North Grounds Track Club Welcomes Alumni for Reunion Run
The North Grounds Track Club welcomed back significant numbers of alumni for a run on Thursday, October 30. With the proactivity and promptness properly prepared by the Law School, the ghosts of Law-School-classes-past arrived a day early for their Halloween appearances. Commissioner Kuhn organized the whole run, though his route ended up being a bit short relative to the ghosts’ expectations, so after running the bases at Copeley, the apparitions ran over the wood and through the river instead, not that they noticed. ANG joined the group for the opportunity to be the youngest member of a group for once. After listening to Justice Barclay pontificate about the wonders of Kansas City and Justice McReynolds complain about students these days, the unnecessary extravagance of D.C., and, well, most things in fact, ANG beat a hasty retreat back to his den just off of Woe’s Hollow a mile or two down the Rivanna Trail.
Even while most of the spectral sprinters could not stand McReynolds’ caustic commentary, it did not faze the indefatigable Morty Caplin at all. Reached for comment (via the talented interlocutors for which the Court of Petty Appeals is famous), Mort explained, “Well, I may dislike Mr. McReynolds as much as he dislikes everyone else, his barbs do not compare in the slightest to the barbed wire we encountered on D-Day.”
As the runners crested the hill up to Main Grounds, the conversation was so engaging that they kept running upwards for a few feet before Eppa, ever the down-to-earth and practical one in the Hunton household, realized and course-corrected the group back down to Grounds (or a little above it, anyway). Then he called an audible and directed the spooky squad down to Scott Stadium—one of the finest stadia in all the land, according to Kuhn—where Eppa relived his glory days. After a lap around the field bearing John’s name, or so he claimed, though the rest of the ghostly group disagreed, they turned north up Alderman Road and reminisced about how easy Torts with Professor Abraham was before Palsgraf went and complicated it all. As they finished, a group of LLMs was leaving the school, and Frank excitedly inquired to see if there were any Romanians. The LLMs sadly did not acknowledge Frank, but one of his fellow phantasms replied that, actually, the vampires were not scheduled to arrive until Friday, so Frank was out of luck.
While the apparitional alumni return whence they came, rumor has it that the terrestrial runners of the NGTC will return on the first Thursday of November.
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Andrew Moore ’28
cwb5ex@virginia.edu