Southeastern Massachusetts University - Scrimshaw Yearbook (North Dartmouth, MA)

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just a slab of concrete between two disgusting cities. Bob Parsons Concert Series

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were now getting entrenched over there... you know...ana', uh, we didnt So, since we didn 't go, 1 Said, 'Well tf we can 't go, were going to make this fun, were going to tin what we want,' -it was vacation wcekeand going to have a lot of fun! So I had f..':'Jefret3 rlzat.,.crack...Paul was saying, 'You krttifw. cztzglit to put a sign up on the building sfgftnettting, ' and I said, 'You know, I was thinking about that we ought to put a big sign up theref so Paul says. 'Well why don 't we put up a...well, how big? Maybe get one like five by ten feet or something like that! I said, 'No, we're not thinking of that, 1 says look, there 's a lot of room up there, let 's make it like, Oh, I don't know...fifty by twenty- five feet! And Richard just... 'Fifty by twenty-five feet You're crazy! Fifty by twenty-five-Do you know how big that is? That's as big as a stage! ' I said, 'Yes, Yes! The bigger the better! We 'll cover the whole side of building I said. 'Yes, yes! The bigger the better! We'll cover the whole side of the building!' And of course, I was always great for coming up with ideas like that. You know. Most of the time people go blah-blah-blah. But U' the right people are there, then they 'll go with me. You know? And will go through it- you know what 1 mean? 'cause I won 't...1f there's other people around, that'll go along with it, then I'm not going to back out!I'm all set, to go! y'know!? So Richard said well you can 't make that! So well all right forty by twenty-j7ve feet. So Richard said noooo! Everybody started laughing. Laughing, laughing said'That's just gigantic! ' I said, 'That's right the whole building with lights and everything' So everyone got excited, y'know, yes, yes, so Paul went down and ordered it. We got it back and oh, we put it on the stage and Tom, Tom Higgins was there and we opened it up and it filled the whole stage. The whole stage. It was great. He's...you 'llnever get that up, you'll never get that up, cut it in haljf cut it in half that's the biggest sign in the world you 'll never make it! So anyway, we put the thing down and we started with it. That was the first tarp we ever put up. And uh, it took us a while to paint it, all night long we worked on that thing of course we didn 't know that much about it but we found out how to do it. We gridded it out and...those kind ofpeople were there. You know? Let's figure this out, you know? They were interested, and, you know, it wasn't just a- Aaaah, Richard gridded it ou t, in proportions and we cut out cardboard, and cut letters 3-foot letters and...painted that thing all night long. Then we put it up. So well, let's put it up. 'Cause that's when we were supposed to go as 1 said to Colorado. So we were all upset 'cause we couldn't go so we were going to make the best of this. So we hoisted that thing up from the grid all the way from the stage flaws up tlarouglz the grid up to the...the roof there... and lashed that thing up with steel cable and that was at 6 o'clock in the morning and we were on top of that building and oh, it was cold out- this was in May-it was in May, and uh, the sun was just coming up. Gfz, it was beautiful. Not a cloud in the sky and the sun was just coming up lover! the horizon...We were all on top of that buildingmwe let that sign down little by little...Barbara was there, down the bottom, and...we couldn't wait... We lashed the thing on- there, ran downstairs...I remember saying, 'No one goes out! Everyone waits down that door! No one gets to look first! ' No one could get ahead. I said, 'Everyone' We were going out there together. We didn 't want anyone to get out there first and see it, y'know? We all went down and waited at the door until everyone was down off the roof and everything and we just ran out the campus road there and we just laughed. We were in hysterics. We saw that thing up there and you couldn't imagine. We laughed and we laughed so hard we were crying. We were just so... you can't imagine. We were in tears! We were so happy that thing was up there. It was just beautiful. It was... what an experience at seven o'clock in the morning. We were in tears. We were so happy that we actually did it. You know, 'cause everyone was sayin 'You 'll never do it, you'll never do it...' And, of course that made us... drove us...Richard, of course, when you tell Richard he can 't do something, it pushes him more and more and more...I'll never forget that. We were in tears. We were so happy we were crying. I'll never forget that. Peter Cantone former Managing Editor, TORCH former President, Theatre Company former chef, P.J. Ke1ley's former Business Major, SMU presently attending graduate school, Hotel Management at UMass

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