Take six of the College’s more attractive coeds, add a Sunday morning in November, throw in an old railroad station, a couple of cameras, some props, three or four male students and one active imagination and you have the placemat that will appear in most of the dining halls across campus this evening.

The placemat ad is the most recent in a series that the student-owned Party Train concession has created during the past three years. The series, in the words of Party Train representative Bob Chartoff, “probably hasn’t sold any extra tickets for us, but it gives us a good image. All we’re out for is fun, anyway; money is of no concern to us.”

The placemat, for those who have yet to see it, incorporates the photograph used above, in which six members of the fair sex are seen crowding around one fortunate male student. The caption reads “Party Train Service is Adequate.”

The picture was taken on a Sunday morning last November out at the old Oberlin railroad station. It was taken on a Sunday because, according to one of the six lovelies, “Exhibit ourselves in public on a busy weekday? You must be out of your...”

When asked her name, she replied modestly, “Well, we must keep our identities secret, but in the trade we’re know as Tripmates. We have rules, like no one is allowed to get familiar with us. But you can call us by our first names.”

Ardent inquirers later ascertained that their names were Tripmates Ardie, Bev, Julie, Sharon, Carol and Amy. All insisted that they enjoyed what they were doing and pointed out the definite aesthetic value in the photographs. One of them remarked, “I think they’re arty.”

The creator of the advertisement is College senior Jim Lubetkin, onetime owner and operator of the Party Trains. While denying any Svengalian influence over the girls in recruiting them to pose, he observed, “The true art in America these days is being produced on Madison Avenue. I think that the girls realize this and therefore considered the opportunity to pose not only an honor, but an obligation.”

Lubetkin, asked to comment on the that he once posed for his advertisements, but was pictured romping through the snow in a bathing suit, protested, “I cannot deprive these students of the chance to play their proper role in the advancement of art and creativity here at the College.”