基本的埃尔莫, 克劳福德盖茨, and 校友-Student连接

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What a great article on the 基本的埃尔莫 in the fall 2018 magazine! I arrived at 贝洛伊特 in the fall of 1974 as a transfer student, so I missed out on their early and probably most memorable antics. I did manage to be part of the Suppose That softball team during the summer of 1976, 我还记得我们玩《十大菠菜台子》的时候, 马克思主义主题垒球队. I think the Wobblies lost the game the minute they saw the Suppose That team members dressed as brownshirts.

I went on the German seminar in fall 1975 along with Phil Erickson’77 and others, and I recall that all of us on the seminar gave a presentation to the families that hosted us. 菲尔用德语讲了一个关于企鹅的笑话，引起了一阵大笑. A few days later the same joke appeared in Bild-Zeitung, a German tabloid. 我不知道是谁提交的, but I am fairly sure that it must have been someone in our audience at the presentation. 也许是菲尔干的.

我的老大, 凯蒂, 刚刚开始上大学, and I hope that there is a bit of Elmo-ish silliness at her school, 太.

埃里克·施罗德77
泰国曼谷

One thing you left out [of the 基本的埃尔莫 story] is the way the Elmos actually became known on campus—it was through a postering campaign. There were small pieces of paper with the words “Beware of Basic Elmo” stamped on them and postered all over campus in a sneaky kind of way. It was after weeks of seeing the little signs that I discovered what it meant and who they were.

I remember they pulled a stunt in the quad where at least one person rode a unicycle down a wire from one of the “new” dorm buildings (opposite Chapin). I also have a strong memory of them sending off one of their water balloons from the dorm building where security was housed. 他们可能不想提这件事.

林恩Southerland 74
洛杉矶，加州.

Your cover story on the 基本的埃尔莫 brought back many memories of their explosively spectacular and well-attended happenings (David Letterman must have taken notes). 然而, I’ve found that this quieter Elmo scene is the one that’s stuck with me through the years: Walking home from campus, 可能是为了写论文, I looked up to see Peter Valentine’76 pensively riding his bike down the street … with a typewriter tied to the back, 在他身后蹦蹦跳跳地走着. 动态的诗歌.

大卫赖特77年
质量维尔福利特.

Kudos for the amusing “slice of life at 贝洛伊特” article on the 基本的埃尔莫. And kudos to those students for not taking themselves so seriously and injecting balance into their lives. 我一定是错过了他们的狂欢, 1972年毕业, 希望我能亲身体验一下.

Another suggestion is to look into the anonymous publishers of what I believe was called (uninspiringly, 但也许这才是重点)《十大菠菜台子》. 这是《菠菜白菜吧》的一种零星替代, printed on mimeograph paper and somehow distributed campus-wide without most of the student body ever knowing who they were, 虽然有传言说那是73年的某个学生干的. It was a purely hilarious “gossip rag” but amazingly accurate. I should know—I once was the butt of a story of one of those not-terrible-but-definitely-stupid things we tend to do only in college. 希望你能做更多这样的文章!

保罗马林诺斯基72年
科罗拉多州利特尔顿.

These guys can claim whatever they want about the name Basic Elmo. I was there at the first usage of the term, and they are wrong. Perhaps they heard the term used somewhere and liked the sound of it. 但是1971年秋天的橄榄球队, 早在这些孩子进入校园之前, 76年有个叫埃尔莫·鲁芬的球员吗, 谁是一个有魅力的年轻人. We, the football team, referred to his antics as “Basic Elmo.” Whatever came after that, they can own, but the first usage was in reference to Elmo Ruffin.

大卫挤作一团的73
锡达拉皮兹，爱荷华州

克劳福德盖茨

听到克劳福德·盖茨的死讯我很难过. I was the stage manager of the 贝洛伊特-Janesville Symphony Orchestra from 1979-80, including working on the premiere of his fifth symphony based on C.S. 刘易斯的《. 盖茨是一个要求苛刻但公平的老板. 我也不会忘记我和他一起上的一门歌剧课, which 太k us to the Lyric Opera in Chicago to attend five operas, 包括迈斯特辛格和彼得·格莱姆斯. We studied the operas thoroughly so we unders太d them and their composers before we went. 盖茨是一位杰出的老师, 作为一名在职作曲家, was very good at teaching us what the creators of these operas were trying to do. His opera class was one of the best courses I had at 贝洛伊特.

马丁·莫尔斯·伍斯特，80年
马里兰州银泉.

校友-Student连接

几年前, I was glad to see an article in 十大菠菜台子 Magazine about four undocumented students attending 贝洛伊特 because I spend most of my time in retirement supporting immigrants, 文档化和非文档化. One of the four students became a friend who helped me meet other students in social justice and environmental (my profession) groups at the college. 与这些团体的讨论给我留下了深刻的印象. In the spring 2018 magazine, another article appeared about students visiting the [U.S.-Mexico] border, and a letter by President Bierman focused on alumni connections with students. My recent campus visits have all included participation in Pablo Toral’s political science classes, where students truly participate in presenting and discussing material. 像18岁的劳拉·萨维奇这样的学生给我留下了深刻的印象, 谁选择经历, 给韦斯伯格基金会写拨款建议, 有组织的旅行. The experience of planning and participating in these trips—something quite different from their life experiences—changes students and creates leaders in such important areas as immigration.

而我的妻子, 凯萨琳, 我也为学校做过经济捐助, 我们最大的礼物是送出我们的儿子和女儿, 现在我们的孙子, ,贝洛伊特.

鲍勃·诺里斯66
生科罗拉多州.