Olin E. Jessup, '30

I first met President Henry M. Wriston when I was in the library waiting to register for my classes. I introduced myself and told him that Coach Mark Catlin had told me to tell him that he should give me a football scholarship. The look he gave me made me shudder, and I got away in a hurry. I later learned that he hated football.

After a football game in 1927, Coach Catlin told me that President Wriston had told him during the half that he should take Jessup out of the game-he plays too rough. "What did you tell him?" I asked. The coach said, "I told him to get the hell back up in the stands where he belonged."

In the fall of 1929 I had a car for Saturday night and made a date with an Ormsby Hall girl. We had our date, and I took her back so she could sign in. Monday morning I received a telephone call and was told to report to Dr. Wriston's office at 1:00 p.m. When I did, the president informed me that, when my date signed in on Saturday night, the Ormsby monitor had smelled beer on her breath. I denied any stops for beer, and then I told him that Saturday after the football game, a Blatz Brewery man was at the gate, passing out samples of Blatz Gum, a new product that tasted like beer. Nevertheless, he suspended me from all classes. On Wednesday I was informed that I could return to my classes. He must have checked and found that I had told him the truth.

In June, 1930, after I had received my sheepskin, I left the Chapel and walked toward College Avenue. I saw Dr. Wriston on the sidewalk ahead, but I couldn't avoid him. As he approached, he stuck out his right hand and said, "Well, Jessup, the war is over."

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