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We the People ...

is the theme you will see recurring throughout Index
76. This is a book about people. And their problems. And
joys. Successes and failures. Their stories reflect their per-
sonal feelings and attitudes about UMass, about them-
selves. They are but a fraction of the innumerable stories
left yet to tell. The individuals in this book are just a
handful of the many unique personalities that make up
this complex and diverse university community.

Regrettably, everyone's story cannot be printed here,
but' if you look carefully . . . maybe you can find some of
your own experiences and feelings, maybe you can find
part of yourself on these pages.

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These pages present a full-color overview of this campus and its
people. Also included are the in-depth personal view-points of
six 1976 gra'duates. The experiences of these individuals are
representative of the unique lifestyles to be found in the Universi-
ty. Their interesting observations and conclusions about UMass
and themselves reflect their past four years here. Check it out in

■•retrospect:

Food is thought

When William McDonald
came to UMass as a freshman,
he would sit in the lobby of Greenough,
play volleyball, eat, and vegetate. Thus,
the spirit of Bill McDonald disap-
peared, and Joe College was born.

A senior from Stoughton, College is
seriously involved in vegetating and eat-
ing, devoting much time and energy to
both.

"Vegetating," he said, "is an ad-
vanced art form. I don't need drugs or
alcohol. I can put my stereo on, sit
down, look at a wall, and be in a com-
plete stupor for hours."

For a change. College sometimes just
lays on his bed and stares at the center
of the huge orange, brown and white
parachute which envelops his room. The
'chute, which, according to College, "is
female in nature" is also "terrible for
acoustics, but great for corners," he
said.

College has resided in Greenough for
four years, has had "six, seven, or eight"
roommates, and enjoys the view from
his fourth floor single except for "the
grotesque north wing of Baker, which is

always in my way."

On eating. College said simply, "I
love it. Eating is gastro-intestinally or-
gasmic. The more I eat, the hungrier I
get."

He said it all started in his freshman
year, when he gained thirty pounds in
two months.

"I would have unlimited seconds six
times a day, then I tapered off to eating
three times my weight daily. I've never
turned down food. I figure I eat enough
to feed 400 people."

He added, "I look at it like this ... if
you can actually say you're full, there is
still room for more food, and by speak-
ing you create even more room."

Concerning academics and school in
general. College said he "mourns the
loss of tolerance. People as students are
less tolerant of others opinions. I think
the Change came in '74. People who do
oddball things are now considered sick
or a waste. If you're not a conformist,
you're in trouble."

He added, "People just decided to be
achievers. Being a vegetable is frowned
upon. All people who were non-

achievers in college a few years ago fit
into society now, except for a few who
still live in Shutesbury.

"I hate academics. I just met my ad-
visor last week and I don't know any
faculty," he said.

"I do think everyone should come to
college for the living experience,
though. My friends at home don't have
any knowledge about anything except
where they live. That's tunnel vision,"
he said.

"When people see me vegetating,
they want me to drag myself up out of
the rut they think I'm in. I'm happy the
way I am. If I want to change, I'll have
no problem doing it," he said.

A Forestry major. College likes to be
outside a lot. He climbs mountains,
hikes, and still plays volleyball.

He feels "aardvarks hold the true se-
cret to happiness," and says he is not an
average person because he's flunked
more courses than most people ever do.

Most significant, however, is the fact
that Joe College postponed his dinner
for this interview,

— P.J. Prokop

"Vegetating is an advanced art form.
I don't need drugs or alcohol."

"Eating is gastro-intestinally orgasmic.
The more I eat, the hungrier, I get."

"People who do oddball things are
now considered sick or a waste. "

Daniel Smith

A part of UMass
instead of just a number

"My commitment to collegiate
sports has brought me closer to feeling
like part of the university instead of just
a number," said Kathy O'Neil a '76
graduate from Northampton majoring
in Physical Education.

Kathy, who has participated in wom-
en's lacrosse and field hockey for three
and four years respectively, feels strong-
ly about being involved in sports be-
cause, as she puts it, "they helped me
make my first adjustment here. UMass
felt more like a small college than a big
university."

"I knew from the beginning I would
major in Physical Education, and that
helps a lot, you really get to know your
professors and talk to them. I really felt
at home," she said.

She feels women's sports have
changed a lot since she first came here.
"The organization has improved and
the competition level has increased. Be-
fore, women's sports attracted some
people who were just into playing be-
cause they enjoyed the sports; it wasn't
as intense."

"Now there is more publicity about
women's sports, more people are getting
into them to really achieve something,"
she added.

O'Neil thinks women's sports are
headed in the same direction as the
men's system, but without the same
money problems — yet.

"For women, there isn't a profession-
al aspect to go into after college. As a
senior, I feel it would be nice to have
something like that to go on to," she
added.

Concerning current problems in the
world of professional and collegiate
sports such as strikes, and contract and
money problems, she said, "they are
really becoming commercialized, which
makes it hard for the players. They're
the ones who lose out in the end because
I think they really want to play. I'd hate
to see women's sports go in that direc-
tion."

She said the prestige of women's
sports at UMass has increased. "We've
really improved our teams and other
teams' impressions of us, especially at
other schools."

"More people are coming to the
games and walking away with a differ-
ent impression of us. Now they say 'that
was good lacrosse or good field hockey.'
It's not just confined to 'that was a good
game — for girls. ' That's one of the best
feelings, to have others realize we are
highly skilled, serious players."

"In leaving UMass, my point of view
has really changed from just a student
to a person who's looking at women's

importance changing — not only in
sports — but in everything. I feel more
confident of what I want. I'm sorry to be
leaving, but I'll be able to set objectives
I couldn't have set before," she said.

O'Neil has done some student teach-
ing in Easthampton and hopes to do
some coaching in the future, although
she has already had some experience in
that area. "Since I've been in the posi-
tion of both player and coach, I think I
know what's important to both, and as
long as I can remember what it feels like
to be on both ends, it'll really be a good
experience."

— P. J. Prokop

Daniel Smith

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The education of Susan Allen

In June of 1972 an 18 year old black
woman named Susan Allen came to
UMass for the first time. Her expecta-
tions for the next four years were sim-
ple. She wanted to meet a few people,
receive a degree in Psychology, and
leave. Her concerns at that time were
mainly with herself, family, and friends.

Today I look back at that woman and
realize how much she has changed. I'm
still a Psych major, I even live in the
same dorm — but now my life's expec-
tations have changed. These past four
years at UMass have made me realize
that, as a Third World woman, my ob-

jectives could not remain simple. Soci-
ety has not allowed the life of a Third
World woman to be an easy one.

As a racism counselor, I have become
aware of the need for white people to
become educated in the history of Third
World people so they will no longer
treat us as second-class citizens. They
must realize that we have cultures that
are important and need to be preserved
as much as any other. It is also impor-
tant that they realize we have the right
to expect and obtain equality and re-
spect.

My experiences as a counselor for the

Collegiate Committee for the Education
of Black Students (CCEBS) have
taught me about the special needs of
some Third World students to obtain
academic help to compensate for their
poor education. There is also a need for
Third World students to become edu-
cated about our history. So many of us
go from day to day thinking only of
ourselves. We must realize that all of
our achievements belong, not only to
ourselves, but to those that enable us to
reach our goals, and those students who
will follow us.

Co-ordinating the Third World
Women's Center has made me realize
the special need the Third World wom-
an has to become aware of herself as a
woman, and her position in the world.
We will someday become wives, moth-
ers, and workers. We need to under-
stand ourselves so we will be able to
educate our children, support our men,
and do a good job at whatever work we
are involved in. Many women complain
about the lack of respect they receive
from men. As members of the Third
World community, we experience a
double lack of respect and opportunity.

In my study of psychology, I have
become aware of the need for more
Third World psychologists to help oth-
ers to gain greater understanding of the
difficulties encountered by Third World
people.

UMass has educated me on an aca-
demic level and a societal level. It has
given me the opportunity to meet a
broad spectrum of people from many
walks of life.

Most of all, UMass has provided me
with the opportunity to get to know my-
self, Susan Allen.

— Susan Allen

10 Retrospect

We regret to inform you..."

When the letter arrived from the uni-
versity I tore it open with a great lump
developing in my throat. The return ad-
dress stated 'Admissions Office.'

"We regret to inform you your ap-
plication has been rejected ..."

Cooly and calmly I lost my mind.
How could they possibly reject me? I
had been assured admittance if my
SAT's were 500 or better. I had made
special arrangements while serving
overseas with the U.S. Air Force to take
the exams and have the results sent to
UMass.

I telephoned the Admissions Office
and when I explained my situation the
person on the phone said, "Under the
circumstances we will consider you en-
rolled for Fall 1972. Send us your copy
of the SAT scores and a check for tu-
ition and fees."

I knew from that day forward, at-
tending UMass was not going to be dull.

But once accepted, enrolled, and in
residence in Amherst, what was it I
wanted to do?

Because I hadn't been in school for
four years I really hit the books as a
freshman. Except for a disastrous math
course the first semester my grades
were satisfactory including a 4.0 second
semester. I knew I was going to do well.

But getting the grades was not
enough. I was restless to get involved
with something more challenging. With
all the posters and notices around im-
ploring me to get involved for one cause
or another I knew I'd find something.

Daniel Smith

One day in Dickinson Hall outside
my History 151 discussion group a sign
on the wall caught my eye. It asked if I
wanted to spend a year off-campus
working in a poor neighborhood as a
counselor, paralegal, or program coor-
dinator? In addition to a monthly sti-
pend I could earn a full 30 credits at the
same time.

Just what I needed. A chance to get
some pre-professional experience doing
something useful and earning credits si-
multaneously.

But, as they say, getting there is half
the fun, or in my case half the misery. In
order to go into the University Year for
Action (UYA) program I had to get a
professor's recommendation, a sponsor
for a 15 credit practicum and be ap-
proved by the Action people in Wash-
ington D.C. Anyone who has ever tried
to get off campus knows what I'm talk-
ing about. After endless door-knocking
and all the perserverance I could muster
eventually I found a sponsor and was on
my way to the South Worcester Neigh-
borhood Center in Worcester, Massa-
chusetts.

At the Center I had the chance to
work with community people and
professionals who had a collective en-
thusiasm that sparked in me an insatia-
ble desire to excel and work hard.
Sixty to seventy hour weeks
were common for me and
many others at the
Center. It

was a very special place for me and
never before or since, with one excep-
tion, have I devoted more time, energy,
and caring to an avocation or a job.
That exception being my work with the
infamous Massachusetts Daily Colle-
gian.

When I returned to UMass I decided
to continue with a newfound interest in
newspaper work which sprang from my
work developing the South Worcester
newsletter. So I volunteered my services
to the Collegian.

When elections rolled around, after
only having contributed as a commenta-
tor and issue editor I was nominated for
and elected News Editor. I suppose it
was more desire than a trough of exper-
ience in news that paved the way for
such a thing to happen.

And then to top it all off, the UYA
people asked me to work as their Project
Manager about 40 hours a week. My
junior year kept me hopping atUYAby
day and the Collegian by night.

The thing that really glued every-
thing together was my entry into BDIC
(Bachelors Degree with Individual Con-
centration). This two year academic
program allowed me to logically inte-
grate the practical and theoretical ex-
perience of field work and classroom
learning. For example, part of my
BDIC special problems course was a
nine credit evaluation research of the
UYA management scheme for interns.
The interrelationship of the classroom
and workday skills was more education-
al than either could have been separate-

ly-

UMass has been personally much
larger than exams, syllabuses, and bor-
ing professors. It wasn't dorm living, the
dining commons and Hatch for me ei-
ther. I got that in the Air Force. Instead
it was a personal challenge to demand of
others and myself the kind of desire,
ambition, and performance that
distinguish us from each
other.

— Richard Wright

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. . . smiled 50 year old Federico R.
Gonzales, who just graduated with a
degree in Sociology.

Fred, as he is known to his friends,
came to school in response to a dare
from his daughter, Louella.

"She had gone to school for two years
but she didn't want to finish," he said.
"I bought her a car, and even opened a
charge account for her, but that didn't
work. Nothing I could say would con-
vince her.

"Then we had a serious talk. She
made me realize I was trying to prevent
precisely what I was guilty of myself —
laziness about going to school. She said
if I wanted her to finish school, I would
have to go, too, to prove I believed in
going to school," he said.

Gonzales, originally from New Mexi-
co, retired from the Air Force in 1969.
"I had always been education oriented.
My family was humble and poor. They
understood the necessity of getting an
education.

"I had gone to school at night and
took courses intermittently during my
career in the service. Don Atencio, from
CCEBS (Committee for the Collegiate
Education of Black Students) told me
they were interested in having Spanish-
speaking students come to the Universi-
ty. I came to a preliminary meeting with
CCEBS and before I knew it, I was pre-
registering for courses right along with
my daughter. We were even enrolling in
some of the same courses," he said.

"I was fortunate my regular job with
the New England Farm Workers Coun-
cil was flexible enough to allow me to go
to school. The director of the agency
was working on his Ph.D. here and he
encouraged me to come here saying my
regular work schedule could be made
flexible enough for me to have morning
classes."

About his experiences as a student,
Gonzales said he thought the students
were a little cold at first. "Then I real-

' ized I was a student too. I really started
participating and then everything went
really well.

"People of my age," he said, "are
more or less forced to act according to
their age in society, but because I was
again placed in a classroom situation, I
was opened up to new ideas; such as.
women's liberation. I enjoyed the inter-
action with young people, and I would
like to encourage others in my age
group to return to school. L thought I
couldn't do it but I found out how wrong
I was. I have also become closer to my
daughter because we have shared exper-
iences.

"For my daughter, it was a tremen-
dous change. She's making plans for
grad school and I'm very happy."

Gonzales said his UMass experience
was a good one. He was able to get
college credit for some of his previous
work and experience, and from June '74
until June '75 was able to work for cred-
it through University Year for Action,
working for his pwn agency (N.E. Farm
Workers Council). "When I first start-
ed coming to the University I felt isolat-
ed from my community, so this helped
me feel more involved," he said.

He also feels strongly about the need
for having more classes taught in Span-
ish and having more courses geared to
the Hispanic student.

In his four years at UMass, Gonzales
said he has never been to Southwest or
the Blue Wall, although he has "heard a
lot about them.

"For me, coming here has had three
major benefits. My daughter finished
school, I got my degree which proved I
could handle the. courses, and I have
been promoted to Deputy Director of
the Farm Workers Council, which
proved it was worth the time and ef-
fort."

There is, however, one small problem

that has come out of this, he said. "Now

with my new job, I have to wear a tie."

— P.J. Prokop

Bob Gamache

14 Retrospect

Behind

the

Blue

Wall

After two years of bartending, bounc-
ing, and "working the floor" at UMass'
most infamous bar (you guessed it),
Robert Keenan still enjoys his work and
feels "the place has fantastic potential."

Keenan, 24, a Hotel, Restaurant, and
Travel Administration major and broth-
er of Kappa Sigma said, "I'm encour-
aged by the people of UMass, it's such a
melting pot — especially the Blue Wall.
Everyone can come here and be com-
fortable.

"I've enjoyed the people I've worked
with. There are no strict guidelines here
concerning who does what, we're all in
it equally and everyone does their
share," he said.

Keenan said he has had a minimal
number of bad experiences working
there. "Being behind the bar I've isolat-
ed myself from controversies, but there
could be potentially explosive situations
with there being so many different types
of people here. Fortunately, though,
things have been relatively calm.

"Ideally, I'd like to see the Blue Wall
student-run. It would be great if it could
be handled properly," he said.

"This past year, for example, I feel
the atmosphere with the administrative
personnel has been impersonal. They

don't make direct contact with the em-
ployees for good or bad reasons."

Keenan said there have been a lot of
problems with T.O.C. cards. "All I
know is that it is a club license. There
should be a better explanation to stu-
dents why it has to be that way. Some
people have a chip on their shoulder
because they can't come in to have a
beer without a card, and I can't blame
them. Sometimes, though, the patience
of the bouncers caught in those situa-
tions is remarkable."

Keenan works 22 hours a week and
has gotten to know a lot of people by
what they drink. "There's a basic core
of regulars who always come in, then
there are the drifters you only see once
in a while. On the other hand, there are
those who won't go near the place.

"For me, it's really good. Since I have
to work somewhere, this is an interest-
ing place to stay, and get paid for it at
the same time," he said.

"The thing that really amazes me is
the amount of money that goes into the

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pinball machines — people just keep
coming up to get change for a dollar."

Although he generally hasn't worked
on "disco nights," Keenan said the one
time he did there was "a good crowd,
but generally I think people would pre-
fer to have the live bands back.

"Basically this is just a student job —
you can't take it home with you, but you
learn a lot. You become tolerant of all
types of people and realize everyone has
their rights. Working at the Blue Wall
has been an education in itself."

— P.J. Prokop

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The Index

Volume 107

University of Massachusetts

Amherst, Massachusetts

Entire contents Copyright ' by Daniel Smith, University of Massachusetts
INDEX. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced
in any form without expressed written permission from the editor.

Up front: eight pages of full color photographs, all about UMass — its
buildings and its people. Also, six '76 grads talk about their lifestyles,
experiences, and, thoughts about the past four years.

A look at the events that made this year a unique one. Major stories of the
year are covered in depth, followed by a representative sampling of
academic programs and extra-curricular organizations that abound here.

What's a yearbook without a senior section? Fifty-four pages
of faces and if yours is in here, you can prove to your parents
that you really did graduate!

Everyone's got to leave the city behind and go "home" at the end of the
day. Dorm, fraternity, sorority, apartment, house — good or bad, it's the
closest you come to home nine months out of the year.

Some of the teams had great seasons, others not-so-great seasons. Some
teams were written about daily in the Collegian, others you rarely heard
about. Inside and outside the Minutemen and Minutewomen.

Four years (four long years) and this is what you get at the
end. Senior Day on Friday. Commencement on Saturday.
Credits, et cetera, and that's all, folks!

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POES

Synergy...

... is the combined and multi-
plied energy created by the fu-
sion of individual input. Quite a
concept for a "campus of over
twenty-two thousand students!
On the following ninety-eight
pages we present a review of the
events of the year, everything
that made '75-'76 such an unfor-
gettable year. Acadivities (aca-
demics and activities) are next,
handily covered by organization
members, writing of their person-
al experiences. The photographs
and stories capture the synergy
— the student" energy — that
made it such a special year.

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One late afternoon, sorfietime in the twenty-first century, the old man slowly
climbed the creaking stairs to his attic. As easy smile came across his face as he
anticipated the memories he would in a few moments unlock. Exploring through a
cetain very old and very dusty trunk, he came upon an old book with a tarnished silver
cover. He opened it, and began to carefully leaf through it. He hadn't seen the old style
black and white pictures for, oh, must be twenty years. Some pages fell out, some
ripped in his hand; he lingered upon the ones that stayed together. The old book did
indeed bring back those memories — some good, some bad. Then, a piece of paper fell
out of the antique book. He unfolded it, and gazed upon the surprisingly modernistic
type...

He laughed at the seemingly insignificant numbers. He could remember back when
the Amherst campus was UMass; now, alas, it was but the smallest of the four
campuses.

He folded the paper, reminding himself to show it to his wife. She'll get a kick out of
it, he thought.

He turned the page, and read on.

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Foul play was suspected in the es-
tablishment of Alpha Delta Tau, a new

'honor society' begun by two UMass
graduates and one undergraduate.
State officials took over university in-
vestigation of the matter in which un-
letters were sent to UMass ju-
niors and seniors with a cu-
mulative average of 3.0 or
better. Students were invit-
ed to join for $20. Dean of
StudentsTWilliam S. Field, issued a
warning urging students not to pay the
fee, after having found the society's
credentials could not be verified. In fur-
ther action, the undergraduate was
found guilty by the Student Senate Ju-
diciary of two code of conduct charges
filed against him by the University for
his involvement in Alpha Delta Tau.

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academic disciplines.

Membership is restricted to the highest ranking collegiate juniors and seniors.

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As a member of Alpha Delta Tau. you are eligible for publication In the official
Alpha Delia Tau ..ewsletfer. The Laureate. We invite you to submit an original article on
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double spaced, on 8 ': x 11 sheets, preferred length is 1000 1o 5000 words. Be sure to en-
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entitled to submit manuscripts at any time-

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enclosed reply card immediately, clearly typing or printing all information- Please spell
your name as you want it to appear on your scroll.

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to Alpha Delta Tau. We arv also requesting that you provide us with additional
biographical data - to be incorporated in press releases to your hometown or regional
newspaper -- on Ihe back of the card.

Again, we congratulate you on your superior performance, and offer you our sin-
cerest wish for continued success.

Over 1500 students arrived on cam-
pus to find they had not one, but two
roommates. The room shortage was
attributed to the new residency policy
approved by UMass trustees in Spring
1975. It stated that all students, with
the exception of seniors, commuters,
and married students are required to
reside on campus. For those students
remaining in triples after 6 weeks, a 30
percent room fee reduction was grant-
ed.

Stuart Eyman

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S.G.A. President John O'Keefe ad-
dressed 600 students at a campus ral-
ly against budget cuts. O'Keefe pre-
sented his tax proposal for the State
saying, "When you can't afford the
price of bread, it's time to eat the
rich." He also suggested that students
should boycott any tuition hike, and
other increased campus fees. Other
speakers at the rally stressed student
unionization and collective bargaining.

Daniel Smith (2)

The money shortage affected students
in a variety of areas on campus. Due to
the hiring freeze, the English department
was forced to take on 25 Rhetoric sec-
tions, the number of Teaching Assistants
were cut back and class sizes were in-
creased, services to students were de-
creased, library equipment could not be
readily repaired, dorm counselors were
no longer given tuition waivers, and sala-
ries were cut back. Also, residential collo-
quiums were forced to decrease enroll-
ment.

Bob Gamache

William Howe

Controversy surrounded 'Quinni-
piac', an 18' high, 15,000 lb., $40,000
sculpture erected in front of the Fine
Arts Center. Robert Murphy was com-
missioned by the Fine Arts Selection
Committee to fabricate the sculpture
to complement the Center. 'Quinni-
piac' was funded by the UMass Alumni,
UMass Student Arts Council, and the
National Endowment for the Arts in
Washington D.C., for the express pur-
pose of adding a permanent art form to
the campus. Within several weeks,
'Quinnipiac' had required repaintings
due to the work of graffiti artists. The
Fine Arts Center was the site of several
other sculptures which were on loan to
the University.

News of the Year 23

The Third World Defense League, a

subgroup of the Afro-Am Society,
formed to protest "harassment of
black people by the police on campus."
This action followed an incident in
which a black woman was allegedly as-
saulted by a group of white men after a
party in Southwest. The Defense
League called for an intensive investi-
gation of the matter. They also planned
ways to organize and to disseminate
information among Third World mem-
bers, via hotlines and workshops.

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Three faculty members and three
graduate students received 1975 Dis-
tinguished Teaching Awards at convo-
cation ceremonies in recognition of
their outstanding teaching abilities.
Awards were presented to: Assistant
Professor of Microbiology Albey M.
Reiner (pictured). Assistant Professor
of Leisure Studies Jeanne E. Sherrow,
Associate Professor of Zoology W. Bri-
an O'Connor, and the following gra-
duate students: Margaret A. Hagen,
teaching assistant in Public Health; El-
liot M. Soloway, teaching associate in
Computer and Information Sciences;
and Shirley Morahan, teaching associ-
ate in the Rhetoric Program. The win-
ners had been selected by a commit-
tee from nominations submitted by
faculty and alumni.

Chancellor Randolph W. Bromery
pushed for 2.5 million dollars to be re-
stored to the 66.4 million dollar bud-
get proposed for the Amherst campus

by the House Ways and Means Com-
mittee. The additional funds would
have prevented large layoffs. President
Robert C. Wood originally requested
118 million dollars for the University
system which he later reduced to 103
million dollars. Governor Michael S. Du-
kakis' figure was 90 million dollars. The
House Ways and Means Committee's
suggestion of 94 million dollars was to
be debated in the House and then go to
the Senate for approval.

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24 News of the Year

« Henry Kissinger • New York City bankruptcy • Ronald Reagan • PLO • Daniel Moynihan

Daniel Smith

Tickets for the Boston Symphony
Orchestra concert were sold out by
10:45 a.m., a little more than two
hours after the box office opened. The
box office had opened at 8:30 a.m. in-
stead of the scheduled 9:00 a.m. due
to the number of people already in line.
Although the concert hall seats 2,000,
only 500 tickets were on sale. The oth-
er 1500 tickets were distributed as fol-

lows: 1000 went to orchestra series
subscribers, 250 were bought by the
Chancellor's office, 150 went to the
Alumni Association, and 100 went to
the press and related people. Alan
Light, manager of the Arts Council, said
a lot of the problems that morning had
to do with the new box office in the
Fine Arts Center which wasn't complet-
ed at the time, and the new ticket sell-

ing system, Ticketron, which didn't al-
low people to choose their seats. Light
said that in the future, people would be
able to choose their seats on a first-
come, first-serve basis, and there
would be mo'e tickets put on sale for
students and the general public. For
details on the debut weekend of the
Fine Arts Center, see page 60.

Stuart Eyman

The Student Legal Services Office

gained the power to represent stu-
dents in criminal matters and to en-
gage students in litigation against the
University. This decision by the Board
of Trustees would be active until the
end of fiscal 1976. Debate on the issue
concentrated on the legality of using
University money in court action
against the University.

News of the Year 25

Jim Paulin

Almost 1500 demonstrators from 22
state colleges gathered on the Boston
Common to hear speeches and de-
mands against budget cuts. Eighty stu-
dents from UMass-Amherst attended.
Protesters remained for two and a half
hours in front of the State House steps.
Speakers called for united action in let-
ting the legislators know that students
wouldn't tolerate more cuts in their
education. John Chase, a representa-
tive of the 5,100 faculty in the state
system, said the faculty pledged their
support against decreasing the budget.
Senate Ways and Means Chairman,
James Kelly, spoke of the tuition in-
crease as a compromise of a difficult
situation.

Mike Bardsley's Union of Student
Employees (USE) petitioned the
Massachusetts State Labor Rela-
tions Board to be recognized as a
legal union. The University had
spent much money against the for-
mation of USE during four separate
hearings before the Labor Board.
The University questioned whether
the law recognized student workers
as public employees. University La-
bor Coordinator Harold Overing said
UMass contested the USE petition
since it dealt only with Campus Cen-
ter workers. They felt that if the
Commission granted the Union bar-

gaining rights, then the Union should
include all student workers. USE
thought of the Campus Center as a
separate unit of interrelated depart-
ments where workers would have
similar grievances. Overing said the
University further contested the in-
clusion of hourly workers, which
throws students and non-students
together in one petition. If the Labor
Board granted USE their petition, an
election would be held in which all
University employees could vote on
which union, if any, they want to re-
present them.

Seventy-seven UMass administra-
tors, among them Chancellor Ran-
dolph W. Bromery, did not receive a
paycheck the week of October 3. The

administrators voluntarily deferred the
money in the administration payroll ac-
count to the payroll account for the
4,000 University employees' pay-
checks. The money was switched back
into the administrators' account at a
later date. The University's inability to
meet its full payroll was caused by the
failure of the Head Controller of the
Secretary of Administration and Fi-
nance to implement a law designed to
give UMass the fiscal autonomy to
transfer money between accounts. In
the future, Bromery said that money
would have to be transferred from ac-
counts which provide money for such
things as supplies in order to meet pay-
rolls.

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Daniel Smith

Wendy Waldman, the 24-year old singer and com-
poser from Los Angeles, entertained 1000 people in
the Student Union Ballroom. Waldman accompa-
nied herself on guitar, piano, and dulcimer. She sang
many songs from her latest album — her third.

Stuart Eyman

The Student Government Associ-
ation (SGA), election resulted in a vic-
tory for co-candidates Ellen Gavin and
Henry Ragin. Gavin and Ragin felt the
victory showed a mandate from the
students to move toward a student
union. Approximately 6,000 students
turned out to vote. This election at this
time was made possible by former SGA
President John O'Keefe's resignation
from office in fulfillment of his cam-
paign platform promise. His stepping
down allowed for the institution of the
new popular election procedure rather
than the traditional electoral vote, and
for holding the first publicly financed
election for the office of SGA President
in the country. The four candidates —
two running jointly — were allotted
$200 each in campaign money by the
SGA and were held accountable for
their expenses. In addition, this was an
election of 127 senatorial candidates
vying for 120 seats.

Five hundred members of the Third
World community rallied to protest
campus-wide racism which they attri-
bute to discriminatory attitudes by
white students. Two incidents which
were felt to be "racist" attacks on
Third World people prompted this call
for unity. They were the attack of a
black woman by five white males in
Southwest, and the confrontation be-
between eleven Third World persons
and Bluewall bouncers. The rally pro-
ceeded from the New Africa House to
Whitmore, and on to the Bluewall
where a number of speakers were
heard. Speakers pointed out areas of
discrimination and stressed the need
for pulling together.

Bob Gamache

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News of the Year 27

University Health Services announced
that there would be a 50 cent co-payment
on each prescription medication dis-
pensed from the pharmacy formulary.
Over the last seven years, the cost of
pharmacy supplies has increased 356
percent and the use of medications has
been high.

Bob Gamache

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The Red Sox's American Pennant victo-
ry and three World Series game wins
prompted shouting, firecrackers, blowing
of car horns, and an increase in beer
sales. This excitement was severely di-
minished when the Cincinnati Reds de-
feated the Sox in the seventh and final
game. More than 2000 students viewed
the Series on the Blue Wall's large
screen, while others watched from their
dorm lounges, apartments, or houses.

Members of the Veteran's Coalition for
Community Affairs (VCCA) protested the

presence of U.S. Marine recruiters on
campus with a list of three demands, a
march, and an overnight sit-in in Memori-
al Hall. The VCCA demands were: removal
of all military presence from the Universi-
ty; publicly stated opposition by the ad-
ministration of military overflights and ad-
ministration initiatives to the state legisla-
ture to cease military overflights; and
public release of federal grants, con-
tracts, and sub-contracts information.
After negotiations, the following agree-
ments were made: the VCCA would be
given one week's advance notice when a
branch of the U.S. armed forces would be
on campus to recruit, and would be given
space adjacent to recruitment rooms for
their use; and the Vice-Chancellor's office
would reveal all contract information
which is required to be public knowledge
under the Freedom of Information Act.
With all demands not fully met, about 50
students, many of them members of
VCCA, chose to peacefully vacate Memo-
rial Hall after Gage asked for and received
a court injunction for the removal of the
demonstrators.

Jimmy Connors • UN equates Zionism and racism • Consumer Price Index « Jimmy Carter » SLA » Spirit of 76

28 News of the Year

The Third World ballots for the Stu-
dent Government Association election
were declared invalid. Two election of-
ficials destroyed the ballots, which re-
sulted in a second Third World Election.
The two individuals involved were pros-
ecuted and found guilty by the Univer-
sity Court. A spokesperson for the
Third World community said the whole
election was typical of racist attitudes
at the University.

In August, 1974, three men entered
and robbed McDonald's restaurant in
Hadley of approximately $1,100. Rob-
ert Earl Brown and Craemen Gathers,

two UMass students, were accused of
the robbery and convicted in 1975.

After the robbery, the police recov-
ered the vehicle matching the descrip-
tion of the getaway car, and inside they
found a shotgun, a brown turtleneck,
and a long green coat, but found no
fingerprints on the car or any of the
other items. The two white witnesses
who said they could offer positive iden-
tification of the three black men were
brought to UMass I.D. center by police
and identified a photo with the name
Robert Brown on the back as being the
picture of one of the assailants. Police
entered Earl Brown's dorm room and
confiscated a green coat and brown
turtleneck, matching the description of
pieces of clothing worn by the robbers.
A short time later. Earl Brown, (above,
left), football player. Student Organiz-
ing Project staff member, and Black
Caucus member, was arrested.

Two weeks after the robbery, Crae-
man Gethers (right) was seen by the
state's only witnesses, Cathy Clark and
Deborah Cook, at a Kentucky Fried
Chicken restaurant on Route nine in
Hadley. He was identified as one of the
robbers, and was arrested.

The first trial, held March 17-21,
1975, was a joint trial which resulted in
a hung jury and mistrial for both Brown
and Gethers. The case was then split,
with both men being convicted by all
white juries in 1975 — Gethers re-

Edward Cohen (2)

ceived an 8-12 year sentence and
Brown received a 3-5 year sentence.

During the course of the trial, the
court discovered that the photo used
to identify Robert Earl Brown was the
image of another person named Rob-
ert Brown who had graduated and
moved to the Boston area several
years before. This fact and the duplica-
tion of clothing were ignored in the
conviction. The witnesses stated that
the man described as Gethers walked
with no limp during the robbery, yet
Gethers was confined to crutches un-
der doctor's orders due to an injury
received before the date of the rob-
bery. He was also seen playing cards in
his UMass dorm at the time of the rob-
bery. When Gethers was seen at the
Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant he
was identified, according to the wit-
nesses' courtroom testimony, because
they recognized his hairstyle and facial
features, despite the fact that he wore
a hat and large sunglasses. During
Brown's second trial, the two wit-
nesses stated that the man later identi-
fied as Earl Brown was clean shaven,
yet people who had seen Brown before
and after the robbery said that he bore
a moustache. In court, a picture was
shown to the witnesses and identified
by them as being a picture of Gethers.
The fact that this was not a photo of
Craemen Gethers at all but the image
of a Springfield reverend was of no con-
sequence.

The supporters of Brown and
Gethers argue that these and other
contradictions were overlooked be-

cause of poor efforts made by former
defense lawyers, and court racism.
One of Earl Brown's former lawyers ad-
mitted in a Valley Advocate article of
November 26, 1975, that he had done
a poor job defending his client.

To support his innocense, Gethers
volunteered to take two lie detector
tests. Both tests gave evidence that
Gethers did not take part in the rob-
bery. A front page article in the Am-
herst Record of Wednesday, April 28,
1976, quoted the polygraph adminis-
trator as saying, "It is my opinion that
he (Gethers) was not involved."

Brown was granted the opportunity
to take part in a release program en-
abling him to leave Hampshire County
Jail during the day to attend classes at
UMass and to work after his present
lawyer argued for a stay of execution of
sentence pending appeal during a Feb-
ruary 1976 hearing. Gethers has al-
ready spent a year in prison, and like
Brown, awaits a new trial and future
acquittal.

During the year, the UMass commu-
nity turned out to support the two stu-
dents. Rallies and demonstrations
were held protesting the continued im-
prisonment and courtroom racism.
The freedom of Gethers and Brown
was incorporated into a series of de-
mands supporting students' rights,
which were presented to President
Robert Wood and the Board of Trust-
ees at the end of the Spring 1976 se-
mester.

— Edward Cohen

• National Gay task Force • Justice Douglas retires • Sonny w/o Cher • 18 million hamburgers • solar energy

News of the Year 29

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The Board of Trustees voted to drop
the $100 room security deposit which
students had been required to pay
since 1970. All deposits paid by stu-
dents presently enrolled at the Am-
herst campus were refunded. The fee
is no longer necessary due to the new
registration procedure begun in the fall

which involves advanced registration
and early billing. If students pay their
semester bills on time, 'rooms will be
secured for them. The chairperson of
the Finance Committee said that in the
future, students may have to pay high:
er rents to offset the loss in revenue
from room deposits. .

Debbie Schafer

After two years as Campus Cen-
ter Director, John Corlter was re-
lieved of his duties by Vice-Chan-
cellor Robert Gage for the reason
Gage explained as "continuing un-
resolved problems." Campus
Center Board of Governors Chair-
person, Mark Bennet, elaborated
on the situation saying, "Corker
hasn't been complying with Board
of Governors' actions." Corker
was reassigned to University
Food Services as a staff adminis-
trator, a position that had been
available for a year. Even though
the new position wouldn't com-
mand the same salary, Corker
would continue to receive
$25,000 per year until his con-
tract expired in September 1976.

Daniel Smith

Stuart Eyman

Political slogans, many in Spanish,
were found spray-painted in red on the
walls of the Fine Arts Center, and nine
other buildings. The slogans included
demands to free "political prisoners."
Ahora, an hispanic organization on
campus, disclaimed responsibility for
the slogans.

breaker one- nine • Lynette Fromme • price controls • Patty Hearst trial • Foolish Pleasure • Third World

30 News of the Year

Governor Michael S. Dukakis signed
a $100 million budget for the Univer-
sity for this year, $3 million less than
President Robert Wood's "bottom
line" figure of $103 million. The effects
of the $3 million difference would not
be known until Wood consulted with
the chancellors of the three UMass
campuses. Wood received full funding
of his office for the first time, meaning
he could no longer reassess the cam-
puses in order to increase his office
funding. The legislature granted Wood
a budget of $1.1 million which repre-
sented a cut of $500,000 from last
year. Wood would have to reduce his
present staff of 47.

Daniel Smith (2)

Student nurses protested the pro-
nouncement that the nursing program
must cut its student body in half by
next semester and not admit sopho-
mores already accepted into the pro-
gram for a year. They marched from
campus into Amherst, staged a 24
hour vigil, and gathered support

among the University community for
their cause. Student nurses demanded
a guaranteed contract from the Uni-
versity which they received after nego-
tiations with the administration. See
page 58 for an in-depth look at the
nursing situation.

Senate Select Committee on Intelligence • Joann Little • Equal Rights Amendment • Tall Ships • Jerry Brovvn •

News of the Year 31

The football team broke their streak
of eight straight victories and their
Yankee Conference lead with a loss to
the University of New Hampshire
Wildcats. The Wildcat victory gave UNH
an 8-1 record and the Yankee Confer-
ence Title. A Minutemen victory over
Boston College would have given
UMass a chance at a bid for the NCAA
Division Two football tournament.
UMass was defeated, however, in their
final game, giving them an 8-2 mark
for the season, their best record in four
years.

Daniel Smith

Jay Saret

The problem of loose bricks on the
28-story library triggered a re-investi-
gation of this potentially hazardous sit-
uation. Many bricks have separated
themselves from the structure and fal-
len since the library's opening two
years ago. The Physical Plant surveyed
the building to detect loose bricks, and
then proceeded to remove the bricks
and fill the spaces with mortar.

The Board of Trustees voted to in-
crease present rates of tuition in

graduated steps beginning next fall. By
1978-79, resident undergraduates are
expected to pay $525 tuition per year,
resident graduates $670 per year, and
non-resident graduates $1550 per
year. Non-resident undergraduates be-
gan paying $1550 per year this Janu-
ary which President Wood said was
"mandated by the state legislature,"
Tuition at the Worcester Medical
School is expected to increase from
$600 to $900 by 1978-79. According
to the Secretary of Education, Paul
Parks, in order to be approved of by
the Dukakis administration, a financial
aid program had to be worked out to
accompany the raises in tuition so that
no one would be denied access to high-
er education.

While the Board was voting, students
rallied against tuition hikes. Students
heard a Student Action Committee
speaker present arguments for a tu-
ition and fee boycott being planned for
fall 1976. Students then decided to try
to enter the Board of Trustees meeting
to which they were denied entrance.
Approximately 200 demonstrators ver-
bally protested and reassembled near-
by to discuss further action. For a re-
view of the University's financial crises,
turn to pages 54-57.

Dr. Kenneth Edelin •

32 News of the Year

Christmas Snowstorm • Fred Lynn • Coors • The Hustle • Scoop Jackson •

Police temporarily suspended Am-
herst Towing from campus after a con-
frontation between an Amherst Towing
driver and a student. The student used
his car to block the way of an Amherst
Towing employee who was trying to
tow a car. That action led to the em-
ployee bumping the student's car with
his truck several times. In addition, the
employee got out of his truck, began
yelling, and then waved an iron bar.
Police sought a complaint and arrest
warrant for attempted assault and bat-
tery on the student driver by the driver
of the truck. The case against the Am-
herst Towing driver was later dropped
following a show-cause hearing. Use of
Amherst Towing was resumed with the
new stipulation that a police officer
must be present whenever a car is
towed. Their contract was renewed
since no other companies bid for the
contract, and because only Amherst
Towing had the equipment and facili-
ties necessary for the operation.

Daniel Smith

Access to wide area telecom-
munications service (WATS) on the

240 phone extensions of the non-
state funded organizations on cam-
pus was terminated because of what
University officials called "abusive
use" of the University's WATS lines,
budget problems, and service diffi-
culties. Robert Moriarty, director of
telecommunications on campus,
said many non-business calls had
been made on all the University's
WATS extension phones. Con-
straints on the current and project-
ed state budget, along with in-
creases in service cost by the New
England Telephone Company were
two additional reasons for the shut-
down. In addition, the heavy usage
of 7,000 to 10,000 attempts per
hour placed a great burden on WATS
lines, and presented problems for
Amherst area phone service. Discus-
sions between UMass officials and
representatives of various non-state
funded organizations resulted in the
reinstatement of WATS lines to
areas of critical needs, and in the
presentation of alternatives to the
present system.

In 1974 an alcohol "task force" was

created in order to find out why stu-
dents drink, and to draw the University
community closer together in talking
about and facing the uses and abuses
of alcohol as a drug. With the aid of a
federal research grant, the task force
was active this year toward achieve-
ment of their goal. The reasons for
drinking were investigated by a re-
search group, workshops were offered
by the peer educators on the staff, lit-
erature and film were presented to
provide exposure to informative mate-
rial on alcohol, and through a flyer to
faculty members, guest lecturing was
offered by the staff. As Dr. David Kraft,
principal psychiatrist and investigator
for the program, said concerning deal-
ing with the problem of alcoholism,
"... the best way is to prevent it from
occurring in the first place."

Jim Webb

bussing • People magazine • Jimmy Hoffa kidnapped • That's the way (uh huh) I like It • Southie • Fonzre

News of the Year 33

A highly contested debate took place
in the Student Senate which succeed-
ed in the restructuring of the senate

committee system. Passed by a nar-
row margin, the bill directed two com-
mittees, Academic Attairs, and Rents
and Fees to become "watchdogs",
overseeing the University on behalf of
the students. The bill was seen by
many student senators as a step to-
ward the gradual dissolvement of the
student senate in favor of a student
union structure. While the remaining
four senate subcommittees' functions
would remain unchanged, the "watch-
dog" committees took on the respon-
sibility of raising important issues.

The new bill also had other ramifica-
tions. It limited the number of senate
committee members to 13. It stipulat-
ed that two-thirds of the committee be
comprised of senate members, and the
remainder. Student Government mem-
bers.

William Howe

Daniel Smithi

A new child-care facility funded by
UlVlass was established in three ren-
ovated North Village apartments. The
two new programs were the Infant
Care Experiential Center, accomodat-
ing toddlers up to three years old, and
the New World Day School for pre-
schoolers. Both programs, originally
organized in the New Africa House,
were temporarily housed in Melville
and Mackimmie while permanent
space was provided. While the Univer-
sity funded the renovations, the cen-
ters' actual operations were covered
by tuition fees paid by the parents,
along with state money which subsi-
dized the staff's salaries.

Student families were given first pri-
ority at the Infant Care Center, New
World Day School, and the North Vil-
lage Children's Center, a previously es-
tablished program. The nature of the
centers' activities and the time in-
volved — a whole or half day — de-
pend on the particular program. Each
program, however, was directed by
professional staff, and aided by work-
study student interns, or parent volun-
teers.

The weather was almost unbearable that day in
February. The freezing temperatures, snow, and
winds produced a chill factor of minus 36 de-
grees, but classes still met.

Fred Harris • skyjackmgs • Michael Dukakis • Six Million Dollar Man • Vietnamese refugees • Morris Udall •

34 News of the Year

The Board of Governors' (BOG) vote
to deal with an outside food manage-
ment agency was the initial move
made toward upgrading the quality of
the Campus Center food services. The
decision to negotiate a contract with
Saga Food Service Corporation, one of
the six agencies that had been under
consideration, was made despite
heavy opposition from the Union of
Student Employees (USE), The prime
complaint of many student employees
involved a fear of increased lay-offs
and work hour cut-backs as a result of
bringing the profit-oriented agency
onto campus. In order to calm the
fears, Ken Dean, acting director of the
Residential Life Office, and BOG mem-
bers delivered a presention to interest-
ed USE members to dispel the lingering
doubts and rumors.

Daniel Smith (2)

Student payment towards unac-
countable dorm damages was calculat-
ed by the Office of Residential Life to
be approximately $4-$5 per student
each year. Last year's total amount ex-
pended towards correcting damages
was $60,000. That amount was un-
evenly distributed among the dorms
ranging from $18 for the 169 residents
of Knowlton, to $4,037 for the 569
John Adams residents. The destruction
caused by the actions of an estimated

five to 10 percent of the student popu-
lation decreased the University's abili-
ty to improve campus living with safe-
ty, security, and renovating features.
An experimental incentive program
was run last year in select Northeast
and Central dormitories which held
residents directly responsible for any
destruction of property. The program
allotted each dorm a certain amount of
money for damages, which was drawn
from the rents of the residents. Any

remaining funds were allocated to
dorm enhancement. Only marginally
successful, the program ran into orga-
nizational difficulties and quickly ex-
hausted accounts.

Vandalism, glass breakage, and ele-
vator destruction constituted the ma-
jor problems. The Physical Plant began
to take preventive measures by replac-
ing broken glass with plexi-glass or oth-
er non-glass products.

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The Symphony of the New World

performed in the Fine Arts Center un-
der the direction of music director and
maestro Everett Lee. It is speculated
that the Symphony got its name from
the work by Cxech composer, Anton

Dvorak, whose intention in writing his
symphony was to reveal to American
composers the melodic wealth that lay
in the native songs of their people. The
Symphony does make good use of
American resources. Black, Oriental,

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Spanish-surnamed, and women musi-
cians form a substantial part of this
orchestra, and a point is made to pro-
gram works of minority composers.
This program featured Jimmy Owens
and his jazz quartet.

Formation of a faculty union

planned for this spring experienced a
setback at the Boston Labor Relations
Hearing. The administration's special
attorney asked for rebuttal time which
extended the hearings. The purpose of
the hearings was for the Boston Labor
Relations Commission to establish unit
determination which would specify
which professionals on campus would
be eligible to join the union. Then, an
election would be held where faculty
would choose to form under either the
Massachusetts Society of Professors
or the American Association of Univer-
sity Professors. The administration's
request for rebuttal time precluded
any possibility of faculty union forma-
tion this spring. Much speculation ex-
isted on why the administration took
that action.

The American Red Cross established a
"fixed donor center" in the University infirma-
ry. The center has regular hours when they
receive donations, answer questions, and
make appointments. Blood from the donor
center is sent to Springfield, where it can be
shipped to anywhere it is needed. Blood dona-
tions from Western Massachusetts will make
possible a total needs program which guaran-
tees blood to any Western Massachusetts resi-
dent who may need it, regardless of where he
is hospitalized.

Daniel Smiti

News of the Year

The State of the Union, which was
planned as an evening of exhibition of
the cultural and educational aspects of
union formation efforts between the
Student Organizing Project (SOP) and
the Student Government Association's
(SGA) co-president's office was dis-
rupted. Approximately 250 students
bearing signs marched into the Stu-
dent Union Ballroom to protest what
they called the exclusiveness of the
Student Unionization caucus within the
SOP, and the caucas' action which
they claimed had been disrupting the

effectiveness of the Undergraduate
Student Senate. As Jon Hite, former
speaker of the senate and one of the
major organizers of the protest, fur-
ther explained, "The senate has a 17
page agenda that is just put off by the
unionization issue at senate meet-
ings," and that many people feel the
co-presidents are not representing stu-
dents, but rather a special interest
group. The protesters presented a list
of six demands. In discussion of the
protesters' complaints, SGA co-presi-
dent Ellen Gavin pointed toward the ac-

complishments of the past two years,
and particularly toward the number of
projects supported by SOP, all of which
indicated greater student voice in cam-
pus matters. In reaction to the protest
in general, Gavin said, "It's easy for
people to come out one time, over one
issue. It's not so easy for them to get
involved in everyday activities con-
cerning unionization." The protest re-
presented the first time students pub-
licly voiced opposition to the actions
employed by SOP in undergraduate
union planning and organizing.

Daniel Smith (2)

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The March 2 Massachusetts presi-
dential primary election drew many
candidates to UMass and the Five-Col-
lege Area throughout the year. For de-
tails, see page 68.

The offices of the Collegian were oc-
cupied one night by approximately 30
people who were protesting the firing
that afternoon of Black Affairs Editor
Rick Scott Gordon and Assistant Black
Affairs Editor Abdul Malik. Gordon and
Malik had been fired by Collegian Man-
aging Editor Charles O'Connor. For a
full account of the takeover, see page
59.

King Faisal • Chaing Kai Shek • General Franco • Haile Selasie • Euell Gibbons • Elijah Mohammed

News of the Year 37

A four-foot-high "semi-permanent"
barrier was constructed around the li-
brary, eight feet from the base, to pro-
tect students from falling bricks and
fragments. The architectural firm who
designed the library, Edward Durell
Stone, Inc., of New York City, was
investigating the problem of falling
bricks. UMass Chief Project Engineer
Edmund J. Ryan speculated that the
problem was due to stress created by
temperature changes, whereby the
building is not able to expand and con-
tract freely.

Daniel Smith

Edward Cohen (2)

The Max Roach ensemble and J.C.
White Singers along with Reconstruc-
tion combined their talents in a benefit
concert for the ABC House of Amherst.

This event was the premiere feature
concert of UMass professor Max
Roach, an accomplished drummer.
J.C. White, Roach's friend and leader
of the nine-member J.C. White Singers,
brought his gospel group to UMass
from New York City specifically for this
benefit concert. The four vocalists of
the young group Reconstruction, pre-
vious singers with the Voices of New
Africa House, along with their own five-
piece combo, presented current clas-
sics and original songs.

Casey Stengel • > pro baseball strike • Ted Kennedy • are you still reading this? • Frazier-Ali • Abe Beame •

38 News of the Year

The Minutemen suffered a major
letdown in dropping both games of the
Eastern College Athletic Conference
(ECAC) playoffs. The basketball team
brought a 21-4 record, a Yankee Con-
ference championship, and an 11
game winning streak to the ECAC.
UMass lost to the University of Con-
necticut in the opening round and then
was defeated by Holy Cross in the con-
solation game. The goal had been to
reach Greensboro, North Carolina, for
the finals of the Eastern Competition.

Bob Gamache

Steve Polansky

Much controversy surrounded the
Valley Health Plan (VHP) scheduled to
go into effect next fall which would
guarantee comprehensive health care
to its subscribers. The VHP, which has
been in the development stages for
seven years, is a private, non-profit or-
ganization incorporated in Massachu-
setts as a Health Maintenance Organi-
zation (HMO) under the 1973 federal
HMO act. Upon approval, the VHP
would contract with the University
Health Services (UHS) and Amherst
Medical Associates, and arrange with
area hospitals, extended care facilities,
and home health care agencies to pro-
vide basic and specialty service to sub-
scribers for a fixed monthly cost. Uni-
versity participants would include fac-
ulty, staff, and their dependents, plus
students' dependents who would be re-
quired to pay an additional fee per se-
mester. Opponents of the plan feared
the UHS would not be able to handle
the possible addition of more than
2,000 patients, and resented their lack
of real decision-making power in the
development process. VHP officials
have assured that the HMO-related pa-
tient increase will be met by additional
hiring of personnel. Endorsement of
this plan was a much-disputed issue in
the undergraduate Student Senate.

The second popular election for Stu-
dent Government Association (SGA)
president resulted in a victory for co-
candidates Paul Cronin and Jay Mar-
tus. Cronin and Martus stressed the
need for the student government to
get back into the student population,
and for an emphasis to be on academ-
ics. The triumverate of Lucia Bruno,
Linda Gates, and Jim Jordan were sec-
ond in number of votes followed by
Warren Gold, and Donald Bishop.
There was a low voting turnout of only
3,232 voters. For an in-depth account
of the SGA election, see page 72.

Montreal Olympics • desegregation • Alexander Solzinytsen • the Waltons • Mayaguez • three ABA teams fold

News of the Year 39

students spent their spring vacations in a

number of different places. Some were fortu-
nate enough to migrate to Florida or Bermuda
to join thousands of others in the enjoyment of
the warm climate.

Members of the Hare Krishna organiza-
tion in the Amherst community were often
seen in the Student Union chanting, termed
a "transcendental sound vibration," and of-
fering their vegetarian food to anyone who
wanted it. The chanting and food were both
a part of the purification of the conscience.

The name of Hare Krishna referred to
their god, Krishna or Krsna. Their traditional
appearance in identical garments and with
shaved heads was for the purpose of provid-
ing a sense of belonging to the organization.

Daniel Smith (3)

Anwar Sadat • Apollo-Soyuz • Luis Tiant

40 News of the Year

Robert Radford

plop plop, fizz fizz • Helsinki summit • Angola

In recognition of International Wom-
en's Day, representatives from various
areas of the women's movement gave
speeches and held cultural workshops
for the campus community. The audi-
ence listened to songs of liberation and
talks on the background of Internation-
al Women's Day, the need for solidar-
ity, the foreign student and sexism,
women in Puerto Rico including the
mass sterilization there, the conditions
of black women on campus, inad-
equate women's health care, rights

for lesbians, and unionization.

The series of seven cultural work-
shops included speeches, discussions,
a sing-a-long, and mural painting. To-
pics covered were institutionalized
male sexism in a workshop designed
specifically for males, sexism within
the health field, the severity of steril-
ization abuse, stereotypes of the Jew-
ish woman, and the need for revolution
within the working class. Ongoing
weekly meetings were set up to contin-
ue the work of fighting sexism.

Steve Polansky

The UMass concrete canoe team brought
three canoes to the Kenduskeag River in Ban-
gor, Maine, to compete with a total of 34 con-
crete canoes from various Civil Engineering
schools in New England and the East Coast.
This was the second time UMass participated
in the race. According to a team representa-
tive, only 17 canoes finished the six-mile,
three-hour race, and UMass' three were
among them. None of the three won the race,
but the team did come away with two awards.
The fifth-place canoe won the Award for Design
and Construction, an honor the team captured
last year, and the canoe which placed 16th
received the Most Dedicated Team Award for
its two-member crew's struggle and determi-
nation to finish the race. Their canoe was com-
pletely destroyed in the run, but the crew fin-
ished the course.

Coach Stephen R. KosakowskI

passed away after having suffered a
spell believed to be caused by an aneu-
rysm. Kosakowski had been bothered
in recent years by blood clots. Kosa-
kowski was a UMass hockey coach for
15 years and tennis coach for the past
30 years. For more information on
Coach Kosakowski's contributions to
the University, see page 266.

Daniel Smith

• energy crisis • Birch Bayh • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest • Concord and Lexington • Hubert Humphrey

News of the Year 41

Daniel Smith

The Naiads gave four perfor-
mances of their show at the
NOPE pool. All of the acts were
choreographed by members of
the Naiads, and demonstrated a
range from the tranquil to the
frenzied, from the serious to the
humorous. The Naiads' art is a
form of expression which uses the
graceful communication of ideas,
feelings, emotions, and exper-
iences by way of aquatic move-
ments.

Pierpont residents proposed for the
third time in three years that their dor-
mitory become student-run, and were
vetoed for the third time by the South-
west administration. The residents
went before the Southwest Assembly
and gained their support but continued
to be told "no" to their plans by Rich-
ard Green, Area Director of Southwest.
To Green's complaint of there being no
mechanism for electing student heads
of residence, Pierpont residents point-
ed to their own detailed mechanism for

election which included their plan for
three people to hold the position.
There would be two student heads of
residence sharing administrative du-
ties and responsibilities, as well as the
student resources and activities role.
The third person would be an exper-
ienced counselor with specific hours,
and would be on 24 hour call. One per-
son would always be available which
could not be said of the present system
with its one head of residence.

the Bump • Lucy Benson • grass legalized? • Johnny Miller • detente • Sargent Shriver • tequila sunrise

42 News of the Year

Daniel Smith

Dissatisfaction with the public higher educa-
tion system led to conflicting theories on how
to achieve a reorganization of the system. Stu-
dents were not satisfied with either of the two
major plans — the Dukakis-Parks Plan, or the
Harrington Plan. Both plans proposed the
scrapping of the present Board of Education
and the replacing of it with a new board which
would have authority for long-range planning.
Governor Michael S. Dukakis' plan involved the
creation of a "board of overseers" for the plan-
ning functon while State Secretary of Educa-
tion Paul Parks would be in control of the bud-
get. Senate President Kevin B. Harrington pro-
posed a single, centralized board, a "super-
board," to plan, and to be responsible for the
budget. The Secretary of Education would
have no role on that board. The students of the
Public Student Coalition were not as con-
cerned over the issue of the role of Paul Parks,
as they were with not having proper student
representation in the reorganization which
greatly affected their lives.

A group of students and other con-
cerned persons came together in sup-
port of Gary M. Tartakov, an Art Histo-
ry professor who was released from
the University staff and denied tenure
in May, 1975. Tartakov began the pro-
cess of appealing the decision through
the Massachusetts Teacher's Associ-
ation this spring, before his contract
ran out in May. Tartakov said he was
appealing the decision made to release
him on legal grounds and has charged
that the provost's office did not follow
University policy in his case. According

to Tartakov, University policy for grant-
ing tenure requires an institutional
need for that professor's field, accept-
able teaching ability, a degree of pro-
fessionalism which is determined by
his peers, and his past service to the
University, including whether or not he
has published. Tartakov was unani-
mously recommended for tenure by
his associates in the Art History de-
partment and by the dean, Jeremiah
M. Allen. According to Tartakov, it is
also University policy that when a high-
er authority overturns a decision by a

lower one, it must "explain at length"
its decision. Tartakov was told by Rob-
ert L. Gluckstern, who was provost
when the decision was made, that poor
student evaluation of his teaching abili-
ty was the reason for his release and
had been given no further explanation.
Tartakov and his supporters asserted
that the reason for the decision was
due to the professor's political views
and past involvement in anti-war
groups.

The legendary 51 year old French
mime. Marcel Marceau, performed
three shows to capacity crowds in the
Fine Arts Center concert hall. Marceau
played over twenty style pantomimes',
and "Bip" pantomimes, which fea-
tured his original character "Bip", a
clown dressed in a striped pullover and
battered beflowered opera hat. Audi-
ences responded with standing ova-
tions and pleas for encores.

Marceau explained in an interview

why he has played so many colleges
and universities. "I love the university
world because young people have illu-
sions and dreams, and dreams come
true. This is the power of youth. But
something happens to them when they
get outside. They stop dreaming. We
need more and more dreamers." When
asked what mime is, Marceau de-
scribed the art as "creating the invisi-
ble visible."

Daniel Smith

Eight hundred students participated
in a demonstration in front of the li-
brary, the location of a Board of Trust-
ees meeting. Students were protesting
the Trustees' voting through of a
planned fund transfer from the Resi-
dence Hall Trust Fund to purchase 8.8
acres of land near Fraternity-Sorority
Park. The Legal Services Office began
working immediately with seven stu-
dents who were acting as plaintiffs to
bring suit against the trustees for their
decision.

During the demonstration, two stu-
dents, (left, with lawyer James Starr)
were arrested by campus police for dis-
turbing the peace, and two campus se-
curity guards were reported injured.
See pages 56-57 for a photo essay on
the protest.

David OIken

A total of $52,577 was pledged as a
result of the Third Annual Student

Phonothon, Director Steven Sadler an-
nounced. That amount was a 31 per-
cent increase over last year's total.
During the nine-week phonothon which
operated from telephones installed in
Memorial Hall, over 500 volunteers

called 26,912 alumni, out of which
9,450 were reached and 3,896 gave
pledges. The money raised will go to-
ward Alumni scholarships for students,
special academic programs, library ac-
quisitions, athletics, and faculty-relat-
ed projects such as "growth grants."

Oil ministers kidnapping • Red Sox win the pennant • Massachusetts Gun Law • right-to-life • Kojak • Al Pacini

44 News of the Year

students and faculty of the
Communications Disorders de-
partment met to discuss a deci-
sion by the department faculty to
refuse to sponsor 35 students in
the Outreach Program for the fall.
Four proposals were presented to
the faculty by the department un-
dergraduates, among them, one
was to assure student input in fac-
ulty decisions. Faculty had failed
to involve students in the decision
on Outreach. According to Facul-
ty Senate Secretary David A.
Booth, faculty does have "prima-
ry responsibility" in academic
matters, and as head of the Com-
munications Disorders depart-
ment, E. Harris Nober, explained,
the department did not have
enough faculty to commit to the
providing of careful supervision of
student interns in Outreach.

Earthfoods, a student-run non-
profit, vegetarian restaurant was es-
tablished on campus in the Colonial
Lounge with a staff of 15-20 work-
ers. The restaurant served one vege-
tarian meal a day which varied on a
daily basis. According to Kristen Mc-
Cormack, an Earthfoods staff mem-
ber, there had been opposition from
Saga Food Company and the admin-
istration was reluctant to its open-
ing.

John Cross and John Adams com-
prised the first UMass debate team

to receive an at-large bid to the Na-
tional Debate Tournament, and the
first team from UMass to compete in
the Nationals three times. In prep-
aration for the Nationals, Cross and
Adams put in three hours a day dur-
ing the week and 10 hours each day
on Saturday and Sunday. The de-
bate topic for this year was "Land
Use". Cross and Adams' case was
the reduction of air pollution.

Stuart Eyman

Sigma Alpha Mu held its fourth
annual Water Dunk to benefit heart
research. For 25 cents, a participant
earned three basketball throws at a
target. A direct hit would douse vol-
unteers with water. A new "victim"
was under the bucket every half
hour. Head Football Coach Dick
MacPherson (pictured at left) was
one of the individuals featured at the
dunk.

All donations were sent to the
Western Massachusetts Chapter of
the American Heart Association to
aid in the research, education, and
community service carried on there.

• Fear of Flyin

Washington Fringe Benefit •

News of the Year 45

A crowd of about 1300 were enter-
tained by the Aztec Two Step band in
the Fine Arts Center concert hall. The
show consisted of some of the group's
new material as well as a number of old
favorites. Aztec Two Step members
Neil Shulman and Rex Fowler re-
marked that they liked performing at
UMass and would love to come back.

This concert marked the first stu-
dent-run event in the concert hall.
Thatcher House sponsored the con-
cert.

Daniel Smith (2)

Much controversy surrounded the
proposed three and one-half mile
Northeast Bypass scheduled to be un-
der construction this summer. The Am-
herst Town Meeting in May could de-
cide the life or death of the project —
for without town approval, it may be
scrapped. The town of Amherst was
asked by a number of concerned indi-
viduals to reconsider their 1973 ap-
proval of the bypass. University plan-
ners called the one-half mile stretch of
North Pleasant Street between the
Fine Arts Center and Graduate Re-

search Building a safety hazard for Uni-
versity students; whereas, some Am-
herst residents viewed the proposed
bypass as the creator of another safety
hazard. The route for the new road
would run between Marks Meadow
School (below) and a number of apart-
ment complexes. Parents of children
who attend Marks Meadow School
were concerned for the more than 160
children who would have to cross the
bypass everyday to go to school. Other
concern stemmed from the disbelief
that the bypass would fulfill one of its

major purposes which is to provide a
faster route for commuters traveling to
the University commuter parking lots
from southeast Amherst. Students
feared that with the North Pleasant
Street stretch closed, and new bus
routes remote from classrooms and
dormitories, rape and crimes at night
would increase due to inadequate light-
ing and security. Sylvan Area Govern-
ment, the Commuter Collective, and
the undergraduate Student Senate
voted to oppose the bypass.

Daniel Smith

Inquiries by a police detective into
the identification of students in photo-
graphs of the Whitmore Administration
Building protest rally led to concern
over possible police undercover sur-
veillance of students. UMass officials
acknowledged that they were conduct-
ing a criminal investigation to identify
persons who allegedly assaulted police
officers at the protest in front of the
library. David L. Johnston, director of
the campus Department of Public Safe-
ty, assured students that no photo-
graphs had been taken prior to the
Whitmore protest rally, and those that
had been taken at the rally were only
to aid police in a criminal investigation.

Andy Bernstein

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The showing of the R-rated movie
Truck Stop Women by Butterfield Arts
Group (BAG) aroused the formation of
the Ad Hoc Committee Against Sexist
Pornography. In reaction to the ap-
proximately 20 people, founders of this
new committee, who picketed the pub-
licity and ticketsales table for the mov-
ie, and later the showing of the movie
itself, members of BAG explained that
"Truck Stop Women" was not a porno-
graphic film, but rather a satire on por-
nography which pointed out the ridicu-
lousness of sex-dominance. BAG was
sponsoring the movie to raise money
to pay off a $600 debt, which if not
erased soon would entail the losing of
their film-making equipment. The pro-
testers believed the movie to be op-
pressive and felt it should not be shown
on campus.

Thrilla in Manila • Portugese dictatorship falls • the uncommited vote • Carter wins nomination • Doonesbury

News of the Year 47

Twenty-one competitors from 14
colleges met at Boyden Gym for the
New England Collegiate Champion-
ship in weight-lifting. UMass won the
team title for the second year in the
existence of the collegiate cup. A num-
ber of the UMass lifters distinguished
themselves. Heavyweight Eric Wise-
man, middleheavyweight John Connol-
ly, lightheavyweight Brian Wiseman,
and middleweight Chuck Stickney all
placed in their competitions. Lifter
Doug Cooney not only won the middle-
heavyweight competition, but also set
two New England collegiate records.
Cooney lifted 280 pounds in the
snatch, and elevated 340 pounds in the
jerk, which brought him one step clos-
er to the Olympics.

Over 500 people attended the Inter-
national Festival organized by the In-
ternational Student Organization, a
Recognized Student Organization open
to both foreign and American students.
The purpose of the fair was to expose
UMass students to foreign cultures,
and to permit foreign students to meet
as a group.

A variety of activities took place in
the Campus Center Auditorium which
was decorated with posters, pictures
and flags from all over the world. Mov-
ies on loan from the embassies of sev-
eral countries were shown. There were
slide-shows of cities and towns around
the globe. Many foreign students dis-
played clothing and handmade articles,
and served food from their native
lands.

Among the events at the fair was the
Five College International Folk Dancing
Club's performance of a variety of in-
ternational dances. Also, music of
many different native origins was fea-
tured, and foreign students spoke
about their home countries. An Inter-
national Disco-Dance concluded the
festival.

Daniel Smith (2)

For the first time since its inception
in 1956, the date of Spring Day was not
kept a secret beforehand. Beta Chi fra-
ternity's early announcement of the
event led to record consumption —
120 kegs of beer, 5,000 hot dogs and
rolls, 200 pounds of peanuts, and over
15 cases of soda. The crowd of over
5,000, rated by Beta Chi member Fitz-
maurice Kelley as the largest ever at
Spring Day, was entertained by Tu-
pelo, Good Thunder, Big Screamin'
McGrew, and Super Sauce, four bands
provided by the Commuter Collective.

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News of the Year

A delegation of students presented
Chancellor Randolph W. Bromery with
5,000 signatures in support of four
demands concerning political repres-
sion on campus, and demanded that
the University act to resolve the issues.
The four demands were that the Uni-
versity intercede on behalf of Craemen

Gethers and Earl Brown, that Gary Tar-
takov be reinstated with tenure as a
member of the art department, that
charges be dropped against the two
students arrested at the library rally,
and that a public explanation be given
concerning the investigation into stu-
dents' records. According to Mike Al-

bert, an economics professor and spo-
kesperson for the group, the negotia-
tions ended with "a feeling of some
accomplishment around the last two
demands" and "a little clarification
and hope around the first two — that
growing pressure could reverse the
wrongs."

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After two years of negotiations be-
tween the UMass Tenants Association

(UMTA) and the administration, an
agreement was reached. The Board of
Trustees would accept cooperative
management of the married student
housing as long as approval was given

by the State Building Authority and a
majority of tenants residing in the
three buildings of married student
housing. The cooperative would take
over management of the almost 400
units for fiscal 1977. Approval was not
granted by a majority of the tenants.

however. Out of 382 occupied apart-
ments, affirmative votes were needed
from 192 of them. There were 146
votes for the co-op, 89 against, and
147 abstentions.

The plan had been that a resident
who chose to be a member of the co-
op would purchase at least one share
of stock, give one hour per month of
his time working for the UMTA, and
have one vote in co-op business. Pat-
rick Walker, spokesperson for the
UMTA, explained the purposes for a co-
op as control of efficiency, ability to
create a feeling of community by work-
ing together, and the educational ex-
perience of integrating theory and
practice. A number of tenants had par-
ticipated in two rent strikes during
those two years of negotiations in or-
der to attain approval of the cooperat-
ive. In reaction to the tenants' vote,
Walker stated that there was more
work to be done. The agreement did
represent the first contract transacted
between students and the Board of
Trustees which laid the groundwork,
both legal and organizational, for other
such contracts.

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wholesale price index

condominiums

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"UMass Habitat I" is the name of the
first house to use both solar and wind
power to generate heat. Built by stu-
dents and faculty, the house was de-
signed to utilize minimal requirements
of energy. The main purpose of the
project was to demonstrate the feasi-
bility of heating a home in the New
England climate without using fossil
fuels. The project has been supervised
through several of the engineering de-

partments, and was initially developed
by William Heronomous, a professor in
the Civil Engineering department.
Funded by a grant from the National
Science Foundation, "Habitat I" has
been scheduled for completion during
late 1976.

Ten solar collectors positioned on
the sides of the house between the
windows would provide half of the
heating system. A not yet completed,

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1600 pound windmill would be utilized
to supply the remaining energy needs.
The two inexhaustible energy systems
have been designed to work simulta-
neously, although each may be operat-
ed at separate times in the house.
Methods for the conservation of heat,
and storage of energy have been in-
cluded in the plans.

Bob Gamache

Phi Sigma Kappa drew crowds to their seven-hour long
Schlitz-a-rama which provided music by Fate, and a con-
stant flow of beer for the participants.

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A crowd which varied from 3,500 to 4,000
were entertained at the Spring Concert for
10 hours by six bands and the Locomotion
Circus. Eastern Mountain Concerts, the RSO
group which sponsored the event, present-
ed Reliable Music, Johanna Wild, The Fabu-
lous Rhinestones, Prism, Elliot Murphy, and
The James Cotton Band, whose appearance
was delayed and almost cancelled. The con-
ditions for the concert were unfavorable —
extremely windy, threatening clouds, and
mud abounded — for the third consecutive
year.

Daniel Smith (5)

The Office of Residential Life (ORL)
withdrew its proposal for junior ex-
emptions from on-campus housing for

the fall semester. Daniel Fitzpatrick, di-
rector of ORL, explained that campus
housing couldn't continue to run at its
present level. The University would
need $3.5 million more just to catch up
on plans for renovations, and mainte-
nance and custodial services. To main-
tain an austerity budget, students
would have to pay one way or another,
either by rent Increases, or service cur-
tailments. Juniors would be needed to
keep the occupancy rate high, there-
fore, providing the University with the
maximum rent money possible for
maintenance and renovation costs.

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Members of the Veterans Coalition for
Community Action {\/CCf^) and members
of Beta Chi veterans fraternity demanded
an explanation of the announced merger
of the Veterans Affairs Office with the
Financial Aid Office, and the dismissal of
Veterans Affairs director Frank Cotter.
Through meetings with Financial Aid di-
rector Richard A. Dent who was the de-
signer of the planned merger, a group of
veterans expressed their disapproval of
the changes. They felt that with this new
reorganization, veterans would be lost in
the shuffle in the Financial Aid Office since
they would not be the primary concern in
that office. Also, veterans felt that with
the dismissal of Cotter, they would lose a
director who knew how to deal effectively
with vets' problems, and had much exper-
tise and connections in veterans' affairs.
In light of the veterans' concerns, the ad-
ministration made "significant conces-
sions," as the VCCA termed it, to the
original proposal. Cotter was reappointed
as co-director of the Veterans Affairs and
would be working with the present Assis-
tant Director of Veterans Affairs Steph-
anie Bourbannais. An advisory committee
composed of a group of veterans would
be set up to serve as consultants in the
distinct Veterans Affairs Office.

The Toward Tomorrow Fair was

the University's celebration of the
Bicentennial. The two-day fair was
held near the campus pond. For a
"look into the future," turn to page
62.

The Board of Trustees voted affir-
matively on a program of financial
need-based tuition waivers to be ad-
ministered by the financial aid office.
Recipients of the tuition waivers
would be students who had not re-
ceived aid before such as middle-
income students and those students
who need financial aid but would not
qualify for federal or state assis-
tance. Waivers would also be used
for those students who would other-
wise be prevented from attending
school because their federal and
state aid would not be enough to
cover their expenses. The program
was developed as part of an ade-
quate financial aid package the
trustees tied to the scheduled tu-
ition increase. The tuition increase
would supply the money needed for
the waivers. Students who already
had received aid would have their
increased need covered by the in-
crease in federal aid.

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52 News of the Year

Gerald Ford • recession

Catfish Hunter • Nelson Rockefeller • International VVoifien's Year •

News of the Year 53

tiiryuf the year:

By the fall '75 semester everyone had heard: the UMass budget would

decrease and tuition would increase.

Even before school started in September, UMass President Robert C.

Wood's requested "dream" figure of $1 18 million had been slashed to $103

million, leaving the university with serious problems.

It was an issue that turned the average, mild-mannered UMass student

into a sign carrying, picketing demonstrator. Students rallied with a

vigor unseen since the sixties.

For some, it was the principle behind state education that

prompted their cause. State supported schools were

supposed to give a valuable education to those who could

not afford the high cost of private education. To them,

the purpose was defeated if the budget was cut and

the tuition raised.

Governor Michael S. Dukakis said he saw the cuts

as one of the few ways to save a financially sinking

state. His popularity with college students was

fading rapidly.
When students returned to school in the fall,
they found that UMass was running on an interim
budget allocated monthly by the state legislature.
There was a freeze on faculty hiring and a mid-
September meeting of the Board of Trustees
revealed that there might not be enough money
to pay the faculty and staff salaries. Additional
money had to be requested from the legislature.
The first rally against the budget cuts, held in
September, had a low turnout compared to
the rallies and demonstrations held in the pre-
vious spring, but student organizers were not
discouraged. They explained that the function of
this rally was to obtain volunteers to help them

further the cause.

UMass students were not alone. A rally in

Boston included all the state and community colleges,

but with UMass being the largest, the attention

focused here.
Despite student protest, early in September the ad-
ministration moved funds from an account partially used for
student work-study to an account used to pay faculty.
The Student Senate voiced disapproval, but to no avail.
Under the laws of fiscal autonomy, the administration was well

within its rights.

Rumors circulated that Wood had made a deal with the legislature

— a raise in student tuition in exchange for an increased budget in

future years. Wood denied the accusations, but SGA co-president

Gavin claimed Wood had already decided on a tuition hike for

the university.
The House Ways and Means Committee recommended a budget

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that fell $2.5 million short of the amount Chancellor Randolph
W. Bromery felt he needed in order to run the school without
layoffs. Bromery said he would fight to restore his budget.

He was among 77 administrators who voluntarily did not take a
paycheck for the week of October third so those funds could
be deferred to an employee checking account.

Student power to influence the state legislature was limited. They were
encouraged by student leaders to write their home-town
representatives and, of course, could withhold a vote from a
representative who did mot view UMass favorably.

In early November, a budget of nearly $100 million was
agreed upon for UMass. From that total, $5.5 million would
go to the new UMass Medical School. Dukakis signed the
budget, although it represented only a five percent cut,
rather than the 10 percent he
had originally called for.

President Wood said UMass would be able to
continue "without serious difficulties," even though the
$100 million was $3 million short of his minimum
request for the university.

With the budget issue behind them, students
turned their attention to the threat of tuition
hikes. A rally and demonstration were held at
the December 4 Board of Trustees meeting, when
they were scheduled to vote on the tuition
increase. Despite shouts and chants of students
on the floors above and below the meeting, the
trustees voted to gradually raise UMass tuition to
$525 by 1978.

When the spring semester rolled around, the
budget and tuition issues had died. Students
saw their power as limited, and the tuition
hikes as inevitabje. There were no further
demonstrations on the matter.

Students turned their attention to internal budgetary
matters, and kept a watchful eye on the way the
university's money was being spent.

At the April 7 Board of Trustees meeting, students
protested the transfer of approximately $364,000 from a
Resident Hall Trust Fund to purchase 8.8 acres of land, but
students failed to get a court injunction to prevent the transfer.

Perhaps the real story behind the facts and figures of the budget crisis
and the tuition hikes lies in the stuggle students had even to make their
voices be heard. The administration, and the people who hold the power in
the university system didn't take the protests seriously. They were oblivious
to the problems the average student has in trying to finance an education.
The students do not have power to control what is theirs. They demonstrat-
ed and protested, but unfortunately no one was listening.

— Benita Pullara

llustrations by Randy Quinn /

One week in April: 1976 brings

On April 7, the UMass Board of Trust-
ees convened on the 26th floor of the
University Library, and voted to trans-
fer $364,000 from the Resident Hall
Trust Fund to purchase 8.8 acres of
land near Fraternity-Sorority Park.
UMass President Robert C. Wood re-
fused to have the location of the meet-
ing changed to the Student Union Ball-

room, thus preventing large numbers
of students from attending the meet-
ing. David L. Johnston, director of
UMass' Department of Public Safety
refused to admit students protesting
the fund transfer into the meeting,
saying he feared for Board members'
safety, and claiming there was insuffi-
cient space in the room for students.

Meanw/hile, 26 stories below the
meeting, 800 students protested the
transferral of funds. Upon hearing of
Johnston's refusal to admit more stu-
dents to the meeting, SGA co-presi-
dents Paul Cronin and Jay Martus, and
Student Senate Speaker Annette Gut-
tenberg left the meeting. Two students
were arrested and two security guards
were injured at the demonstration.

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dent Affairs Robert Gage addressed a
rally of 1,000 students in response to
seven demands brought before the ad-

ministration by students. One of the
demands focused on the fund transfer-
ral voted on the previous week by the
trustees. Gage was sympathetic to the

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and won

The School of Nursing faced a crisis
in November. Dr. Ira Trail, Director of
the Division of Nursing, explained that
the nursing program had enough facul-
ty to teach only one-half of the stu-
dents. She said nursing was especially
hard hit by budget cuts because they
have to offer their students clinical ex-
perience in hospitals, and hospitals re-
quire one faculty member for every
eleven students working there. Over
400 students needed the clinical work,
and there were 20 nursing faculty in
the clinical area. The program had lost
seven faculty last year and was unable
to replace them due to the hiring
freeze. Without this experience offered
to students, the program's accredita-
tion could also be endangered, accord-
ing to Patty Healy, a nursing student.
Trail emphasized the fact that outside
federal funding, which has supplement-
ed the program this year, will not be
available in the future. She said, "We
didn't anticipate the budget freeze. We
have people willing to come but no
money to hire them." According to
Trail, public pressure resulted in more
students being admitted to the pro-
gram this year than in years before

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which has aggravated the situation.

Nursing students organized to pro-
tect their interests. They participated
in a letterwriting campaign to state and
university officials. A student commit-
tee was elected to negotiate with the
nursing school and the UMass adminis-
tration. The students demanded a
guaranteed contract from UMass as-
suring all entering nursing students of a
quality education with adequate clini-
cal experience at no further cost and
within the time designated by present
class status, with a provision that it
jeopardize no other non-nursing stu-
dent, and that the administration ac-
cept responsibility for the quality need-
ed to insure accreditation. The admin-
istration orally agreed to the nursing
students' demands but would not sign
an agreement to that effect. In re-
sponse, having already held a protest

march, nursing students staged a 24-
hour candlelight march and vigil in
front of Whitmore Administration
Building. Following the vigil, student
nurses received a signed statement
from the administration guaranteeing
that all students currently enrolled in
the nursing programs would be able to
complete their courses and clinical
practice, and graduate on time. This
was the first time students had gotten
a written agreement assuring them of
an education.

Later on, Dean of Admissions, Wil-
liam D. Tunis, announced there would
be no new direct admissions to the
nursing program until January of 1977.
The freeze was necessary in order to
assure the current nursing students of
their education as promised in the
agreement.

• — Debbie Spahr

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One of this year's most controversial
campus news stories focused on the
"take-over" of the offices of the Daily
Collegian by 36 members of the Third
World Community.

The event made headlines in the lo-
cal newspapers and was carried in the
Boston Globe as well as receiving tele-
vision coverage.

Herewith are the major facts of the
story as they developed, beginning
with an incident which took place at
the end of the fall '75 semester.

On Sunday, December 14, members
of the Black News Service took Colle-
gian copy as it was en route to the
printer. This was apparently done in
protest over lack of editorial space for
their stories in the next day's edition of
the paper, although the service had
been alloted space, according to a
front page story in the December 15
edition of the Collegian. The cause of
the problem was that the request for
particular space in the paper by the
Black Affairs Editor and two other
members of the Third World could not
be met due to logistics of the layout of
the paper.

Stories, including the ones sched-
uled for publication by Black Affairs,
photographs, and ads were taken and
not returned, forcing the Collegian to
reduce its scheduled 16 page issue to
12.

Due to the problem of providing
guaranteed space in the paper for
Third World coverage to the satisfac-
tion of the Collegian's Black Affairs
staff, negotiations on the matter were
held during intersession. The result
was the creation of Grassroots, a four
page weekly supplement to be carried

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in every Wednesday's Collegian. The
purpose of the supplement was to in-
form and represent the Third World
Community, and to deal with issues
concerning its members.

On the afternoon of Tuesday, Febru-
ary 24. Collegian Managing Editor
Charles O'Connor fired Black Affairs
Editor Rick Scott Gordon and Assistant
Black Affairs Editor Abdul Malik, who
were responsible for the production of
Grassroots. The firing was termed a
"management decision" by the Colle-
gian, while Gordon and Malik charged
that the firing had "racial overtones."

The Collegian Board of Editors con-
vened later that day to vote on wheth-
er or not to uphold O'Connor's deci-
sion but were interrupted shortly after
8 p.m. when 36 Black, Asian, and His-
panic students evicted staffers from
the office in protest of the firings of
Gordon and Malik.

Only Editor-in-Chief William Mills and
three other staff members remained in
the office. The protesters covered the
office windows with old newspapers
and pasted up signs saying the take-
over would last five hours.

A student reporter who witnessed
the incident said staff members were
asked to leave for their personal safe-
ty.

The group left the offices around
midnight, and there were no injuries.

The Collegian was compiled at an-
other location by evicted staff mem-
bers and arrived on campus as sched-
uled the next morning.

The following day, February 25, the
Collegian Board of Editors reconvened
and voted to uphold O'Connor's deci-
sion to fire the editors. Collegian edi-
tors said they were dismissing two peo-
ple, not abolishing their positions, and
a new Black Affairs Editor and assistant
would be appointed. Gordon and Malik
maintained that their dismissal was "il-
legal."

Negotiations involving the Collegian,
Grassroots, and members of the Stu-
dent Senate followed the incident. Vice
Chancellor Robert Gage appointed As-
sociate Dean of Student Affairs O.C.
Bobby Daniels as mediator, according
to Mills.

The outcome of the talks was the
acceptance of the Joint Distribution
Plan, a document drawn up by Mills.
The plan called for Grassroots to be
distributed in the first issue of the Col-
legian every week, until the end of the
semester, at which time there would
be a reassessment of the situation.
Grassroots would also disavow any re-
presentation of the Collegian's point of
view, and the editors of the publication
would be responsible only to the Third
World Community.

In addition, a new Black Affairs Editor
and assistant were appointed to the
Collegian staff to insure daily coverage
of Third World news.

By the end of the semester no per-
manent resolutions had been made
concerning the situation.

— P.J. Prokop

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Eleven years and $16.3 million
later, the Fine Arts Center opened
its doors to an inaugural crowd of
2,000 people — guests, trustees,
faculty. Valley residents, and stu-
dents. Seiji Ozawa conducted the
Boston Symphony Orchestra
(BSO) in the first of two inaugural
performances. Before the con-
cert, the University Brass Choir
and Trumpet Ensemble played in
an outdoor performance before
those assembled at the concert
hall's main doors. The BSO con-
cert consisted of works by Re-
spighi and Mahler. In a brief cere-
mony held after intermission,
president Robert C. Wood con-
ferred the honorary degree of
Doctor of Music onto Ozawa.

Arthur Fielder conducted the
Boston Pops the following even-
ing in the Center's second inaugu-
ral event. The program featured
Walter M. Chestnut, trumpet solo-
ist and associate professor of mu-
sic at UMass.

Over 200 students rallied in
front of the main entrance to the
Fine Arts Center Concert Hall,
holding a "People's Celebration"
of the Center's grand opening on
Friday, October 10.

The rally was sponsored by the
Student Action Committee (SAC)
in protest to the fact that "stu-
dents do not have significant con-
trol over setting priorities for the
use of funds," according to leaf-
lets passed out by the demonstra-
tors.

The rally began at 8 p.m., just
as the performance inside the
Concert Hall was beginning.

There was no violence and the
performance was not interrupted.

An SAC spokesman comment-
ed on the 250 tickets Chancellor
Bromery received for the open-
ing, while many UMass students
were unable to acquire tickets.
"Chancellor Bromery had a
$60,000 budget for the Fine Arts
opening. He received 250 tickets,
which would cost about $1500,
enough to buy three 3-credit
courses in Southwest," the
spokesman said.

News of the Year 61

Possibilities for the future

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Future was the focus — along with a
progressive, positive attitude.

The Toward Tomorrow Fair, a pro-
ject of the UMass Bicentennial Com-
mittee, was a refreshing contrast to
this year's string of historical events
and reflections on our nation's past.

The weekend fair was graced with
pleasant June weather and approxi-
mately 17.000 visitors, who caught a
glimpse of things to come.

A seemingly endless array of ■;alter-
natives" were in evidence — 200 ex-
hibitors, 40 craft booths, and 75 speak-
ers offered insights and different ways
of doing everything from heating
homes and water using solar energy to
cooking hot dogs with it.

Exhibitors demonstrated a "tree
harvester" and explained the advan-
tages of returning to wood for heating,
while and 18-foot-high "windmill"
whirred in the wind as meters regis-
tered the amount of electricity being
generated by it.

Vendors offered a variety of edibles
— tacos and burritos, wine and

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cheese, herb tea, vegetarian sand-
wiches — as well as the usual fare.
Beside the campus pond, there was en-
tertainment in the form of juggling and
folk-singing which added to the easy-
paced, festive atmosphere.

Consumer advocate Ralph Nader
made two speeches on the first day of
the fair to capacity crowds in the Stu-
dent Union Ballroom and the Campus
Center Auditorium. Nader spoke on
"Citizen Involvement in the Future,"
and "U.S. Energy Policies."

His first speech dealt with several to-
pics, including the power held by cor-
porate leaders. He also spoke of the
problems concerning our country's
communications systems saying, "The
airwaves are controlled by large net-
works, corporations. We've lost control
of our communication systems."

He opened his second presentation
saying, "Power determines energy."
Nader went on to say, "Corporations
thrive on inefficiency," and while on
the topic of solar energy added, "The
only way big business is going to accept

solar energy is if they can control the
technology."

The large crowds at his speeches
were receptive and interested, often
interupting him with applause.

"Conservation is one of the lowest
priorities of our energy policy in Wash-
ington, when it should be one of the
highest," he said.

Nader commented on the fair at a
press conference following his second
speech saying, "I think the fair is a
beautiful example of an emerging cul-
ture in this country."

A number of other controversial
speakers also made themselves heard
at the fair. Sam Lovejoy spoke on "The
Policies of Nuclear Power." He was in-
volved in a case of Civil Disobedience in
February of 1974 when he destroyed a
Western Massachusetts Electric Com-
pany weather tower in Montague. He
was later acquitted due to a technical-
ity concerning property ownership.

Gus Hall, Secretary of the Commu-
nist Party of the United States, spoke
as that party's Presidential Candidate.

He said, "Nobody is talking about the
real issues of the country and the
world. I'm here to address the issues."

Florynce Kennedy addressed her au-
dience in the Student Union Ballroom
on subjects ranging from prostitution
to socialism, and also attacked the
high prices of consumer goods. She
feels a move toward Socialism is nec-
essary for people to understand how to
attack and deal with the problems
which affect them.

Joyce Davidson spoke on the "Total
Woman," arousing controversy as she
is an anti-feminist and preaches in fa-
vor of women servicing men, often by
making personal sacrifices.

Overall, the many speakers, exhibits,
films, and demonstrations seemed to
encourage a new attitude among those
that attended. At least enlightened —
if not convinced in the plans for the
future, the visitors may have more in-
sight about the possibilities for the fu-
ture and be able to better realize what
tomorrow may bring.

— P.J. Prokop

News of the Year 63

"I don't pay no attqntion to those
cats in Washington talkin' 'bout the
economy going up or down a notch . . .
but when Henry Ford gets busted for
drunk.driving in a Pinto — things bad!"

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erything in the seventies, in contrast to
the ho of the sixties. The movement
was a new phenomena in the sixties.
But now we must transcend the rage of
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aniel Smith

"The gay question is no different
than the race question; I am seeking a
ruling from the courts to allow^
sexuals in the service." ^^ : ^

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dared his'
legal battle.

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'i am living prooT or wnat can d
done when the people are united, when
they are determined and when they
are resolute in forcing the enemy to
disgorge one of their victims from their

Martin

can militant recently paroiea trom a
supposed frameup conviction.

"I get $78,000 to play a game; it's
ridiculous. It's Abner Doubleday's joke
on society."

"Students have enormous potential
and tremendous resources. There is no
excuse for full-timr " ...-.-

not being involved,!

' cate Ralph Nader.

Consumer advo-

: "A wiser, more disillusioned genera-
tion of public servants is responsible
for the continued leaking of classf"^""
information in Washington." I

'Schorr, suspended CBS fi

"I know what hate can do. I refuse to
hate. I'm never going to stoop low to

:ev. Martin Luther King Sr., father of
the slain civil rights leader.

Daniel Smi

"If you had gone to Mars in 1963 and
just returned, you would swear this is a
different country. The last time we had
a people's election unaffected by bul-
lets, was 1956. And for many of you
here in thi;
whole lifetit

Mark Lane, lawyer, au-
thor, atrd^crusading authority on the
murder of John F. Kennedy..^

TLhe Next President

D.iniol Smith (2)

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Mfiimy Carle

Presldenl

Democratic Presidential candi-
date Jimmy Carter addressed 250.
students in Thompson Hall on Sep-
tember 24, 1975. Carter, former
Governor of Georgia, told his audi-
ence, "I'm sure the Democratic
nominee will be a peanut farmer who
is also a nuclear physicist."

UMass students were urged to be-
come involved and together solve
the problems of the nation by Morris
Udall during his November 17
speech here. The Arizona Represen-
tative told 800 in the S.U.B., "The
future will require imagination. My
record is one of change and imagina-
tion."

Former Oklahoma Senator Fred
Harris brought his "new populism"
campaign before a crowd of 1,200 in
the S.U.B. on December 4. If elect-
ed, the Democrat said he would try
to make the Woody Guthrie song,
"This Land is Your Land, This Land is
My Land," a meaningful reality.

68 News of the Year

The state of Massachusetts fit in as a
key piece ih-th'el976'Presidential puz-"
z|e; although largely ignored, by Repub-
'#ans Fordj,nd Reagan', {\i'&'t ^<!li^Mmi* i.
setts primary served as a battleground
^i^le^r ,ei,ght Democratic candidates.
^^c^'6'i 'primary was the second in the
'' '.ha'tten, held on March 2, the subject of ■
Viati6nwide attention ' and 'candidate
concern: at least four Of the candidates |
saw this state as the place that they ■'
would lay solid claim to the Democratic
Presidential nomination.

UMass was not apart from the Mas-
sachusetts Presidential race. Rather,
WO years of Watergate- had created ^'
new breeet-jpf voter, concerned about
the issues and anxious to hear the can-
didates give their respective stands.
The campus was visited by no less than
five Democratic candidates — Jimmy
Carter, Morris Udall, Fred Harris, Sar-
gent Shriver, and Birch Bayh all came
to UMass to woo the 20,000 odd votes
that live at UMass for nine TfioTifhs^df

the year. ;, , -'■^■'"'■.■'i*

The clear favofftesoJ,. students" v5'l
the populist Fred Harris, who received
up to sixty percent of the student vote.
It was not enough fo,t Harris, and his
disappointed supporters. Harris fin-
ished a distant and dismal fifth in Mas-
sachusetts.

The winner of the Massachusetts pri-
mary was Senator Henry "Scoop"
Jackson, who celebrated his victory m,
.Boslon with a wH#-p-arty and a claim to
a "broad new constituency" of north-
ern industrial states. The claim turned
out td be premature and somewhat
presumptuous — Jackson was outc^
the race by the first week in May.'
-'The most surprising showing of all
was that of Alabama Governor George
Wallace, who campaigned hard in what
fc was decidedly foreign turf. His rallies
^often required him to make two or
three speeches and people in North-
ampton arid Chicopee waited for up to
an hour to hearJA/allace give his unique

Debbie Schafer

of the United States

speil. Wallace hoped to win
afy, and finished a strong
third, as his oncef'die-hard supporters
crossed over to candidates like Jimmy
Carter and Henry Jackson

Carter appeared in Massai§JS^iS^l$:
fresh from his upstart victory in
Hampshire. He claimed Massachusetts
^_was-not high on his~prJprity list, and
that attitude was reflected in his show-
ing. This was the first state to break his
winning streak as he finished in fourth
place.

The proverbial second place finisher,

Worris Udall, lived up to his reputation

-Massachusetts. He was the clear fa-

-■••-:■ vorite of the liberal wing of the Demo-

tr'gtic Party in this state, which, for

- better or worse, was clearly not the

*" btfonghold it once was. The only state

that supported George McGovern

could do no better than offer the liberal

Udall some 20 percent of the vote.

Indiana Senator Birch Bayh came
here with the hope of launching his
own ' R?,<^.i<}ent+aU-ife^»|^agon. Early
ol}s had' srtSw^''Jji4t3^to be strong
among Democrats lookir^'for"^
dential candidate. The combination of
a late start and poor campaign devas-
tated Bayh — he could only manage
^^ight per^Bt.&f-th«-:S«^t^^^ that was
H|pie- beginning , of the endmTnis Presi-
r^ dential hopes.

Sargent SHriver also had hoped to
capture the hearts and votes of the
citizens of Massachusetts. He stressed
his conneGtkJrt with the Kerm^dy family
and impressed a lot of people with an
aggressive one to one campaign. It was
not enough. Shriver finished at the bot-
tom of the pack, his only consolation
being that he tied Bayh's percentage.
So, if jiQthing else,,,Massachusetts
served as a "thinning oul" ground for
'^ the crowded Democratic field. After
>>,.»tJiif!,dust cleared, only Jackson, Carter,
and Udall were considered to be seri-
ous candidates^ ^^
(continued on next page)

In his fourth bid for the Presiden-
cy, Alabama Governor George Wal-
lace drew a crowd of 2,000 in North-
ampton on February 25. He disput-
ed the notion that he is an extremist
in the Democratic party and said,
"All the Democratic candidates are
saying in '76 what I said in '68."

News of the Year 69

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President Gerald Ford garnered an
easy Republican victory in the Massachu-
setts primary over contender Ronald
Reagan. Although rumors cir-culated on
campus that Ford was planning to speak
at UMass; the visit never materialized. He
was described as being "pleased by the
outcome" in the primary here.

''Jay Saret

W^Ui-Y

For th'eJraJ|t,p.'art, UMass students
expressed an interest in the. campaign
but mainly stayed away from the polis
on election day. Due in part to apathy,
and the fact that many students are
registered at home and not in Amherst,
the powerful student vote that five can-
didates tried to win at UMass never
materialized.

There was a considerable a.rrioynt of
political activity, however. E^ch of the-
five candidates that visited the campus
also had a UMass or five college organi-
zation which tried to drum up support
from a sometimes disinterested elec-
torate.

The only rumblings from the Republi-
can race, which was won -easily by
President Ford, directly involved
UMass. Three days before the primary,
rumor abounded that the President

:r|¥<3jjld visit UMass for a speec h. The .^

campus was in fact visited by Secret ^
Service men, who checked out security f
details and met with UMass officials. It
was decided, though, that the Presi- *
dent would not come to UMass. Thei-.*^—
Secret Service said that Curry Hicks
Cage, the only suitable place for the
President to speak, was a security risk.
In addition. Ford was not mounting an
active campaign in Massachusetts and
would be likely to meet a hostile atmo-
sphere if he spoke at UMass.

Birch Bayh's December 12 ap-
pearance at UMass was heralded
by a capacity crowd in Bowker
Auditorium, where the Indiana
Senator said, "I want to get Gerry
Ford retired and I want to put a
Democrat in there."

Daniel Smith (3)

70 News of the Year

Perhaps more interesting to people
^^han- thexandidates themselves was
iKhe media that surrounded them

came from far and near, the heavy hit-
ters and the locals, all trying to cover
the campaign from a new angle. Walter
Cronkite, Barbara Walters, and David
■ '■ ' D riTTkleyan spent a week covering the
Massachusetts campaign, and these
people, who have become much more
than reporters in our electronic age,
were hounded by autograph seekers
mGre4h.an_the candidates themselves.
It was not an unusual sighrt^^'seHijeo-
ple pointing at the TV stars, remarking
how "different they look" with wide-
eyed admiration.

Regardless of the outcome of this
Presiderttia^ election, Massachusetts
played a part in the process." The state
has been wracked by a divisive bussing
r-ogram in Boston, hit hard by taxes,
cluttered witfl industry . In 1976, the
voters of this state proved themselves
once again to be the most astute of all
^^yxtefs, certainly the most political, and
probably the most responsible. Massa-
chusetts did not vote for the winner
among the Democrats, at leastjn the
order of finish, but they did prove
themselves to be sophisticated voters
— somewhat hard to please — but
clearly worth the effort that all involved

'^^ '"■ ™ ~— Paul Bradley

Presidential hopeful R. Sargent
Shriver spoke to 400 in the S.U.B. a
week before the March 2 Massachu-
setts primary. The former director
of the Peace Corps and VISTA ap-
pealed to students to get involved in
the election process saying the na-
tion's decisions "are up to you."

Daniel Smith

Former California Governor Ron-
ald Reagan, Ford's only declared op-
position for the Republican nomina-
tion, said he "does not have a nar-
row ideological base" of supporters.
His losses in the early primaries
seemed to prove to the contrary.

yw.

News of the Year 71

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Bob Gamache

UMass held its first popular election

In the first campus-wide popular
election for the office of Student Gov-
ernment Association (SGA) president,
co-candidates Ellen Gavin and Henry
Ragin emerged victorious over con-
tenders Kenneth Somers and Craig
Ghidotti.

It was estimated that approximately
6,000 students participated in the Oc-
tober 8 election, with the commuter
vote deciding the outcome of the close
race between Gavin-Ragin and Somers.
Somers did not ask for a recount.

The newly elected co-presidents in-
terpreted their win as a "mandate for
student unionization," which was a ma-
jor issue in their campaign.

Ragin, who had made two previous
unsuccessful bids for the presidency
said on election night, "We won't be
spending all our time in the Student
Union building, but instead we'll be
where it's at."

Gavin, who would act as the student
trustee to the UMass Board of Trust-
ees said, "This victory wasn't just ours,
there were many people's ideas and
energies that went into this cam-
paign."

Somers ran his campaign on the
platform of "improving the excellence
of education at UMass," and said if
elected he would try to make students
realize it is time for them to take an
"active role in the rights and responsi-
bilities of their education."

Ghidotti stressed that his goal was to
achieve a "truly united student govern-
ment" and said he would work toward
the "formation of one strong student
body."

Election of the SGA president is nor-
mally held in the spring, however this

72 Student Government Association

was a special case as John O'Keefe,
who was elected in the spring of '75
planned to resign, thus making the Oc-
tober election necessary. Previously,
SGA presidents were elected by elec-
toral votes in the Student Senate, rath-
er than popular vote.

Candidates were provided with $200
each from a $1500 budget, and were
to spend that money for flyers and ad-
vertising for their individual campaigns.
They were not allowed to spend more
than the $200 they were allocated, and
could not accept money from any oth-
er source to spend on their campaigns.

All did not go smoothly in the first
popular election, however, as two stu-
dents were accused of destroying the
Third World ballot box in the New Africa
House, thus the election results were
devoid of Third World input. Due to the
ballot box destruction, a re-run of the
election was held on October 20, at
which time those votes were tallied
into the results.

The students accused of the destruc-
tion — Steven Falvi and Daniel Cappe-
lucci — were found guilty by the Stu-
dent Judiciary on November 13 on
three counts and one count respective-
ly of violating the Student Code of Con-
duct.

Bob Gamache (2)

Presidential contenders Ken Somers,
Craig Ghidotti, and Ellen Gavin/Henry
Ragin declared their platforms in an open
debate a week before the October 8 elec-
tion. Only 65 students turned out to hear
the candidates speak on the issues.

Daniel Smith

Over 6,000 UMass students came
out to vote in the first popular election
for SGA president. Gavin-Ragin took
over half the vote at 3,145, followed by
Somers with 2,489 and Ghidotti plac-
ing third with 550 votes. These were
the first figures released and Third
World votes were not tallied due to th
ballot box destruction.

Cronin-Martus (below) won the sec-
ond election in March with 1,765
votes, Bruno-Gates-Jordan placed sec-
ond at 1,088, followed by Gold with
209, and Bishop trailing with 87.

. . . and its second

Paul Cronin and Jay Martus won a
decisive victory in the second popular
election for SGA president on March 9.
The voter turnout for the second elec-
tion was roughly half that of the first,
bringing a comment from Cronin on
the situation, "I'm a little sad at the low
turnout. We want now to regenerate
interest in SGA. We want to get it back
together again."

Cronin-Martus led the field of oppo-
nents with the team of Lucia Bruno,
Linda Gates, and Jim Jordon second in
vote-getting. They were followed by
Warren Gold, third, and Donald Bishop
who trailed in the race.

Cronin-Martus said they were not in
resistance to the union drive, but want-
ed to concentrate on the academic
counsels.

Steve Polansky

Gavin expressed concern as to how
the newly elected co-presidents would
handle the issue of student unioniza-
tion, and questioned whether or not
they would support the continuance of
the Student Organizing Project (SOP),
while John Fisher, project coordinator
of the SOP congratulated the winners
on a well-run election, and said he was
looking forward to working with them
on unionization.

Jordan, of the Bruno-Gates-Jordan
candidacy commented on the election
results, saying he felt the election was
"made a shambles in the media." Jor-
dan also said the issue of unionization
was clouded and "the voters weren't
clear on who the union candidate
was."

— P.J. Prokop

Student Government Association 73

a<llUia^ill&

When it all started, I had at least a
little enthusiasm in becoming a sena-
tor. As time passed, my degree of en-
thusiasm decreased. An important rea-
son for this was the slow, deliberate,
parliamentary procedure which the
senate uses to structure its meetings.
Hours of debate are wasted in repeat-
ing issues which have already been
brought up, and in bringing up issues
which have nothing to do with the topic
of debate. The senate doesn't use its
committees as effectively as it should.
There are four standing committees on
the senate; Budgets, Rents and Fees,
Finance, and Governmental Affairs.
Each of these committees deals with
issues concerning its particular func-
tion. There have been many instances
when the senate has overturned a rec-
ommendation of a committee. Is this
the democratic process at work? If
committees don't have power, why
have committees?

These are not the main reasons for
the decline of interest which I noticed
pervades the senate in the course of a
year. After I realized that students
have no real power on this campus,
and the frustration which accompanies
that realization, I found it very difficult

74 Student Senate

i^m€%njl| iJniDjUitjl

to keep my interest level high. Motions
are brought to the senate, discussed
for hours and voted on, yet the entire
proceedings prove meaningless be-
cause after the motion is voted on, it
remains stagnant. In my opinion, the
administration regards motions passed
as 'recommendations' when they
agree with them, and as 'valuable stu-
dent input' when they disagree. The
truth is students have no input in the
decision-making of this university. As
long as students are not decision-mak-
ers, in this sense, the senate will re-
main frustrating to its members. I think
an effective student union would give
us the power we should have. The way
to make a union effective is to get in-
volved and to make the need for a
union known to each student, on and
off campus. Only in this way will we
gain what is rightfully ours, direct stu-
dent input into university policy mat-
ters. There is one aspect of the senate
feel is significant in that it kept me in-
volved for a long time. This is the ex-
perience the senate gave me. Exper-
ience in working along along with other
people was a beneficial part of the sen-
ate. It also provided good insight as to
how the administration functions, and
to how it sometimes doesn't.

I think, for the most part, that the
senate is successful in its attempt to
assume the role of liaison between the
student body and the administration.
One can't deny the fact that every stu-
dent here is affected by workings of the
Student Government Association.

— Peter Coyne

Student Senate 75

BDIC and me

I have always felt that learning
should be an organizing and rationaliz-
ing exercise, something that is flexible
in approach and multidisciplinary in
content in order to allow the curricu-
lum to grow with the individual and
his/her personal goals. The Bachelor's
Degree with Individual Concentration
(BDIC) program has permitted me to
maintain this stance by affording me
the opportunity to develop an indepen-
dent major with an area of concentra-
tion in "Social Biology".

Formerly a biology student, I be-
came progressively dissatisfied with
the narrow way science students are
taught to think. They are trained in an
orthodox manner, focusing primarily
on the facts of science without being
prompted to consider its social context

and human value implications. This "dis-
ciplined", single subject approach to
education, I feel, should be replaced by
a program that integrates the natural,
social and behavioral sciences in order
to evaluate realistically the kaleido-
scope environment of issues resulting
from the impact of accelerating tech-
nologies, the rapid acquisition and
spread of knowledge, and the rise and
complexity of organzational stuctures.
Within this spectrum, "Social Biology"
is the "humanistic" approach to inter-
relating and studying the ethical, politi-
cal, and scientific ramifications and re-
sponsibilities of advancing biological
technologies, health care, and modern
medicine.

A program in "Social Biology" has
provided me with adequate intellectual
and moral foundations to deal with
such timely issues as genetic screening
and technology, human experimenta-
tion, behavior modification, health
care delivery, population control, and
environmental ethics, so that I may as-
sess these problems and begin thinking
about what kinds of policies could be
implemented to direct these "bioethi-
cal" issues in a socially beneficial di-
rection.

The fully integrated curriculum that
has allowed me to attack these prob-

Robert Gamache
lems has included formal and indepen-
dent classwork in the natural sciences,
legal studies, philosophy, political sci-
ence, psychology, religion, and sociolo-
gy. I have tried to apply my ideas to the
Five Colleges by attempting to develop
a Five College Program in Bioethics as
a senior thesis. Though the task in de-
signing a cooperative program has
been difficult, even frustrating (in fact, I
do not expect a full scale program to
be incorporated), I have felt great sat-
isfaction in enlightening many people
to think about the issues of "Social Bi-
ology". For instance, the success of
the two-day Legal Studies Symposium
on law, science, and ethics, and the
three-day Northeast Undergraduate
Conference on Bioethics, two pro-
grams which I developed as aspects of
my thesis had a profound impact on
many students, professionals, and lay-
persons.

These programs and my own exper-
iences as a BDIC student demonstrates
the importance of "Social Biology" as
a contemporary concern of today's so-
ciety, and stresses its importance as a
legitimate multidisciplinary academic
subject.

BDIC worked for me.

— Ira "Skip" Singer

76 Bachelor's Degree with Individual Concentration

On ilie r oatf to fintf out

It all started in first grade, when I was
pulled off the stage by my spinsterly
teacher for pantomiming a global
shape every time we sang the verse in
"He's Got the Whole World in His
Hands". We had been told to keep our
hands by our sides, but it was impossi-
ble for me to obey — there was a feel-
ing inside of me that I had to express.
At home I would recreate animated
characters from cartoons, and choreo-
graph scenes in an unconsciously pre-
cise fashion, directing my childhood
friends in their parts.

As the years went on, my interests in
pantomime and performance in-
creased. Growing up in a small New
England farming community left a lot
to be desired in the way of cultural
arts, but I perservered. At nine I per-
formed Chuck Berry's hit "No Particu-
lar Place to Go" at the town's talent
show, which descriptive lyrics and
"rock and roll" sound shook the
townspeople. When I was twelve, I tried
again to win my audience and show my
flare as I wrote a script of "The Smoth-
ers Brothers", adopting the character
of Tommy, and coerced the boy down
the road to play Dick. But again my
tastes were too racy for the town, as
my attempts proved futile since no one
understood the jokes.

Later that year my father died,
which was reflected in my poor grades;
I spent my time in my own fantasy
world, writing countless numbers of

pages in script form about supernatu-
ral characters. But again no teacher
appreciated my interests.

My mother died when I was fourteen,
completely changing my lifestyle.
Since I didn't see eye-to eye with my
strait-laced relatives, I left for school
one morning with my guitar case
packed with clothes, and never re-
turned.

After that I lived in a series of foster
homes, finally running away success-
fully, and at fifteen was faring for my-
self. I wrote a fairy tale book, and pre-

Robert Gamache

sented it to Donovan at a concert when
I was sixteen. I was invited to visit his
castle in Ireland for the New Year holi-
days, which resulted in the motiviation
for me to compose my own songs.

Finally realizing my interests in per-
forming, I went to Hollywood where I
apprenticed in a professional theater
house. The concensus of the actors,
though, was that I was a mime, not an
actor. So I went to Paris to study
mime. I found the classical structured
mime too rigid for my own self-styled

movements, so I began performing
pantomimes on the streets of Copen-
hagen and Amsterdam. Returning to
America, I took the job as a pantomime
instructor in a private co-operative
school for children ages three to
twelve. It was at this time that I be-
came acquainted with the University
Without Walls (UWW) program.
Wanting the opportunity to study, but
coming from such an unusual educa-
tional background, an "ordinary" col-
lege program wouldn't have fit my
needs. Although I hadn't had a book-
learning high school experience, I had
learned about the world by traveling
between Europe and America, which
UWW deemed to be valid learning pro-
cess. I was accepted into the program
with the interest of combining panto-
mime and physical therapy for chil-
dren. But my objectives have changed
greatly since then; I am now gearing
myself in the direction of performing
and composing my own play material
on today's social and personal state-
ments, in musical revue and vaudville
form.

Some of the projects that I have
completed since I've been in UWW are
a film which I produced, directed, com-
posed the soundtrack for and acted in.
It was a short pantomime film about a
slap-stick street dancer from the roar-
ing Twenties. I also wrote and directed
a musical revue called "From Street-
dancing Tramps to Snazzy Razz-Ma-
Tazzed Jazz", which included original
material performed by myself and the
cast.

I am now in the process of writing a
musical about a musician who com-
poses on the piano by ear, but no one
else sees or hears the artist's visuals. I
plan to use mime and an orchestra to
reveal the artist's visuals to the audi-
ence. The musical will contain different
instruments and styles of music of the
world woven together. All of this has
been backed my UWW, which has sup-
ported my individuality and connected
me with the resources that allow my

creativity to flow.

— Jason Harvey

University Without Walls 77

PuKhing in the

I am a senior and have been a coun-
selor for the Committee for the Colle-
giate Education of Black Students
(CCEBS) for about two years. A CCEBS
counselor/organizer relays informa-
tion to and from CCEBS students in the
dorms and acts as a referral for any
problems a CCEBS student may have.
During that time I have also been a
painting major at UMass. In the sum-
mer of 1975 I was involved in a pro-
gram directed by Professor Nelson
Stevens, called "Summer Arts 75".
The first six weeks of this program was
funded by CCEBS. Eight Black students
from UMass and Nelson Stevens paint-
ed murals on the walls of the Black
Community in Springfield. The murals
were a positive and relevant statement
to the community and beautified the
walls of the city. The program received
much recognition for CCEBS and
UMass and its concern about the world
outside of the Amherst campus. It was
one of the most unforgettable exper-
iences in my college career. It was a
combination of CCEBS supporting the
minority student, the community, and
the arts.

Another nontraditional asset of
CCEBS, that has in the last two years
become traditional, is the CCEBS Fam-
ily Day. The first Family Day was in the
spring of 1975 and the second one was

right direntinn

this past May. This day, now held annu-
ally by CCEBS, expresses the impor-
tance of parents involvement and
knowledge of their children's surround-
ings at UMass as an integral part of the
students performance and motivation
at the university. Before Family Day, I
was involved in going to some student
organizations and area governments
for money to help defray the costs of
the event. I found that even when a
program involves something as impor-
tant as parents visiting this university
for one day, I encountered many racist
attitudes towards donating money to a
minority organization. But Family Day
was successful even without their do-
nations, because on the whole, some
student organizations helped make
Family Day success.

CCEBS has a lot to offer. This is not
always realized by CCEBS students. It
helps many students monetarily, it has
tutorial services, career counseling,
academic counseling, and related ser-
vices. If CCEBS does not have what you
need, they can refer you to someone
who does. Many students complain
about CCEBS and how they continually
push for academic excellence, or they

push too hard when such programs as
Mandatory Study Halls (another non-
traditional asset) are implemented. Or
perhaps they feel a student should not
have to maintain a certain cum to re-
main in the CCEBS program. Whatever
anyone else may feel on the matter, as
a CCEBS student, I am glad that
CCEBS is at least pushing in the right
direction, the direction of knowledge,
learning, and excellence. All of this is
important for a minority student to ac-
complish anything in an intelligent
manner. We need knowledge for ca-
reers as well as revolution, and if some-
one doesn't like what is being taught
— at least try to sift out the truth. That
is why CCEBS gave out academic
awards this year, to stress the impor-
tance of why we exist. I don't agree
with all the methods of CCEBS myself,
but I didn't keep complaining and ig-
noring all that they had to offer. I came
here for a reason, to learn and to get
my degree. I've done what I could in
the CCEBS program, and I hope it pays
off for my tomorrow.

— Pam Friday

Bob Gamache

78 Committee for the Collegiate Education of Black Students

Enumerar mis experiencias como parte in-
tegrante del Program Bilingue Colegial me
llevaria dias sin poder terminar. Trabajando
con el Programa como parte del personal
administrativo me ha proporcionado con los
momentos mas gratos de mis actividades
como estudiante subgraduado aqui en
UMass.

Un problema complejo "parece ser" el
Jdioma. Los estudiantes hispanos entienden
perfectamente el ingles y el espaTTol, pero a
veces nos confundimos en cursos donde sa-
bemos los conceptos pero los nombres son
completamente diferentes. Toma por
ejempi quimica. Un estudiante hispano que
ha tornado quimica en esparTol cuando
el/ella toma un curso en quimica aqui en la
universidad ellos entieden perfectamente,
pero al tomar un examen y se encuentran
con conceptos y nombres de elementos,
etc., no saben que hacer. Cuando uno sabe
los conceptos v,elementos en espa'nol en un
curso como quimica; tiende ser bastante di-
ficil saberlos "supuestamente" en ingles.

Esto es uno de los rnensajes mas primor-
diales que nos gustaria que el sistema uni-
versitario pudiera entender. Puedo recordar
varios incidentes en donde estudiantes de
nuestro programa han tratado de hacer
claro este problema como los barreras que
hay entre los idiomas. Puedo mencionan un
estudiante que fue a pedir una baja en qui-
mica como up ejempio claro. Este estu-
diante intento explicarle a uno de los de-
canos que su problema no era el idioma, que
era los conceptos del^curso. Los decanos
insistieron que el TENIA que tener un prob-
lema con el idioma porque para ellos era
impossible comprender que no pudiera ex-
plicar los conceptos en ingles. El dilema to-
davia esta en la etapa de resolverse.

Por el problema arriba mencionado y mu-
chos mis, un grupo pequeno^e estudiantes
y una organizaci&n latino qui en la universi-
dad (AHORA) decidieron crear el Programa
Bilingue Colegial. El programa se ha expan-
dido en proporciones enormes. Tenemos
casi un total de 300 estudiantes, y nuestro
personal pequeTTo han hecho casi milagros
para estar al tanto y resolver nuestros prob-
lemas que varian en lo academico hasta lo
personal.

Como parte de neustro deber como estu-
diantes del Programa haremos todo lo posi-
ble por apoyarlo, para que asi pueda seguir
su funci(^n de servir en la mejor manera po-
sible la comunidad hispana de Western Mas-
sachusetts.

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IB

To number my experiences as an integral
part of the Bilingual Collegiate Program
would be an endless task. Working with the
program as part of the administrative staff
has provided me with the most rewarding
moments of my activities as an undergrad-
uate student here at UMass.

Language is the major problem. Bilingual
students understand perfectly both Spanish
and English, but sometimes we get quite
confused in courses where we know the con-
cepts but the names are completely differ-
ent. Take for example. Chemistry. A Bilin-
gual student who has taken Chemistry in
Spanish and then takes a Chemistry course
here at the University may understand it
perfectly well, but when they have to take an
exam and find themselves with concepts
and names of elements, they usually freak
out! I would tool!! When you know the con-
cepts and elements in Spanish in a course
like chemistry, it tends to be quite difficult to
"supposedly" know them in English.

This is one of the major messages we
would like to get across to the university
system. I can recall a few instances when
students from the Program have gone to
make this point clear to the deans. The
deans usually tend to mistake the problem
with a language barrier. I can recall one stu-
dent who went to ask for a "drop" in Chem-
istry. He sat down and explained to the dean
in this major college that his problem was
not in the language but in the concepts of
the course. The deans kept on insisting he
must have a language problem because it
was impossible for this person to explain the
concepts in English. This dilemma kept on
for weeks.

Because of this problem and many more,
a group of Spanish speaking students and a
Latin organization here at UMass (AHORA)
decided to create the Bilingual Collegiate
Program. The program has expanded enor-
mously. We now have close to 300 students,
and our small staff has almost done miracles
to cope and solve our major problems here
at the university, which range from aca-
demic problems to personal ones.

Due to our personal commitment as Bilin-
gual Collegiate students, we do our best to
support the program, so it can continue
serving in the best possible way the Spanish
community of Western Massachusetts.

Karen Qulnones

Bilingual Collegiate Program 79

It's never too late

You say your life is chaos? You just
can't get it together?

Well, there's an organization on cam-
pus that has been helping older stu-
dents (25-70 years old) to do just that,
and it's named, quite appropriately,
C.A.O.S. (ka-as), which stands for
Counseling Assistance for Older Stu-
dents.

Dave Baillie, the director of C.A.O.S.,

a lot of adjustments.

He found other older students who
were in the same position. Together,
they formed a task force, out of which
C.A.O.S. was born to serve the 10,000
students on the campus who are over
25.

says it all started when he first came to
UMass in the summer of 1974, as a 37
year old transfer student from Holyoke
Community College.

"I felt I just wasn't blending in," he
says.

Baillie had been the owner and man-
ager of a small newspaper franchise in
Springfield, before beginning his col-
lege career. He says he enjoyed the
business, but realizing it was a dead
end, started attending night school
with the intention of getting a degree
and someday a job with mobility.

Today he's a senior majoring in psy-
chology, hoping to do his graduate
work in the field of Educational Coun-
seling.

He says the decision to go back to
school and sacrifice his income had to
be worked out with his family. And with
six children, ranging in age from 12
years to two months, that meant quite

Pat Ruddy, at age 50, attacks his
schoolwork with a vigor and enthusi-
asm that would amaze most younger
students.

After graduating from Stockbridge in
May 1975, he decided to go on to the
four year program in hotel and restau-
rant administration. There was only
one catch: when his course registra-
tion arrived, two days before school,
he found he hadn't been scheduled for
two of his required courses. Agair
C.A.O.S. came to the rescue.

Ruddy says he heard about C.A.O.S.
through the Veteran's Office, as he
himself is a veteran — of 23 years in
the Navy.

Ruddy worked aboard ships as a
Chief Steward, ordering and preparing
food, a job which he liked. One day he
was told his next assignment was to be
in Washington, where he'd have to
sleep in a tent. Ruddy felt that after 23
years he deserved more than a tent, so
he left the Navy.

Settling in Westport, Mass., he got a
job as an ironworker, which ended ab-
ruptly after he fell 20 feet from an iron

beam and slipped a few discs in his
spine.

It was then that he decided to go to
college. He says it hasn't been easy.

About being an older student he
says:

"I feel ashamed, being so much
older than the other students."

He tells of an incident where a girl in
line with him at the dining commons
asked him what right he had to be eat-
ing there. It had never crossed her
mind he might be a student too.

Bob Gamache (3)

Dee Drake, who at 38 is old enough
to have a child of her own in college, is
a freshman majoring in pre-law.

It took her two years to actually de-
cide to come back to school, after be-
ing out of high school for 20 years. She
says she had been interested in law
during high school, but being a woman,
she didn't get much encouragement.

She came to C.A.O.S. early in the
year with a personal problem, and
says, "C.A.O.S. handled it so smoothly,
the pressure was completely taken off
in a couple of weeks."

Drake, who says she might have quit
school if not for the counseling she re-
ceived, declares in a voice filled with
intensity, "C.A.O.S. was there when I
needed them. How many more people
could be helped by them? It encom-
passes more people than know about
it."

— Sue Blethen

80 Counseling Assistance for Older Students

It's probably not unusual for most
Umies to pull an all-nighter once in a
while, but for most members of the
UMass Debate Union, all-nighters seem
to be a way of life.

Housed in venerable old South Col-
lege, the Union has a history nearly as
long as the University itself. Mass Ag-
gie's first intercollegiate debate was
against Bates College of Lewiston,
Maine. A reception was given after the
debate at which, according to the Col-
lege Signal, "... music by the Orches-
tra was dispensed." Bates won despite
our serenade, but in another debate
that year with Rhode Island, Massa-
chusetts Aggie debators were the vic-
tors. The coach of the Union in these
early days was the mayor of the city of
Northampton, later to become the
thirtieth President of the United

Daniel Smith

States, Calvin Coolidge.

Since those early years, the Debate
Union has grown in size and stature to
a point today where it is recognized as
one of the top squads on the Eastern
Seaboard. Under the direction of Pro-
fessor Ronald Matlon, UMass has quali-
fied teams for the National Debate
Tournament for the past three years in
a row.

Debate is really something more
than semi-organized argument and
free-for-all. To the members of the
team, debate can mean traveling for
what seems like days in a hard seated
van to sunny Wake Forest, North Caro-
lina or to snowy Buffalo or Chicago. It
means sleeping on the floor so the
coach can have the only couch in the
"splendid" sleeping accomadations
the host team has provided. It means

eating at McDonald's for so long that
even the Dining Commons can look like
a gourmet feast.

But debate is also chugging that vic-
tory beer after kicking the butt of the
top team in the country and winning
the tournament. It's the research skills
you've gained so you can write that ten
page paper in just two or three days.
It's also the feeling you get when you
know you've put out one hundred per-
cent and had the best debate of your
life.

Debate is hard work, frustration, ex-
hilaration, despair, and a lot of satisfac-
tion and fun. And it's open to any stu-
dent at UMass. If you don't know how
to debate and want to learn, we can
teach you. We're an activity with a pur-
pose!

— Nicki Burnett

All-

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Debate Team 81

The qualify of

Michael was being pretty difficult. We
spent the day at a museum, looking at
dinosaurs, monkeys, rock cases, and
other things that Michael had probably
never seen before. Ending up in the
planetarium was not the best place to
finish the day, because it requires that
you sit quietly for at least an hour. Sur-
prisingly, Michael paid attention to the
narrator for about a half hour. I say
surprisingly because I was dozing off
myself. A few minutes later, Michael
began kicking me, making loud noises
and laughing, and after a while I started
laughing too. I thought it might be a
good idea to get us out of there, so I
took his hand and we moved to the
door. It was locked! Impatiently, we
spent the rest of the lecture in the back
of the planetarium.

Looking back to this incident, it is
hard for me to describe my exact feel-
ings, but I was extremely glad we had
gotten the chance to laugh about
something together. This had never
happened before. It may have been
that after a year and a half of knowing
Michael, we had finally gotten down to
something.

Until very recently, Michael lived at
Belchertown State School. Like many
people who first volunteer at Belcher-
town, I expected to teach a cute little
boy how to read and do arithmetic.
With Michael I had a cute little boy.
Instead of arithmetic we spent a lot of
time coloring, playing with blocks, and
drawing lines. Michael was probably
more bored than I was. The problem
was that all of our activities took place
in his building or outside on the
grounds.

The first time I met Michael, I was
with the Belchertown Volunteers. A
group of us went into the Children's
Unit and later we each ended up with a
child to take for a walk. The first thing I
tried to do with Michael was go down a

slide. No matter how many times I
would show him how much fun it was
he would not climb up. This really
amazed me. I naturally assumed he
would love to play on the slide as I used
to when I was younger. The only expla-
nations I have for this are that he was
trying to get me angry or he was just
sick of sliding and he wanted no part of
it.

One Saturday our group went to the
circus at UMass. I did not get to see
any of the circus. Michael was in his
element that day, running around the
seats, eating popcorn and candy, and
checking out the bathroom. He was
really restless, and I, being a good
brother-friend or whatever I was decid-
ed to take him outside and talk to him
about the dangers of not behaving in
public places. We had a very nice talk
with my telling Michael I did not want
to see anymore jumping around, and
his nodding agreement.

Michael was sick once for two
months, which meant we had to stay
inside the building. Michael's sickness
and my lack of imagination usually left
us furious with each other after a short
time. I hated to leave when he was
angry so 1 usually stayed on the ward

for awhile getting to know some other
children. Sometimes Michael would
come over to talk to me again and ev-
erything would be all right. Other times
he would ignore me until I went to him
to say goodbye.

In the past months, many changes
have come to Michael's life and I have
seen him change with them. He moved
across the road into a new building,
designed to prepare children for the
community. Each child had his own
partitioned area serving as a room,
which, to me, was one of the most sig-
nificant things. It was great to be able
to ask Michael if I could hang up my
coat in his closet or if we could talk in
his room. It is truly an amazing exper-
ience to be with someone who is new
to the world because you feel as if you
are experiencing it for the first time
yourself. Everything we take for grant-
ed was new for Michael, like escalators
and bathtubs.

The latest change to Michael's life
happened recently when he moved
into a group home. This is somewhat of
a coincidence since I have just moved
to campus for the first time. Perhaps
we will have a lot more in common

from now on. — Jim Quirk

82 Belchertown Volunteers

life on loek(Ml wards

In the wake of the current move-
ment toward the deinstitutionalization
of the state hospital system, it is easy
to forget the great many patients still
confined to the locked wards of these
hospitals. Everyone has their own fan-
tasies about "mental illness" and what
life might be like inside a mental institu-
tion. There are, however, few ways to
check out the validity of these assump-
tions we all make. For example, sitting
in your dorm lounge watching the por-
trayal of "escaped mental patients" on
TV cop shows and movies will be of no
help. Courses in abnormal psychology,
deviance, and institutions are theoreti-
cal and therefore distant from their
subject matter, who are real persons.
Only by breaking the taboo, coming to
the hospitals, and experiencing first
hand the quality of life on locked wards
will you know.

Thinking back to my first Thursday
evening visit to Northampton State, I
remember it as a very intense exper-
ience. During the half hour bus ride
from campus to the hospital, I was
both apprehensive and enthusiastic.

When we arrived, it was dark and the
old main building (recently closed)
looked ancient and mysterious with its
towers in view.

Walking closer, I noticed the bars on
the windows, and could hear moaning
coming from inside. We were given a
tour of the archaic facility, including
the tunnels underground, where before
the advent of modern tranquilizers pa-
tients were secluded in small cham-
bers. I was wondering how far we have
progressed since that era. Finally, after
a boring lecture on "not getting too
close to patients", we went to visit the
wards. I was relieved to find most pa-
tients differed greatly from my initial
expectations. Although some seemed
preoccupied and indifferent, others
were quite friendly and appeared
starved for conversation with an out-
sider.

Since many patients do seem at first
quite coherent, the almost universal
question new volunteers ask is, "Why
are they here?" My impression now is
that most residents, as the patients
are euphemistically refered to, are

Daniel Smith
trapped in a power struggle with soci-
ety, their families, the institution and
themselves; and often are just too
weak emotionally to make it on their
own. It becomes apparent how frus-
tratingly difficult it is, even for sea-
soned professionals, to bring about ex-
tensive change in the patients' lives.
Often the most helpful approach we
can take as students, without entering
directly into the power struggle a pa-
tient may be in, is to offer ourselves
with some sympathetic human com-
panionship not easily found in the hos-
pital. Personally, sharing myself with a
resident in this way has been both ex-
tremely rewarding and equally frustrat-
ing. We have been through times of
little contact and lots of pain, and also
good times sharing our interests, writ-
ings, music, and life goals. In any event,
I've learned many things I'll never for-
get. I'd like to take this opportunity to
express the patients' at Northampton
real needs for more volunteers; I hope
you will join us.

— Andy Saykin

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The Advocate Program

The experience of being an advocate
is a very difficult one to portray. I could
describe it as challenging, rewarding,
frustrating and absorbing, but that
wouldn't really cover all the bases. The
most overwhelming part of it was the
amount of time it consumed. Not hav-
ing children of my own, I was really
unprepared for the intrusion on my life
that the responsibility for another hu-
man being consumes. As part of the
Woodstock generation, I was used to
traveling a lot. Boston today, Vermont
next weekend, Florida over Thanksgiv-
ing; wherever, whenever I felt like go-
ing. As an advocate I now had another
person to consider and my wanderings
were reluctantly curtailed.

Over and above the time element,
being an advocate is difficult. I had
been working with "problem" teen-
agers at the Teen Learning Center for
two semesters prior to becoming an
advocate, so I was familar with the
needs and concerns of the kids in the
Advocate Program. Most of the kids

are from lower-income broken homes,
often with one or both parents alcohol-
ics. This was certainly the case with my
youth. In addition, the majority of them
were pulled out of their home environ-
ments at an early age and then
bounced around between foster
homes and juvenile detention centers
by the supposedly well-meaning
courts. The results of this kind of un-
stable existence, along with the added
burden of adolescence, leaves you with
a lot of turmoil and pent-up frustra-
tions. I found the most detrimental as-
pect of this whole court-directed pro-
cess was that the kid is left feeling pow-
erless. He feels that he has no control
whatsoever over his life, and thus no
hope or strong will left to redirect it.
He's been told he's a thief, a crook, a
criminal, no good; and jail is an inevi-
tability. This attitude is often ingrained,
and needless to say, hard to over-
come.

At times it was very trying, it sapped
a lot of my energy that I needed for my
own personal growth. A greater
amount of the time it was fun and re-
warding. A strong relationship and de-
pendency grows out of having a kid live
with you. Not a negative kind of depen-
dency, but a positive one. My youth
was with me for a full year. He grew
from a pretty anti-social, poorly edu-
cated punk into a responsible, almost
high school graduate who is at present
self-supporting. He needed someone
to care about him, help him through
some rough spots and point out the
reasons for believing in himself. It was
a desperate need and if it had gone
unfulfilled he would undoubtedly be in
Concord penitentiary today. I don't
mean to sound like I deserve a medal
or citation, or that he couldn't have

done it on his own, there is that possi-
bility, but it is difficult enough to grow
up sane and secure today when every-
thing IS going for you. When most of life
has been bad breaks with nobody there
to hang with you through them it
makes you tough, hard, and uncaring.
Being an advocate is an experience
that I think most people should live
through. There were times when I won-
dered why I did this stupid thing, when
I felt like kicking the kid out and return-
ing to just me, myself and I with no
hassles. There were also times when I
got so mad at the system for creating
this whole mess we call the "good life"
that I could have blown up a building or
two. But if nothing else, being an advo-
cate forces you to take a good hard
look at yourself and the world around
you. I learned a lot from an anti-social,
poorly educated punk. Academia can
foster a very sheltered, idealistic self-
centered, and snobbish existence. A lit-
tle reality and bicycle riding is good for
the soul.

— Dava Murphy

Juvenile Opportunities
Extension

Being a part of the Juvenile Opportu-
nities Extension (J.O.E.) Program from
its developmental stages to the pre-
sent has given me the opportunity to
truly discover myself. Far too often we
become totally absorbed in our aca-
demic community and forget the im-
portance of our existance here: to help
others, especially others less fortunate
than ourselves.

My primary concern in life is to help
the urban "juvenile delinquent" to help
him/herself by presenting a positive al-
ternative, existing inside as well as out-
side the oppressive environment —
but most importantly existing internal-
ly within every adolescent. This is not a
personal philosophy, but a shared con-
cept of a countless number of dedi-
cated UMass students and faculty who
helped make J.O.E. a reality.

During my involvement with J.O.E.
there were times I laughed, times I
joked, and (far too many) times I cried
over the inhumanity of our Common-
wealth's bureaucratic attitudes con-
cerning the delivery of services for chil-
dren, but we lived and grew from it all
— and that's most important.

My involvement with J.O.E. Program
has had the greatest impact on my life.
I am very proud to say that I was a part
of a program that has, and will contin-
ue to have, a direct influence on the
positive development of a human be-
ing; the same human being society has
abandoned. It is a great experience to
be a part of.

— Michael W. Richards

*as in Westfield Detention
Center at the time I wrote this
poem. I was lock up in my room
for trying to run. So I wrote a
poem of my life in crime.
(I am in very depressing moods
when I write poems)

Sitting Behind The
Prison Wall

I sit behind the prison wall
and think I am big and tall
But I am really weak and small

People tell me that my father was bad

and He was no good

But I don't think of the bad

But I know he was good

My Father Died and left me alone
So I had to be big and bad
But I still felt alone
But 1 still love my dad

I started to do crime
and I payed a lot of time
The time seemed to pass
and I grew up fast

I tried being a thief for awhile
and I ran for at least a mile
But I saw me running a mile
and then going to an adult trial

Now two years pass

and I have a chance to go home at last

Now I have a choice to run fast

or forget about the past

I Love my family very much
So I better keep in touch
Because I can lose very much

I still have problems about my Dad
But I am going to stop being bad

I can still Love my Father
and Live and Love my Mother

— Dennis J. Wenzei

Advocate/J.O.E. Program 87

Reaefci/Mo out

A Saturday night during the semester

the music from the Hatch echoes into Room to Move.
A person is cautiously coming through the door

wanting something personal . . .
"Hello."

that special rush on someone's first coming in,

what's going to happen?

Addiction problem, O.D., information, just a need to talk, or

total depression — marasmus. So many people not getting what

they need. Fear, uncertainity, am I good enough?
"I'd like to talk to someone."

being there to listen. Counseling is a contrived procedure

to make up for people not tending to each other.
"How can I help?"

watching and listening, trying to understand a person's needs.

Journeying with that person through their whirlpool

seeking alternatives. Their reality is my reality.
"Is this what you need?"

checking and rechecking, helping people understand themselves

through their emotions, their environment. Asking questions

they may never have asked themselves.

They wanted something personal
satisfaction not guaranteed; frustration, rage, helplessness
feelings shared, someone helped?

Daniel Smith

Room to

Move

Daniel Smith

sincere, brave, loyal, trustworthy, upright, friendly,
thrifty, honest, supportive
and loving

i created a co-op

that means it's not "i created" any more

it's we

men aren't used to being co-operative

not part of our cultural heritage

not part of our role model training

but somewhere along the line we learn that we have to change our models

the old ones don't apply any more

can't apply, are useless

we are now faced with the responsibility of consciously creating

a new lifestyle

educating those around us to understand us and support us

i have never seen so much energy and concern for the group

and for our sisters and brothers in this office

never

that is important to remember whenever a falling-out occurs

no, there aren't more of us around now

the number of us around are merely being more open and honest

we are, after all, your daughters and sons

your sisters and brothers

your co-workers and friends

your lovers

-Demian

People's Gay Alliance 89

no one's even qoinq to

In my junior year as an English major
my career aspirations were focused on
being a teacher. After being rejected
by the English-Education program, and
therefore unable to student teach, I at-
tempted to redefine my educational
goals. With some career counseling
from the Everywoman's Center
(E.W.C.), I shifted my energies to coun-
seling, a field in which I had had some
interest. Through an internship set up
through Outreach I was able to inte-
grate my interest in counseling into an
educational framework.

As I began my internship at Everywo-

man's Center I was struck by the fact
that no one was there to spoonfeed
me. Unlike the classroom setting, I had
to learn to be very independent when
working at the Center. There was so
much information to know in order to
provide adequate services to the wom-
en using the Center. Since everyone is
required to staff (answer the phone
and handle walk-ins) I had to be very
knowledgeable about the Center's pro-
grams and resources. I had to find out
on my own or take the initiative to seek
out someone who know the answer.
In my work group (Women and Em-

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Women's Center was as a first year stu-
dent enrolled m a course, "Sex Roles in
Contemporary Society". I found the in-
structors of this course enthusiastic
and the material instructive as well as
interesting.

I began volunteer staffing that first
semester — keeping the Center open,
answering students about university
rules and regulations and assisting in
the presentation of workshops on sex-
ism and racism. Since that time I have
worked as a student coordinator — re-
presenting the center on the Feminist
Curriculum Committee, setting up
workshops for guest lecturers, compil-
ing a bibliography about and by women
and working in the Center's library.

Four years later, the Southwest
Women's Center has become the focus
for my commitment to the woman
question.

David OIken (3)

90 Women's Centers

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ployment), we shared information and
organized activities or projects in an
attempt to meet the needs of women
seeking employment. Again my inde-
pendence was necessary. No one as-
signed me anything. Though we did
work together many times, I was still
my own taskmaster and I was given a
great deal of freedom to be creative. I
organized and facilitated work shops
and gave presentations to groups
about E.W.C. and career materials.
These were all new activities for me,
for which I had had little practice. It
was difficult for me to develop the con-

fidence necessary to take risks in order
to proceed to new skill levels. With the
support and encouragement of my
workgroup, however, I began to move
ahead.

I found that working at E.W.C. meant
discovering myself and exploring my
strengths. It also meant using that
newly discovered self in a creative and
cooperative way. For me, those have
been difficult tasks — but because of
my involvement at Everywoman's Cen-
ter I have made progress and will al-
ways continue my self explorations.

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The Third World Women's Center of-
fers Third World women a unique op-
portunity to further examine and de-
fine their role in relation to themselves
and others in the UMass community
and the world.

On an educational level, the Center
provides the community with four
study groups on topics such as Third
World Women and the UMass commu-
nity, Angola, Birth Cohtrol and Abor-
tion, and Women's Health.

In a bi-monthly radio show entitled,
"Third World Women Speak", the Cen-
ter provides a medium of exchange to
take place between Third World Wom-
en and the campus as a whole.

Hopefully the Center will continue to
provide Third World Women with a vari-
ety of opportunities. We also hope the
Third World Women's Center will re-
main an active functioning organization
on this campus.

Edward Cohen (2)

Women's Centers 91

M«SE THAM ▲ CR«aP

n*$ A THBRAPT

When I first arrived on this campus
two years ago, 1 had my own minor
crisis dealing with the transition from
military to civilian life. After all, six
years in the Air Force can leave a few
stains on one's thought processes, and
mine were no exception. So coming
here and trying to relate to people who
were, on an average, some four to six
years younger than myself was in itself
a bit of a struggle. Furthermore, living
through the period that I did, i.e. being
an active participant in the Southeast
Asia War Games, did little to alleviate
the transition. In fact, it turned out to
be another roadblock in the path of
achieving personal stability.

But I made the choice to split from
the service (because I could no longer
feel comfortable being a part of it) and
continue my formal education (partly
because I couldn't find a job at the time
I was discharged). Fortunately, this
place was cheap enough for me to live
off the Gl Bill and still afford a beer or
two every now and then, so survival
had now become a moot question.

Still, there was the problem of just
being here. I couldn't help but feel dif-
ferent from most students here, and I

guess I was a bit paranoid about it as
well. It was no secret, however, that
most students didn't understand the
Viet Nam veteran in the same way they
may have understood the war.

The Veterans Coalition for Communi-
ty Affairs (VCCA) had just been formed
around this time, and I happened to get
wind of its existence one afternoon
while sampling the Blue Wall beer. So it
seemed quite natural for me to seek
them out. After all, we all need some-
where to go, and I was still looking at
the time, so . . .

Trying to characterize the VCCA was
quite difficult to do then, and in the two
years I've been associated with it, it
has become no easier. I know what I do
there; I know what it is like up in that
office. But put a label on it? Sorry, no
can do. In fact, the most challenging
thing we as a group have done is to
write a rationale about ourselves. Talk-
ing about what we do is one thing, but
talking about what we are is another.
The only thing the members have in
common is our prior service in the
armed forces, and that becomes evi-
dent by listening to the conversation
that takes place in the office most of

the time.

Putting it another way: The VCCA of-
fice is one of the few places I know
where the "Capitalist Pigs" and the
"Godless Communists" can sit in the
same room together for more than five
minutes without being at each other's
throats. And as much as we were all in
the service, likewise we are also all indi-
viduals, and the office has become a
forum for individual expression which,
under different circumstances, would
probably be suppressed.

The way the place is set up would
spell doom for most other organiza-
tions. But for some reason it is working
for us, and please don't ask me why,
because I'm really not quite sure my-
self.

However, I do know it has made be-
coming a civilian again a lot easier.
Some vets have found other means to
make the change, while others have
unfortunately found none at all. For
me, the VCCA was more than a group;
it was a therapy. And in that sense
alone, I was glad to be a part of it.

— Christ Smallis

92 Veteran's Coalition for Community Affairs

Battle fatiaues and sneakers...

'The Army wants you." You've seen
the ads everywhere — magazines, bill-
boards. Impressive, aren't they? I
thought so at one time. That was a
while ago.

As a freshwoman I was enrolled in
the Army Reserve Officers' Training
Corp (AROTC). My class standing was
number three at the end of first semes-
ter. Two male cadets placed ahead of
me. Despite my good position, I was
dissatisfied with the program.

It was on one of those Saturdays
when everyone likes to sleep late that I
first had doubts about my involvement
in the AROTC. I was attending an early
morning marching drill, stylishly
dressed in battle fatigues and a pair of
sneakers (there weren't any boots to
fit me). After two hours of hearing
"left, left, your left, your right, your
left" and "about face", I was dis-
missed. By that time most of the cam-
pus was just waking up and I was ready
to go back to sleep.

Luckily there was only one more Sat-
urday drill that semester — an orien-
teering exercise. It took place on a frig-
id day. I was so miserable after the
workout that I didn't care if I had

missed most of the stakes that we
were supposed to have located.

If those two outings weren't enough
to convince me of my doubts, the
weekend jaunt to Ft. Devens should
have been, I stayed in a barracks with
no heat. I was put through a number of
drills and made to march everywhere. I
felt like a robot. Someone would push a
button, give a command, and off I
would go. Is this how the Army treats a
person?

The Military Police didn't do much to
make me feel at ease. I was out of uni-
form (my boots still hadn't come in)
and the MP's continously hassled me.

When it came time for practice on
the rifle range, I knew that I never
would make it. No way could I, or would
I, shoot an M16. It was bad enough that
I had to clean one. Although there was
a great deal of peer pressure, I was not
going to fire a gun, or weapon as it is
correctly called. And I didn't.

Guns. Guns and uniforms. Those are
what 1 first think when I hear the word
army. And speaking of uniforms re-
minds me of the derogatory remarks
that used to be directed towards me as
I crossed campus in uniform. Things

like "Look at the big Girl Scout" and
"Pull your stomach in. Push your chest
out." There was always some wise guy
who would yell out "Attention!"

It got to the point where I was em-
barrassed to go out in my uniform. I
suppose if I had had any pride in being
a part of AROTC these remarks
wouldn't have bothered me.

If I wasn't proud of being in the pro-
gram, why did I join in the first place?
That's a good question. Surprisingly
enough, I have an answer. I wanted a
job when I got out of college. A good
paying job. I thought the Army could
give me one. That's what the ads say.
Well, I was wrong.

What the ads don't say is that there
are more woman cadets graduating
than there are jobs available for them.
It's the same story everywhere. There
are too many people. Or is it too few
jobs? Or maybe a little of each?

Just because the ad claims that the
Army wants me, doesn't mean that I
want the Army. I might have been tak-
en for a ride once, but it won't happen
again.

...control towers and jet engines

I consider all the experiences I've
had in Air Force ROTC to be very valu-
able and treasured memories. I've
seen the inside of control towers and
how jet engines are built. I've had ex-
perience working in groups and manag-
ing other people. And I've been able to
visit with people who are already work-
ing in careers that I want to pursue. I
consider the AFROTC program a high
point of my college years.

The Air Force ROTC program has
changed a great deal in recent years.
Three years ago, the program was just
beginning to revive itself after receiving
credit again for its classes. The number
of people interested in AFROTC was

small but the interest of these people
was very great.

Today AFROTC is better accepted on
campus. The number of freshmen and
sophomore cadets has increased. En-
trance into the advanced AFROTC
course has become highly competitive
and thus the students who get into the
program are more qualified.

The structure of the Corps of Cadets
presents a situation in which all cadets
can learn from practical experience. As
freshmen and sophomores, the cadets
are in a position to learn about the Air
Force from older students. The juniors
and seniors, in turn, have the responsi-
bility of planning the semester's activi-
ties. Each cadet has a job, and is re-
quired to work and organize with other
people and meet deadlines. The situa-
tion calls for applying the principles
that have been taught in many courses

throughout the University.

AFROTC also widens a student's so-
cial experiences. The etiquette that is
proper at a formal dining-in is learned
by attending the dinner, not merely by
reading about it. The Air Force Ball be-
comes a highlight of the semester.
Here again the college student is ex-
posed to more social customs. He/she
learns by participating.

AFROTC also provides opportunities
to travel that are not available to other
college students. Each semester,
weekend trips are planned so the ca-
dets can visit Air Force bases around
the country. Trips to Patrick, Florida,
and Andrews Air Force Bases and
Washington D.C. are always popular.
The cadets fly for free on Air Force jets
and planes, and get first hand knowl-
edge of what to expect as an officer in
the Air Force.

Reserve Officer's Training Corps 93

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|and^S^ I'm glad to see ifs still there."^

• "Strange events allow the luxury of

• occuring." — Charlie Chan, quoted by
Michael C. Kostek II.

• "Oh, uh . . . hello, brother." — Gary
jGomes, on being nudged by a stray

dog.

• I'm glad I wasn't you when it all hap-
pened — I wouldn't have traded my

• < small part in it for ten years' paid vaca-
> tion in sexual ecstacy — but God, to

, have been living inside your head back
in '74, back from Christmas break, al-

• ready living in habits so you wouldn't
have to be a little scared all the time,

^ when you discovered that comfortable
old Poor Richard's, sort of a Boston
Globe Weekend magazine on training

•> wheels, had been flashzapped by . . .
nuts. Crusading nuts — by heritage

• the sons and daughters of Jack Ker-
.ouac's search for beauty m odd places,

• maybe of Lenny Bruce's war against

• reverence for the medicore, and by
, choice the brothers and sisters of John

Coltrane and Frank Zappa for much the
same things. Note the transition from
^ words to music in that last line.

In Below the Salt (the name being

» »derived from the medieval custom of

, placing a bowl of salt in the center of a

^ long table and seating the nobility

'above' it, towards the head, and the

peasants , , . you get the idea) all of the

"Fine Arts" were given due, if sporadic,

• coverage, some better than others.

Music was the breath of the whole
works, not just because we loved it, but
because of the peculiar importance
that music has for our generation. In
fact, I can't even begin to talk about
the Salt without explaining, at least in
part, our collective thoughts on the
new role of music, and so I digress.

In our generation music has tran-
scended the "event" status of most of
the performing arts, and now satu-
rates, and indeed creates, in many
cases, our everyday environment, not
as background, wallpaper, but as an
ever-present, ever-changing influence,
be it to soothe or stimulate. The aver-
age under-30 person today expresses
and even reinforces his/her personal-
ity with the music he/she chooses. It
has been said that what movie stars
were to our parents' generation,
"rock" stars are to ours, and this is, in
a superficial way, true in that both
kinds of stars fulfill a need to admire, a
desire for vicarious glamour and ro-
mance. But there is a drastic differ-
ence between the two: A movie star
had virtually no other function in soci-
ety than performing, saying someone
else's words, following someone else's
directions. In today's music the artist/
person, the artist's expression and
the artist's medium is nearly insepara-
ble. Misguided or not we have thrust a
large weight of leadership onto what
had previously been merely a class of
entertainers — not only directly, by
making a spokesperson out of some-
one like Bob Dylan, but in subtle, cul-
tural ways such as dress, speech, and
most important, ideas whether it was

dropping out and moving to San Fran-
cisco because the Beatles were taking
acid or (God help us, we've been dis-
covered) voting for Jimmy Carter be-
cause the Allman Brothers endorsed
him. Music has created a close com-
munity within McLuhan's global village.
It's certainly true that most people are
more comfortable with the familiar.
But it was decided that not trying to
make you at least aware of what was
happening, if not winning you over to it,
would be the greatest disservice of all,
particularly in an "educational" institu-
tion. Hence our motto: "If we have of-
fended you, we are pleased", because
something has been brought to your
awareness with sufficient force to
evoke a response.

Below the Salt is already not what it
used to be, and I suspect that perhaps
in as short a time as a year the Salt
itself may be gone as well, but it has
existed, and the purpose of all this pre-
tenious mind-spew is to make you
aware of how intensely it has existed.
Our music pages in particular have
drawn response from as far away as
Germany and have been reprinted by
several different record companies, a
recognition usually reserved for profes-
sional magazines and critics only. Be-
low the Salt has made its mark.

"The truth was doomed to die. It was
being downtrodden, was being
drowned, burned, ground to ashes. But
look — it has survived, it lives, it has
been printed, and nobody ever will be
able to wipe it out." — Alexsander
Solzhenitsyn, reprinted in every issue
of Below the Salt in the first year of its
existence.

— Your Sacred Cowboy

Colorful reflections of the

What is Drum?

The purpose of DRUM Magazine is to
disseminate information of a Tinird
World-oriented literary, social, and cul-
tural nature to the community at large;
to provide a constructive sounding
board and platform for Third World stu-
dents through which they may express
their creative abilities; and to educate
the White community as to the intent
and feelings of Third World peoples ev-
erywhere.

— David Thaxton, Denise Wallace

What is Spectrum?

For creative people at the university
who feel somewhat at a loss for an out-
let, getting involved with Spectrum
might be a way to get more in touch
with their own creative impulses, and
to feel as if they belong to an artistic

community. — Mary Allen

Colorful reflections of the arts and
voices here are represented in a spec-
trum. — Patricia Hatch

Working on Spectrum is like raising a
child before it is born. — Stephen Ronan

Illustration by Richard Dec

DRUM, Spectrum 97

Robert Gamache/Photography Editor Ben Caswell/Sports Editor

98 Index

P.J. Prokop/Managing Editor Rebecca Greenberg/Acadivities

Editor

Daniel Smith/Editor-in-chief Kermit W. Plinton ll/Senior Editor

Tri|iA9 to keep eyeryone hcippy

Well, this is our page. The staff of the
'76 INDEX has just spent the last elev-
en and a half months creating 287
pages of UMass yearbook, and now it's
my turn to sit back and reflect on what
those eleven and a half months have
been all about, here on the other page.

The "yearbook" as an institution as
UMass is in a class by itself. People
don't pick it up every day like the Colle-
gian, use it every day like the library, be
aware of it every day like the dining
commons. For most, it's a once-a-year
deal — and in that light, I don't think it
achieves the respect it deserves as a
relatively complete time capsule of the
space in time that will never be seen
again, 1975-76. The INDEX is the ol-
dest student organization on campus,
a scant six years younger than the
school itself. In the past ten years, the
working budget for the INDEX has been
cut by 50%, and our office space re-
duced from over 800 square feet down
to about 200 square feet; all the while,
the books have been greatly improved,
making the INDEX one of the best divi-
dends of student activities taxes. Why
such discrepancies? A lot of changes
have gone down here in the past few
years, the greatest of which is the loss
of the majority of students' voice in

their own destinies. Destinies which
were formerly controlled by a small
group of administrators, but now con-
trolled by a small group of students. We
may all come back to this place in ten
years and, for one reason or another,
barely recognize it; one thing we may
no longer see is the INDEX. So read
this volume, and keep it; for now, more
than ever before, we must remember
this university as it was in 1976. It will
never be the same.

But anyway. Editing the INDEX is an
immense job. Few people can realize all
that goes into producing this book. I'm
sure I could spend twenty pages, in
fact, explaining how this volume was
put together. But discussions of con-
tact sheets and layout forms cannot
reflect what your mind, your body,
your emotions go through in eleven
and a half months. There were 10 a.m.
to 3 a.m. days, subsisting on Cokes and
the radio, doing the layouts that haunt
you because they should have been
done months ago. Each of us knows
the feeling of spending time alone in
the office, when everyone else was out
partying (or sleeping.) There was
laughter, good times, partying, hard
work, human conflicts, hurt feelings,
out-and-out fights. When the first page

was finally completed, there was laugh-
ter and handshaking. But when the last
page left the office, well, that was
about the second best feeling I've ever
experienced.

A book of this size is a monumental
undertaking, and would have never
made it to press without the help of
some very dedicated people. The story
of these people is on page 286. But, I'd
like to express my gratitude to the sec-
tion editors, who in spite of my ranting
and raving, and seemingly unreason-
able attention to the smallest details,
did a super job of filling the pages
from scratch with what I think is the
most interesting material the INDEX
has ever seen. I'd also like to extend
my appreciation to John Neister, who
helped prepare me for the job of
editor-in-chief. Everything I have ever
learned has gone into this book; I be-
lieve it is a good one. And I give my
personal thanks to my lady, and best
friend, Paula Jean, who stayed with me
throughout the entire mess.

It's been one hell of an experience.
Has it been worth it? For sure. Would I
do it again?

I'll have to think about that one.

— Dan Smith

Index 99

Sunday Classics

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We The People

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On Mayim to the 22nd the
Music Theater Guild presented
the musical Cabaret. To the
more than 2000 viewers, the
cast's enthusiasm and energy
were apparent, but the efforts of
the staff and crew went un-
known to the viewers. However,
the "behind the scenes" work
•was appreciated, as evidenced
by the following comments,
which the leading players gave
when questioned about .their
feelings of the overall mood and
atmosphere of the production.

"I remember my first moments on stage during
Cabaret's opening night as one in which I felt
backed by the strongest support from a cast and
crew that I have ever felt in a production either
before Cabaret or since.

"The role of M.C. was a challenge, but the
strong feeling of support from everyone involved,
directors, fellow cast members, crew and mem-
bers of the Cabaret staff, who had seen rehears-
als, was most essential in giving me that needed
confidence."

— Alan Bresner (the M.C.)

"We were very close. I have never seen a cast that
close in my life. I had originally not tried out. I auditioned
late, because they needed someone else. When I walked
into the first rehearsal it took me time to get used to the
closeness.-

"There were a lot of internal differences and the cast
felt indignant, but not in a bad sense. There was talk of
canning the show, but they wanted it to go on. There was
trouble with the production staff. The cast didn't want to
see it canned. There was a great sense of comradery in
the staff.

"It was one of the best things 1° have ever done, for
having known and worked with these people, not because
of their talents, but just because of who they were."

— Frank Aronson (Meter Schultz)

102 Music Theater Guild

"I have never worked with a group of people
that felt so close and tight. In my past exper-
iences the cast, crew, and production staff were
all segregated. The closeness helped both the
rehearsals and performances. It was a new exper-
ience for me. Because of this overall feeling in the
Cabaret company, everyone felt more at ease."
— Catherine Carlson (Sally Bowles)

"It was one of the most dedicated groups of
people I have ever worked with. Everyone gave
110% of their emotion andoeffort into the whole
scheme. If I had a nickel for every night that
everyone did not get to bed before 2:30 or 3:30
a.m., I'd be rich. It was exhilarating in the end and
well worth the whole experience."

— Steve Makowski (Clifford Bradshaw)

Daniel Smith (5)

"That's a tough question. I'd say there was a
much friendlier, closer feeling among the actors
and crew. Everyone was a student and we all
worked together as students. I found it very
close. The cast was a tight group, because the
responsibilities were on everybody."

- Naomi Dratfield (Frauline Schneider)

Music Theater Guild 103

The visual impact, the emotions
raised, the appreciation of the audi-
ence -- are all essential to the success
of a theatre performance.

Months before that final success is a
reality, before the culmination of a per-
formance, the work begins for those
back-stage, the ones responsible for
bringing a good production before the
public. The headaches and problems
start, the grind of rehearsals, and the
pressures mount for the producers.

cast, and crew.

Priscilla West, assistant producer of
Neil Simon's "Prisoner of Second Ave-
nue," and producer of Edward Albee's
"Zoo Story" and "The American
Dream," is no stranger to the worries
and problems of producing a play.

"We put in a lot of time and effort.
We pulled a lot of all-nighters. It wasn't
easy, but I think everyone learned a
lot," she said.

West said in producing a play, one

has to deal with all types of people and
a variety of temperaments, but overall,
it is a really good experience and the
cast and crew put in a lot of hard work.
"It was fun. Many of the people in-
volved in "Zoo Story" and "The Ameri-
can Dream" were really versatile and
did a variety of jobs ~ some of the ac-
tors were part of the stage crew, some
people did lighting as well as working
on costumes . . . everyone really con-
tributed.

The
American
Dream

Roisicr DihnIlts

Zoo
Story

"Of course, there are always prob-
lems -- like money. Roister Doister has
an RSO account from which the crew
buys and pays for everything to be
used in the production. We don't have
any other funding. We build our own
sets, make our own costumes -- we do
everything."

West said there was a time this year
when a financial problem almost meant
cancellation of a play they were work-
ing on. "There was a whole week when
we didn't know if we should continue
rehearsals or not because we didn't
know if we would be able to put on the
show - but everyone stayed and re-
hearsed anyway. We plowed through

and we made it."

On the brighter side, she said Roister
Doister offers the opportunity for both
Theatre majors and non-majors to get
theatre experience. "When people au-
dition for a play, we don't look at what
their majors are. We've had people in
our plays who were in theatre as well
as some with no previous stage exper-
ience. We're not closed at all. We pro-
vide the chance for anyone interested
in theatre to get involved."

Roister Doisters is the oldest con-
tinuing college-level drama society in
the country. It was formed in 1910 and
a year later took the name Roister
Doister from the title of the first Eng-

lish comedy, "Ralph Roister Doister,"
the words "roister doister" meaning
"rough necks."

According to West, everyone who
works on a production does it for love
of theatre - no one gets paid for the
work they do, at least not financially.

"This year, the audiences loved our
productions and received us with open
arms. That's really a great feeling.
Overall, everyone had a good time and
worked together. And considering the
low budget we had to work with, I think
we put on some really good shows."

— P.J. Prokop

Daniel Smith (7)

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Cheerleading is a lot of fun. And
that's an understatement. I have been
a member of the UMass Cheerleading
squad for the past two years, and some
of the best times of my life have oc-
cured out on the football field or on the
basketball court.

My roommate, who was already a
cheerleader, kept trying to talk me into
joining the squad. One day, I gave in to
the point that I would just go watch the
tryouts. Well, I got hooked from the
first minute, and I've loved it ever
since.

For men, cheering is a good way to
get into the game if you are not actual-
ly able to actually participate in the
sport. Most of the women were cheer-
leaders in their high school days, so
moving up to the college level come^
naturally.

The squad here at UMass is a great
group of people. We always have
great time together at games, an,
travelling to games. We usually prac
tice four days a week; we learn to work

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with each other to make our cheers
and stunts come off perfectly.

Sometimes it's really hard to get a
crowd on its feet and cheering, espe-
cially when the Minutemen are on the
short end of the scoreboard. In that
case, the diehard sports fans actually
help us get psyched up by acting as
cheerleaders themselves.

But most of the time, the psych-up
comes to us naturally — it's like wait-
ing for Christmas to arrive! It's the old
"school spirit" deal — the atmosphere
of an impending football or basketball
game at UMass is electric. The crowd
comes in, the energy level rises, every-
one gets excited, and all of a sudden
there are thousands of fans all de-
manding one thing — a great contest!
It's really a great feeling!

— Peter Roddy

Band, Cheerleaders 107

I admit I was apprehensive about
walking into the office for the first time,
but I didn't think it would be this bad.
No one said anything, instead just
seemed to wonder what I wanted.

Knowing perfectly well I didn't want
anything in particular, I blurted "Well
you said at the meeting to drop in here
anytime." A few smirks, a few ha's and
comments like "You didn't think we
were serious, did you?" and "We said
drop in, not walk" followed.

I was pretty baffled at this point and
could only force a nervous chuckle out
which induced another silence.

"So this is the Outing Club Office."

"Hell no, that's three doors down on
the left." I knew there was no such
place and in humiliation turned to leave
the place forever when someone finally
spouted, "Wait a second, we're only
trying to make you feel comfortable."

I assured them there were other
ways.

I remained silent for my first few vis-
its and listened to Harry's latest feat on
the rock and so and so's (in) famous
spill on the last white water canoe trip.
Not having a great deal of experience
in those areas, I had little to offer in the
way of conversation.

Finally, I decided that it was time to
go on one of these funpacked trips. So I
bopped about the Student Union until
recognizing the O.C. bulletin board
amongst the ride board, the Ski Club
board and various flourescent posters.
Wow! Which one will I sign up for . . .
rock climbing? Are you nuts, I've seen
that on the Pepsi commercials, ah, no
thanks, I'd rather live a while longer.
Hmm, I guess I'm not really in shape to
hike twenty miles on Saturday, let's
see, the canoe trip is all filled up, rats!
Man, what's left, what's this SPELUNK-
ING?! How can I do it when I don't even

A man was mountain climbing when
he slipped off a ledge. As he fell, he
managed to grab onto a limb growing
out of the mountain. In desperation he
yelled, "Is anybody up there?"
A voice answered, "I am."
"Who are you ?" he asked.

know what it is? Oh, it says here —
spending about five hours in a cave in
New York, well, that sounds like it is
easy enough but kind of a drag. There
must be something to it if other people
do it. I commited myself to my first
trip, though I had no idea what I was
getting myself into.

Little did I know it would lead me to
rolling out of my bed, hungover, at 7:00
on a weekend morning to pack a PB&J
sandwich, to ride for three hours with
people I had never met before, to me-
ander through some cave.

Well, we whooped and we yeehaad,
squeezed through a half-mile long tun-
nel of rock in the depths of the earth
and explored passages and waterfalls.
At the end of the day, I was covered
with thick, wet mud from my boots to
my skull-saving miner's helmet. I had
just done something new fun and
unique. I had just learned there was
more to life than a six pack and books. I
hadn't experienced all of life at nine-
teen after all.

That's how it began; now I have a key
to the office, access to the typewriter,
stationary and files, although that's not
exactly what I had expected the out-
come to be.

The office is my home, the people
are my friends. The spontaneous hikes
in the afternoons, canoeing on the
campus pond, all of the weekend trips
and Monday night meetings are great.
It's actually the fine people who enjoy
these things together that really count
the most.

— Doreen Walsh

"The Lord."

"Can you help me. Lord ?"
"Yes, but only if you believe."
"I believe."

"Then if you believe, let go."
The man thought for a moment, then
inquired, "Is anyone else up there?"

108 Outing Club

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If you've seen cement canoes float-
ing around the campus pond and won-
dered what they were doing there, the
answer is simple. They are UMass' con-
crete canoes.

Early in 1975, the University of
Maine sent an invitation to the Civil En-
gineering Department of UMass asking
if they'd like to compete in that
school's concrete canoe race along

with other schools. UMass accepted,
designed and built a concrete canoe,
and competed in the race. Thus began
the UMass Concrete Canoe Team.

The purpose of such a team is two-
fold. It is a learning experience in that it
gives students in the Civil Engineering
Department an opportunity to utilize
their skills and knowledge by designing
and building a unique product, while
giving them a chance to compete in
the race when the canoes are finished.

This year, under the supervision of
faculty member Denton Harris, the 12
members of the team received three
credits each in a course devoted exclu-
sively to building three canoes.

This April, the team came back with
two awards from the six-mile race on
the Kenduskeag River in Bangor,
Maine. Although UMass did not win the
race, all three of the canoes did finish
the run, an accomplishment in itself.
The canoe which finished fifth in the
race took the Award for Design and
Construction, while the one which fin-
ished 16th captured the Most Dedi-
cated Team Award for the two-mem-
ber crew's struggle to finish the
course. Their canoe was completely
destroyed.

A team spokesman said most dam-
age to the canoes occurred because
"in some places water was less than a
foot deep and the bottom of the river
was rigid."

Construction of a canoe includes
molding, wiring, .curing, cutting, wood-
working, and painting.

Team members said it takes about
50 to 70 days to build and completely
finish a canoe.

Work on the canoes started ih Janu-
ary and members of the team worked
during class time and any spare time
they had in order to finish the canoes
in time for the race.

On April 15, team members held
launching and christening ceremonies
at the campus pond, then continued
the festivities with a parade of the ca-
noes around campus,

"It was a way of letting everything
out," said a team member — indicating
the team had put a great deal of time,
effort, and energy into the construct-
ing of the canoes.

— Sheila Lovely

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Plumpers of John Quincy Adams have
been the Campus Champions of Wom-
en's Intramurals! They have also won
the Ruth Totman award for being
Women's Residence Hall Champs, the
only team to do so for three years in a
row in the UMass Intramural history.
When I first joined the Plumpers in
my freshman year, I didn't realize we
could win such awards and trophies. I
had joined to be involved in sports ac-
tivities that wouldn't demand much

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the various sports and teams.

My sophomore year ! played again
for the Plumpers, and helped the Intra-
mural manager for our dorm arrange
our teams. After becoming Campus
Champs for two years, it was a chal-
lenge to keep the intramurals in our
dorm going because our team manager
graduated. So, Teresa Hanafin and I
put teams together for our third year.
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When most people think of Girl
Scouts, they usually think of the little
girls running around in their green uni-
forms selling Girl Scout cookies. Their
personality trait is "goodie-goodie". It
is not a very flattering picture and not
very true either.

I am a Girl Scout. I'm nineteen and
that doesn't classify as a little girl too
often these days. I haven't worn a uni-
form in quite awhile and my cookie sell-
ing days are over. I would definitely not

mer I worked as a Unit Leader at Pro-
ject Friendship. I had worked one other
summer at Friendship, but this past
summer was much more of a learning
experience.

We included in our list of underprivi-
leged girls about fifteen deaf girls. This
was a new and exciting experience for
us all.

Project Friendship was hard work,
emotionally draining and one hundred
percent rewarding and worthwhile.

When I came to UMass in Septem-
ber, I found it big and lonely. It was the
Campus Scouts that made me feel like
a person instead of a number. It wasn't
anything spectacular that we did. We
laughed, climbed Mt. Sugarloaf,
laughed, went to the T.O.C., laughed,
ate and ate and ate. Campus Scouts is
a small group. We total eight at last
count. But it's a caring group.

Sometimes we come to the meet-
ings to accomplish something in par-

call myself a goodie-goodie.

What surprises many people is that
I'm proud to be part of Girl Scouting. It
sounds sappy, but it's true. Maybe it's
because of all the beautiful people that
have happened to me because of
scouting.

One of the most important events in
my life is summer camp. That was a
definite result of my being in Girl Scout-
ing. As a camper at Girl Scout camp I
met many people, but the friendship I
had with these people was much differ-
ent then I had ever experienced be-
fore. It was a true friendship that is
almost indescribable. Now, as a staff
member at these camps, I am still find-
ing myself experiencing these beautiful
friendships. I'm sure that to those peo-
ple that have never been to a summer
camp or have had bad experiences at
camp this sounds very far fetched, but
summer camp breeds a special love of
friends and I found it through scouts.

Girl Scouts has also given me the
opportunity to work in areas I might
not try on my own. One example is
Project Friendship, which is a camp
held during the last week in August.
The staff members are all volunteer
Senior Scouts and Campus Scouts.
The campers are all underprivileged
girls who would not usually get the op-
portunity to go to camp. This past sum-

At the end of it I wrote this poem:

we gave all we had

and they wanted more

we worked twenty-nine hours a day

and it wasn't enough.

for ten days,

feeling of months,
we learned, we loved, we laughed
we cried and cried somemore
we learned to let our anger melt

into understanding
we let love mend homesick hearts

and build a smile
we let laughter touch each day

to hold us together
but we cried too
we cried in frustration

when we were physically and

mentally drained and there
was no time to rest
we cried in lonliness

on the long nights following

long days when friends were
just too busy
we cried in hurt
when we caused other's tears
but most important
we cried in friendship and love

as we said good-bye

knowing that some little heart

had opened and accepted all we
had to give, making every moment

spent worthwhile.

ticular, but we always came to see
each other. I've found that same inde-
scribable friendship with Campus
Scouts.

I've learned a lot from scouting, how
to use a jacknife, how to build fires,
how to dig latrines, but the most im-
portant things I've learned were friend-
ship and love, and to me, that's what
Girl Scouting really is.

— CInris Foley

1 1 2 Campus Girl Scouts

Modern or western style square
dancing is considered the second larg-
est group activity in the United States.
It has been in existence only since the
late 1940's, but has penetrated every
state in the Union. It is a universal ac-
tivity which includes all ages and knows
almost no limitations as far as dancers
go. I have danced with mentally retard-
ed children, and blind dancers. I have
seen dancers, totally immobilized with
regard to their legs, "dance" with
wheelchairs. With all of these, assets
you can understand why I enjoy square
dancing so much.

To square dance there must be four
men and four women coupled together
to form a circle. They dance to the
calls the "caller" rattles off in an auc-
tioneer style of talking. When the danc-
ers are dancing they do two types of
dancing, "patter" and a "singing call".
A patter is a record the caller uses
which is not a song as such but a tune
played over and over again with many
variations. Here the caller makes up
dance combinations while he is leading
the dancers in dance. He usually does
not have the combinations memorized.

The second type of dancing is known
as the "singing call". Here, there is a
set square dance to a known song.
Some examples are "Rhinestone Cow-
boy," "Put Your Hand In The Hand Of
The Man", "Me and Bobby McGee,"
and "Wolverton Mountain." The caller
will sing square dance combinations to
the tune of the song.

The University of Massachusetts has
a western style dancing club known as
the Heymakers. To join a club a person
must take the square dance lessons
the club offers, and "graduate." At this
point the person is a member of the
club. Any members from any club can
usually dance at any other club. The
dances are open to the public.

Square dancers do many things to
give their dancing variety. They partici-
pate in activities to earn badges or
discs which signify those activities. I
remember sucking a lemon in front of a
caller while he was calling to earn the
lemon suckers badge, and dancing
next to a cemetary at midnight to earn
a ghost badge. Dancers also earn
badges for not so comical activities
such as dancing in hospitals, dancing
on Mother's Day or Halloween and
even for dancing one thousand miles
away from home. All in all there are
about 300 badges that can be earned.

Thousands of dancers get together
each year for different annual conven-
tions. Last year, over 8,000 dancers
gathered for the New England Square
Dance Convention in Portland, Maine,
where they danced in eleven dance
halls throughout the city.

Western style square dancing does
many things for many people. For me it
helped in coordination, getting along
with people of all ages, listening to mu-
sic in a different way, and even in lis-
tening habits. This style of dancing is a
great physical activity for everyone. It

is relaxed and I can dance many hours
before getting tired because of its easy
going pace. This is why ages seven to
87 can dance and dance together.

Square dancing has proven to be an
activity for everyone with virtually no
limitations. It is fun, challenging, invi-
gorating, at times demanding, and al-
ways pleasing.

— David C. Muller

Daniel Smith (3)

Satur-
day, May
15, 1976
marked a UMass "first".
That was the day Claire
Gustowski and Bill Shapard were
married in the lounge of the 12th
floor of John Quincy Adams
tower.

Gustowski, a senior who gradu-
ated magna cum laude from
UMass, met Shapard as a fresh-
person at Berklee. She then trans-
ferred to UMass as a sophomore
while Shapard remained at Berk-
lee, but as Gustowski noted, "He's
come up every weekend since
then, and that's a pretty good
track record."

The couple had been engaged
for a year, but claimed they "had
known for four years" that they
would be getting married.

They decided they would wait
until they graduated to go through
with it.

The suggestion to get married
in the 12th floor lounge came
from Gustowski's floor counselor.
The more the couple mulled over
the suggestion, the more appeal-
ing it became to them. Neither of
them own a car, so transportation
would not become an important

"I feel tremendous excitement about
women understanding other women,"
Winifred Hubbard said emphatically.

Coming back to school after more than
30 years has proved challenging to Wynne,
who at 53 is a UMass freshperson.

She was a nurse in World War II and
served in the Army Nurse Corps for three
years. She married and spent a year work-
ing at Boston Children's Hospital.

"I became very interested in the wom-
en's movement about five years ago, and 1
came up to UMass around the time the
first women's center was being organized,"
she said.

Wynne is also concerned with women's
mental health, which she says, "has
historically been ignored."

She is involved in a women's support
group, "Issues over Forty," which encour-
ages UMass women in that category to
meet for lunch on campus, or even for sup-

114 We the People

factor if they had the lounge as
the location. The wedding party
would only consist of 30 close
friends and relatives so a large
place wouldn't be necessary, and
the lounge would hold that num-
ber of people adequately.

The decorating for the ceremo-
ny was done by women from Gus-
towski's floor and a friend from
Boston University provided the
music before and after the cere-
mony, playing two selections from
Brahms.

The Rev. Robert S. Hopkins,
Justice of the Peace of Amherst
performed the traditional wedding
ceremony for the couple. The re-
ception which followed provided
guests with various types of snacks
as well as "a keg of beer like a
traditional UMass party," as the
bride put it.

They plan to live in the Cam-
bridge or Boston area to be near
public transportation. Most things
there are easily accessible by bicy-
cle, which is their preferred mode
of transportation.

They have also postponed their
honeymoon until their plans are
better defined.

When asked if they thought
what they did was something out
of the ordinary, Gustowski re-
marked, "I don't think you can do
anything out of the ordinary up

here."

— Heidi Berenson

Daniel Smith (2)

per if they have evening classes.

Involved in planning a BDIC major,
Wynne has found that non-traditional stu-
dents have a hard time here and sometimes
found herself "shuffled from office to of-
fice" seeking information.

"There is a problem in working out cred-
it for past experience, when you actually
try to get it, it's very difficult," she said.

Concerning her role as a non-traditional
student, she said, "Age is a big problem, I
find I have no peer group — although most
other students I have come in contact with
are very kind and receptive."

She also feels that most courses are set
up from the perspective of younger stu-
dents, but this is understandable, although
not always helpful to her.

Overall, this nurse, army veteran, and
mother of four speaks with great enthusi-
asm about her experiences here and is glad
she came to UMass.

— P.J. Prokop

'^Si'

Wheth-

\Jj y^ lege campus, a

' ^^ small town, or a city

street, there are always peo-
ple doing creative things provid-
ing interest for passersby. Lester Scafidi
is one of these people.

On Wednesday afternoons, inside or in
front of the Student Union, he sings and
plays his guitar.

"I started singing on streets and in cof-
fee houses in the late sixties," he said. A
1974 UMass graduate, he occasionally
works as a substitute teacher in the Am-
herst area, but street-singing provides his
livelihood.

After graduating from college he ap-
plied for some teaching jobs but decided he
needed some time to study on his own and
work on his music, so for the past year and
a half, he has had the unusual occupation
of street-singing, sometimes for rallies,
protests, an occasional teach-in, or just for
the entertainment of those walking by.

Scafidi likes the Amherst area. "On the
UMass campus, there are about 15 people

who come to see me every week when they
know I'll be playing, it's nice to see them
come back," he said.

While he does some songwriting on his
own, he generally uses a standard reper-
toire which can be adapted for different
occasions by changing the words. He said
there is no special or particular kind of
music he always uses, "just a little bit of
everything."

One thing he really enjoys about his
work is the freedom it affords him as well
as the idea of not having a captive audi-
ence; people can just come and go at their
leisure. "In return for my singing, people
give me whatever they want, money, a ba-
nana, sometimes they leave a joint or a
beer. I've also gotten invitations to dinner,
and once someone gave me an ink print
etching," he said.

"I'll come back in the fall and start sin-
gin' on the streets again. The best thing
about it is seeing someone come by after a
lousy class and just be able to sit down and
listen, maybe get a lift. There are very few
hassles and I have the time and freedom to
put into the things I want to do," he said.

He added, "I do it as much for the
smiles as anything else."

— P.J. Prokop

Bob (ianmchc

Stephen Hermann and Sean Clarke are
two twelve-year old students at Marks
Meadow Elementary School.

Jay Saret
They are also the creators of "SS" com-
ics which began appearing daily in the
Collegian this past spring.

When asked how they started in creating
comics through school, Sean said, "We're
both the best drawers in the room." They
both explained that their student teacher
from UMass told them they should contin-
ue drawing and maybe someday they could
really achieve something with their
artwork.

By having their comic strips printed in
the Collegian, Steve and Sean hope to be
discovered by syndicated newspapers.

The two comicsters were worried about
what UMass students would like to see in
their strips. When asked what they
thought the students would like to read,
Steve said, "They usually want something
funny." He then added, "There are a lot of
people on campus that are offended by
different things — like we have a character
Herman who is a 'Playboy' fanatic, and
that might offend Women's Lib."

These two gentlemen feel that they are
on their way to bigger and better comic
creations, especially with the help of the
Collegian, and would someday like to start
their own company so that other kids could
read their comics, just as they read "Mar-
vel" and "DC."

— Heidi Berenson

We the People 115

As part of
my college exper-
ience at UMass, I took the
time to live a dream, to take a
life-long fantasy and make it
into reality by gathering ener-
gy and free spirit to meet
America.

Attending college in the sixties, I lived
and believed in the axiom of "doing your
own thing — and do it now." Since age ten
my "own thing" has been to walk across
the country to experience the people and
the land. Fascinated with the life history of
John Chapman a.k.a. Johnny Appleseed, I
lived in waiting — and dreamed.

We all have dreams, many which never
materialize for uncontrollable reasons. For
me it was high school, college, and wasted
time as a captured American youth in a
war youth did not want, and back to col-
lege. With age (27) catching up, I knew I
had to live my dream now or never.

I started training by walking 40 miles a
day and my mind spun with visions of ex-
periencing the nation at my own pace.
While my mind turned, the wheels of
America stopped and gas lines grew. The
idea of roller skates as safe, ecological
transportation budded and grew. I pur-
chased a pair of skates and the feasibility
of quick, inexpensive travel was before me.
Within a week, I averaged nine miles per
hour on the open road, twice as fast as my
walking pace.

My dream became a pleasant obsession
as I trained and arranged an independent
study with Professor Ralph Whitehead of
the Journalism department.

The announcement of my intention to
roller skate across the country drew mixed
reactions. Some considered it and in-
formed me of my "foolishness," while oth-
ers encouraged the spirit of adventure and
freedom. I used the UMass library for
training and research. I would jog up 26
flights with a weighted backpack and ride
down on the elevator, only to jog up again.
The facilities of the library, history and
geography books as well as maps, were
invaluable in planning.

After thousands of jogs upward and 700
miles of road skating, I was fully prepared
to complete my dream.

To the cheers of many well-wishers I
skated off from Gloucester, Massachusetts
on May 27, 1974, for San Francisco, desir-
ing to do my best with a clear mind that if I
should fail for any reason, I could accept
that failure. The spiritual implications of
training allow one to realize that if one's
efforts are pure and honest, then failure is
but a state of mind.

Skating on secondary state or back
roads, I rolled through Massachusetts be-
ing greeted by many who offered well-
wishes, food, and lodging. The vibes were
beautiful. Having trained on it many
times, the seven mile rush of speeding
down Pelham Hill into Amherst was in-
tense, as was crossing the Calvin Coolidge
Bridge, or being honored as the town guest
in Chester, Massachusetts in the south-
western Berkshires.

Traffic was one of my biggest problems
and dangers. I planned a route designed to

avoid major cities. I rolled around Albany
and across New York on the scenic but
high hills of Route 20. After 200 miles of
high, rolling hills, my confidence was un-
defeatable. I rolled into Lima, N.Y. to the
open hands of townspeople and one very
high weekend party. The hills of New York
were my greatest physical test as they
seemed endless. After that, the Rockies
were childsplay.

My friend Tony MacNamera traveled
with me in a fully equipped van carrying
skating and camping equipment. He would
meet me at the end of the day when we
would discuss the day, and the immediate
future, and then we went into the nearest
town for some local culture.

In Pennsylvania, I skated into the show-
room of a winery and eventually carried
the little wine-maker to his home to sober
up. I rode a grapepicking machine and was
downed in arm wrestling by a 55-year-

young farmer.

With 500 miles of rolling hills behind
me, I welcomed the flatness of Ohio, where
I increased my average travel distance
from 45 to 60 miles per day. Every day was
a pure experience of America and her peo-
ple. The 4th of July was a day of rest, away
from the ever-dangerous traffic. In Ash-
land, Ohio, I experienced a reality not of-
ten found in Massachusetts, as the entire
town attended the day's festivities at the
town park. Homecooked food covered the
tables as mother and father calmly related
to one another and the children played
Softball. No drugs, a little liquor, but most
important, a true sense of love filled the
park and the people.

The Midwest was beautiful as I sped
across Indiana in two and half days aver-
aging 18 miles per hour, eighty miles a
day. In Peru, Indiana, I attended a practice
session of the youth circus and flew the
flying trapeze while trading lessons on
skates. As in all rural areas, the people
were wonderful.

Crossing the Mississippi, I skated
around the stop sign, not paying my ten
cent tithe to the calls of an apparently
frustrated toll both attendant.

Iowa was this skater's nirvana as I rolled
along the freshly repaved concrete road
surface of U.S. 20 in Staton, Iowa. I was
clocked on a steep hill at 37 miles per hour
passing bicyclists and catching second
looks from local police, whom I must note
treated me with respect, frequently inform-
ing me about road conditions, or making
camping suggestions, which made the trip
all the more pleasurable.

By coincidence, I rolled into Lincoln,
Nebraska while the national skating cham-
pionships were being held. The pure gut
feeling of receiving a standing ovation
from ten thousand skating enthusiasts still
hovers within me. The strong winds in Ne-
braska became a mighty foe, turning my
skin leatherlike and slowing my progress.
Revising my schedule and skating with
many breaks, I skated into Colorado. Fif-
ty-five skating miles into the state, the
Highway Patrol apprehended and escorted
me to the County Court House for a lesson

116 We the People

in law. Roadway skating is against the law
in Colorado. My request for a governor's
dispensation failed, forcing an adjustment
of routes.

A pleasurable unexpected surprise was
Wyoming, the purest ecological state I ex-
perienced. Skating against the winds was
greatest at the Continental Divide, but the
ninety mile downward ride was worth it. I
entered Utah on a ranch road and coasted
for two days without passing a car.

In Utah I was not allowed to skate in
Bountiful, as the police felt I would set a
bad example for the children. I walked
through Bountiful and Salt Lake City,
where I floated in the Great Salt Lake.

With air temperatures over a hundred
and road surfaces hot enough to warp my
plastic-based wheels, I sped across the
Great Salt Flats always waving to my
truck-driver friends who kept a constant
tab on my progress with their CB radios.
The drivers helped greatly with road condi-
tion reports, free meals, and information
on local areas. The truckers were real
friends.

Two miles from the Bonneville test site,
a convoy of five trucks raced down the
Flats and flashed their lights as they al-
ways did. This time the unbroken vacuum
of the trucks lifted me into the air for a few
long seconds of air ballet and I landed on
my back, brushing the sciatic nerve, tear-
ing ligaments, and cracking my lower
back.

The doctors in Salt Lake City informed
me that I would never skate again and
would not walk for months. Using the
same positive energy with which I had
rolled 3,000 miles, I meditated and bathed
in mineral springs and hot baths. After five
days, I could walk. I believe the only way
to improve is to exercise, and I exercised
myself back into shape by walking across
the desert and state of Nevada.

The desert is not quiet. The scurrying of
animals as I walked by or the scream of
hawks added a musical touch to the living
beauty of the desert in bloom. Only the
flashing lights of Reno had greater color,
but they shine raping the tranquility of the
desert.

I arrived at the California state line on
September 26, my target day to end the
trip. It was the bicentennial birthday of
Johnny Appleseed. The two day walk up
the scenic Sierra Nevadas was possibly the
most beautiful walk I experienced.

Reaching Carson Pass, I replaced my
sandals with my skates and rolled through
a short mountain snowstorm.

Three days and thousands of flashbacks
later I arrived at the base of the Golden
Gate Bridge. I meditated under the bridge,
reliving the trip, the beautiful people and

places, the joyful experiences. I was glow-
ing from personal satisfaction. I had trav-
eled 3,750 miles skating westward 88 days
with 37 days off to experience small towns
and people.

On October 12, I skated across the
Golden Gate Bridge onto Fisherman's
Wharf, greeting well-wishers and members
of the press.

The finale was beautiful, though anticli-

mactic, as for me it was the end of a dream

whirl.

— David Letters

We the People 117

Seniors .f^^MM

^ . . are what this book's all about. What an assortment
of unforgettable characters we met here! There were
students, professors, administrators we liked right from
the start, and those who took a little getting used to.

The people on the next fifty-four pages are all differ-
ent: majors, hometowns, cultures, etc., but yet they all.
have one thing in common: they are all graduates of the
Class of Nineteen-hundred and seventy-six.

Here, we give you one last look at scenes around cam-
pus, classmates, old friends, and new friends, everything
that made the class of '76 as individual as its graduates.

k Af

Stephen Abbott
Betsy Abrahamson
Debra Abrahamson
Joseph Acerra
Thomas Ackerman
Donna Acquaviva
Marc Adamchek

David Aizenstadt
Lillian Albanese
Robert Albanese

Janice Alexander
Sheryl Alexander
All Alie

Robert Allison

Melvyn Altman
David Amanti

j3J&t3C&^ PHOTOPHOBIC SENIORS tX^

Rich.ird Abuid
DjIc Abbou
Howard Abbolt
Robcrl Abboud
Kamal Abdulalim
Daniel Abdunnabi
Toshi Abe

Laurie Rubin Abclson
Keren Abrahams
Catherine Abramson
Ronald Abru77Cie
Roberl Abugov
Karen Ackcriy
Luis Acosla
Richard Adair
Ellen Adams
Gordon Adams
Kathleen Adams
Douglas Adgurson
Peggy Adkms
\anc_v Bales Aficrgul
MarjEllen Ahearn
Edmund Ahcrn
Marlha Ahlhauser
John Aho
Darrell Ahokas
Donald Aikey
Irene Aisncr
Nancy Ailken
Alan Akell
Philip Akcy
Mary Albert
Linda Alberli
Pcier Aldrich
Bonnie Alexander
Jeanne Alexander

Michael Alexander

Robcrl Alexander

Paul Alexanderson
Christopher Allard

Roger Allard

Craig Allcgrcz7a

Brian Allen

Charles Allen

David Allen

r.jrv Allen

Kathleen Kiclty Allen

Linda Allen

Mary Allen

Phyllis Allen

Richard Allen

Rulh Allen

Deirde Almeida

Roberl Almeida
Ricardo Alonso
Bcnncil Alpcr
Stephen Altobelli
James Amalo
Robcrl Ambrogi
Beth Amidon
Kathleen Amiraull
Kriangsak Ananlanasuw
Alan Anastos
Carlos Anderson
Frank Anderson
Janet Anderson
Justin Anderson
Kerry Anderson
Laverne Anderson
Linda Anderson
Paul Anderson
Vieloria Anderson
David Anderslrom
Barbara Andreas
Kirsten Andreason
Donald Andrealla
Mark Andrcoli
Scolt Andrew
Donna Andrews
Jean Andrews
Joseph Andrews
Peler Andrews
Roberl Annesc
Diannc Annichiarico
Frank Ansanilis
Pamela Anthony
Cheryl Anton
Jeanne Anlonino
Davidson Anyiwo
Gary Anzalolli
Lorin Appel
Robcrl Appis
Mark Appelman
Richard Applev
Edilh April
Barbara Aplacy
Nancy Aral
Michael Arce
James Archambeaull
Joan Archer
Mark Archer
Frank Archibald
Sohrob Ardalan
Anne Arnason
Ronnie Arnold
Edward Aronson

Nancy Arruda
Debra Arscnauh
Gary Arscnaull
Keilh Arscnaull
John Arsenis
John Arthur
Don Askew
Bonnie Asselin
Susan Aslle
Catherine Aslolfi
David Aslolfi
Elliot Alias
Michael Allridge
Paul Alwood
Francine Auberson
Richard Aucoin
Ellen Augarlcn
Mark Augarlen
Stephen Augal
Leroy Auger, Jr.
Fredi August
Linda Auguslini
Patrick Ausun
Slphen Avcrill
William Avery
Tamsin Axicll
Kathleen Axlcn
John Aycr
Aram Aykanian
Chrislophger Aykanian
John Ayrcs
Dcnise Babcu
Frederick Babin
Carole Babyok
Scoit Bacherman
Pelcr Backslrom
Allan Bacon
Sandra Bac7ewski
John Bagge
Barbara Bagley
Dennis Bagley
Esther Bailey
Gilda Bailey
Kent Bailey
Timothy Bailey
Victor Baillargcon
Thomas Baillio
Lawrence Baima
Allen Baird
Marcella Baird
Robert Bishop
Carol Bissell
Clyde Bissell

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James Adams
Laurie Adamson

Susan Adley
Barbara Aframe

Paul Aganski
Joseph Agundez

John Ahonen

Ronald Albert

John Alberts

David Alessandroni

Ruth Allen

Susan Allen

Diane Alliegro

Daniel Amato

Armand Amendola

Steven Anastasio

120 Seniors

Lisa Anderson
Robert Anderson
Donald Andrade

Edward Anop
Dora Antrasian
Roy Archambault

June Arnold
Terry Aronin
Scarlet Artruc

Souheil Asmar
David Assad
Araminda Atencio

Kathy Finn, freshperson from Marlboro, really gets into it at the Cage as the Minutemen defeat the
University of New Hampshire in a February basketball contest.

Stephen Andrews

Patricia Andrulot

John Anglin

Susan Ardizzoni

Nancy Armenti

George Arnett

Darini Arulpragasam

Kathleen Ashe

Louis Asmar

Melvyn Attman

Sarah Attridge

Ellen Audette

Deborah Austin

Richard Austin

Robert Axnikon

Julio Ayala

Seniors 121

Reginald Babineau
John Baccari
Peter Bacchiocchi
Brook Bacon
Roger Bacon
Scott Bacon
Leigh Bader

Suzanne Bakewell
Stephen Ball
Wayne Bandini
Diane Bannish
M. Kathleen Bansfield
Terry Barabe
Carol Baran

Maura Barry

Nancy Barry

Richard Barry

Daniel Barter

Susan Bartlett

Jonathan Baru

John Basilesco

Donna Bayer
Douglas Beach
John Beals
Arnold Bearak
Elizabeth Beary
Carl Beatty
Dennis Beaudry

Nancy Baer

Richard Bagdon

Manouche Bahrehmand

David Baillie

Mary Baker

Richard Baker

Michael Bakerman

Frank Barber

Mary Barker

Michael Barker

Anthony Barnes

Stephen Barone

Paul Barrett

Andrea Barry

Anthony Batakis

Susan Batchelder

Anthony Batista

Anthony Battista

Paul Battista

David Barbo

Vicki Baum

Jack Beaudry

Craig Beck

Ronald Beckner

James Bedard

Sharon Beddia

Paul Belcher

Carol Belliveau

122 Seniors

Mark Bentley
Robert Bennett
Richard Berg
Stephen Berger
Laurie Bergin
Linda Berman
Lori Berman

Bob Gamache

The campus was visited in the fall by five art sculptures, situated around the Fine
Arts Center and the Campus Pond.

Margiircl Baird

Nancy Baird

Bruce Baker

Cheryl Baker

Joanne Baker

John Baker

Mark Baker

Sally Baker

Su7anne Balboni

Edward Balcom. Ill

Joanne Baldassari

Joseph Baldassini
Leo Baldwin
Lynnc Ballard
Marian Balliro
Michael Batlou

Stephen Balog
Barry Bamberg
Kenneth Banas
Richard Bangs
Bernard Banks
Patricia Banks
Paul Bannock
Lisa Banla
David Barbo
Raymond Barbnck
Mary Barcellona
Claude Barnabe
Richard Barnard
Annie Barnes
David Barnes

Larl Barnes. Jr.
Donald Barnett
Elizabeth Barnett
Claire Barney
Joseph Barone
Andrew Barraford
Frederick Barren
Joan Barren
Robert Barren
Robert Barren
Steven Barren
Susan Barren
John Barron
Kathleen Barron
Valerie Barros
Arthur Barry
John Barrv
Martha Barry
Thomas Barry
William Barry
Benjamin Barsom
Richard Bartlen
Richard Bartlett
Susan Bartlelt
Willard Barlletl
Stuart Bartow
Zeevi Barzeev
Giovanni Basile
Joseph Baskowski
Stephen Baskowski

Nancv Basmajian

Mela" Bass

Lhfis Bas^ell
Lawrence Bastable
Anthony Bastaruchc
Bruce Balchelder
Sharon Batchelder
Richard Baleman
Belinda Bates
James Batson
Elaine Bauer
Lawrence Baugh
Robert Bauver
James Baxter
Joseph Beals
Marilynn Bcaucage
Bernard Beauchemm
Robin Beaulieu
Michael Beaumier
Gail Beauregard
Linda Beauregard
Ronald Beaurivagc
Maralcc Becker
Robert Becker
Stephen Becker
Julie Beckett
Paul Bedard
Yvonne Bcdnar?
Junius Beebc
Cynthia Beeman
Brian Begley
Joanne Begley
John Bekier
William Belcher

Wendy Bclltcid
Diane Bctiveau
Janice Bell
Michael Bell
Warren Bell
Charles Bellinger
Kevin Bcllino
Susan Bellows
Patrice Bennetaldcr
Bruce Bennett
Gail Bennett
Kristine Bennett
Mark Bennett
Robert Bennett
Susan Benson
Terr\ Benson
Barbara Benl
Richard Bentley
Robert Bentley
Robert Bentley
Martin Berger
Conslanc Bergeron
Susan Bergeron
Barry Berggren
Paul Bergstrom
Joyce Berkowiiz
Christopher Berlied
Frederick Berliner
Leni Berliner
l-ioward Berman
Merrill Berman
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James Bernard
David Berndtson
Philip Bernhardt
Marc Hero/
Cheryl Bcrlhiaume
Ina Ber.tolino
Thomas Berube
Robert Bessel
Linda Best
Sharon Bestford
Irene Beurskcns
James Bevan
James Beverly
Robert Beyer
Robert Beyer
Scon Bial
Joseph Blastoff
John Bibbo
Janet Bibby
Helen Bickcl
Steven Bigda
Philippa Biggers
Edward Bilck
Neil Billings
Dennis Bilotas
James Binari
Rosemarv Binda
David Birch
Donald Bird
Paula Bird
James Bisaillon
Ruth Bisbec
Marianne Bishop

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Susan Bellows

Philip Benbenek

Patrice Benner-Alder

David Bennett

Paul Bennett

Laurent Benoit

Mark Benoit

Robert Berman

Vicki Berman

Mary Bernat

Joel Bernstein

Carol Bibinski

Richard Bienia

Janice Bigda

Seniors 123

Barbara Bikofsky
Daniel Binnall
Vicki Birckholtz
Jeanne Bishop
Melanie Black
Alice Blackman
Leslie Blake

Marcia Bloomfield
Janet Blustein
Robert Boeri
Gemma Boffo

Robert Bojarski
Pamela Bonacker
Paul Bonarrigo
Edward Bonczar

James Bonofilio
James Borkowski
Richard Borst
Thomas Boshar

Steven Blake

Linda Blauer

Sharyn Blauer

Susan Blethen

James Bliss

Clifford Blom

Janis Bloom

Kiki Bogorad

Elizabeth Bohlin

Raymond Boissy

Richard Bojack

David Bond

Deborah Bonder

Randi Bonica

Ruth Bonita

Vincent Boshar

Joanne Bossio

Alfred Bouchard

Ronald Boucher

124 Seniors

William Boucher
Stephen Bourgault
Kathleen Bourque
Marilyn Bourque

Nancy Bowers
James Bowser
Deborah Boyd
Evelyn Boykan

Thomas Bradshaw
Marlene Braga
Donna Brailer
Marcia Branagan

Toby Brecker
John Bregoli
Kathleen Brennan
Holly Brennan

The UMass
library is the
world's tallest,
but it also has
one other
distinctive
characteristic:
one can spend
a half- hour
finding a
certain
reference in
the Readers'
Guide, only to
find that the
magazine you
need has been
ripped off.

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Francis Bjerke
Jiin Bjorklund
Frank Blachowski
Hclcnbcl Black
James Black
Lutricia Black
Margaret Black
Donna Blackburn
Bryan Blackncy
Charles Blair
Kenneth Blair
Joan Blais
John Blake
John Blake
Gary Blanchard
Paul Blanchei
Mary Blanchette
Thomas Blanchclte
Louis Bland. Jr.
Joseph Blaney
Michael Blaucr
Ann Blizard
Barbara Block
Debra Block
Jeffrey Block
Judith Blood
Cynthia Bloom
Richard Bloom
Robert Blout
Gary Blufcr
Kathryn Blum
Donna Blume
Elizabeth Blunt
Kathy Bock
Marie Bodensiek
Eva Boeshans
Wendell Boggs
Ellen Bohn
John Bohn

Julie Bohnc
Nona Megan Bohncr
Thomas Bohner
Eric Bohr
Harold Boisseau
Gary Boivin
Joyce Boler
Paula Bolis
Donald Bolton
John Bolton
Mary Bolton
Emalyn Bonaccorsi
Karen Bonazzoli
Francois Bonneville
Cathy Bonontio
Jackie Boone
Donald Booth
Gary Borkowski
Anita Bornstein
Bruce Bornstein
Henry Boron
Paul Borthwick
Janis Bosworth
Pamela Bosworth
Harry Bosyk
Anne Botelho
Charles Botelho
Cynthia Botsch
Bonni Bottinick
Debra Bottinick
Ellen Botuck
Eraser Bolwright
Gerard Boucher
David Boudreau
Leo Boudreau
Michele Boudreau
Barbara Boulden
Donna Bouley
Barbara Bourdeau

Edward Bourdeau
David Bourgct
Rene Bourgel
Carmella Bourne
Larry Bourret
David Bousquct
Dennis Bousquct
Mary Rello Boutilier
Dorthca Bowen
Jeffrey Bowers
William Bowes
Mary Bowmar
Betty Troutman Boyd
Victoria Boyer
Charri Boykin
Arthur Boyle
Charles Boyle
Mary Boyle
Leslie Bozigian
Suzanne Braadland
Jeannine Gosselin Brady
John Brady
Mary Brady
Stephen Brady
Donna Brallicr
James Brandt
John Brannen
Lisabelh Brantley
Heidc Braun
James Braun
Amy Bravcman
Debra Bravcrman
Diane Brawn
Shaun Brayton
Michael Brazel
Russell Breault
Virginia Breed
Elizabeth Breen
MarvEllen Breen

Linda Breitslem
John Brelsford
Katherinc Brendler
Ralph Brescia
David Bresnahan
Alan Bresner
Anna Brewster
Stephen Briana
Bonnie Bricketl
Frank Bridges
Larry Bridges
John Briggs
Thomas Brine
Anne Brisbois
Marianne Brissette
Laurie Bristow
Peter Broderick
Richard Broderick
Paul Brodmerkic
Mark Brodsky
Stephen Brody
Leslie Brogan
Carol Bromberg
Gary Bromery
Melvin Bronslein
Nancy Geglia Brooker
Deborah Brooks
Douglas Brooks
Melinda Brooks
Susan Brooks
Donna Brosca
Joseph Brosseau
Catherin Brotman
Jonathan Broughton
Philip Broughton
Guy Brousseau
Christopher Brown
Frederick Brown
James Brown

Karen Brown
Karen Brown
Kalhy Brown
Kenneth Brown
Kevin Brown
Michael Brown
Miriam Brown
Nicholas Brown
Robert E Brown
Robert L Brown
William Brown
Yvonne Powell Brown
John Brox
Robert Brulotle
Nancy Brunei!
Temple Bruncr
Stephen Brum
Susie Bryan
William Brzeski
David Bubriski
Kenneth Buchan
Lynnc Buchan
Betty Buchmann
Curtis Buck
Karl Buckland
Joan Buckley
Kathleen Buckley
Maureen Buckley
Michael Buckley
Michael P, Buckley
Patricia Buckley
John Buersmeycr
Robert Bugno
Anthony Buijnarowski
Grelchen Buitenhuys
Ralph Buliung
Christopher Bunnewith
Linda Burak
Charles Burbank

Richard Burbine
Philip Burdick
Pamela Burgess
Michael Burkart
Anne Burke
Dennis Burke
Doreen Burke
James Burke
John Burke
John W. Burke
Karen Burke
Regis Burke
Robert Burke
Thomas Burke
Wayne Burke
William Burke
John Burman
Mark Burmeister
Marsha Burnett
John Burnham
Frederick Burns
Janice Burns
Katharin Burns
Margaret Burns
Paul Burns
Paul F, Burns
Patricia Burr
Mark Burrell
Toby Burroughs
Leona Burrow
John Burrows
Cynthia Burt
David Burt
Kenneth Burt
Jcflrcy Burion
Josephine Russell Burton
Richard Burton
Jeffrey Busch
Maureen Bush

William Howell

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Paul Bouton

William Bowes

David Bowers

Joseph Bradford

Richard Bradford

Janet Bradley

John Bradley

Jon Brandon

Steven Brant

Karen Brass

Jean Bratlie

John Brennan

Sandra Brent

Paul Brewster

Kathryn Bridges

Jenny Briggs

Laurie Brigham

Nancy Brighenti

Seniors 125

Anne Brin
Suzanne Broadland
Dorothea Brodeur
Richard Brodeur
Karen Brody
Constance Brooks
Susan Brophy

Maureen Bruen
Ernest Brugliera
Gail Bruno
Ronald Bruno
Richard Bruton
Cathy Brzostecki
Christine Buba

Witold Bulikowski
William Buma
Paula Buono

John Burgoyne
Susan Burke
Paul Burkhardt

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Paul Bushey

Susan BushrriLin

Bruce Bussicre

Claire Bussierc

Kennclh Butler

Laurie Butler

Brenda Bull

Linda Buzzotla

David Bvrnes

Maureen Byrt

Marv Bys

Penny Bywell

Cheryl Cabrat

Bruce Caccamo

Lucille Cacicia

Dennis Cadieux

Ann Powers Cadran

John Caesar

Thomas Caissc

Ronald Calabrcse

Eric Calder

Marilyn Caldwell

Jan Call

Alice Callahan

Edward Callahan

Francis Callahan

Jean Callahan

Marion Wheeler Callahan

Mary Callahan

Michael Callahan

Noreen Callahan

Patrick Callahan

Sarah Callahan

Joseph Callanan

Bradley Calnan

Jeannine Camarda

Charles Cameron

Lavcrne Cameron

Alexis Camire

Michael Campaniello

Alan Campbell

Carole Campbell

Charles Campbell

Frank Campbell

Gwcn Campbell

Joyce Campbell

Sara Campbell

Thomas Campbell

William Campbell

James Campcielle

Narcissa Campion

Patricia Canavan

John Caney

Santo Cannarclla
Gaelano Cannala
John Canny
Paul Canton
Gail Cantor
Diane Canlwell
James Canty
John Capano
Pelcr Capello
John Capitanio
Daniel Cappellucci
Joseph Carbonc
Brian Cardello
Kathcrine Cardillo
Milca Cardinal
Gcorgina Cardozo
Elizabeth Caren
Linda Carew
Richard Carey
Maria Carito
Candace Carleton
Virginia Carlin
Elizabeth Carlson
Paul Carlson
Peter Carlson
Susan Carlson
Richard Carllon
Deborah Carney
Thomas Caron
Debra Carr
Barbara Carrcker
Calhryn Carroll
James F. Carroll
James K.. Carroll
Nancy Carroll
Richard Carroll
Paul Carrozza
Margaret Carsley
William Carson
Jordan Carter
Valerie Carter
Martin Carver
W. Paul Carver
Elisabeth Cary
Candice Casalis
Judith Case
Michael Case
Mark Casella
Gerald Cascmiro
Anne Casey
Gcraldin Casey
Kevin Casey
Madelyn Casey

Patrick Casey
Mark Cashman
Steven Casper
Colleen Cassidy
James Cassidy
Paula Cassidy
Eric Caster
Russell Cataldo
Lisa Cate
Michael Catlin
Kathleen Cauley
Patrick Cauley
Stephen Cauley
Thomas Cauley
Ellen Cavanaugh
Susan Caylcff
John Cecca
Robert Cclla
Lawrence Centrella
Cheryl Cernak
Keith Cernak
Roseanne Chagaruty
Charlene Chagnon
Thomas Chalmers
Maryann Chamberlain
Pamela Chambers
Matthew Chamctzky
George Champney
Jack Chan
Clayton Chandler
Francis Chaplain. Jr.
David Chaplin
Ben Chapman
Denise Chapman
Joan Chapul
Alan Charles
Donald Charlton
Meryl Charnow
Augustus Charos
Curtis Chase
Deborah Chase
Edith Chase
Elizabeth Chase
William Chase
Sidney Chaslain
Russell Chateauneuf
Mary Chenaille
Carol Cheng
Lisa Chernick
Paul Chevarley
Edmund Childs
Maureen Childs
Kenneth Chin

Bus rides
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a bummer,
but

sometimes,
it's the only
way to get
out of this
place.

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Bruce Brown

Lisa Brown

Marcia Brown

Margaret Brown

Peter Brown

Rickalen Brown

Katharine Browne

Howard Buckley

Jeffrey Buckman

Debra Budick

Steven Budrewicz

Joan Budzinski

Jerry Buffam

Richard Bukovich

Ann Burbank
William Burch
Philip Burdick

Conrad Burkholder

Kathryn Burmeister
Linda Burney

126 Seniors

Deborah Burns
Wayne Burns
Bill Burrell

Susan Butterfield
Marilyn Byrne
Marlene Cabral

Kathleen Callahan
Patricia Callahan
Patti Callahan

Madeline Capasso
Eliot Caplan
Michael Cappellano
Phyllis Carelock
Loretta Carestia
Christine Carew
Kathleen Carey

Mark Bussone

Lorraine Butler

Robin Butler

Nancy Cahill

Rita Cahill

Kathleen Callahan

Alison Callan

Marcia Campbell

Mary Cantrell

Stephen Carmel

Dawn Carmen

Julianne Carney

Daniel Caroleo

Anne Caron

James Caron

Janice Carroll

Seniors 127

Susan Carrol!
David Carter
Virginia Cary
Ellen Casey
Michael Casey
Marie Cashman
Diane Cass

Judith Cate
Elaine Centofante

Robert Chadwick
Richard Chaisson

Daniel Champagne
David Champion

Daniel Smith

When a blizzard hits Amherst, the Fine Arts Center and all the other white
concrete monsters seem to disappear in the driving snow. Although many of us
hoped for a snow day off the administration did not cancel classes because of
snow at all during the winter of '75-76.

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Joseph CifareJli

Joseph Chiu

Paul Cihocki

Donald Chivas

Steven Cioli

David Choinierc

Mark Citron

Robert Choinierc

John Clancy

Mary Cher

Arthur Clapp

Milion Chow

Jean Clark

David Chnsman

John Clark

Robert Chrisienson

Margaret Clark

Wiliiam Christie

Ruth Clark

Deborah Chromow

Steven Clark

Marilyn Chrostowski

Victor Clark

Hugh Churchill

Jamci Clarke

Mary Clarke

Timothy Clough

Gcoffrev Col fin

Robert Clarke

Valerie Clough

Mary C'oggins

Thomas Clarke

George Cmiel

James Coglin

Michael Clary

Denisc Coache

Andrea Cohen

Eric Clausen

Jane Coaklcy

David Cohen

Sue Clay

Ronald Cobbett

Ellen Cohen

Joyce Clement

Thomas Coburn

Judith Cohen

Gary Clements

Hugh Cocke

Ranan Cohen

Doris CIcmmons

Robin Cody

Anthony Cohnhaft

AnnMarie Laptcw

Stephen Cody

Julia Coholan

Clendcnin

Debra Cofelice

Robert Coit

Peter Cline

Donald Coffey

John Colaneri

Lawrence Clockedilc

MaryAnn Coffey

William Colantuon

Amy Clough

Patrick Coffey

George Colby

James Colb>
Wayne Colcord
Charles Cole
Frederick Cole
Gregory Cole
Laura Cole
Donald Coleman
Eleanor Coleman
Kathleen Coleman
Rendell Coles
Bruce Collamore
Steven Collar
Jeanne Collette
Maria Collette

Chellis Collins
Craig Collins
Deborah Collins
Donald Collins
Kalhcrin Collins
Kevin Collins
Margaret Collins
Mark Collins
Mary Collins
Peter Collins
Peter W. Collins
Richard Collins
William Collins
Doris Cotmes

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Patricia Cassidy
Gary Castaline

Barbara Ceres
Donald Cerow, Jr.

Ronald Chait
Karen Chambers

Hin Chan
Mary Chankalian

128 Seniors

Vlarguerite Chaplain
ilaine Charlton
Zharles Chase
vlark Chase
ludith Cheney
Roberta Chereskin
lames Chernoff

Paula Chouinard
Thomas Chow
Catherine Chudy
Arlene Churchill
Brenda Ciak
Helen Ciborowski
Vanessa Cieslak

Gordon Clark
Nathaniel Clark
Mary Cleary
Mrs. Charles Clemons
Pamela Cleval
Patricia Clifford
Robert Cline

Benjamin Coggins III
Kyle Cohen
Menashi Cohen
Michael Cohen
Edward Donowa
Rena Cohen
Theresa Colacchio

Michael Chiasson

Peter Chiavaro

Nancy Chisholm

Suzanne Chisholm

Roberta Chmielinski

Jacqueline Choate

Martin Chotiner

David Cignoni

Benjamin Clancy

Stephan Clancy

Cathy Clark

Charles Clark

Elizabeth Clark

Fred Clark

Richard Cloonan

Alan Clough

John Clough

Joseph Cocco

Beth Cochran

Richard Coco

Mark Coggeshall

Alan Colarusso

Edward Colello

Linda Coleman

Barry Colen

Kathleen Coletta

George Coletti

Stephen Colin

Seniors 129

Scott Collard
Beatrice Collins
Jean Collins
Joseph Collins

Karen Coltin
Linda Colton
Sally Conant
Cynthia Conforti

James Connors
William Conrad
Mary Constance
Kenneth Conway

Stuart Cooperrider
Ellen Corrigan
William Corrigan
Meryl Corsover

Bob Gamache

Stephanie Collins

Neal Colman

Terry Colsia

Kim Colson

Frances Conner
John Connolly

Nancy Connolly
Paul Connolly

Barry Cooper

Catherine Cooper

Roger Cooper

Steven Cooper

Joyce Cortese

Donald Cortis

Anne Costello

John Coull

130 Seniors

Donald Coulombe
Michael Couture
Herbert Covert
Kathleen Covert

Anne Craig
Valerie Cramp
Robin Cranmer
Stephen Crawford

Mary Crook
Jeffrey Crouse
Stephen Crowe
Charlene Crowley
Lisa Crowley
Juan Cruz
Ralph Cuculo

Joyce Curtis
Buck Curtis
Kerry Cushan
Pamela Cushman
Ellen Cutler
John Cutter
Cecilia Czarnecki

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Duncan Colter
Michael Comb
Gary Conahay
Diane Conanl
Andrew Condon
Frederick Condon
Robert Condon
Peter Conklin
Michael Conley
Barbara Conlon
Dennis Conlon
Kenneth Conlon
Michael Conn
Paul Connelly
David Conners
Kevin Conners
Ann Connolly
Leeanne Connolly
Linda Connolly
Mary Connolly
Jeremiah Connors
Patricia Connors
Sean Connors
Susan Connors
Alan Conragan
Judith Conway
Paula Conway
Aired Cook
Gail Cook
Gary Cook
Robert Cook
Sandra Cook
Debra Cooke
Jeanne Cookman
Stephen Coombs
James Cooney
Joseph Cooney
Mary Cooper
Theresa Cooper
Manivn Copley

Mary Henderson Coppola

Blanca Cortes

Gary Costa

Stephen Costa

Peter Costantino

Carol Costello

Daniel Costello

Dana Cote

Laurence Cole

Joel Cotter

Amy Cotton

Jeffrey Cotton

Edmund Coughlin

Ernest Coulombe

Charles Council

Alayne Couper

James Courcicr

Robert Court

Thomas Courtney

Mark Courvillc

Bryan Cousin

Dan Couture

John Couture

Mark Couture

Peter Couture

Raymond Couture

Susan Covalli

Juliet Covell

Carolyn Cowen

Elise Cox

Edward Craffey

Patricia Crafts

Candice Craig

Janis Crampton

Nicholas Crane

Martha Crawford

Ellen Creane

Maxine Creanza

John Creavcn

Daniel Creed

Kathryn Creely
Kevin Creighan
G, Creighton
John Creighton
James Crepeau
Daniel Creran
Jean Crimmins
Sheila Crimmins
Joseph Crompion
Gary Cronan
Ellen Cronin
Jeanne Cronin
Michael Cronin
Neil Cronin
Claudia Crookslon
Gail Crosby
William E. Crosby
William R, Crosby
Beth Cross
Kathryn Cross
Richard Cross
Cheryl Grossman
Candice Crough
Robert Crowell
James Crowley
Maureen Crowley
Neil Crowley
John Cruckshank
James Cruise
Alberto Cruz
Elba Cruz
David Cryer
Stuart Cudlitz
Deborah Culhane
Christopher Cullen
Mark Cullinan
Barry Cummings
Larry Cummings
David Cunha
Claudia Cunningham

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Paul Coviello

Eric Covner

Kenneth Cowen

Mark Cozzens

James Creer

Christine Crepeau

Stuart Critz

Susan Crocker

Deirdre Cronin

Elizabeth Cronin

Steven Cronin

Nancy Cullen

Debra Cummings

John Cummings

Paul Cummings

James Cunningham

Eleanor Curley

Maureen Curley

Ronald Czepiel

Ann Czupryna

Wayne Dacostino

Barbara Dale

Stewart Dalsimer

Joel Dalton

Donna Daly

Seniors 1 3 1

Karen Dam
John Dame
Anthony Damelio
Francis Dance
Deborah Daniels
Peggy Dargie
Marc Dargis

Robert Dea
Walter Deacon
David Dean
Patrick DeBoard
Brian Deckel
Amy Deforest
David Degere

Michele Dennis
Sharon Dennis
Paul Dennison
Cynthia DePippo
Karen DeSalvio
Denis DeSaulniers
Alec DeSimone

Vicenta DeSotolongo
Carol DeSousa

Mary Dash

Elizabeth Davenport

Gary Daviau

Elaine Davidson

Charles Davis

Ellen Davis

Ronald Davis

Elaine DeGregorio
Domingo DeJesus
Brunilda DeLeon
Gregory DeMello
James Dempsey
Anthony DeMusis
Susan DenHerder

Robert Cunningham

Sandra Cunningham

Carol Curley

John Curley

Theodore Curley

Barbara Curran

James Curran

Joanne Curran

Joseph Curran

Elizabeth Currie

Edward Curry

Beth Curtin

Cynthia Curtis

Deborah Curlis

William Curtis

Arnold Cushing

Kerry Cushman

Marianne Fontaine Cwalina

Stephen Cwalina

John Cycz

Ernest Dagnelli

Robert Dagnello

Wavne Dagostino

Dawn Smith Dahl

David Daigneault

Jane Dailey

Sara Dale

Diann Daley

Michael Daley

Richard Dalianis

Elaine Dallessandro

Stephen Dalrymplc

James Dalton

John Daly

Kathleen Daly

Diane Damelio

Maria Damon

Denise Damour

Barry Dancewicz

Cynthia Daniels

Gary Danis

Carol Danley

Charles Dansreau

Wendy Darby

Francis Darcy

Anna Dargis

Pamela Darling

Spencer Darling

Joseph Davenport

Barry Davidson

Jacquelyn Davidson

Jean Davidson

Richard Davies

Charles Davignon

Dorene Davino

Albert Davis

Andrea Davis

Andrew Davis

Glenn Davis

Helen Davis

Jane Davis

John Davis

Margaret Davis

Michael Davis

Patrick Davis

Sidney Davis

Susan Davis

Michael Davolio

Barbara Dawidjan

James Day

Jason Day

Virginia Day

William Dayutis

Nancy Deackoff

Alden Dean

David Dean

Francis Dean

James Dean

Mark Dean

Edward Dcane

Gail Deane

John DeAngclo

Robert Dearborn. Jr.

Brian Dearden

Leslie DcBiccari

Joan Deckelbaum

Janis Dedrick

John Dee

Stephen Dee

Marion Dcegan

Joseph Deering

Paul Deering

Mary DeFelice

Kenneth DeFreitas

Patricia DeGarmo

Carl Deieso

John Delaney

Nancy Delaney

Dale Delano

Linda DeLeo

Maryann DcLeo

Anthony Delgado

Dimitra Delias

Karen Delle

Steven DelMaestro

Ezequiel DelRio

Mark DeMaranville

Philip DeMarco

Christopher DeMarest

James DeMary

Kenneth DeMeo

Carolyn DeMoranville

Linda Dempsey

Robert Denehy

Joseph Denly

Paul Dennett

Cecile Denning

Jonathon Dennis

Edward Denon

Shara Denson

Marie Deotle

James DePasquale

Stephen Dereszewski

David Desjardins

John Desjarlais

Lisa Desmarais

Marilcc Martin Desmarais

Neal Desmarais

Dennis Desmond

Dennis M. Desmond

Lewis DeSouza

Janis DeSpain

Darrell DeTour

Norman DcVeau

James DeVine

Matthew DeVine

Robert DeVito

Joan Devlin

David DeWmter
John DeWitt
Deborah DeWolfe
Dean Dexter
Catherine Dialcssi
Rueith Diamond
Robert Diamond
John Diaz
Philip DiBenedetto
Matthew Diehard
Jean Dickey
Frederic Dickson
Karen Diebner
Wanda DifHey
Vincent DiFilippo
Joseph DiFranza
Michael Digby
Joseph DiGenio
Donna Dillabaugh
Francis DiMario
Patricia DiMasi
Debra DiMassimo
Christopher Diminico
Peter Diminico
Deborah Dinan
Richard Dinatale
Paul Dincrstein
John Dion

Michael Diraimondo
Karen Dittrich
Rocco DiVcrdi
James DiVito
Judith Dixon
Mark Dlugosz
Charles Dockendorff
James Dodge
Thomas Dodge
William Dodge, Jr
Wendy Doering
Diane Doherty
Mary Doherty
Michael Doherty
Robert Doherty
Cheryl Dolan
Philip Dolan
Sharon Dolan
Stephen Dolan
Stephen P. Dolan
Tara Dolan
Thomas Dolan
Kristine Doll
Victoria Dombrain
Ralph Dominick
Carol Donaghcy
Robert Donaghey
Kathleen Donaghue
Kirk Donahoc
Claire Donahue
Edward Donahue
Richard Donahue
Stephen Donahue
Robert Donatoni
John Donley
Francis Donnellan
Matthew Donnellan
John Donnelly
Paul Donnelly
Eileen Donoghue
Eileen M. Donoghue

John DeSisto
Karen Desmarais

Catherine DesRosiers
Helena DeTore

132 Seniors

David DeVault
Brenda DeYoung

Lori DiCesare
Lorna Diehl

Richard Dineley
Beverly Dingwall

Peter DiSalvatore
Michael DiSavino

Student Don Garvey demonstrates one way
of "getting away from it all". Garvey, a
member of the University Parachuting Club.
has just released his drag chute 2800 feet
over the Turners Falls airport.

Ronald DeYoung
Anthony DiBartolomeo

Paul DiGiammarino
Marlene DiLeo

Donna Diodati
Patricia DiRusso

Barbara DiStefano

Beth DiVoll

William Dobbins

Gordon Dobbs

Wayne Dodwell

Mary Doherty

Paul Doherty, Jr.

Seniors 133

Paul Doherty
Robert Doiron
Charlene Dolan
Karen Dolphin
Arthur Donahue
David Donahue
Dorothy Donahue

Gary Donnellan
Deborah Donovan

William Howell

Some more students demonstrate another way of "getting away
from it all". Thousands of dollars are spent every year on the
pinball machines in the Campus Center and the Student Union.

Daniel J. Donovan
Daniel J. Donovan
Daniel J. Donovan
David Donovan
Ellen Donovan
John Donovan. Jr,
John V Donovan
Thomas Donovan
Timothy Donovan
Bruce Dooley
James Dopp
Thomas Dorrance
Joseph Dorval
William Dotson
Wayne Douglas

Alan Dove
Margaret Dow
Kalherine Dowd
Elizabeth Dowling
Jeanne Dowling
Michael Downey
Robert Downing
Susan Downs
William Downs
Henry Doyle
Rebecca Drake
Robert Drake
Roger Drawee
Rulh Drechsler
Dierk Drews

Thomas Drewski
Marcie Drcyer
Brain Driscoll
Robert Driscoll
Mary Dristiliaris
David Drolel
James Droney
Maureen Drouin
Richard Drown
Paul Drozdowski
James Drummey
Sean Drummey
Anthony Duarte
Gregory Duarle
Joanne Dubian

John DuBpis
Linda DuBroof
Mary Dubsky
Dennis Ducharme
Michelle Ducharme
Sue Duchin
George DucotI
Deanne Dudash
Lavon Duddleson
Joanne Dudevoir
Laurel Dudley
Brian Duffey
Darlccn Wilkey Duffy
Ellen Duffy
Kathleen Duffv

Patricia Duffy
Kathleen DuFort
Ronald DuFresne
Monica Dugan
Uldis Dulevskis
Brian Dulmaine
Charles Dunbar
John Dunbar
David Duncan
Jeremy Duncan
Teresa Duncan
Kathleen Dunderdale
Samuel Dunmore
Arthur Dunn
Jacqueline Dunn

Joseph Dunn
Mark Dunn
Robert Dunn
Daniel Dunne
Martha Dunphy
Raymond Dunphy
David DuPont
Jacqueli Dupre
Robert DuPuis
Barbara DuQuet
Robert DuQuetle
Alexis Durham
Cynthis Durkcc
Kathleen Durkin
Thomas Durso

Kathleen Dwyer
Thomas Dye
Debora Dyer
Janice Dyer
Robert Dyke
Michael Dziewit
John Earl, Jr.
Michael Earle
Richard Earley
Regina Early
Ruth Early
Edward Eaton
Charles Eberl
Julie Eckman
Joan Fdelsiein

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Ellen Donahue
Dorrine Donaldson

Karen Donovan
Lucy Dorsey

Debra Doucette
Louise Doucette

David Douglas
John Downing

134 Seniors

Mary Downing
William Doyle
David Drewniak
Mary Driscoll
Nancy Droz
Cheryl Drucker
Lawrence Drucker

Bonnie Duffy
Thomas Duffy
Armand Dufresne
Francis Duggan
Conrad Dugre
Larry Dunham
Louise Dunphy

Maureen Dyer
Susan Dyer
Paul Dzubek
Donald Eagles
William Earle
Dennis Eaton
Linda Ebbeling

William Elias
Laurie Elinoff
Donald Ellis
Angela Ellsberry
Janet Ellsworth
Deborah Elms
Gretchen Emerson

Deborah Drummey

Susan Drummey

Katherine Drummond

Francis Dubay, Jr.

Norman Dube

Glenn Duffee

Elaine Duffey

Bradford DuPont

Kathleen Durkin

Richard Durkin

Robert Durland

Jane Dvorak

Carol Dwyer

Michael Dwyer

Cheryl Eddy

Diane Edel

Mark Edson

Carl Ehrlich

Susan Ekizian

Rosemary Elder

Joseph Elial

William Enright

Gale Eriksson

Albert Euliano

Jack Fabbricante

Donna Fafard

Elizabeth Falardeau

Kathleen Fallon

Seniors 135

Stephen Falvey
Samuel Fan
Moira Fanning
Donna Farber
Lisa Fallon
Judith Farias
Pamela Farnsworth

Ann Feldman
Michael Feldman
Neal Ferestien

Katharine Fernstrom
Carol Ferren
Karin Fiedler

Dennis Finn
Kevin Finucane
Elisabeth Fisher

Alfred Faro

David Farrell

W. John Farrell

Maureen Fay

Noreen Feeley

Sue Feeney

Thomas Feeney

Glenn Ferguson

Susan Fernald

Manuel Fernandez

Elizabeth Fil

Steven Fine

Richard Finkel

George Fisher
Mark Fisher
Lucinda Fite

136 Seniors

David Fitzgerald
Donna Fitzgerald
Dorothy Fitzgerald

Kathleen Flanagan
Kevin Flanagan
Barry Flanders

Elaine Flores
Craig Florin
Karen Flygare

Kenneth Fonda
Maria Fontaine
Joanne Forbes

When Mav

rolls around,
and the
temperatures
climb into
the seventies
for the first
time in seven
months,
students can
usually
manage to
convince their
professors to
hold class
outside in
warm sun
and cool
breeze.

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Jennifer Edniinsler
Cheryl Edmonds
Geoffrey Edmunds
David Edwards
Elaine Egan
John Egan
Virginia Ehas
Mark Ehrlich
Lisa Eidhn
Paul Eidlin
Crelchen Eisenhaure
Ann Elderkin
Peler Eldridgc
Sally Eldridgc
Frcdda Elgarl
Bruce Elias
Diane Eliopoulos
Jeffrey Ellena
Bernard Elliot
Andrew Ellis
David Ellis
Kurl Ellison
Susan Ellslrom
Russell Ellsworth
Nancy Elvin
Christine Ennerson
Patricia Emerson
Clayton Emery. Jr.
Garry Emgc
Helena Emmanuel
Denis Emmeti
Susan Emond
William Endicolt
Jean English
William Enniss
David Enos
Vicki Enrighl
George Entwislle
Robert Ephraim
Michael Epp
Roberta Epstein
Herbert Erickson
Christine Ericson
Sleven Erikscn '

Judilh Eriksson
Carolynn Griggs Ernst
Kelly Erwin
Fannie Escobar
Mary Esquivel
Julia Essig
Alda Estanislau
David Eulian
Gram [-usiis

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Dianne Evans
Ellen Evans
Sandra Evans
Dorothy Evarts
Daria Ewanik
Marilyn Ewing
Helen Eysic
Michael Facchini
Rodney Fagan
Thomas Fahey
Robert Fair
Wendy Fairlie
Jack Fairwcalher
James Fairwcalher
Emmett Fallon
Lisa Fallon
Thomas Fallon
Peler Famulari
Collcn Farias
Guy Faricr
Kalherin Fariss
Andrew Farquharson
William Farrell
Calvin Farris
Robert Farris
Thomas Farrow
Marcia Shaw Faucher
Michael Faulkner
Thomas Faulkner
Anthony Favaloro
Susan Favaloro
Nancy Favreau
Daryl Fay
Eugene Fay
Mark Feelcy
Richard Feeiey
John Feely
Douglas Feeney
James Feeney
Stephen Fcinbcrg
Scoii Feingold
Robert Fcldberg
Anne Fcldman
Mark Feldman
Sleven Fcldman
Helen Fellows
Jon Fcltus
Robert Femiano
Deborah Fenncssey
David Fcnlin
Sue Ferguson
Susan Fcrlcger
Miguel Fernandc7

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Elizabeth Fitzgerald

John Fitzpatrick

Mary Fitzsimmons

Mary Flanigan

Carlyn Flax

Kevin Fleming

Karen Flynn

Bernadette Foley

Nestor Folta

William Forbes

Gary Forcier

Mark Fortin

Peter Fournier

Christopher Fox

Debra Fox

Elise Fox

Senior:

137

John Fraher
Malcolm Francis
Suzanne Franke
Jane Franklin
Lee Fraser
Susan Fraze
Diane Freedman

Norma Friedman
Arthur Friedson
David Fuette

David Furini
Gary Fuselier
David Gaboury

Steven Gainsboro
Patricia Gallaghar
Scott Ganz

'^"S^

A pair

guitarists
finds solace
in their
music
under a
tree by the
campus
pond.

Monserrat Fernandez
Dawn Ferrantc
Marlha Ferranie
John Ferrara
Sicphen Ferrari
Paul Ferraronc
Joseph Ferretli
John Ferri
Margaret Ferrick
Mary Ferrick
Edward Ferris
David Ferron
Jean Ferwerda
Peter Feliig
Isabel Field
Gregory Fielding
Sharon Fielding
Elinor Fierman
Joseph Fijal
Kathryn Filios
Stephen Filip
Gerry Filliger
Marilyn Finlay
Daniel Finn
Mark Finn
Nancy Finnegan
Daniel Finneran
Mark Finnerly
James Finnic
Anthony Fiore
Robert Fiore
Lana Fischer
George Fish
Lawrence Fish
Susan Fish
Melissa Fisher
Michael Fisher
Peter Fisher
Susan Fisher
Thomas Fisher
William Fisher
Karen Fiske
Jessica Fitch
Brian Fitzgerald
Gerald Fitzgerald
Gerald E, Fitzgerald
James Fitzgerald
Nancy Fitzgerald
Neal Fitzgerald
Phyllis Fitzgerald
Ronald Filzmeyer
Tcrese Fiizpairick
Kevin Flaherty

Thomas Flaherty
Thomas J, Flaherty
Albert Flanagan
Nancy Flanagan
Paul Flannelly
Gail Flannigan
Howard Flashenburg
Arlene Lubow Flatto
Laurel Fleet
Jeffrey Fleming
Michael Flessas
Raymond Fletcher
Lawrence Flockerzi
Leslie Flood
Janice Flowers
Christopher Flynn
John Flynn
Peter Flynn
Richard Flynn
Charles Fogel
Robert Fogg
Karen Fohrhaltz
Ann Foley
AnneMarie Foley
Dennis Foley
Esther Foley
Walter Foley
Rebecca Folta
Mary Fonseca
Mark Fontaine
Christopher Foolit
Christopher Ford
Thomas Ford
Robert Foresi
Kenneth Forfla
Geoffrey Forgue
William Forrest
Stephen Forrisler
Karen Forsgard
Krisline Forsgard
Richard Forsyth
Carol Forsythecartelli
Linda Malmstrom

Fortenbcrry
Glenn Fortin
Marc Fortin
Ermelinda Fortunato
Elizabeth Foss
David Foster
Lianne Foster
Marilynn Foster
John Foihergill
Donna Foti

Linda Fountain
Teresa Latter Fountain
David Fournier
Janet Fournier
Robert Fournier
Cellen Fowie
Bernard Fox
Kathleen Fox
Pamela Fox
Marian Frack
Laura Franccschi
Paul Franceschini
Debra Franchi
Debra Francis
Helene Frank
George Franklin
Gilbert Franklin
Judith Diane Franklin
Steward Franklin
John Fraser
Sharon Frawley
Jonathan Frazier
Cynthia Fred
Janis Frederick
Raymond Fredericks
Annie Fredkin
Peter Fredrickson
Shirley Frcdriksson
Kenneth Freed
Bruce Freedman
Deborah Freeman
Edwin Freeman
Thomas Freitag
James French
Frank Freudberg
Edward Friary
Anne Friedell
James Friedman
Jeffrey Friedman
Joanne Friedman
Brian Friedmann
Daniel Friedmann
Rhonda Friedmann
Gail Fnschi
Joyce Frissell
David Fritchman
Diane Fronckus
Nancy Ward Frutkin
Joan Frydel
Jeffrey Frye
David Fubini
Christine Fuller
Ray Fuller

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Jane Freeman

Robin Freeman

Mark Freeze

Pamela Friday

Benjamin Friedell

Louella Friedhaber

Barry Friedman

Carolyn Fuller

Edward Fuller

Colin Fulton

Deborah Gagnon

Carol Gaines

Loretta Ga-nes

James Garanin

Kenneth Garber

Kathryn Gardner

138 Seniors

Debbora Garrigan
Camille Garro
Barbara Gaucher
Stanley Gawlik
Francis Gay
George Geer
Frederick Geller

Janice Gilman
Mark Ginsburg
Richard Girard
Karen Gizitsky
Joanne Gleason
Bruce Gledhiii
Amy Glick

Neil Goldberg
Ilene Goldman
Lynda Goldman
Stephen Goldman
Randall Goldsmith
Karen Goldstein
Susan Goncarovs

Clark Gordon
Ellen Gordon
Sherryl Gordon
Edmund Gorman
Robert Gorman
Michael Gormley
Barbara Goss

Jeanne Gerrold
David Gesner
Frits Geurtsen
Craig Ghidotti
James Gibbons
Nancy Gibson
Michael Gillen

Reisa Glickman

William Glucksman

Mary Glynn

David Gniadek

Russell Goddard

Michael Golas

Leslie Goldberg

Federico Gonzales

Galen Good

Donna Goodale

Alicia Goode

Nancy Goodell

Russell Goodman

Alan Gordon

Glenda Gosselin

Teri Gottschalk

Valerie Gould

John Graf

Steven Graf

James Graham

Phyllis Graham

Seniors 139

Richard Graham
Stephen Gramolini
William Granchelli
Carl Gray
Steven Graziano
Michael Greaney
Paul Greeke

Laurine Greguoli
Mark Grenier
Marie Griffin
Claudia Grigalus
George Grillon
Susan Griot
Susan Griskevich

John Guerra
Martin Guerra
Susan Guidrey
Cheryl Gulick
Denise Gunning
Gary Gunnulfsen
Marian Gurry

Morteza Halabian
David Hale
Jonathan Hale
Alyson Hall
Bettilou Hall
Jane Hall
Kevin Hall

Diane Green

Cheryl Greenberg

Gail Greenberg

Linda Greenhalgh

Richard Greenleaf

Barbara Greenstein

Jay Gregory

Laura Griswold

Stephen Grolnic

Robert Gross

Marcy Gruen

Kenneth Grunes

Maryann Grzywna

Brenda Guarnieri

Michael Hackett

Dennis Haggett

Alan Hagopian

Douglas Hahn

Margaret Hailer

John Hake

Christopher Hakim

Daniel Smith

Louis Halon
Wendy Halpern

140 Seniors

enise Hamel
aul Hamilton

Cynthia Hanczaryk
Ilene Handler

Bernard Hannon
Judith Hans

Daniel Harbacevich
Pauline Harding
Kenneth Hark
Joan Harkin
P. Harkus
Virginia Harpin
Hazel Harris

Stuart Fyfc
Diannc Gabis
Charles Gaedtke
Linda Gaffney
Virginia Gagan
David Gage
Pamela Gage
Elaine Gagnon
Richard Gagnon
Harold Gaines
Thomas Gaines
Pairicia Gajda
Holly Galcnski
Harry Galiatsos
Deborah Gallagher
Paul Gallagher
Michael Gallant
Timothy Gallant
Paul Galley
Francis Galligan
Claire Gallo
Nancy Galofaro
Laura Galusza
Donald Galuza
Jayne Gamer
Larraine Gandolfi
Donald Gangell
Cynthia Gaon
Cynthia Garabedian
Robert Garabedian
Francis Garahan
Jesus Garcia
Janice Gardner
Maria Gardner
Raymond Gardner
Steven Gardner
Steven Garnelt
Cary Garrett
Wayne Garrett
George Garrity
Jon Garvey
Robert Garvey
Leslie Gasser
Deborah Gately
John Gaucher
Barbara Gaudet
Donna Gaudette
Mark Gaudelie
Marijo Gaumond
Irene Gauthier
Nancy Gauthier
Ellen Gavin
Rose Gayarsky
Garry Gazzaniga
Kevin Geary
John Gebbie
Gail Geddes
Mark Gedmin
David Gcdrailis
Dennis Gee
Janice Erickson Gee
Gary Geffken
Dana Geis
Elizabeth Gelineau
Paul Gelineau
Susan Geller
William Gelsomino
Paul Gcncst
Dianne Gennari

Nicholas Gentile

Nicholas Georgantas

Diane George

Sharron Geracc

Kathleen Geragosian

Kenneth Gerard

Leslie Geratowski

Thomas Geronimos

David Gerralt

Nancy Gerrior

Craeman Gelhers

Robert Getlings

Michael Gettman

Michael Giampiclro

Richard Giard

David Giardina

Linda Giardina

John J Gibbons

John J. Gibbons

Joseph Gibbons

Charles Gibson

Chryse Gibson

Douglas Gibson

Mary Gibson

Philip Gibson

Paul Gifford

Arthur Giftos

Mary Gilbert

Nancy Gilbert

Michael Gilberli

Joseph Gilboy

Michael Gilbride

Allan Gildersleeve

Paul Gilflllan

Patricia Gill

Robert Gill

Thomas Gill

Thomas Gillams

Carol Gillan

Paula Gillespie

Joyce Gillis

David Gillon

Jeffrey Gilman

Nancy Gilman

Paul Gilroy

Gail Ginnetti

Paul Giordano

Donna Girard

Gary Girard

Keith Girard

William Girardi

Theresa Girgenti

Mercedes Girona

Elaine Giroux

Angela Giudice

Ruthann Giusti

Mark Given

James Glackin

Geraldine Hodge Gladden

Gary Gladu

Alida Glancy

Jane Glass

Howard Glassman

Robert Gleason

Lynn Gledhill

Hodges Glenn. Jr.

Charlene Glorieux

Veronica Glynn

Mark Goebel

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Hilary Hammer
David Hampson

Cynthia Hanley
Kenneth Hanley

Rodney Hansen
Steven Hanson

Peter Harris

Raymond Harris

William Harris

Lee Hart

Steven Hart

Jacquelyn Hartford

Pamela Hartford

Seniors 1 4 1

Gary Hartley
Elaine Hartman
Suzanne Harwood
Bela Hasek
Nadine Hashem
Bruce Hashinger
Jerilyn Hastings

Nathaniel Hearn
Joseph Hebert
Joanne Henriksen
Daniel Hermanski
Marcia Heronemus
Joel Hersh
Diane Hess

Catherine Higgins
Betsy Hill
Robert Hiller
Roland Hinckley
Kenneth Hintlian
Pamela Hiser
Jodi Hitt

Alan Hoffman
Dennis Hoffman
Robert Hoffman

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Richard Gogal
David Gold
Warren Gold
David Goldberg
Donna Goldberg
Wayne Goldberg
Jarcd Goldfine
Marvin Goldman
Michael Goldman
Jmark Goldrick
Allan Goldsher
Craig Goldsmith
Ronald Goldsmith
Deborah Goldstein
Janice Goldstein
Lawrence Goldstein
Sharon Goldzweig
George Golebiowski
David Golinski
Mitchell Goiner
Edward Gonet I
Linda Gonsaives
Lucas Gonzale7sant
Douglas Goodell
Stephen Goodhue
Corinne Goodman
Charles Goodreau
Emiley Goodrich
Michael Goodrich
Arthur Goodridge
Deborah Goodwin
Jeffrey Goodyear
George Goolkasian
Frederic Gordon
Lise Gordon
Philip Gordon
Susan Gordon
Marcia Gorman
John Gosselin
Robert Gostanian
George Gougian
John Gould
Kevin Gould
Dcnise Goulet
Dana Goulsion
William Gouzounis
Jeffrey Gove
Joseph Govoni
Theresa Goyette
Donna Gracia
David Graham
Edward Graham
Robert Graham
Wilman Graham

Michael Granahan
James Grandison
Paul Grandmaison
Kevin Grandmont
Gary Grano
Brian Grant
Gerard Grant
John Grant
Karen Grant
Linda Grant
Richard Gram
Catherine Grassi
Richard Graveline
Cindy Gray
Dons Gray
Patricia Gray
Jane Grazewski
Joan Greaves
Stephen Greco
Thomas Greco
Harriet Greeley
Melissa Green
Robert Green
Susan Green
Paula Greenberg
Malcolm Greenwood
Carol Gregory
Linda Grenicr
James Gribouski
AnnMarie Griffin
Donald Griffin
Lauri Griffin
Paul Griffin
Paula Paoli Griffin
Kathryn Grigas
Daniel Grigus
David Grillo
Margaret Forfa Grimes
Laurel Grinnell
Marilyn Grinnell
Kay Underwood Grocki
Martha Grogan
Mary Grogan
Scott Grolemund
Charles Grondalski
Catherine Grose
Martha Gross
Robert Gross
Wendy Gross
Joyce Grossman
Michael Grossman
Richard Grout
Susan Grover
Kathi Gruenwald

Is she
curious?
fascinated?
or just
bored?
Whatever
the

feeling,
this little
girl strikes
a pensive
pose as
she

watches
her

mother
compete in
an

intramural
basketball
game in
Boyden
gym.

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Daniel Smith %

Paul Haughey

Philip Hawes

Cathleen Hawkins

James Hawkins

Susan Hay

Joann Healey

Terry Healy

Katherine Heyl

Deborah Hickey

Denis Hickey

Joseph Hicks

Joanne Hietanen

Thomas Higginbottom

Annette Higgins

Michael Hluchyj

James Hoberg

Richard Hockmuth

Vivian Hoffman

Kevin Hogan

Linda Hohlstein

142 Se

James Holbrook
Bernard Holcomb
Denise Holland

Jane Hopkins
Kathleen Horan
Catherine Horgan

Elaine Houghton
Joseph Houlne
Ellisa Hovagimian

Carole Howe
Sarah Howe
Martha Howker
Diane Hubert
Melanie Hughes
Sally Hughes
Beverly Hugo

James Holland

Cynthia HoUman

Eleanor Hooper

Patricia Horgan

Stephen Horn

William Hosking

Marian Howard

Susan Howard

William Howard

Janet Hummel

Susan Humphreys

Larry Hunt

George Hunter

Ward Hunting

William Hurley

Andrew Ide

Seniors 143

Judith Imber
Cynthia Iris
Beverly Irla
Ingrid Ives
Karen Izbicki
Janet Izen
Sherry Jacobs

Steven Jaffe
Donna Jago

Karen Jarret
Carl Jay

Suzanne Jean
Laura Jefferson

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Nancy Grusheck
Ddvid Grygicl
George Grygorccwicz
Noemi Grzela
Vincent Grzyb
Donna Guadagnoli
Gilbert Guay
Richard Gucncltc
Elba Guerra
Anlhony Gucrriero
l.ouis Gucvin
Nancy Guglielmcllo
Linda Guglictli
Nancy Guido
Deborah Guild
Alice Guincy
David Guincy
Slanley Gula
Laurie Gullion
Pamela Gulo
Norman Gundcrshcim
Kalhryn Gunihcr
Gunnar Gustafson

Thomas Guslafson
Keith Gustarlis
Pamela Gustin
Claire Gustowski
J-P, Gutierrez
David Guy
Arlcnc Guyon
Louis Guyoit
Wilfrcdo Guzman
Florence Gyorck
Michael Haddad
William Haffcnrcffcr
Janice Hagcn
Geoffrey Hagcnbuckic
Jan Hagstrom
Goeffrcy Hakim
Jess Hales
Glenn Haley
Wendy Halfen
Carey Halkiotis
Calhv Hall
Charles Hall
Darlcne Hall

Derek Hall
Krislcn Hail
Nancy Hall
Peler Hall
Raymond Hall
Thomas Hall
William Hall
Edward Hallahan
Heidi Hailell
Kenneth Halletl
Ruth Hallion
Norma Hollock
Jean Halvorscn
Anne Hamburger
Marcia Hamel
Mary Hamel
Ronald Hamel
Paul Hamer
Rebecca Hamilton
Lawrence Hammare
Jeffrey Hammers
Andrew Hammond, li
Brian Hampton

Brian Hamson
Todd Handel
Charles Handschuh
Cherie Hancs
Michael Haney
Ellen Hanick '
Donald Hanley
Audrey Hanlon
David Hannabury
Richard Hannigan
Eric Hannuia
Dorothy Hansberry
Jane Hansberry
Robert Hansman
Karrie Hanson
Steven Hanson
Elaine Harding
John Harding
Peter Harding
Richard Harding
Robert Harding
James Hardv
Br:idle\ Harlou

Edward Harney
Gar> Haroian
Sherry Harper
David Harpin
Theresa Harrigan
Lawrence Harriman
Ann Harrmgion
Beth Painter Harrington
Daphne Harrington
Edward Harrington
John Harrington
Marc Harrington
Michael F- Harrington
Michael L. Harrington
Hana Harris
Julie Harris
Paul Harris
Sandra Harris
Thomas Harris
Warren Harris
John Harrison
Dennis Harrod
Danic! Hart

Kcllv Hart
Kevin Han
Marion Harl
Raymond Hart
Richard Hart
Judilh Hartford
Robert Hartford
James Hartley
Bryan Harvey
H L Harvey
Michael Harvey
Daniel Haskell
Julie Hassctl
Richard Hassetl
Charles Hasslcr
Harry Hassoun
Maricc Hastings
Mark Hastings
Betty Hatch
Joel Hatch
Michael Hatfield
Elizabeth Hathaway
Kathleen Havern

Robert Havis
Barry ILi^kins
Jaquelyn Hajden
Anne Hayes
Deborah Hayes
Dennis Hayes
Gwcndoiy Hayes
John Hays
Joseph Havward
Michael Hay ward
Ivan Hazard
Pamela Hazen
Elaine Hazzard
Thomas Hcafey
John Healy
Karen Hcaly
Kalhryn Healy
Mary Hcaly
Marian Heard
Elaine Heberl
James Heberl
Kevin Heberl
Deborah Hcckcl

Marilyn Jacobson
Paulette Jacques

Janet James
Melissa Janes

Paul Jay
Patricia Jayko

Jayne Jefgood
James Jenkins

144 Se

Stephen Jenkins
David Jensen
Martin Jessel
Alan Johnson
Arnold Johnson
Barbara Johnson
Betty Johnson

Kathleen Jordan
Robert Joress
Barbara Joseph
Kathleen Joyce
Michael Joyce
James Kackley
Suellen Kadlewicz

Beatrice Karns
Barbara Karolow
Deborah Kaster
Peter Kates
Marjorie Katz
Annette Kazlauskas
Richard Keane

Neil Kelly
Patricia Kelly
Richard Kelly
Robert Kelly
William Kelly
Bonnie Kenderdine
Frank Kendra

Elizabeth Johnson

Kathryn Johnson

Nancie Jolda

Barbara Jones

Carolyn Jones

Lynn Jones

James Jordan

Robert Kagan

Janet Kahler

Richard Kaitz

Mark Kaizerman

Stephen Kalenik

Paul Kanter

Bonnie Karas

James Keel

Judith Keene

Ann Kelleher

Michaeline Kelley

Cynthia Kelly

Deborah Kelly

Ghislain Kelly

Nancy Kendrew
Martha Keniston
Noreen Kennedy
William Kennedy
Christine Kennett
John Kenney
Kathleen Kenney

Seniors 145

Peter Kenney
Valerie Kenney
Susan Kenny
Michael Kent
Pamela Kerman
Kevin Kern
Adelaide Ketchum

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Weigh it for yourself, honey!
Cheerleaders Anne Novak and Pete
Dingle give the Minutemen all the
help they can at the Alumni Stadium
game against Dartmouth College.

William Howell

Toni Hecklingcr
Charles Hedge
Michael Hcgh
Nancy J. Heglin
Nancy Heidt
Geoffrey Heigh
Rulh Beals Heintz
Regan Heiscrman
Sara Heller
Mark Hemond
Ann Murphy Henchey
Chris Anderson

George Henderson
William Henderson

James Hendricks
Richard Hendrickson
Michael Henley

John Hennessy

Sharon Hennessy

Alan Henry

Linda Henry

James Hcnshaw

Marie Herbert

Maurice Herbert

Norman Herland

Linda Herman

Ruth Herman

Frederic Herr

Daphne Merrick

Robert Herrick

Paul Hershey

Robert Herterich

Ann Hession

Cynthia Heyner

Diane Hickey

Steven Hickey

Job Hicks

Deborah Higgins

Linville Higgins

James Hight

Kathleen Hilbrink

Alison Hilding

Robert Hildreth

Ann Hill

Deborah Hill

Richard Hil!

Robert Hill

Stephen Hill

Bennie Hilliard

David Himelfarb

Peler Hinchey

Jane Hinckley

Stephen Hinckley

Constance Hinds

Robert Hinga

Mark Hinkle

Martha Hirsch

Eurydice Hirscy

James Hiscock

John Hislop

Robert Histen

John Hobson
Susan Hoch
Carol Hochstadt

Hillel Hodes

William Hodges
James Hodnetl
Sandra Hodson
Susan Koldy Hoffer
Karen Hoffman
Barbara Hofrennmg
Kathleen Hogan
Susan Hogan
Robert Hogg
Susan Holahan
Norman Holbrook
Frank Holcomb
James Holdsworth
Wanda Holensworlh
James Holewa
Susan Holly
Mary Holmes
Nancy Holmes
Sandra Riccio Holmes
Mary Holtorf
Robert Hollorf
Rebecca Holtzingcr
Kenneth Homan
Richard Homewood
Neil Homstead
David Honor
Alan Hooker
Michael Hoolc
Jacques Hoolen
William Hopf
Gerard Hopkins
Jody Hopkins
John Hopkins
Joseph Hopkins
Mark Hopkins

Robert Hopkins

Robert J. Hopkins

Sarah Hopkins

George Hopper

Frederick Horan

Richard Horlick

Barbara Home

Elsa Hornfischer

Donna Horsch

James Horsford

Karen Casavant Houde

Laura Houghton

Ellen Hourihan

Richard Houser

Joanne Houston

Andrew Howard

Craig Howard

Martin Howard

Michael Howard

William Howell

Donald Howes

Deborah Hoxsie

Cynthia Hoy

Jill Hoy

Deborah Hoyt

Margaret Hoyl

MaryAnn Watson Hrncir

Aaron Huber

Jeanelte Huber

Ronald Huberdeau

Lynn Hudson

Jon Hucras

Elizabeth Hughes

Ronald Hughes

Deborah Hiiisken

Stephen Humphrey

Elizabeth Hunt

John Hunt

Moreau Crosby Hunt

William Hunt

Deborah Hunter

Donald Hunter

Michael Hunter

Scott Hunter

Richard Huntoon

Eileen Hurley

James Hurley

Judith Hurley

Nancy Hurley

Jeffrey Hurst

Russell Hurwitch

Esther Hurwitz

Mark Hurwitz

Lisbeth Hussey

Paul Huichcon

Donald Hutchinson

Joy Hyde

Paul Hyde

Daniel Hynes

Karen lampietro

John lannacci

Leo lantosca

Joanne larocci

Cynthia Ickes

Brian Igoc

Stephen Ingalls

Lawrence Ingham

Leslie Rogers Ingham

Pamela Ingham

Virginia Inglis

Peler Innvar

Joseph lozzo

Kent Issenberg

Ellen Issncr

Cynthia Isveck

Stanley Ivas

Susan Jaciow

Bruce Jackson

Cheryl Jackson

David Jackson

Mark Jackson

Monty Jackson

Bradford Jacobs

Christian Jacobs

Joan Jacobs

Patricia Jacobs

David Jacobson

Edward Jacobson

Jack Jacobson

Mark Jacobson

Rob>n Jacobson

Cynthia Jacques

Zane Jakuboski

Dennis Jakus

Timothy Jalberl

Walter James

Edward Janik

William Jantzen

Jackie Jarest

Eric Jarvis

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William Keviti

Paula Kiberstisi

Nancy Kiernani

Patricia Kilroe;

Kevin Kinchi

Anthony King;

Jill King;

146 Seniors

Sarah King
David Kinsman
Joan Kissell
Deborah Kitchen
Miriam Kitmacher
Edward Kittredge
Leo Klevens

Judy Koh
Mei Kok
Barbara Koldys
Richard Komosky
Jane Konieczny
Philip Kopel
Joan Kopeski

Kurt Koskinen
John Kotowski
David Kowal
Joseph Kowalski
Jan Kowza
Dorothy Kozlowski
Louis Krampetz

Wolfgang Krull
Fred Kruse
Ginny Krystel
Michael Krzystofik
John Kubacki
Debra Kuchieski
Suzanne Kuczka

Laurie Klibanoff

Susan Kloss

Michael Kneeland

Deborah Kobak

Margaret Koch

Mark Koczela

Joseph Koechel

Diana Koretsky

Stuart Koretz

Barry Kornblum

Leslie Kornfeld

Norman Kornwitz

Joan Korzec

Sally Kos

Matthew Kravitz

Alan Krensky

Marliese Kreske

Joanne Kries

Stephen Kromycinski

William Kropa

Barbara Krugman

Susan Kudzi

Lita Kuipers

Denise Kulha

John Kulig

Mark Kulig

Wesley Kulig

Joanne Kundl

Seniors 147

Michael Kuppens
Beth Kushner
Michael Kushner
Haekyong Kwon
Wendy Laakso
Daniel LaBonte
Wilfred LaCroix

Beverly Lasovick
John Lastella
Francine Laterza
Anthony Laudadio
Laura Laverdiere
Charlene Lavin
Colleen Lavin

Shirley Lee
John LeFrancois
Elizabeth Leger
Janet Leggat
Kristin Lehto
Christopher Leighton
Murray Lelacheur

Ralph LePore
Michael Lerner
Candia Lesiczka
Judith Lesnoy
David Letters
Toby Leventhal
John Levesque

Anne Lalikos

Doreen Lamneck

Steven Lampi

Linda LaPorte

Deborah Langford

Robert LaRoche

Robert LaRussa

Mary Lavin

Robert Lavoie

Judith Lawrence

Donna LaCombe

Victoria Leal

Kathleen Leary

Richard Leazott

Richard Lenihan

Richard Lent

Kim Leonard

Mary Leonard

Patricia Leonard

Richard Leonard

Suzanne Morris

Marilyn Levi

Jane Levin

Carol Levine

Richard Levine

Robert Levine

Judith Levinson

Mervat Levy

148 Seniors

Gary Lewis
Steven Liebert
Grace Lin
Roger Lincoln
Kenneth Lindberg
Paul Lindmark
Karen Lindquist

For many students, Sunday is a day to put away the books and Daniel Smith

attend the religious services of their choice. This photograph was made
during Catholic Mass at the Newman Center.

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Charles Joanides
Frederic Jodoin
Jacqueline Johansen
Sally Johansson
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Billie Johnson
Bruce Johnson
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Christine Johnson
David L Johnson
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David W Johnson
Denise Johnson
Elizabeth Johnson
Elmer Johnson
Erncsl Johnson

Gerald Johnson

Diane Service Jones

Ellen Jorgcnscn

Donna Kalinowsky

Gina Johnson

Emilia Chantre Jones

Andrew Jowdy

Patrick Kamins

James Johnson

Faith Jones

Alfred Joyce

Eugene Kan

Linda Johnson

George Jones

Jane Joyce

Mona Kangas

Marcia Johnson

John Jones

Kathrvn Joyce

Lee Kania

Marshall Johnson

John R. Jones

Michael Joyce

Lisa Kanter

Martin Johnson

Marcus Jones

Theodore Joyce

Richard Kanter

Roy Johnson

Mark Jones

Andrew Judge

Ann Kaplan

Shelia Johnson

Mary Jones

Kathryn Judge

Pamela Kaplan

Steven Johnson

Samuel Jones

Rodney Julian

Nancy Karakula

Craig Johnston

Steven Jones

Ronald Junker

George Karas

Judiih Johnston

Susan Jones

Dorenc Juster

Frederic Kareta

Sharon Kennedy Johnston

Vicki Jones

Bernard Jwaszewski

Kyriakos Karoutsos

Alan Jones

William Jones

Linda Kaada

Nancy Kazrsberg

Bruce Jones

Judith Jordan

Christin Kachajian

Joseph Kaslauskas

Christopher Jones

Kenneth Jordan

Joseph Kadlick

Takashi Kato

David Jones

Ralph Jordan

Melinda Kahn

Judith Kal7

Denise Jones

Thomas Jordan

Marjorie Kaitz

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Carol Lipman

Dana Little

Michael Littman

Michelle Locke

Marilyn LoGrasso

Johnny Loh

Seniors 149

Mary Loh
Dennis Long
Karen Long
Salvatore Longo
Steven Loomer
James Lormer
Frank Lospaluto

Hector Luna
Mary Lussier
Jose Luz
Kathleen Luz
Richard Luz
Doris Lynch
Patricia Lynch

Jeffrey Maclure
Debra MacNeiil
James Madiao
Michael Madden
Cindy Madfis
Janet Maguire
Bruce Mahar

Michele Mailhot
Ronald Maillet
Steven Majkut
Michael Malamut
Ann Malave
Bruce Mandelbaum
Patricia Mangan

Gail Lotto

Maureen Loughnane

Robert Low

Jane Lowe

Judith Lowell

Peter Lown

David Ludwig

Ray Maagero

Stephanie Mack

Karen Mackenzie

Kerry Mackenzie

Joanne Mackenzie

Dennis Mackler

Richard Mackowiak

Anita Maheris

Richard Mahler

John Mahon

Patricia Mahon

Glen Mahoney
Mary Mahoney
Nicholas Mahr

Gail Manin
Philip Manin

150 Seniors

Cynthia Mann
Bradford Manning

Donna March
Jeffrey March

Jack Margossian
Joan Mariani

Laurie Markowitz
Delores Marrs

John Manning
Peter Manzi

Amy Marcus
Judith Marcus

Roger Katz
Julia Kaufman
Lee Kauppila
Robin Kavanagh
John Kawecki
Karen Kay
Edward Kazembe
Sicphen J. Keane
Stephen Keane
Deborah Kearney
James Kearney
Arlene Keating
Paul Keating
Shirley Keech
David Keefc
Martha Keefe
Neil Kcefc
Robert Kccfc
Thomas Keegan
John Keenan. Jr.
Joseph Keenan
Robert Keenan
Marlha Kecney
David Keer
Susan Mcrrow Kehoe
Alan Kciran
Sally Kadyeski Keiran
Daniel Keith
Edward Kcleher
Jean Kclleher
Joan Kellcher
Maria Kclleher
Nancy Kellcher
Philip Kclleher
William Kelleher
Kalhryn Keller
Bonnie Lou Kelley
Bradford Kelley
Bradley Kelley
Karyn Kelley
Martin Kelley
Michael Kelley
Richard Kelley
Timothy Kelley
Frederick Kelliher
James B Kelly
James M. Kelly
Jean Kelly
Joanne Kelly
John Kelly
Margueri Kelly
Nancy Kelly
Karen Kelway
Albert Kcndra
John Kendzierski
Edward Kennedy
Janet Kennedy
Walter Kennedy
Donald Kenney
John Kenney
Steven P Kenney
Steven S. Kenney
Eugene Kenny
Joann Kenny
Evan Kenseth
Donna Marie Kent
David Keough
Neil Kerman
Joseph Kern
Priscill Kerner

Kenneth Kerr

Megan Kerr

Richard Kessel

Barry Kesselman

Mary Kelt

John Keyworlh

Gary Kidd

James Kidd

Joseph Kielbasa. Jr.

Robert Kieltyka

MaryJane Kiely

Susan Kieras

Dennis Kiernan

James Kierstead

Martha Kilcoyne

Samuel Kilgorc

Peter Killilea

Richard Killion

Elizabeth Killoran

Maria Killough

Richard Killough

Arlene Kimball

John Kimball

Ernest King

Kathryn King

Marilyn King

Nalhatia King
Stephen King
Thomas King
Jon Kingsbury
Susan Kinnear

Michael Kinsley

Mark Kinsman
Margaret Kirk
Steven Kirk
Paula Kirkpatrick
Jeanlion Kirouac
Stephen Kirouac
Stephen Kirsch
Jill Kirschenbaum
Roberta Eloise Kirwan
Paul Kislo
Susan Kite
Gary Kitmachcr
Pamela Kitlredge
Raymond Kittredge
Charles Klein
Paul Klemm
Kathleen Klesh
Bruce Kline
Kenneth Klopfer
Christopher Klosson
Susan Klug
Elizabeth Knapp
Thomas Knecht
Mark Kneeland
Janet Knight
Margaret Knight
Patricia Knight
David Knou
Wayne Knott
Shcrril Koch
David Kocinski
Christopher Koehlcr
Elaine Kolish
Judith Kollman
Thomas Kolodziejcza
Lori Komaromi
Barbara Konove

Michael Koperniak

Robert Marini
Rocco Marino

Bruce Marsden

Richard Marshall, Jr.

Susan Marshall

Carol Martin

June Martin

Geoff Martino

Paul Masi

Seniors 151

Joanne Maslowski
Robert Masse
Pamela Mast
Kevin Masterson

Michael Maziarz
Thomas Mazzone
Diedre McAndrews
Larry McBeth

John T. McCarthy
Karen McCarthy
Kathleen McCarthy
Marian McCarthy

Stephen McCourt
Genne McDaniel
Bradley McDermott
Gregg McDonald

Robert Matfess

Elizabeth Matthews

Edwin Matusko, Jr.

James Mayher

Mary McCallum

Ann McCarte

Elizabeth McCarthy

John McCarthy

Susan McCarthy

Joyce McCleary

Lawrence McClusky

Daniel McCook

James McDonough, III

Matthew McDonough

Constance McDowell

Joyce McGowen

152 Seniors

JeanMarie McGranaghan
T. McGuire
Jeanne McKay
James McKeon

Patricia McLaughlin
Mark McLellan
Lois McLennan
Patricia McMahan

Jeffrey McReynolds
Regina McPherson
Russell Meduski
Mary Meehan

Sharyn Menegus
Paula Mercier
Ovide Mercure, Jr.
Gregory Merkel

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Michael McKinney
Barbara McLaughlin
Edward McLaughlin
Michele McLaughlin

Daniel Smith (

Maria McNamara

Theresa McNamara

Robert McNulty

Katherine McPherson

Bruce Kopischkc

Garv Labak

Frederic Langenheim

Mark Lawson

Edward Koppclman

Anne Labbe

Dennis Langcvin

Lam Lawyer

Adam Korabowski

Charles Labombard

Stephen Langlais

Linda Lawyer

Diane Koretsky

Alfred LaBonte

Joseph Lankau

Robert Lax

Toby Konlsky

Edward LaBonte

Denis Lankowski

Frederic La\den

Andrew Korn

Gerald LaBonte

Edward Lannon

Robert Lay field

Shirley Korncisky

Nancy LaBovit?

Marcia Lannon

James Laz/ara

Lawrence Kornfcld

Ann LaBrecque

Stephen Lanou

Benson Leach

Suzanne Korpila

Donna LaCombe

Richard LaPalme

Wilfred Learned. Ill

Joan Korsakov

Louis Laconi

Glenn LaPerIc

John Leary

Gary KotHta

Donald LuCosle

Barbara LaPierrc

Martha Leary

Alan Kotowicz

Lisa LaCrossc

Barbara LaPinc

Steven Leary

Daniel Kotowii/

Robert LaFlammc

Denisc LaPlantc

Peter Leavitl

Charles Koulalidis

David LaFleur

Henry LaPlantc

Diana Snow LcBlanc

Frank Kovendy

Paula LaFond

Joseph LaPlantc

John LeBlane

Ronna Kramer

Colleen LaFontaine

Linda LaPorte

Judith LcBlanc

Marjoric Kravctz

James LaFord

Denis LaPrade

Robert LeBocuf

Eugene Kresco

George LaFramboise

Judith Larkin

Ro\ Ledcrnian

Sylvia Kricbcl

Adnennc LaFrenicr

William Larkin

Richard Ledford

Linda Kricgcr

Carl LaFreniere

Harry LaRose

David Lcdgere

Barry Krimsky

Peler Laird

Marie Larrow

Phillip Ledin

Lynne Krock

David LaJeunessc

Eric Larsen

Janice LcDoux

Elaine Krol

Joseph Lally

Carl Larson

Robert LeDoux

Debra Krousc

Richard Lally

Wallace Lary

Barbara Lee

William Krouse

Duncan Lamb

Thomas Lasher

Henry Lee

Stephen Kruglewic?

Linda Lambdin

Chrislin Latshaw

Shcryl Leed

Kathleen Krumm

Anne Lambcrl

William Lattrcll

Steven Lccd

Peter Kruse

Deborah Lambert

Francis Laughtin

W. Ann Leek

Benjamin Kru^er

David Lamkins

John Laurcnson. Jr.

Donna Leele

Carol Kuhnberg

James LaMonl

Barbara Lauzicr

Elisabeth Lccle

Joseph Kulis

Judiih LaMoihc

Brian Lavcrtue

Michael Lcfkowiu

William KuliN

Douglas Lamson

Raymond Lavin

Jeffrey Leger

James Kumgenas

Steven Landau

Edward Lavina

Debra Legge

Alan Kuntholm

Paul Landesman

Lois Lavoie

John Lcibinger

William Kupiec

Kevin Landolina

Phyllis Lavoie

Debra Leibowitz

Roland Kupriss

Valerie Landry

Lee Lawrence

Mark Leibowitz

Geoffrey Kruinsky

Edward Lane

Lois Lawrence

Clare Lciby

James Kuzmeskus

John Lane

Teresa Lawrence

Meredith Leiic

Thomas Labadorf

Paul Lane

Enid Lawson

Kenneth LemanskJ

Robert Meekins

Bruce Meyer

Lee Meisenheimer

Joan Mendelsohn

Steven Meister

Michael Meyer

Carl Melberg

Janet Michaels

Seniors 1 53

Mary Machaud
Ronald Michonski
Stanley Michonski
Larry Midura
Jayne Mikonis
Clifford Miles
David Miles

Sandra Misiun
David Mitchell
Frank Miu
Nancy Moan
Russell Moberg
Susan Moesley
Mary Moitoza

Ramona Morey
William Morin
Peter Moritz
Steven Morris
Suzanne Morris
Michael Morrissey
Richard Mosback

Michael Moyle
John Moynihan
Lynne Mudarri

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Lauren Milesky

David Miller

Kiema-Luvwefwa Miller

Linda Miller

Nancy Miller

Susan Miller

Robert Millette

Karen Monaco

Felix Monarca

Raymond Monkley

Lorna Mooney

Janet Moore

Lee Moffett

Debra Morey

Carolle Lemieux
Arthur Lemire
Douglas Lemire
Charles Lenis
Thomas Lenkowski
Kimbertie Lennarlz
Robert Leonard
Ronald Leonard
Donna Leone
Kirk Leoni
Jeffrey Leporati
Andrew Les
Robert Lesch
Michael Lescord
Janet Leslie
Steven Lesser
James Lester
Gail Letendre
Normand Letendre
Suzanne Letendre
Mark Levay
Marilyn Levens
Joanne Levcnson
Marjorie Levenson
Stephen Levenson
Peter Leveroni
Daniel Levesque
Jacinthe Levesque
Andrew Levine
Avis Levine
Barry Levine
Jerry Levine
Olgalarr Levine
Willjam Levine
Mark Levreault
Rebecca Levy
Peter Lcwicke
Allyson Lewis
Beverly Lewis
Daniel Lewis
David Lewis
Steven Lewis
Roberta Lewonis
Karen Li
Barbara Lianides
Spencer Liberty
Thomas Licata
Joan Lichlman
Barbara Licberman
Gary Lieberman
Jay Lieberson
Rita Lighlner
Lynda Lilyeslrom
Shuenn Jian Lin
Tucker Lmdquist

Larinda Linkovjch
Leonard Linquala
John Lipscomb
Irwin Lipworlh
Gary Liquori
Marcia Litchfield
Paul Liichfield
Sheila Litchfield
Cindy Litman
Diane Little
Gary Little
Joyce Little
John Littlcwood
Keith Liuzzi
Jan Livingston
Marian Livingston
David Locke
George Locke
Michael Locke
Kathi Lockwood
Lawrence Lodi
Eric Loehr
Jeffrey Logan
Karen Logan
Deborah Lohman
Mary Loizeaux
William Lolos
Gloria Lomax
Peter Lombardo
John London
Carol Long
Susanne Long
Suzanne Long
Richard Longchamps
Kenneth Longmoore
Ruth Longwell
Ancelmo Lopes
John Lopes
Kenneth Lopes
Mark Lord
Martha Lorentz
Joanne Lorrey
Jean Losurdo
Cindy Lourie
Debra Loux
Kathryn Love
Dorothy Loveday
Charles Loven
Steven Loveridge
Thomas Loveti
Donald Lowery
Michael Lowey
Elaine Lowrey
Lucy Lubanski
Waller Lubas

Christopher Lucas
Clifford Luce, Jr.
Joan Lugcrt
Roger Lugton
Robert Luippold
William Lumsden
Anthony Lupi
George Luppold
Darlene Lyko
Heidi Lyie
Douglas Lyman
Gene Lyman
Deborah Lynch
John Lynch
Kathleen Lynch
Martha Lynch
Michael Lynch
James Lyons
Todd Macalister
David Mac Arthur
Dougles MacBrien
Nicholas Macchio
Bruce MacDonald
James Macdonald
Janet MacDonald
Robert MacDonald
Scott MacDonald
Susan MacDonald
Brian MacDonnell
James MacFarlane
Kenneth Machado
Judith Machnik
James Machonis
Joanne Macisaac
Kevin Mack
Robert Mack
Robert MacKay
Sara Mackell
Andrew MacKenzie
Alexander Mackie, Jr.
John Mackicwicz
Thomas MacLaughlin
Colin MacLaurin
Henry MacLean
William MacLean
James MacLeod
Carl MacMillan
J. K, MacNaughton
Charles MacNcil
Richard MacPhaul
Susan MacPherson
Robert MacQuarrie
Barbara Madden
Bruce Madden
David Madden

Elyssa Moskowitz
George Motta
Judith Moyer

David Muenkel

Michael Mulkerrin

Brian Mullane

1 54 Seniors

Cynthia Mullen
James Mullen
Patrick Mullen

Lawrence Murphy
Mary Murphy
Melinda Murphy

Laurie Musen
William Mustard
Susan Myerow

Steven Nadolny
Pamela Nagle
Tara Nagle
Linda Nantais
Paul Narkus
Mark Nalband
Michael Nathanson

David Muller

John Mulvehill

Carolyn Murdopk

Paul Murphy
Leslie Murray
Mary Murray

Frederick Myerson

Roger Myren

Alfred Nadeau

William Nebesky

Richard Neely

Jeffrey Nelson

Nancy Nelson

Lois Newman

Steven Newton

Linda Niemczura

Seniors 155

Melanie Niemczura
Vanessa Nii
Michael Nikitas
Howard Nilsen
David Nnyamah
Carol Nolan
Patricia Normand

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Elaine Madden
Kathleen Madden
Susan Mader
Charlene Madison
Kenneth Madorc
Robert Magno
Barry Magnus
Andrew Maguirc
Thomas Maguire
William Maguirc
Donna Mahady
Joseph Mahan
Thomas Mahan
Elaine Mahanke
Peler Mahar
Anne Maher
Gregory Maher
Joseph Maher
Daniel Mahoney
Edmund Mahoney
Janice Mahoney
John Mahoney
Karen Mahoney
Kathleen Mahoney
Paul Mahoney
Paula Mahoney
Sharon Mahoney
Ernest Mailloux
Robert Mailloux
Grela Maki
Timothy Maki
Joanne Makris
Donna Malmquisl
Christine Maloney
Thomas Maloney
David Maloof
Frederick Malouf
Martha Malynn
Jeffrey Mancevice
Diane Mandile
Matthew Manella
Diane Mango
Dolores Manijak
Carol Mann
Edward Mann
Kelley Mann
Beverly Manna
Gary Manning
Kevin Manning
Margaret Manning
Nancy Manning
Robert Mansfield
Michael Manzi
Carol Marble
Claire Marchand
David Marchand
Donna Marchand
Robert Marchand
Mary Marchetla
Louis Marchelti
Dominick Marcigliano
William Marcinczyk
Jane Marciniak
Lynn Marcus
Alan Marcus
Paul Marcgni
Neal Margolin
Alan Margossian
Allen Margulies
Paul Marion
Robert Markarian
Richard Markham
Mitchall Markham
Susan Markman
David Marks
Gerald Marmal
John Marona
Brian Maroney
Richad Maroney
Michael Marra
Donald Marsden
Mitchell Marsh
Helen Marshall

Movin in.
It's usually a
real pain, but
the best part
of it is
sitting
around, on
unopened
trunks and

Anne Novak

Susan Obremski

John O'Brien

Sharon O'Brien

Roger Ochs

Barbara O'Connell

Thomas O'Connell

156 Seniors

Theodore Olsson
Leslee Onanian
Kenneth O'Neill
James Onessimo
Debra Ordway
David Orfalea
Sheila O'Rourke

Danial Ouellette
Nancy Ottman
Peter Our
Beverly Overko
Robyn Oxman
Paul Paciello
Marie Pagel

Steven Pandiscio
David Pangonis
Maryellen Panousis
John Panzica
Pamela Papadinis
Jean Papalia
Andrew Papas

Wayne Marshall

Paul Marszaick

James Martel

Clifford Martcll

Hillary Martick

Edward Marlin

James Martin

Jo Anne Marlin

Joseph Martin. Jr

Michael Marlin

Nicholas Marlin

Peler Martin

Diane Marlinal

Diane Martinclli

Donna Cowdrey
Marlincllo

Peter Marlinello

Joseph Martins

Bahman Mashhour

Slevcn Maslowski

Michael Mason

Mitchell Massaconi

Michael Massi

George Master

Craig Maslerman

Jonathan Masters

Dale Mather

Thomas Mathews

George Mathcy

Elaine Malhais

Luz Matias

Stanley Malras

Denise Matleau

David Matthews

Elaine Ploikin Matthews

Leslie Matthews

Mark Matthews

Melinda Matthews

Paul Matthews

Storm Matthies

Gary Mattson

Leroy Maurer

Marcelle Mavidis
, Arislomenis Mazvrikidis

Bruce Mawhinney

Brian Maxfield

Susan Maxwell

Andrew May

Douglas May

Scott May

Thomas May

William Maykel

Alice Maynard

Peter Mayne

Mary Mazzaferro

Anne Mazzu

Edward McAlcney

Mark McArthur

Judith McAulay

Ann McBralney

Hugh McBridc

Nicholas McBride

Edward McCaffrey
^ Mary McCallum

William McCann

Barbara McCartcr

Barbara McCarthy

Daniel McCarthy

Edward McCarthy

Francis McCarthy

Gail McCarthy

Jill McCarthy

Karen McCarthy

Kevin McCarthy

Margaret McCarthy

Mary Jane McCarthy

Maureen McCarthy

Michael McCarthy

Patricia McCarthy

Raymond McCarthy

Robert McCarthy

William McCarthy

Christopher McCarty

unmade beds,
I and having a
party with
friends you
haven't seen
, in a few
months.

Daniel Smith

Helen O'Donnell

Thomas O'Donnell

Dennis O'Hearn

David Oldberg

Peter Oligny

Janice Oily

Kurt Olson

Gloria Ortiz

David Osepowicz

David Ostrander

Mary Jane O'Sullivan

Kris Oswald

James Otis

Michael Ottlinger

Florrie Paige

Kevin Paige

Diane Pajewski

John Paleo

Ralph Pallotta

Karen Palmer

Thomas Palmer

David Paquette

Gil Paquette

Jeffrey Paquette

Joseph Paquette

Bruce Parent

Marsha Paris

Geoffrey Parker

Seniors 157

Janet Parker
Janet Parks
Marie Parlon
John Parrinello
Martha Parrish
Deborah Parsons
Jay Parsons

Morris Payant
William Payne

Paula Pecukonis
Dennis Pelosi

John Penny
Michael Peppe

Michael
Simons, a
junior
living in
Cance
House,
plays with
his pet
rabbit
"Satch".
Satch had
to leave,
broken-
hearted,
when she
learned
that

animals
were not
allowed in
the
dormitory.

Ddvid McCaulcv
Kevin McClay '
John McClcllan
Laura McCloskey
Michael McClurc
Patricia McClurc
Gordon McComb
Howard McCormack
Jeffrey McCormick
Michael McCormick
Stephen McCormick
Sharon McCoy
Mark McCuc
Joanne McCullom
Peler McCullough
James McDcrmotl
Thomas McDermotl
Rila McDevitt
Joanne McDonald
Peler McDonald
Janice McDonough
Maiihew McDonough
Pamela McDonough
Ruth McDonough
William McDonough
William McDougall
Diane McDowell
Douglas McElroy
James McElroy
Mark McFaddcn
Joanne McFarland
Kalherinc McGee
Ronald McGerily
Thercse McGill
Donald McGilvray
Kevin McGinn
Edward McGinnis, Jr.
Steven Mcglew
Helen McGonaglc
John McGovern
James McGowan
Joanne McGowan
Michelle McGowan
George McGrath
Joan McGrath
John McGralh
Robert McGralh
Richard McGravey
Elaine Eagan McGraw
William McGray
Robert McGuanc
Kenneth McGuire
Pamela McGuirk
Paul McHugh
Jacqueli Mclnnis
Dorothy Mclnnlosh
Cecil Mclntyre
Margaret McKane
Karen McKay
Sandra McKay
Richard McKcc
Gary McKenna
Edward McKeon
Betty McKcown
Roberta McKibbcn
Douglas McKinley
Michael McKinley
Patricia McKinley
David McKinnon
William McKinnon

Susan Partridge

Joan Partyka

Liela Pasquale

Martin Patrick

Susan Paul

Deborah Paulhus

Diane Pavlin

Christine Pecevich
Philip Pecevich

Barbara Penn
Scot Pennington

Timothy Perkins
Laurence Perlmutter

158 Seniors

John Perna
Stephen Perry

Robert Peterson
Michael Petkovich
Katherine Petrullo
Cynthia Petterson
Nancy Pettus
Douglas Pfeiffer
Rosanne Phillips

Neil Pitchel
Annmarie Plaziak
Katherine Plichta
Kermit Plinton II
Terry Plotkin
Robert Podgurski
Kathleen Podsadowski

Deborah Porazzo
Janis Porter
Richard Porter
Susan Porter
William Porter
Michael Posner
Cheryl Possardt

Joseph Pignatiello

Robert Pike

Susan Pike

Lou Pina

Daniel Pineau

Maria Pineda

Anthony Pires

Shari Pollack

Marilyn PoUak

Laurence Pollard

Cheryl Pollino

Terilyn Pollock

Linda Polzer

Deborah Poore

Joanne Potter
Nancy Potts
Yaghoob Pouladian
Helen Powell
John Powers
George Prall, Jr.
Ellen Pressman

Seniors 159

Eric Pressman
Paul Preston
Kim Price
Roger Price
Joan Proctor
Robert Proctor
Marian Prokop

Omer Qayyum
Kathleen Queeney
Paul Quigley
Kathleen Quinlan
Louann Quinn
Cynthia Quint
Nancy Radebaugh

Diane Raum
Leanne Rearick
Helinka Rechnitz
Craig Reed
Harrison Reed
Sharon Reed
Susan Reed

George Renzoni
Robyn Rex
Karen Rhoden
Thomas Rhodes
David Rice
Judith Rice
Michael Rice

Mary Prout

Edwin Pruchnik

Benita Pullara

Arthur Purkis

Kathleen Putala

June Purvis

Erika Putnam

Joyce Radzik
Henry Rafferty, Jr.

Nancy Raffio
Shahbal Rahmani
Elizabeth Ramsey

Kim Randall

Joanne Ratte

Brian Regan

Michele Regan

Elizabeth Reiche

Gerald Reid

Michale Reid

Patricia Reid

Dorothy Renaghan

William Rich

Michael Richards

Walter Richardson

Barry Richman

Patricia Rickitts

Margaret Rielly

Mitchell Riese

160 Seniors

Anthony Kigali
Sandra Rigazio

Joseph Riley
Michelle Rioux

Andrew Rizzo
Christine Roach

Douglas Robblee
Thomas Robert

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Janice Rigda
Brian Riley

Eduardo Monarca
Jerry Mondalto
Virginia Mondschcin
Roland Moncstimc
Slephen Mongan
Michael Moniz
Slcvcn Monkiewicz
Paul Monlecalvo
Steven Montciro
Barbara Montgomery
Neil Montgomery
Jerry Montrose
Maureen Mooncy
Paul M coney
Rose Mooncy
David Moore
Kevin Moore
Patricia Moore
Paul Moore
Robert Moore
James Moos
Robert Moquin
Rebecca Moran
Dean Moreau
Bruce Morgan
Jack Morgan
Daniel Moriarty
Edward Moriarly
Janice Tisdell Moriarly
Joann Moriarty
Kevin Moriarty
l.enore Morin
f-rank Morra
Mary Morris
William Morris
Kevin Morrison
Roderick Morrison
Gerald Morrissey
Kevin Morrissey
Ruth Morrissey
Cynthia Morse
David Morse
Mary Morse
Pamela Morton
Gerald Moscato
Jeffrey Moschella
Dana Mosher
Jill Mosher
(jrcgory Mosket
Thomas Motherway
Ralph Motta
t_ arolc Mottau
Kathleen Motter
Allen Moulton
Thomas Mourey
Carol Moy
Allen Moyer
Chrislin Moylan
David Moynihan
James Mo\nihan

Chrisimc Mudgelt
Gabrielc Mudry
David Mudway
Peter MucUo
Ellen Mugcr
Robert S. Mulcahy
Robert T, Mulcahy
Kevin Muldoon
Michael Muldowney
Linda Mulkern
Mary Mullen
William Mullen
Carol Muller
Dorothy Muller
Geraldin Mullin
Kathleen Mulrcnen
Terrance Mulryan
Kevin Mulvaney
Kathline Mulvihill
Robert Mumford
Thomas Mumley
Daniel Munkley
Ronald Mura
Margarel Murch
Jane Murdock
Dennis Murley
Celia Murphey
Arnold Murphy
Bruce Murphy
Charlott Murphy
Dava Murphy
Elizabet Murphy
Frederic Murphy
James A, Murphy
James E. Murphy
Janice Murphy
John Murphy
Joseph Murphy
Judilh Murphy
Margarel Moynihan

Murphy
Patricia Murphy
Paul Murphy
Pauletl Murphy
Ronald Murphy
Teresa Murphy
Warren Murphy
William Murphy
John Murray
Theadore Murray
Thomas Murray
William Murray
Charles Musante
Raye Mulcherson
Robert Muzerall
Gary Muzyka
Mary Myer
George Myers
Mark Myers
Michael Myers

Suzanne Myers
Yuri Mykolajewycz
Joseph Nabrynski
Elaine Nacorchuk
Colette Nadeau
David Nadeau
Leon Nadeau
Mark Nardini
Mary Narkewicz
Edwin Narlowicz
Norman Nash
Constanc Nason
Harold Nathan
Cheryl Nathans
June Navalany
Maureen Navin
Mark Naylor
Regina Nazzaro
Carl Neal
Catherine Neal
Robert Neas
Amy Nechlcm
David Needle
Wayne Neil
John Neilson
Barbara Nelson
Carol Nelson
Debra Nelson
Ronald Nelson
Suzanne Nelson
Robert Nemelh
Janet Nerman
Louise Neto
Walter Neumann
Stephen Newcomb
Beverly Newell
Elizabeth Newell
Karen Newell
Mary Newell
Stephen Newland
Barbara Newman
Anthony Newsom
John Newton
Juanita Newton
Richard Newton
Roger Newton
Timothy Ney
Catherine Heyl Nichols
Roland Nichols
Gail Nicholsen
Lester Nicholson
Garry Nickerson
Gordon Nickerson.
John Nickerson
Dana Nicoll
Kenneth Nicosia
Gary Nielson
Dennis Nieskoski
Paul Nietupski
Philip Nielupski

. Jr.

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Mud. During the winter and spring, it seems that
everywhere you want to walk, mud stops you.

Daniel Smith

Elizabeth Rising
Richard Rivers

Henry Roach
Rosaline Roback

Arthur Roberts

Michael Roberts

Dianne Robertson

Elizabeth Robertson

Brent Robichaud

Paul Robichaud

Anne Robinson

Seniors 161

William Robinson
Patricia Robinson
John Roche
Eugene Rochow
Brian Rockett
Matthew Rockman
James Rodd

It was a long, cold winter, but
the legend held fast once again.
After Commencement, we
checked Metawampe and found
that he was still clutching his
spear.

Daniel Smith

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»-\

Siephcn Nikiias
Nicoli Nikonczuk
Euslace Niles
Leroy Niles
Steven Nilcs
Susan Niman
Ava Nisscnbaum
Janis Nilcnson
Marybelh Uchman Nix
Linda Noble
Lisa Noble
Frederic Nobles
Joanne Nolan
Nancy Nolan
Deborah Nolei
Robert Noller
Barbara Noonan
David Noonan
Jane Noonan
Robert Norcott
Wayne Norcross
Marilyn Norden
Robert Nordstrom
Barbara Norman
Philip Normandin
Charles Norton
Deborah Norton
Robert Norton, Jr.
John Notarangelo
Joan Nothdurfl
Janel Nourse
Lili Novia
David Novick
Lauren Drake Novick
Thaddeus Nowak
Barry Nuncs
Irene Nunes
Joanne Nuncs
Luis Nunez
Carl Nunn
Mary Nyhan
Stephen Nyslrom
Catherine Oakes
Bronwyn O'Brien
Francis O'Brien
James O'Brien
John O'Brien
Joseph O'Brien
Kathleen O'Brien
Kazlhryn O'Brien
Kenneth O'Brien
Michael O'Brien
Patricia O'Brien
Richard O'Brien
Robert O'Brien
Robert R O'Brien
Timothy O'Brien
William O'Brien
Robert Obyck
Diane Occhialini
John Occhialini
Ann Occhiuti
Barbara O'Connell
David O'Connell
Edward O'Connell
Michael O'Connell
Nancy O'Connell
William O'Connell
Bert O'Connor
Brian O'Connor
David O'Connor
Donna O'Connor
James O'Connor
John O'Connor
Maura O'Connor
Patrick O'Connor
Patrick T, O'Connor
Robert O'Connor
Virginia O'Connor
Dennis O'Dcll
Gerard O'Doherty
Arleen O'Donnell
Eugene O'Donnell
John O'Donnell
MaryJanc O'Donnell

James O'Donoghuc

Thomas O'Hara

Stephen O'Hearn

Gerhard Ohntrup

Richard Oinonen

Francisc Ojeda

William O'Keefe

Patricia O'Keere

David OldHeld

Barbara O'Leary

Michael O'Leary

Verne Oleksowicz

Deborah Olert

Vincent Olinski

James Oliver

Nancy Oliver

Leonard OIken

Paul OUan

Lawrence Olliver

Karen Barch Olmstead

Robert Olmstead

Susan Olsen

Christopher Olson

Laura Olson

Linda Olson

Patrick Olwell

Salie O'MaHey

Jerry Omideyi

George Ominski

Robert O'Neal

Colecn O'Neil

Geoffrey O'Neil

Kathleen O'Neil

Donna O'Neil

James O'Neill

John O'Neill

Patricia O'Neill

Jane Oparowski

Ellen Orenberg

Cathcrin Orlando

Joseph Orlando

Joanne O'Rourke

Beverly Orr

Debra Orr

Joseph Orwat

Jeffrey Osborne

Joseph Osborne

Charles Osgood

Chrislin O'Shea

Thomas O'Shea

Barbara Osikowicz

James Olcri, Jr.

Mohamcd Olhman

John Olis
Sue Otto

Patricia Ouellette

Phillip Ouellette

Robert Ouellette
Jeffrey Oura
Linda Overing
Michael Overstrect
Mark Ovian
Frederick Owen
Lawrence Ozella
Gary Pabis
Thomas Pacheco
Andrew Paciulli
Jerome Packard
Patricia Paddock
James Padgett
Angela Padula
Phyllis Padwater
Ronald Padykula
Christina Page
Margaret Page
Mary Page
Barbara Paige
Andrea Paine
John Paine
Pitva Paivarinne
David Palangi
Bronny Paletta
Eugene Palmer
Robert Palmer

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Carmen Rodriguez-Fernandez

Romona Rodriguez

Susan Rogan

Janet Rogers

Howard Rokes

Janet Rome

Shelley Rooney

162 Seniors

David Rose
Paula Rosen
Thomas Rosiello
! Marsha Ross
Mary Ross
Robert Ross
Leo Rotkiewicz

Steven Rowden
Christine Rowinski
Patricia Rowse
Roseann Roy
Kenneth Rubin
Peter Rudnicki
Stephen Ruggieri

Judith Ryan
Michael Ryan
Karen Saari
Joyce Saab
Nancy Saacke
Steven Sabatini
Edward Sabbagh

David Salvadore
Nikki Samaras
Oleta Samble
Lega Sammut
Loretta Samson
Suzanne Sanders
Dale Sanderson

Marcia Rottenberg

Michael Rounds

Denise Rourke

Pamela Rourke

Steven Rousseau

Charles Roux

Lois Roviaro

Frederick Ruggles

Stephen Ruggles

Mary Rutkauskas

Dennis Ryan

Gail Ryan

Janet Ryan

John Ryan

Charles Saber

Shelley Sack

Jeffrey Sacks

Charles Sadoski

Luis Salcedo

Mara Salloway

Marcia Sallum

Christopher Sands

Frank Sano

Lynda Santacrose

John Santoro

David Santos

Gina Sapienza

Steven Sarfaty

Seniors 163

Paul Sarkisian
Kristina Sarvela

Bruce Savatsky
James Scace

Steven Schafer
Diane Scherer

Lawrence Schissel
Liane Schneider

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Robert Pjlubinsk;is
Wcslcv Palugj
Sue Pandcv
Robert Panctii
Siindra Papavacil
Bruce pLipa/ian
Gilda Papia
Barry Pappas
Cassandrc Paqucttc
Heloisc Paqucltc
L.inda Parabicoli
James Paradis
William Parke
Arlene Parker
Dana Parker
Donna Parker
Harold Parker
Henrv Parker
Janet Parker
Walter Parker
Riehard Parkin
Edward Parr
John Parry
Mclinda Parry
Donald Parsons
James Parsons
Deborah Partington
Patricia Par7ych
Julia Paskauskas
l^cila Pasqualc
Carey Paster
Jeanne Pas/tor
Irene Patch
Daniel Pater
Wayne Patria
David Palncc
Donald Palruno
Michael Pattavina
Donald Patterson
Jean Pallon
Carmen Patuto
Gai! Paul
Mark Paul
Paul Pauiclte
Bonnie Paulino
Nancy Pavoni
Mark Pawlik
James Paydcn
Chrislin Payne
Nancy Pcabody
Marcia Peach
Robert Peach
Louise Pead
Arthur Pearlman
John Pearson
Edward Peck
Lawrence Peck
Daniel Peczka
Daniel Peczka
Kalhryn Pcdcrscn
Stephen Pcdi
Beverly Peebles
Dianne Pckins
Dennis Pcllclicr
Kevin Pcllciier

Sandra Pcllcticr
Lynnc Peloquin
Vincent Pcloso
Wesley Pena
Raymond Pendcrgasl
James Peninger
Keith Penniman
David Pen7a
Diane Pepi
Eugene Pcpi
Yovannia Pepin
Phoebe Pepper
George Pcraino
Martin Pcrchak
Jaime Pereira
Eleanore Perkins
Frederick Perkins
James Perkins
John Perkins """

Peter Perkins
Richard Perkins
Russell Perkins
Nicholas Perrakis
Robert Perrell
Paul Perrotta
Debra Perry
Irene Perry
Joaquim Perry
Robert F. Perry
Robert R Perry
Teresa Perry
William Perry
Susan Person
Karen Pcrsson
Lorctla Pessin
John Pelcen
Alan Peters
Jon Petersen
Elaine Peterson
John Peterson
Jon Peterson
Russell Peterson
Norma Pelraitis
Dcnise Petrin
Kim Pcischek
Randall Pevscr
Mark Pfeil'
William PHuger
Jeremiah Phelan, Jr.
Wayne Phelan
John Phelon
David Phelps
Henrv Phelps
Dudle\ Phillips
John Phillips
James Phiniscy
Carolyn Phinney
John Phipps
Scan Phipps
Theresa Picard
Ann Pichey
Mark Pickford
Debra Pierce
Daniel Pietras
Susan Pictr/.ik

Lizabeth Pignato
Lynn Babineau Pijar
Laurie Pilachowski
Christopher Pile
Joanne Pillow
Jeffrey Pimenlcl
Leo Pinard
Molly Pine
Pamela Pineo
Daniel Pionlkowski
Michael Pipp
David Pira
Paul Pisano
James Pistorio
Marjorie Pivar
Elaine Plank
Charlene Planle
Douglas PlatI
Kcrmit Plinlon. II
Dianna Ploof
Scott Plotkin
Stephen Plotkin
Kcilh Plourd
Ronald Plumb
David Podolski
Janet Poirrier
Edward Pokora
Joseph Plansky
Jay Policow
Joseph Polidoro
Susan Pollack
Jennifer Pollard
Robert Pollard
Joseph Polli
Linda Polli
Mary Pollock
Wendy Pollock
Donald Ponieroy
David Pontes
Michael Ponti
Cynthia Poole
Robert Pooler
Mark Poor
Dennis Pope
Robert Popkin
Janice Porcclli
Sidney Porelt
Denise Porrazzo
Annick Porter
Karen Porter
Kevin Porter
Richard Porter
Steven Porter
Steven Porter
Edith Portershirlc
Dorothy Posner
Christopher Post
Elizabeth Post
Glenn Poster
Nancy Potak
Judy Pottak
Alyn Coler Potter
Mfchae! Potlcr
Bradlev Polls
Peter Poulos

Alan Powe
Bruce Powell
Donald Powell
Maurice Power
Thomas Power
Francis Powers
Thomas Powers
Beverly Prater
Donald Pratt
Michcle Pratt
Benjamin Press
Michael Press
Marilyn Presser
Joann Sokol Pressman
Herbert Price
Jean Price
John Pride. Jr.
Michael Pridham
Margaret Pringle
Frederik Prins
Mark Procaccini
Pauline Procopio
Jan Procyk
Cheryl Proia
Carolyn Ransom Proulc
David Proulx
Michael Proulx
Michele Prouk
Lucicn Provencher
David Provost |

Jefri Provost
Mark Pryor
Maryann Pszeniczny
William Puddester
Gary Pugatch
Wanda Pugh
Paul Pulaski
Debra Pye
Cheryl Pylc
Gerald Oi^r'^^
Wendy Quasha
Debra Quattrochi
Gerald Quig\c\
Kenneth Qu\\ly
John Qumiper
Elaine Quinlan
Alexander Quinn
John Quinn
Joseph Quinn
Jacqueline Quirk
James Quirk
Raymond Quirnbach
Martin Rabbitt
Lorinda Killion Rabidou
Jeffrc> Rabidoux
Peter Rabinovitz
David Rabinow
Louis Raboin
Janet Raczynski
David Radebaugh
Charles Rader
Cassandra Radulski
Nancy Radzik
Sue Rahaim
Brenda Ramage

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Jay Saret

Steam escaping from manholes creates an
eerie mood on a Southwest morning.

Joseph Satlak

Lorraine Saulnier

Gregory Scanion
Joanne Scanion

Michael Scherer
Patricia Schimke

Susan Schneier
Sharon Schnetzer

164 Seniors

Thomas Schultz
,Eric Schwartz
Michael Sciabarrasi
[Alice Scott
Peter Segerstrom
Dianne Segien
Bruce Seibert

Liza Semprebon
Arthur Sesnovich
John Shalginewicz
Paula Shamey
David Shannon
Elizabeth Shapiro
Ruthann Shapiro

Susan Shea
Franklin Shear
Gary Shearman
John Sheehan
Mark Sheehan
Kathleen Shelly
Robert Shemeligian

Edward Sherman
Debra Sherrer
Barry Shopnick
Rhonda Shor
John Short
Joseph Shulman
Roberta Siegal

Nancy Seigal

David Selig

Philip Sellinger

Russell Selvitella

Wilma Selzer

Patricia Semedo

Sharon Semonian

Sondra Shapiro

Avery Sharpe

Garrett Sharpless

Linda Shaw

Scott Shawcross

Neil Shay

Carol Shea

Gary Shepard

Daniel Sheppard

Michael Sher

John Sherbow

Linda Sherksins

Amy Sherlog

Carol Sherman

Alan Sigel

Steven Sigel

Michelle Silbey

David Sills

Richard Silva, Jr.

Paul Silver

Ann Silverman

Seniors 165

Jay Silverman
Marian Simmons
Marsha Simon
Jan Simonds
Kenneth Simons
Craig Simpson
Linda Simpson

Deborah Slade
Eileen Slade
Paul Slatkavitz
Mary Slavin
Cynthia Sloan
Kathleen Slusarz
Russell Small

Evelyn Smith
Forrest Smith
Lawrence Smith
Lawrence J. Smith
Lorna Smith
Patricia Smith
Robert Smith

Terri Solomon
Kenneth Somers
Timothy Somers
Joanne Sontheimer
Richard Sormanti
Maria Sotolongo
Carl Sousa

Peter Simpson

Earl Simson

Lary Sinewitz

Leelowti Singh

Robert Singleton

Gary Skiba

Susan Skladany

Andrew

Barbara

Barry

Beverly

Cynthia

Eileen

Elinor

Smith
Smith
Smith
Smith
Smith
Smith
Smith

Thomas Smith

Virginia Smith

Jane Smithers

Rosalind Smolarz

Daniel Snyder

Mark Snyder

Fatemah Soleimani

Richard Sousa

Henry Southworth

Martyn Souza

Patricia Souza

Ann Spadoni

Robert Spadoni

Deborah Spahr

166 Seniors

Nanci Spellman
Dale Spencer
Carol Spiegel
Margaret Spierdowis
Margaret Spillane
Edward Spillert
Larry Spunt

Janice Steinmez
Susan Stetson
John Stevens
Robert Stevens
James Stewart
Karen Stewart
Michael Stokes

This trio of horses has little to worry about at
Tilson Farm except finding a good patch of grass
to munch on.

Daniel Smith

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Wayne Ramos

William Ramsey

Paula Rancc

Karen Randall

Linda Randolph

Robert Ransboltom

Edmund Rapazzini

Sicphcn Raschc

Cheryl Rashid

tli/.ibcih Rasmussen

Wcslev Rasmussen

Roderick Raubcson

Kenneth Rauseo

Nancy Rawding

Michael Raymond

Sharon Raymond

Karoly Razgha

Kathleen Rca

Joseph Read

Shcryl Read

Neal Ready

James Reardon

Joseph Reardon

Pamela Rcardo

John Rcchcl

Peter Rcclccndorf

Claudetle Dussaull Rccorc

Donald Reddick

Timothy Redding

RussellRedgale

Craig Reed

Elizabeth Reed

Frank Reed

Jeanne Lovelace Reed

Nancy Reed

Sandra Reed

Dorothea Rccs

Jeanne Rees

William Rees

Mary Rege

Michel Rehayem

Kathleen Reid

Paul Rcid

Ronald Reid

William Rcid

Richard Rcidy

Thomas Reilly

Jcana Reines

Alice Reinhalter
Carol Rcinhardi
Mark Reinhold
Linda Reitz
Ronnie Renoni
Margaret Repucci
David Resca
Donald Resliano
Victor Relynsky
John Reynolds
Karl Reynolds
Pamela Reynolds
Susan Rhcaume
Alma Rhyne
Linda Ribble
John Ribciro
Waller Ricardi
Karen Ricci
Anne Rice
Charles Rice
Janel Rice
Lisa Rice
Scott Rice
Stephen Rice
James Ricercalo
Stuart Rich
Scott Richard
Arthur Richards
Gayna Richards
Stanton Richards
Alexander Richardson
David Richardson. Ill
Gary Richardson
Jill Richardson
Leslie Richardson
Mark Richardson
Paul Richardson
Thomas Richardson
Libby Richman
Brenda Ricker
Amanda Ried
Sonja Rieger
Richard Riemer
Kenneth Rigby
Joanne Riihiluoma
James Riley
Robert Riley
Robin Riley

William Riley
Ethel Rimmer
Patricia Riordan
William Ripa
Nancy Risley
Larry Rivais
Angel Rivera
Charles RJzas
Nicholas Rizos,
Jean Rizza
Robert Rizzo
Catherine Roach
David Robarls
Wayne Robert
Norbcrl Robertie
Courlland Roberts
Donna Roberts
Elaine Roberts
Patricia Roberts
Stephen Roberts
Barry Robertson
Thomas Robertson
Amy Robinson
Arthur Robinson
David Robinson
Davis Robinson
Deborah Robinson
Linda Robinson
Paul Robinson
Silas Robinson
Joan Robinson
Mona Robilaille
Willie Rochefort
Sandra Rochelte
Richard Rochford
Ruth Rockwood
John Roddy
Dcnise Roderick
Michael Rodio
Cristoba Rodriguez
Barbara Rocsch
Andrce Rogers
David Rogers
Dennis Rogers
Elizabct Rogers
Paul Rogers
Robert Rogers
Scoti Rogers

Susan Rohan
Karen Rojowski
Susan Rolfc
Irene Romanchuk
Stephen Romano
Gregory Romanoff
Louise Romanow
Stephen Ronan
Richard Ronner
Steven Rood
Kevin Rooney
Deborah Rosa
Glenn Rosa
Marti Rose
Ronald Rose
Stephanie Rose
Marcia Rosen
Nancy Rosen
Robert Rosen
Roberta Rosen
Daniel Rosenberg
David Rosenberg
Andrew Rosenfcid
Howard Rosenfeld
Donald Rosenthal
Judith Rosenthal
Alan Ross
Eileen Ross
Kevin Ross
Robert Ross
Victoria Ross
Marcia Rossetli
Robert Rossi
Joseph Rossitto
Christina Rossomando
Gary Roth
James Rothwell
John Roiman
Garrison Rousseau
Anna Rowinski
Steven Rowley
Elizabeth Rowlinson
Clauda Roy
Louis Roy
Susan Rozal
Adrian Rozankowski
Page Rozellc
Deidrc Rozenas

Richard Ruais
Diane Rubin
Elissa Rubin
Ralph Rudncr
Stephen Rudy
Matthew Rucier
Matthew Ruggeri
Linda Ruiz
Thomas Rump
Edward Runci
Nicholas Ruocco
Paul Ruscio
Nicholas Ruscitti
Patricia Rusck
Norman Russell
Sandra Russell
Jeffrey Russo
Bonita Ruth
Eric Ruth
Agalia Rutherford
Jonathan Rulka
Deborah Rulkowski
Charles Ryan
Cynthia Ryan
David Ryan
Elizabeth Ryan
Joseph Ryan
Peter B. Ryan
Peter P Ryan
Steven Ryan
Thomas Ryan
Lczli Rvans
David Ryder
John Ryl!
Debora Rypma
Thomas Saab
Charles Saba
Mary Sabctli
Frank Sacco
Robert Sack
Lawrence Saczawa
Stephen Sadler
Walter Sajdak
Irene Saloio
Peter Saloom
Stuart Saltzman
Joanna Satvaggio
Anne Salzmann

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Donna Staffier

Earl Stafford

Peter Stanley

Dennis Stanton

Regina Starodoj

Curt Stegerwald

Howard Steinberg

Seniors 167

Elizabeth Stone
Richard Stone
Susan Stone
Michael Stough
Jennifer Stoughton
Peter Strano
Linda Straser

Sharon Suber
Brian Sullivan
James Sullivan
Mark Sullivan
Michael Sullivan
Rose Sullivan
Stephen Sullivan

William Swartz
Diane Syer
Maryann Szafir

Thomas Szwedzinski
Stephen Szymczak
Michael Tack

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John Samiira
Patricid Samboruk
Michael Samolcwicz
Ann Siimpson
Arlcnc Sampsun
Joseph Samscn
Laurie Saniuci
Karen Samuelson
Julio Sanchex
David Sand
Harry Sanders
Regina Sanders
Ronnie Sanders
Thcrman Sanders
Garv Sanderson
Rulh Sandler
Stephen Sandler
Arlecn Sands
Eric Sanliago
Raymond Sanlinello
Marcia Sanlner
Dominic Sanloro
Michael Sanioro
Ralph Sanloro
Evelia Santos
Joanne Santos
Steven Saral'ian
Dale Sarazin
Mary Sarkis
Dcnise Sarnblad
Stacey Sarno
Peter Sarris
Wendy Sasnett
Susan Sasso
Julielie Saulnier
Roger Saulnier
Robert Saum
Peter Savage
Denise Savageau
Richard Savary
James Sawaya
Albert Sawicki. Jr.
Arthur Sawl
James Sawyer
Sharon Scanlon
Linda Scanncll
Alexis Scarr
Susan Schader
Dale Schaei/.ke
kathlecn Schafcr
Henry Schea
Spencer Schcer
Steven Scheibel
Use Schcnk
Martin Schlichter

Barbara Schmidt
Marilyn Schmidt
Meredith Schmidt
David Schmink
Douglas Schoen
William Schold
Donna Scholes
David Schott
Peter Scholt
Charles Schow
Daniel Schrag
Martin Schrciner
Brvan Schult?
Jill Schullz
Linda Schultz
Michael Schullz
Margaret Schumacher
Gary Schuyler
Donna Schwartz
Terry Schwartz
Maureen Schwarzcr
Maria Scimcca
Robert Scoledge
Elizabet Scott
Paul Scoti
Richard Scotl
Richard M. Scolt
Robert Scotl
Sandra Scolt
Stephen Scotl
Susan Scotl
Lynn Scovcl
Vincent Scrima
Dean Scuddcr
Robert Scudder
Joseph Scully
Hoyi Seabury
David Seaman
Nancy Sears
Paul Secky
Frederica See
John Seed
Lillian Seely
Francis Sefcik
Rhona Segal
Paul Seibdld
Martha Seif
Daniel Seigcnbcrg
Glenn Selig
Richard Scltgnian
Ernest Scnecal
Nestor Sergotl
Lisa Serio
Don Scrpiiss
John Scrrccchia

Thca Scrvente
Ruth Service
Susan Sesnovich
Connie Sesslcr
Pamela Selidisho
Diane Scverin
Richard Scvicri
Marc Scvigny
Marilyn Seymour
Patricia Seymour
Wayne Sferrazza
Bernice Shaffer
Wendy Shaffer
Susan Shafloe
Rahim Shamash
Sherry Shamash
Robin Shanahan
Lawrence Shane
Eileen Shannon
Patrick Shannon
Deborah Shapiro
Jane Shapiro
Kcnnith Shapiro
Mallhew Shapiro
Patricia Sharland
Slcven Shaltuck
Cathcrin Shaughncssy
Bradford Shave
Barry Shaw
Dolian Shaw
Glenn Shaw
Michael Shaw
James Shea
Kathleen Shea
Mark Shea
Michael Shea
Patrick Shea
Robert Shea
Edward Shcchan
Joan Sheehan
Thomas Shcchy
Carol Shein
Susan Sheinfeld
Christopher Sheldon
James Shetkey
Carl Shellon
Craig Shcpard
Michael Shepard
Sandra Shepard
David Sherbs
Monica Sheridan
Joseph Sherlock
Barry Sherman
Rosslyn Sherman
Edward Shields

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Edward Strauss

Domenic Strazzulla

Robert Strempek

Kenneth Stuart

Peter Stuart

William Stuart

Paul Stypulkowski

Jayne Sulloway
Karen Swartz
Mark Swartz

Michael Szafranski

Barbara Szendey

Gerald Szpila

Jeffrey Taggart

Edward Taintor

Patricia Talbot

168 Seniors

Vanchai Tangpanichdee
Richard Tanhauser
Kathleen Tansey

Colleen Taylor
Lauren Taylor
Michael Taylor

Howard Terban
Richard Terrill
David Thaxton

Martha Tierney
Jacqueline Tighe
Adesola Tinubu
Frank Tiscione
Shelley Titcomb
Paul Tivnan
Bradley Todd

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Glenn Shields
R.chard Shields
Arthur ShIossm;ir
Robert Shore
Rulh Shribcr
Gail ShuTrin
Marsha Shufrin
Laurie Shulman
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Daniel Smith

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John Tata

Charles Tatakis

Seth Taylor

Madelyn Teich

Suzanne Temple

Stephen Themelis

Gail Theroux

Barry Thomas

Willie Thompson

John Thorp

Patricia Thorp

Kathleen Tierney

Mark Toder

Melinda Tolley

Jayne Tomlin

Robert Tonelli

Cynthia Toomey

Donald Tottingham

Barbara Traban

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Debra Trachy
William Tracy
Joanne Traut
Mark Treanor
Joseph Trevathan
Judith Tripp
Philip Troped

Maria Turchi
Carolyn Turner
Jay Turner
Stephen Turner
Shelley Turok
Helen Tutlis
Edmund Tutlys

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Kathlyn Valianti
June Valliere
Susan Vanbeek
Susan Vanblarcom
Janet Vanwert
Joanne Vasapolli

Philip Verdi
David Viamari
Gina Viamari

William Troy

Charles Trudeau

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Laura Tucker

Peter Tucker

Dennis Tully

Jeffrey Tye

Marykav Uchmanowicz

Catherine Udoh

Jane Uhlig

Renee Upchurch

Valorie Vagenas

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William F. Smith
William M. Smith
William W Smith
Eleanor Smilhers
Gail Smooklcr
William Smorc7cwsk
Robert Smyrnios
Leonard Smyth
Gail Sneisky
Michael Snyder
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Richard Snook
Bruce Snow
Deborah Snow
Richard Snow
Robert Snow
Evelyn Snyder
Nola Snyder
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Diane Soini
Nancy Sojka
Donald Sokolnicki
Mark Solan
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Daniel Solo
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Daniel Super
Michael Sorensen
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Nicholas Solar
Jane Soukup
John Sousa
David Souza
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Robert Sparrow
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Diane Sperrazza
Craig Sperry

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Lee Spiller
Patricia Spiller
Robert Spindcl
Cynthia Spindlcr
Michael Spinclli
Steven Spinn
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Nancy Spinney
Susan Spitzcr
Kathleen Splainc
Candacc Spofford
Slillman Sprague
Kyle Sprain
Lynn Sprain
Terry Sprecker
Marshall Spriggs
Frank Springer
Anita Springslubc
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James Slack
John Stacy Jr.
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Edward Stambovsky
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John Stanton
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Maryann Stark
Jack Starr
Mark Stasko
William Staton
Carol Stawarz
Jonathan St, Clatr
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Man St. Cyr
Linda St. Denny
Priscilla Stearns
Carol Steele
Michael Steele
Virginia Slefanik
Gail Stem
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Norma Steinberg
Paul Stella
Laura Slempcl
Erik Stenson
Colin Stephen
David Stephenson

Robert Stetson
David Stevens
Francis Stevens
Michael Stevens
Stephani Stevens
Alfred Stevcrson
Diana Stewart
Geraldin Stewart
Jcneba Stewart
Joseph Stewart
Kathleen Stewart
Thomas Stewart
John Sigermain
Charles Stickles
Kathleen Stickncy
David Sticr
Scott Slifne
Caryl Stifler
Stephen St, Jean
Richard St. Marie
Paul St Martin
Peter St, Martin
Margaret Stokes
Jay Siolbcrg
Linda Stoll
Barbara Stone
Catherine Stone
Cheryl Stone
Robert Stone
Terrencc Stone
Deborah Slonely
Paul Slonge
Pamela Stonier
John Storey
Scott Story
Scott Stoughton
Nancy Stover
James Slracqualurs
Ann Stratis
Susan Sirazdas
Nancv Siraz7ulla
Charles Sueciwilk
Bernard Street
Matthew Slriggles Jr.
Peter Strisik
Nathalie Stromsted
Kalhy Stuart
Samuel Stuart
Linda Stabler
Mansfield Stuckey Jr.
Judith Stylianou
Marcia Sudak
Thomas Sudsburv
Mark Suduiko
Eileen Sugruc

Patricia Vautrain

Terrilyn Vanzant

Joseph Vera, Jr.

Sharon Vidal

Nancy Vigneault

Robert Vinson

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Linda Vitagliano
Eric Voilheim
Peter Vonderlippe

Bruce Walker
James Walker
Marcia Walker

Steven Wallace
Cheryl Wallen
Martha Walsh

David Wandrei
Patrick Ward
Mary Wardwell
Virginia Warnock
Carol Waters
Cynthia Watson
Robert Watson

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James Taddonio
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Stephen Thompson
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Edward Ticrney
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Robert Walker

Richard Wall

David Wallace

Richard Walsh

William Walsh

Howard Wan

Stephen Watson

Richard Webb

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Alan Weidknecht

Lisa Weingarten

Kathleen Weisse

Patrice Weissman

Seniors 171

Gary Welch
John Welenc
Anne Welin
Terence Welsh
Dana Welts
Marguerite Werlin
Barbara Wertheim

Nancy Whipple
Cynthia Whitcomb

Joann White
Pamela White

Bruce Whitmore
Evelyn Whitney

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Cheryl Tillman
Nancy Tillman
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Dedra Tobin
Karen Tobin
Howard Tocman
Boyd Tolman
Wjliiam Tompkins
Steven Tonelli
David Toomey
Kevin Toomey
Eileen Torchio
James Torrance
Jose Torres
Luis Torres
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Susan Torrey
Thomas Toski
Brian Tower
Deborah Towie
Harvey Townes
Phillip Toy
Adellc Tracey
Michael Tracey
Thomas Tracy
Margaret Trafton
Sara Trainer
Maureen Trainor
Shelley Trask
Sharon Travers
Paul Travis
Stephen Treat
Leonard Trcmblay
Anne Trementozzi
Joann Trcmml
Gerald Treshinsky
Mary Trifone
Patricia Trimmer
Debra Tripp
Karin Tristan
James Tromblcy
Richard Trombly
Edward Trompkc
Michael Tropp
Kathleen Trolta
Rocco Trolto
Ncal Trousdale
Peter Trow
Stephen Trudeau
Paul Trueharl
James Trychon
William tsitsos
Nancy Tuch
Dennis Tuck
Thomas Tucker
Joseph Tuil
Robert Tully
Peter Truchon
John Turco
Daniel Trucotte
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Larke Turn'

William Turner

Robert Truo

William Tynan

Donna Tylula

Michael Ugolini

Robert Uliasz

Karen Ulman

Chrislin Ulwick

Hope Underwood

Thomas Unger

James Upton

Melissa Urann

Joseph Uslaitis

Ralph Vaccazri

Richard Vaicourt

Gary Valentine

Cynthia Valianti

Richard Vallett

Campegia Vancalcar

Edward Vandamme

William Vandergrifl

Harry Vandoloski

Alan Vangile

Mary Vanhorne

Jacqueline Vanrensselaer

Suzanne Vargas

Vicki Varrichione

Seraida Vasquez

Ceroid Veara

Edmundo Ramos- Velazquez

Linda Vendoloski

Connie Venturini

Marilyn Vergari

Cathy Verolini

Joseph Vcrtalino

Eric Vickcry

Margaret Vidnne

Aldina Vieira

Deborah Vigeant

John Vik

Paula Villani

Mark Villemairc

Rita Vinal

Michael Virdcn

Christopher Visser

William Vissering

Margaret Viialc

Patricia Vitale

Gail Vittori

Paul Vogel

Deborah Volanth

James Vollinger

Steven Volpe

Linda Volz

Gregory Voner

Stephen Vonlichtenbe

Kathleen Vorse

Jerome Vovcsko

Melissa Wagman

Edward Wagner

Richard Wagsiaff

Kathleen Wahlberg

Susan Waihkoncn

Kathleen Walas

Ann Walaszek

Arthur Walker

Eleanor Walker

Javne Walker

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Edward Wall
Marc Wall
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Gary Wallace
George Wallace
Jean Wallace
Mark Wallace
Robert Wallace
Christopher Walsh
Donna Walsh
James Walsh
Jane Walsh
Judith Walsh
Kathleen Walsh
Peter Walsh
Stephen Walsh
Timothy Walsh
Christopher Walter
Barbara Wallers
Roseann Wanczyk
Robert Wanders
Betty Wang
Alan Ward
Christop Ward

Dennis Ward
Steven Ward

Barbara Ware

Douglas Warka
Janet Warner
Susan Warner

Hans Warnick
Cheryl Warren

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Ladonna Washington

Donna Waskiewicz

Marion Waskiewicz

John Wasserboehr

Paul Waterman

Judith Waters

Paul Walkevich

Kathy Walkins

Marion Watkins

Linda Walrous

Craig Watson

Janice Watson

Jeffrey Watt

John Wawrzyniak

Marc Waxman

Joanne Way

Holly Weakley

Rebecca Webb

Donald Webber

Thomas Webber

Daniel Wcctawski

Jane Wccdall

Leonard Weeks

Robert Wciner

Lorin Weinreich

Daniel Weir

Michael Weir

Thomas Weir

Susan Wciscr

Andrea Weiss

Robert Weitz

Janet Welch

Donald Weld

John Wcldon

Robert Weller

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Karen West
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Gregory White
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David Wicks
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Ann Wiggin
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James Wiley
William Wiley
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Bruce Williams
Candace Williams
Dana Williams
David Williams
Gary Williams
Gerald Williams
James Williams
Marsha Williams
Nancy Williams
Paul Williams
Rita Williams
Wayne Williams
Richard Williamson
Robert Williamson
Robm Williamson

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Virginia Willis

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Robert Willoughby

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Ann Wilson

Deborah Wilson

Glenn Wilson

James Wilson

Jonathan Wilson

Mary Wilson

Reginald Wilson

Rodger Wilson

Stanley Wilson

Thomas Wilson

John Wilton

Janice Winchester

Sarah Winder

David Windoloski

Carl Wininger

Gary Winkler

Gary Winn

Kathleen Winn

Stephen Winskowicz

Janet Winslow

Margaret Winter

Priscill Winter

Ronald Winter

Stephen Winter

Pam Winterich

Paul Winters

Anne Winton

Amy Wirtz

Eric Wiseman

Karen Wisentaner

James Witherell
Keith Withycombe

Theresa Witowski
Bazrry Witt
Dana Witty
Mary Wojcicki

John Wojcik

Anne Wolanski
Robert Wolfe

Thomas Wolfe

Steven Wolfson

Gregory WoUaslon
Ann Wolpert
Richard Wolstencroft
Robert Womboldi
Eric Wonderlich
Jerry Wondoloski
Joseph Wong
Deborah Wood
Dcbra Wood
Kathryn Wood
Brent Woodard
Walter Woodgelt
Dorothy Woodley
Susan Woodrow
James Woods
John Woods
Stephen Woods
Thomas Woods
Anthony Woodward
Bruce Woodward
Linda Woodward
Thomas Woodworth
Laura Woofenden
Timothy WooUard

Dorothy Woolley

Larry Woolson

Paul Worden

David Worth
Susan Woskie

Laura Wozniak

Dinah Wright

John Wright

Kenneth Wright

Michael Wright

Richard Wright

Joseph Wronski

Janet Wunder

Glenna Wyman

Brian Wynn

Maurice Wynne

Thomas Wyon

Hannah Yaffe

William Yamartino

Pamela Yates

Michael Yazel

Karen Yee

Kenneth Yelland

Lesley Yetman

Irene Yeung

Ellen Young

George Young

James Young

Judith Young

Peter Young

Susan Young

Teresa Young

Terry Young
Betsy Youngholm

Chris Younkins

Shunchi Yu
Avis Yuni
Michael Yuoska
Charles Zaffini
Kathleen Zaffino
Steven Zaidman
Maryanne Zalewski
Richard Zammuto
Margarit Zamora
Betsy Zarling
Sandra Zarrella
Lydia Zartman
Cathyann Zawaski
Stephen Zayach
Daniel Zelazo
Arlene Zemailis
John Zepf
Mary Ziegler
John Zieja
Linda Ziemba
David Zimmerman
Marc Zimmerman
Brcnda Zimny
Abraham Zinger
Bencion Zinger
Margaret Zink
Elaine ZIotin
Paula Zofrea
David Zuckerman
Linda Zuckerman
Wayne Zylinski

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Judith West

John Weston

Stephen Wetherhead

Andrew Wetzel

Joel Wheeler

Kathy Wheeler

Rita Wheeler

Edward White

Howard White

Lawrence Whiting
Michael Whitman

Raymond Whitney

William Wiebe

Neal Wigetman

Kathryn Wilayto

Sally Wilder

Roberta Wilkins

Beth Willard

172 Seniors

Joan Willard
Barry William
Judith Williams
David Wilson
Jay Wilson
Justin Wilson
Michael Wilson

Michael Witzgall
John Wojcik
Debra Wojnarowski
Janet Wolbarst
Gary Wolf
Robin Wolfe
Anita Wong

Lynda Wrisley
James Yamartino
Barbara Yanofsky
Joyce Yarmaloff
Paul Yarmley
Bonnie Young
Deborah Young

Lee Zanotti
Wendy Zelnick
Marilyn Zepf
Karen Ziemba
Christine Zoladz
James Zoltek
Russell Zub

Nancy Winkler

Karen Winn

Penny Winnerman

Joseph Wisboro

Tanya Wisotsky

Karol Wisnieski

Diane Witt

Kitty Wong

Stephen Wood

Robert Woodis

Dick Woodward, Jr.

Dennis Worrall

Barbara Wright

Steven Wright

Peter Young

Karen Youngquist

Donald Yovicsin

Vincent Yurkunas

Avis Yuni

Ann Zaluzny

Linda Zangari

Yolanda Zuchowski

Carl Zulick

Patricia Zullo

William Zuraw

Deeba Zaher

Marie Zymorski

Robert Zymsyk

Seniors 173

Daniel Smith

Howard G. G. Rokes, a 37 year old
handicapped student said, "The key to
managing with a disability is to convince
yourself you can do most anything anyone
else can."

Rokes, a Food Science major, has been
confined to a wheelchair since 1965 when
he broke his back in an accident while
cutting down trees.

As a handicapped student, Rokes has
experienced a number of problems at
UMass which most students are unaware
of. He said, "The beginning is the most
difficult. Once you become acquainted
with your surroundings your problems
ease."

Rokes said the major considerations for
choosing a university are its programs and
accessibility. Many schools and programs
are off-limits because of physical barriers.

"At first I wanted to major in Entymo-

logy, but couldn't because the courses are
taught in buildings which are inaccessible
to wheelchairs," he said.

The first thing Rokes does when he re-
ceives his schedule is to check out the ac-
cessibility of the buildings where his
classes are scheduled, and make a test run
of the route.

Rokes said a smaller school is much easi-
er to get around, but he likes the campus at
UMass. "It's a good idea to take courses
that are near to each other. If your courses
are spread out, there may be problems get-
ting from one area to another in enough
time."

The Handicapped Student Affairs Of-
fice is very helpful to handicapped stu-
dents, especially by giving advice on acces-
sibility of buildings. "To get to Engineer-
ing East, you must go into Marston Hall
and take a freight elevator which has a

jaw-like opening and is a difficulty in itself
for many people to operate, go up one
floor, over the walkway which connects the
two buildings, and down the long hallway
to class."

Elevators can often create problems for
handicapped persons, and many buildings,
especially the older ones, don't have eleva-
tors at all, Rokes said. "I had to miss a
number of classes because of broken eleva-
tors."

Another major problem for the handi-
capped occurs when people block the
ramps to building that are accessible.
Rokes said service people, such as mailmen
or delivery men are the greatest abusers
and often prevent or delay him from get-
ting where he wants to go. He said many
people also block the ramps in parking lots,
or park in his space at North Village where
he has resided since his arrival at UMass.
"I hate to have people towed, but some-
times there's just no other way."

Rokes said the addition of two buses
specifically for the handicapped have been
a great help, but there have been few other
improvements since he first came to
UMass.

"Winter is the most difficult time, the
the university has been very helpful in re-
moving snow," he said. "Every time it
snows, the steps and walk in front of my
apartment are shoveled right away."

Rokes said college students are more
helpful and generally more understanding
than other people. "Some people tend to be
patronizing and don't seem to realize that
handicapped people lead normal lives."

Rokes has been a member of the Food
Science Club during his stay at UMass and
has also worked at the Handicapped Stu-
dent Affairs Office for one year. He enjoys
gourmet cooking and is currently writing a
cookbook.

Like many graduating students, he has
become easily familiar and comfortable
with his surroundings, and his carefree,
positive attitude reflects his assurance that
the problems encountered by a handi-
capped student are really much simpler
than they seem. "All in all," he said, "I
haven't had much trouble here. It has been
an enjoyable and educational experience."

— June Greig

174 We the People

"I went from
one extreme to
the other, from
almost flunking out of
Worcester State College to
being one of the student speakers at gradu-
ation this year," said Medical Technology
student Michael D. Kneeland.

Kneeland, 26, said that while a full-time
student at Worcester State, he also worked
almost full time at a bank. He said that he
never went to classes and studied only for
exams, and after a year and a half of lead-
ing a double life he decided to leave school
on his own before he was asked to.

He enlisted in the Coast Guard, and dur-
ing his four year enlistment, he was in-
volved in rescue missions which led to his
interest in the medical profession. Deter-
mined to train for a career in medicine,
Kneeland went to various schools seeking
admission. "I had a great deal of difficulty
doing this considering my Worcester re-

How would you feel if suddenly you
found yourself $101,000 richer?

You probably wouldn't believe it, and
neither did the actual winner, James L.
Pilvinis, of Sunderland.

Pilvinis, a post-graduate Management
student here was the at-home partner of
one of 10 contestants on Channel 22's "Big

cord, but fortunately UMass had an
open policy toward veterans and accept-
ed me. I always appreciated that."

Kneeland, who also served for a year
as News Editor of the Collegian, was
involved in many activities including co-
ordinating the "Help the Hungry" cam-
paign on campus two years ago.

Kneeland is headed for Medical
School in Italy in the fall, and says if he
can't get into any American medical
schools he will be there for four years.

"I feel in my heart I'll be very com-
mitted to medicine, a stereotyped Mar-
cus Welby."

And for the future, he plans to some-
day start a clinic for the poor, operating
on the basis of working three days a
week free of charge, and working three
days "to live."

Mike Kneeland has persevered. He
has come a long, hard way. He is of and
for the people. _ p j p^^^^p

Money" game.

He said he had been notified about
his being chosen as a partner, but he
didn't know who his television counter-
part was. By the final minutes of the
May 5 broadcast, however, everyone
else had been eliminated, and he knew
he was it. Minutes later he was

$100,000 richer.

"It seems like a daydream," he said. "I
never met my television partner, but I was
really cheering for her during those last
minutes of the show."

It all started when his lottery tickets
matched the white number for two con-
secutive weeks. "I put the numbers in the
special envelope, filled it out. and gave it to
my dealer, Sunderland Package Store.
About 40,000 entries are sent in on an
average week, so I was really lucky," he
said.

"That Wednesday, before the show,
they called and told me I was a partner,
and that was an automatic $1,000. When
everyone else was eliminated, I realized
none of them had been my partner and it
was me the woman on TV was playing
for," he added.

As for what he will do with the money,
Pilvinis said, "Right now I don't have any
work to quit, I'm just planning to sit on it
for a while, until I really decide what I'm
going to do with it — it's easy to spend it
all — that's not the problem."

The only speculation he would offer was,
"Maybe a new car, maybe grad school, or
maybe that trip to Australia after all ..."

— P.J. Prokop

We the People 1 75

Brrrrrr
rrring!
'Operator!
I want a mushroom
and sausage pizza
with extra cheese, and two
meatball grinders to go and ..."
"I'm sorry, sir, but this isn't Universi-
ty Pizza."

"Listen, lady. You are connected
with the university and are therefore in
charge of pizzas. Let me order, now!"
"All right, sir! Your pizza and meat-
ball grinders will be ready in five min-
utes. Goodbye."

This pizza demand is one of the most
popular phone requests on campus, ac-
cording to the University of Massachu-
setts operators. The strange truth is that
the operators receive this kind of call up
to four times a week. This is quite nor-

fense? My cat and dog are sick, and my
plants are dying. Give me room service
. . . the nearest bar! Advise me where
my child should live on campus."

These are some of the many requests
and questions the operators are con-
stantly barraged with. "We usually try
to supply the correct answers to the best
of our knowledge, and help as much as
we can," one operator said.

On the main floor of Whitmore Ad-
ministration Building, the operators
man phones, give advice, comfort the
distressed, work with the police, and
even save lives. Head operator Virginia
Brett, who has been at the job nine
years, said "diversity most accurately
describes an operator's role."

"Day callers are businesslike and
night people are more relaxed. At night,
we often get asked out on dates, or invit-

night. We try to talk them into chang-
ing their minds and refer them to coun-
seling centers on campus," they said.

"We help many people retrieve their
Most' cars from towing companies. One
poor graduate student had only $3.00
until an operator scraped up $1 1.00 of
her own because, "he looked like a nice
guy." When he returned her money the
following day, he told her, "You have
restored my faith in humanity. "

The operators said their busiest days
are usually at the beginning of every
semester as well as snowy days when
students with "wishful thinking" call
when barely an inch of snow has fallen.

"We are a lost and found for wallets,
keys, and jewelry. Packages and lug-
gage are often left with us to hold.
Once, someone from the Animal Sci-
ence department left their experimental

mal, though, compared to other peculiar
urgencies.

Day operators Virginia Brett, Lou
Patnaude, and Regina Korpita deal
with the calls during business hours
while Dorothy Cleveland, Joan Poole,
June McCullough, Carol Rhodes, Deb-
orah Swenson and Priscilla Myrer han-
dle them at other times.

"Help. How should I wash perma-
nent press shirts . . . cook my roast? Is
green meat any good? How do I make
spaghetti sauce and how long should I
cook it? When are the Amherst sales?
Who played Judd in Judd For The De-

ed to parties, though we never go. Other
students call just to shoot the breeze,"
they said.

"The rudest callers," agree both day
and night operators," express anger
when we don't answer their calls imme-
diately because our lines are tied up."
Day operators are asked, "Were you out
to lunch?" while night operators are ac-
cused of falling asleep.

Interspersed among the annoying
calls are also messages about bomb
scares, fires, riots, heart attacks, murder
threats, snake bites, and suicides.

"Potential suicides phone day and

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chicken blood with us."

As a first aid station, operators are
sometimes called upon to distribute
band-aids and aspirin. Sometimes they
are even asked to sew on buttons.

Although rewards are few, the infre-
quent thanks the operators receive for
the help they give outweighs all the fuss.
One dozen red roses was once given for
an operator's persistence in locating a
Head of Residence who had retired.

Even the callers wishing a "good
night" before they retire make it all
worthwhile, the operators agree.

— Patricia Beinar

176 We the People

"I think
UMass has one
of the greatest intra-
mural programs going, it
provides a healthy atmo-
sphere and an escape from academ-
ics," said Sandie Lucas, recipient of the
1976 Outstanding Female Intramural Ath-
lete of the Year award.
Lucas, who organized the "Pumas" two years ago said
the intramural office was very friendly and helpful to the team.
"The Pumas played in all the team sports this year and also won the
women's softball championship," she said.
"We've always worked hard in all the sports, and this was the first time we
came out on top — it's been tremendous for the team's spirit," she said.

"As far as the award goes, I guess I was kind of shocked. I
think it's a great honor, but I just don't know if I really
deserve it."

Lucas pitched for the softball team and has also been
team manager. "Maybe I got the award because I've been
involved in a lot of programs.

"Our team started off as a real scrub team and we really
have improved. Our coach, Paul Doran, has really been
tremendous, he's given the team a lot of direction," she said.

The Pumas have won the Provost Cup for the two years
the team has been in existence. The award is given to the
independent team with the most all around points. "It's
harder to get and keep an independent team together be-
cause everyone has a different schedule and you have to
contact everyone by phone," Lucas said. "But it's a good
party group," she added.

Lucas recalled her most embarassing experience in intra-
murals as "the time I scored the wrong basket going for my
first lay-up — and the other team won by one point, it
wasn't funny at the time, but it is now. I wondered why my
teammates weren't cheering when I scored!

"Another funny incident occurred when one girl showed
up to play without any sneakers. She played basketball with
her work boots on. You should have seen her clomping
around — and during the same game a girl lost her glasses,
she couldn't see the ball and when we threw it to her it would
bounce off her head. We were a very inexperienced team at
the time.

"All in all, intramurals have been a good experience.
There's a lot of solid competition and I've met a lot of
people. We have a good time, and many game strategies
have been planned at those post-game Blue Wall gatherings
— for the next game!"

— P.J. Prokop

"It was a tremendous honor, I was really
surprised, and it was a very nice ending to
my college career," said Neil M. Pitchel,
this year's Outstanding Male Intramural
Athlete of the Year.

"I think the reason I got the award was
because I was always the coach. I was just
lucky enough to coach good teams. I don't
think outstanding ability has anything to
do with it — I'm not a superstar."

Pitchel, 22, an Economics major and
former president of Beta Kappa Phi frater-
nity, has been very active in the UMass
intramural program since his freshman
year, playing football, basketball, soccer,
and softball. He coached the fraternity's
football and softball teams for the '75-'76
season and never lost a game. Beta Phi has
also been in the finals for softball for the
last three years, winning the championship
each of those years, and this year the intra-
mural football team came back victorious
over previous champs Tau Epsilon Phi.

"The toughest thing I found about
coaching softball and football was during
try-outs for the teams. There is a lot of
competition to get on the intramural

teams, and I found it really difficult to
have to cut my friends and brothers from a
team. Still, it was my job to get the best
guys out on the field.

"Despite the fact we were looked down
upon by other frats, we were always able to
win our league and defeat anyone who de-
graded us. They called us "the big frat
machine" even though we were actually
one of the smallest teams, considering the
size of our players.

"The thing I always stressed when
coaching was organization, and the intra-
mural program here is really well orga-
nized. The competition was always excel-
lent," he said.

Pitchel said, "sportsmanship in the fra-
ternity was always good, but at the same
time, there was a tremendous premium on
winning.

"One really important thing is that the
guys in the house who don't play on any of
the teams always come down to the games
to cheer us on, especially for football. That
really means a lot. After all, it's nice to
win, but it's also nice to be appreciated.""

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ceval was taking his time. He
turned the corner made by the
fence near Boyden and headed
for the tunnel. Lights were still on
in the two brick buildings set back
from the walkway (thousands of
times he must have walked past
those buildings, yet he still wasn't
sure exactly what they were used
for), and Perceval looked at the
faces of the people who passed
him, hoping to see someone he
knew. Walking through South-
west he almost always did. Kenne-
dy came into view over the tun-
nel, seeming to rise out of Massa-
chusetts Ave. Perceval scanned
the windows of the tower, ran-
domly lit like the face of an elabo-
rate computer, and ducked into
the tunnel. To Perceval, the tun-
nel seemed to effectively seperate
Southwest from the rest of the
campus, and when he came out
(his footsteps still echoing behind
him) he felt the campus was that
much farther behind him.

He started down the tree-
framed center-walk, and the calm
night carried the quiet hub-bub
of Southwest to him. Stereos told
him of their musical preference
from high above. He looked
around at the darkened cement
courtyards and open spaces, and
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people walking, frisbee throwers,
baseball players, soccer ball kick-
ers; a happy hum of activity. But at
night it was quiet, and his only
company was a couple standing
under the slab-sided Coolidge.

He could see inside the lit
rooms of Crampton; each was dif-
ferent. He could look up and
down the tower, across the low
rises, again and again, and never
see two rooms that looked alike.
Perceval ambled into Bites &
Pieces and sat down at a round
table with his friend, Galahad.
They talked of their times in
Southwest; their freshman fear of
the towers, their unfounded fears
of "losing their identity" in South-
west, their first tentative friend-
ships, and the lasting ones, the
closeness of their floors.

He stepped back into the night,
and walked past the basketball
courts. He could almost hear the
people there, talking, playing,
shouting, laughing.

Perceval finally reached his

dorm, and after chatting with

some friends in the corridor, he

went into the privacy of his room.

The room welcomed him, he sat

in his easy chair (pilfered lounge

furniture, of course) and sighed. A

Youth Ghetto, it was called by the

people who didn't live there. The

Pits, they said, a Concrete Jungle.

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court, home.

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Located atop the highest point
of the campus, Central area, with
a population of almost 2100 stu-
dents, Is the second largest living
area.

And since some of the dorms
were built over thirty years ago.
Central is one of the oldest living
areas.

Although the physical charac-
teristics of Brett, Wheeler,
Brooks, Baker, Chadbourne,
Greenough, Van Meter, Butter-
field, and Gorman may not be as
new or as modern as the other
residence halls, each of these
houses has a "lived-in" atmo-
sphere to them.

The red brick serves as a perfect
facade for the hundreds of fris-
bees that fly around the lawns in
the autumn and the spring, and
contrasts sharply with the white of
the winter snow.

As one walks down the hall of
any one of the dorms, the pas-
sageways may often be dark, drea-
ry, and somber in appearance, but
the rooms which line the corri-
dors are anything but lifeless. Be-
ing that they were built before the
era of modern architecture where
repetition is the rule, each room
in the dorm has a character and
shape of its own.

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186 Central

whether it weekdays or week-
ends, morning, afternoon, or
night, the pleasant scent of burn-
ing dope is sure to be found filter-
ing into the corridors from out of
any room, bringing together the
lifestream of humanity residing
there.

Numerous coffeehouses are
held, sponsored by various dorms.
These events bring together tal-
ented folk singers from UMass
and the surrounding area to per-
form evenings of quiet, relaxing
music.

Snowfalls are welcome wonders
upon the hill. When the first
snowflakes appear out of the sky,
the dining commons trays are
snuck up into rooms and readied
for long, wet, snowy trips down
the hill. The throwing arms are ex-
ercised into condition in anticipa-
tion of the accurate snowball
shots to be aimed at friends and
enemies alike.

All in all, from the steeple of
Van Meter dorm down to Brett
and Wheeler guarding the hill
from below, the dorms, the peo-
ple, the grass, the trees, and the
grass provide 2100 lucky UMass
students with a beautiful place to
live.

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After classes on a frostbitten
day, I trudge up Worcester patFi
asking myself a question that al-
ways goes through my mind in un-
comfortable weather, "Why the
hell do I live ai! the way up in
Orchard Hill?" As the wind whips
through my muscle-weary body
and I feel that I would be spared if
only I could find warmth, I ap-
proach the doors of Dickinson
House and 1 breathe a white-
clouded sigh of relief knowing I'm
home. If the elevator is working,
I'm home free. If not, my now-
worn limbs must stand another
seven flights of climbing straight
up. Once reached, however, sev-
enth heaven Dickinson is worth
all suffering, in my eyes. Now, out
of the cold, my fatigued and fro-
zen body can thaw out in the
warmth of friendship.

It might be the Orchard's semi-
isolation from campus (especially
in colder weather) that is the

cause of the friendly atmosphere
and closeness of the people on
my corridor. Once back in the
dorm on a freezing and biting day,
who wants to go out or back
down to campus unless it's for an
important reason? So, stereos play
at an easy-to-take and somewhat
mellow intensity and the "soaps"
bubble out of T.V. sets while
floormates weave in and out of
each other's rooms to see what's
happening.

Living in Orchard Hill is gener-
ally an easy going yet sometimes
rowdy place to settle down for
one's dorm living years. For me,
the advantages far outweigh the
disadvantages, but life on the Hill
isn't all apple-blossoms and rolling
hills. As a Dickinson resident of
two years, I have tolerated the in-
conveniences as a part of Hill life.

To be sure, the word hill should
not be taken lightly. The residen-
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elevated area on campus. With
study books in hand or my arms
full of groceries, the hill must be
conquered, and no matter what
anyone says — you don't get used
to walking up! Believe me, after
skipping down to dinner and eat-
ing a D.C. meal, the last thing I
want to do is face a steep foot-
path. But I do it — and once at the
top I feel breathless and excer-
cised, and after cursing the food
and the hill, I feel better. Besides,
going up may be difficult, but
walking down is a breeze.

Occasionally, a rowdy sport
known to all Orchard Hill resi-
dents as a "bowl war" breaks out
at very sporadic times — usually
after midnight. If I'm in the mood,
I'll usually join in with all the rest
of the hill residents out on our re-
spective balconies, screaming at
each other across the "bowl" (the
circular grassy area central to all
four dorms). For some, it's a great
way to let off steam and for others

it's a nuisance, but for me, the
wars are fun to listen to and watch
because 1 know that once I leave
the Hill I won't see or hear the
likes of them again.

I can go on and on about how
wonderful and terrific life is on
Orchard Hill, but I'm not writing
an advertisement. There are ten-
sions and setbacks as in every resi-
dential area on campus and I'm
not saying that life in Orchard Hill
is special to everyone. People
make a dorm unique and special,
and fortunately for me, the peo-
ple 1 have met and lived with have
given me reason to enjoy and ap-
preciate Orchard Hill living. It's
difficult to explain why a set of
buildings in a certain location is so
appealing to one who has lived
there. It's so much easier to talk
about one's experiences in terms
of people, because they are what
make the dorms come alive.

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Johnson. Prize-winning authors?
Famous poets? Dormitories.

Northeast is more than just a
collection of old buildings — each
dorm has character — a unique
personality and history. Did you
know, for example, that Crabtree
House was named for a cigar-
smoking dancehall girl who was
once the wealthiest actress in
America — Charlotte Magnon
Crabtree?

Her acting career began during
the gold-rush days, and as a child
she danced on tabletops while
California prospectors squan-
dered their fortunes by showering
her with gold nuggets and gold-
dust.

Lotta, as she was commonly
known, was a major contributor
to the Massachusetts Agricultural
College (MAC), which later be-
came the University of Massachu-
setts. The University still receives
money from the Crabtree for-
tune, and will ultimately receive a
total of approximately a million
dollars.

Hamlin House, an all-male
dorm, is ironically dedicated to a
woman. Margaret Hamlin was not
only one of the first two women
to attend MAC, but was once the
"Agricultural Counselor for Wom-
en" at MAC, and when the col-
lege became a university, she was
"The Placement Officer for Wom-
en."

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The beautiful pink and white
trees which blossom in the spring
and the evergreens that grace the
Quad year-round remind us that
UMass got its start as an agricultur-
al school.

Although UMass was originally
an all-male school, women still
had their influence.

Mary Lyon is another dormitory
dedicated to a unique person. Ms.
Lyon, a native of Buckland, Massa-
chusetts, was a pioneer in the field
of women's education. She made
plans for a girl's seminary en-
dowed by free gifts as many of the
male colleges were. She was a
woman of strength and determi-
nation, and was the founder of
Mt. Holyoke College.

As you can see, "those old brick
buildings" have a lot of heritage
steeped within their foundations.

Now, Northeast is a pleasant
mixture of old and new. It is slides
down Thatcher's hill in the snow,
and volleyball in the sun. The
Quad is a place where you always
meet friendly "hello's" and smil-
ing faces — a place where some of
the impersonality characteristic of
a large university is cast away.

A lot of old brick buildings?
Only to those who don't know
the personalities of the dorms,
and the warmth of the people
who live in them.

Northeast — the Quad — 1 like
it.

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It's 3:22 a.m. and I'm sitting in
my Cashin cubicle listening to a
new record. Someone's in the
suite shower. I just returned from
visiting a suitemate who's on secu-
rity duty tonight. "It gets lonely
around three," he says, "so visit
later on, if you're up." Of course
I'll be up, I always am at three.

Sylvan's a weird place, and it's
even weirder if you've never lived
there. Even though I plan on
spending only one more semester
in Sylvan, I enjoy it immensely, al-
though I recommend living here
only after you've spent at least
one semester elsewhere on cam-
pus. It's a tough place to be thrust
into as a first-term freshperson,
mainly because it's so hard to
meet more than the seven or so
people in your suite.

By its very nature, Sylvan is isola-
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both are open, people are usually
afraid to walk in and try to meet
others. It took me over a semester
to meet the few people on my
floor that 1 now know. Most peo-
ple eventually get to meet quite a
few people, but it usually takes
much longer than it does else-
where.

For two semesters I worked at
WSYL-FM (97.7), stuffed away in
the basement of Cashin. Disc
jocks there play their own records
and/or borrow from others. It's a
real gas working down there. It
only takes an ounce of intelli-
gence to learn how to run the
place; you get to feel the thrill of
turning listeners on to a new
genre, group, or song; the phone
sometimes refuses to stop ringing.

Some Sylvanites, myself among
them, complain about the space
allotment of Sylvan rooms: Sylvan
residents (Newts to some, for

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some obscure reason) pay the
most for the least amount of cubic
area. You learn to get used to it,
however, and freshpeople who
don't know how big other rooms
on campus are don't seem to
mind very much.

It's amazing to me how unified
some suites can be. Mine can't
co-operate enough to keep a
lounge intact for over a week, but
most of us get pretty decadent
about once a week anyway. Most
people seem to get along with
most others in their own suite,
and can usually do something
with their lounge. Before long, al-
most all suites seem to have an
aura about them, something
unique about each that separates
that one from the others. Not
ours. The only aura we have is one
of nothingness.

I like it like that.

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Contrary to rumor, a "Greek" at
UMass is not someone who's fresh
off the boat from Athens. All stu-
dents who belong to one of the 26
fraternities and sororities on cam-
pus are part of the Greek commu-
nity.

First and foremost, a Greek is a
student. Most Greeks find their
environment conducive to study-
ing. Reservations must be made
ahead of time for a study seat in
the Newman Center, as it is usual-
ly packed with Greeks.

During every sport season, fra-
ternities and sororities take time-
out to compete against each other
in intramurals. Intramurals allow
every Greek to show their skills,
yet at the same time, relax and
enjoy themselves among friends.

If you happen to be walking on
campus and see a group of men or
women dressed up in the craziest

possible costumes, it's most likely
they are Greeks going nuts! Since
stunts and raids are pulled fre-
quently, kidnappings and com-
posite-stealing must be included
as part of the fun.

In October, Greeks get psyched
for the traditional UMass Home-
coming Weekend. Everyone gets
together to build floats for the
Homecoming Parade, which starts
off the Weekend filled with alum-
ni reunions.

As the days grow warmer, mem-
bers of the Greek system look for-
ward to the main social highlight
of the year, Greek Week. Begin-
ning on Sunday, assorted events
are sponsored and held each day,
with the climax being the annual
Schlitz-a-rama. Thousands show
up for this all-day outdoor party
where every true Schlitz lover
drinks more than their fill.

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Throughout the entire aca-
demic year, all sorts of fund-rais-
ing events are sponsored by var-
ious frats and sororities. Most of
the profits earned during Greek
Week are donated to charities,
such as The March of Dimes, and
Muscular Dystrophy. Also, indi-
vidual houses volunteer an even-
ing during the Alumni Phon-
othon.

The Greek Area is proud to
have among it all the members of
the sole University Tour Guide
Service, called ARGONS. After
being selected, those students
volunteer their time to give cam-
pus tours to visitors.

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Greeks the incentive to actively
participate in sports, their aca-
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to writing about my off-campus
living experiences, I find myself
coming to a complete impasse
with my pen — 1 suppose primar-
ily because I have never lived in a
campus dorm or had to subject
my stomach to dining commons
food.

Of course, I have spent some
time in my friends' dorm, but
nonetheless, I have never been
disheartened in knowing that I've
missed the experience of living
confined in a cubicle. I've also
held a slight aversion to the idea
of dorm life simply because I've
become rather inflexible to the
idea of sharing a room. I feel my
room has to be my private retreat
where I can seek out some soli-
tude when I feel the need for it.

I've known a number of people
who have had to take a dorm
room not knowing who their
roommate would be. Obviously,
the same thing can happen when
living off-campus, when you have
to advertise for roommates, al-
though it is probably more likely
that you will end up with some-
one compatable — a better
chance than you would have in a
dorm.

Fortunately, the UMass bus ser-
vice alleviates the problem of
transportation to campus — al-
though grocery shopping poses
quite another problem. I have
definitely not enjoyed my grocery
shopping excursions. Trips on my
bicycle with an overloaded back-
pack and ending up with a sore
neck has taught me how to keep
my shopping to the bare essen-
tials, like peanut butter and jelly,
or macaroni. I have become a culi-
nary expert in devising variations
on such staples.

I suppose the best part of off-
campus living is simply the feeling
of being totally on my own —
away from supervisors, counsel-
ors, or parents — and living my
life as 1 please. Occasional prob-
lems do crop up, such as the time
we received a warrant to appear
in court because a friend had a
dog at the apartment, but every-
thing was resolved. And I find that
life in my apartment has become
my home — away from home.

208 Off Campus

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Hey, it's Friday, that's alright,

I'm gettin' down, gonna boogie tonight

Take my car to the nearest bar.

Kiss me, babe, cause I'm a star!

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A drive down Route 9, a walk

through the Yellow Pages, or a glance

at the week-end editions of the local

newspapers reveal the multitude of

activities available for students in

their leisure time.

If you're entertaining at home,

there are nine local package stores to

serve your party needs. If you'd

prefer a night on the town, there are

75 restaurants, 20 bars and night

clubs and 12 movie theatres in the

Amherst-Northampton area to make

any evening enjoyable.

Daniel Smith (7)

210 Night Life

Whether it's boogie or bricklaying,
Juan Roberts, head disc jockey at Poor
Richard's of Amherst, loves his job.

Roberts, 21, who also works as a
bricklayer, has loved music for as long
as he can remember and is particularly
enthusiastic about being a disc jockey,
"it's just something I love and could
never miss," he said.

Roberts was introduced to his job last
year when a friend, WMUA disc jockey
Paul Zitter, let him be the jock at Poor
Richard's for the night. "I loved it,"
Roberts said, "and I've been doing it
ever since."

He knows what the crowd is like and
how to get them on their feet. "What 1
play depends on what the crowd is
like," he said. "In this town it's pretty
vyell mixed on weekends. I start them
off mostly on rock and roll. They also
like soul and new music."

"I play my heart out some nights and
no one dances. They just need a little

nerve juice," he said.

Roberts bases his program on versa-
tility because "you have to please ev-
erybody." The door to his booth is al-
ways open for anyone with requests.
"This could be a one-way club and it'
would never make it," he said.

Describing himself as a "disco freak,"
Robert says he loves old music and big
bands. "I like to see people that like
every kind of music," he added.

As far as his music is concerned, he
says he tries to get the good songs be-
fore the radio stations kill them. He
goes as far as New York and Boston to
get the music he wants before the radio
stations even get it.

The stations have some emphasis on
his programming, he said, as the most
requested songs are usually from the
airwaves. He plays what the people
want to hear, he says, "because I like to
see people go crazy."

— Dave Kowal

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Wallflower: "a young woman who re-
mains at the side of a party or dance
because she is shy, unpopular or has no
partner."

So reads the definition in the College
Dictionary. But, whoever wrote the
College Dictionary obviously never
went to a dance because there are
mobs of young men who "remain at
the side" in every campus bar — shad-
ows in the Hatch, spectators at Poor
Richard's. Of course, if a man spends an
entire Friday night glued to a barstool,
it isn't because he's shy, unpopular, or
has no partner. It is because he doesn't
want to lose his seat. Sour grapes.

But the UMass women's movement
is making its way to the dance floor,
and liberating all wallflowers in its path
— women and men alike. If he won't

ask her, then she asks him to dance —
it's that simple. For the coed in the au-
dience who isn't convinced that it is to
her advantage to take the initiative, ob-
serve the situation from a purely logical
standpoint. There are two responses to
the question "do you want to dance?"
— yes or no. According to the laws of
probability then, she has a fifty-fifty
chance of gaining access to the dance
floor, which are at least better odds
than the zero chance she has if she's
sitting in a corner looking lonely and
dejected.

Besides, men are likely to be sympa-
thetic to her cause because they know
how discouraging a "no" can be. May-
be that's why they're leaning against
the wall and riot mingling on the dance
floor. Even more likely, he'll accept her

invitation because he's flattered. And
he should be.

From personal experience, she
should anticipate some curious reac-
tions, like, "What? You're asking me to
dance?," and maybe an occasional
smirk or lifted eyebrow. One specific
incident which comes to mind is the
man who waved his hand, as if to wipe
the slate clean, and setting his drink
down on the bar, replied, "Now ... do
you want to dance?" (A classic example
of the man who is compelled to put
everything in proper perspective, or
rather the woman in her "proper
place").

Another gent, taken by surprise,
laughed outright, but after the dance
asked seriously, "Do you always do
this?" (This type has potential — at least

he has a sense of humor). Still another
man straightened his shoulders and re-
sponded with an indignant "NO!"
(Anti-social. There's one in every cam-
pus bar — a confirmed wallflower and
likes it. There's only one way to deal
with this type — ignore him).

Of the more positive encounters,
one enthusiastic gentleman almost up-
set the table when he jumped from his
seat and exclaimed, "I'd love *o\" And
so it generally goes, when the initial
shock has subsided, the majority of
men will be happy to oblige.

The moral of the story is "you win
some, you lose some" — but you dance
a lot and enjoy the evening. My Fair
Lady "could have danced all night, "
and so can the women at UMass.

— Ginny Willis

Night life photography by Daniel Smith
and John Neister.

Thanks and a ten-dollar tip to the man-
agements of the Blue Wall, Hatch, and
Poor Richard's for letting us photograph
their drunken, empassioned patrons. You
should see the ones we couldn't print! But
for a small fee

It's a quiet Tuesday evening in the dor-
mitory. People are gathered in the corridor
talking and laughing. Someone shouts,
"Heyyyy, it's almost eight o'clock — time
for Happy Days." Suddenly, the corridor
is empty and the room with the television
set is quickly crowded, everyone jockeying
to secure a good viewing position. Similar
scenes take place all over campus. The TV
sets of America become electrified.

What is the intrigue of this show —
which captures and captivates millions of
viewers each week? What is the interest
that shot the show's early low ratings to the
top spot in the Nielsen polls? Why do
eight-year-olds, teenagers, and yes, even
we "mature" collegiates make a point of
keeping up with every episode?

Very simply — Henry Winkler. Arthur

Fonzarelli. The "Fonz." He lives in the
Cunningham's (the family on the show)
garage apartment. He comes through in a
jam. He's got it all together. He describes
himself unequivocably as "cool." The ail-
American greaser, the stereotypic entity of
a fifties idol. He is an orphan adopted by
America.

His imitators range from the toddler set
to the Bentwood brigade. The public iden-
tifies with him, they will buy him. "Fonzi"
sells. His smiling face and "thumb up"
(the Heyyyyy! sign) pose can be seen in
rtment and record stores, on
-shirts and posters. He beams at us
from the covers of magazines,
each promising a hot story,
new insight into his person-
ality. The Happy Days theme
song plays over and over on
"top forty" stations. He does
promos for local radio and
television stations — even
WMUA got in on the act,
as a recording of "Fonzi"
tells us to be cool
and tune in to 91.1 on
the FM dial.

He is news. His followers
want to meet him, touch him,
talk to him. Mass mania to find
out what "he's really like."

The question of what
"Fonzi" is like is really invalid.
We see the character, in its
entirety on the TV screen. That's
all there is to "Fonzi." His admirers
tend to ignore this fact and confuse the
character with the man who created the
personality.

Winkler himself is aware of this crossing
of personalities, and even on stage opens
with, "Hi. I'm Henry Winkler." He insists
on being called by his real name, and
doesn't play "Fonz" outside the show. He
wants to be recognized and associated with
his real identity.

In an interview at the Springfield Civic
Center, Winkler said he feels his far-reach-
ing appeal is due to the "humanness" he
developed in the character he portrays. "I
took a small part, with a few lines and
developed Arthur Fonzarelli into a whole
person. Someone people can identify
with."
And people do identify with him. His

Daniel Smith

dressing room is crammed with press peo-
ple, and autograph seekers. Roses from
fans decorate the table.

Perhaps a major reason for the popular-
ity of Winkler's TV character (who he says
is nothing like the real Henry Winkler) is
the ability "Fonz" has to control situa-
tions, and command respect and admira-
tion from his friends. We can't all wear
leather jackets, or ride a motorcycle and be
a garage mechanic, but there is something
appealing about this type of person who
has gained a kind of control over his peers.
Everyone can "play the character," and
imitate his style. Even a three-year old can
say, Heyyyyyy! — and have a little "cool."
People like to emulate the "Fonz" because
he has captured the epitome of the image
some people might like to have. So they
idolize him instead. He is entertaining, and
even if the "Fonz" is only a passing fad,
Henry Winkler will be remembered — "if
you get my drift."

— P.J. Prokop

214 We The People

The man pictured at
right is usually seen in
his Machmer Hall office,
or up in the balcony pub-
lications offices of the
Student Union. This
man, known affection-
ately as the "Duke", is
the faculty advisor for
the INDEX, and on this
page we'd like to share
with you a glimpse of
the man that is so much
a part of our UMass
experience.

"I view my role as one of imparting in-
formation, inspiring participation, and giv-
ing guidance to students — whether they
ask for it or not." He winlcs as his jet blacic
eyebrow arches up to touch a shock of
prematurely white hair. Stretching out in
his chair, his Earth shoes pointed toward
the ceiling, he searches his mind for an-
other word of wit and wisdom.

He is a character, an individual whose
purpose in teaching is to prove to the rest
of us, that we, too, are individuals. He is
Dario Politella, Associate Professor of
English and Journalistic Studies here, at
UMass since 1965. In the 1 1 years since he
has been here, he has imparted ("Think
simple"), inspired writing ("Writing is
10% inspiration, 90% perspiration"), and
given guidance ("Write the truth — with
love") to over a thousand budding writers.
His role-view gives only some indication of
his sincere dedication to his students —
and his slightly bent sense of humor.

To get the full impact of a Dario Poli-
tella, one must wander into his basement
office in Machmer Hall. It's the one with
the open door and the sound of human
voices. The humanity that emanates from
within has trapped many a wayward stu-
dent seeking a willing ear. And Politella is
always there to give willingly. "More and
more students are coming to talk than pre-
viously. They need an ear. A lot of students
take my article writing course just to have
one for 30 minutes a week." His article
writing class, taught through individual 30
minute "confessionals," is one way in

which he strives to "get as close to one-on-
one as I can, because a greater personal
relationship between students and teachers
results in a more effective education."

At 55, Politella is younger than most of
his students. Journalist, writer, painter,
aviator, and educator, Politella fills his life
with challenge — and he does it vigorous-
ly. At the moment, his two chief challenges
are writing and painting, but the piano is
next on his list.

His Sunderland attic contains an easel
and canvas on one side, and a roll-top desk
with a typewriter on the other. He bounces
between the two, doing a little painting,
then a little writing, until he suddenly dis-
covers, "that I've completed something on
each."

And he has completed plenty of each.
Already having written six books and nu-
merous magazine articles for publications
from Reader's Digest to Skyways, he is
now writing his fourth Directory of the
College Student Press in America. And he
boasts with pride, that he is now finishing
his 175th painting, which is a remarkable
feat considering he has only been painting
since 1972.

His hobby, or perhaps more descriptive-
ly, his avocation, is humor — collecting it
and spreading it. Campus humor has al-
ready been the subject of one of his books.
The Illustrated Anatomy of Campus Hu-
mor (1971), and campus graffiti, press
headlines, and misworded and misprinted
phrases, are now filling files for future free-
lance articles.

Daniel Smith
It is his own wit, however, that will be
remembered by his students. The wit of
this man who once wrote a newspaper col-
umn under the byline of his dog and subse-
quently ran him for President, and whose
anecdotes, puns, and words of wisdom can
fill a class period in no time at all, is re-
freshing in a world that is all too serious.
He himself feels a depression that has set-
tled on this campus. "These are times that
try a teacher's soul," he wrote in a recent
freelance article. He laments that "There
is a lack of imaginative planning by our
administrators. There's no master plan, no
facilities for doing our jobs. The library
collection is lacking, there are fights for
pay raises and tenure, and a bigger budget.
The students reflect that general depres-
sion. It's hard to get them excited in a
depressed atmosphere. If there's confusion
within the faculty what else can there be
but confusion within the students?"

Despite a depressing campus, Politella
continues to spread a little humor and in-
still that personal contact he values so
highly into his teaching. And he continues
to "temper theory with practice," because
he believes in "feeding a student's soul as
well as his stomach."

For all the soul-feeding, for all his giv-
ing, for all his time, we give back to him
three words of inspiration he has so often
given to us — keep the faith. And to that,
we add two of our own — with love.

Jim Gibbons and Donna Fusco

We The People 215

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Sports . . . '

... at UMass has over the years been
a broad and varied phenomenon. For
all of the participants, both active
and passive the athletic experience in
the 1975-1976 seasonal year was no
different. The year's phenomenon
entailed much happiness, much sad-
ness, much success, and much fail-
ure. The basic premise for most was
to learn something meaningful while
having fun doing it. The winning
and the losing just came along as
a sideshow accompanying UMass'
great athletic circus.

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The only problems cross country coach
Ken O'Brien has with his runners "come
when they pursue it (distance running)
with too much intensity "

Though it seems like a problem most
coaches would love to have, the ove^pzealous
mental determination of the 1975 squad
physically exhausted the team before the
end of the season. As a result, a 9-2 dual
meet record, the Yankee Conference cham-
pionship and a third place finish in the
New Englands were followed by a disap-
pointing nineteenth place finish in the
IC4A's.

However, O'Brien said the team "ac-
complished more than we thought was pos-
sible" and was a year ahead of themselves
in the workouts they ran and the perfor-
mances they turned in. The young team
was composed mostly of sophomores but
ran as though they were juniors.

After losing most of the 1974 starting
squad and team leaders Randy Thomas and
Bill Gillin, both Ail-Americans, through
graduation, 1975 saw a group of highly
competitive runners fighting for positions
on the starting squad.

John McGrail had run on the 1974 IC4A
championship squad and emerged, almost
of necessity, as the team leader for the 1975

season. All of the runners entered the sea-
son with a lot of intensity and enthusiasm in
an attempt to live up to the performances
of the 1974 squad.

While many sports are patterned activi-
ties engaged in on a day-to-day basis, dis-
tance running is more like a way of life,
and the mental pulling of the 1975 squad
allowed them to perform better than they
might otherwise have been physically ca-
pable of.

Pack running and the ability to place a
number of runners in the top ten in a race
led the team to 9 victories and two close
losses to Providence and Vermont by 13
points and one point, respectively. Includ-
ed in the victories was an unexpected de-
feat of Northeastern, which later won the
IC4A championship. The team that ran

against Vermont had four members of the
j.v. team running with it.

UMass completely dominated the Yan-
kee Conference championships by scoring
28 to Vermont's 71 and Connecticut's 80. It
was the sixth straight YanCon champion-
ship for the UMass harriers.

The five sophomores and three juniors
running for UMass then pulled out a third
place finish in the New Englands, but wer-

en't as close as they should have been to
Providence and Northeastern who scored
42 and 45, respectively, to UMass's 146.
The physical fatigue from the early season
emotional stress was beginning to surface
and by the time the IC4A's rolled around,
UMass could muster no better than a nine-
teenth place finish which placed it as the
sixth team from New England.

The team had peaked two weeks earlier
than it should have. The ability to control
emotional involvement in a race comes
with experience and the 1975 squad lacked
this and consequently had its enthusiasm
turned on full all year until it simply ran
out. Next year's team should better be able
to time its peak and since the whole starting
squad will be returning, the psychological
unity will be maintained. McGrail, Frank
Carroll and Mike Quinn can be expected to
absorb pressure and lead next year's team,
which can only be expected to improve.
Distance running in New England on the
collegiate level is higher nationally than
any other New England sport. Because the
climate doesn't affect distance runners as
much as other runners, and because the
hilly environment is suitable for cross coun-
try. New England high schools produce a
lot of talent. While UMass never gets the
top runners, it always gets some very good
ones, O Brien said, and attempts to offer a
nrogram to runners who can compete on a
national level after a year or two of work.
The program very rarely slips and next
year's team of predominantly juniors can
be expected to perform as seniors after the
intense 1975 season.

— Jerry Rogers
Jim Higgins (4)

218 Men's Cross-Country

aclttallg, it

Before the ninth game of the 1975 sea-
son coach Dick MacPherson was outraged
at the fact that ABC television had chosen
to air the Ivy League game between Brown
and Harvard rather than the Minutemen's
confrontation with Bill Bowes' New
Hampshire squad that would decide the
Yankee Conference championship.

Well, ABC probably made the right
choice. The Minutemen and the Wildcats
played a sloppy game in chilly Durham
and TV viewers would have spent most of
their time looking for an "F Troop" rerun
or raking leaves had the regional game
been UMass-UNH.

MacPherson had left Amherst with an

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optimistic approach to the game. "We're
bringing the Beanpot (the trophy symbolic
of the YanCon football championship) up
there," a confident MacPherson boasted
before the meeting with the 7-2 Wildcats.
"When we won it, we had to wait until
March to get it (the Beanpot). If New
Hampshire wins the game, I'll present the
Beanpot to them, because they'll deserve
it," MacPherson said on the Thursday be-
fore the game.

MacPherson did present the Beanpot to
Bill Bowes and the New Hampshire foot-
ball team. UMass returned to Amherst
with the team's first loss after eight con-
secutive wins, and without the Beanpot.

New Hampshire was the winner by a 14-
1 1 score and many cars bearing Massachu-
setts license plates were seen making a stop
at the New Hampshire state liquor store
on the long trip home from a very disap-
pointing fall afternoon in Cowell Stadium.

A bottle of rum and a six-pack of Coke
or whatever your favorite combo can be
greatly appreciated on days like November
15, 1975, the day the S.S. Massachusetts
ran aground.

"I had no idea of the magnitude of the
New Hampshire loss," MacPherson re-
flected from his Boyden office later.
Against a background of photographs of
past UMass teams and flanked by a book-

case spotted with footballs from his Denver
Bronco days, MacPherson was forced to
talk about the Dartmouth victory (7-3)
and the trip to Macomb, Illinois where the
Minutemen stopped Western Illinois 16-13
on three Dave Croasdale field goals. The
eight game winning streak proved to be a
good conversation maker. But MacPher-
son knew the season could have been so
much better and you could see the remorse
in the coach's face. You could see him
trying to explain how sorry he was for all
his players that the team never made the
playoff scene. MacPherson is that type of
coach.

(continued on page 223)

Football 221

222 Football

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It's easy to justify the tearing down of
the Cowell Stadium goalposts in the
Army-Navy tradition after the U'NH tri-
umph. "You'd think they had just won the
Super Bowl," a fan, obviously from Am-
herst, snorted as the masses exited the open
air stadium looking forward to a cup of hot
chocolate.

New Hampshire was picked during the
following week for the NCAA Division II
playoffs. UMass was not selected. Before
November 15 it appeared that UMass was
going to be involved in postseason play,
had a shot at the YanCon title and might
even complete the season undefeated.

UMass finished second in the Yankee
Conference and ended its season on sched-
ule, losing the final game of the year 24-14
to Boston College for an 8-2 record.
UMass was ranked ninth in the final Divi-
sion II poll and held first place in the New
England poll for a good part of the season.
One thing MacPherson says he learned
during the season is that "you can't depend

on the quarterback." Brian McNally re-
placed Fred Kelliher in the second half of
the Dartmouth game and earned starting
quarterback honors. The UMass attack
then proceded to run a sometimes near
perfect blend of all the essentials which
brought them to Durham, high and
mighty, spotless and undefeated.

The offense featured the run throughout
the season. "We were successful and didn't
throw as much as I would have liked,"
explained MacPherson. Jim Torrance pro-
vided the muscle and Rich Jessamy the
speed and finesse for the running attack.
Jessamy had a great game at Storrs where
he ran for 171 yards including touchdown
gallops of 55 and 67 yards as the Minute-
men toppled UConn 29-14.

"It was a good season, even though we
didn't accomplish our goals," MacPherson
said. "One bad day cost us everything."

Perhaps one of the most inconspicuous
reasons for the squad's success was the
work of the offensive line and the stingy

defense. With Tom Harris, Ned Deane,
and Ross Schubarth opening gaping holes
in the defensive alignments of opponents,
Jessamy and Torrance were able to get into
the open and do their thing. For Jessamy
that thing was a sidestep and a sprint to the
goal line. Torrance specialized in meeting
defenders head on and powering past them.

For eight weeks the defense toiled. Ed
McAleney, Steve Telander, and Gary Lit-
tle heckled opposing quarterbacks while
Ron Harris accumulated a handful of in-
terceptions.

Performance-wise UMass football fol-
lowers became more and more convinced
that the team was a good one; not a flashy
or spectacular team, but a solid group of
unselfish football players. Those players
will remember the '75 season. They'll re-
member the bridge falling out from under
them as they almost reached playoff coun-
try and how what could have been a super
season turned out to be only a winning one.

— Scott Haves

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In his first two years of coaching the
UMass soccer team, Al Rufe compiled
a 14-6-2 record. When Rufe labeled the
1975 Minuteman squad as possibly his
best team there was cause for excite-
ment to be stirred up by UMass soccer
fans. Unfortunately for the Minutemen
the excitement was quickly turned into
bitter disappointment as the hooters
suffered through all kinds of trouble in
posting a 3-9-2 slate.

The Minutemen were inexperienced,
had attitude problems and probably set

a record for most hit goal posts and
cross bars, but their main deficiency
was the lack of a guy who could kick the
ball into the net.

"We just don't have a guy that has
the knack of scoring, a guy with a great
shot, or a guy that can break open a
game," said assistant soccer coach Russ
Kidd during the season.

Rufe tried different formations in an
attempt to spark his team offensively,
but none of them worked. He also tried
to substitute freely to keep fresh bodies

in the game to avoid the Minutemen's
frequent flat spots. Again his moves
failed in their purpose. Rufe just could
not overcome the lack of experience in
his front line where three freshman and
a sophomore saw most of the action.

Thus the Minutemen were shutout
four times and scored only one goal in
seven other games.

The three times that UMass man-
aged to score more than one goal they
posted impressive victories. The Min-
utemen whipped both Maine and Bos-

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13-1-1 Westfield State team, 3-2.

"The turnirg point in our season I
think came in our game against Ver-
mont," said RuK', whose squad was 1-2
at the time. "The v>fficials called a ques-
tionable penalty k'ck against us and
Vermont scored its only goal of regular
time on that kick. We came back to tie
the game with a good goal but they won
the game with 49 seconds left in the
second overtime."

After the Vermont game, which
marked the second straight overtime
loss for UMass, the Minutemen tied
both Harvard and Boston University 1-
1, lost to Tufts 2-1, and then were
blanked in three straight losses. UMass
snapped both its scoreless and losing
streaks with a win over Westfield State
but by then the season had been almost
a total failure.

"Some of the guys are down on them-
selves," said Rufe after the Minutemen
suffered their worst defeat of the sea-
son, a 5-0 setback to Rhode Island.

Not only did some of the members of
the team get down on themselves but
mid-way through the season Bob
McChesney, the team's leading point
getter, was suspended from the team for
the remainder of the season for disci-
plinary reasons.

Coach Rufe had announced before
the season that 1975 would be the last
year he would coach soccer. He wanted
to devote his full time to his position as
Financial Manager of the UMass Ath-
letic Department.

Thus Rufe and the team's five sen-
iors, Billy Belcher, Billy Spyker, Bobby
Snow, and co-captains Gary McKenna
and Danny Ouellette left the UMass
soccer program after a season which
never proved to be what it was billed to
be.

— Bill Dovle

Daniel .Smith (2)
David Less, Jim Higgins

Soccer 225

226 Rugby

^Kaving a greal time!

Sports participants will usually agree that
they participate in sports for many differ-
ent reasons. The learning experience aspect
of sports is usually one thing that partici-
pants hold as worthwhile.

The UMass rugby club has many partici-
pants who are learning and are finding it
very worthwhile.

"Our season was very satisfying, " said
club organizer, faculty advisor and partici-
pant himself Robert "Doc" Lauerence. His
concern is mainly for the "kids ' as he calls
them and whether they are learning some-
thing about rugby and, more important,
something about themselves by playing
rugby.

As one of the most unfamiliar sports on
campus to many people rugby most often
takes a back seat to other, more well known
sports. That aspect of things does not usual-
ly occur to rugby players though, who are
much more concerned with just playing
and having a good time. If people began to
learn about rugby a rugger just views that
as a benefit to the learner.

Last fall the UMass ruggers gained an
upset victory over the Beacon Hill rugby
club of which the upset proportions paral-
leled a UMass football victory over Boston
College. And just as sure as you can be that
many people would know about a football
game like that, you can also be sure that
people would not know about a rugby
match like that.

— Ben ("aswell

227

Che strongest team

"They're a shoo-in for the playoffs.''

"An excellent team, one of the top in
the Northeast."

"I think UMass has an excellent
club, who really hustle well."

These are some of the superlatives that
were bestowed upon the 1975 field hockey
team by opposing coaches. Despite playing
their longest and toughest schedule in his-
tory, the Minutewomen chalked up a
9-5-1 record and ended up as
the third best
team in y J^ the Northeast.

Second-year ^*'%m coach Carol

Albert's squad, after compiling an 8-4-1
regular season mark, found itself ranked
third in the first United States Field Hock-
ey Association Northeast Tournament.
After a win over Southern Connecticut in
the first round, the Minutewomen were
upended in the semifinals of the tourney by
Maine. The outcome of both games was
decided by superior penetration time,
since the final scores were both ties. Just
34 seconds of time separated UMass and
Maine in the semifinal contest, and had the

Minutewomen won, they would have gone
on to the National Tournament.

But the regular season UMass enjoyed
helpe ease the pain of the post-season dis-
appointment. The team rolled off three-
and four-game winning streaks during the
season. The only team to beat the Min-
utewomen more than once was Springfield,
the eventual Northeast champion.

Teamwork and hard work were the key
ingredients which led the team on its way.
But some outstanding individual efforts
and new additions didn't hurt the cause,
either.

Leading the goal scorers were senior co-
captain Kathy O'Neil, with seven tallies,
and flashy freshwoman Lynsie Wickman,
who scored six. Also contributing to the
offensive effort were Judy Kennedy, Sue
Kibling, Jo Lorrey, and Cheryl Meliones.
Anchoring the defense were co-captain
Karen Zimmerman, freshwoman Gayle
Hutchinson, Olivia Lovelace, and Kelly
Sails.

In the goal, sophomore Kathy Gibbs
posted six shutouts and played well all sea-
son. Her goals against average was a fine
0.93.

— Judy Van Handle

228 Field Hockey

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marked a
long season

In grappling with the problem of decid-
ing whether a team has had a successful
year or not, many things must be taken into
consideration. Especially in a sport such as
wrestling, both the team concept and var-
ious individual factors must be looked at as
inseparable parts of an intrinsic whole.

The 1975-76 version of the UMass wres-
tling team therefore had both a good and a
bad season if one considers these factors.
Overall, the team finished its season on a
somewhat mediocre note with an even nine
win and nine loss record. On the other side
of the ledger, however, were the superb
individual performances of veteran wres-
tlers Cliff Blom and Dennis Fenton all sea-
son long, with their efforts culminating
with a trip to Tuscon, Arizona and the na-
tional collegiate wrestling championships.

As for the team itself, the matmen wres-
tled for an unusually long period of time
this year with eighteen regular season
matches. After the first eight matches of
the year it appeared the year might even be
longer than expected as the wrestlers held a
dismal 1-7 record. Some national wrestling
powers had been added to the schedule this
year, and travel hassles and scheduling

iiy

problems necessitated the bunching togeth-
er at the start of the season teams of the
Michigan, Army, and Princeton caliber.

Not only was the storm weathered by the
wrestlers in the second half of the season,
but the grapplers actually caused some
cloudbursts of their own in posting a superb
eight win and two loss record during that
period. The team's performance was high-
lighted by an upset victory over the fine
squad of Boston University.

Beset by minor aches and pains, which of
course take their toll in an\ sport, UMass
did not fare as well as it would have liked in
the New England team competition, com-
ing up third behind Boston University and
Rhode Island.

A post-season loss of sorts came when
two-year coach Mike Welch decided to ac-
cept a teaching position at Southern Con-
necticut College.

Individually sustaining, and group-wise
somewhat so, the club had a season of many
reversals. Up and down the team and each
of its members went almost as often and as
quickly as some of the action in any match
all year.

— Paul Rannenberc and Bi-n f^aswell

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For the 1976 women's basketball team,
the season began like your usual roller
coaster ride — at a dead stop.

Back-to-back-to-back losses to Southern
Connecticut, Quenns, and Adelphi are not
generally recognized as signs of success.
But what most onlookers failed to realize is
that roller coasters need time to gain mo-
mentum.

Coach Carol Albert's squad, though
young, seemed to have the proper amount
of experience needed to carry it through all
the sharp turns of a tough campaign.

In addition taking advantage of what Al-
bert termed "a boom in women's athletics",
the hoop quintet would be playing its home
games in Curry Hicks Cage. Crowds rang-
ing between 100 and 4,200 were bound to
pick a team up.

The climb began with a decisive 75-55
win at Worcester State, and a 74-53 shel-
lacking of UConn in their Cage debut. The
UConn game was significant because it
gave fans an opportunity to observe the
components which would send the coaster
careening on its way the rest of-the season.

A scrappy, hard-nosed approach to the
game became an absolute necessity. "We're
not a tall team," Albert said, "and when we
don't run, we don't play well."

Against UConn, the women unveiled a
relentless full-court press, forcing the Hus-
kies to commit a great number of tur-
novers, one of the few bugaboos the Min-
utewomen never fully solved.

Then, there were the individual efforts:

— Junior co-captain Nancy O'Neil, al-
ways getting open for the crucial shots,
leading all scorers and rebounders.

— Sophomore guard Joanie Greenaway,
coming off the bench to spark the team
with aggressive defense and sharp passing.

— Sophomore center LuAnn Fletcher,
blocking shots and powering her way to the
bucket for hard-earned points.

— Senior co-captain Nancy Barry, quar-
terbacking the offense, playing intensely
and, at times, with reckless abandon.

— Junior forward Chris Basile and soph-
omore guard Joanna Balletta, steady and
efficient, hustling at both ends of the court.

along - the ups
of a hanMr ^^ar

The fuel for a rapid rise was there, and
UMass sped to eight more victories in their
next nine regular-season games, with the
only dip on the track a one-point loss to
Central Connecticut. The average victory
margin exceeded 20 points during this
streak, and included first-ever wins against
Northeastern, Bridgewater State, and
Springfield.

Sporting a 10-4 record, the Minutewo-
men then peaked in their state tourney se-
mifinal against Northeastern, 74-64, before

Daniel Smith (6)

finally running out of gas. It was a very
tired squad that came to a sudden, screech-
ing halt against Bridgewater State (losing
the state final 68-66); they then lost both
games of the regional tourney against Ver-
mont and Maine.

After the Vermont upset, Albert said,
"This is an inevitable step in our learning
process . . . only the second time UMass has
ever been invited to this tournament and it
is the first time anyone has ever seriously
expected anything of us.

"A lot of people around here are still
wondering what the hell UMass is doing
rated so high (number three in the North-
east), and I think that's a good reflection on
the progress we've made in the past two
years."

The ride, in this exhilarating rollercoas-
ter season, was over. It ended as it began —
with three straight losses — but no one was
complaining.

— Ron Chait

Women's Basketball 233

SI lot of *ifs* added up to 12 and 8

Despite an experienced squad with plen-
ty of depth, and a 12-8 record in Division II
play, the hockey team failed to make the
playoffs for the second straight year.

But, because a team had a disappointing
end to the season, that does not mean there
were no bright moments. A six-game win-
ning streak within the division began with a
come-from-behind effort at Boston State.
Senior center Billy Harris scored his one
hundredth career point on a breakaway
goal at Vermont and eventually wound up
as the second highest scorer in UMass histo-
ry. Coach Jack Caniff won his hundredth
game at UMass, a 6-2 victory over New
Haven.

What hurt the team most was inconsis-
tent play before intersession. Lowell and St.
Anselm's both came from behind in the
third period to beat the Minutemen. What
became obvious is that had those two games
gone the other way, the final mark would
have been 14-6 and there would have been
no way the team could have been over-
looked in post-season play.

Following tradition, the club got hot in
the second half of the season beginning
with the Boston State game. There was

more pressure to win coming down the
stretch. "It's two different seasons because
that long layoff really hurts," stated senior
left wing Jim Lyons. "A Christmas tourna-
ment would really help the team."

In order to stay sharp during this four-
week period, most of the players skate, but
there is virtually no chance to play under
game conditions.

The other tough part of the early sched-
ule was that the team did not have what
could be called a "number one" goalie.
Most players will tell you that they prefer
one guy in the nets. They don't care who
that is as long as he is playing well consis-
tently. Both Dana Redmond and Doug
Janik split the duties in goal early in the
season. The team did not jell until Red-
mond replaced Janik in that Boston State
affair and reestablished his number one po-
sition. Janik played well when called upon,
but Redmond went on to post a fine 3.76
goals against average in the division.

Injuries also played a part in the season.
Dave Allesandroni had to have an arm op-
eration which ended his career early. Don
Murphy, a freshman center, broke his wrist
after getting off to a great start and played

234 Hockey

Bob Gamache (4). Daniel Smith (4)

in only ten games. On the other hand, Har-
ris enjoyed a fine season coming off a rup-
tured spleen injury.

Bob McCormack, a defenseman, felt that
"we were inconsistent. We won big games,
but lost one here and there. And near the
end of the season, a lot of people were
playing hurt."

The greatest performance over the cam-
paign was put on by Chris Lamby, who was
moved from center to defense and made
the division all-star team. Scott Stuart, Mike
Merchant, Billy and Bobby White, and Bri-
an Mulcahy were some of the more consis-
tent players over the course of the year.

"The competition was better," added
Lyons, a fine playmaker. And when the
teams you play improve, your own team's
performance can become obscured. That's
what probably happened when it came
time to choose the eight playoff teams.

If UMass had done better early in the
season, coupled with their success during
the second half, everything would have
ended on a brighter note. But, "if" is a big
word in sports.

— Glenn Poster

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GeUifig serious about
swimming fa^s off

It used to be that men's swimming was a
joke on campus, but when the swimmers
reeled off seven straight victories at the
start of the season, more people started to
take an interest in the sport.

Before Bey Melamed, a three-time
Olympian with the Israeli team, took over
coaching duties, swimming was a "come as
you wish" thing. Melamed's first year was a
step toward respectability as the team fin-
ished with a 6-7 record.

A more serious atmosphere pervaded at
the pool where the swimmers practiced ev-
ery day during the following year and they
put together another 6-7 season.

"It takes a team some time to respond to
a coach, " explains Melamed. That response
was most noticeable this season when the
swimmers had that fantastic start and com-
piled an 8-5 record.

"In the '74 season, the swimmers began
to realize that swimming is a lot of work,"
Melamed recalled as he participated in a
pool-side card game with some friends.

Before Melamed came to UMass the pro-
gram consisted of attending meets and
coming home. "It's not a joke here any-
more, " Melamed says in a dead serious
tone.

The swimmers captured seven victories
in their first seven meets of the season be-
fore some of the team members were both-
ered by the flu and a very demanding
schedule which called for ten meets in the
span of one month.

Melamed, a full time student, is the head
coach under an "associateship " program.
Holder of nearly a dozen All-American ti-
tles, he came to UMass for his first taste of
collegiate swimming and brought with him
international experience and success in
world competition. He held a record in the
200-meter butterfly that stood from 1972
throught 1975.

The coach lost interest in the card game
he was playing and talked about several
types of leadership that played a part in the

first winning swim season on this campus in
recent years. "As far as swimming ability
goes, we had Ben Crooker and Dave
Bouscher. Ross Yarworth and Mike Kervvin
helped keep the team together with their
enthusiasm.

"It's been a pleasure for me working in
this kind of atmosphere and seeing that
people are interested. But one problem
with us is recruiting. We usually don't get
the great swimmers and I know we'll never
get a scholarship for swimming. It's dis-

236 Men's Swim

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The swimmers completely changed the
record book, breaking ail but one standard,
and that one was tied during the course of
the season.

The team ran into some problems at the
New England Championship Meet, when
Melamed was ten minutes late in register-
ing some of his swimmers. The result was
that several swimmers were disqualified
and the event turned out to be a disaster for
the UMass team.

The 1975 New Englands are a sore spot
with Melamed, who refused to talk about
his team's poor performance. Melamed did
talk about freshman Tom Novak and his
efforts in the individual medley, breast-
stroke and butterfly events in the year
when, all of sudden, the dining commons
conversations switched to, "Wow! The
swim team is 7-0." during the season.

— Scott Ha\es

Men's Swim HI

Che standards arc kigb
it^keit excellence prevails

Only considering the excellence that the
women's gymnastics program has grown
accustomed to, could a ranking of seventh
in the nation be disappointing.

But at the conculsion of the 1975-76 reg-
ular season, the Minutewomen failed for
the first time in three years to capture the
Eastern championships and then finished
out of the top four in the national cham-
pionships for the first time in five years.

This year's team was highly dependent
on the performances of underclasswomen,
as it had only two seniors — co-captains
Alicia Goode and Gail McCarthy. It was
also beset by injuries. Goode missed most of
the season with a torn achilles tendon.
Sophomore all-around Pam Steckroat had a
back problem that forced her to be out of
action until late in the year, but she still
managed to do well enough in the Easterns
to qualify to compete in the Nationals in
the individual all-around competition. Ju-
nior Linda Nelligan, a member of the team
that finished second in the nation in 1975,
didn't compete in 1976 because of an in-
jury.

Two sophomores, Susan Cantwell and

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Cheryl Smith, sparked the Minutewomen
to a third place finish in the Eastern cham-
pionships after UMass had recorded a 9-1
dual meet slate. Cantwell, the top all-
around performer all season, finished sixth
in the Easterns in the all-around and Smith
finished fifth in vaulting.

Regular . season highlights included a
104-point showing in a win over Southern
Connecticut, a total only bested by a 104.35
performance in the Easterns.

Something other than any achievement
by the Minutewomen themselves may
make the '75-76 season the one that could
be the most important of all. The Athletic
Department, crippled by financial woes,
restricted the awarding of athletic scholar-
ships to four teams — men's football and
basketball, and women's basketball and
gymnastics.

Thus the Athletic Department paved the
way for the UMass women's gymnastics
team to continue to be one of the top
squads in the nation. Given that chance, it
is now up to coach Virginia Evans and
company to bring the national champion-
ship back to UMass.

— Bill D.iNJc

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SanCoti dominance!

...post-season disappointment

The 1975-76 basketball season signaled
the end of an era. It marked the 28th and
final year that UMass would play this win-
ter sport in the Yankee Conference. The
Minutemen went out in style, however, be-
fore they moved onto the Eastern Indepen-
dent Collegiate Basketball League. They
posted an 11-1 conference record to cap-
ture their fourth straight title and their sev-
enth in the last nine years.

The Minutemen's 21-4 regular season re-
cord earned them the number one ranking
in New England, but their dismal showing
in the ECAC New England Tournament
tarnished their accomplishments.

In the opening round of the tournament,
the Minutemen met Connecticut for the
third time of the season. Each team had
downed the other on the road and the red-
hot Huskies captured the third game, 73-
69, clinching it on a Joe Whelton jumper
with three seconds remaining. The Minute-

men were then trounced by Holy Cross in
the consolation game and for the first time
in four years, there was no National Invita-
tional Tournament bid awaiting them at
the end of the season.

The season was filled with too many
memories to be completely overshadowed
by the ECAC tourney flop.

After being suspended for one game ear-
ly in the season for disciplinary reasons,
Alex Eldridge poured it on with drives to
the basket and pin-point passes to direct the
Minuteman attack and be elected the
team's Most Valuable Player.

Mike Pyatt exhibited what a dominant
offensive threat he was by leading the team
in scoring in his sophomore year, and being
named to the All-Conference team.

Derick Claiborne, also a sophomore,
combined with Eldridge (his former high
school teammate) to comprise one of the

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best backcourt duos in New England.

Jim Town was not only the second lead-
ing rebounder in the conference, but also
the league's MVP.

And Mark Donaghue made the transition
from Dartmouth a successful one by sink-
ing his turn-around jumper often enough to
finish as the team's second leading scorer.

All five starters had one thing in com-
mon — they were all underclassmen. The
team's seniors, Mike Stokes, Joe Artime,
and Arnold Johnson, had their moments of
glory, however. The five-foot-nine Stokes
led the Minutemen to an early season win
over Harvard with 28 points. Artime con-
tributed greatly to the important win over
Connecticut with his tough defensive work
against the Huskies' leading scorer Tony
Hanson. And Johnson would wow the
crowd anytime he would come off the
bench and sink a shot.

The Minutemen won 11 games in a row
enroute to their 21-6 season. The most im-
portant and most satisfying win of the
streak had to be an 81-79 overtime win
over Providence College. The Minutemen
trailed by six points with 1:05 remaining in
regulation time but went on to post their
first win over the Friars since 1969.

Minuteman coach Jack Leaman called
the '75 edition of the Minutemen "his best
team ever, a young team that learned to
work together as the season progressed. "

The team showed just how well they
learned to work together in wins over Bos-
ton College, Connecticut, Hawaii, Rhode
Island, Fairfield, and Providence, among
others. Unfortunately, they showed that
they still have things yet to learn when they
were bumped twice in the season-ending
tournament.

— Bill Doyle

Men's Basketball 243

244 Men's and Women's Ski

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Scbttssing to success

Picture yourself flying down the side of a
mountain on two narrow strips of fiberglass
with snovvflakes whizzing past )ou, as you
compete against the clock, and \'ou"ll have
some conceptualization of the men's and
• women's ski team.

Of course, there is much more to being a
member of a college ski team, as coach Bill
MacConnell will tell you, than can be cap-
' tured even in the best descriptive para-
graph.

For the past seven years the UMass skiers
have been division or league champions in
the New England Intercollegiate Ski Con-
ference. This year, the men won the first of
two Canada-American races in January,
and the women won the first of a series of
races in the March session of the Can-Ams.
The Can-Ams are unicjue in that both the
men and women compete in the same area.
Canada bests the races in Januar\' and in
March the competition is held in the L'nit-
gd States.

" Gerry Goodrich, a former international
skier on the Can-Am circuit, coaches the
women's team. The women ski in the
Women's Intercollegiate Ski Conference
and have fielded a team for the past seven
years. UMass won the WISC championship
by outskiing Boston Liniversity, Connecti-
cut, Radcliffe, and Merrimack. .\[ the C^an-
Ams, the women won the first of two races
and placed second in the other to Plymouth
State.

The season includes a lot of work for the
skiers, and not onlv work in the sense of

training for the meets. Steve Tonelli. John
Denison, Bill Nebesky, and Andy Smith,
four seniors on the squad, and the rest of
the men's skiers along with captain Martha
Moran, senior Betsy Hussey, and the re-
mainder of the women were involved in
brush control their practice areas, Ver-
mont's Haystack Mountain and Berkshire
East in Charlemont. Using IOC-pound ma-
chines to clear the brush adjacent to the
slopes, the skiers work starting at four
o'clock in the morning in order to obtain
passes to the ski areas for practices.

And skiing is one sport in which both the
men's and women's programs are operating
on an equal basis. The teams train together
weekly, and the women have picked up
quickly on the tradition established by
coach MacConnell.

"Years ago we'd never think of the wom-
en mixing with the men, but now they do
and it couldn't be otherwise," MacConnell
said.

Miles away from campus in the moun-
tains, a skier stops at the base oi the slope to
rest. Breathing in the cold winter air, the
skier walks back up the slope for another
attempt to reduce the timing. .And it's hard
to tell whether the person under all the
heavy clothing is a member of the women's
or men's squad. But that's partK because of
the combined training program that Mac-
(]onnell and Cioodrich use. and the equal
level of the two programs at UMass. .\nd, it
reallv doesn't matter.

John McCarthy (3)

245

One with the waUr

Working Out

The beginning — Why am I here?
Because I am and I will be all that I can be
My lungs are shrinking. My chest cannot stretch.
My arms and shoulders are old rubber bands.
The water is too thick. The clock is too fast.

Why am I here?

The middle — I am.

I am the pain. Its rhythm hums in my shoulders and arms.

I am the water. I am smooth and wet. I flow.

I am the clock. I feel time. It throbs in my chest and head.

Whay am I? Because I am.

The End — Why am I here?

Because I am and I will be all that I can be

I am floating now. Watching misty rainbows play around the lights

I am my body. I sense every fiber singing.

Why?

Because.

Coach Patricia Griffin

(ripples melt to glass,
N.O.P.E. waters are still)
The women swimmers completed a 10-2
season, a record blemished only by Spring-
field College and Yale. These two teams
were also the only ones between the UMass
women and the New England crown.

(a long season ... six months of work-
ing out . . . September to February
. . . training, constantly and carefully
toning . . , ups and downs . . . the
peak and the pit ... intercession
workouts)
Breaststroker Theresa Totin, as a first
year swimmer, proved a valuable asset to
the team. She captured two New England
firsts in record times and joined Penny
Noyes, Mary Ann Totin and Reenie Gro-
den in the 200 medley relay to upset Yale
and set a New England record.

(remember chlorine-scented suits . . .
water swishing in your ears . . . losing
your only pair of goggles . . . wishing
the pace clock would slow down . . .
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swimmers for the Easterns at Pittsburgh.
Melon Dash, Carol Griffiths, Cindy Whit-
ing, Theresa Totin, Reenie Groden, and
Mary Ann Totin were the UMass represen-
tatives, tying for fourteenth in a field of 39
schools.

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ting in lane lines . . . doing no-breath-
ers ... still wishing the pace clock
wasn't so fast)
Nationals were held at the Swimming
Hall of Fame in Fort Lauderdale, Florida,
with swimmers Groden, Dash, Noyes, and
Theresa Totin qualifying.

(getting ready for the next series . . .
taking your pulse ... 10 x lOO's kick-
ing . . . riding the swim team van six
hours to Maine . . . staying over for
the New Englands)
Team coach Patricia Griffin started as
coach five years ago with only eight swim-
mers, but finished this season with a third
place in New England and the love and
respect of twenty-five team members.

— Laurie Whiting

Women's Swim 247

LetKng the sport die?

It was the year that could have been.
Two years before, all-around Gene Whelan
tranf erred from UMass to Penn State be-
cause of a planned phasedown of the men's
gymnastics program here. He went on to
attain AH- American status for the second
time and compete in the Summer Olym-
pics in Montreal.

Instead of being led by Whelan, the
men's gym team slipped a few notches in
respectability. Head coach Tom Dunn,
concerned over the instability of his posi-
tion at UMass, took an assistant coach's po-
sition at his alma mater, Penn State; -he was
replaced by his formenr assistant Bob
Koenig, who was hired only part-time.

Recruiting, which had suffered because
of the cutbacks in the program by the Ath-
letic Department so much that only four of

the fifteen team members were freshmen
or sophomores, seemed to continue to be
hurt.

"It's getting so bad that hardly any high
school gymnasts even bother to apply to
UMass, let alone seriously consider coming
here," Koenig said.

Koenig planned to leave UMass after the
1976 season, and the Athletic Department,
because of a statewide freeze against hiring
full-time employees, planned to continue to
hire only a part-time replacement.

Because of the decreasing importance
placed upon men's gymnastics by the Ath-
letic Department, many current team
members considered transferring to other
schools.

No one transferred prior to the 1975-76
season, however, as the Minutemen man-

aged a 6-5 regular season mark before fin-
ishing fifth in the Eastern championships.

Roy Johnson, Joe Brandon, and Andy
Hammond were among the seniors who
guided the Minutemen through their up-
and-down season, which saw UMass follow
nearly every victory with a loss.

A 202.95 — 194.75 win over Navy was
the best showing of the year, and a 187.70
— 163.70 loss to Army early in the season
was the worst point-total for UMass under
the new scoring system created the year
Kef ore.

All-arounds Steve and Paul Marks, still
rings specialist Paul Lusk (who also com-
peted on the side horse because of the
team's lack of depth), and co-captain high
bar specialist Joel James also contributed to
the team effort.

— Hill Dovli'

Men's Gymnastics 249

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Success is onlg relative

You might ask, "How can someone call a
3-4 season a record-shattering one?" Well,
track coach Ken O Brien can and does. His
trackmen broke 24 varsity and freshmen
records during the outdoor season and cap-
tured the top position in the UMass relays, a
new concept in big meet competition, held
here this season.

But, the tracksters finished with a medio-
cre dual meet record, managing to beat
only Holy Cross and Boston University
twice while absorbing losses to Boston Col-
lege, Rhode Island, and a pair from North-
eastern. The team's second place finish in
the Yankee Conference and sixth place
showing in the New England champion-

ships were little to brag about either
O Brien has experienced more success in
previous championship seasons, but he says
he was "still very impressed" with his
team's performance throughout the season.

The records were set in events that re-
presented the team's strengths, namely the
440-yard hurdles, the middle distance
events, the mile, the three-mile, and the
steeplechase.

In recalling the highlights of the season,
O'Brien cited the outstanding performance
of senior Curt Stegerwald in the 440 hur-
dles during the YanCon championship
meet. In four straight years, Stegerwald
placed in the New Englands.

Phil Broughton capped a consistent four
years of distance running by placing in the
steeplechase at the New Englands.

Jim Shea established the school record in
the javelin with a 217-foot throw and fin-
ished second in the conference.

Another senior, Pete Famulari, placed
sixth in the New Englands in the 120-yard
high hurdles.

O Brien has been attempting to strength-
en his team's performance in the field
events, an area where the trackmen have
been inferior to New England powers
Northeastern and Connecticut.

"Each group has its own type of team
spirit, " O'Brien said concerning coaching

2.50 Men's Track and Field

such a large track squad. "It's difficult as a
coach to mold five groups into one large
team of eighty, but there is a good deal of
enthusiasm. The weightmen have their
own group spirit and the runners have
theirs."

The UMass relays came about as the
New England track coaches discussed the
advantages and disadvantages of dual
meets or large relay meets. "At times there
are poor individual matchups in a dual
meet, and sometimes only ten or twelve of
your athletes are involved in a large scale
meet. The UMass relays evolved out of an
effort to present the best competitive situa-
tion. Our fine track facility brought the

mid-season event here, " O'Brien said. The
April 17 event attracted some 650 athletes
and 2,000 spectators.

The track team members began training
in September with conditioning programs,
weightlifting, and running. In the fall, as-
sistant coach Gary King coaches the 80
team members while O'Brien devotes his
time to the cross-country season.

O'Brien feels the track team is one of the
top five in New England, considering the
facilities on campus and the coaching staff.
And he feels the team is on its way in
"rebuilding from the losses of 1975", when
a large group of talented seniors left via
graduation.

William Howell (2), Bob Gamache (2). Daniel Smith (2)
Despite the fact that a year ago the Uni-
versity took away all scholarships from the
non-income sports, the trackmen have been
able to compete with the strongest competi-
tors in New England. "It's always good to
talk to one or two outstanding athletes and
offer them something in the line of scholar-
ships," said O'Brien, but that is a thing of
the past.

Now, all he has to offer them is a win-
ning tradition.

— Scott Hayes

Men's Track and Field 251

... as it is the only UMass sport, varsity
or not, to capture a national championship,
other than the women's gymnastics team.

The men's crew, past owners of that na-
tional title, capped its season with a good
showing at the 38th annual Dad Regetta
Championships at Philadelphia.

The varsity four, the pair without coxs-
wain, and the pair with cox each finished
runner-up in their respective races. The
varsity four, stroked by Hank Cullen, Char-
lie Anderson, senior John Moynihan, and

Dave Burke in bow, lost to Coast Guard by
three-quarters of a boat length in winning
the silver medal. Cox Rich Berg, a senior,
thought if the varsity four had spent more
time practicing together, and had extra
coaching, it would have improved on its
showing.

The pair without cox, senior stroke Steve
Loomer and bow Steve Frackleton, placed
second behind Jacksonville University.
Tampa beat UMass by a half length in the
pair with cox event. Cox Any Burton,

stroke Mike Meivin, and bow Frank Miconi
comprised that squad.

The UMass women's crew also placed
second in the traditionally all-male Dad
Vail championships to highlight their sea-
son. Stroke Laura Love, senior captain
Mary Leonard, Liz Angus, bow Kathy
Kirkham, and cox Nancy Thompkins com-
prised the women's varsity team, which
finished behind Western Ontario Universi-

ty-

— Bill Dovle

252 Men's and Women's Crew

'Villiam Howell (6)

Men's and Women's Crew 253

Practice makes perfect in a first

"We don't really have any
'stars'. Sure, we have some real-
ly talented athletes out there,
but . . . well, it sounds so cliche
I almost hate to say it . . . we
have a team effort that's real. "
— Coach Frank Garahan

254 Women's Lacrosse

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It had been there all along.

At first imperceptible, it grew stronger
until it was recognized as the women's la-
crosse team's winning key — a truly coop-
erative team effort.

It was strong enough to be called "unself-
ish play' . It was strong enough to gain a 6-1
season's record. Above all, it was strong
enough to give the women a positive com-
petitive experience.

Working in units rather than positions,
the Gazelles out-played all but one of their
opponents — Bridgewater State.

Coach Frank Garahan stressed group
goals as well as individual goals from the
start. Assisted by grad students Pam Riets-
chel and Beth Miller, Garahan started from
scratch to build UMass' former club into
the first varsity lacrosse team.

Debbie Belitsos, Nancy O'Neil, and Evie
Sneeden dominated the scoring attacks,
backed by Cindy Hartsone, Linda Lamb-
din, and Judy Kennedy. A cohesive defen-
sive unit proved itself in Trish McCarthy,
Kathy O'Neil, Grace Martinelli, Lynn
Engler, Gail Hutchinson, and Chris Basile.
Mary Murray and Susanna Kaplan traded
off at goal.

— Laurie Whiting

Daniel Smith (9)

If a woman has a vision, but no task,

She has a dream.
If she has a task, but no vision,

She has drudgery.
But if she has both a vision and a task —

She has victory.

— Anon.

Women's Lacrosse 2,55

lOhat makes

Other than being experienced, the 1976
baseball team had little reason to expect
much of their chances for success. The
squad did indeed have just about everyone
back from the previous year's team, but
that crew managed to win only eleven
games.

But a funny thing happened during the
'76 campaign. The Minutemen found that
little something that kept them from win-
ning the year before. They got off to a fast
start by holding their own against some of
the nation's best baseball teams on their
southern trip and won 12 of their first 13
games up north.

Their twenty-four wins represented a
school record, set by the 1969 team, which
had won its way to the Nationals. The only
crink in the season was the team's showing
against Yankee Conference champions
Maine. UMass lost two doubleheaders to
the Black Bears, one that eliminated them
from the New England District One Tour-
nament.

What made Mike Koperniak bounce
back from a season lost to injuries to one of
batting in the high .300's and being one of
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256 Baseball

a team go?

UMass? What got into Mark Fontaine, who
went from fourteen hits in his first three
years to the Yankee Conference s leading
hitter his senior year? And what made this
team bat almost .300, shore up a porous
defense, and be labeled by ten-year coach
Dick Bergquist "as good as any team at
UMass in all aspects except pitching"?

"I wish I knew," admitted Bergquist.
"Any coach would like to know what
makes a team go. Maybe it was the fast
start which made the guys believe in them-
selves. I know that helped Kop.erniak."

A guess would be that the team members
jelled due to maturity, something that all
seniors are supposed to gain by the time
they graduate. And eight Minutemen base-
ball players graduated.

Pitcher Craig Allegrezza, catchers Jim
Black (All-New England) and Bob Moore,
first baseman John Seed (All-New Eng-
land), second baseman Mike Koperniak,
shortstop Jerry Mondalto (co-Most Valu-
able Player along with Koperniak), left-
fielder Mark Fontaine, rightfielder Steve
Wright, and four-year manager Stan Mi-
chonski have left UMass.

— Bill Doyle

Jim Higgins

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UMASS SOFTBALL — 1976
A Play in One Act

CAST OF CHARACTERS

The Seniors

Sue Brophy — starting catcher most of the
\ ear . . . good receiver . . . one of the bet-
ter hitters on the team . . . slugged for both
power and average . . . hit a double to
begin the winning rally against Rhode Is-
land in the season opener.
Karen Dolphin — starting third baseman
. . . co-captain . . . steady fielder . . . accu-
rate arm . . . batting a bit sub-par, but still
stuck in some key hits . . . injured for part
of the year with a badly bruised knee.
Mickey Locke — Minutewomen s other
co-captain . . . started and relieved on the
mound . . . pitched a fine game against
Springfield, but was hurt by errors and lack
of offense . . . completed a L5-8 win over
Worcester State with two innings of relief
work.

The Juniors

Heidi Dickinson — starting first baseman
. . . good fielder . . . had a hot streak with
the bat in the middle of the season . . .
pla\ed in every game . . . stead\-, reliable
player.

Terry Kennedy — played all three outfield
positions . . . fielding was consistently good
. . . made all three putouts in one inning
against Keene State.

Gail Matthews — won all four of the vic-
tories with fine pitching . . . control artist
. . . consistent hurler . . . started and re-
lieved . . . also played right field well . . .
solid hitter . . . good eye at the plate . . .
had a high batting average.

The Sophomores

Lynn Barry — starting left fielder most of
the season . . . also played center and right
. . . threw out several runners, including
one at the plate against Central Connecti-
cut . . . primarily a singles hitter.
Lu-Ann Fletcher — Big Lu ... pitched
and played right field . . . e.xtremeK' fast
hurler, albeit wild ... an arm like a gun
from the outfield . . . powerful hitter,
socked three home runs in a two-game
span.

Cheryl Meliones — catcher . . . injured
most of the year . . . when her arm is right,
it's like a rifle . . . great competitor . . ,

good hitter and receiver . . . hates to lose Directed b>' — Jean Follansbee (first \ear
. . . one of the sparkplugs of the team. coach), assisted by Jo McGowan.

The Freshwomen

Carol Bruce — began the season at second
base, but soon shifted to center field . . .
accurate throwing arm . . . good, stead\'
hitter . . . good speed . . . played the out-
field well.

Sue DiRocco — started at shortstop the
entire year . . . fastest runner on the club
. . . excellent throwing arm . . . good range
. . . showed an ability to get on base as
leadoff batter . . . hits to the opposite field
. . . smart player.

Elaine Howie — played at second, short,
and third during the season . . . primarily
at second . . . great potential at all three
spots . . . strong arm . . . good natural abili-
ty ... can hit and run the bases well.
Jean Sagerian — played at second base
. . . hustling player . . . good fielder . . .
makes all the plays . . . accurate arm . . .
also a fast baserunner.

Review — The 1976 edition of UMass soft-
ball finished with a 4-7 record. The team
got off to a good start with a 4-1 win over
Rhode Island, but then lost three in a row,
all on the road. From that point on, the
Minutewomen were 3-4, with wins over
Bridgewater State, Connecticut, and
Worcester State the high points of the rest
of the season.

Actually, the team could have won a few
more games, but lost leads against Central
Connecticut, Boston State, and Springfield.
The last game of the season, against Spring-
field, had the makings of a major upset, but
despite a superb pitching performance
from Lu-Ann Fletcher, the Minutewomen
were 6-1 losers.

UMass had a poor road record, winning
just once while dropping five decisions. At
home, the team was 3-2.

— Jik!\ \'aii Hantile

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tess glorg, but more

It differs slightly from a PGA tour, or an
LPGA event. Crowds do not gather into a
following to cheer on their favorite golfer.
In fact, the only applaud usually received
comes from a fellow competitor or a coach.
College golfers don't even have their own
caddies.

But even with the absence of these fac-
tors, UMass golf teams, both men and wom-
en, performed with enough intensity and
pride to "drive " into national prominence.

For the men linksters, a second trip to
the NCAA golf championships in as many
years climaxed one of the most successful
seasons in the history of the program. Two
years ago the trip to Ohio State highlighted
the summer of five golfers. For the summer
of '76, the stakes stayed the same but the
scenery switched to Albuquerque, New
Mexico.

The road to the Nationals was hindered
by wind, rain, and sandtraps, but with the
likes of senior co-captain John Lasek and
sophomore standout Glen Sullivan, the
Minutemen, coached by Fan Gaudette,
made the ride an easy one.

Lasek strengthened his position as one of
the top college golfers in the east starting
with the fall campaign. The senior earned
low medalists honors in pacing his squad to
victories in the Yankee Conference cham-
pionships and the New Englands. Even at
the low point of the year, when they fin-
ished a disappointing fourth in the ECAC,
Lasek shined with a 73.

In the spring, he teamed with Sullivan to
produce the most potent one-two punch in

success

New England, The result was a 370 five-
man total in one match, as Sullivan shot a
torrid 68 and Lasek a 71 to give UMass its
lowest total in history. They continued
their leadership through a 28-stroke victory
in the NCAA qualification round, as Sulli-
van garnered medalist honors.

A supporting cast topped by senior Rick
Olson and junior Bob Sanderson, who
peaked at the NCAA qualifications, round-
ed out a winning team. Seniors Tom Toski
and Tim Kurty, juniors Bill Locke and Jim
Moriarty, sophomores Chuck Dempsey and
Doug Starek, and freshman Jim McDer-
mott aided a fine team effort.

The women's version of UMass golf be-
gan as an experimental season and ended
with a qualification in the nationals at
Michigan State, in its inaugural year.

Debbie McCullock and Elisa Romano,
the only two women with much previous
experience, led the team. McCullock cap-
tured the low round in the annual Lady
Lions golf classic at Penn State, as the Min-
utewomen finished second to gain its na-
tional berth.

Joanne Smith, Meg Groden, Eileen
Kremer, Mary Hall, and Pat Jordan also
helped make it possible to launch the sea-
son. Mike Reedy coached the team.

Overall, the golf teams at UMass per-
formed with less glory than other so-called
"major" sports, but indeed, they reached
levels of success unchallenged by most oth-
ers.

— Ron Arena

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The program had them hsted as the Mas-
sachusetts "Redmen ". But that didn't mat-
ter. The Washington Post college lacrosse
writer had called them an easv take for
Johns Hopkins. But that didn't matter.
Travel arrangements were rushed and
somewhat hassled. But that didn't matter.

What did matter was that UMass was
there. For the first time in the school's his-
tory of lacrosse a team was participating in
the national major college championship
playoffs.

Baltimore, Mary land and Johns Hopkins
University was the site of the first round
NCAA playoff game between the UMass
lacrosse Gorillas and the Blue Jays of Johns
Hopkins University. The final outcome

Fifth in the natiGti

of the contest was a first round victory for
Hopkins by a closer than it seems score of
11-9. The game itself and certainly the out-
come was almost secondary to the fact that
UMass, a newcomer to the national lacrosse
power scene, had come into lacrosse-rich
Maryland a relative unknown entity and
left there as a well-respected power in it-
self.

"It's neat to be well thought of around
the country, " said UMass head lacrosse
coach Dick Garher after his team had

gained a relatively easy victory over Boston
College. Garber was then in the midst of
enjoying one of his finest seasons in his long
and very successful career at UMass.

"We've got one of the toughest schedules
in the country, " Garber had said repeated-
ly during the season, a statement which was
very true. His lacrosse Gorillas played nine
of their fifteen regular season games
against teams rated in the top twenty la-
crosse teams in the nation. Midway through
the season back to back victories versus

262 Men's Lacrosse

and sHU cottttttng

Cortland state and Brown University began
to make people believers in the UMass la-
crosse team and the fact that it could han-
dle the schedule it had no matter how
tough it was.

Offensively Garbers Gorillas had one of
the most awesome attacks in the nation. On
the average UMass outscored its opponents
by a 2-1 margin throughout the season. Led
by junior attackman and co-captain Jeff
Spooner, junior midfielder and ballhandler
extraordinaire BilK O'Brien, and minute

and mighty attackman transfer Micky
Menna UMass was able to mo\e the ball
with ease and accurac\' against ever\ oppo-
nent, Defensivel)- the Gorillas were no
slouches as midfielders Terr) Keefe and
Rand\ Krutzler played very tight both
ways and defensemen Kenny Michaud and
John McCarthy almost alw a\ s kept the op-
posing attackers at ba\ . McCarthy in par-
ticular, a senior in his fourth \arsity season
at UMass, played with what seemed to be
an e.\traordinar\ amount of zeal and desire.

Hob Ganiachf ,3). Daniel .Smitli lo)

In goal, freshman standout Don Goldstein

proved to be a ver\ pleasant surprise for

everyone. As a high school goaltender the

"Duck" saw a few shots as the teams he

played for won one game in his last three

seasons.

Ivy League opponents ha\ e alw ays posed

tough compeition and been \er)- satisf) ing

victories for Dick Garber s Gorillas. .A 24-

10 victor) at Dartmouth at the end of the

year prompted Garber to comment, "It s a

clima.x to a hell of a super season." .\ super

season it was, not onK in Dick Garber s

eyes, but also in the e\es of e\er) person

who had the chance to experience (Tarbers

Gorillas.

— Ben Caswell

Men's Lacrosse 263

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Che main

The women's cross country and track
teams put together two of the most success-
ful seasons throughout the course of the
entire athletic year.

The women harriers placed second in the
Brandeis Invitational in their debut as var-
sity members of the UMass athletic scene.

Led by Jane Welzel and Julia LaFren-
iere, the runners narrowly won their first
dual meet of the season by nipping Wil-
liams on a shortened, 2.3-mile course.

The team depth that was the main ingre-
dient in the squad's winning recipe was
displayed in a tri-meet which the harriers
won 27'/2-36-70V2 over Vermont and Dart-
mouth, respectively.

Sporting a 3-0 record, the women hosted
the first Apple Orchard Classic, a meet co-
sponsored by the team and the Sugarloaf
Mountain Athletic Club. The run through
the University's orchard was not a league
meet, but rather a gathering of local talent.
The women outdistanced the Liberty Ath-
letic Club to capture meet honors with 29
points.

In the Orchard Classic, which served as
preparation for the New England Cham-
pionships, UMass took five of the top ten
places.

The New Englands, which were also

264 Women's Cross-Country, Track

ingredient was depth

held on campus, were won by the host team
with Welzel placing second in 18:52, 55
seconds behind individual v\inner Kathy
Whitcomb of Tufts.

The women proved themselves superior
in the team battle that involved 11 teams.
The Minutewomen total of 35 bested the
Williams score of 51 and Vermont's 58.

Coach Ken O Brien said after the meet,
"We've been working for this all year and
our efforts really paid off."

The next step for the team w as a trip to
Iowa State and a chance to participate in
the National Collegiate Championships.

Competing against 21 other teams, the
women placed ninth in the third national
event.

Iowa, the host team, won the team title
with 96 points. Jane Welzel placed t\\ ent\ -
fifth for the Minutewomen, who finished
with a team total of 252. Julia LaFreniere
finished forty-seventh and teammate Jo-
hara Chapman was two places behind.

The squad finished respectably in a race
against established women's cross country
teams.

"We really had nothing going for us in
the way of experience or knowing what to
expect, " said O'Brien after the meet on the
Iowa State golf course.

Assistant coach Gar\ King called the
course for the nationals "the toughest they
(the women) had run all \ear.

O Brien's runners showed quite a bit of
poise, competing against the country s top
runners.

And O Brien felt there was more to the
team's success than its impressive 5-0 re-
cord. "I was surprised at the immediac\ of
the 'team effect' — the closeness and the
combined team effort." Of the ninth place
finish in the nationals, O'Brien said simply,
"I couldn't be happier."

The trackwomen enjoyed a \er\ similar
season, compiling a strong 6-1 record. The
women's track team placed second in the
Albany Invitational in a field of 12. Welzel
broke the Albany track record for the
three-mile run by nearly three minutes in
winning the event.

The trackwomen competed for the first
year on the varsity level, as did the women
harriers. Together the\ amassed an 11-1
record and were successful in several larg-
er, highly competitive meets .And not so
surprisingly both teams shared their success
with the same man — Ken O'Brien.

Women's Cross-Coijnlr\. Tr.ick 265

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Steve Kosakowski was many things to
many people, but everyone who knew him
will all tell you they never had met anyone
else like him. When the former UMass
tennis coach passed away on March 27th,
1976, an era on this campus ended.

"Kos," as he was known to many, had
been a part of the UMass scene for thirty
years. In addition to coaching tennis, he
also held the same position in hockey, and
was athletic director of Stockbridge.

What makes Steve Kosakowski's contri-
bution even greater to UMass was that he
was a victim of glaucoma and was without

sight in his later years. Despite this handi-
cap, Kos carried on winning one champion-
ship after another with his tennis team and
eventually won seventy-two per cent of all
the games he coached.

Russ Kidd, UMass assistant hockey
coach, played for Kos in the fifties. "In
those days Orr Rink had no roof," recalled
Kidd. "We'd be out skating when the tem-
perature was ten below and even Steve
would tell us to go inside. But he was a
great guy to be around and there was never
any discontent with him."

Kos never forgot his old-time players ei-

ther. There is the story of a guy on the
hockey team who graduated in the fifties
and then became an airline pilot in Califor-
nia. He came back to visit last year, went
into the office and said, "Hey, Kos!" The
coach immediately remembered who his
former pupil was.

Steve Kosakowski was a human being
who despite one of the greatest handicaps
an individual can endure still had an amaz-
ing will to live and carry on. The UMass
athletic department will never be the same
without him.

— Glenn Poster

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The 1975-1976 UMass Athletic Depart-
ment year was one of many colors. Bright
spots and dark spots dotted the entire span
of events from a wet opening kickoff for
the football team last Fall against Maine to
a, first in UMass history, trip to the NCAA
lacrosse playoffs for the UMass lacrosse
Gorillas.

Much more important than the usual
scheduled events though were some of the
unscheduled happenings. Things like a
women athletic department administrator
coming and going, four new women's varsi-
ty sports starting up, and a revamping of
the scholarship system for athletics were
among the most important of the unsche-
duled, and in some cases unexpected
events.

The brightest spot of the year had to be
the initiation of four new women's varsity
sports on the UMass athletic scene. Wom-
en's cross-country, track, golf and la-
crosse were the four new additions
and each one in its own right
achieved great things, includ-
ing the cross-country squad go-
ing to the national champion-
ships.

Financially, as had been the case in
recent years, things were not good
for the athletic department. In an effort to
channel funds towards feasible financial
endeavors as directly as possible, athletic
department heads decided all future schol-
arship monies for athletics would be limit-
ed to men's and women's basketball, men's
football, and women's gymnastics. This
concentration will hopefully enable the
athletic program to turn those respective
sports into revenue producing enterprises.
Unfortunately, the rest of the department
and its programs will now be forced to
attract quality talent in their individual
areas without the benefit of financial en-
ticement. Athletic Department adminis-
trators, for the most part, feel this is the
best route though. If things go as planned,
according to Associate Athletic Director
Bob O'Connell, who has seen many
changes in the UMass athletic setup in his
16 years with the department, those schol-
arship funded sports will someday produce
enough revenue to enable the department
to once again fund other sports with schol-
arship monies.

Of course, the other major change in the

Daniel Smith (2)

Amherst sports scene was the moving from
one, rather localized league, to another
much more widespread both competition-
and talent-wise league, of the area's
most popular spectator sport. The UMass
basketball team finally left the Yankee
Conference after years of hesitation and
deliberation. The Eastern Independent
Basketball League (EIBL) is where the
Minuteman basketball future lies and pos-
sibly the future of the whole UMass athle-
tic department because men's basketball
will hopefully one day be a truly "big-
time" money-maker for UMass.

Related to basketball and revenue-pro-
ducing sports at UMass is the dilemma of
whether or not to charge students to see
basketball games played at Curry Hicks
Cage. O'Connell says the time may have
come when a nominal
charge will be necessary
just to still have games
at the Cage. If not,
says O'Connell
probably al

of the UMass home basketball games would
have to be played at the Springfield Civic
Center.

All things considered, though, the 1975-
1976 Athletic Department year was one of
progress. And it was one that shone quite
brighlty throughout the Pioneer Valley.

Ben C'asvvell

SGitietimes, its more than just

Below, center Dave Williamson grabs a breather from the
mud, rain, and grueling punishment of the football field
during a game against Boston University. Daniel Smith (5)

. . . and all times, there is
much more than just the final
score. Emotions are as prevalent
in any contest as the competition
itself. The pleasure, the pain, the
satisfaction, the disappointment,
the agony, the ecstacy — all of
these feelings are intricate parts
of the game. Emotions combined
with all of the usual physical fac-
tors sports possesses are what
make the games so interesting to
so many people.

Left, the women's varsity lacrosse team
(all of it) breaks into a spontaneous cheer
as they watch the Softball team score
against Southern Connecticut.

William Howe

Above, Rich Jessamy, who scored two touchdowns against Holy
Cross, appreciates the game's Most Valuable Player award pre-
sented him.

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Above, basketball coaches Fan Gaudette, Jack Leaman, and Ray Wilson look
everywhere for help, but the team drops one to Villanova.

Left, defenseman Tim Howes accepts a congratulatory handshake from a
friend after a hard-fought win at Orr Rink.

Below, sometimes it's another game altogether! Guard Joanie Greenaway
shoots water at teammate Joanne Baletta during an easy win at the Cage.

Left, Jim Town
finds out exactly
how hard the Cage
floor is as a jump for
a rebound ends with
Town and his New
Hampshire defend-
er crashing down to
the hardwood.

269

football

coach: Dick MacPherson ^

The football team marehecl"
easily through rain and j
ocrity for eight \veeJN^
they met UNIJ ' """"
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job. Thoiigh a loss to Boston
College followejd, the season
was over in Durham. Eight
wins, two lossei

women s
basketball

coach: Carol Albert

During this time of
trial and tribulation for
women's sports in re-
gard to the "big time"
ethic UMass could not
avoid its contribution
to the controversy. The
UMass hoopwomen
bounded through an 11-
7 season almost profes-
sionally. Scary? Not
when you remember
the marbles are really
there with the new
two-and-two scholar-
ship set-up.

hockey

coach: Jack Caniff
Skating through another
season of treatment due a sec-
ond class sport, namely no real
place to play, the rinkmen
posted a 12-13 record despite
all the pucks bouncing not ex-
actly in their direction. Just
missing out on a Division II
post-season playoff berth was
the final slapshot in the face.

track
coach: Ken O'Brien

One of the busiest per-
sons on the UMass cam-
pus no matter what sea-
son is track coach Ken
O'Brien. The first year
varsity women runners
of O'Brien's came up
with a fine 4-1 spring
slate; His men were 2-4.

men's cross-country
coach: Ken O'Brien
The men ran and ran until they could run
no more. That gave them a hefty 8-2 dual
meet record. But that's all there was — they
didn't have enough for the bigger post sea-
son meets, they just didn't have enough.

field hockey

coach: Carol Albert
These women ran and
lassed and shot until they
.iad scored enough goals to
grab an 8-4-1 season. Unher-
alded and unknown to many
students, their sense of mis-
sion and determination paid
off.

volleyball

coach: Jean Follansbee
The punch was very
definitely spiked for the
UMass volleyball team
during this five win and
seven loss season. Travel-
ing about and gaining
much valued experience
were the front line factors
which guided this team's

indoor track
coach: Ken O'Brien
Running, jumping and putting and pass-
ing their way to a 6-.3 record the UMass
indoor trackmen proved again for the ump-
teeneth time that a team coached by a man
and coach like Ken O'Brien can not help
but be successful.

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wrestling

coach: Mike Welch
A 8-10 record with one win
in its first nine tries and then
only two losses in its last nine
encounters proved to be an in-
teresting season for the wres-
tling team and its fai

coaches:
B. MacConnell, C. Goodrich
UMass' skiers, both men and
women once again enjoyed quite
satisfying years on the slopes of
New England and Canada.

men's tennis

coach: Bill Brown
It was quite a racquet this spring
for the UMass netmen who volleyed
their way to a 5-4 record.

rugby club

coach: Bob Laurence
The rugby club learned a
lot, according to coach Laur-
ence, during their campaign
while compiling a 6-7 record.

Softball i

coach: Jean Follansbee
The enthusiasm exuding from the
UMass women's softball team was
such that every athlete, sports fan,
or intramural dabbler should take
note. A 4-7 record was only another
Stat to these women who found
much more fun in playing than
keeping score.

men's lacrosse !

coach: Dick Garber ^

Their highest national rating ever, t
Baltimore, Maryland, Johns Hopkins ^
University and a budding lacrosse t
heritage of its own were just some of I
the peaks in a peak-filled season for I
the UMass men's lacrosse team. |.
Garber's Gorillas finished fifth in the f
nation out of all major college lacrosse |'

women's tennis

coach: Sally Ogilvie
Matched up against
better than fair com-
petition, the stiff fall
winds, and relative
obscurity the UMass
women's varsity ten-
nis team compiled a
three win and five
loss record in the
shadows of football
wins and the puddles
of much too frequent
fall showers.

women s swim
coach:
Patricia Griffin
One of the biggest
surprises was the 10-2
record of the swim-
women. Dedication
and determination
earmarked this team
of extremely strong-
willed individuals
and molded them into
a finely-tuned group
of performers.

women s gymnastics

coach: Virginia Evans
Everything being rela-
tive, a third place finish in
the Easterns for the UMass
women's gymnastics team
was not your ideal happen-
ing. Neither was a seventh
place finish in the Nation-
als. But these gymwomen
were still superb.

baseball

coach: Dick Bergquist

The spring in Amherst
is for reading by the
lond, and playing fris-
lee, not hiking down to
Earl Lorden field to see
the UMass nine lose.
This season, though, one
would not have had to
see the baseball team
lose. In fact its 24-13 re-
cord was a very pleasant
surprise. The diamond
men played solid ball
most of the season be-
fore succumbing in the
first round of post-sea-
son play.

soccer

coach: Al Rufe
It seemed like the soccer team just tried to hold
onto respectability for coach Rufe's last year
heading the team. Though many losses were by
one goal and others went into overtime, the
team's three wins still pale under nine losses and
two ties.

men swim

coach: Bey Melamed
Some people are extremely serious
about swimming and those men who are
at UMass compiled a more impressive
record last season than their 6-5 record
indicates. They swam for fun and plea-

golf

coach: Fan Gaudette

Some people make big money running
around in the sunshine through plush
fields chasing a little white ball. The
UMass golf men and women did not
make big money, they just made big satis-
faction for themselves, the men with
their registering of a fine 7-1 season, and
the women with their first organized sea-
son ever at UMass. An 0-2 record was not
nearly as important as the fact that wom-
en's golf is finally a varsity sport at
UMass.

coaches: B. Mahoney, D. Kirchmer

Two second place finishes in
the Dad Vail Regetta, the nation-
al championship of collegiate
crew, capped off solid seasons
for both crew teams.

women's eross-country

coach: Ken O'Brien

Women ran cross-coun-
try at UMass for the first
time in 1975. Unbeaten
through the season, and
number one in New Eng-
land, they beat all comers
except eight in the national
championships. They were
unquestionably the most
successful team in 75-76.

men's gymnastics
coach: Bob Koenig

Financial hassles and
whatever other real or cre-
ated factors reduced this
team from one of national
caliber just a few years ago
to one of relative mediocri-
ty now. A 6-5 season slate, a
fifth place finish in the Eas-
terns, and virtually nothing
in the Nationals was the
1975-76 edition of men's
gymnastics.

men's basketball

coach: Jack Leaman
In what appears to be a reg-
ular occurance, UMass was
knocked out in its first post-
season tournament game
again this year. Playoff fail-
ures, however, couldn't tar-
nish a 21-4 record during regu-
lar season play, including
eleven wins and one loss in
the final year of Yankee Con-
ference competition. ...

women's lacimse^"

coach:
Frank Garahan

The most successful
first year squad on
the UMass athletic
scene of: this season
was the fine wc)men's
lacrosse team which
posted a 6-1 record.
"A very real team ef-
fort" is what coach
Frank Garahan called
the season in which
the Gazelles debuted.

VW'f^^ you have

^ ' ever been to a

UMass football or
basketball game, you
have probably noticed Mau-
reen and Kathy Craig. The Craig

sisters are twins, bound together by the
same family, face, and one particular com-
mon interest — cheerleading. What this all
means to UMass is a pair of twin cheer-
leaders who love both UMass and the

sport.

This past year was the second one for the
Craigs as UMass cheerleaders, and they
will continue throughout their senior year.
Maureen has already been chosen as a co-
captain of that squad. Their cheerleading
days go all the way back to junior high
school in Beverly, Massachusetts. Accord-
ing to Kathy, they took up cheerleading
because of their interest in dance and gym-
nastics.

They came to UMass because it was a
"big school with lots of courses and many
opportunities." Besides cheerleading, both
women have taken advantage of some of
UMass' opportunities. They both belong to
Iota Gamma Upsilon, and Maureen, a
Psych major, is active in ARCON, the
Greek sponsored tour service for visitors,
while Kathy, a Communications Disorders
major, worked on a committee which wrote
up a proposal to allow Communications
Disorders majors to go on Outreach.

Living together and cheering together,

the Craigs see a lot of each other. "We like
the same things," said Maureen, "and we
are very much alike." Kathy adds, howev-
er, that they are two different people, and
"once people get to know us, they treat us
differently."

In some ways they reflect the stereotypic
cheerleader, with their pretty faces, big
smiles, and love of sports, although neither
of them feels boxed in by stereotyping.
"Up here, the school is so big everyone has
their own interests, you can't get stereo-
typed in that situation," Kathy said.

There are, in fact, a few cheerleading
images that don't hold at UMass. The one
about cheerleaders "snuggling up" to the
football players is one of them. "We hardly
know the football players, although we do
know the basketball players a little better.
The football team is so big, and we have so

"The only way I can tell them apart is
that one shoots right and the other shoots
left," is a frequent comment of UMass
hockey coach Jack Canniff. What Canniff

is referring to is the set of identical twins
on his team, Billy and Bobby White.

Billy plays left wing and Bobby is sta-
tioned on the right. The two have been

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little contact with them, we never get to

know them," they said.

"ine men we do get to know are the
male cheerleaders. We work with them ev-
ery day, so we've gotten to be good friends
with them," said Kathy.

Part of the experience of cheering is
traveling to away games. "We've traveled
to Maine, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and
a lot of other places." And part of the
experience of the away games is meeting
other cheerleaders, and learning from
them.

Despite the thrill of away games, both
cheerleaders admit there is nothing like a
home game. "Home is better," says Mau-
reen. "When it's packed with UMass peo-
ple cheering for our team, it's a great feel-
ing !"

— Donna Fusco

playing on the same line since pee wee
days. They played together at Revere High
and also in one year of prep school at Ber-
wick Academy in Maine.

"We decided in junior high that we both
would go to the same college," said Billy.
UMass turned out to be the choice for the
twins and Canniff is grateful for it.

On the ice the two players are both ag-
gressive, especially when it comes to going
in the corners and coming out with the
puck. As freshmen, they played on a line
centered by Chris Lamby. That unit
turned out to be the most opportunistic one
Canniff put on the ice.

The past two seasons have been frustrat-
ing for the team because they were not
picked for the playoffs. The Whites, how-
ever, are both hoping for that opportunity
and hopefully a division championship be-
fore their careers are over.

— Glenn Poster

"I'm the big cheese," he says with a wry
smile. He is Manuel "Manny" Fernandez,
UMass' Drum Major and king of the foot-
ball field during those Saturday afternoon
half-time shows.

The job of Drum Major may look glam-
orous from the stands during a perfor-
mance, but few people realize the back-
breaking schedule Manny and the "UMass
Marching Band have to adhere to in order
to put on a good show. It is what Manny
calls "serious fun."

"My job is basically being a liaison be-
tween the band members and the directors.
It's a middle-man role, if anyone has a
complaint or problem, they come to me,"
he said.

His job also entails "motivating, excit-
ing, and making the band members pro-
duce the maximum every time."

During band camp, which starts a few
days before the fall semester begins, he
acts as head drill instructor, and is respon-

sible for demonstrating the drills to the
band members as well as organizing things
and conducting drill rehearsals.

"In order to be a Drum Major, and do a
good job, you must be able to be flashy,
and excite the crowd during the show, but
also be able to blend in with the rest of the
band. The band really makes the Drum
Major, not vice-versa. The band always
does a good job, and it's a lot of work,
considering we have new music and a new
show to learn every week during football
season," he said.

Manny tried out for the position in his
sophomore year at UMass, after holding
the position all through his high school
years at North Middlesex Regional.

"A Drum Major has to be in top phys-
ical condition, and have a strong voice to
shout out those commands on the field and
be heard. There is also a great responsibil-
ity to the band, it's directors and the audi-
ence to see that everything goes smoothly
during the show," he said.

It took him two years to perfect his in-
imitable "strut" and in seven years he has
never fallen on his back during a half-time
show, which is quite a feat when one con-
siders performing on an icy or muddy field.

Although his career as a Drum Major is

over, Manny said, "It's a big empty feel-
ing, the last game was really an emotional
one for me — but I feel I gave it my best.
I'm proud to say I was part of the 1975
UMass Marching Band — which was
probably the best band UMass has had so
far. We always gave our best, no matter
what, and I think the people appreciated
it."

Reflecting on past games he said, "I
think the last game against UConn was the
epitome of my career. It was pouring rain,
but we came on like the sun was shining
and put on a great show — we blew the
socks off 'em.

"The best feeling I got when working
with the band before a crowd giving us a
standing ovation and cheering, was happi-
ness and pride that the band did a good
job. When the audience is on their feet, I'm
grinning mostly because the band put out
their best, and that's what it's all about."

— P.J. Prokop
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Like most UMass students, I've initially
acknowledged, then further ignored the
campus fauna. Squirrels chase each other
about, oblivious of students unless one ven-
tures too near; dogs griningly romp, wait-
ing for their friends to get out of class and
accompany them home; goldfish float
about the pond, occasionally breaking sur-
face to check out what's happening.

And then there are the swans. Objects
d'art, focus of photographers, the delight
of sunbathers, a distraction from books.
They enhance the otherwise drab pond,
gliding atop the murky water, effortlessly,
always swimming seemingly nowhere. But
unbeknownst to most, the swans do a lot
more than exercise their neck muscles. At
night, when the campus pond is almost
deserted, they wander about, occasionally
stopping to converse with a student. After
all, spending the day with egg-heads can
get very dull.

Indeed. These aren't ordinary swans.
They're Swanthmore graduates who were
unemployed (naturally) until they were ap-
proached with a unique job offer — to be
ornaments for the campus pond. Warm
weather months only, free room and board,
paid winter's vacation. An apparently ideal
occupation, but not much chance for ad-
vancement. Also, occupational hazards

(dirty feathers, being attacked by admirers
and the like) are numerous, and what kind
of facilities are available for swans with
nervous breakdowns?

I learned this all one night while strag-
gling back to Southwest from the library,
when I noticed a swan strutting in front of
Whitmore. Inquiring if he was in need of
directions, Don Swan coolly looked down
his beak and answered, "You silly goose.
Of course I know where the pond is. I'm
fully sentient of my surroundings — I'm
merely strolling to stretch my legs."
Whereupon I looked at his legs and he
called me a human chauvinist.

Tired, tense, and taken aback, I turned
to leave but he flapped his wings and
apologized. "I regret my previous remarks.
Please try to understand — it's been such
an exacting day that I just had to get away.
Those bird-brained ducks are driving me
cuckoo, if you'll pardon the cliche. And
those obstreperous students, throwing pop-
corn at me — with honest enough inten-
tions, I'm sure, but I was struck by three
wild throws in one hour. But the crowning
insult is when they laugh as I get hit. I
suppose it's a nervous reaction, oh well, a
forgivable misdeed. However, when some
fools started chasing me for feathers for
the down pillow they wanted, I felt justi-

fied in snapping at them. Enough com-
paints! What are you doing out so late?"

I motioned forward with my books, and
he eagerly inquired about my studies.
Commenting on his interest in academic
topics, it didn't take long to get him talking
about his own college activities. He had
been a zoology major, specializing in wa-
terfowl. Not only did he graduate swimma
cum laude, he was also a member of Phi
Birda Kappa. An athletic letter-winner, he
was captain of the water-polo team, on the
diving team (take a wild guess as to what
his specialty was), and was a star of the
basketball team, breaking the school's re-
cord for the highest percentage of foul
shots.

When I asked Don how he liked living
on the pond, he arched his neck, then
thoughtfully replied, "Well, it's no Swan
Lake."

I groaned. It was late, and I was tired.
Regretfully, I bid him farewell, promising
to stop by the pond sometime to continue
our conversation.

So, if you're ever roaming about the
campus at night, and you run into Don,
take the time to sit down and talk to him. I
promise you'll have a ducky time.

— Rebecca Greenberg

When basketball fans gather in the cage,
not only do they expect to see a good game,
but they have come to expect a really en-
tertaining halftime show. And that's just
what they get, especially with 20-year-old
Diane Luciani as a featured twirler in the
show.

Diane, an Elementary Education major,
has captured the titles of Miss Majorette
of Massachusetts, World Champion Pa-
rade Majorette (1972), and has won over
500 baton twirling championships as well.
"The UMass Marching Band deserves a
lot of credit, they work hard and have a lot
of spirit," she said.

"I thought that after a lot of really hec-
tic competitions, my college experience
might be a let-down, but it hasn't been,"
she added.

Diane attributes some of her success and
the half-time show's popularity to the co-
operation of the band and its directors.
"We all pull together, it's not like I'm do-
ing a solo performance, it's part of the
show — and we have a lot of fun doing it,"
she said.

"Of course the people at UMass help
too," she added. "They're great!"

— P.J. Prokop

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UMass students graduate with style. A cheerful, relaxed atmosphere
pervaded Alumni Stadium on Saturday, May 22, when members of the
Class of 76 turned their tassles and became alumni before a near-
capacity crowd of families, friends, and well-wishers. The snappy
weather didn't deter the graduates from sipping champagne, standing
on chairs, waving to friends, and flashing smiles for pictures.

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They wore the traditional caps and gowns and applauded the tradi-
tional rhetoric bestowed on graduates, but added their own personal
touches of warmth and individuality — whether it was toting bright
balloons, sporting pastel flowers, or taping their initials on their mortar-
boards, they celebrated themselves and their success with laughter,
hugs, and hopes for the future. The end of a beginning.

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"Graduation? I think

do it — at

After author Herman Mel-
ville died, a note was
found in his desk drawer.
It said, 'Keep true to the dreams of
thy youth.'

Today many of us will leave the
graduation line only to join the un-
employment line. We who find
jobs may be working in fields for
which we have had no college
training. We must not abandon the
dreams of our youth to the night-
mare of a gloomy economy which
is in, hopefully, only a transient
phase.

We, armed with the dreams of
our youth, can control our
government for we the
people are the government.

— Senior Michael Kneeland

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everybody should

east once.

/7 /? The issues of jobs, unemployment,
f ^1 J seniority . . . are crucial to any hope
^^ of curing the social malaise in this

society. Lack of income, lack of money, is a
terribly enslaving reality for so many people in
this generally affluent society. We've boast-
ed for years that the United States is 'the best
educated country in the world.' The literacy
figures don't support such a claim.
We are behind several countries
in this regard.

Journalist and political.commentator Carl T.
Rov^/an, keynote speaker at UMass' 106th
Commencement, and recipient of the honor-
ary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters.

Commencement photos by Daniel Smith

Graduating college, v^^e
cross the threshold of a
nev^ era in our lives . . .

Once young and idealistic, other
graduates have become old and
pragmatic. They have conformed,
because society required it . . . and
we will conform too.

In conformity . . . we must never
relinquish individuality! In pragma-
tism . . . we must never abandon
idealism!

In its bicentennal year, our na-
tion is at its eleventh hour. It can
either climb to unprecedented
heights ... or fall to unimaginable
depths. As the leaders
of tomorrow, we will
determine its fate.

— Senior Philip Sellinger

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Daniel Smith

It's over

the long stretch of time and involvement

the work and relaxing

the rush and rest

the anticipation and relief

No more to walk through the Union

to stall for time between classes

Relationships, some that will cease

some that will not

Ideas that will grow with time . . .

To those along the way who helped us

when we stumbled, when we erred

To these we wish all that fortune and future can offer.

Retros

design and layou

edito-", :' :. .:■: tne year

desJg:^

layout

except

Living

5an/e/ Smith

Debbie Spahr

Pat Carney

Debbie Spahr

Daniel Smith

stories in the

where noted, the
news of the year section (pages 22-53, 58,
61, and 64-67) were written by Debbie
Spahr and Linda Brower.

editor, acadivities

design

layout

staff

artist (hands)

editors
design
layout
staff

Rebecca Greenberg

Daniel Smith

Rebecca Greenberg

Daniel Smith

Barbara Nelson

Sidney Gilbey

Terry Scanlon

Kermit Plinton II

Pat Carney

Kermit Plinton II

Frances Conner

Patty Doyle

Rebecca Greenberg

Lori Kitchener

Peter Klebanoff

Mary-Jean Luppi

Joan Mostacci

Donna Noyes

Ron Pearson

Michael Phillips

Debbie Spahr

John Weston

editor
design
layout

design and layout
artwork: neon sign, stars

editor
design
layout

assistance

design

layout

stories written by

poem, page 285

photo, page 288

design and layout

cover
design

photograph

Donna Noyes

Daniel Smith

Donna Noyes

Daniel Smith
Pat Carney

Ben Caswell
Daniel Smith

Scott Hayes

Pat Carney

Daniel Smith

P.J. Prokop

Kermit Plinton II

Daniel Smith

P.J. Prokop

Pat Carney

Daniel Smith

inside cover pop-up collage
double-page artwork on division
pages

Jim Burke

pages
artwork, pages 54-55
artwork, pages 86-87

yean Novak
Randy Quinn
P.J. Prokop

All writer's and photographer's credits are given with the contributed material.

contributing photographers

Robert Berman
Andy Bernstein
Andy Bonacker
Dave Bond
Chris Bourne
Robert Carlin
Ron Chait
Michael Chan

James Chernoff
Edward Cohen
Dennis Conlon
Mark Edson
Stuart Eyman
Robert Gamache
Rebecca Greenberg
Jim Higgins

Bob Homer
William Howell
Dick Leonard
David Less
Russ Mariz
John McCarthy
Ed Minson
John Neister

David Oiken
Jim Paulin
Steve Polansky
Jay Saret
Debbie Schafer
Daniel Smith
Lauren Traub
Jim Webb

2S6 Credits

Black and white processing
and printing by Avadon Cus-
tom Graphics, Woronoco,
Massachusetts.

Full color processing by Ko-
dak. Full color printing by
Hallmark Color Labs, Turn-
ers Falls, Massachusetts.

Senior portraits by Robert
Herz of Delma Studios, New
York City.

lanK tne toilowing people
contributions to the 76 INDEX:

leir special

The 1976 INDEX was printed
by American Yearbook
Company of Topeka, Kan-
sas. Paper stock is 80 lb.
Consolith Dull Text Stock.

Body copy is 10 pt. Times
Roman, News Gothic, Opti-
ma, and Laurel. Printed by
offset lithography using 150
line screens for black and
white and color photo-
graphs. 10,500 copies of vol
ume 107 were printed

im\

Roger Baugh, Gene Schmidt, Steve Maxwell, and everyone else
at the American Yearbook plant in Topeka who worked to
pull our "paper plans" into a complete yearbook. ^

Roger Roche at University Publications, who "came through
in the clutch". ^

Our thanks to Dario Politella, faculty advisor, our "cooler
head" prevailing at our staff meetings, finding solutions to all
of the worst problems in the world. iH

Many thanks to Gerson Sirot and Noel Steigelman of Delma
Studios, who, in spite of our almost daily phone calls asking
for this, that, or the other thing, did a great job of keeping
our senior portrait program headed in the right direction.

Special thanks to the fine people in the RSO office — you
were a great help when things got screwed up, or just putting
up with our day-to-day demands of your services — Bud
Demers, Paul Hamel, Blanche Dzenis, Lynne Smith, Doris Troy,
Sarah Williamson, Cindy Doran, Kathy Dalton, Katy Shea, and
Dot O'Connor.

We appreciate the help of Pat Carney of American Yearbool^
Company. Back in September, when we had 288 blank pages
and feelings of "Where the hell do we start?" Pat helped us
pull design concepts together to make the book look as good
as it does. ^m

Thanks to Jack Walker of Hallmark Color Labs, who was our
scapegoat when the printers got one of our color prints
slightly off-color or off-size (which, by the way, happened
very rarely). ^_

Very special thanks go to Mike Donovan at Avadon Custom
Graphics, who printed almost every black-and-white photo-
graph that appears in this book — and hundreds of others
that didn't make it into the INDEX. For your superb work, and
for putting up with our requests, our sincere gratitude.

s. New I

Our deepest thanks and appreciation must go to f
American Yearbook Company representative, f
Don would go to any length to get the book
we wanted it. Most of the weird, wild effect-
see on these pages would not have been c
Don's insistence on getting everything do

v./ay
you
; for

Credits 287

288 And so the book ends, but not the story

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