Photo taken August 6, 2010.

Photo taken early June, 2010.

Photo taken May 24, 2010.

This rock was painted yellow on Friday, March 26, 2010 and lasted as is for several days.  Photo taken March 26,2010.

Photo taken November 17, 2009.

Christy Williams Tichy, OC ’66 writes:  The Bunny rock was done for Easter ’63 by the same students who did the Santa rock: Pat Durham, Susan Lindblom, Sandy Ogg, Christy Tichy, and Ellen Taylor all class of ’66.  We had a great time planning, and completing the rocks. We had had such a good time with “Santa Rock” that we couldn’t  resist “Bunny Rock”.  The bunny fur was made of paper flowers similar to flowers used in parade float decorations.  I don’t recall any painting for the bunny–just paper.  We decorated the rocks for fun, for us and everyone.  I suppose it was graffiti, but we really enjoyed doing it, and the projects brought a small group of freshman from different parts of the country (Missouri, Connecticut, and Montana) closer together.

Thank you very much Christy, for sharing this photo and story.

The Shipherd/Stewart memorial rock was photographed on February 2, 2009.

This is the Class of 1898 monument in 1967 or 1968. Photo from the Oberlin College Archives, Oberlin, Ohio.

Shipherd/Stewart memorial photographed on March 22, 2007.

This photo of Sponge Bob Square Pants on the Shipherd/Stewart memorial was taken and submitted by Paul Morton, associate editor of the Oberlin News-Tribune in April, 2004, for a newspaper feature called “12 months of Rock,” which appeared in January 2005. The newspaper took pictures of the rocks on Tappan Square each month of 2004 and published them in the feature.

Thanks for the photo, Paul.