Watching TV shows and Cowboys football all together in the TV room at Brachman.

KENNETH KEMP

Living in a first-floor room close to the front porch of Colby, we could watch girls returning with dates from the window of our darkened room. And, of course, the dorm mom, Mrs. DePlata, and her elderly poodle.

DEBBI ALEXANDER SCHNEIDER ’79

When one of the girls above our room in Colby stood on her sink and broke it. The pipes flooded the rooms below hers.

ERIN KERNS SMITH ’03

Watching Princess Diana’s funeral in fall 1997 in the Colby Hall living room with almost the entire dorm of girls crying.

JILL JOHNSON RUSSELL ’01

My senior year, I was an RA (1971-72). I decided to stay and get my master’s degree in education. TCU Residence Life had decided to experiment with using graduate students as hall directors. Myself and two other women were hired for those positions. Because it was such a change for TCU, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram wrote an article about us! I was the director of Jarvis Hall and affectionately called “Mom.” It was a life-changing experience. It shaped many things to come in my life. Not only did I earn invaluable experience managing my own RA staff, but the friendships that grew out of it lasted for many years. I went on to another position at Western Kentucky University as a director of a high-rise dorm and then to Wake Forest University as director of women’s dorms.

KAREN SMITH CROWE ’72 (MEd ’74)

Courtesy of Brian Love

“Dressing up” for dorm meetings at Brachman Hall.

BRIAN LOVE ’80

“You have been assigned to Pete Wright Dormitory. It is still warm in August and September, so we suggest you bring a fan.” This was my introduction to “Pete’s Palace” in 1969. It was the worst dorm on campus, but it became our haven. We would flood the halls with soapy water and have broom hockey games. We’d climb out the windows to get into other people’s rooms. We hung mannequins from the third-floor window and had regular BB gun fights with the other floors. The ROTC assembled next to our dorm, so we regularly played anti-war music while they marched (it was the time). It was a great year.

PAUL JONES ’73

Cat living in the room next to us … other side of that same room was the RA.

MICHAEL O’MALLEY ’96

The missing handle for the hot water in the shower on the second floor at Colby in 1980. If you know, you know.

DENA SMITH ’84

Remembering with sadness when JFK was killed during preparations for homecoming. Everything stopped and we all assembled in our Colby Hall Alpha Gamma Delta chapter room in stunned silence watching history being made on TV.

JOAN HALLFORD ’64

Record Relays.

TYE GUNN ’05

Colby Halloween.

MELISSA SCUDERI ’03

I lived in Jarvis from my sophomore year through my senior year, staying up all night to be first in line to get my front corner room on the third floor next to Reed. Probably the most memorable experience was hearing girls running up and down the hall screaming late one winter night. When I went to see what the emergency was, it was freshman girls from Florida who’d never seen snow before. Lucy Doran, her boyfriend and I went out and made a snow duck. It was supposed to be a snowman, but the second ball rolled forward and got a bit smushed like a duck’s bill, so we went with it.

So many good memories of the third-floor study nook (until it was canceled by a humorless dorm director), where I wrote papers from midnight to 5 a.m., then said hello/ goodbye to my favorite roommate, Linda, who was on the way out the door to her red-eye student nursing shift as I went to bed. Good times!

HEATHER LYNNE WHITE ’89

My boyfriend and his frat brothers built us a loft. We were the only ones in Sherley who had a loft and a nasty couch I found on the side of the road.

MINETTE SATTERWHITE ’87

Watching my freshman friends on the baseball team having to sing the TCU fight song at all the female dorms.

CHRISTINE SCHROEDER ’85

Courtesy of David Williams

Had a jazz trio that performed weekly on Monday evenings in Brachman Hall. We had a blast!

DAVID WILLIAMS ’92

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