Remember When?
Thanks to “Jersey” Joe Gillette ‘86 for submitting this great memory...

He writes, "This is a no-brainer and I would be shocked if this wasn’t already submitted by one of the other 17-member pledge class from the spring of 1983.  While there are hundreds of stories, this one takes the cake in my book.

We were called over to the house by one of the brothers for an emergency meeting and suffice it to say, our Pledge President, Dave “Bjorkster” Bjork ‘84, had a hard time getting all of us congregated in front of the house in a timely manner.  I am not sure which brother(s) dressed us down for being late, but if memory serves me correctly, it was Doug “Luper” Pearl ’85 and Zack “Zekey kid” Colburn ’84.  After being turned away from the house, we all began to walk dejectedly up Locust Walk when one of our pledge mates, Steve “Kreeks” Kryger ’86, came up with the brilliant idea of standing outside the house and singing “Show me a Scotsman” to prove our loyalty to the brotherhood.  Several other pledge brothers (Ron “Smally” Smolokoff ’86 and Ted “Schluggo” Schlein ’86) thought this was a really stupid idea and the larger guys from our class agreed and decided to do something about it.  Mike “McGoo” McGarry ’86, Frank “Franko” Salvatore ’85, Steve “Piz” Pisano ’86 and Scott “Ernie” Ernst ’86, who were all linemen on the football team, picked him up (any one of them would have and could have done it on their own) and carried Kreeks away from the house.   To their dismay, Kreeks continued to belt out the Fiji song as he was carried up Locust Walk but he abruptly stopped when they stuffed him in a dumpster along the way.  Funny times, man, funny times.

Sorry no photos as no one had cell phone cameras back in the day but the image is etched in the mind of all of us who were there."

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