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For the last reunion, our class was asked to provide ideas for an Alumni Association retrospective of our years at MIT.  Some of the memories that were called to mind included the following:

The "Abandon Hope All Ye Who Enter Here" banner during our freshman picnic
The Blizzard of '78
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Photo courtesy of Frank Florianz
( http://www.geocities.com/frank754/bliz78.html)
"Freshman Shower Night" in New House
Count UMOC, the "Hump", Aqualung & Sadie Bilgewater
The MIT Football Team, re-established during our senior year
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Photograph by Hyun Lohn, from 1979 Technique
The reestablishment of the outdoor commencement (in the rain!)
The Cain's Mayonnaise sign
MIT's first Homecoming (and the Homecoming Queen, Leo Harten)
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Photograph by Robert Resnick, from 1979 Technique
The old look of Kendall Square
The 8.02 Freshman Physics streaker
The 2.70 Design Contest
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Photograph by Jeffrey Mogul, from 1979 Technique
The life-size statue of a cow ("borrowed" from Frank Giuffrida's Hilltop Steak House in Saugus) that mysteriously appeared atop the Great Dome.*
The furor over Louise Nevelson's "Transparent Horizons" (East Campus)
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Photo courtesy of Mary Ann Sullivan   (Copyright © Mary Ann Sullivan)
The 24-hour Coffee House in the Student Center
Rowing on the Charles, the old Tech Dinghies at the boathouse, intramurals, Musical Theatre Guild productions of the Fantasticks and Brigadoon, lines outside Kresge for the LSC Registration Day Movie (generally X-rated), the old look of the inside of the Student Center, the old 20-Chimneys restaurant in the Student Center, the old outdoor ice-skating rink (before the new one was built)...

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Notes:

*  A helicopter was subsequently brought in to remove it. The cow subsequently reappeared on the lawn in front of the Hilltop Restaurant with a "mortar board" on its head and a sign hanging from a rope about its neck that said "I went to M. I. T."

 

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