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

Monday, May 9, 2011

Quick Box Items

Winding down a career provides excellent motivation for cleaning closets and cupboards. Tonight, in so doing I found these two gems from the 340 Club era. The first is a brief piece likely written during Chris Joyce brief tenure as a resident. The second, my work, is easier to place in time because it clearly pinpoints its date.

Untitled, by Chris Joyce

They thought Paul was dead
When they saw 28 IF
But I was only sure
When I read of Stu Sutcliffe

Circa 71974 by Tee Knorr

Remembering the past is fun. It’s forever being done, for its all we know. We can’t predict tomorrow and we are busy creating today. So all that we know is yesterday. We know what was good and we know what was bad. We try to repeat the former and forget the latter. But repearting is no fun and forgetting is hard. So we are doomed to remember and that’s what’s fun.

It seems that I met her yesterday and maybe I did, I know I can’t forget her and it seems I can’t repeat her. It might not have been love but it’s as close as I ever came. So to me who knows no better it feels just the same. I remember the night I met her though my mind was not too clear. On July nineteenth it will have been exactly one year.

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