Ed, was it Milner, Legget, or Bolton? Those were the ancient dorms that had
the weird entrance, with three doors and you had to pick the right one for the
right stairs? I think they called those air well dorms, because the had a open
air shaft in the middle
Those have all been gutted, and rebuilt as offices, as far as I know
Dean
On Mar 14, 2021, at 11:14 PM, Edward Retta
<eretta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Yup, dammit I had a ceiling fan in my north gate dorm room summer of 75. No
AC! Open window, cold shower, hop into top bunk at nite. That fan looked as
old as the dorm itself.
I don't remember the name of the dorm, but it was across from the little,
on-campus post office at north gate. Close to Sbisa. Each floor had 4 rooms,
2 suites that shared a bathroom. So 8 guys per floor, 2 bathrooms. My
roommate was a Chinese grad student...
I also remember old ceiling fans in the old church I grew up in, that also
had steel rings embedded in the curbs, for tying up horses. So definitely
before 1980s.
I didn't think Dorm 11 was open during the summer of 75. Anyway, I preferred
north gate because it was co-ed. Who remembers that blond girl who wore a t
shirt that said, "camel jocks do it better?" Remember those 4 "fish" CTs from
Iran, I think our junior year? They were like grown men, older than us.
Edward Retta
On Mar 14, 2021 13:42, Kyle Braswell <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I was there the summer of 75 too - Right across the street from the Chicken.
That spoiled me. It was a long way on foot to the Chicken from dorm 11, and
an even longer way back!
Buzz
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On Mar 14, 2021, at 12:44 PM, Michael Brown <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
The 1880s
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On Sunday, March 14, 2021, 11:48:19 AM CDT, David Pointon
<david.pointon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I don’t think ceiling fans were invented until the 80s
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On Mar 14, 2021, at 11:47, DANNY POPHIN <danpophin@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Summer of 75, I don't remember any stinking ceiling fan in my north gate dorm
room.
Dan
From: fighting_texas_aggie_band_class_of_1977-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<fighting_texas_aggie_band_class_of_1977-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of
David Pointon <david.pointon@xxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: [fighting_texas_aggie_band_class_of_1977] Re: Scholarship, moving
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Ceiling fan?
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On Mar 14, 2021, at 10:39, Edward Retta
<eretta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Spildo,
I spent one summer session at TAMU. I remember paying about $45 bucks total
to stay in a non air-conditioned dorm at north gate. It was hot. I would take
a cold shower and hop in the top bunk under the ceiling fan, still wet, to
sleep cool.
Edward Retta
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On Mar 13, 2021 22:32, Robert Spiller <rspiller@xxxxxxx> wrote:
I think I still have all those bills for room, board and tuition and Mom's
house. Seems like the first one was around $700 and the last one around
$850. The tuition was $4/hour, but the fees went up a lot while we were
there.
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<fighting_texas_aggie_band_class_of_1977-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of
Edward Retta <eretta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: [fighting_texas_aggie_band_class_of_1977] Re: Scholarship, moving
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I found a receipt for my last semester, fall of 77, under $300 bucks, I lived
off campus.
As a comparison, the last year of my youngest daughter’s undergrad at
Brandeis U. in Boston, 2014-15, was $56K.
Not including airfares… All my daughters’ graduate degrees were on them!
TAMU is still a bargain!
And TAMU education enabled me to live this life. And no college debts. God
bless TAMU!
Queso
On Mar 9, 2021, at 10:02 PM, Stephen Sublett <ssublett77@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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On Tue, Mar 9, 2021, 10:00 PM Michael Brown <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Yeah, college inflation rates are higher than overall inflation. I seem to
recall a semester of tuition, room, and board, was a total of around $800?
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On Mar 9, 2021, at 8:59 PM, Stephen Sublett <ssublett77@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dean,
Inflation, tuition was $4 per credit hour in 1975. It's now 125 times that.
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