Word: cirrotta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Congratulations on your courageous article concerning the untimely death of Ray Cirrotta of Dartmouth as a result of a brutal beating at the hands of Tom Doxsee and his seven friends [TIME, June...
...Cirrotta, an ex-G.I., was a bright boy, and he sometimes let people know it. A couple of the fellows who took Comparative Lit. 24 and Ed. 4 with him would testify to that. He always had an answer before the rest of them. He was quick, articulate and by the standards of the football players and their friends, much too opinionated. Maybe it wouldn't be a bad idea to take him down...
...story was pieced together later, this is what happened : the eight shambled over to Massachusetts Hall where Ray roomed, and walked in without bothering to be asked. Ray was wearing a green varsity sweater with a white "D" knitted into it. That also got their goat: Cirrotta had played freshman football and was entitled only to class numerals. One of them sneered: "You even sleep in it." "No," said Ray, "I was cold...
Then Tom Doxsee, a good-looking, bull-necked junior, punched him in the belly. Ray doubled up on a daybed and Doxsee hit him again when he sat up. He hauled Cirrotta up by the sweater and gave it to him for the third time. Somewhere along the line, another of the eight whacked Ray. The boys also wrecked the room. The student who lived across the hall found Ray in the bathroom wiping the blood off a cut lip, and put him to bed. Later he had to be taken to the hospital. There, after five hours, Ray Cirrotta...
...first day all the principals went to the campus to look over Cirrotta's quarters. The next morning they huddled for several hours. In the afternoon an announcement was made in court: the state would permit Tom Doxsee to change his plea from not guilty to no contest. The judge gave him a sentence of one to two years in prison, which was suspended, and a $500 fine. Ray Cirrotta's father, in court for the hearing, collapsed when he heard the sentence. Young Tom Doxsee, as his lawyer paid the $500, said he was "disappointed" with...