By April C. Armstrong *14

In this week’s installment of our recurring series, a student asks for news from home, a class portrait is taken, and more.

May 5, 1994—Cast and crew take over Palmer 301, a physics lecture hall, to film “I.Q.” The movie focuses on a fictionalized Albert Einstein (Walter Matthau) and his efforts to influence his niece (Meg Ryan) to pursue a romance with a local auto mechanic (Tim Robbins). The leads are joined by 150 extras in 1950s-style clothing.

May 7, 1966—Having abandoned his hope of entering the Fullerton, California elephant race, Paul G. Sittenfeld ’69 has used the money raised to enter a turtle representing the Class of 1969 in Washington’s Turtle International.

May 8, 1844—Charles Godfrey Leland, Class of 1845, writes to his father in Philadelphia to ask him to send newspapers that report on the Nativist Riots, as anti-Catholic violence is ongoing in the city.

May 9, 1888—The Class of 1888 is photographed in front of Witherspoon Hall.

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