College Career
At WVU Jay was also a member of many student organizations, including the Mountaineer Marching Band, Lambda Chi Alpha social fraternity, Kappa Kappa Psi honorary band service fraternity, and Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia men's music social fraternity.
He was initiated into the Omicron Chapter of Kappa Kappa Psi at WVU on December 6, 1965, and is currently an alumni brother of the fraternity. His initiation into the Epsilon Sigma chapter of Phi Mu Alpha took place on March 1, 1965; the fraternity proudly considers him one of their many distinguished alumni.
He and some other young men from the music school, and local bassist Randy De Biase, formed a rock band called the Abductors in which he played trumpet. Like most college bands at the time they mostly played covers of Top-40 songs. With a black lead singer and a strong horn section, the Abductors specialized in the works of such artists as James Brown and Wilson Pickett. While a resident of the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity house, Chattway would spend hours at the piano there working out his arrangements for the group's performances. With such input from him and the other band members, The Abductors became one of the most popular and well-thought of bands playing parties and night clubs in the Morgantown area.
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