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“We had a barbecue to celebrate safe passage through the high-risk pirate area in the Gulf of Aden. I got a surprise baptism with a bucket of sea water. Now it’s offical: I’m a sailor.” — Travel blog of Allison Swaim ‘11, traveling around the world for a year on cargo and container ships and documenting the experience as part of a research project funded by the Watson Foundation
“You know, it was an awful flavor. It was Lemon Peppermint Carob Chip. You familiar with carob?” — Jerry Greenfield ’73, in response to the question, “What is the craziest ice-cream flavor you’ve ever developed?” in a Q&A with the Oberlin Review in September
“You really settled on the name ‘obiechunks?’” —Posting of Zoe Klar ’12 on the Facebook page of obiechunks, Oberlin’s new student-run, late-night cookie delivery service
“ Ther e’s no one on the pl a ne t t h at h a s h a d t h at le v el of success.”
— Warren Littlefield, former president of NBC, about sitcom director James Burrows ’62
“The first thing you notice about the young guitarist Rafiq Bhatia’s ’10 music is its hunger to combine, though it never sounds like established tradition A plus established tradition B. He’s merging more volatile tendencies—propositions, not facts—and he’s in a hurry.” —Ben Ratliff, in the New York Times
“I loved Encyclopedia Brown as a kid. Donald Sobol passed recently, and that really brought it all back to me, how important his books were to my little self … What I loved about Boy Detective Leroy Brown was that (1) he was unabashedly smart (smart was not cool when and where I grew up) and (2) his best friend was a girl, tough Sally Kimball, who was both Leroy’s bodyguard and his intellectual equal. Sobol did more to flip gender scripts in my head than almost anybody in my early years.” —Author Junot Diaz, New York Times Book Review
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