Do you remember…
- Ferrante and Teicher as the Homecoming entertainment in Memorial Gym for our Freshman year?
- How helpful Mrs. Mize at The Southerner was to enable us to quench our thirsts on weekends without checking I.D.'s?
- George Hamilton IV being the entertainment on stage in Memorial Gym while we waited for Bobby Kennedy to appear for his Impact speech in 1968?
- “George” the basset hound, who was Vanderbilt's official "mascot" during our Freshman and Sophomore years at Vanderbilt?
- The furor over introducing parietal hours to Vanderbilt dorms on the weekends?
- The Forum talks our Freshman year in Neely Auditorium that featured Gus Hall, the head of the Communist Party in the U.S. and also featured Art Linkletter--though not on the same stage?
- The incredible gastronomical consistency of 'Roast Beef au jus' in Rand Hall, day after day after day after day?
- The controversy over the Hustler's endorsement of Dick Gregory for President in Fall, 1968?
- In the late spring during studying for final exams the smell of the magnolia trees around the statue of Harold Stirling Vanderbilt in front of Buttrick Hall?
- Trying to get the attention of the waitresses at the Toddle House on West End after 1 a.m. on Friday or Saturday nights?
- December 1967 week of basketball games in Memorial Gym when our Commodores defeated U.N.C., Duke and Davidson (all of whom were ranked in the top 5 in the country at the time)?
- When Larry Munson was the voice of our Vanderbilt Commodores during our Freshman year?
- The Impact session in 1968 shortly after the death of Martin Luther King, when we listened to William F. Buckley, Jr. and Julian Bond debate the significance of Martin Luther King on our country?"
- How Chancellor Heard literally put his job on the line to defend the efforts of students to invite speakers such as Stokely Carmichael, Allen Ginsburg, George Wallace, Martin Luther King, and Strom Thurmond to campus?
- The yellow posters plastered around campus our Senior year announcing Jerry Butler's appearance in Memorial Gym with the title 'The Ice Man Cometh'?"
- The clang of the steam radiators in Old Science and Old Central about 10 minutes before class ended?
- The excitement of the newness and height of the Towers when they opened our Sophomore year?
- The crush of couples in front of Branscomb Quad at midnight on Fridays and 1 a.m. on Saturdays?
- The chaos and movement of National Guard troops down Church Street to the Parthenon the day Martin Luther King was assassinated?
- How Mr. and Mrs. Rotier served as the true 'in loco parentis' during our four years at Vanderbilt?
- The meat and two vegetables and the lemon ice box pie at Elliston Place Soda Shop?