Why I Pledged…

Why did you join Alpha Chi Rho? That’s a question we recently asked some alumni, and they delivered! Hear the reasons that the Alpha Chi Rho house became a home away from home … and would go on to impact the rest of their lives.  

 

“In my freshman year, I visited several fraternities, including AXP, and had sort of decided to pass on all of them. Curly had come to Penn from National Headquarters to help the Chapter with rush. I was reading in my dorm room when he knocked on my door, introduced himself as Wilbur Walden, AXP’s National Secretary, and asked if he could talk with me about Alpha Chi Rho. He did so and changed my mind. I went to the house and met some of the Brothers and two other freshmen he had recruited. The three of us pledged. So, it was Curly’s sales pitch that did the job.”  – Byron P. Connell ‘63

He remembers AXP as being “an ideal location on campus, diverse membership. We were, perhaps a group of misfits, in some ways, which was a good fit for me.” – Russell Blumer ‘92

 

 

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