Word: thayer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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None of the 13 dorms represented won more than a single first place. Individual honors went to Mike Crofoot of Thayer Middle, who had a first in the 50-yard butterfly and a second in the 50-yard backstroke. Close behind him were Frank Willis of Wigglesworth East (first, 50-yard freestyle; third, 100-yard freestyle) Mike Crichton of Weld South (first, 100-yard freestyle; third, 50-yard freestyle), and Forney Hutchinson of Pennypacker (second in 50-yard and 100-yard freestyle...
...that this was not done by crooks and knaves. In that case, we could have a campaign with a slogan "throw the rascals out" and set up for a year or two a reform Administration. Nor have I had much patience with those who would like to punish [Judge] Thayer by impeachment or any other process. Unfrock him and his judicial robes would fall upon a pair of shoulders not different by the thickness of a fingernail...
...Russia, by Charles W. Thayer. Author Thayer, an old diplomatic hand at the Kremlin from the early days of the five-year plans, has a feeling for the steppe-like sweep of Russian history and offers a carefully balanced account of the Soviet regime. He places Stalin in the succession of grandiose tyrants who either demoniacally (Ivan the Terrible) or pragmatically (Catherine the Great) have ruled Russia with the knout. One memorable vignette: Secret Police Chief Beria reviling the comatose Stalin as a monster on his deathbed and then dropping to his knees in slobbering sycophancy as the unconscious dictator...
Weld--described by its inmates as "a depressed area"--will be changed to look like Matthews, Hollis, Holworthy, Thayer, and Grays. Workmen will paint the dormitory and install new lighting and heating facilities, new flooring and paneling. The cost of the job is estimated at less than one-third that of replacing the building. Weld will be the last hall in the Yard to be renovated...
Also elected were: Michael S. Horn '62 of Lowell House, publicity director; David W. Stookey '64 of Greenough Hall, membership chairman; and Richard B. Olson '63, of Thayer Hall, freshman manager...