Thatcher School - El Archivero Yearbook (Ojai, CA)

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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.

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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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40 EL ARCHIVERO LYNN TOWNSEND WHITE III Forsan gt haec olim meminisse ll1VHb1t. -AEn,eid 195667: Intramural Soccer, Pack and Saddle Club, Orange Gymkhana Team, Tele- scope. l957'S8: Intramural Soccer Champs, Outdoor Committee, Pack and Saddle Club, Glee Club, Math Club, Top Ten Walking Mileage, jack Boyd English Prize. l958-59: Honor Committee, Outdoor Cum- mittee S.B.V.I.S.C. Project. Commit- tee, Lil flrchiwro Uiditor in Chiefj, Notzr Board Radio Club, Ericurean Society, Art Iioard, Masquers, Gee Club QSecretaryJ, Octet, Pack and Saddle Club fsecretary-Trensurerj, First Soccer Team 1ManagerJ, Recess Baseball Champs, Debate Club, Chess Ladder, Los Mexicanos, The year is 1965. As I walk down the street, I see a bevy of young women lavishing attention upon a young man who seems to be enjoying it. Since the man looks slightly familiar, I ask him his name. Lynn White, he replies, now I remember from Thacher days Linius T. Albus! Bewildered, I wonder how on earth Linius could have changed so. I remember that at school he was his class's confirmed bachelor. Why, he didn't even like to talk about girls! I begin to recollect other things about Lynn when I knew him at Thatcher. I remember his smile which always welcomed me into his room. There he would be at his desk with reams of paper scattered over it. More often than not, these papers wouldn't be for any of his classes. They might be drafts of proposed honor code amendments, reports to the SBVISC, plans for a new Pack and Saddle project, or a Notes or an Archivero article that needed editing. Despite all this outside work, however, Linius managed to achieve distinction in two college-level courses. I recall that he was his class's hardest worker. Suddenly I'm called back to the present. Because Lynn seems to be enjoying his newly-found pastime so much, I decide to continue down the street.