August 10, 2006

Fraternity Forever

A feature story about the former Gamma Kappa Chi all-Jewish fraternity at Wayne State focuses on the camaraderie that still reigns among the group's members, now ranging in age from their late 60s to the 90s. Members stay in touch through weekly luncheons and annual reunions. In its heyday of the 1940s-50s, GKC had the largest membership of any fraternity on campus, nearly 100 active members. It was known as the frat for "jocks and docs." One member says the fraternity was the first that did not restrict members to one religion. Among the group's members was Dr. Ben Paolucci, a former WSU and Detroit Lions football player who is now the Detroit Pistons' team doctor. GKC, which ceased to exist at WSU in 1958, is planning its 70th anniversary reunion, Aug. 25-27, in Farmington Hills .

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