Your remembrance of your father’s version rings absolutely true with my experience with the 60’s EBP’s in Eastwoods, a smaller park on the east side of the campus around 32nd Street. The founders included students in frats and English classes, but all were big time beer drinkers. We all were then. The frats had a working relationship with the beer distributors and ice suppliers, etc., and I recall that in the 60’s it was a big promo deal for Brown Distributing and others to donate a few kegs to the cause.

Also, this was a Spring event and was another big excuse for us to cut classes and get loaded and hopefully, lucky (wink). Like Roundup, and Gentle Thursday, and May Day, beer drinking transitioned into other types of mind dulling or philosophy inducing recreational herbal supplements.

Those were special times and the friends we made are still important to us. Thanks again for the connection. As I find out more I will update.

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History is fluid, and certainly not an exact science. Since I posted this over 3 months ago, I have had occasion to revise the timeline for Media 70, AdVantage Associates, and the transition into GSD&M. I have been updating the original post from August (shown on Daily Texan).
Mostly, I have added 2 principals to the Media 70 group, Kay Morris and Kenny Meyer, both orientation advisers, and absolutely essential to any history of Media 70. Why does any of this matter? To many it might not, but since over 5500 of the Daily Texan readers have perused this posting, it must have some interest.

The Media ‘70 group staged productions during the summers of ‘69, ‘70 & ‘71. The “Death of Academia” was produced in the Spring of ‘70 and attracted standing room crowds for about a dozen performances. “Death…” was revived for Orientation performances in the summer of ‘70. The “Wozard of IZ” was produced in the Spring of ‘71 and attracted standing room crowds for 24 performances. “Wozard…” was resurrected for Orientation performances in the Summer of ‘71.

We were all summer orientation advisors. I joined the group in the Fall of ‘69. At that time Pete, Bill, Roy, Dave, and Barry were the core of the group. Bill’s brother Tebo (Steve), and his buddy Tim hung out occasionally. Tebo was off to the army reserves. Tim only came around with Tebo. There were also a couple of coeds who played a significant role as photgraphers, scripters, and editors. To my embarrassment, I don’t recall their names, (but I believe on was Roy’s girl friend).

No one in the group was an advertising major. We were mostly motivated by the war, the music, and the events on the west coast. It was also the time of Daryl Royal, and the Longhorns had won a National championship. There were street vendors, public events like Eeyore’s Birthday, wide open parties in the housing east and west of campus, and hostile community surrounding the campus. The student president was a Radical. The fraternity infrastructure was disintegrating. The Board of Regents, lead by Frank Erwin, was evil. We were free to speak our minds.

In the spring of ‘70 we worked in the screen porch on the living room of Bill’s rented house which was located at the corner of Enfield and Lake Austin Blvd. In the fall of ’70, we rented a small office in the back of a store front studio leased by Bob Burns (art director of Texas Chainsaw Masacre). Bob printed skillfully done silkscreen posters under the name Rh Factor.

At this point, Media 70 was well-known and we had many volunteers. Steve’s younger bother joined the group and so did Judy Trabulsi. Around this time, Tebo returned as did Tim. Bob Burns began to complain about the crowds and want the Media ’70 crowd to pick up a bigger portion of the rent. We were all broke, but to up a collection. It wasn’t long before Tebo and Tim rented their own parcel of the Rh Factor from Burns, and that’s when the direction changed.