In the Lair of Jack Florey

…and speaking of the spirit of East Campus, here’s the writeup we got in the Centennial Technique. It emphasizes, rather more than I would have, the few and rather low-key social events that did happen there. Mostly at the initiative of the Cottons, our most indulgent housemaster and his spouse. But then what else do yearbook mavens know to write about? Other places, that sort of thing is the whole story…

The hall-hockey scene below illustrates the point (photo thanks to Technique; likely snapped on the Fifth Floor, during my tenure as Hall Chairman or Dorm Con Rep).

These excellent lads, whose names I’m mortified to have misplaced, were among my very own neighborly underclassmen-constituents, stout hands in a water-fight and effective fellow-conspirators in many a worthy Jack Florey hack.

Wondering about Jack Florey? Well, he is the cussable if ineffable spirit of the East Compost Hack. His origins predate all of us and every one we knew, and we always felt free to invent new elaborations upon them. While Hall Chairman in 1959-60, I was custodian of the Jack Florey War Chest, a collection of paraphernalia that they’d have to kill me if I described, except to say that they were all supremely useful in hacking and various ad hoc hijinks.

It was customary that each Florey avatar retain, upon retirement, one item from the chest. I still treasure The Arthur R Edgar Memorial Bagel-hook. About which more later, maybe.

Back a Page
(Bailey’s & Brownie)

Such a Life
Contents

Page
Indexes:

Next Page
(The Hack)

Welcome

Stories

Sections

Such a Life

People

Places

Site Search

Do You Know?

Updated Aug 2014

[102.htm]

Page 31-027