Memories tagged “Ferris Booth”

Adversaries, Old and New In 1964, I was a staff announcer at WKCR and was assigned to do the halftime newscast at the Columbia-Princeton basketball game. For some reason, I could not do the newscast from the WKCR studios in...

Columbia College 1965

Carman 3 “Campus Side” Having visited campus twice before entering the College, I was quite ready to move into Carman for the complete co-ed experience. When I got my room assignment for 304B Carman, I was disappointed with the low...

Columbia College 1988

FBeeOtch My freshman year, 1995/96, I began deejaying at WKCR the last year that the radio studio was located in Ferris Booth Hall. I did one of the overnight time slots, and the hour from three until four am was...

Columbia College 1999

Finding Furnald During my first year at Columbia, my home was 929 Livingston, a double with a view across the John Jay airshaft. If you got really close to the window and moved over to one side, you could see...

Columbia College 1965

My “Artsy” Experience In my 7 years at Columbia, my “artsy” experience both on and off campus was significant. On campus, I had a memorable classes in art history, music and in Shakespeare. I also took a class in textile...

Graduate School of Business 1974, Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science 1971

My Favorite Campus My favorite times to hang out on the Columbia campus were in the summers. From the times when the South Field was slippery with the dew of the humid mornings to the times when the night sky...

Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science 1978

Never Mess with a Football Player In my Sophomore year, I was assigned to Ferris Booth Hall. My next door neighbor was a member of the football team and quite large. Ferris Booth was still being renovated, and there were...

Columbia College 1962

Oddly Collegial In the fall of 1986 I somewhat reluctantly entered the School of Library Service. In the five years since graduating college, I had considered law, theater, journalism, wildlife ecology and clown school. I’d worked in libraries through college...

School of Library Service 1987

Taps Columbia was probably more interesting than other university campuses musically not just because it was in the middle of a thriving musical marketplace but because musical things happened so serendipitously and had such unexpectedly pleasant consequences. As a freshman,...

Columbia College 1967

We Did Have Music! When I started Columbia in 1965, there was an abundance of local musical talent, both on and off campus. Folk stuff had been popular and “The Walkers” were the hottest rock band in Ferris Booth Hall....

College of Physicians and Surgeons 1973, Columbia College 1969