1928

What to do for a suitable item for this, "our Unabashed Nostalgic Issue" of the Mag? Calls to Curly Prosser and others were indicated. As usual, Curly came up with a dilly, or, possibly, a filly. This is the famous (for 15 minutes) horse incident at Reed Hall during our freshman year. It seems that an oddball resident of die dorm, known then as a "wet-smack," decided one snowy night to go skijoring. He made a successful tour of the campus, ending up at Reed. Haze Sturdevant and others had the inspiration to seize the horse and lead him up two flights of stairs to the wet-smack's bedroom. That was the easy part. When the livery stable people came looking for the horse the next morning the horse objected to descending the stairs. By this time a large number of the student body was gathered around Reed Hall and must have been late for their eight o'clock classes. Eventually, after blindfolding, the horse was induced to descend, but only after the dorm room and the stairs had been liberally supplied with what is known in polite circles as horse apples. Curly says about a dozen '28ers were in Reed at the time, but the only survivors he knows of are Bob Reid, Red Pelton, and Al Lerer. No disciplinary action was taken. Wet-smack was thereafter accepted by his peers, and all ended happily. Who else remembers this, or some other incident of note? A flood of letters from you all would be as welcome as a case of beer in the desert.

Other fond memories include JohnnyPhillips punching tickets in freshman commons; Ted Baehr, a dead ringer for Gloria Swanson at Delta Alpha; Jack Rose in the writer's calculus class, filling his exam blue book with cartoons of students wrestling with math problems. The professor was not amused. Incidentally, one of his cartoons for the Jack-O may appear in this issue.

We report with regret the deaths of ShukeShukert on October 7 and Chuck Goodman on October 12.

George A.Bell,3835 N. Tazewell Street, Arlington, VA 22207