Crabby Camaraderie

TERPS CLAW INTO A CRAB FEAST on campus in 1983, but that’s all the info we could find about this photo in the university’s archives. Recognize anyone rocking ’80s styles while cracking open shells and cold brews? Do you know what occasion called for the newspaper placemats? Brush off the Old Bay and let us know at terpfeedback@umd.edu, then read the responses in the next issue alongside another snapshot of UMD history.

A few readers shelled out information about the reptilian race featured in the Spring 2026 photo, which they noted was a Terrapin Derby, common during Homecoming festivities of decades past. Drury Bagwell, former assistant vice president of student affairs, recalled spearheading the idea in the 1970s to encourage engagement across student groups. Bernie Bogdan ’79 thought he recognized classmate Miriam Moriarty ’79 in the pictured 1978 event coaxing the competitors fearlessly—albeit slowly—forward.