Rattlesnake News

[Tom Lehman]

I got my Spring 2000 issue of the Rattlesnake Alumni News the other
day.  Front and center on the cover is Rattlesnake's most famous drop
out US Senator Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia.  Senator Byrd dropped
out of Rattlesnake in his Junior(?) year when he was elected to
represent WV in the US Congress!  Not bad, college boy gets elected to
Congress.  Byrd also had a low pay no pay job at the WV legislature at
the time too.

This Fall Senator Byrd is getting inducted into the Rattlesnake Alumni
Gallery of Achievement.  I may even go down to West Virginia for this
momentous occasion.  I'm interested to hear Senator Byrd talk about how
he learned at Rattlesnake how the Civil War had been over for a few
years and that the KuKluxKlan was shall we say passé; and I'm sure that
he also learned that a re-unification of VA and WV would eliminate the
job he had his eye on.

Tom Lehman