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Guilford College - Quaker Yearbook (Greensboro, NC)

 - Class of 1977

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Page 12 text:

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Saturdays away from TV sports and Sundays after church are good times to work on pubhcations at Guilford College. New Garden Hall usually is pretty quiet. Concentration is easier, and if an article turns out really well, in your humble opinion, it ' s worth it to the old ego to know you have perservered when you could have been playing tennis or watching the Dallas Cowboys. So it was on the weekend of November 27-28. 1976. At 4 o ' clock on the afternoon of the 28th tlie account of Mary Men- denhall Hobbs and Mary Hobbs Hall was finished. The cover story ready for the typesetter. A good feeling. Checking it to make sure dates were correct. 1 chuckled again over the way Dorothy Gilbert Lloyd Thorne had described the curling iron fire in Mary Hobbs. Less than 24 hours later-between 10 and 10:30 a.m. on Monday. November 29-the heart stoppmg, stomach-churning call came. Mary Hobbs is on fire! The phone rang again before I could grab a camera. A friend on the newspaper wanted fire details as soon as possible. The weatlier had seemed mild earlier that day but now the wind was from the north and felt off the snowstorms of upstate New York. As 1 ran past Duke Memorial and the Library, I could barely see for all the smoke being blown my way. Circhng around toward the Urban Center, whose right side faces the rear of Mary Hobbs, the view was perfect-if frightening. Gray smoke was pouring from the eaves with obvious force, hke steam escaping from the rim of a pressure cooker with a stuck valve. It blanketed tJie campus toward Friendly Road and spread into the shopping MARY HOBBS IS ON FIRE! by Dave Owens area. Inside the Urban Center 1 used a secretary ' s phone to call the newspaper and inadvertently broke the news about the fire to perhaps the only person on campus or within earshot of a radio who didn ' t know it, and she witliin spitting distance of the com-

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