| Jason Blount as our Pylortes at the time, deserves an enormous amount of the credit in turning what was a dang underused storage room into a chapter room. Once it was decided that the core of the construction should be made of durable concrete block. Jason knew that none of us had the skills to do the quality work he wanted; so he called upon his high school friend Ben to lay the block which became the bar, Dj booth and dance floor. Ben's work was compensated with a case of Longneck Budweiser. The top of the bar came from an old tobacco barn in Buckingham county that was 150 yrs old back in 1988 when Jason took it down over at a friend's farm. The boards were put through a planner and turned out to be beautiful oak. As you can see from the pictures everybody wanted to be part of the making of the hall and chapter room even though not all generated actual work :-) |
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| John Pastino, Ben, Ricky Stanfield | The only one working... Ben Amy (Terry's G-Friend) Scott Kasper, Terry Baugher, Eric Sanders, John Pastino?, Steve Franklin |
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| Back of Jay Venturi, Top left Half of David Buchanan, Jason Blount (Red Hat), in the DJ booth Jim Spevak and Terry Baugher., laying down Scott Kasper. | Greg McMahan and Jon Goddin |
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| Michael Clements and Jason Blount | Andrew Smallwood, Terry Baugher goofing-off |
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| Jason Blount sanding the dance floor | Andrew Smallwood and Scott Kasper |
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| Noah Wood? and John Devaney? | John Winston |
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| Eric Sanders? and Jay Venturi | Jay Venturi and Jim Thompson working the dance floor |
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| Ellery Bradley and Bo Johnson laying out the words: "The Cellar" |
Darren McCauley and Jason Blount |
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| Hamming it up on the hall, Sebastian Volcker, Steve Wertz, Bill Thompson, Keith Johnson, and Scott Koenigsberg. (Frenchman and Less were the actual painters I believe :-) |
Mohammed Naweed Stwodah sweeping up the saw dust The three triangles with the "house triangle" was a design refinement that Jabba and the Frenchman conceived. It was also made into a rubber stamp used to mark the hands of guests at our parties. It was ruined early on by a water building up behind the paint. |
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Ellery Bradley in his D.J. element |
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| And Then... the Grand Opening Party Note Harvey (compliments of Jason) on top of the Fridge and the 501 sign (Sebastian won in a raffle from Red Front) both items mysteriously disapeared... |
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| From calm... | ...to festive... |
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| ...to rowdy... | ...to JABBAesque |
| The tap system and refrigerating unit was donated to us by Frank Musso thanks to Steve Wertz and Eric Sanders who worked at the Pizza Parlor "Franco's" accross from Hampden Sydney before it closed. The Zeta Class (Lewie Lawrence, Will Birdsong, Kenny Strawn and Mohamed Stowdah) donated the pressure system for the unit. |
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