====Eta Omega ====

In the Winter of 1975, Cherry Hill NJ had five chapters. Three chapters drew their members mostly from the East Side. Two chapters drew their members from the West Side. All chapters met at the Jewish Community Center (at the time located on Route 70 next to Bishop Eustace High School,) on Tuesday nights to plan weekend activities.

Due to an unfortunate series of circumstances, Epsilon Chapter's brothers old enough to have drivers licenses were located on the West Side of town. Younger non-drivers were located mostly on the East side of town. The brothers on the West side of town found it inconvenient to drive the Eastside kids to and from events and often did not.

Feeling angry and isolated after missing multiple social events, some members of Epsilon seceded and formed their own Eta Omega chapter. The founding members included brothers Bruce Zamost (President), Bill Kaiser (Treasurer), Leon Roomberg (secretary and parliamentarian), Allen Taylor (Vice President), and Gary Weigner. Lee Bittman, Robert Roomberg, and Bill Ellman were inducted shortly thereafter. [Correction 2/8/2015, Epsilon Brother Gary Bitman, remained with Epsilon.]

The Jewish Community Center staff found Danny Glanz, a middle-age SAR brother to serve as the chapter's adult advisor.

Leon Roomberg was the first to obtain a drivers license and the chapter then engaged in twice-monthly road trips. Most trips were to existing chapters in South Philadelphia, Center Philadelphia, Cheltenham, Philadelphia's Great North East and also Warminster. The chapter then started monthly trips to befriend struggling chapters in Atlantic City and Baltimore.

The chapter lasted several more years before the general decline in recruitment occurred. At one point Eta Omega stopped recruiting new pledges, directing prospects to Beta Tau (East Side) and/or Epsilon (East Side and West side).

Today, Eta Omega exists only to the extent its alumni maintain connections and commitments to each other.

Source: www.roomberg.com/base/http://www.roomberg.com/family/093.SAR.v.001.dir/index.html