The Choice Of Wake Forest Collegiates?


G.F. Ann has a brother who went to Wake Forest University (then College) during the mid-sixties. A few weeks ago, she borrowed one of his old yearbooks, and flipping through it I saw this. Under ordinary circumstance this would seem a commonplace relic of long-ago showgoing, but, look at the 40X60 poster as background. Dr. Goldfoot and The Bikini Machine. Our best and brightest going to see an American-International picture. Couldn’t they have located a display to better reflect academic status and discriminating tastes? A Man For All Seasons was surely playing somewhere. Perhaps they were just exiting that very attraction and the Dr. Goldfoot display merely indicated a forthcoming show. Better to stand in the rain beneath a drive-in marquee featuring Blow-Up and Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? than risk such impression as made here. Might these students have considered risk to their futures posing as they did? What if the selection committee at law or medical school saw such a compromising pose? It was OK for an eleven-year old like me to go see Dr. Goldfoot (and I did, too), though it never occurred to me that near grown-ups would sit for such dross. But who am I to talk, as I just watched it again a few months ago, and good news, it still holds up. Maybe these two weren’t so misguided after all.