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A native of Rochester, Minnesota, Mallon began producing television and comedy movies while still in high school, and continued while attending the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Mallon also produced and directed programs for CBS and PBS affiliates WISC-TV and WHA-TV in Madison and made his feature film debut in 1987 with Blood Hook ...
As recounted over the years, two former UW-Madison students, Leon Varjian and Jim Mallon, were running for student government on a platform full of malarkey, designed as satire of the...
Led by Leon Varjian and Jim Mallon, the Pail and Shovel Party used its $80,000 budget for a series of legendary pranks. Varjian and Mallon also brought the Statue of Liberty (replicated using chicken wire, plywood, and papier-mâché) to Lake Mendota and helped organize a boom box parade, with Varjian and his cardinal-clad crew high-stepping ...
On the first day of classes, September 4, 1979, Madison students awoke to find that more than 1,000 pink flamingos covered the University's Bascom Hill. Led by Leon Varjian and James Mallon, the Pail and Shovel party was also responsible for the often-photographed Statue of Liberty replica constructed on the ice of Lake Mendota.
The over-the-top antics you’re remembering were part of the Pail and Shovel, a student government platform masterminded by Jim Mallon ’79 and Leon Varjian. After two terms in office, the two pranksters hovered around the periphery of campus life for a few years, but eventually they went their separate ways.
May 24, 2017 · After being voted into office on the promise of bringing malarkey to UW–Madison, Varjian and Pail & Shovel Party President James Mallon livened up campus with pranks and parties. “They just sort of dreamed up things and did them,” said David Null, director of the University Archives and Record Management.
Sep 30, 2015 · He adopted the Madison Muskies baseball team as a cheerleader, and with Mallon introduced, in falsetto, the talking mice of the “Vern and Evelyn Show.”. Scholarly life never sank to mundane levels with Leon Varjian and Jim Mallon’s Pail & Shovel Party running the show at UW-Madison’s student government.
