About Zoseco Incorporated

The fellowship

The officers who came up with the name were junior officers at the time, and what they wanted was simple. A cafe. Somewhere to gather after work, one evening a week, with people whose company they enjoyed. They ran essay contests. They had conversations that would not survive a formal setting. They were young, and they were having a good time together. The codename was a play on one of their last names, and it was never meant to be anything more than that. But the name outlasted the original idea by years, and one of them eventually built something real under it. What he built turned out to carry the same spirit those evenings had, even though the form was completely different.

The first gathering place

The incorporation happened in 2014, in Valparaiso, Indiana. The first form it took was a physical space in the Watercourt Building downtown. People came in and were around each other while they worked on whatever mattered to them. It was not a franchise or a brand. It was a room with good people in it. Over time, the physical space gave way to something different, but the impulse that created it never did. The people who had gathered there kept coming back, kept bringing others, and the work that needed doing kept evolving along with them.

What holds it together

There is a tradition in the Air Force that at formal gatherings, officers wear no name tags on the uniform. You can see the rank, the ribbons, the wings. You get a sense of where someone has been. But you do not know who they are until you introduce yourself and the conversation begins. Some common ground is established quickly, and the relationship grows from there. That is how it works here too. Consecrated to the Immaculata, what holds this together was not invented by the people in it. It was received, and it is held in trust.

Zoseco is still becoming what it is meant to be. If you have read this far, there is a good chance you belong here.