California Institute of Technology Cal Tech - Big T Yearbook (Pasadena, CA)

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unveiled a disgustingly cute dormouse. In spite of the idiot senile degenerate middle-aged delinquents who popped the balloons on the courtyard floor, Interhouse was an outstanding success. Freakism was a growing thing. To begin with, Erlich had the old Glee Club piano moved upstairs to his room. Marshal Schor partook of yeast products and was very happy to tune it for him. At last, not a string was in tune, and the freakish sap rose to many heads. Pomeroy re- corded the results for posterity. Next, the nutmeg heads banded together and began selecting candidates for membership in the utopian freak community of West Blacker, which they explained was a state of mind. Sun gave the movement a stab in the back when he moved off campus to live with an undetermined number of fe- male roommates, but put in occasional appearances at the house in the company of L.D.P., the two of them in matching mod outfits. Leiningerls MGA made it from Texas on only fifteen quarts of oil. When Radomski got a 4.1 Hrst term, Haviland and Leinin- ger challenged him to a dating contest in which a date was defined as getting to number Hve on the asymptotic activities series. There being no mention of female', in the definition, Szolovits offered to date Mantarakis, or Mantarakis offered to date Szolovitz for maybe they just gravitated togetherj, for extra competition. The scores stayed pretty even all around until Haviland got the shaft. The situation at County General devolved into hopeless chaos. Ottensmann spent an interesting evening meeting an attractive dish who eventually devulged that she was twenty four and divorced. She got him a blind date with 'cnumber onef' who turned

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BLACKER HOUS Beerbling through rotation to the fourth, the upperclassic individuals of the Church and House of Blacker, ttboai, blacker-listed numbers one through 22, but failed as us- ual to get football players uninclined to evacuate off the sleeping porch nor likely to flunk out: wound up instead with the usual bunch of talented do-everythings. For- tunately, the phenomenal norwegian not-so-troll never rotated, immigrant Moller was keeper of the rotating candlelevered wax gadget, and became house great bumpkin. Inevitably, Batchelder and Asmussen roomed together, and found two more horsemen next door, or the next larger size. It was a wet season in Sherwood Forrest, but Robin Hoodls merry men were whipped into frenzy at the very mention of their leaderas expected coming. Hastening to Bullocks for the nuptials of Ellen O'Dale, but finding a paucity of thirteenth century wedding gowns, the men fell into pitched battle, while the befuddled bride and maid of honor took it on the lam. At the meal, climactic- ally came the dramatic entrance of glorious Robin, who muffed her lines, but charmed everyone and inspired the expected uprising. Rose Queen candidates were signed up as usual. Leader of America Badman let fall derogatory remarks to the ef- fect that Techers don't protest enough. So the men of Blacker, led by Lee Johnson, organized a demonstration to picket Good- boy's appearance in Backman, carrying such slogans as Dis- courage Extra-curricular Involvement. Meanwhile, the social season was off to a great start. Haviland's Betsy was one of the invitees to the blind-dates-with-Rose-Queem candidates party. Monahan, in one of a series of attempts to prove himself Mr, Stud USA, picked up L.D.P. and administered the purity test to her-she scored about 16. There was no Papal expe- dition to visit Aunt Jane, but Mantarakis, Richards, and Kana- mori went and reportedly managed to smuggle back some fire water. The first term beer blast was a notable coming-out party. Burton imbibed copiously. Then, neither in full possession of his faculties nor his pants, he paid a surprise call on Erlich and gave vent to many unmentionable offerings from the sleeping porch. Radom- ski developed a permanent aversion to beer in a quiet moment of reflection over the head. Then it came to pass that every man should build Interhouse. Cooper railroaded an Alice in Wonderland theme through a house vote. The Parker Brothers committee, Jackson and Watrous, Levy and Winbigler, the Apocalypse, and Nemzer and Garet contribut- ed dance floors, mushroom and caterpillar, -Iabberwock controls, nervous rosebush painters, and a Hamingo-studded croquet game, respectively, while Krag helped with everything, and Erickson

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BLACKER HO SENIOR vi ful ilk! FIRST ROW-T. Hendrickson, Y. Liao, J. Williams, A. Peters, J. O'Pray, R. Fajman. SECOND ROW-B. Cooper, R. Miller, J. Soha, G. Bourque, D. Kinkade, J. Foster, D. Erickson, H. McCol1ouch, T. Allen, W. Simpson. OFFICER W-4 FIRST ROW-M. Radomsai, Social Chairman, J. Williams, Librarian, S. Pomoroy, Athletic Manager G. Miyata, Librarian. SECOND ROW-T. Allen, Vice-Presidentg M. Mortel, R.A.3 S. Ma, Athletic Managerg B. Cooper, Presidentg L. Johnson, Treasurer, K. Kamm, Sccretaryg G. Wright, Social Chairmang R, Drews, Social Chairman. 24