The First Drug Bust
Walter Hinchman, Former Faculty
One year, back in the late 1960s when Pomfret’s senior prom was held on campus, Phil and Beverly Morton and my wife, Ann, and I were the faculty in charge of everything — food, decorations, and finding housing for dates, as well as chaperoning the dance itself.
On the night of the dance, word came to Phil and me that a student was selling drugs to interested parties from his room. Phil and I decided we must put a stop to this activity and went to the arcades, he through the corridor and I on the driveway outside so that no one and no thing could be put out the open window. When Phil knocked and went inside the room he said to the student, “We have heard that you are selling drugs, what is the story?” There was a pause and the embarrassed student said, “Well, that’s true, let me show you.”
He went to his drawer and pulled out a very large bottle of One A Day vitamins and showed us how he had scraped the lettering off the capsules. He acknowledged that he would give one away and tell the recipient, “If you like the way it makes you feel, I will sell you more at fifty cents apiece.”
We were a bit taken aback and cautioned the student that, although this was probably not illegal, it was not a good venture to be involved in and he should stop immediately. He promised to do so. Thus ended Pomfret’s first drug bust!
