Memories tagged “Hartley”

A Civilian Freshman in Hartley Hall (June 1944) Graduating high school in early June 1944, I entered Columbia College to begin my freshman year the 2nd week of June. We freshman were on the fourth floor of the dorm, and...

Columbia College 1949

Armageddon In early September, 1952, I arrived on campus as a sophomore, a transfer from the University of Oklahoma. It was my first visit to New York. It was the Saturday before the Monday that Orientation of New Students would...

Columbia College 1955

Best Sports Event Seen Actually, this was an event heard and not seen. The momentous occasion when Columbia College’s soccer team made it to the finals of the NCAA championships in my final year at CC. It was a game...

Columbia College 1986

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

Freshman Year 1968 We formed a terrific group of friends in Hartley Hall in 1968, a time when we slept on bunk beds, doors had to be open when a girl was in the room, and the hallway floors were...

Columbia College 1972, Graduate School of Business 1976

Hartley Hall 1958 This is the beautiful room of Andy Kubishen and Frank Zmorzenski. It was only like this for the picture (to show our parents). We were roommates for sophomore and junior years. There were a few problems with...

Columbia College 1960

I Remember I remember blasting David Bowie and Aerosmith to get pumped up before a wrestling meet. I remember the sounds of James Taylor and Jorma Kokonen during those intimate moments at Hartley Hall, and the beat of NYC’s own...

Columbia College 1979

Livingston Hall Freshman year I opted for the cheapest room I could find, which as I recall was $190/semester. It was a double with bunk beds in Livingston Hall. At left is a picture of the room with my roommate....

College of Physicians and Surgeons 1973, Columbia College 1969

Opera in Hartley Hall My sophomore Arts Humanities professor described van Gogh as “passion nearly out of control.” I took that line to bed with me in my Hartley dorm and had the following dream: I’m on the stage of...

Columbia College 1961

Roar Lion Roar Beyond question, my favorite day/night at Columbia was Saturday January 18, 1964. I was a member of legendary coach Jack Rohan’s first recruiting class and after playing freshmen basketball I moved up to the varsity as a...

Columbia College 1965

Sex and the Switchboard I lived in John Jay and Hartley when I was attending Columbia. In those days, there were telephones in the hall on each floor of the dorms, and they were connected to the outside world through...

Columbia College 1956

So THAT’S What Life Is About! I came to Columbia largely sheltered from the real world, with little experience other than sitting on a stoop with my friends or immersing myself in books. As a freshman, I was assigned to...

Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science 1956, Columbia College 1954

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

Thank You Ford Hall I was ecstatic when I was accepted into the Fall 1985 class of Arts Administration students studying for MFA degrees in the School of the Arts. The only problem–no on campus housing available for students who...

School of the Arts 1988

The Gate During the spring of my sophomore year I moved into a room on the 2nd floor of Hartley, a forced exile from my beloved McBain that I did not take too well. I took it even less well...

Columbia College 1996

The Great Mudslide One late night during the spring of 1975, right in the middle of final exams, a substantial spring shower turned a section of the quad used for touch football and frisbee into a field of mud. Such...

Graduate School of Business 1978, Columbia College 1976

Water in the Dorm At the beginning of February 1958, the start of my second semester at Columbia, a bed became available in a 3-bed attic room on the 10th floor of Hartley and I bid adieu to my hour...

Columbia College 1961

Where the Heck Is It? I was the first boy in my family to go to college since my great-grandparents emigrated to this country – something that may have been true for more than a few of my classmates, I...

Columbia College 1956