Beta Pi Blog, Vol.2009, No.19 - Marlon & Bruning Deliver!

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NEW FEATURE ANNOUNCED: Every now and then, a news story comes along that grabs me - as being perfect for "opinion" comment a la Tick-a-lor. Thus is born a new feature:

"TICK-A-LOR COMMENTARY"




"SORORITY LEADER ALLEGEDLY SPENT $900,000 ON SELF-TRIBUTE"

Tick-a-lor Commentary. Here is an excerpt from the AOL News story:
　
"CHICAGO (July 29). Members of the country's oldest black sorority are suing to remove their president, alleging that she spent hundreds of thousands of dollars of the group's money on herself - some of it to pay for a wax statue in her own likeness.

In the suit filed in Washington, D.C., the Alpha Kappa Alpha members also alleged that international President Barbara McKinzie bought designer clothing, jewelry and lingerie with the sorority credit card. She then redeemed points the purchases earned on the card to buy a big-screen television and gym equipment, the lawsuit said."

Yeah!

Ok . . . the wax statue. Perhaps as a child, this lady was taken to Madame Touseau’s Wax Museum and frightened half to death.



What types of characters do you find in a Wax Museum?




President Barack Obama, President Abraham Lincoln, Gen. Robert E. Lee, Elvis, The Beatles, Martin Luther King, Queen Elizabeth, Princess Diana, Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Tiny Tim, great characters from literature like Phantom of the Opera, Frankenstein, The Wolf Man, and great Circus characters like Bozo the Clown,

Serpent-Boy and The Bearded Lady.


But a Sorority President - or a portly Sorority President? Please.

There are lots of ways that business and civic leaders can get recognition (just ask Ollie Grace ograce@graceny.com ).

But to spend thousands on a wax statue of herself? Can you say "way-way-way-out-of-control?"

The Sorority Credit Card. Apparently, Barbara’s wish for the "good life" didn’t end which such royal trappings as a wax statute. She was a "shop-a-holic" who engaged in binge spending - such things as designer clothing, jewelry and lingerie using the sorority credit card - then redeemed points to buy a big-screen television and gym equipment.

Now the gym equipment - that's what she needed.

Was it Yogi Bera who said "It ain’t over ‘til the Fat Lady sings?"


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MARLON AND BRUNING DELIVER:

That All-Time-Great Brother, Mark "Marlon" McGann markmcgann@prodigy.net , sent me an e-mail today - and was it ever

loaded with goodies!


". . . had a delightful lunch with Becky rmanyak@yahoo.com and she brought a photo album which I borrowed for just this purpose. I borrowed a page from your book, so to speak, and ginned up a little story to go with it. I have more pictures and thoughts about a second installment if you're interested.



THE BRUNING SUPREMACY (Plot Summary)

By Marlon McGann


In the first book, The Bruning Identity, Becky Bruning suffered amnesia. Over the course of the book she regained her memory with the help of an accomplished physician, Dr. Michael Manyak, and later found that she was previously an operative of the T.I.C.’s in an elite project in Nashville, Tennessee code named College.


After a tragic relationship involving a T.I.C. she joined the RN’s in a blind attempt to avenge the needless embarrassment of countless coeds at the hands of T.I.C.’s.




Following withdrawal from Nashville she joined Project Graduation 75, where she was used as bait by the infamous Tennessee assassin, Karen "The Jackal" Degerberg. Bruning took credit for various ‘‘kills’’ in Nashville acting as a rival to The Jackal, in order to draw her out of hiding and into the hands of the T.I.C.’s. In a climactic scene at the end of the book, The Jackal escaped and Bruning was almost killed as she was believed to be a traitor by her uniformed cohorts.

At the beginning of The Bruning Supremacy, Bruning has recovered from most mental and all physical injuries and is applying her nursing studies and residing happily with her family in Maryland under her new name, Becky Bruning Manyak.

The reader is then privy to a secretive conversation between high ranking U.S. Officials in which they discuss the fragile situation in China. A rogue high ranking Chinese Official who is one of the most well-liked, respected men in China is planning a hostile takeover that will send all of Asia into a giant civil war disrupting world order . . ."

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Intriguing.

NOW FOR THE PHOTOS (which are some of most spectacular

pics ever added to The Annals.


A big thanks to Mark and Becky for sharing these - you’re the best:



　
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Larry Simons
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