Thatcher School - El Archivero Yearbook (Ojai, CA)

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38 EL ARCHIVERO CHRISTOPHER RICH WESLEYAN The heaving of my lungs provokes me to ridiculous smilmgf' -Love's Labours Lost 195566: Student Council, Second Soccer Team, Second Baseball Team, Green Gymkhana Team. 195657: Student Council, Second Soccer Team, Second Baseball Team, Green Gymkhana Team, BTS hliddle School Camper, B Camper, Bit and Spur Club. l957 Spur THE WESLYAN SCHOLASTIC WFS- 53: Lower Upper Preiect, First Soccer Team, First Baseball Team. Bi! and lgiphl, B Camper, Thacher Letlcrmeu's .HL 59: Preiccr, First Soccer Team, First Baseball Team, Thacher Lertermen's Club, Bit and Spur Club, Glee Club, B Camper. JOURNAL This date, June 9, 1963, has been one of grave significance and portent to the scholastic history of Weslyan College. Today Dr. Christopher Rich was grad- uated with unpreoedented honors and unanimous acclaim. He received his B.A. in 1961, after two years of graduate work, and was awarded surnma cum laude honors. Plunging doggedly back into the lvy halls, years of brilliant research were culminated yesterday in a Ph.D. in Tickology. First-hand experience for his thesis, on The Sex Life of the Mule Tick,', was obtained by Dr. Rich in the days when he spent many summers packing mules and observing ticks in the High Sierras and many winters of intensive study and informal seminar in other aspects of his subject at the Thacher School in Ojai, California. ln his youth, Dr. Rich was a fiery player of soccer and baseball, and his commanding stature will attest to this even now. Accompanied by his beautiful wife, the new Doctor seemed confused by the fiashbulbs and reporters, but the good wife offered revealing comments about his early life: He was always pop- ular in school and active in student government. The other boys said the 'Crich' was an excellent conversationalist, prone to using vivid descriptive adjectives. He was usually involved with some girl-l had a terrible time with him. Dr. Rich smirked.

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Herr- is a dear and true industrious EL ARCHIVERO 37 RICHARD OLNEY RHODES . STANFORD Dickis many and varied talents are brought to the attention of anyone hap- pening to enter his room while he is sending Morse Code through the wires around his desk, welding a tennis can with the blinding White glare of a carbon arc flick- ering in his goggled face, or photographing a flashlight as it swings on a string from the ceiling. Dickls achievement by no means stops at the scientific level as those who camp or ski with him will quickly confirm. He is also agile in such major sports as varsity tennis, soccer tconsistent curved corner kicks catching the cageb, third-floor baseball, and pluto-platter handling, at which Dick is the un- disputed champion. Though a little quieter than most in a bull session, '4Rhodus usually man- ages to get across what he has to say, often using humorous reproductions of certain classroom monologues. D- yk 1 W v an I I , . sa IL meets any new and chalengmg assignment with his widely known curiosity. Stroking his chin, he mutters, HWell. Hmmmmml Weill have to look into this matterw. With qualities such as these, we wonder how Dick can help hut make college life more interesting for a chosen few. Friend. -King Richard Ill lil!!-Fir: lnlriunnral Suffer, Green Gym lillilllil Team. 1950-57: Fourth Soccer Team, Bit 8: Spur Club, B Camper, Green Gyinkhanzi Tcarvl, lXlz1squers. 1057-38: Third Soccer Tvnrli, But R Spur Club, B Camper. Green Cgyruklxana 'l'c:lm, lXIzisqucrs, Second Tennis 'Ienm l'lZXf5'I: Second Soccer 'l'e:un. Bit 6: Spur Cluli, A Czrnipcr, Green Gyrnkhcinzl Team. Outdoor Omirniitce, Library Contlniltee, Radio C'lnli, Varsity 'l'cnni, Tcztni, lX'lzlsqucrs.

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He reads muchg he is a great oli- EL ARCHIVERO 39 RICHARD FREDERICK SPAULDING U. oi C. at SANTA BARBARA From a small room in one corner of the Upper Dorm a low, stacatto twanging of guitar strings breaks the silence. The musical fervor mounts, then builds up to an intense climax as the player shouts: You ain't nothin, but a houn' dogllv Elvis has spoken. ln this dank chamber resides Spauldo, truly a connoisseur of fine arts. He plays chess and poker with equal shrewdness. Dick can be found daily on the tennis court trying to hit the fuzzy little sphereoid faster than Pancho. This effort usually culminates in destruction of both the net and the unfortunate person on the other side. He spends the rest of his time reading and abstractly discussing politics, philosophy, or philogyny with the other members of the famous smoking circle. Now Dick's favorite subject is honoris history, but we really think he has a higher destiny. He loves Elvis Presley and someday may himself become another strummer. Even if Spauldo doesn't end up singing the more modern rhythms, at least helll be getting a good historical background for older ballads at U.C.S.B. serverf, -Julius Caesar V156-57: l ourlh Soccer Team. -Intramural Soccer, Outside Rcndlng Prize, Ommze Gymklmnzl Team. IVS7-53: Third Soccer Team, Intramural Soc- cer Champions. A Track Team. WFS-59: Glen Club, Octet, Second Socrcr Team. Chess Ladder, Top 'lien NValkim: Klileagc.