Odd thing about the downtown campus of RIT, each year students in the third ward would return a few days or even weeks early. Granted, it was a way to make your rented apartment inhabitable, but mostly it was to see our old friends. Another major incentive was to be on hand when the freshman women moved into Kate Gleason Hall. This was the day before the rest of the students were to arrive so our most precious natural resource was on display. Mike Lofton, a Sophomore, had given me (a Freshman), a ride from the deep South, explaining the need to be in Rochester early for the fun.
As the sun set at the end of Spring Street and the freshman women’s parents leaving, there was an obvious need to help the young ladies find the Past Time. What better way than an evening parade. Many later gave Tom Frahm the credit. He had a bullhorn, lots of shabby band instruments and the willingness to lead.
Earle Cook and Mike Sandel tuning a Tuba with Genesee Crean Ale. Special thanks to Wegmans for the shopping cart.
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Norm MacEachern, Barbara Niekras, Richard Kubat and, of course Tom Frahm enter the dorm to invite the ladies to tea.
Norm MacEachern prepares for duet.
Barbara Niekras, Darlene Winkey Hosey, Lorrie Catallo, Kathy Collins and Hope Warner.
Barb Hammond, Kathie McCormick and Tom Frahm
Earl Cook consults sheet music during break.
Ron Palmer, Richard Kubat, Barbara Niekras, Hope Warner, Jan Pearson, Tom Frahm, Barb Hammond and Winkey Hosey marching past the Past Time. It's difficult to stop a successful parade so it continued onto Main Street heading downtown.
Entire parade marching down Main Street Rochester, NY, L to R; Kingsley Jackson, Don Zimmerman, Gary Ritchel, Mike Sandel, Tom Frahm, Phil Giammatteo, Michael Lombardo, Barbara Niekras, Winkey Hosey and Joe Ventura in their first act of civil disobedience for 1963.
Tom Frahm and unidentified officer discuss finer points of parade permitting in the metro area.
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