Locker-room intro: the cognomen, the "Halation" answer, ball-squeezing

texture · 3 Nov YDAU, 1640h

• When: Tuesday 3 November YDAU, ~1640h — the post-P.M.-match locker room, Comm.-Ad. Bldg.
• What: Rader's on-page introduction: amid the post-shower crowd, "Graham ('Yard-guard') Rader is checking his underarm for more hair." When Troeltsch's flash-card quiz (material from Disney Leith's History-of-Entertainment/Optics coursework) collides with the chorus of Hal-nicknames — "The Halster," "Halorama," "Halation" — Rader picks up "Halation" and cleanly supplies its textbook definition. In the scene's continuation he is among the six upperclassmen (Hal, Stice, Troeltsch, Struck, Rader, Beak) rhythmically squeezing tennis balls with their racquet-hands per Academy mandate. This is also the scene carrying the "Yardley" top-64 exception line — an unconfirmed possible Rader datum carried in Dating notes, not here.