2022年11月18日

Turtles, kazoos, museums, basketball, and pool tables

Letters: From Our Readers

Marching Band Members Arise

记住这个? Oh, boy, do I remember this! It was a beautiful fall day; perfect for a 首页coming game and celebration. I was so excited and honored to have “graduated” to the turtle mascot from the ranks of the Turtle Town Marching Band and Kazoo Conservatory, 或TTMB&KC. It was a big deal!

乌龟的吉祥物 Ann Johnson-Goodwin'81 steps into the spotlight during 首页coming in 1979. 乌龟的吉祥物 Ann Johnson-Goodwin’81 steps into the spotlight during 首页coming in 1979.
Credit: Michael Tarabulski’81

的TTMB&KC had prepared quite the halftime show of chaotic marching wads of Kleenex to a bag of McDonald’s french fries while we “kazooed” theme songs, mostly commercial jingles like “Have it your way.” (Those who remember are now humming that tune!) We had a glorious time being silly and cheering on our Bucs … until we lost the game. Suddenly, the happy, silly turtle mascot and marching band were not so much appreciated! I was pushed backwards as the players ran off the field and I couldn’t get up! With arms and legs flailing, someone rescued me, probably Sundra Flansburg’81, and the TTMB&KC marched QUIETLY back to our rooms.

It took a while for my football player friends to look me in the eye, and vice-versa. I was not the turtle the next year and don’t remember if anyone took over after us, or if we even marched. Those with better memories will have to fill in that aspect of the TTMB&KC. 成员,出现! Regardless of the outcome of that 首页coming, it was one of the many highlights of my time at 贝洛伊特. I am so pleased the TTMB&KC are being remembered as one 更多的 unique reason 十大菠菜台子 is so special.

Thank you, Michael Tarabulski’81, for capturing those crazy moments of the TTMB&KC, but especially this one. More than likely taken before the game! Brings a happy tear to my eye. Maybe see you at the sign?

Annie Johnson-Goodwin’81,
圣达菲，n.n.M.

杰出的篮球

十大菠菜台子 Magazine, 2022年夏天 Cover Barry Bauman’69 (whose remembrance appeared in the summer 2022 issue) graduated the spring before I matriculated at 贝洛伊特. I met him at a national museum conference decades ago. 在谈话中, we discovered that we were both 贝洛伊特 alumni and both had museum experiences related to field terms and both had participated in sports.

Barry was an exceptional basketball player. He told me in clear terms that he missed a spring semester of basketball and 教练正在 blamed his absence for not having won another Midwest Conference Title.

伯洛特计划 decimated the college’s sports programs because athletes were often off campus at odd times with respect to the sports schedules. On the other hand, pseudo-jocks such as I could letter in four sports!

PS: The pool table illustrated in the C-Haus article 有历史. I purchased it from a defunct fraternity in 1970 and installed it in my Sigma Pi fraternity house at 609 Emerson Street. Jeff Fahl’73, one of my brothers, helped restore the woodwork. We later donated it to 贝洛伊特, and it once had a brass plaque. It has had a variety of homes around campus over the years. It was made by Brunswick-Balke-Collender, features 1½-inch thick slate, and is an exceptional table. 大概花了 .5 percent off my grade-point-average.

唐纳德·R. 虚伪的73年,
达拉斯,德克萨斯