The above quote is from Joy Javits (Class of 1970). Read the full memory below:

A few days before Spring Weekend, 1968, Kenny Dawson stole my shoe and ran down the hill, through the gate and down to the Rock and straight in the front door and hid from me in a bathroom! I hardly knew him, the roommate of Scott Burns, both of Sigma Nu, who was fixing us up for a first date for Spring Weekend. We were off to a playful start. I went with him to that Spring Weekend, featuring The Supremes, Janis Joplin and Dionne Warwick as organized by the incredible Ira Magaziner.

Kenny and I loved each other for two and half years and then fool that I am, I didn’t beg him to marry me. He was a beautiful man, he became a conscientious objector who worked for years doing menial work in a mental institution, and then became a Psychiatrist for troubled teenagers. We lost Kenny a few years ago. I can still see him racing way ahead of me, into the Rock.

Of course the Rock was a place I went at least three or four times a week to study. It was comfortable and well lit and warm and conducive both to studying until closing, and to dosing on a Saturday afternoon.

Also, Rockefeller, Nelson, was a great man. A very cultured, warm-hearted, if rich as Croesus man, with a love of the visual arts. He and my father would have made a great President and Vice President!

And I send a subscription of “The Sun Magazine,” a thoughtful magazine, published here in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, my new home, to the Rock which pleases me greatly. The New Curriculum (adopted in 1969!) produces people who are smart, ethical, open minded, out of the box thinkers. I am very proud to have attended Pembroke and Brown.