“SANDwiches...MILK...ORRange!” This ear-splitting, study-stopping cry stands as a nightly monument to the enterprise and ingenuity of dormitory sandwich concessioners [sic] Steve Silverman, Bob Wilson, and Tom Crider.

Every night, between 10 p.m. and the witching hour, a team of sandwich and cold drink vendors visit Barrows, Burton, North, Dascomb, May, and Talcott dormitories.

Silverman, who is chief entrepreneur of the operation, acts as a salesman in the men’s dormitories. Ann Broemmelsiek, Linda Mitchell, Emily Shohan, and Sally Thompson cover the women’s residences. According to Silverman, Miss Mitchell, an Oberlin High School student, is his leading salesman. John Perazich delivers the food to the dormitories.

The sandwiches are made in the Saga kitchen by Wilson and Crider. Jim Wellborn, Saga snack bar manager; Winnie Gould, 62, food market manager; and Jack Wood, Saga head, through whom the foodstuff is ordered, help the concession partners work out any details.

“The only problems we have,” Silverman said, “is when it is zero degrees out, coats are too much trouble to carry, and we would get overheated in the dorm if we wore them.”

The sandwich concession business seems to be quite lucrative. Each partner receives a percentage of the profits, and the salesgirls are paid on a salary basis. The girls earn “about $1.75 or $2 an hour. That is about the best pay on campus,” Silverman pointed out.

The campus sandwich concession came into existence only five years ago. Al Rosen, Dave Eberhardt, and Dave Oliver ran the concession last year, and for three years before that it was headed by Errol Rudman. Rudman financed his college education with his sandwich concession profits.