After a few technical issues, I've finally been able to review the video of my interview with Henry Coons '71. Henry enrolled in 1968 and has been at school for all but five of the intervening years. A few stories from his student days: In Henry's first year, the school discovered his roommate was selling drugs. Since the roommate was off campus at the time, they simply told him not to return. The roommate wanted his stuff back, though, so Henry agreed to drop it off in Greenwich on his next trip to New York. When he got on a train with the roommate's duffel bag, Henry realized it was an express train not scheduled to stop in Greenwich. Uncertain about what to do, Henry tossed the bag out the window as they rolled through Greenwich station and then left a message for his former roommate. He had no way of knowing whether it had worked until on a subsequent trip to New York he saw a homeless man wandering the tracks outside Greenwich wearing some of the roommate's distinctive clothing!
At the start of his second year, Henry's view from his room in Diogenes afforded him a good view of registration and new headmaster George Trautman enforcing the haircut policy by sending students to the barber before they could move in. He also remembered doing science labs that involved live rats. In one lab, Henry's lab partner was the anesthesiologist, while Henry was the perform some sort of rat surgery. Unfortunately, his lab partner feinted, the rat's ether wore off, and the rat ran off before Henry could finish. Henry now works in the old science building; no word on whether he has encountered an aged, deformed rat in the hallways.
