A Moveable Feast: 1958


After immortalizing a class on the printed page, what becomes a yearbook staff most? A budget-busting clambake.

The class of 1958 didn’t want for campus events their senior year. President Ell announced his retirement, the graduate school was established, and a record number of graduates emerged from NU’s hallowed halls. The latter fact no doubt meant an especially hectic year for the crack Cauldron staff. Organizing 900 senior portraits and data sheets would test anyone’s mettle.

So the Cauldron team broke bread—and shellfish—to give thanks for putting a fine annual to bed. A departure from the formal banquet traditionally savored at year’s end, the clambake took place at a Duxbury beach house. Lensman Joe Murray, LA’58, MBA’75 (third from right), manages a smile for the shutterbug wannabe who’s turned the tables to capture this Kodak moment. Everyone luxuriates in a feast way beyond the $1 Durgin Park burger typically gobbled down while burning the midnight oil.

Of course, senior snapshots weren’t the only development at the Cauldron. Associate editor in chief Carol Greene (right) and editor in chief Norm Pierce (far left), both LA’58, married the following year.

Call it a picture-perfect ending.