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John Cain Spring 2009 Semester

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Originally from Mogadore, Ohio, I am an alumnus of The University of Akron with a degree in Adolescent to Young Adult Education - Integrated Social Studies. Currently I serve as an Educational Leadership Consultant (ELC) for Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity. As an ELC, I travel from chapter to chapter, meet with the officers, conduct a review of the chapter’s strengths and weaknesses and educate the brothers on new and efficient strategies to improve chapter operations.
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Mogadore, United States


I'm in my last few days in Ohio and have been trying to wrap up a lot of stuff here. I haven't really had a chance to stop since graduation but I'm looking forward to Christmas with the family and seeing a lot of friends before I go. I'm excited to head out and look forward to working a job and actually getting paid for it. Hopefully those of you that are seeing this for the first time will check back as I get more updates. Thanks to my parents graduation gift of an awesome camera I will be capturing pictures from all over the Midwest as I travel around and will be posting here. When my phone number changes I will send out a text to everyone and keep you posted.

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Akron, United States




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My new home base

Indianapolis, United States


I finally got to Indianapolis, got my stuff moved into the apartment and started getting acclamated with the area. I begin work on Thursday and then head to Indiana University's campus this weekend for a staff retreat.


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Staff Retreat

Bloomington, United States


We're in Bloomington at Indiana University's campus for the weekend. This is a huge school with great old buildings and a greek tradition that goes back to the 1850's. We are staying at the hotel in the Student Union which is unlike any Union I have seen. It resembles a cathedral in some aspects and I can see a cemetery outside my room window. This will be a productive weekend with lots of meetings and discussions between the fraternity staff. Will be back in Indy on Sunday.


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Getting to know Indy

Indianapolis, United States


I'm finally getting use to making my way around the city, oddly enough just in enough time to start my travels out. Pictures below date back a few days but are of NCAA Headquarters, Lucas Oil Stadium (Home of the Indianapolis Colts), the statue at the center of Indianapolis and our fraternity headquarters. The trip to Cincinnati got canceled so I'm here until next Sunday when I head to Boston. Leaving for good on the 25th.



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Cincinnati, United States




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Boston University

Boston, United States


I arrived in Boston on Sunday to a city that just had a foot of snow dumped on it the day before. From what I could tell it was a little warmer than what I had left behind in Indianapolis. I ended up on a later flight out of Cincinnati so Matt Roy and I left the airport and went straight to Boston U's campus, bags in tow. We met with the chapter there to talk about recruitment, they were a great bunch of guys that represented our Alpha chapter well. To you non-Greek readers, the Boston U. chapter is the first chapter of Lambda Chi Alpha and is where our founder, Warren A. Cole, was a student. Warren Cole wanted to start a fraternity that was different from the rest and he most certainly accomplished this. He was perhaps the greatest recruiter this fraternity has ever seen and was responsible for most of the early success of Lambda Chi.

The BU campus was amazing. Large academic buildings lined the Commonwealth Avenue where the green line subway came above ground and ran down the middle of the street. I'm sure we looked the tourist part as we looked around pulling suitcases behind us through the snow and slush. We got to our hotel, named Hotel 140 which was in the old YWCA building downtown. This was definitely one of the most trendy places I've ever stayed in and was right across the street from Trinity Church and the Boston Public Library.

Monday was a light day on the business side. Our main goals were to visit 22 Joy Street (where the name Lambda Chi Alpha was first uttered) and drop off flowers to the woman that lived there. Come November we will be having our closing Centennial Celebration in Boston and this house is one of the tour stops. Standing across the street from this home really brought me full circle and helped me feel more secure that God has put me in the right place. Just two blocks from this home on Joy Street sits the Massachusetts state capital building and Boston Common. Not more than 8 years ago I was standing in this park with my family on vacation. Little did I know that the location of the birth of my fraternity that has become such a large part of my life was just a few yards away. That to me is amazing.

Tuesday took us (again with bags in tow) to Cambridge to visit the chapter at MIT. I never in my life expected to be walking the campus of MIT. It was a quite a thrill and though it seemed like your run-of-the-mill college campus, I know not many people from my hometown are afforded an opportunity to see a place like that and I am so grateful to have an experience like that.




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Cambridge, United States




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Indianapolis, United States




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Valparaiso University

Valparaiso, United States


For the sake of time I will just put up pictures for this one. Valpo was a nice campus, small and snow-covered but had some nice new buildings. Here are pics.



permalink written by  jjcain on January 25, 2009 from Valparaiso, United States
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