Memories tagged “Furnald Hall”

Arriving Early In the fall of 1956, a fellow student and I arrived at Colubmai as the first two students to attend engineering school on the Combined Plan from Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas. Neither of us had been out...

Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science 1958

Fluffy Little Clouds . . . So I’m living in Furnald Hall during my sophomore through senior years (which was a feat in itself, since everyone seemed to want the large rooms in Furnald!) between 1989-1992, and typically had a...

Columbia College 1992

Freshman Orientation in Furnald Hall Coming from an extremely conservative immigrant family, I was not allowed to live in the dorms my freshman year. My parents claimed that it was an unreasonable expense, given that we lived just across the...

Columbia College 1992

Furnald Fun Who doesn’t have a story about the dorms? I remember trekking up all those flights of stairs in my Columbia boxers to move into Carman 13, the band that practiced down the hall and only seemed to know...

Columbia College 1995

Furnald Hall: The Jewel of Broadway Say what you will about the less-than-sanitary shared kitchen and co-ed bathrooms in Furnald Hall: it was still a jewel to me and a fabulous place to live during junior and senior years. Finally,...

Teachers College 1990, Columbia College 1989

Proust on the Lawn One of my favorite recollections from my freshman year is going out onto the (great) lawn in front of Furnald Hall in late spring (finally warm weather!) with my copy of Proust’s “A la Recherche du...

Columbia College 1971

The Casuals The Casuals were a New Wave band c. 1980 who often performed in the crowded front room of that wacked-out fraternity on 114th St that kept having spectacular drug busts. Band members were all Columbia College undergraduates, though...

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences 1980

This Is a Real Fire, Folks I was head resident of Furnald Hall when I heard this one. In addition to fire drills, in which counselors would herd grumpy Furnald folk out of the building, we would occasionally have real...

Columbia College 1972, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences 1974