Beta Pi Blog, Vol.2008, No. 42 - Marty Heflin finds John Hartong, '81

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That old Neil Young song comes to mind "I’ve been searchin’ for a heart of gold . . ." The Gold Miner, Marty Heflin m@m2hgroup.com has only been on the blog for 2 days - and he has produced results - unlike the infamous Smitty (a visitor to the Tick House when Buck and I roomed in the middle room). Buck Biller once said of Smitty "what consumes but does not produce? Smitty!" I’ll leave it to Buck to tell that tale.

So, today I get this note from Marty-H:

"Larry,

I stay in close contact with Class of 81 Tickster, John Hartong, whose e-mail is attached. John is in contact with a couple of others...I believe! I think most of my class went into the witness protection program.

VTL,

Marty

Martin Heflin

Managing Partner

M2H Group

615.460.9093"

So, without further "to-do" . . . let me introduce to you, an act you’ve known for all these years . . .

BETA PI BLOG WELCOMES JOHN HARTONG, ATO ‘81:   According to Heflin, John Hartong john.hartong@isdn.net is a "Tickster."  Gentlemen, Tickster is the 1980 translation  of  "Tick-a-lo" -   and we welcome this brother into the internet blog-os-fold.

Blog staff must rely on hold-over Steven B. Starr a.k.a. Vinny starr2456@comcast.net , a post-graduate who haunted the Tick-a-lo Mansion during Vanderbilt Law School from 1975 - 1978, to provide some tale-telling.

According to Heflin, Vinny Starr sat as Judicial Officer-in-Chief, Star Chamber, which grilled and filleted the plebes of the Class of 1980 and 1981, including such greats as Rod Yanker rodney@aamglobal.com . I imagine that Hartong (rhymes with car-bong) must have been grilled at Star Chamber to a state of well-done by Judge Starr.

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VTL,

Larry Simons

Beta Pi, 72