The above quote is from Patricia Truman (Class of 1970). Read the full memory below:

1. As a bright-eyed freshman in 1966, I loved going to the Rock. But I sure wasn’t used to such a big building! I came from a small high school in Connecticut with a one-room library! I had a favorite carrel in the third-floor stacks. One night I scurried down a stairwell from the third to the first level and emerged BEHIND the Circulation Desk. The young man working Circulation grinned widely and decided I was pretty goofy to get so lost! Several months later after many study sessions in the second floor study room, the main one adjacent to the break room, he taught me words like “callipygian” (blush) and introduced me to the tunes he loved from Broadway musicals. The day before I graduated in 1970, I married that young man (Don Olowinski ’69)!

2. Driving from Boston to Cranston over the 2013 holidays and feeling pretty overwhelmed by family issues, I decided to cheer myself up by calling the Rock to see if I could visit and work from there. Yes! Even though it was holiday break, the Rock was indeed open! I set up my remote “office” in the second floor study room (now a computer lab!) and did my editor work for my Boise, ID, company for several hours. Very peaceful. Very surreal to be there again. Very wonderful.