remember that one guy?
Some people here are famous. Not because they actually cultivated any sort of fan following, or even really did anything to attain traditional celebrity… perhaps they don’t even know that they’re famous. But they are. Like running rolly-backpack man, for example. I think he graduated 2 years ago, but I guarantee that during my sophomore year, pretty much everyone knew who running rolly-backpack man was. He was the guy that was always running somewhere, with his rolly-backpack in tow.
Another great example of an LC celebrity is Tim with(out)-a-tail. His campus-wide reputation for having a tail pinned to himself was so far beyond his own friend circle that I knew freshmen who’d never met Tim, and who started attending LC after Tim had stopped wearing his tail, who knew him as “Tim without a tail.” They actually had no personal recollection of Tim *with* a tail, but he was still “Tim without a tail.”
There are plenty of others worthy of mention: smiling suit-guy (guess what he did), Jimmy (whose laugh is extremely unique. He’s not “the dude with a weird laugh” because at any table in the Bon, at least one person knew his name was Jimmy, so when he’d start laughing at something, it was the unspoken job of the Jimmy-knower at the table to inform everyone else that it was Jimmy, and soon pretty much everyone at LC knew his name was Jimmy, even if they’d never seen his face), and the elusive ”KAZ,” whose name was etched into basically every blue fiberglass lunch tray at the Bon.
The purpose of this post is to thank these heroes for making our campus interesting. Simply their existence creates an intangible unity that no amount of icebreakers or community-building can accomplish.
So, who is your favorite L&C celebrity?
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Just for the record- rolly backpack guy is named Noah Sablosky. He didn’t graduate, in fact he was only at Lewis & Clark for one year :(.
This is an excellent post, I look forward to seeing what other people come up with!
He lived next door to me in Stewart when I was a first-year!
Ah, sad. Well I was glad whenever he ran across my path!
When I was at LC (2001-2005), it was Paul Grossfield who was the forerunner of the aforementioned “Kaz.” In fact, the Kaz-bon-tray campaign started my freshman year and it was a direct response to the Paul Grossfield campaign, which was presumably enacted by the generation immediately preceding us. I think the story was that Paul was not at all well known in his high school, so his new LC friends decided that EVERYONE would know his name. And it seemed to work for a while, as everyone at LC then knew of Paul, but no one seemed to know who he was.
@ Brian Good call on Paul Grossfield.
Kaz was here through (I think) 2002, before going home to hawaii — in addition to having an ubiquitous name, he rocked the Gaming Society and (I think) Ultimate.
The ur-bon-tray-name-guy seems to be Paul Barney, a long-ago RA, who’s name-on-trays eventually became so far flung that travelers would find it on the seat-back-trays of airplanes that had flown out of PDX… …after Paul Barney’s death, his family set up a award fund, which goes to a senior each year (its one of those senior awards, as memory serves) — part of the award is a metal serving-style tray, with the recipient’s name etched into it.
Other notable LC types would include “The Reverend” (as one Jeff Crowl was known during his time here).
Does Yogi in the Bon count? ‘Cuz that guy is the man.
Barry Joe Stull. The alum who they dont let on the Raz anymore, I since he’s got housing problems and looks the part. He’s got a pretty good conversation trap – a life story that spans from the early 90′s LC to the Supreme Court and then back to PDX streets and several police encounters. And he teaches mandolin, I’ve heard.