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The Tall of the Wild Giraffes Know your co-conspirators: Gene Smith ’34, of San Luis Obispo, is 88 years old and should know better, but he can lay claim to being one of our oldest as well as most prolific twisters. (His title is our Title this month.) At Cal, Gene was president of the Big C Society and captain of the tennis team; in 1936, he won a Pacific Coast doubles champion-ship with the great Don Budge, and in 1939 he played at Wimbledon (Bobby Riggs won the men's title that year). Gene—and it's dedication like this that we appreciate—subscribed to California Monthly while he served in the South Pacific in World War II. "I desperately needed some reading material," he says. After earning a Ph.D., he taught for decades at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, retiring as chair of the history department. His wife, Elinor Crafts Smith ’34, has been known to groan at some of Gene's twisting; but his daughter, Anne Smith McCarthy ’68 always calls her father when he makes our list.
Whichever way you list and however desperate you are, send us your titles (of a book, movie, play, or whatever), changing one letter only and adding a snappy underline, to Twisted Titles, California Monthly, Alumni House, Berkeley 94720.
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