Every year this event is a highlight for Betzi and me, the 50th anniversary class dinner in the president's home. As always, we spiced the dinner up by asking these seniors who were the characters and what were the memorable events of their days at Nyack. Daddy Dunbar and Miss Stanhope stories always emerge, usually told from year verbatim.
Oral tradition is alive and well.
The last few years I've drug up the courage to ask what they are sensing about the college nowadays. The replies start with how beautiful the campus is with all the new facilities, meaning Boon Campus Center, circa 1969. And often concern is expressed about how expensive it is to attend college these days. But the folks from the forties are generally quite positive about Nyack. In fact, they seem downright proud to be Nyack alums.