Lambda Chi Alpha at Cornell University

Reunion is only a month away! We invite all brothers and their guests back to Edgemoor to meet old friends and make new ones. The Omicron Alumni Association is as always sponsoring a reception Saturday from 4 to 6 p.m.; light refreshments will be served. Your RSVP is greatly appreciated at www.iswza.org/reunion .

Rooms at the house are available for Reunion live-ins for a nominal fee. Please visit www.iswza.org/reunion to reserve your spot.

Reunion 2026 Join us for a reception at Edgemoor as part of Cornell University’s Reunion weekend.

We are hosting LambdaPalooza this Friday, April 24th starting @ 7PM. All proceeds will support Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago.

Join us Friday after classes to enjoy the sunset and live music from , , .rips, , , , and our very own Lambda Band

This is a GIVE point opportunity

Presale will be $5 Venmo to -Ng-29; and $7 at the door

A brotherly welcome to our newest initiates:

Rohan E. Amin · CALS '29 · Corning, N.Y
Quinton A. Baldis · Brooks '29 · San Diego, Calif.
Matteo Bianchi · Dyson '29 · New York, N.Y. and Florence, Italy
Tyler J. Certo · Arts '29 · Washington, N.J.
Sam W. Conklin · CALS '29 · Long Island, N.Y.
Michael Dogué · ILR '29 · New York, N.Y.
Dylan J. Gutowski · Dyson '29 · Pearl River, N.Y.
David K. Herzberger · Dyson '29 · Ellicott City, Md.
Klayton R. Ilhardt · Dyson '29 · Jupiter, Fla.
Sasha B. Kasher · ILR '29 · Falls Church, Va.
Daniel Khine · HumEc '29 · New York, N.Y.
Dale Kim · ILR '29 · Los Angeles, Calif.
Ethan H. Kim · Eng '29 · Wayne, N.J.
David Kosyakovskiy · Dyson '29 · Brooklyn, N.Y.
Tyler Kye · ILR '29 · Queens, N.Y.
Lucas V. Llovera · Arts '29 · Westport. Conn.
Ryan H. Morehead · Brooks '29 · Dallas, Tex.
Kaden L. Schroeder · Hotel '29 · Singapore
Max E. Shapiro · Arts '29 · New York, N.Y.
William B. Sharpe · Eng '29 · Los Angeles, Calif.
David B. Stelk · HumEc '28 · New York, N.Y.
Jackson D. Strine · Arts '29 · Media, Penn.
Ethan Zuckerman · CALS '29 · New York, N.Y.

A.M. Rohan Amin '29 (CALS/Global Development, Corning, N.Y.) already making news

The Lurie Cup means many things to Rohan Amin ’29 (College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University): a celebration of soccer, a chance to bring his community together and a way to support the pediatric hospital that saved his life.

Amin’s annual indoor soccer tournament has raised a total of around $30,000 over the last four years to support the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago. The most recent Lurie Cup on Dec. 27 in his hometown of Corning, New York, was his largest event to date.

In 2025, the event netted $5,610 for Lurie Children’s Hospital, and a matching program raised the value of the donation to $11,220. Additionally, $1,870 went to the event’s venue, the Corning YMCA. The tournament also drew new friends from Cornell, who traveled from around the state to participate.

Amin – who was successfully treated for a rare disorder at the hospital as a toddler – conceived the tournament to fulfill a “personal project” assignment during his sophomore year at Corning-Painted Post High School. He has kept it going since, and he planned the 2025 event while navigating finals as a global development major in the Cornell CALS Ashley School of Global Development and the Environment.

“I’m most proud of this year because of that difficulty,” he said. “When I got home for winter break, instead of taking a rest and just spreading out on my bed, I really started to get to work.”

More at https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2026/01/cals-freshman-keeps-community-soccer-fundraiser-rolling.

A historic $55 million gift from Steve Ashley ’62 MBA ’64 O-913, the largest in history, will establish the Ashley School of Global Development and the Environment.

Bro. Ashley has been profoundly generous both to Cornell and to Omicron Zeta with both time and treasure, serving 16 years on the university Board of Trustees, as co-chair of the Far Above capital campaign, and 55 years on the Cornell Council. In 2016 he became the third brother to receive the Frank Rhodes Exemplary Alumni Service Award, Cornell’s highest honor for alumni volunteers.

An AgEc major, he served as steward, alumni chair, and graduate advisor in the house, going on to serve two decades as an alumni director and treasurer of ISWZA. He most recently was honorary chair of our Centennial Campaign as well as its keystone donor; the signature space of our $2.8 million renovation project, the Ashley Reading Room, was named in his honor.

Bro. Ashley is chairman and CEO of The Ashley Companies, a Rochester, N.Y.-based firm that specializes in property management, brokerage, financing and real estate investment.

Grateful for what we have, but especially for whom we have.

Safe travels for Thanksgiving from at .

A thanks to 2LT H. Brenner Beard '24 O-2022, currently serving as an intelligence officer in the United States Air Force.

One of our most active brothers in the house and on campus, Brenner was cadet squadron commander of Cornell's AFROTC and an Arnold Air Society inductee, a columnist, and an Outdoor Odyssey guide, but was probably most celebrated as officer and competitor. This spring, he competed in Wisconsin, raising over $4,000 for Team Red White & Blue, a veteran-founded organization which enriches veterans' lives to combat the mental and physical scars of military service.

Jason Erdell ‘95 O-1478 will speak on campus as part of the Cheng Distinguished Lecture Series in Cornell Engineering. The event, titled "Building a Career in Our Rapidly Evolving, AI-Driven World: Lessons from a Private Equity Serial CEO," will commence Thurs., Oct. 16 at 5pm in Olin Hall 155.

A Cornell University School of Operations Research & Information Engineering graduate, Erdell is the founder, chairman and CEO of MDpanel, a new marketplace facilitating the delivery of physician medical opinions to those in need, deploying AI/ML and other data science-based approaches. Previously CEO of Aspirion, a leader in complex reimbursement services for the largest U.S. health systems, he has an accomplished career as a technology executive including at firms backed by Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, TowerBrook, EQT, and Aquiline Capital Partners.

As intramural chairman. however, he was not able to lead the chapter into the playoffs for flag football.

This Friday Oct 3rd, we are hosting a Philanthropy Band Night! All proceeds will go to , a leading Type-1 diabetes research and advocacy organization.

Doors will open at 6:45pm, with the opening set at 7:00pm framed by the sunset. Thank you to , .rips, , and for coordinating and collaborating with us to make this event happen.

To purchase a ticket in advance, send $4 through Venmo to -ng-29. Tickets will cost $6 at the door. See you there!

Mini reunion in the Adirondacks. Staz, Keegs, Mef, and T. Scot Brown (Tisbee) and spouses. Note that we are getting some camera distortion in the boat picture. Scot and Liss are still as slender as they were in 1981. More or less.