Princeton University's Greatest Class
The Class of 1968
The class that admitted anybody -- or nobody, depending on your view of J. D. Oznot; the class which proudly gives a locomotive to Shapiro (Vivian, that is) in every P-Rade; the class which considered the "gator" as a basis for its 30th reunion theme but, instead, has chosen something more "Time-ly" ... welcomes you to a slightly abridged version of its home page!! There are no direct links here to information concerning classmates e-mail addresses, plans for our 30th Reunion in May 1998, or similar things. If you really need to see these other pages, request their URLs from me.
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Fall Class Dinner -- December 1997.
Princeton, New York City, Chicago, Washington, San Francisco and other locations as yet to be determined -- with a "live" conference call.
Alumni Day 1998 -- February 1998. Check here later for more details.
30th Reunion -- Thursday, May 28, 1998 through Sunday, May 31, 1998. Celebrate our "Time-ly" 30th (and sixth major) Reunion as we amaze and confound those classes nearest to us (not to mention all the others) with our continued youthfulness, good looks, mental agility, great conversation and ability to party all night. Join us for the one and only P-Rade, Saturday, May 30 at 2 PM. Many faculty alumni forums (often featuring classmates) and many traditional class events.
For more info contact our Reunion chairman Mike Hollander.
Highlights from our 29th Reunion -- Thursday, May 29, 1997 through Sunday, June 1, 1997.
We celebrated our 29th Reunion with our hosts, the "Old Guard" Class of 1967. Our traditional class dinner had a record turnout for an off-year reunion Saturday evening.
For more info check out the summer edition of the Alumni Weekly Class Notes section for the write-up by Jim Bedell.
Preview our 30th Reunion -- Thursday, May 28, 1998 through Sunday, May 31, 1998.
We hope to have a connection to our three decades of notes.
A number of classmates have listed their e-mail addresses with TigerNet. If you are not yet registered, please point your Web browser to TigerNet and go through the short registration process. While you're there, sign up for a permanent Princeton e-mail address -- they're free and permanent (use it to "bounce" mail to your current provider).
If you want to find any Princetonian who might be registered, query TigerNet.
As of mid-August 1997 over 10,000 alumni have registered -- including 86 from our class.
Joseph David Oznot is the most famous of those Princetonians who in the minds of many people do not exist (Oznot, that is, not the many people). He is the product of fertile minds and probably was conceived after too many beers and too much 'za (and perhaps too many road trips to the hallowed, but now departed, K.I., Black Bart's or Nass.)
To quote from A Princeton Companion ...
"His qualifications were eminently meritorious. The Admission Office's file on him showed that at high school in East Lansing, Michigan, he was a top student, a classicist, a concert pianist, and class treasurer, with College Examination Board scores in the 700s.
"Notice of his admission to the Class of 1968 was accordingly sent him on April 16, 1964 and on the same day his name duly appeared on the official admission list posted in West College. Two days later newspapers from coast to coast carried an Associated Press report that Joseph David Oznot 'was not,' that the University had been tricked into admitting a fictitious character by a clever, well-executed hoax, perpetrated by six sophomores, four at Princeton, one at Columbia, one at Michigan State University.
"The Michigan State sophomore had submitted Oznot's preliminary application for admission in October, giving his fraternity house as Oznot's address. During the Christmas recess the Columbia sophomore came to Princeton for Oznot's interview at the Admission Office and made a favorable impression. In January two of the Princeton sophomores took Oznot's College Board exams, with highly creditable results. The final application papers, with space for marks and comment by the high school, were received by the Michigan State sophomore, and carefully filled out by the six conspirators. They settled on April 1 for Oznot's birthday and private detective as the occupation of his father, William H. Oznot (W.H.O.).
"E. Alden Dunham, who was then Director of Admission, found the hoax 'ingenious,' and took a professional view about Joseph David Oznot. 'We would have loved,' he said, 'to have had him.'"
Letters, thoughts, and other great ideas from our chairman, vice chairman (and Reunion book editor), Reunion chairman, and anybody else who might have something to say in order to entice you to attend the greatest 30th Reunion ever!
Memorable, brief, repeatable quotes from classmates...
and waiting for contributions...
| Classmate | Quote |
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| Kerney | "How do I begin? With the woman who sat up in the middle of an otherwise good night to say I don't love you anymore? ...." |
| Kerney | "... as if anything in orange and black could ever truly be called 'tasteful'." |
| Oznot | "What? Me Worry??" |
| Doran | "Oh, say can you see?" |
| Oznot | "With a lineup like this even the Bulls should be worried!" |
The current board and how to reach them.
For more information on Annual Giving please contact our AG Chairman Charles Kalmbach.
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Date created: September 2, 1997 Last modified: October 2, 1997 Copyright © 1997, Class of 1968, Princeton University Maintained by: Greg Cramer optionsms@earthlink.net