Word: tarzans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cleveland's Case Western Reserve. Then she met her future husband, Reginald, and through him discovered his new-found interest: black literature. Says she: "I had taken white studies all my life and didn't feel that I knew my own "history. I wanted more than the Tarzan stuff." The Mosses, who got married in 1971, transferred to Howard as juniors and ended up first (Barbara) and third (Reginald) among liberal arts graduates...
Perhaps the greatest Yard imposter ever was Tarzan. Once upon a time in an early fall night about ten years ago, Young says a perfect Tarzan call emanated from a window in Matthews North at exactly 11:17 p.m. That call went largely unnoticed. But then Tarzan continued the next night, and the next and the next. Absolutely no one--with the exception of a group of four or five students in Matthews--knew who was doing it. By mid-October about 200 to 300 students would gather every night around Matthews at 11:17 to hear Tarzan yell...
After two more yells, despite the chanting crowds, there were no more Tarzan calls. Later that December, however, at the proctors' play (alas another tradition gone by the wayside, Young says) the proctors planned one more Tarzan appearance. Again, through channels the message was leaked and without anyone knowing who he was, safely hidden on the Union balcony, the freshman, on the cue of "We love you Tarxan," gave one more call. "The crowd went buggy," Young says...
...last time Tarzan performed was at a senior fundraising dinner. But, sadly, he had lost his cry. "I'm sure at the 25th reunion there will be a lot of people claiming to be Tarzan--I hope he gets his cry back then," says Young...
...moral of the story: "Tarzan" is now a successful doctor operating in a Cambridge hospital...