From: "Ralph B. Pears" 
Subject: Greetings, Memories & More
Date: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 5:08 PM

Dear Fellow New D'ers,

What a great website! I only just heard about it over the last weekend from
Bob Morrill

I have a number of favorite memories of the New Division that all compete
for attention:

The infamous drug bust, and two of you urging the cops to move their car(s)
out of the way so someone could get out of the driveway (and away with their
stash), and the cops stupidly complying;

The blowing up the construction boss' trailer when New D II was
under construction;

Moving the grave stones onto the New D II site to try and forestall
construction;

The great fire extinguisher battles we used to wage with the "first
division" dorm at the end of the driveway to the New D;

Harlow's great iguana experiment, and David Rockwood's release of the
igaunas (after the semester ended) in the Boston Public Garden;

Silent Charlie's tee shirt excursions to the dining commons in the midst of
winter blizzards (he had to be smoking in his room);

"Death rides" to the dining commons during snowy weather in the Porsche or
AJ's Jag;

The dozen or so of us who were allowed to graduate from the New Division in
1970, but were never acknowledged or identified as members of the New
Division (and we were presented with our diplomas after all of the "first
division" folks had received theirs);

and sooooo much more!!

The New Division and our infamous Town Meetings served me well and prepared
me far better than anything I could imagine for a successful afterlife as a
Lobbyist!

I've been a successful, professional lobbyist (is that an oxymoron?) for
nearly thirty years, and wouldn't you know it, represented the alcohol
beverage industry for the first twenty-odd years.

If you ever thought the New Division Town Meetings were frustrating,
farcical, and possibly amusing exercises in futility, you ain't seen nothin
til you've spent time in the state legislatures! The latter experience is
guaranteed to make you a cynic, if the former did not.

Cheers to all of you,

Ralph