Junior Year
Winter 1965-66

As winter rolled in, the class began to move into the top-level positions in the various extracurricular organizations. In October Lou Gahagan became station manager and Jeff Schafer business manager of WPRB. Later in the fall Mike Haroz and Udi Gecaga challenged a previously unopposed slate of Charley Eldredge and Sid Stein and pulled a surprise upset. Stein recouped later, however, by becoming president of the Orange Key Society. In February John Alexander took over the reins of the Princetonian, Ned Atwater moved in as managing editor and Chris Jones as sports editor. John Tait became the Prince business manager and Al Furniss took over as advertising manager.

The Triangle show, “High Sobriety,” was especially successful, or as the Prince reviewer preferred to call it, “intoxicating.” Leonard Schaeffer played the comic’s comic, Paul Sheren sang the beautiful lyric “Why Couldn’t I Fall in Love,” and John Trotter, Lee Mercier and Bill Paternotte also had parts.

After exams it was Bicker again, only this time from the other side. The emotional tension of the year before became sheer physical exhaustion this time, but everyone survived. When it was all over, however, a number of members of the class looked back and found the whole process ugly and ridiculous. In February the Prince began a battle over Bicker that was going to continue for another two years. The dispute did not gain momentum until the fall of senior year, but the ground work was laid in the middle of junior year when the Prince editorialized against Bicker and called for the adoption of some form of the rush system.

One Princetonian staffer, Peter Sandman, was gaining a notoriety of his own. As editor of the controversial book Where the Girls Are, which the Prince published in the fall, he appeared on the CBS television show “To Tell the Truth,” but was only mildly successful in fooling the panelists about his identity.

© 1997 by The Class of 1967, Princeton University. Reprinted from the 1967 Nassau Herald.