Far from spending the majority of his time in study, as many of the others do, this political refugee from Czechslovakia is constantly in search of outside interests--and if girls are involved, so much the better.
Danes Is Sure
Danes is the only member of the group who is completely sure that he likes American women. "But the dating customs of the American girl would not go over at all well in Czechoslovakia, or any part of Europe," he complained.
"She would be considered a--er--well, it's difficult to get reconciled to the fact that what one of these girls does with you she is doing with about 25 other guys on different nights."
When reminded that men have no such "faithfulness" restrictions, he shock his head and murmured, "Well, it still wouldn't be tolerated in the women."
Andrys Grots '52 of Leverett House, has another, and a very simple criteria for judging women. Grots, who has an unpleasant past involving both the Russians and the Germans, simply looks for girls with long hair. "I guess I'm just used to it," he said, "and I prefer it greatly to the current styles."
Grots was hurriedly packing to leave for New York City. "I'm going to be working in New York this summer," he explained, "and I know-I know several very nice girls in New York--all with long hair."
Polish-born John Czernyha '51 of Kirkland House is also receiving safe grades to hold his scholarship and has no interest in American girls. Czernyha, who hopes to finish a book he is writing on Russian concentration camps (he is a first-hand authority on German ones) this summer, has been engaged for the past year to a girl he met in a Polish DP camp last year, and who is now living in Hartford. Czernyha is working in Hartford this summer and hopes to be married within a month.
"The only difficulty is relatives she has coming to the United States whom we'll have to help to settle." He added, however, that he was all set for next year, when he will be commuting from the home of a medical school professor.
Chemistry majors and close friends Robert Grasselli '52 and Benon Przybielski '51 were studying together for a final exam when interviewed. Both take difficult science courses and are worried about grades. They are on the other side of the social fence. They are both very good-looking young men, but claim that "American girls don't like us."
"But it's easy to get buried in your work and forget about women," Przybielski claims. "The only sex we get is the study of hormones in organic chemistry."
Neither man has a summer job as yet. Przybielski explained that a position offered in "chemical research" turned out to involve the washing of test tubes.
On this particular night, Dunster's Anton Bajuk '51 was out with Grasselli's sister, who holds a scholarship at Wellesley. Grasselli, his sister, and Bajuk go out together a great deal. The three were born and brought up in the province of Slovinia in Yugoslavia.
Bajuk is also a fine student, and has few worries about the future. He has a summer job as caretaker of the estate of a friend of Gordon M. Fair '16, Master of Dunster House.