Memories of the 50's

Memories of the 50's - Photos and Text by Brandon Leroy Rigney, '53

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Bob Smith, Class of '50 (?)	Row houses on Memorial Drive; 314's in the middle; old Grad House on the corner. Note vintage cars on the street.	Rig in front yard, with ersatz still decoration for Outhouse Orgy party	Brother Rice, perhaps unhappy with blind date?

Bottom to top: Swanson at bottom of stairs. Then: unknown, with head turned, Rothen with head bowed, "Mo" Carter, Mike Chivers; Rig at top	Rig in waiter's garb, for annual party at which sophomores traditionally served.	Kenny Childs with date - "Fletch" Cleveland (?)	Larry Buckland and date (future bride?) at the Outhouse Orgy party.

Bob Schwanhauser, '52 and Ed Butler '53, (both seated); Mario Echart, '53 standing; Mike Chivers in right background with ball glove.	Boston skyline from roof of 314, showing the Mass Avenue bridge, and on the horizon, the lonely John Hancock building as the sole high rise in Back Bay.	Larry Buckland and younger sister	Party in Theta Deut annex: Ray Cairns with two women on his left, his arm around one while the second girl's arm is around his leg (asserting territorial rights?); in the foreground, the back of "Mo" Carter's head (being chewed out?), then Bill Rice pinching Joan's chin; Rig on guitar, with his date in the white sweater, Genevieve (Gix) Lavedan (now Ubel), class of '54.

Basement bar at 314. Unknown senior, then Alan Bates behind bar; sophomores Hasbrouck, Hathaway, Erbin, and Schwanhauser as waiters.	Some members of the class of '53: John Henry, Rig with guitar, Bob Almgren on the right, Bob O'Donnell on the floor, Broderick (class of '50) in the white shirt in the middle. Photo taken in the second floor front 4-man room.	Class of '53, same 4-man room: brothers Esch, O'Donnell and Swanson on top bunk; Rig and John Henry on bottom bunk; Bill Rice in shades; then Echart and Butler.	Joan and Bill Rice

Rig, John Bradshaw, and Bob Almgren with their lovely ladies	Carl (Chopper) Liswith in white. Note backs of row houses, with 314 in left background, back of Baker House in right background, and the small Catholic hospital in middle background, staffed by the nuns who lived next door to us.	Another year's Outhouse Orgy front yard decoration

Rig's Notes

Maybe this will stimulate some digging into attic files..... Let us solicit other brothers' archives for additional pix.

Bruce Martin's 1949 group picture made me almost tearful for those great years at TDX & MIT. I remember all sorts of disparate things:

- Bob Schwanhauser running a model ramjet in the parking lot next door to us
- The 10:00 pm HoJo snack run each night
- Selling chits to stock the bar (Mr. Bumble reminded me of this one...)
- Saturday night trips to Wellesley trying to beat the curfew
- Moving the piano from upstairs around the house to the basement
                [EDITOR'S NOTE..... and once going clear across the Harvard Bridge, with Gene Bloch at the keyboard!]
- Sunday a.m. do-it-yourself breakfasts in the kitchen
- Ralph the waiter, and Frances the housemaid
                [EDITOR'S NOTE..... and Charlie and his mmm-mmm good beans!]
- Walking across the Mass Ave bridge to catch the subway at Commonwealth
- Sunday night dinners in Chinatown at Ye Hong Guey's
                 [EDITOR'S NOTE..... Pork Strips with that mustard that made your nose and eyes run, till you learned not to breath in (don't tell the pledges!)]
- Saturday night / Sunday morning (printer's) Mass at midnight downtown on Washington Street
    after the late movies with my Catholic coed friend.....
- Carpooling South with Bob Reichard on Christmas holidays
- Going to Esch's wedding in Birmingham with Bob Reichard