As usual I enjoyed the latest issue of Missouri S&T Magazine. Item No. 125 (Ramey’s) of the “140 things we love” reminded me of Bear Tracks. As I recall, it was downtown above a bowling alley. You could have your own beer stein with your name on it and it was always available from a rack of steins on the wall. You walked in, grabbed your stein, and it was filled at a discount price. I still have my stein from the place. How about doing a bit of research on Bear Tracks and include the information in a future issue of the magazine? I think us older alumni would enjoy it. (I did, on rare occasion of course, visit Ramey’s.)

Keep up the good work.
Gary W. Davis, EE’57
Onyx, Calif.

The list of 140 things was a welcome and inspired idea for the Fall magazine. Having attended UMR in the late ’60s, I kept looking for mention of the “Green Sheet” (I think that was the name). This several-green-page publication would appear around campus about the time of St. Pat’s and would be a kind of “roast” for professors, graduate assistants and others who deserved a bit of mention — mostly negative, often bawdy, mainly off-color remarks and description. No one knew where this paper originated, but I remember looking forward to it year after year. I wonder if someone has a copy tucked away in the attic somewhere.
Lyle Hill, ME’73
Rhineland, Mo.

Regarding No. 129 of the 140 things we love about S&T in the Fall 2011 issue, before it was the Grotto, the Cavern, Brewster’s, or the Mine Shaft, it was Hiram and Mortimers. I know; I was a bartender there in 1975, just before I graduated. That was the first that I know of that basement being a bar. It was during the foosball days. We had six foosball tables and free barrels of peanuts; eat the peanuts and throw the shells on the floor. Good times!
Roger Keller, MinE’75, MS MinE’82
Las Vegas

In the Fall 2011 issue, you missed the football team’s unbeaten season in 1980. You also missed the 1949 football team, which was undefeated in the MIAA Conference. They lost the first two games, both non-conference games. The 1950 football team played in tennis shoes on ice and snow. They were the MIAA Conference champions, losing one non-conference game and one conference game.

The 1914 and 1980 football teams were the only unbeaten teams, and 1949 was the only other undefeated football team in the MIAA conference.

Since the 1980 unbeaten team, Missouri S&T has changed to a weaker conference and still is unable to have a winning championship season. I still enjoyed the Missouri S&T Magazine.
Arthur L. Schmidt, ChE’50
Lake St. Louis, Mo.

Regarding the 140 things we love about S&T, No. 102 Schuman Pond? As both a townie and proud 1977 graduate, I always heard it referred to as Frisco Pond, named after the Frisco railroad. Has my memory finally gone or has the name changed? And yes, No. 126 Tim’s Pizza did have the best pizza and salads in town. There was nothing wrong with the pitchers of beer, either.

I lived in Rolla from 1955, when my dad was assigned to the ROTC department after we returned from Japan, until I graduated in 1977, with time out for the Navy (1970-74). Back then, the ROTC department was in a wooden two story WWI-era building behind the gym. My dad’s office was on the second floor and I remember a rifle range on the ground floor. I pretty much grew up on campus and have fond memories of both the university and Rolla.
John Walker, Econ’77
La Porte, Texas

The 141st thing we love about Missouri S&T is amateur radio station W0EEE.
Douglas Hughes, EE’63
Ann Arbor, Mich.