The Chet Terra Memorial Page

In Mexico this summer, I met a Stanford graduate in Mexico who had lived in Terra house for three years. She vaguely remembered the name "Chet Terra" from an old framed photograph that's still survived on the kitchen wall, but she had no idea that there had ever been a mural. She had never seen Chet's checked coat nor his trademark button. Perhaps most tragic of all, she had never seen his ecstatic face as he forced an entire turkey leg into his mouth.

This memorial exists to educate and inspire the children of a Chetless age.

Let's Eat as it appeared in Terra House in January 1989 Click on any panel to see a larger version that shows the brush strokes and food stains.

	May Chet rest in peace.

Chet and his pals once adorned the curved wall that separated Terra's kitchen from its dining room. They were wiped out by the paint rollers of a new generation of Terrans who held a higher standard for art, but if they hadn't done the dirty deed, the Let's Eat gang would still have been wiped out, since the very wall they occupied was destined for destruction a few short years later. Chet will be indeed be missed. "Boy, I'll say."

Thankfully, the generations of Terrans that followed fought to protect those murals that still grace Terra's walls. (The Stanford Daily stories on the subject seem to have been removed from the web - sorry!)

--Steve Whitney, Terra resident 1986-1989.

Chet may be gone, but the tradition of Terra murals continues! Lilly Irani, recent Terra resident, sent this picture of the Ramen Mural.

Please send me any links to Terra-related photos or material on the web and I'll add them to this page.

Last updated February 14, 2005 .