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76 see if some of the musicians who lived in the House would help out. I remember one – he was from Europe, a big tall fellow. I approached him because he played the violin. And I said, "Would you be willing to play the violin? To give your time to a little orchestra we're trying to get together for the Festival?" And this meant there would be practice sessions that would take away from his school time. "And I don't think I can pay you," I said. And he said: "In this respect, I am Hungarian." You see, he wasn't expecting any money anyway; he was doing it for I-House. In the end, the musicians were mostly from I-House, only a couple of friends from outside. I have a funny memory of the Great Hall in the morning: you'd come down in the morning, and there'd be all these fellas, and they'd all have parts of the green sheets from The Chronicle; they'd all be reading the green sheet. It was just so funny, because couches and chairs were all filled with guys, and they each had a least part of at least one sheet of the green sheet.... I have many memories of the Dining Hall as well. I think our main purpose in going through the line was coming out with our trays and taking a big long view of who was seated at all the long tables and finding out where you could sit and with whom you wanted to sit – not that it made that much difference – and then we would sit and chat. And the conversation was always interesting, and we could get off into politics and all kinds of different things. I always thought everybody was liberal, not that I was a real firebrand of a liberal myself, but I was surprised to find how many liberals I did find at I-House. I learned many things from my friends from other cultures. And I became very good friends with people from a variety of backgrounds. I became very good friends with a Persian girl, Maideh Mazda. She's now married to a Magee, so she's Maideh Magee. She lives in Washington D.C.; she became one of my maids of honor. Then there was Jane Toy, a Chinese girl from Bakersfield. She was a Buddhist; she was in my wedding party. Then we had two other I-Housers, Irving Tragen – Boalt Hall – and there was Richard Gerson; they were Jewish boys, and I happened to be married in a Catholic church. Yes, people did go to services at I-House. Especially the Latinos – we all went to Newman. Why was I such an organizer at I-House? I don't know. Maybe it is just liking to get people together, like for a picnic....How would we get up to Tilden? Of course there were cars. I even had one when I first came to Cal, but I found that I kept loaning it out. It was a little roadster, with a rumble seat. We called it "Cookie" because it was so crummy. So I could use that to get up to Tilden. But if anyone had a car, they would be willing to loan it to us. That's where all the parties were held, before the big dances: people would go to Tilden Park to the Brazilian Pavilion and have cocktails there. They were older, had come to Cal as GI's when they were maybe twenty-three, or even twenty-seven. They were people who knew Life. And some of those older ones would rent the Pavilion to have a cocktail party before the big dances. That was really