“I didn’t go swimming. No, no, no, no. See, Miller and I, we were the colonialists and the conservatives. Again, there were different models. We had no interest in doing that kind of stuff. We didn’t have to get rabies shots either. There were three segments in the group. There were these kind of flower child approaches to India – swim in the Ganges, go off in the hills, not intentionally getting bit by rabid dogs; there was Gary Patteson, maybe Wynne, in the middle; and then Miller and I off on the right. No, we weren’t too concerned about our own souls. You know, at the time I think both of us, and even now, if you feel you’re in high school and you get into a place like Williams College, I was just going to get the best possible education I could get. And not do other stuff.

–Bill Loomis '71