File This One Under ‘Before They Were Famous’….

Michener would go on to write many more best-selling novels and several of his books were turned into award-winning movies, musicals, and TV mini-series’.

In fact, Michener’s book mentioned in the announcement above, Tales of the South Pacific was the basis of the Rogers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific.

In Recognition of Today’s Weather….

Students used to take some of the serving trays from the Student Center cafeteria and use them as sleds when it snowed. In this picture from the late 1970’s or early 1980’s a group of female students have linked themselves together to sled down Cherry Street hill.

Group of students sledding on cafeteria trays near the Cherry St. Residence Hall.