While at Menlo, I took a year's subscription for $20 to the campus newspaper, "The Coat of Arms". My first issue has arrived, and it is 16 large pages of full color student reporting on everything from "Sex and Menlo" (a survey) to a stormy faculty resignation, to a fashion show, and much more.
It can be had for a check sent to The Coat of Arms at Menlo at 50 Valparaiso Avenue, Atherton, California 94027.
Saturday, November 15, 2008
Guil Gaylord (11/03/2008)
I was in Palo Alto on October 6 and spent a wonderful afternoon on the Menlo campus. I met for some time with Norm Colb, Diane Clausen, the development head, and Liza Bennigson, the alumni chief. Liza and Diane then took me for a tour of the campus. All three of them could not have been more gracious. All three were most interested in Menlo as a boys boarding school. They seemed surprised when I told them that the school was the most important event of my life, teaching me focus, efficiency, hard work, how to get along with others and, more importantly, how valuable good friendships are. So it was like a family, they asked? I said yes, and in too many cases was a family for functional orphans, and was also like the military experience. Of course, they had heard a lot of stories of the old days from Derf.
The school campus is now totally revamped, except for Douglass Hall, which is much unchanged, and very nice. It is more like a small college campus than a school campus, and the atmosphere is quite gentle and upbeat. I spent quite some time on the Menlo College side, where the campus remains largely unchanged from the time of our shared use of it. The auditorium and "new" cafeteria are still there, the "old" cafeteria is a library, the sweetshop is still in operation, and the Freshman dining Hall, where we lunched with the 49ers in training, is now the bookstore. The college seems much smaller than the school and has a faculty of about a dozen.
Of course, you probably saw much of this at the last reunion.
Liza gave me a CD from the 2006 Reunion of the Class of 1966, titled "Sharing Memories", which I will bring to the 2009 reunion or send to you earlier if you like. I have not yet had a chance to listen to it.
The school campus is now totally revamped, except for Douglass Hall, which is much unchanged, and very nice. It is more like a small college campus than a school campus, and the atmosphere is quite gentle and upbeat. I spent quite some time on the Menlo College side, where the campus remains largely unchanged from the time of our shared use of it. The auditorium and "new" cafeteria are still there, the "old" cafeteria is a library, the sweetshop is still in operation, and the Freshman dining Hall, where we lunched with the 49ers in training, is now the bookstore. The college seems much smaller than the school and has a faculty of about a dozen.
Of course, you probably saw much of this at the last reunion.
Liza gave me a CD from the 2006 Reunion of the Class of 1966, titled "Sharing Memories", which I will bring to the 2009 reunion or send to you earlier if you like. I have not yet had a chance to listen to it.
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