The 3rd periodic 340 Club Reunion has been postponed indefinitely

Before there was an Animal House there was a 340 Club; before there was a Dean Wormer there was a Harold "the fuck" Martin; before there was John Blutarsky or a Daniel Simpson Day there was Tim Lutter, Sil Simpson, Dan Joyce, Tim Getzloff, Dick Lichty, Jim Shay, Phil Zangari, Chris Joyce, Dave Petkosh, Mitch Herr, Kenny Giltner, Dean Staherski, Randy Brown, John Emswiler, Sue Krimmell Emswiler and myself; before there were any Delta Tau Chi pledge pins, there were 340 Club cards; before Otis Day & the Knights, the 340 Jukebox; before there were Delta Brothers there were the usual gang of idiots that congregated at 328, 340 (twice) and 338 West King Street in Lancaster, Pennsylvania for a decade beginning in August 1974. This blog is dedicated to those idiots and those times. God bless Kenny, Mitch and Chris; may they rest in peace.

















virtual 340 Club members

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Constructions

Clacktu would often surprise me when I got home from work with a change in my bedroom's decor. He would usually take an existing picture/poster that was on the wall and add various items to it, whether it be pens,pencils,buttons or whatever he could find with nothing being off-limits.
These were called "Constructions" and usually had a theme. None that I can recall now. My posters of the four Beatles were his favorite targets. I assume he may have done some constructing in other rooms of the 340 but in my recollection my room was his favorite.
Sometimes with a little scotch tape and some imagination he could create a "Construction" from scratch.
It seems to me that Clacktu had ALWAYS lived at the Club even though in reality he was only there a few short months. Time frames during our decade on West King Street are very confusing in my mind, the tenure of our room-mates especially. It seems like we were all-together all the time even though there was some revolving doors involving Club residents. Hard to believe we crammed that many "good times" in ten short years.

1 comment:

Tee said...

I'll leave it to Chris to correct me but I do not remember a construction in my room. Perhaps the lack of order, particulary in the annex, in my rooms meant that a construction might blend in and never be noticed. I do recall constructions in your room or his room; and though I can't be specific I believe they popped up in the common areas from time to time.

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