1972

Since Green Key weekend is coming up, I will pick up on Bill Price's 25-year retrospective in my last column and recall Bill and Jon's Excellent Adventure involving our freshman-year Green Key and parietals. Background info: Bill's roommate JohnGarnett had tripped down to Sweet Briar in Virginia to see Elsa, and my roommate MikeSack traveled to New Brunswick, N J., to see Lynn. My hometown honey, Laurie, was heading up from Long Island with a blind date for Bill. I was in Dick's House with a knee the size of a grapefruit, while Bill was performing the usual freshman Friday afternoon pre-date rituals. When the girls arrived, Bill directed them to Dick's House (nice surprise, huh?). At any rate, calculus being what it was, we had an extra room, so why pay to put them up at a faculty member's house? On her visit Saturday morning, Laurie insisted on the doctor doing anything to spring me. An hour later I left Dick's house with an ankle-to-hip cast. Now, as it turns out, Bill wasn't getting along with his blind date (something about her having too many freckles), so that night's situation found the girls in my room while Bill and I shared his room (it didn't make sense then either). At one in the morning three couples came running into South Fayer followed in distant pursuit by the campus police. Our doors were the two nearest to the entrance. A few knocks on my door with the insistent, "We know that you have girls in there," and, incredibly, the girls answered the door. The police checked under the beds, in the closet, and in the bathroom, but couldn't find boys in the room. Bill was writing in his infamous diary, heard the ruckus, and went to the door. The police wanted to write up both Mike and me for parietal violations (yes, Mike, you came close to a 300-mile parietal violation with Laurie and a girl you have never met), in spite of Bill's story that Mike was in New Jersey and I was asleep across the hall with a cast on my leg. They half bought the story when I woke up and limped to the hallway. My case was supposed to come before the College Committee on Standing and Conduct when the school finally abolished parietals.

In College news, Jesse Spikes was named to the Alumni Council, giving us yet another voice in the wilderness. Here's to keeping up the '72 tradition of healthy dissent and controversy. Speaking of which, Dave Bailey will be making a presentation at the next executive committee meeting on "Alternative Giving Lifestyles I Have Known." Segues neady to Uncle Greg Yadley's recent letter to me, "Congratulations, you have been drafted..."

In a similar vein, Wayne Young has been instrumental in the efforts to build a rugby clubhouse. Word has it that it was to be an arrangement like the crew boathouse; if rugby supporters raised X amount, the College would supply (loan?) the balance. Seems that unlike crew, when the rugby team cleared the hurdle, the College changed the course. Details not available as of yet, more to follow at 11.

Joe Davis celebrated his second anniversary as an entrepreneur and relayed some of the above news. Without Joe, it would have been creative-writing time in New York. My words to you this month: take the tabloid media approach. Don't just report the news, create it.

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