Another great moment in yearbook wit, with no snarky help needed.

A little while back, we told you how to subscribe to this blog by e-mail. We also told you we’d let you know how to view all of the blogs or frequently updated sites you like in one convenient location.

We tried and tried to come up with a simple explanation, but decided we could do no better than this piece of excellence from Common Craft:

Click the “Play” triangle for an introduction to RSS. Not quite simple enough? That’s OK, at least now you know what your questions are. Ask away in the comments.

A few years’ yearbook staffs (mostly from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s) took the snarky comments right out of our mouths. We’ve got a little stash saved up for rainy days like this one.

Nothing wrong with a little good clean fun.

You can’t be too careful dealing with the dread Dining Room Gang. They’re tougher than they look — don’t let the saddle shoes fool you.

It doesn’t get much more formal than plastic leis, does it?

Now that is a yearbook theme. Yowza.

From the foreward (sic) of that same Kronicle:

The three “R’s” have expanded — have blossomed in mushroom-like fashion to meet the challenge of the age … ‘midst the soaring sputniks, I.C.B.M. projects and atom-splitting advances of our day, may we continue to explore and qualify the most appropriate Relationship between Reason and Radioactivity — lest we forget that time gives us but one moment of decision.

We know, sometimes you forget to check KSC100. That’s OK. You know it’s hilarious and poignant, but you’re busy.

Do you wish you could get all this hilarity and poignancy emailed straight to you, so you don’t have to remember to check?

You can, friends. You can.

Here is the miracle of the RSS feed.

Go to http://feedblitz.com.

Scroll down to where it will allow you to enter a url, and enter http://keeneweb.org/ksc100 in the box.

The next screen will ask you to enter your e-mail address and verify that you’re not a robot. Do that, and voila! KSC100 updates direct to your e-mail.

Feedblitz is not the only service that will allow you to do that, but it is an easy one. And it will allow you to do the same for other sites you want to follow, too.

Some of you may be familiar with, or interested in, subscribing to a lot of different sites or blogs, and being able to go look at them all in one place, without the distraction of a dozen e-mails. We’ll show you how next week.

Seems like each class gets younger and younger.

The annual yearbook staff/half-naked cowboys mixer is always a treat for everyone.

Now ladies, we all get a little cabin fever, but there’s no need to resort to violence.

There is a 93 percent chance this woman has a comb in her back pocket.

Those soldier boys play some complicated leapfrog.

Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,

That I shall say good night till it be morrow.

Doesn’t every undergraduate want to make his or her parents proud?

Nobody ever accused Mother Nature of not being specific enough.

The cast of the KNS Drama Club production of Grease.

Actually, special thanks to Mike Maher for this pic, of what we think is an auto shop class, consisting of what we think is largely the first few pledge classes of Alpha Pi Tau.

Sometimes, generational differences are never more evident than they are in hairstyles.

… best Keene State College (or Keene Teachers College, or Keene Normal School) pranks. Send tales of things you did, things you witnessed, things you heard someone else did. Finally ready to rat out the culprits behind the Panty Raid of 1941?

Send stories, photos — dare we hope, video? — to lwebb1@keene.edu by March 27; we’ll post the best of it for April Fools Day.

OK, trivia buffs (yes, I’m looking at you, Maher and Mazzola, but not only at you):

Margaret Wass ‘65 was one Miss New Hampshire. Who else from Keene State College, Keene Teachers College, or Keene Normal School has had that honor?

Bonus question: What, if anything, did Peggy Wass win at the Miss America competition?

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We’ll save your life, but don’t expect us to like it.

Some photos, we can’t improve with snarky remarks (though you’re welcome to try, in the comments).

From the 1949 Winter Carnival.

Happy Leap Day!

Bloodsucking freaks.

(Oh, and yes, that does appear to be a glass bottle they’re drawing blood into.)

It’s the caption that makes this a classic. What was #1?

This month, Send Us Your favorite sports upset stories.

In recent years, both men’s and women’s basketball teams have had great stories: the men in this year’s victory over previously-undefeated UMass Dartmouth (click here for the Equinox story) and the women as they triumphed over Southern Maine for the first time since 1978 (click here for that story).

But upsets aren’t limited to basketball, and they aren’t limited to the last few years. What’s your favorite? Send stories, and pictures if you have them, to lwebb1@keene.edu by March 10. We’ll run the best of them, and we’ll take stories of big losses as well as big wins.

(The picture above is of the Owl win over Rochester in 2004, sending KSC to the Elite Eight for the first time ever. Click here for Equinox coverage of the 2004 men’s basketball season.)

There’s no shoeing like snowshoeing…

From the 1947 Kronicle:

What is unclear is why cheerboxing never really took off as a sport at KTC.

Welcome to the first-ever results of our first-ever Send-Us-Your request! We got some great stuff from some good friends of the College.

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