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Finally, FM sent Dunster resident and Lamont library veteran employee David C. Rennard ’03 to investigate. He brought a photo to the card-checker and asked him if he noticed any photos of himself in a recent bookbag. Card-checker: “No. Hey, look at that! I know that guy—It?...
...beach in Gloucester was an amazing place to observe the show. It was gorgeous, we saw huge shooting stars and great meteors—although the full moon may have overshadowed some,” said Dave Rennard ’03, one of the organizers of the trip...
...David C. Rennard ’03, whose personal best Tetris score is 570,000, finds the video game so fascinating that he started the Harvard Tetris Society as a way to bring together enthusiasts. To these aficionados, Tetris is not just a game invented in Soviet Russia with catchy music and falling blocks. The Society’s constitution describes Tetris as a game that “presents a challenge in precision, timing, advanced planning, strategy and abstract spatial reasoning.” It may sound geeky and a bit too math-oriented, but that?...
Over the summer, he stayed at Harvard as a summer-school proctor and set up a laptop with a Tetris emulator near the Chessmaster in front of Au Bon Pain. Challenging people to a dollar a game, Rennard managed to rack up $25 in five hours without losing a single match. Unfortunately, he soon had to close shop when the Assistant Dean for Harvard Summer School warned him that he could get in trouble because he didn’t have a street license. No matter. Rennard remembers proudly that “people were talking about the Tetris Master...
Interested is an understatement, at least as it describes Rennard. He once left his Nintendo on for two months straight so that he could preserve the memory of a particularly high score, but “my roommate accidentally turned it off to watch football. I never forgave him for it.” The offending roommate, Ari B. E. Shwayder ’03 says, “The Nintendo was so hot that you could cook...