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big beds
one never came into the porch making noise as a fine could be
assessed by anyone to anybody, subject to appeal. The major
problem occurred when we gave up our rack to a visitor. Often a
TKE from another chapter could not seem to grasp our seriousness about a quiet porch. Seldom, but it happened, was a
visitor kicked out. There were fisticuffs with the drunks.
We really had a problem when unannounced pledge sneaks would appear; one weekend we had almost 200; our social calendar was drafted each semester, so unless we had advance
notice, hard feelings often occurred. But, say Warrensburg with
50 pledges or Maryville with 40 or Jonesboro with 60, or Missouri
Valley with 30 would appear at our doorstep, suppertime, a very
undeserved rep for lack of hospitality developed. The lesser or
smaller schools did not understand the rigid formality we had to
embrace so we were sometimes called snobs...but warm ones!
We borrowed Clyde Lovellette's rack from the Sigs; he was 6'10":and we had a 6'9" guy and two 6'7"s so we made up a
new three-decker. After one semester, the 6'9" one flunked out,
and we returned the big bed. Our porch was triple-decked. The
open window was for health reasons and I never heard of any
problems. However, grandma's quilts were commonplace! You went to the porch to sleep! Lights out, too.
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