Joe Knows
I met Joe Kaplan in 1982. I was rushing ZBT fraternity at UCLA, and Joe was the Rush Chairman. The Rush Chairman was the guy who decided if I got into ZBT or if I became a Kappa Sigma NoZBT4U. Besides marrying Wendy, joining ZBT was the biggest decision of my life. And Joe was part of it. Joe changed my life. I know many of you feel the same. How can one person change so many lives? Joe knows. Until ZBT, I never met anyone like Joe. As Brian Sachs puts it, “Joe was larger than life.” Big guy. Big goals. Big ideas. Big heart. Big F’ing Joe. That’s what the “bros” called him. He was a man amongst boys, and I was lucky to have been one of the boys, one of his bros. And when you’re on Team Joe, you’re a teammate for life. People always say don’t work with your family or friends. Not Joe. His family and friends were his life and his life was his work. Joe knows. My first job in college was delivering pizza