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The above quote is from Heidi Werntz\u00a0(Class of 1983). Read the full memory below:<\/p>\n
Dear thoughtful historians and Rock 50th birthday party organizers, thank you so much for the opportunity to share these memories:<\/p>\n
J.F.K., Jr. (the George Clooney of Brown in the early 1980s) used to study in the Rock sometimes. Once, in passing in the lobby, when he was on his way in and I was on my way out of the Rock, he happened to notice and compliment me on an antique Chinese blue kingfisher feather pin I was wearing that day. It took me by surprise and I beamed in reply. Whenever I have an important meeting, I wear that pin, which has lost most of its feathers by now but is still a nice shape (it had \u201cgood bones,\u201d as an art object), and I am instantly transported to Brown and the Rock and my twenties and the possibilities that can develop from a single positive encounter.<\/p>\n
My first job after graduation was helping catalogue the East Asian Collection in the Rock. Deep in the center of the library, on the third-floor, surrounded by a metal cage, like a rare exotic bird, was a wonderland of print materials from Asia. I marveled at the beautiful paper, novel binding techniques and well-crafted fabric boxes that enshrined the exquisite materials. My last day of work that summer, I suffered a strange attack: my right side went numb, and I was somehow able to signal the woman I worked for to call for help. I thought I was having a heart attack. When my parents arrived from DC to take me home, they were told that I\u2019d been carried out of the Rock on a stretcher! Well, it turned out to be just a panic attack, the only one I\u2019ve ever had in my life, and to this day I\u2019m sure it was brought on by a \u201cbroken heart\u201d\u2014I really didn\u2019t want to leave Brown or my oasis in the Rock!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The above quote is from Heidi Werntz\u00a0(Class of 1983). Read the full memory below: Dear thoughtful historians and Rock 50th birthday party organizers, thank you so much for the opportunity to share these memories: J.F.K., Jr. (the George Clooney of Brown in the early 1980s) used to study in the Rock sometimes. Once, in passing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rock-memories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}