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Claude H. Trottier, Author at A Peek at the Peak Magazine
Singing to Our Sweethearts by Claude Trottier
Aug11

Singing to Our Sweethearts by Claude Trottier

July 31. 2021 Letter to The Peak Editor Brother Conklin, I thought of you when I recently read that Lake Powell is at its lowest level since it was filled. Do you remember singing “The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi”  to our wives on Lake Powell. Would the houseboats float today?  Well, a delegation of Biking Sig/Road Scholars from our chapter  (You know them all)  recently made a road trip to serenaded Mimi Blankenship, 104. Could you...

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Can you pass this college admission test from the 1890s?
Jun16

Can you pass this college admission test from the 1890s?

June 12, 2017 Contributed by Claude H. Trottier, University of Rhode Island, ’60 Here are the requirements for admission to the Rhode Island College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts for September 1893. The College, which later became the University of Rhode Island,  had opened the year before. Note.  Dear reader, I assume this was a closed-book exam and in 1893 they did not have access to a calculator or Google. Good luck....

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