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"Parents' Weekend Post Script"
serious trouble. The book com- panies sold books on everything, so, through my interest in I
books, an interest in anything must have been construed.
A.A.A.S., or from the Edmund Scientific Company catalog.
On the other hand, I have ab- solutely no idea as to how an in- surance company decided that I
by Will Massie
Over 250 parents registered
as Parents Weekend began Fri· day, October 19. Clear skies and alarge turn out set the pace for an exciting weekend.
Friday night at 8:00, parents met with their son's teachers. A reception at 9:45 then followed. The Glee Club was applauded
by everyone for a notable per- formance. Although the football · team was not as successful, they
played well during the first half.
Following the game, parents were invited to a party at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ashby T. W atts.
Saturday night, many boarders took overnights with their parents at the Holiday Inn and The Sheraton.
Bishop Heath Light held a
chapel service on Sunday morn-
ing for everyone. Concluding
the weekend was a reception for
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kept myself from being totally me. I had never heard of any of possessed by it. I was fighting
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improve my life. Finally, I said
to ·myself, "What could one little
purchase do?" I bought a couple
of books on astronomy. When
they arrived, I was pleased.
Nothing had changed, I hadn't
often, I had no clue as to why I
mailing list. monster by dissecting it, letting
Often I could see a connection it die like a god with no more between two pieces of mail worshippers. But I could not do
which had no logical ties at all. I it. The monster had me, and it was asked to help save Cana- didn't intend to let go. It fought
dian seals, Ethiopian elephants, with an arsenal of gimmicks to
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by John Sullivan
I began sending for
catalogues when I was thirteen. It began innocently enough, with a few catalogues of books and optical equipment. But soon, I began to find catalogues I hadn't requested in the mail. And companies began sending me large envelopes, stuffed with slick folders of all possible shapes and signs with colorful
pictures splashed across them. The folders themselves didn't
lepers, and ocean whales all because I had been included in an earlier mailing by an organization devoted to saving some esoteric species of Kenyan antelopes. The antelope people, perienced. For a few weeks, in turn, had gotten my name
stronger than the junk mail. But the rush of pride was short-Jived. Before I finished reading the books, I was
assaulted by a direct mail blitz beyond anything I had ever ex-
before it became too complex, I from the subscription list of
tried to analyze what was hap-
pening, I realized by now that
the company whose catalogues I
had requested, had sold my Sierra Club or the Smithsonian name to other companies, and Institute.
The idea that I was a profes- bother me as much as the bliz- companies and magazines on sional scientist, which was ex-
zard of business reply cards and odd scraps of paper which fell from them. It usually took several minutes to recover them all as they fluttered and slid through doorways and under furniture.
So, I thought, this is the junk mail I've heard so much about. It didn't seem so terrible then. It was irritating, yes, but there wasn't very much of it. It cer- tainly wasn't stronger than I. I could throw it away if I wasn't interested in what it had to of-
fer. It never occurred to .me to wonder how the people who sent it to me had obtained my address.
astronomy. I was also being ap- pressed in offers from proached by book companies, Technological Review, The since I had bought books. I Bulletin of The Atomic Scien· began to realize that I was in tist, the Journal of the
now I was receiving mail from
As it turned out, my fears was a veteran of the armed were correct. Mail from tool services, hence eligible for companies, European record membership in their veteran's
companies, companies called the
group insurance trust.
Trying to deduce the origin of
Institute for Psycho-Kinetics
anq a Library of Modern Elec- my junk mail was one way I
tronics began finding its way to them.
the terrible feeling that I was
being controlled by the endless- It went on for months, and ed. I lost all track of the people ly flowing envelopes, that they
Before I knew it, I was engulf-
still I didn't buy anything. I was
rather proud of myself. I had money. Occasionally, I was able squeeze, and manipulate. They
been affected, and I had the Guatemalan children, Indian
Sandwiches
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who were
to relate a piece of mail to one I
demanding
met junkmail and conquered it. I
had no doubts that I could give
it up anytime I wished. But I idea of who was selling my learning about them. But it was began to want the things they ·name, and when. But more
advertised, to crave them, day-
dream about how they would was on a particular company's mail entirely, to fight the
had received earlier and get an
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Natural History magazine, a biological supply house, the Na- tional Geographic Society, the
my had me in their grasp to twist,
seemed to know everything about me; I fought them back by
not enough.
Finally I tried to give up junk
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