Attribution: This list was created by LTC Jay Olejniczak ‘61. It was originally printed by our friends over at WP AOG. Jay adds: With special thanks to Larry Davis ’71, for suggesting the topic initially, and to John Downing ‘45, Gerald Richardson ’56, Howard Haupt ’57, Dick Mollicone ‘57, Bob Scully ’65, Gus Lee x-’68, Eric Jensen ‘71, Bruce Ritter ’72, Bob Jarrell ’73, Ken Westlund ’81

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1. You attended the Army-Navy football game on the Saturday after Thanksgiving. The last game played in November was in 1983, although several games were played in early December previously, including 1982.
2. You water skied on Lake Popolopen. The Class of 1978 was the last, due to water pollution concerns (outboard motors prohibited).
3. Your Cullum Number has only four digits (the youngest grad with that distinction is in the Class of 1934).
4. You attended movies at the gym. In the mid-sixties, the movies began showing in Thayer Hall.
5. You stored your car in Thayer Hall. Until the renovations began in the late fifties, first classmen were allowed to secure their personally owned vehicles in the old riding hall.
6. You rode horses in Thayer Hall. The end of World War II saw the end of riding horses in the old riding hall, with the Class of 1948 receiving the last mandatory training with horses. The Class of 1950 apparently still had limited training available.

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