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Lambda Chi to host Watermelon Fest
Carl Smith
Issue date: 9/18/07 Section: News
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The Lambda Chi Alpha MSU chapter will hold its annual fundraiser, Watermelon Fest, Wednesday and Thursday.
The competition, previously open to only freshmen sorority members, will now be open to all sorority members due to Panhellenic Council concerns.
Other changes to Watermelon Fest include the omission of Spirit Night and the set of relay games.
The Lambda Chi chapter at Millsaps College held the first Watermelon Fest in 1993 as a way to help donate to their philanthropy, the North American Food Drive.
The fraternity challenges individual sororities to collect canned food over time.
Philip Vanderlest, Lambda Chi vice president and this year's Watermelon Fest director, said all donations the fraternity receives will be given to the local Salvation Army.
"It's a great way to give back to the community," Vanderlest said. "They get the food to where it's needed. In 2005, when Hurricane Katrina hit, we raised 108,000 pounds of food. Sixty-thousand pounds of that food was sent to the coast to help the folks down there."
2006's food drive raised almost 113,000 pounds of food for the Salvation Army, he said.
Any food the sororities collect will be due Thursday before the festivities begin.
"We're going to take a big truck down to a weigh station on Old West Point Road, and weigh it," Vanderlest said. "Then we'll fill the truck up with the food a sorority has collected to see how much they actually picked up."
A sorority volleyball tournament will kick off the event Wednesday at 2 p.m. at the Lambda Chi house.
"It's a double elimination tournament between the sororities with an intramural sports referee officiating the games," Vanderlest said. "Kappa Delta won last year's tournament and Tri Delta was the runner-up; they'll both receive first round byes in this year's competition. I hope the girls make a great turn out. Last year, they showed up all painted up, whooping and hollering while clanging their cowbells. It typically draws a great crowd."
The competition, previously open to only freshmen sorority members, will now be open to all sorority members due to Panhellenic Council concerns.
Other changes to Watermelon Fest include the omission of Spirit Night and the set of relay games.
The Lambda Chi chapter at Millsaps College held the first Watermelon Fest in 1993 as a way to help donate to their philanthropy, the North American Food Drive.
The fraternity challenges individual sororities to collect canned food over time.
Philip Vanderlest, Lambda Chi vice president and this year's Watermelon Fest director, said all donations the fraternity receives will be given to the local Salvation Army.
"It's a great way to give back to the community," Vanderlest said. "They get the food to where it's needed. In 2005, when Hurricane Katrina hit, we raised 108,000 pounds of food. Sixty-thousand pounds of that food was sent to the coast to help the folks down there."
2006's food drive raised almost 113,000 pounds of food for the Salvation Army, he said.
Any food the sororities collect will be due Thursday before the festivities begin.
"We're going to take a big truck down to a weigh station on Old West Point Road, and weigh it," Vanderlest said. "Then we'll fill the truck up with the food a sorority has collected to see how much they actually picked up."
A sorority volleyball tournament will kick off the event Wednesday at 2 p.m. at the Lambda Chi house.
"It's a double elimination tournament between the sororities with an intramural sports referee officiating the games," Vanderlest said. "Kappa Delta won last year's tournament and Tri Delta was the runner-up; they'll both receive first round byes in this year's competition. I hope the girls make a great turn out. Last year, they showed up all painted up, whooping and hollering while clanging their cowbells. It typically draws a great crowd."
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William D Black
posted 10/07/07 @ 9:23 AM CST
You write, "The Lambda Chi chapter at Millsaps College held the first Watermelon Fest in 1993...."
In reality, the Lambda Chi Alpha chapter at MSU was holding Watermelon Fest in the 1980's. (Continued…)
Dan
posted 10/07/07 @ 2:33 PM CST
Who cares
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