I still have a few minutes before 2010 so I thought I’d write a little some­thing while Jasna and I are sit­ting on the couch watch­ing cel­eb­ra­tions on TV with her parents.

Well, first off I think I need to take more pic­tures, the evid­ence for that being that the above is my favour­ite pic­ture I took this year. It’s our fat­test cat, Pin­cho.
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In my pos­i­tion as chair of SOGS’ Bylaws and Con­sti­tu­tion Com­mit­tee, I was just given an archival pack­age of old doc­u­ments, mostly bylaws, by our old chair, Rebecca Feld­man. In that pack­age was a rather lovely essay on the early his­tory of SOGS. I had it scanned and ran it through an OCR sys­tem and cleaned up a couple OCR mis­takes so that I can put it online for every­one to see.

We were talk­ing about it and it would be really nice to extend this essay. I don’t know what the going rate for his­tory stu­dents in these days, but it would be awe­some to com­mis­sion another essay on SOGS’ his­tory from, say, 1980 to 1995.

Without fur­ther ado, here is the essay. It is entitled “The Soci­able Years: The Soci­ety of Gradu­ate Stu­dents, 1964 – 1979″ and is writ­ten by Daryl White. Daryl White is our former VP Fin­ance and unsur­pris­ingly was a his­tory major. It was obvi­ously writ­ten in Microsoft Word and I’ve done my best to clean up some of Word’s eye-​​bleedingly bad typo­graphy (okay, I’m just a snob).

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