1960

Gile memories. To mark the approaching 40t anniversary of taking up residence in 401, I asked some of my fellow pea greens in that hallowed hall what they remembered of the place.

"The one experience I will never for-get," said Allan Glick, "was my very first night in that dorm. I.went to sleep about 10 p.m. My roommates in 411 had not arrived yet. All of a sudden, half an hour later, people were running through, yelling, '60 out!' Crazy guys were running all over the place." What a contrast from the sheltered New Rochelle, N.Y., environment Allan was used to!

But noise was just what Tom Hickey says he liked, and particularly those who made it. He fondly remembers his Gile roommates, Hal Harris and A1Holzscheiter (A1 was later tragically killed in a plane crash on a business trip). And among Tom's good friends were WoodyWoodworth, Dick Prior, and KatmanKatz, who he describes as "one of the funniest, loudest guys I ever knew."

Katman allowed, when reached at home in Sudbury, Mass., that he was not sure this was a compliment. For his part, he remembers most enthusiastically two juniors who lived across the hall who acquainted him with the outside world. "We went on road trips, and they introduced me to, what should I say, the other schools," he recalls. 'They had good contacts at Smith and Holyoke. I met some women."

Ed Berkowitz was impressed at Gile "with the alleged fact" that at the end of the hall from his room, 408, was Nelson Rockefeller's old room, "only slightly more spacious than the cell we occupied." Nelson was in a slightly earlier class, of course, 1930.

Bill Moorman remembers one Sunday afternoon when 27 inches of snow fell. "Guys out on the front lawn were playing football. They'd catch a pass and fall in the snow. I remember jumping out of the third floor of Gile, into the 5n0w...1 enjoyed it there. A lot of good people lived there."

It was the evening bull sessions that Murray Janus particularly liked. 'We were all big shots then," he reflected, "and we all smoked pipes. Talking to people from all over the country was great, and maybe somebody would get a six pack of beer from Tanzi's, or a bottle of apple cider we'd put on the window outside to stay cold."

Murray obviously knows what's good in life—and what's not so good. When our conversation strayed to the Simpson trial and I asked him, as a Richmond, Va., criminal defense lawyer, what he thought of it, his reply was succinct: "The rest of the country, Ken, was laughing at your fair state. This was a circus."

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