200 Years of Memories Below are a few of the Mount memories we've received so far. Send us your favorite Mount memory, from a favorite class or professor to the food you liked most (or least) in the dining hall. We reserve the right to edit and reproduce any of the stories submitted. Check back to see what your classmates have sent in! Kirby Lee Maybush, C'08
I am currently taking the adult classes at the Frederick location, working on my BA in Criminal Justice. I will graduate in 2008 (year of the Bicentennial!!!!!!!). My memory is about my father (Robert Allen Maybush). He worked at the Mount during the years of 1942 thru 1944 as a laborer. One day he took me around the Mount and told me about the 1940s on campus. He worked the fields that belonged to the Mount (east). At that time Route 15 wasn't there; no buildings at all across Route 15, the fields actually went right up to Bradley Hall. Everyday at 12 p.m. the workers would go to the south end of Bradley Hall for something to eat; the nuns did all of the cooking with vegatables from the fields that my father worked. My father stayed with a family of another worker of the Mount in a house owned by the Mount on Old Frederick Road. He advised he had never had food like that cooked by the nuns since the 1940s!
Susan Janowiak, C'81
There are so many memories, it's hard to remember them all. The best memories are:
1. The womens' picnics
2. Fathers Delaney and Fives
3. Road trips to Loyola to watch the mens' basketball team
4. Spring break trips to Florida
5. Cheese soup (believe it or not, I liked it)
6. The Rat
7. Living on 2nd MAC with the upper classwomen my freshman year
8. The Greaseband
9. Dances
10. Penn Relays
11. My many friends that I still can call friends
John Jaffee, C'74 After living in the shadow of the Mount since graduation in 1974 until last September [2006], it feels strange to be so distant now in Florida, but our connection and love for the school will never waiver. Belinda and I met at the Mount, and in 2001 when there was an invitation in the Mount Magazine to share a wedding story, I could not resist. The story is attached here.
Peter Roberts, C'70 Saturday morning metaphysics class with Prof. Winnes was the class that changed me the most intellectually – and then I would go to the Cogan Union for powdered sugar donuts and coffee with classmates to discuss phenomenology and being! |
