U Chicago Stories

marlowe1
Thu, 23 Mar 2017 01:45:10 +0000

In the summer of 1963 President Kennedy delivered the famous speech in which he proclaimed “Ich bin ein Berliner”. We who arrived at Chamberlin House in B-J in September of that year took to saying, when asked where we were living, “Ich bin ein Chamberliner”. At least we did that until the assassination of the President in November, when the fun went out of the quip. I have heard, however, that it has been revived and now appears on a tee shirt which Chamberliners have been known to wear.

OP, are you getting the sense from these stories that there is a peculiarly U. of C.-ish sense of humor? We need it to stay sane, or anyhow quasi-sane.