As member of Neil Hall, our designated dining hall (everything in college in a "hall") was the Rotunda, which was nicknamed "The Roto", on campus food was notoriously bad, but the Roto was the worst. It was managed by a Ms Lillian Meier, a 60ish woman known as "squeak" since she barked orders in a shrill voice. In the hall there was alway a juice or punch dispenser. One day late in the second semester, everyone seemed to be making multiple trips to the punch dispenser. When I sampled it, I could understand why, some smart alec had added vodka or some other alcoholic drink. Of course possible serious consequences from this action was never considered and as knowledge serves, never occurred.
I did not bring a car in that first year. My ride back to Walla Walla was with Jimmy Angel. Jim was the editor of our high school paper and eventually editor of the Daily Evergreen, the WSU daily paper. Jim would pick me up in an old 50sish car and we would drive to and fro talking music. He had an old tape deck in his car , to which matchbooks had to be stuffed in with the cassette to make it fit in right. Later in our freshman year, Jim's family had an uninvited dinner guest, a car going down the Middle Waitsburg Road had gone out of control and through his family's house. Fortunately none was injured. Jim is doing very well with his journalism career at the Cheyenne Wyoming newspaper.
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