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MIT Publications

The Daily Reamer
(Parody of The Tech by The Tech; bound with The Tech in The Tech office at MIT)

24 May 1966 8 "Winkers defeat Harvard in Cornell triangular meet" ++<o:Drix>

HoToGAMIT (How to Get Around MIT)
several editions, including:

1976 41 [#8] Listing <o>
1978 112 [#10] Listing
1980 85 [#12] Description

IAP Guide (Independent Activities Period)

(Dec 1979) 32 [IAP '80 Final Guide] Photo of Joe Sachs and Rich Steidle <on>

Institute Calendar

17-24 Feb 1969 2/22-23 "1969 Tiddlywinks Championships" <h>
10-17 Mar 1969 3/12 "What's My Line?" <h>

MIT Bulletin

(Sep 1973) 56 [73/74 General Catalogue] Photo of Tim Schiller and Bill Renke <o>

MIT Freshman Handbook

1968-69 9 (Activities Handbook) "Tiddleywinks Association". Text by Mitch Wand?
1969-70 12.2-43 Same as 1968-69; "Tiddlywinks Association"
1970-71 12-11 Same as 1969-70
1971-72 12-14 Same as 1969-70
1972-73 13-0 Photo of Dave Lockwood and Franz Christ <o>
13-13 Text by Tim Schiller
1973-74 185 Same text as 1972-73 (no photo)
1974-75 186 Same text as 1972-73
1975-76 208 Photo of Rich Steidle. Same text as 1972-73 <c>
1977-78 177 Condensation of 1972-73 text
1978-79 165 Same as 1977-78
1979-80 161 Same as 1977-78
1980-81 147 Same as 1977-78

MIT News Office Press Releases

25 Feb 1972 "MIT Captures Tiddlywinks Crown" <c>
10 Mar 1972 "MIT Tiddlywinkers Headed for World Match" <c>
4 Apr 1972 "MIT Tiddlywinkers Return as World Champs" ++<c>
6 Mar 1973 Letter by News Office Director in file of press releases <h>
24 Jan 1975 "Tiddledy, winken and nod": photo with caption

MIT Observer
(Most are reprints from newspapers)

Jan 1969 3-4 "Squidges and Squops". (Not a reprint)
Mar 1972 4 2 Mar 1972 - Christian Science Monitor <o>
16 Mar 1972 - Cambridge Chronicle <o>
Sep 1972 8 31 Mar 1972 - Los Angeles Times <o>
Feb 1973 5 14 Feb 1973 - Tech Talk <o>
21 8 Apr 1973 - New York Times (date is correct) <o>
Mar 1973 17 12 Feb 1973 - Cornell Sun

MIT Today
(Pamphlet directed at potential students)
[most or all editions]

___ Listing in selective list of student activities <o>

The MIT-Wellesley Review

4 Apr 1979 4 "Winkers are Thinkers" <o>

The Tech
(Student newspaper; see also The Daily Reamer; fielded a team in 1962)

12 Feb 1960 1 "Oxford Seeks Tiddlywinks Match"/"M I T to Form Team"  
14 Nov 1962 13 "Will SLUTS meet GUTS At Harvard?"/"Tiddlywinkers Ask Smith President" by Toby Zidle
20 Nov 1962 2 "MUTS Lose 7-14 to Simmons/In New Tech Intercollegiate Sport" by Toby Zidle ("Associate Tiddlywink Editor")
28 Nov 1962 2 Passing reference in article by Toby Zidle, "New Sport Organized At Vassar"/"Girls' Answer to President's Call"
12 Dec 1962 2 "SLUTS Bomb TNTs 27-15; Rematch Scheduled" by Richard S. Russell ("Assistant to the Associate Tiddlywinks Editor"); photo by Richard Grabowski
6 Feb 1963 1 "Committee Announces WW Ticket Deadline, Entertainers, Program" with reference to "a demonstration match of tiddlywinks, Tech Newspaper Tiddlywinkers vs. Senior House Order of Tiddlywinks Shooters".  
27 Oct 1965 23 "Around the Cage" column with account of letter from Charles McLeod of Waterloo to MIT Public Relations Office
21 Feb 1967 13 "Cornell defeats squidgers in second annual contest"/"Harvard third". Photo
17 Mar 1967 10 "Record 2-0/Tiddlywinks team smashes visiting Columbia 90-36"
10 Oct 1967 5 "Tiddlywinks" - letter by Ferd (Peter Wulkan)
4 Nov 1967 16 "How They Did" listing of results with MIT 3rd in No. American Championship  
7 Nov 1967 16 "Squidgers second in US, edged by Cornell in finals" <z>
25 Feb 1969 1, 9 "MIT wins Continental Tiddlywinks Tournament"/"Tech cops tiddlywink crown for Continental championship"
25 Feb 1972 6 "Why are campus media on the decline?". Reference to NATwA
12 Photo by Dan Dern
3 Mar 1972 7 "Tech takes big winks tilt" by Peter Rubinstein <n>
21 Mar 1972 12 "Winks squad England bound" by Fred Shapiro <n>
21 Apr 1972 8 "Open House 1972". Photo of Larry Kahn and Sue Shrut <n>
25 Apr 1972 7 "MIT's world champions" by Fred Shapiro. Photo by S. Hollinger ++<n>
5 May 1972 1 "Clubs to Lose Recognition" by Robert Elkin (but not MITTwA!)  
16 May 1972 11 "Finboard allocates $32K" with Tiddlywinks Association listing  
31 Oct 1972 11 "MIT to sponsor Class-Day regatta" by David I. Katz, with minor reference  
10 Nov 1972 2 "Finboard: where the bread is" with Tiddlywinks Club reference  
9 Feb 1973 8 "Tiddlywinks title on the line at Cornell" <o>
16 Feb 1973 8 "Winkers retain title, sweep Nationals". Photo by Daniel Dern <o>
1 May 1973 4 (Kaleidoscope supplement) "Kaleidoscope Activities"; passing reference  
8 May 1973 1 "Finboard sets new budget"/"Breakdown of Activity Funding" - listing of Tiddlywinks Assoc.
18 Sep 1973 4 "Editorial" referring to "the Tiddlywinks Club"  
26 Feb 1974 4 "Tiddlywinkers are upset/Place Second and Fourth" by Dave Lockwood <o>
19 Apr 1974 9 Photo and listing
10 "Kaleidoscope" notes
2 Aug 1974 8 "Sports at MIT? You'd better believe it!!!"
8 "Get extracurricular" by Forrest Krutter <o>
6 Sep 1974 8 (UA section) "The UA News"  
24 Feb 1976 8 "Tiddlywinks 2nd in Tournament" by Martin Ross and Joe Sachs <o>
30 Jul 1976 16, 15 "Sports: the year in review"/"Olympics to tiddlywinks: a sports recap" <o>
29 Apr 1977 10 "Kaleidoscope Weekend" with tiddlywinks demonstration listing  
2 Dec 1977 1 From Boston Phoenix"In the News"/"Excerpts": quote from Charles Frankston  
2 Mar 1978 11 "Winkers skilled at Beanpotting" by Josef Sachs <on>
26 Feb 1980 12, 1 "Tiddlywinks places second in North American tourney" by Fred Shapiro <on>
9 Nov 1982 4 "ASA Action is unjustified"/"Editorial" with listing of Tiddlywinks Assoc.  
28 Feb 1984 13 Photo (by Jim Butler) of Arye Gittelman and Larry Kahn competing against Charles Frankston and Joe Sachs in a World Pairs Championship  
11 Sep 1987 3 "Student Activity Announcements" with listing of Tiddlywinks Association  

(Kaleidoscope listings—1 May 1973 pages 4, 3; 30 Apr 1976 page 4; 29 Apr 1977 page 10)

Tech Talk
(Administration newspaper)

22 Mar 1972 2 "MIT, Southampton Vie for Tiddlywinks Title". Photo by Margo Foote <n>
5 Apr 1972 1, 3 "Winkers Take World Title in British Tourney"/"Winksmen Take World Championship". Photo by Margo Foote ++<on>
14 Feb 1973 3 "Winkers Tops For 2nd Year" (in Feb 1973 MIT Observer) <o>
13 Feb 1974 3 Photo of Dave Lockwood and TDI (Saul Agranoff) <o>
27 Nov 1974 10 "Tiddlywinks match set" (World Singles notice) <t>
29 Jan 1975 3 "Tiddledy, Winken and Nod"—photo of Joe Sachs and Rich Steidle <o>
21 May 1975 6 "Event of Special Interest" <o>
8 Brief <o>
25 Feb 1976 2 "Tiddlywinkers Place Second" <on>
6 Dec 1978 7 "Tiddlywinkers Take Third Place" <o>
16 Jan 1980 10 "The 1970s: A Decade of Change for the Institute"; March 1972 and April 1972 <on>

(Numerous meeting and tournament announcements in Club Notes)

Technique
(Yearbook)

1963 45 Mention in text
1968 145 2 photos
383 Names
1969 380 Names
1972 Contents "Winks"
130-133 5 photos ++
1973 128 1 photo <o>
1974 108 1 photo <o>
147 Names <o>
1976 70 Names <o>
1977 91 Names <o>
1978 234 2 photos
246 Names
1979 198 1 photo
200 Names

(Files may have photos; photos also in collections of Daniel Dern and Jim Koschella.)

Technology Review
(Magazine; class notes (A, B, and MIT sections] only in alumni edition)

Feb 1963 44 "Tiddlywink History" <c>
Jan 1968 82 Cartoon on "Kane on M.I.T." page
Mar 1969 90 "Squapping Across the Rubicon". Photo <c>
Jun 1972 81 "International Tiddlywinks"
Jul/Aug 1972 97 Open House photo
Jun 1977 B16 Tim Schiller in class notes
Oct 1978 B23 Dave Lockwood in Class of '75
Mar/Apr 1979 B22 Fred Shapiro in Class of '74
B23 "Why Tiddlywinks? Because It Was There"
Nov 1979 B15 Dave Lockwood in Class of '74 <o>
A19 Photo of Activities Midway, in background
May 1980 A19 "Tiddlywinks Popping Again" (abridged from The Tech, 26 Feb 1980) <o>
Aug/Sep 1980 B22 Dave Lockwood in Class of '75 <o>
Oct 1981 B16 Rick Tucker in Class of '80 <o>
Feb/Mar 1988 MIT29 Larry Kahn in Class of '75 <o>

(Booklet of reprints from Technology Review sent to alumni)

Jan 1980 31 Activities Midway photo from Nov 1979 Technology Review
May 1980 A19

(Same as Technology Review May 1980)

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Thursday
(MIT student newspaper)

11 Feb 1971 3 "Winkers Depart For Canada" by Paul Mailman <n>
Mar 1972 Unpublished article by Fred Shapiro
30 Nov 1978 7 Letter by Fred Shapiro <on>

Undergraduate Residence
(Sent to incoming freshmen)

1970/71 20 "MacGregor House"

 

 

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