{"title":"The Element of Surprise:","authors":"Ivan A Sa, Siggy Ivan","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv24tr74p.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv24tr74p.11","url":null,"abstract":"I'm really quite an unlikely choice of speaker for today's Cum Laude ceremony. I got a good education here at Mercersburg and (except for the food and the social life) I liked the place all right, but, for reasons I'll tell you about shortly, the feeling wasn't mutual. I hope the experiences I have to share with you will have some value to those of you being recognized here today for your academic achievements. What I probably liked best about the Burg was the music. No, not the Carillon, the Octet, or anything like that, but rather all the rock 'n roll, the R&B and the blues that I learned about from my classmates. I also really enjoyed the rock bands that me and my buddy Siggy got together. [ Figure 1: A Motley Crew, c irca 1965 We started out in freshman year. Ivan and the Terribles-alas the Mercersburg News said it all in their account of our first and only gig: `Went to the pep rally-heard Ivan and the Terribles live up to their name' Ouch!","PeriodicalId":367348,"journal":{"name":"Deception in Medieval Warfare","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127120237","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}