The photo of students waiting in line to register ("Tell us about...," winter 2012) brought back memories of the difficulties of registration in the 1950s.
Registration in those days included proof of smallpox vaccination. If, after waiting in line for what seemed like hours, a student could not produce proof of vaccination, he or she had to be vaccinated on the spot.
For four consecutive semesters, I unintentionally left my vaccination papers in my room, and, rather than go back to my room for the papers and, thus, go back to the end of the line, I, for four consecutive semesters, was vaccinated for smallpox.
Willie Jacobs ('56)
Sherman