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Cross RoadsFall 2016

Drexel is still a place where classes are tough, lasting connections between classmates are strong and students leave as alumni equipped with tools to help them take on the world. In honor of their 50-year reunion, members of the Class of 1966 shared some of their memories.

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Skip Keever and I connected quite well on the [lacrosse] field. The highlight came in a game against Towson. Between us we had 11 goals in a Drexel victory. The Baltimore newspaper billed us as the Keever/Reever Vaudeville team. The article said Skip had six goals and I had five. I think it was the other way around, but who cares now!
Frederick (Fred) Reever

Disco BallSybil and I actually dated while I was still at Drexel and we can still remember dancing up a storm at the balls and lively parties at the TKE house. This year we will be celebrating our 48th anniversary.
Bob Drummond

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Our instructor began passing back our first test results from highest to lowest. The guy sitting next to me got a 65, the guy sitting on the other side of me got a 60, and I was still waiting expectantly for my paper. I got a 55 on that test and began my Drexel academic career in a somewhat dubious fashion.
Daniel (Dan) Furlong

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My final great experience was traveling to Europe with the Drexel Varsity Singers – a trip that changed my life. Having the opportunity to visit five countries, perform for many people and actually live with European families was world opening to me. My future husband, Joseph Wysocki, was also a member of the choir and we both shall always be indebted to Drexel for the 1966 Varsity Singers Tour.
Carolyn Blair Wysocki

Philly PretzelI distinctly remember most lunches at Drexel – two Philadelphia pretzels at 20 cents each, with or without mustard.
John (Jack) Fox

Drexel Great Court 1966Between classes, I remember occasionally playing basketball in my socks in the small gym on the upper floor of the Main Building. Being non-Greek, I also remember hanging out around the balconies on the second and third floors, watching the interactions amongst the sorority and fraternity members in the Great Court. I remember water balloon fights in the Abbott Building, touch football games against the mechanical engineers on weekends and the small cafeteria down in the Main Building basement.
Randall (Randy) Wrigley

5 Responses

  1. When you show a photo, please list all the names of the people in it!! Also the Varsity Singers photo was way too small.
    You need to get a LOT MORE memories from the class of 66. You could do a 50th Anniv. Memory Feature every year!

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  2. We were a good Lacrosse team and Eppy was a very good coach except it was not a good idea to give him your Lacrosse stick. Good guys, we had fun, great to see them again. Larry Bowne

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  3. Although well intended, the photo of the 1966 Drexel Lacrosse Team coached by the irrepressible Herman “Eppie” Epstein is a gross error in judgment. I played for Eppie as goalkeeper during the 1959 and 1960 seasons so my complaint is not with him. The error lies in the choice of the athletic team photo appearing in Drexel’s 125th Anniversary Edition. The only athletic team worthy of such recognition is the only team that ever brought a National Championship to Drexel. I played on that team. It was the 1958 Men’s Soccer Team. What can be done to correct this error?

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    1. Hmm. Luckily for the 1958 Men’s Soccer Team, they had their very own entry in the 125th anniversary timeline, duly noting their unmatched achievement. It’s listed in the timeline under 1958 and goes like this: “Drexel earned its greatest athletic achievement in 1958 when the men’s soccer team became the first — and only — Drexel varsity athletic squad to win a national gold trophy. The team took the top spot after an undefeated season in which they outscored their opponents by a combined 76-15. The team was then named the best in the country by the Intercollegiate Soccer Football Association, the predecessor to the NCAA for collegiate soccer. Coached by Don Yonker, the team was captained by All-Americans Oswald “Ozzie” Jethon ’60; Stanley “Stosh” Dlugosz ’60, who is still Drexel’s all-time leader with 49 career goals and 115 career points; and Bob Muschek ’60. Another notable player was Igor Lissy ’62, whose 22 goals set a record for the most scored in a season. In 1979, they were the first team to be inducted into the Drexel Athletics Hall of Fame.”

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