University of Rhode Island - Renaissance / Grist Yearbook (Kingston, RI)

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These were the years that were filled with discoveries, curiousities, disillusion and success — a better notion of who we are. Sometimes lonely, sometimes elated . . . A prelude of independence, a start at testing ideas. Places to learn, debate, act, sing, dance, eat, sleep. New friendships sometimes didn’t last, Old friendships sometimes broke apart . . . We all go on together. Septembers arrived fresh with a new year ahead. Registration got straightened out, schedules rearranged. New friends were made, roommates discovered, housemates settled. Professors introduced. Classes begun. There were the inevitable, un avoidable lines waiting at the bookstore. There was the first paper or exam. The library needed re-exploring. But then, what about a concert, a party, a friday nite movie, or the play that just opened? Or the mushroom? “How are the Rams doing?”