When it came time for the Class to consider what next to wear, I stuck my hand up again to design the costume for the 15th. I also wound up creating the slogan and the logo, incorporating both directly into the garments.

With this “P-rate” outfit, ’67 carried forward the cheap-’n’-cheerful approach. Cheapness took the form of a black tee shirt, white surgical scrubs, and repurposed 10th Reunion socks, plus a sash and headscarf made out of leftover kilt fabric. The cheerfulness took the form of “Buccaneering Behavior”, a nautical brand of rowdiness that classmates were encouraged to pursue for the weekend. Though no official P-rade hand-toy came with the outfit, guys were urged to bring their own rubber cutlasses, fake hand-hooks, and other cheap-o P-ratical doo-dads.

As reunion themes go, the pirate look wasn’t original. Several classes had done it before, most recently (I think) ’57 at their 5th. But it was a fun motif, and it lent itself to an original twist of Princeton word play, with a slogan that literally incorporated a reference to the one-&-only P-rade.