Last Weekend I was watching the pregame show in the Sweet Sixteen of Basketball. They were interviewing a coach of a team in the championship. This coach who I know is an alumni of the University that I went to told of the fact that at his alma-mater his dormitory was recently demolished. The next day I checked up on this and I was sad to learn that it was the same dorm that I spent a good number of years in.
The rest of the day I was in a fog, because this Passage of Youth to me is the same as if an old friend had passed. It has been a good 13 years since I slept in that building, but the memories do not fade.
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Not only did I,too, sleep in that building, but it was in that fateful facility that Lord Elgarf first encountered his eminence, the Holy Father O'Malley. I am saddened by these events. As you said, it was more than a roof over our heads. I think back on all those nights some asshole pulled the fire alarm and we awoke to the awful siren only to stand in the snow in pajamas!
Many memories.
A moment of silence for the great Campbell Hall where many a David Letterman was watched; Sarah Jessica Parker was telephoned (Thanks to the late Tom Snyder); Frank W. Smith lived with his massive porn collection and; we all huddled together and departed from there to see Star Trek: Generations on opening night in the winter of 1994!!!
Let's also give a smaller but no less significant pause to remember the late Ralston Hall - my former dorm while at Clarion which I have recently found out is no longer there either! I will miss the Pine Trees!
Ralston Hall is still there, but it is not used as a dorm. I do not know what they are currently using it as but I will find out
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