Winning Caption
“Hey guys! Once we’re done with this job, they want us to change a lightbulb over at Edwards Hall.”
—Stephen Koch ’75
Runners-Up
“My wife tells me I’m going bald, but I want it peer-reviewed first.”
—Mark Frankel ’92, M.B.A. ’96
“Next semester we get real shaving cream, and a guy with hair!”
—Don Yost ’83
Presidential Special
This photo (summer 2021) inspired lots of captions. Many could be organized into the following categories:
• The Three Stooges
• “Shave and a haircut, two bits.”
• The “snip-snip here, snip-snip there and a couple of tra-la-las” grooming scene from the Wizard of Oz
In fact, this photo (dated Dec. 20, 1954) shows Edward Rawdon, URI barber and honorary alumnus, getting his hair clipped by URI’s fifth president, Carl Woodward (center, behind Rawdon) and two other men. The February 1955 Alumni Bulletin says that Rawdon received the “Presidential Special” hair clipping in celebration of his retirement “after 50 years of clipping academic heads, among them five Rhody presidents.” The Bulletin goes on to say that Rawdon “made himself a place at the heart of campus that cannot be filled.” •