Noel Evans (1969)

 Many thanks to Steve Slosberg for the beautiful write-up about our memorable classmates Eddie Nylander and Rhonda Nakata. A footnote about their art project:  the paper mache Penis, as big as a person, if I remember, was mounted on wheels and could be pushed forward in a great, extended erotic thrust.     I really enjoyed your piece, Steve. A sort of ultra-Hemingway style. Thanks again for posting about Eddie and Rhonda. -- Noel

Robert Goertz (1969)

Reading Steve's remembrace of Ed brings back memories.  I wasn't close to Ed, but he and I were roommates during the summer of 1968, during Oberlin's summer program in Granada, Spain.  It was that summer that Ed and a young Dutch artist/student, VanHoyt Meassimer (spelling probably wrong), decided to become mendicants and wander through Europe.  I was included in at least some of their conversations.  They had monk's robes made, got sandals, and gave away most of their other possessions.  VanHoyt gave me a painting that he had begun as well as some of his sketches.  They are dark, like Goya's "Caprichos" or "Disasters of War."  I still have them; the sketches are in a small portfolio that VanHoyt made, sitting next to my desk where I am writing this. I have a vague memory of saying farewell to them as they left Granada: "Vayan con Díos."
 
(Karen Keserich Schapiro '69 contributed the photo in June 2024.  It shows Ed and VanHoyt leaving Granada for a pilgrimage to Santillana del Mar.)