Where Did You Live?

Memories throughout the year.

Here are some of the highlights based on your comments in the Zoom sessions and other inputs.

  • Freshman year living in the University Halls: sterile cider block rooms
  • Sophomore year living in the sorority house.
  • Living in a house on the lake Senior year.

Share your memories of Cornell

2 responses to “Where Did You Live?”

  1. Martha Coultrap Avatar
    Martha Coultrap

    During our Freshman year, women were housed in Dickson 5 and 6, Balch Hall, Risley, and Mary Donlon. There were no other dorms on North Campus or for women.

    I lived on the second floor of Dickson V, in a single converted to a double. There were four of us in three rooms: two singles converted to a double and one room with four desks. Serendipitously, one of the four of us moved out second semester so the remaining three of us had a single room. On our corridor were the Dorm President and her roommate, our Resident Adviser and Assistant Resident Adviser, and several singles and doubles. Only the president and our RA had phones; we had a single phone for our floor (around the corner from our room and in a small room (no chair); I don’t recall if there was a door on the room. As a consequence, communication with parents was sporadic – and access to the phone had to be shared with the rest of the floor’s residents. Mail was the alternative.

    I lived in my sorority house in Sophomore year and was back in Dickson 5 for the first half of Junior year, moving back into the Sorority House when I became president in January upon the marriage of the then president. I stayed in the house for Senior year. There was a common phone in the phonebooths in the second- and the third-floor halls; as an officer, I did have a phone in our room; however, long distance calls were expensive so there were few calls home, and we relied on mail to communicate with parents and friends.

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  2. Lowell L Youngquist Avatar
    Lowell L Youngquist

    Freshman year, I lived on the first floor of University Hall #5. Eating most of my meals at Noyes Cafeteria in the center of the University Halls and Willard Straight Ivy Room and Cafeteria

    Sophomore thru Senior Year joined Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity (525 Stewart Ave – West of University Hall #5 and ate most of my meals at the Fraternity, with occasional breakfasts at the Ivy Room and dinners in college town on Saturday nights since Fraternity food service was closed on Saturday to give cook a day off.

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