Gene Chase '65

1 Door to Gene Chase's Baker single as a junior 1963-1964.

2 Gene Chase's room as a junior Bakerite, 1963-1964.

3 Gene Chase's desk as a junior Bakerite, 1963-1964.

4 Refrigerator cost $35 from upper classman, kept 2 yrs, sold for $30 to underclassman. MIT charged us $10 per year for extra electricity, but a 15-meal a week plan made weekend meals expensive if we ate out much.

5 Gene Chase shaving at sink in room, 1963-1964 year.

6 Sunday night at John Larkin's (l.) room, friends (l. to r.) Rick Lueth, Phil Siemens, Gene Chase, John Larkin celebrate Gene's 21nd birthday, November 1964. Large Baker House single.

7 As is customary, Gene Chase (center) got thrown in the shower for his birthday. In the background are Tom Cofer, then mostly hidden Bob Morgan, mostly hidden Isom Herron, and Dennis Bekeny and Bob Morgan. In John Larkin's large Baker House single, November 1964.

8 An anonymous person put this picture on a Baker House bulletin board some year between 1961 and 1965. I'm not sure why the title only mentions 3 tools. All five of us were more tool than hacker: Gene Chase, Gordon Stallings, Gilbert Mowery, Joseph Morlan, and John Xenakis, all Class of 1965.

9 Gene Chase, junior math major, 1963-1964, plays concertina in his “pie (or wedge) single.” Note use of herby hooks to hold lamp.