From Ken Schneider:
A total of five alumni (four of which are on the Lambda House e-board) successfully completed a work session at the House on Saturday, July 20th. Work completed included the removal of ALL carpeting in the house to make way for the installation of new carpeting, removal of dining room baseboard electric heaters to make way for new heaters, movement of the kitchen refrigerator, stove and deep fryer to the dining room and cleaning of kitchen floors so new flooring can be installed.
A huge THANK YOU to the following alumni that made the time and took the effort to help make the work session a success:
• Chad Gramling (and his wife Jennifer)
• Bill Bybee
• James Redman
• Gordon Cooper (and his two boys Russell & Brice)
A second work session is currently being planned to focus on the outside things that need to be completed such as yard maintenance (mow, trim, edge, etc), siding repair and soffit repair. Check back soon for a time & date.
I completely agree with JR. I was disgusted with the condition of the house. The kitchen was sick - there were actually roaches of some kind in the sinks. Some were alive and some were dead. They were each larger than a silver dollar. Makes me sick just thinking about it. Garbage was piled to about six feet high in the corner. I feel that there needs to be more pride shown by the actives before more alumni involvement will come. I hope the new carpeting and vinyl floor in the kitchen is a good idea...
Hello Brothers,
I helped with the new carpet prep last weekend and was very surprised at how trashed the house was. It looked abandoned with dirt, trash, old dishes, bugs, fermenting food, and that was just the inside! I have been away from the house and alumni activities for quite some years and will make an effort to do more in the future, but it would be easy for me to leave the house forever with what I witnessed. The actives need to get it together and show some pride in the house before alumni support is completly extinguished. I have lived in the house for many summers and know things slack, especially when it is only a handful of guys left, but it never degraded to this level. I would recommend closing the house for the summers if things do not improve this school year. I hope it does not have to resort to this.
jr