C is for Coach
We asked the Facebook friends of the Ohio University Alumni Association to “name names” — that is, let us know their nicknames (good, bad and the ugly) for their favorite or most feared professors. We won’t divulge the identities of those who commented, but we will tell you who they reminisced about and what they said.
The Slasher in Lasher:
Sandra Haggerty, journalism “Lots of red ink on graded papers, tests ... but she made you a better journalist!”
Glide with Clyde: Clyde Baker, physics
Bebblonian Time: a Phillip Bebb history class Uncle Jack: Jack Matthews, English Beerbong: Jan Palmer, economics*
*It is Ohio University legend that Professor Palmer makes an appearance at the spring party on Palmer Street, Palmerfest, every year.
Drucilla the Grammarian:
Dru Evarts, journalism “Would fail you for spelling her name wrong.”
Dr. Hottie: ????
“We simply referred to our favorite SOC prof as ‘Dr. Hottie.’ I visited campus and met with some students years later, and the new generation of students were using the same nickname for the same prof.”
Mel’s Hell: a Mel Helitzer journalism class*
*“Humor Writing for Fun and Profit” had a oneyear waiting list, so it couldn’t have been all bad.
B is for Beez
Were you known as a frosh your first year? (If you graduated in the 1950s, you were!) • Did you carry a gin-jug (gin and juice in a large milk can)? • Or did you take your best girl on a Coke date to drink a soda or catch a movie in the Varsity dating seats? • Did you have strict hours (a curfew)? • Did you serve on the micwic, a precursor to student government formally known as the Men’s and Women’s Interdormitory Councils? • You might have known a Beard, or a man with a beard —an unusual sight for a conservative Jeff Hill campus, according to The Post in 1965. • If you walked up this steep hill What about the Beez? This twice-a-week near Jefferson Hall, no doubt you remember it well. Though it hasn’t show at Bromley Hall cafeteria in the ’60s always been open to traffic, it has featured “psychedelic nights” with acid always been perfect for sledding and rock, strobe lights and black light art. • a cause for complaint — especially Did you love Post cartoons by Jorgy? for those living on East Green. Bruce Jorgensen, BSJ ’71, made a name for himself with his political satire in the 1970s. • Do you still listen to ACRN online (the student-run radio station that first broadcast in 1971) or remember its mascot, Rock Lobster? • In the 1980s, you probably attended the South Green Beach Party or its spawn, Son of a Beach Party and Grandson of a Beach Party. • Did you get your quick cash with your Jubilee card at a Jubilee machine? • Late at night, does your heart skip a beat for Burlesque belles Dixie or Gypsy, two of the hot dogs on the menu at O’Betty’s, which now has two uptown locations? If so, you might be a Bobcat.
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