College of William and Mary - Colonial Echo Yearbook (Williamsburg, VA)

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be overcome, I had to keep going. Now I feel good about my situation. I'm going on now - no emo- tional scars or anything. I know I can sink as low as possible and rise above it. Al lhe Red CFOSS lable. Inn Brtihalsei signs lot treiln slips at Ilasees Ilepai tinent Stole Q: Sffziffrczl.stzzdwits and nirozy lam!l1zn1'1ii'wfs rontributfd clothes and otlzw'1n'r1f'fi't.y for AiWl1lI'IYlIlN1'.u Sinn the fizwflgf' William 1111fl,lIf1m' ,stizulwif fmzim frmn 'ZlfJf1l'I'77ZIdlHf' elllS.SffllIIIIIl'.S, lime rlifl bffing the 1'erij1ii'1it of flmizifiom nirilcryoiz feel? Anouslzx W'hiIe buying clothes at Casey's Ithe Red Cross had giyen students two hundred dollar credits at the storey I was really eonseious ot' spend- ing other peoples money. My parents used to do- nate a lot of stuff to Goodwill. and now I'm at the receiving end. Definitely an odd feeling. Mark: Actually I was home with tnono at the time so I didn't lose too many clothes. In fact. my mother packed a lot ofclothes for my Iriends. I rememher there was that Ilouresfent pink piece . . . .IIf1riin.' When the Red Cross gave us the slips lor Casey's I thought I would Ieaye mine lor someone who needed it more. 'Ihen I realized that I was one ofthose people who really needed it. I mean. illikzz' My whole impression lttls heen strange. When I realized that we all may nex ei' lix e ti igethei again, I thought olmy friends and how I wanted In stay with them. I declined an apartment at Ising and Queen to stay with my hallmates at Clonnnon- wealth Inn. .llurtlim I didn't really think ahont the Iatt that it would he closed Ioreyer: I dwelled on the material losses and my Iriends' rooms hurning. 'Iihree days later we all learned that we would hat e Io he per- manently relocated. I was terrilied ol heing split up from my friends. KClf,IvX'.'hIllSI one lingeringthought: I still wanted to Iiye there. .Kslheliirespreadilnoigl 'ln ,wit iialil I-it 'Iseli ' I I' I l Q. II'l11fr1'y'n11 fuinirl our fllllf-lI'ffl'I'NIIH zeniilrl nlmmiyfx be f'Ios1'fIfrn'11l lmst the nw! of Ihr wziiwylwr, :elml any 'win' lilllfllll run lion? john: When I saw my room go up in Ilames. some friends and I went to Ilampton to stay with nn parents. A shower and something to VIII seemed real appealing at the time. When we drox e hai Is and saw the dorm the next day. I knew that it was really gone - a realization that was hard Io grasp when it was actually happening. ,YVXI YI'll7', XVI!! XIII! lflrlrisf Ili IVHIII Ifrlrff itll rfllfffffw ' .Inn11sl1.'Iie.iIIx wanttolwelwatlsontainpnslwe-.Inst enxnonnn-ntalli it s .i lot nnei. like ni the Itnlie Ikrulllstrl dorms in the moi ning Ilenig with pei 'plf nan realli help ion get going lot tlasst s. ,Ilf11I.'.' I tant XMIII In get li.nk on onnpns I ieillx iheiish cloi in lile now. liolig Ilelilntelx, Uni lieie time ls nasleil lu'i.iIlst youl1.iyetogolm.nkatnl loiilisonni-li X-leg: if 0'

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I N T E R V I E W The people who wanted to be left alone 0 xltlgillllll On Th zirsday, jan nary 20 at 1:15 a.m., Andy Kahl ulled the alarm. Two hours later, students in small zuddles stood outside as thiek layers of ire grew on trees and sidewalks. During the night and throughout the next day, Flat Hat reporters, idewater eameramen, Riehmond Tinzes-Dispateh representatiifes, and eozintless photographers swarmed the latest citadel ofsensationalism:jeferson Hall and its former residents. The smoke died down, and so did the attention. Within a week, students stopped gawking at the rabble. Reporters turned to new events. The surge oflofal business Contributions and stzident elothes donations tapered off H owezier, one fart remained, and will remain, in the lives ofl 83 freshmen and resident assistants: their first home at William and Mary, and most of their personal lielongin s, were gone. Allowing time or umm to settle, I visited room 304 of The Commonwealth Inn. Sitting on thefloor, beds. and ehairs and having a few beers and tootsie rolls, Mark Constantine, Bob Coghill. M arty C ross, Nlartha Droge, j oh n J ones, Anoiish Kevorkian, Mike Raiiseh, and Kathy S iiehenshi talked about what reloration and adaptation meant to them. It was two weeks after the fi re. Q: What were your emotions that night, when you learned that the dorm eould not be sazfed ow do they eompare with yozirfeelings now? Kathy: That night all I could keep thinking was that I had to finish reading this book for an I 1:00 class. I really had my mind set on going to classes. When I realized that I had to start worrying about clothes and insurance forms, I began to get a grip of the situation. Martha: At 4:00 a.m. I watched outside a window of Chandler as the roof of jefferson went up in fIames. When I thought this was really a big thing. In a way I guess I felt detached. When I saw Mark's room o, it hit me. I guess because it was a physical thingt at I knew would never be there again. Now I'm a little disoriented. The sadness is gone, but I don't really feel at home yet. Alirhael: My roommate and I had the first rooms to go. I fuess I took it rather matter-of-factly when I hearcl' the chainsaw and saw the water hoses through what used to be my window. My loft. stereo, and books were gone: it was a simple matter. But now. l feel the lossimore. for both me and my friends. The irreplaceable things hurt alot. john: That night it wasgiust something that had to

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I C C1 N T. 1 QS 1111:1'11111s II111111111111:1'1'111ll1 11111 1'11111f1111'1' 111111 I.'11111'g1' 11l1ll.NIIl.Q'? .'l111111y11: It's colder because klellerson had a per- sonality that wasn't generic. lt's really hard now to see some ot' the people you want to see. It sounds weird. but I really miss the guys down the hall blast- ing their stereos. I also miss the stereos blaring out- side windows as I went to class. .lI1111f.' I hate it. The only good tlnng about it is that most of tny friends are here with me. 131111: 'Iihe bad part is the location. We are far from campus and such conyeniences as the Wig and the bookstore. And the traffic noises out here on Rich- mond Road are unbearable. .l1l1I'f'Y.' There is no place to go in between classes. I used to like taking naps between classes and now I haye to hang out in klefferson Lounge tilampus Centerj. Plus, there is little hot water out here: the hotel only has a 300 gallon water heater. O: ll'1111l11'11y t111' 11111' 11I1IlIQ y'1111 111.yl 111111 y'1111 1111.y,y i I111' 11111xt? KI1f1I'X'.' The room. We really had a comfortable roompjust to talk in. I was fortunate enough to get my guitar out. l111111.' My sketch book. It was a semester's worth of drawings that youyjust can't redraw, you know? .lI11f1'.' Nly library books that matched n1y field of study- History - and the antique book case they were in. A lot of the books are out of print. I also miss the hat that my grandfather used to wear tiny mother hated it1: he used to wear it when he came to yisit. .'l11U11N,1.' I.isa Ilylton, my roommate who now liyes at Kappa. I don't know. it's just not the same now in the morning when we used to wake up and haye to lace classes. .ll111l1.' A term paper from high school. I had sent it in H111 magazine lorpublication. 'I'heydidn't print it. but were quite encouraging lor me to continue work on it. I guess like.lohn's sketch book, youyjust 111111 rc-do it, lgllflf Old notes and papers. .-X lot olixeroxes would l11'Kalltal1le lortny stlltlies now. lIf11t111: l.ittlc tlnngs. like photographs. Izspetlally im sttto lg11ttIlt1l I hiistmts Ihc night l lnst , ,. , .. 1 , ., . A 1 . 1 1l.lXt'll it was tltc night ol the lire. lhe lirst albutnl if-.ntl from l1uran lluran. melted on the turntable. .h 9 hXl.l!.IllIlt' 1 Vw .JV 1' v' ..!-I F- 'f-4' I 4,1 '43 4 I .. I J. A x fl Ji I 41. I gi,,' ,I 5.34 --V 3 . 8 1 .Q .. A . . 1 ' 11 .1 . . v ,l'. Nattalie Brown and seeing-eye dog, l..lllt e, spend the night in Iiarret .ls llteu old tesitlente buins. Q: Ax Il 11111111 117111. 111111 11s I1 gr1111j1 11f f741l'III1.y, 1111 -y'1111 ff'l'1 1'111.y1'1' 1111z1'? ,II111'r111: lt's harder to keep in contact now with sotne people since tlns hotel has such long halls. You're really lucky il' you stayed close to the people you wanted to. 131111: I guess people will be together if they really want to be. especially alter they haye been through sotnething like this. .l11lI1f.'f1IlI'l12lll is gone 12nd Westlz we are diyided up all oyer campus. But now. I am closer to some of my friends. A lot closer than I eyer thought I would be.