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Don Quixote · 12-13-2007, 04:49 PM

Hi, Pam. I go back a bit farther than you do with my UConn connections. I was a basketball fan 'way in the days of Toby Kimball, Wes Bialasuknia and the like, when the father of a friend of mine took me to the field house for a couple of games. Who knows; I might have been your teacher (I was a T.A. in Spanish in the late 70s and early 80s) if you studied there during those years. I saw them build the new library (and then have to make such extensive repairs on it that they almost had to close it, it was so poorly designed), the new co-op, the new science and business buildings, the new sports arena--everything except a new humanities builiding (Arjona Hall still looks the same). I guess we know where the money is! I still go back occasionally to do some research at the library (it's been a couple of years since my last visit, but I'll probably be back this winter at some point), but every time I go I marvel at how much the campus has changed--it certainly doesn't look like it was plopped down in the middle of some cow pasture like when I was younger.

Nice to share some memories.
DQ

12-13-2007, 04:49 PM	#6
Don Quixote Senior Member Join Date: May 2004 Location: Springfield, MA 01109 Posts: 309	Re: 5 Canadian UCONN Football Players Hi, Pam. I go back a bit farther than you do with my UConn connections. I was a basketball fan 'way in the days of Toby Kimball, Wes Bialasuknia and the like, when the father of a friend of mine took me to the field house for a couple of games. Who knows; I might have been your teacher (I was a T.A. in Spanish in the late 70s and early 80s) if you studied there during those years. I saw them build the new library (and then have to make such extensive repairs on it that they almost had to close it, it was so poorly designed), the new co-op, the new science and business buildings, the new sports arena--everything except a new humanities builiding (Arjona Hall still looks the same). I guess we know where the money is! I still go back occasionally to do some research at the library (it's been a couple of years since my last visit, but I'll probably be back this winter at some point), but every time I go I marvel at how much the campus has changed--it certainly doesn't look like it was plopped down in the middle of some cow pasture like when I was younger. Nice to share some memories. DQ