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Elizabeth Searle graduated class of 1988. She\u00a0teaches Fiction and Scriptwriting at Stonecoast MFA program (University of Southern Maine) and is the author of four books of fiction and several works of theater. She shared the following memory of the Rock:<\/p>\n
I remember clearly\u2014it is as vivid as the gold color of her hair\u2014coming upon Amy Carter, daughter of former president Jimmy Carter, in the cavelike bowels of the Rock. \u00a0I loved the intense quiet and sense of many minds concentrating that always filled the Rock, especially in its latest hours and lowest levels. \u00a0I also loved the dim cavelike lighting and the handy snack machines. \u00a0I spent many happily trancelike hours ‘wandering the stacks’ and pacing the lower levels of the Rock with my notebook at hand. \u00a0This was in pre-iPhone, pre-laptop days. \u00a0I remember how my advisor, the late great John Hawkes, was suspicious of computers. \u00a0He seemed to blame the entire computer revolution on his fellow fiction faculty luminary, Robert Coover, who carried a computer around with him, much to Hawkes’ horror. \u00a0But most of us lowly students wrote on paper back then. \u00a0So, alas, I had no cellphone in hand when\u2014amidst a late-night pacing session at the Rock\u2014I happened to stumble upon the former president’s casually dressed golden-haired daughter, Amy. \u00a0Amy Carter was seated at a table near the ever-popular snack machine, absorbed in quietly reading, looking utterly at home in the late-night deeply silenced Rock atmosphere. \u00a0I stood in the doorway of the snack area, staring, unseen. \u00a0Then pretending not to stare as other students slipped in to quietly purchase snacks. \u00a0Amy turned a page. \u00a0I come from a wildly political family and my father was perhaps one of President Jimmy Carter’s biggest fans. \u00a0I thought of telling Amy Carter this, but did not want break her own magical stone-deep lowest-level Rock concentration. \u00a0Amy did not raise her eyes but her skin had a rosy glow and her face a contented calm. \u00a0Just as well that I had no cellphone, as I might have been tempted to steal a quick shot. \u00a0As it was, I took a long look instead, then stole away.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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