"Silver Crapper Ceremony" Photos with Class of '70 Fish

This was the infamous "Silver Crapper Ceremony", maybe the only one caught on camera.  Gadiator G2 fish Class of '70, like all the other outfits, performed this sacred ceremony whenever a fish buddy received a 'flush letter' from his highschool girlfriend regretfully dumping him for some non-reg back home. 

This was 1967, so the bad news was hand-written on paper since this was before PCs, iPads, text, email, and smart phones, or cell phones at all.  The only technology in the dorms was electric lights, radios or small stereos, BW TV, slide rules, electric fans, film cameras, and indoor plumbing. That's about it except for a payphone somewhere.  We got airconditioning about 1969.

The fish marched slowly down the hallway to the beat of a trashcan and filed into the latrine where the upperclassmen were waiting.  A designated fish buddy, fish Dennis Dyke in this case, read the letter with rude comments and sympathy from his Aggie Buddies.  I can recognize Mr. Morgan, Mr. Gilbreth, Griffin, Harrison, Vic Cook, and fish Dyke; I was fish Burrage taking the pictures. 

The letter was then torn into seven pieces, the pieces placed one each in seven 'crappers', and then the seven crappers flushed in unison three times.  A 21-Crapper Salute, very spiritual.  No doubt the Romans and Greeks had the same tradition for broken hearts.  This was the ultimate 'good bull'.

So ends the lovelife of another broken-hearted Aggie.  The fish then marched back to starting point, and I guess everyone went out drinking and got drunk, I don't remember that night hahaha, but it seems like only yesterday.

BTW, Beat the Hell Out of TU.