Fraternity provides dinners for holiday
By Rebecca Brown
Daily Forty-Niner
The Lambda Theta Phi fraternity wants to
improve Thanksgiving for some local families by providing dinners for them,
said Cal State Long Beach chapter Vice President Sammy Aguilar.
"We want to provide turkey, mashed potatoes,
the works for these families," Aguilar said.
The fraternity is nationally recognized
and has more than 50 chapters.
The CSULB chapter was founded in 1997.
"We have around 30 members today," Aguilar
said.
"We have printed the applications for the
meals in English and Spanish in order to have the largest amount of people
know about what we are doing," Aguilar said.
It hopes to focus their efforts on single-parent
families, he said, because they are the most needy.
"We have gone to local elementary schools
and given applications to staff members, making them aware of what we would
like to do for those in need," Aguilar said.
The fraternity plans to use their personal
account, which is augmented through fund raising throughout the year to
pay for the meals.
It also plans to do other forms of charity
in the future.
"We are looking at expanding and the biggest
thing that I want people to know about us is that we are not the typical
fraternity that you can find here on campus," Aguilar said.
"Our campus has more than its share of
nonproductive, beer-guzzling fraternities," he said.
"We're different.
We came to this campus to stand out."
The fraternity works with the Catholic
Big Brothers Association to serve as mentors for boys in the Long Beach
community.
The fraternity is also working with the
Casa Youth Shelter and Olive Crest Abandoned Children's Center. |
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