paintball in Elkhart Lake. There's also a pool tournament that is going on all day. Saturday night ends off with a banquet. On the menu for the groups are such things as chicken supreme, beef tips, and much more food, along with beverages for them. The next day is the send-off brat fry. On Sunday they will eat brats as the current members and old members bid each other fair well and the festivities come to a close.
For a little bit of history of the Zeta Chi, they were founded in the year 1933. The spring that they submitted their constitution, created by 13 men that felt their ideas were alike enough to create an organization, the organization was accepted by the faculty. They based their life standards on the five Cardinal Virtues: spirituality, service, strength, scholarship, and mercy. This is also shown in their insignia. The insignia is the Z superimposed on the X. The diagonal stripe on the Z has five pearls to show the five virtues. The Zeta Chi try very hard to show these values in their life standards.