Hello again y’all! Sorry for the delay, I had a few things come up! But here’s my take on University of Montevallo!

The Campus

The campus was super nice and had a lot of rich history to it! It used to be an all girls school and named Alabama College before receiving the name, University of Montevallo and going co-ed. Before all of this though, it was a civil war base! The president of the chapter showed me around and gave me the history tour. Where their theatre school is at currently, it used to be the old hospital for the wounded soldiers. At the time, the union came in and completely cleaned house on the hospital (which was illegal). Once the attacks started there was a secret tunnel that the confederates tried hiding in, but they were all killed in the tunnel as well. Another interesting fact was where the plantation house was, an entire family was massacred inside of it in the 1860s and their cemetery is still on campus! But all and all the original brick roads lined the campus and it was pretty to walk around.

The Chapter

The men at Montevallo were super cool! They were willing to learn and take whatever crazy ideas I had and ran with them. I was about to go out to chain restaurants with them and hang out as a group which is always relaxing as an ELC. It ended with a big game of Quiplash on Friday night with a bunch of laughs. From listening on campus, these men make a huge difference to the culture and that’s always a beautiful thing to hear for me!

Next up I will be at Illinois State helping start up a brand new Lambda Chi Alpha organization! Stay tuned!