Book Excerpts

Tonight was the night they would do something so extraordinary that it would last longer than any of them could ever imagine. It would spread far beyond the confines of the Park Slope section of Brooklyn New York. Tonight was the birth of Alpha Omega Theta Fraternity.

   

Joe Brugnolotti, Mickey Percy, Billy Meyer and Jim Stack from the Brooklyn chapter were constantly pushing Chick to recruit members for a new chapter in Valley Stream. They saw in Chick and in the village of Valley Stream a great opportunity to carry on the name of Alpha Omega Theta into an untapped territory.

   

Each dog was given their ten shots with flat planks of wood with handles drilled out. They looked similar to cricket bats. After the paddling they were tarred and feathered using Black Strap molasses, Corn Flakes and pillow feathers. Then they were stuffed into the truck of a car and taken on a long ride. The ride ended at George W Childs State Park in Pennsylvania. This location was close to the intersecting points between New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

   

One Friday night one hundred and fifty Omega members from all the surrounding towns’ chapters had gathered in Nathans parking lot. Their purpose was to chase out the Alpha’s from Nathans and hunt down Billy Weitzman. The gathering seemed sudden and spontaneous, but it was planned well in advance.

 

  “We threw lots of back yard keg parties, $2 for all the beer you could drink and literally hundreds of kids would show up and get tanked. These parties always ended up getting raided by the cops. Thinking of it now, it seems crazy. We were all under age, some of us only in 9th grade and all drunk, puking in the streets and trawling for equally drunk girls to take advantage of”.

 

Another daily ritual of dogging was when the Pledge Master would set up the dogs schedule for who he would go with each day. They were like piranha, all wanting the dog for the day. It was humiliating, the Pledge Master would tell me I had to go with these guys today and they owned me for the day. Whatever they said, I had to do it. And each day I would be going with different AOT brothers. If I was lucky I would only be doing menial tasks like cleaning someone room, or doing dishes.

 

  

He grabbed Anthony by the tie he was wearing and pulled him two steps forward, he then grabbed Anthony by his ears and head butted him right between the eyes. The sound was scary. It sounded like a coconut being smashed with a baseball bat. It was a hollow crack kind of sound. I was standing right next to Anthony and his eyes rolled up into his head and he dropped to the floor. He had to be picked up because he could not stand back up on his own power. Anthony was delirious and out of it for the rest of the night.

 

 

Every day during the duration of his pledging Joe and his fellow pledges were required to bring buttered bagels and coffee to the AOT brothers in the park behind the school in the early morning before school started. Each dog was required to take no more than five orders from AOT brothers for coffee and bagels, which meant Joe and each of the other pledges with him, had to bring breakfast for five Alpha brothers each morning without failure. In addition to the food, the dogs had to always bring plenty of cigarettes each morning and carry enough gum to go around all day long.

Fraternal Brotherhood
The Story of Alpha Omega Theta Fraternity Inc.

 

 

Available online at www.xlibris.com/FraternalBrotherhood

ISBN13 (TP) 978-1-4415-1562-9
ISBN13 (HB) 978-1-4415-1563-6