What is The Archi Names Project?

Alpha Rho Chi Fraternity has (as of today) a rich 95 year history. Of that history, we only truly know the tip of the iceberg.
Over the past year, Worthy Grand Scribe Emeritus, Rick Jenkins started posting scanned copies of our fraternity's Newsletter/Magazine, offering for the first time, all the primary resource information in our fraternity's history.. in the same place.. so it could be read from start to finish.

And one day, that's what I started to do. Starting from the beginning, I read each issue. I began to notice certain names coming up over and over again. Some of them are names we all recognize. Dwight Palmer "Pop" Ely... George A. "So" Whitten.

But there were more obscure brothers; brothers who did not end up on the Grand Council who also began showing up over and over. It made me wish we had some sort of index.

So this, the creation of an index of names from our past issues of the Archi is what the Archi Names Project is.

What does this have to do with this blog?
As I am reading through these issues and articles, I have been making sometimes noteworthy.. sometimes interesting and sometimes shocking observations.
The blog is intended to be a narrative of these observations as I go along.

How will this work?
I intend to read every issue of the archi, and add it to an excel spreadsheet. After each issue, I will create a blog entry and noting anything interesting that happened while I was reading. Maybe I'll feel compelled to do a little "where are they now?" or draw some connections between separate issues.

Why are YOU doing this?
Well.. Let's see.. If you look at the date of this post, you might notice that July 20 marks the date AFTER the Grand Council's 2009 Summer Meeting.. and this was the final summer meeting I attended as the WGAA. I had kicked this idea around my head for a little while, and while it would have been logical to share this vision at the meeting, I didn't say a word. I've always truly believed that with Alpha Rho Chi, you can do whatever project you want without getting permission from anyone.. the GC, your Chapter, or you AA.. assuming that this project does not depend on funds from those organization. This is such a project. I'm just doing this. I love this fraternity, I love our alumni and I love our history. I'm going to love every second of this.