The above quote is from Robert Dokson (Class of 1966). Read the full memory below:

I was one who could never study in my room, but always at the Library. The Rock opened my junior year, and that was where I almost always studied during my last two years at Brown.

I did have a favorite carrel in the stacks on the second floor.

During the reading period and exam period in first semester junior year (which was 1964–65), my friends and I would gather together on the second floor during study breaks. At first those breaks might have been five–ten minutes after an hour or more of studying, but as the week wore on the study periods got shorter and shorter and the breaks with my group of friends got longer and longer. Finally, my friend Cookie Gold (Pembroke ’67) said “This is ridiculous. If we are going to spend so much time out here, let’s do something constructive. I am going to teach all of you how to play bridge.”

So, the next day, and for days thereafter, Cookie brought cards to the lounge where we all gathered and she taught a group of us who had never played bridge before how to play. I have to admit, without denigrating all the other important things I learned while studying at the Rock, learning bridge was perhaps the thing that has stuck with me the longest and has been the thing I have most enjoyed throughout the next half century. Thanks Cookie.