Some Curmudgeon Notes On The Pitt Game

1. It's not a good day if you are barfing at 10:00am outside your RV site more than10 miles away from the Stadium for a 3:30PM game. Thankfully, I didn't know the guy.
2. 109,000 people are way too many.
3. I went to 2 tailgates and didn't get to eat anything but a smidgen of bbq, Doritos and some chocolate-covered pretzels.
4. People drink way too much in celebration of 19 yo kids playing a game that is probably giving them brain damage.
5. The whole campus is delightful once the game has started.  Had to make my way from a tailgate to Pattee Library so we could use a computer for hospital orders.  Technology will be the death of us all, just as the Unabomber told us...
6. Downtown State College is delightful once the game has started.  I have purchased running shoes the past 2 weeks from Terry Losch at Rapid Transit and had a bike fixed at Freeze Thaw Bikes during the games.
7. No one awakened at the remote RV site as of 8:00am but me.  Bizarre for an RV site.

Tailgate 1: This trailer actually has a bathroom, shower, kitchen, ac, 2 TVs and more.

The Great Unwashed at the Stadium.

Tailgate 2: 2-Time Coach Harry Groves Tourney winner Don Ziter with some idiot.

Pattee wasn't empty, but nearly so...

Merry Christmas From Coach Groves And Cousin Eddie

Coach Groves wishes us all a Merry Christmas from State College.  He is wearing his new t-shirt, hat, and jacket supplied by Terry Losch from Rapid Transit.

And Cousin Eddie has paid us a visit to spread his own brand of Christmas cheer!  Get your own Cousin Eddie In The Morning Outfit!

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Brainiacs Among Us

Big Blue has slightly over 100 Distinguished Engineers among their ranks, and PSU alums have about one dozen in that number.  So it is rather amazing that I happened to run thousands of miles with 2 of them!

The main purpose of this blog is to attract members of our fraternity (and sorority!) to our annual Spring reunion and  golf tournament.  As Herder of Cats, I realize some of you need to be brought into our fold kicking and screaming, but rest assured, when finally rounded up, you will be quite pleased with the outcome.  Finding new friends and reuniting with old acquaintances only augments the bonds you share with old friends.  The golf is only incidental, as we just need more than your lack of hair and increased girth to gently tease you with!  Even All-Americans and Olympians incur that wrath.

New members of our group are appearing quite frequently.  Eric Schwartz happened to be contacted by an alert Jeff Sanden, and both of them are Distinguished Engineers at IBM!  That two members of the same sports team at the same school at the same time are in that select class points out that Brainiacs are certainly among us.

The Twilight Zone coincidences don't even end there.  Jeff was talked into CompSci as a major by Mark Hawkins, who preceded Eric to PSU from Baldwin High School near Pittsburgh!  This was all back in the day when the Computer Science Building was a converted outhouse across the street from the new Natatorium and punch cards were used for computer input!  It turns out Eric golfs too, so herding that cat may be somewhat easier.  He also makes wine, which would compliment Keeper of the Beer Clark Haley quite well.


We are also getting commitments from alums from the 60's, including Skip Krombolz who was coached by Dr. Lucas, who we hope will attend this year's events.

Here's a photo showing Jeff, Mark, Eric and myself from 1979! (among others).

And here's one of Eric bottling his wine while wearing a gray t-shirt! (us 70's/80's guys lived in those!)

And Matt Groves has an article in today's CDT about Terry Losch and Rapid Transit's support of the Dance Marathon and their raising of over $9 Million!