Marden remembers

Freshman year

• Saturday morning house cleaning, which in my case added at least an hour to a long morning that continued with a 3 hour 7:30 chemistry lab. I think that class also had the last final on the last day of finals. Needless to say, I learned to study the course catalog more carefully before my next enrollment.
• Walking to my first class (Chemistry lecture by Bricker) on the 3rd floor of Strong Hall and passing the open doorway of an art class featuring a nude (male) model. Welcome to college!
• N****n duty, including singing “Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime” as part of the upper classman wake-up routine
• Many elevated, enlightening evening r-f sessions with the brothers
• Playing pitch with Schweda and the Duffer as they used their subtle signals to win
• The look of horror on my mother’s face as she inspected our living quarters on the first parents’ weekend
• Occasional escapes to Little Mitch’s house on weekday evenings
• Pledge study hall - the only thing I ever saw accomplished there was the very last night of finals week when one of the brothers burned the wings off the insects we shared the space with
• The extensive Pi Doot archive of top-notch scholarly papers and exams available to young learners
• Me, Heinz, Joe Dennis, and (??) pooling our resources to get Curt a ‘warm sock’ in Topeka
• Country Club week, introductions to the Hawk and the Wheel, and going to the first football game (7-3 over T.C.U.) before classes even started
• Being edged out by Maloney for first semester pledge class gpa honors - how he ever managed to beat a 2.0 I will never know
• Walk-out (deserves a separate post)
• Haase trying to beat down the chapter room door with his head after an evening of dining and martinis with Bober at the Red Velvet? room in the Eldridge Hotel
• Kappa relays (deserves a separate post, but no photos please!)
• A Speech class with Jo Jo White. He was a pretty good guy even though he turned down my offer to represent him as a pro