Warren A. Cole
Unlike most fraternities, Lambda Chi Alpha began as the dream of one man, Warren Albert Cole. Born in Swansea, Massachusetts, he attended high school at Taunton and Fall River.
He entered Brown University for a few weeks, but eventually matriculated to Boston University's Law School in the fall of 1909.
Warren A. Cole was a young man of pleasing personality, ordinary means, limited experience, and no unusual talents except a dogged determination to found an international college fraternity. Amazingly, he alone would set out to challenge the prestigious fraternity world which
already boasted 46 well-established organizations. Cole first made some unsuccessful attempts at starting a fraternity, about which we know little more than names: "The Lodge," "Tombs," "Lambda Pi," then it was Lambda Chi Alpha-"Loyal College Associates," until a new meaning was adopted in 1913.
Early in 1912, Warren Cole, ...wrote to a student at Massachusetts Agricultural College in Amherst (now the University of Massachusetts) asking the names of the Greek letter fraternities on campus and the names of at least two "good, non-fraternity men." Herbert E. Cole responded with the names of six Greek letter groups and two names, including that of Lewis Drury. Warren Cole wrote to Drury asking if he was interested
in forming a Greek-letter society. Drury was quite interested and petitioned to Cole. Drury's petition was quickly approved and Lambda Chi Alpha's first established chapter, Gamma, was born.
Dr. John E. "Jack" Mason, Jr.
The key to the spiritual success of Lambda Chi Alpha lay in the ritualistic work of Jack Mason. Brother Mason delved into fraternal lore with a vengeance. He studied all available
material on college fraternities and spent innumerable hours in libraries digging into histories of all kinds of fraternal organizations that had been established throughout the years. Jack Mason's name is most closely associated with the fraternities ritual and the design of our coat of arms.
Chapter History
The old Lambda Chi House currently resides near William Jewell College. However, our new fraternity house is scheduled to be completed
by the end of this spring semester. Our chapter was installed May 22, 1942.
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