Insignia of Lambda Chi Alpha


If anything, I want to avoid using that horrific JPEG that the UIdaho Lambda Chis have spread around the Internet. Some work based on a 395K coat of arms (scanned in by the UNM chapter from original artwork by Dan Shouse EM-474 (Central Florida)) may be possible.

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Below, a compressed coat of arms based on the Shouse artwork:

Escutcheon: quarterly 1, vert, a lighten Greek lamp or; 2, or, an open book proper, bearing on its face the letters Chi, Omicron, Alpha Zeta; 3, able, a balance, or; 4, vert, a pair of clasped hands argent, between three mullets in chevron or; over all an inescutcheon argent, lion rampant holding a white rose slipped proper.
Behind the escutcheon a pair of swords in saltire, points downward, argent, pommels, and hilts or. Mantling vert, lined, or.
Encircling the escutcheon a riband purpire, edged argent, bearing the Greek motto Chalepa ta Kala surronded by an olive wreath which bears pendant the badge of the brotherhood.
Below the escutcheon a scroll with the Latin motto Vir Quisque Vir.
Crest: issuant from a crown celestial or, ensigning a gentlemen's helmet proper, a crucicrescent rayonne or, Latin motto Per Crucam Crescens, on scroll.

-- from Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities, 19th Edition, (1977), p300.

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Page updated 10 June 1996 by Jason Cho '97 O-1512
jjc7@cornell.edu
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