The above quote is from John Leistritz (Class of 1965). Read the full memory below:

I worked in the bindery at the John Hay Library, summers as well as during the school year, while I attended Brown. I watched as the wood frame building that housed the English department was razed and a huge hole was dug in its place. While I departed from Brown before the Rock was finished, I remember realizing what stupendous undertaking it was, dwarfing the John Hay, the only Brown library I had known.