"My freshman roommate used to say that the only thing holding the building up was the cockroaches holding hands," he says.

In keeping with Harvard tradition, the students in the co-op named the buildings after past Harvard presidents. The building where they ate was named Eaton House. For sleep, they turned to Hoar House.

"Sophomoric humor is often generated by sophomore students," Huessy says.

Some of his fondest Harvard memories come from cooking for over 80 people at the annual Dudley House banquets.

His culinary ambitions were not too lofty, though--he donned the chef's hat at Dudley because "I'd much rather cook than clean up."

One year, Huessy and the other chefs came running out of the kitchen during the meal, shouting the Burger King theme song: "Hold the pickles, hold the lettuce, special orders don't upset us!"

And a food fight with "particularly unappetizing cheesecake" broke out during a speech by Loeb University Professor Emeritus Archibald Cox '34, who was discussing his involvement with the Watergate saga.

Though he cherishes his days of launching cheesecake, Huessy says he regrets some academic choices he made at Harvard.

Most of all, he says he regrets that he never took a course with a "Harvard luminary."

"I don't think in many ways I took advantage of being at Harvard at all," he says.

In his biography which appeared in the program for the 1974 Pudding show, "Keep Your Pantheon," Huessy joked that his academic difficulties were all part of a larger design.

"Only after his arrival at Harvard could he hope to fulfill his lifelong ambition--the complete subjugation of his academic career to that least proper of all muses," he wrote in the biography.

And he still remembers Harvard best for some of his less academic pursuits.

"My real major was extracurricular activities," he says.

"I could tell you every detail of all the shows I worked on, but I'm not sure of all the classes I took," he adds.

After Harvard, Huessy traveled for a year in Berlin before attending graduate school in theater design at New York University.

"I spent the year trying to talk myself out of going into the theater and I lost," he says.

He says his friends and classmates won't be surprised to hear that his career has kept him near the stage.

"They'd probably be a lot less surprised than I was when it finally happened," he says.