Green Key Weekend begins May 19 and elicits touching memories of innocent days whether on the river or steps of Dartmouth Hall and of the group’s service to our community. Dick Griggs and Rey Moulton picnicked on the Connecticut with dates and tied a rope to an overhanging branch to play Tarzan. Dick and date Lois are long married. Gerry Huttrer remembers taking a Green Key date down to the river with a bottle of wine and a guitar. A bee lurking on the bottle stung his lip, which swelled balloon size and cancelled kissing for the weekend. His date later thanked him by phone and told him she was getting married the following week and that was the last he heard from her. John Goyette fondly remembers the finals of “Interfraternity Hums” with members attired in black trousers and white shirts in glorious weather singing catchy tunes with those unable to carry a tune instructed to simply mouth the words. Junior year John became our third class president and ground was broken for the Hopkins Center. Green Key in 1958 appointed Jim Gallagher chairman of Dick’s House committee, which obligated him to take ice cream and wooden spoons to patients on Sunday nights. When he asked “if that was all,” he was told “just talk to them.” Marilyn wonders, “Did they thank him for his service?” Jim Foch adds: “One of Green Key’s duties in the fall was to host mixers. That fall was also the transition to three terms per year, three courses per term, and Saturday classes. The dean of financial aid allowed me to take four courses per term. By the first mid-term I needed more privacy for my curricular and extracurricular activities. Luckily a single room in the dorm next to Sphinx was available. Howie Jelinek and Tim Ryerson lived across the hall. I treasure the memory of a girl from Smith, the conversations with Howie and Tim, and the induction to Phi Beta Kappa. I still mourn the early death of Tim. If my sole child had been a boy, his name would have been Timothy Ryerson Foch.”

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