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Caption correction
If you would like to impress your colleagues with your knowledge of ancient trivia, tell them that the photo on the back cover of the fall '14 Review (shown below right), is not of Tom Vogler, it is Peter Smith, assistant to Chancellor McHenry for arts, who left a couple of years after this picture was taken (in 1966) to direct Dartmouth's Hopkins Center for the Arts. It was not a seminar, it was a posed photo, taken by Al Lowry, the first campus photographer, with yours truly in the checked shirt on the left.
How's that for Trivial Pursuits?
— Bill Dickinson (Cowell '68, philosophy)
Appreciation for the Smiths
Many thanks for Peggy Townsend's excellent piece on Page and Eloise Smith [fall '14, "Road to '65: Page Smith rides in to shake up the system"]. Great memories there. Not only what they did for UC Santa Cruz, but the huge contribution they made to the community. There was no public art here (not even the museum) before they came. Page's concern for the homeless helped start the Homeless Services Center. They were a marvelous couple and enriched all of our lives.
—Lois Trabing, community member
Dead reckoning
Regarding "Quest to reopen the Quarry": Hank Harrison in his book The Dead notes that in the early days of UC Santa Cruz the Grateful Dead offered to play a free concert in the (upper) Quarry Amphitheater—in support of the aims and values of the campus—but were turned down for fear of their newfound fans showing up in unmanageable numbers ... and conditions. Perhaps now that the band has its archives in the McHenry Library Special Collections and a drive is underway to reopen the Quarry, the surviving members of the band might be glad of an invitation to perform a benefit concert ... especially if they can try out new music.
— John Leech (Cowell '79, history and religious studies)
