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, May 7, 2008

From the Poet Laureate

Trivia by Christopher E. Joyce, the poet laureate of the 340 Club

Within a wall of heat and hurt, and wondering aloud ---
Does ignorance and decadence throughout the world abound
Does everything compete within themselves to break the strain
Of knowing or not knowing if they will come again.

Does everything that has an end also have a beginning
At which point there is no creation that begins its dimming
Like a flame that last and last and finally goes out
To never spark again anew of this there must be doubt

To understand the sense of death one must feel dead while living
To all the traits of men of whom cannot pursue loves giving
If there is a spirit within us as of now it is unknown
And pity those who try and find it by themselves alone
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Love is - being able to feel good with someone because they feel good.

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