Tau Zeta Awarded for Partnership with Humane Society

The men of Lambda Chi won a very special award yesterday.

The 2011 Excellence in Civic Engagement Award was given to Tau Zeta at the fourth annual Cougs Care Celebration Event for our participation with the Whitman County Humane Society. A large group of well-dressed Lambda Chi’s were very happy to accept this award at yesterday’s event.

During the event, John Fraire, Vice President of Enrollment and Student Involvement, spoke about how giving back to the community is a very important aspect of being a student at WSU. Furthermore, he spoke about how WSU sometimes struggles with a bad reputation compared to other universities he worked at, but that today’s award-winners showed that WSU was not worthy of this bad image. He also acknowledged that Greeks played a very important role in community outreach.

Here is what the Center of Civic Engagement said about Lambda Chi in winning this award:

“Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity has ‘adopted’ the Whitman Country Humane Society for several years- taking the lead in organizing the main fundraising event for the WCHS, ‘The FurBall and Yappy Hour.’ The proceeds from the event go to the no-kill shelter, Animal Haven. The men of Lambda Chi Alpha make a significant difference through their enthusiastic participation and investment in this partnership”

Previous Lambda Chi’s who have held the position of philanthropy chair played a significant part of garnering year’s award. These members include:

Bryan Ernsdorff

Dave Simpson

Peter Kitzmiller

Ben Krein

Justin Scherting

The philanthropy chairs have sat on the board for the Humane Society’s FurBall each year, making Lambda Chi’s presence in the community that much greater. Furthermore, the philanthropy chairs are in charge of organizing all Lambda Chi’s in their assistance with the FurBall dinner and other volunteer services we provide for the Humane Society.

Brother Justin Scherting currently serves as Lambda Chi’s philanthropy chair. His efforts were instrumental in helping the Humane Society and Lambda Chi raise $42,000 in this year’s FurBall.

For four years, Lambda Chi has had a strong partnership with the Whitman County Humane Society. We would like to thank them for nominating us for this award. Lambda Chi’s look forward to many more years working side by side with Humane Society workers in helping homeless doggies and kitties.