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History of
The
Wash or The North Pitzer Wildlife Society Steve Smith '76 #778 Greg Von Gehr ‘75 #760, Paul Hunt ‘75 #770, Bill Thullen ‘75 #761, Ted Briggs ‘76 #781, and myself reopened the weekly meetings of the NPWS in December 1974. Given the recent accounts of the gatherings at the Wash, ours was but a feeble effort. The first meeting of the NPWS was a disaster. Rain fell and hardly anyone (Except "Townies," whom we had to evict) showed up. It was a terrible defeat, but, as all Nappies do, we persevered. It took time, effort, and a lot of luck to get the North Pitzer Wildlife Society back to life, but we did it. Karen Benson ‘76 often gave us the use of her Volkswagen (which has since gone the way of all things) to transport our meager 2 or 3 kegs to the Wash. Had we been admitting women at the time, she would certainly have been the first female maggot.
We got by, inviting faculty, putting posters all over the five
campuses (with a drawing of the moose head at the cabin on them and
such phrases as "It’s a keg of laughs," "You’ll have barrels of fun,"
all because open advertising of beer was forbidden). Sometimes we
were lucky enough to make a few dollars, but not very often. But the
main thing was that it was fun, kept us busy (but not out of
trouble)" and started again a tradition unique to Pomona College...
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