I must have missed an issue of the newsletter somehow, but I gather from the e-mails in the latest edition there was some mention of David Chimino.
I remember him quite vividly as one of the most interesting and conscientious instructors I ever had. He taught (or attempted to teach) physics to us , I believe as Sophomores, and we were probably the biggest bunch of lunkheads he ever encountered.
He gave an exam one day and, on the following day came back with the results. The average for the class was zero, based on the grading curve then in use. Mr. Chimino (I don't recall whether he was a PhD at that time)was so distressed by the results he was on the verge of tears and felt that it was failure on his part to properly convey the message to us. He beat himself up over the whole thing when it probably should have been the rest of us getting the beating. He was just one of many memorable professors or instructors that were around in those days, some of whom I only knew by reputation, such as "Gilly" Boyd. I did get to experience Walter "Flunkenbush" first hand in Calculus, which I managed to survive somehow, although some of my friends were not so lucky. He was famous for writing equations on the blackboard with the right hand while erasing them with the left hand.
Dr. Polkinghorne was then head of the Civil Department and in his lectures on the History of Architecture, which I found fascinating, he would frequently send erasers flying into the audience if he caught someone napping. He had an amazingly strong and accurate arm for an old man. There were others, some of whom made a less favorable impression, that I won't mention, but it may have been my own fault in some cases.