Now that the NCAA has announced the Men's hoops team will play in the Tampa Bay area on Good Friday, alumni may be interested to know that the University will make available limited tickets at a discount rate, reputedly at $66, one third the price of $198 (six games are in the package, and regularly priced tickets are available through "stpetetimesforum.com"). Good to hear the powers that be want some leather lungs down in St. Pete.
Please E-mail Sarah Creekmore at "sarah.creekmore@vanderbilt.edu" or call (615) 322-2799. Dores will play the Siena Saints of the Metro Athletic Confererence on Friday, and are in the same pod w/ Clemson, Villanova and other solid teams.
The women's hoops team, also ranked all season, will find out their pairing on Monday night.
Sunday, March 16, 2008
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Kissam4
http://www.musiccitybloggers.com/2008/03/06/comeback-shan-foster-grants-vandy-fans-a-miracle/
Here is a nice blog from a guy who saw Shan Foster score the 42 last night.
Here is a nice blog from a guy who saw Shan Foster score the 42 last night.
Kissam4
Welcome to our thirtieth Reunion blog, titled Seventyeightcount, based on inducing our class to get more people to return to campus in October for the reunion events. I prefer to remain anonymous at this point, other than to note my freshman year floor.
With this name I feel compelled to honor both my dorm and the Kissam Quadrangle, scheduled to be demolished soon with the creation of the Freshman Commons on the old Peabody campus.
The name "Kissam" has been part of the Vandy campus for more than a century, but may be gone for a while with the quad's demolition. Old Kissam Hall, the huge dorm built in 1901 and demolished in 1958, had been located where Towers I and II and McGill Hall are now located. The Quad was named after the family of William Vanderbilt's mother, Maria Louisa Kissam Vanderbilt.
Former Chancellor Gordon Gee wanted to create a freshman residence hall community similar to some of the Ivy League campuses, so the old system of throwing us all together in dorms regardless of academic interest has been replaced, with this concluding school year the last of the old regime.
When Kissam Quad was built in 1957, the housing was supposed to be temporary, but that collection of single rooms, scalding showers, and terrazzo floors has inspired more than fifty freshman classes.
You could not knock the single rooms with strong AC, telephones, and good visual access to the exterior, but living next to a stairwell was a real pain, because those doors slamming could wake up the dead. The only carpeting was in the hallway, but that just encouraged us to start up bull sessions at night, where we could all lounge on the floor in comfort.
Think about how many people from across the country met each other in those dorms the first few days of orientation, where one learned that Huntsville, Alabama was a cosmopolitan NASA city, while Huntsville, Texas was the site of the main Texas Penitentiary and death house.
A New Jersey native on our floor convinced a Cuban guy who had grown up in Orlando that grits grew on trees, and an Arkansan surprised the guys from Wisconsin, Jersey, and Pennsylvania with his ability to absorb marijuana into his system at all hours. You could not go to the water fountain next to his room without breathing the hemp of Asia Minor. This guy had a boisterous three word greeting for everyone which I can't repeat here, but he added flavor to us.
On our floor as on all floors, many people encountered religious, national, social and racial integration either for the first time or at a different level than before. Even though we had our spats about politics, religiion, and who found who difficult, most of us got along well enough to still want to see each other every five years, and let's hope we can get as many of us back as possible, from Kissam Quad, Branscomb Quad, and the Nashvillians in town.
Think how many volumes of Faulkner novels, poetry anthologies, calculus textbooks, and modern languages have been consumed by the quad's 30,000 residents over the past five decades.
Think how many R.A.'s were driven to the edge of sanity by their charges, such as the first year law student who had us in '74-'75.
Think how many Kissam Quad guys realized their freshman year why Southern women were never conquered the way their men were during 1865.
Consider the collective gastronomic catastrophes incurred by the Quad's students, who had the "opportunity" to intake Taco Tico, Tex Ritters's Crawlin' Critters, Bojangles, I-Hop, Pizza Inn, Ciraco's, Ireland's, Pizza Hut, Wendy's and heaven knows what else from the Sputnik Launch in October 1957 through the present.
Of course, the Quad's location made for quick visits to the Bluegrass Inn, Station Inn, Friday's, Wind and the Willows, and the above establishments which served alcholic beverages, enabling many a student to arrive D.O.A. ("drunk on arrival") with minimial interference from distance, expense (nickel Beer Night at Speakeasy Arcade meant a guy could sail to the wind effectively for fifty cents or less), but with the echo of quality bluegrass and country music ringing in his ears.
Because the Tennessee Historical Commission has placed signs along West End Avenue near the quad honoring former Governor Austin Peay's residence near the Vanderbilt Plaza Hotel, and Commodore Vanderbilt's founding of the University across the way, we hereby request our classmates to suggest other historical signs which can be placed around Kissam Quad, once the old homestead is demolished. These signs can honor individuals, events or places of great interest.
Rumor has it that a statue of Joe Aneskievich A&S '78 will be sculpted where Mims lounge was located, because Joe seemed to be a permanent occupant of that area where women first resided in that long ago school year of 1974-75. Someone will have to memorialize the rivalry which characterized the men who lived in Reinke and Currey Halls.
No doubt, the person who picked Mims to be the spot for gender integration had a sense of humor, because Professor Edwin Mims was a New South business establishment type who was jealous of the Fugitives and Agrarians and their intellectual distinction, and he would have seen a women's dorm on the men's freshman Quad as a catastrophe.
The blog welcomes all comments, criticisms, and perhaps even a few libels from the Class of '78. Feel free to sign on, comment, complain and wax poetical.
Speaking of the latter, someone has got to submit verse for the game Vandy's swingman (and probable SEC Player of the Year) Shan Foster had against Mississippi State last night. He hit nine straight three pointers in the second half, most with his team down a few points, and won the game with a three pointer with 2.7 seconds left in overtime and the Dores down two points to a team capable of making the Final Four.
Of course, I learned all this through online radio, because no one bothered to televise the classic game, the last of the season at storied Memorial Gym. On to Atlanta for the SEC tourney for the 25-5 Dores, after a visit to Tuscaloosa, and your blogger is planning to be there, perhaps cribbing someone's laptop for dispatches, but mainly to beat the northern cold. Take care.
With this name I feel compelled to honor both my dorm and the Kissam Quadrangle, scheduled to be demolished soon with the creation of the Freshman Commons on the old Peabody campus.
The name "Kissam" has been part of the Vandy campus for more than a century, but may be gone for a while with the quad's demolition. Old Kissam Hall, the huge dorm built in 1901 and demolished in 1958, had been located where Towers I and II and McGill Hall are now located. The Quad was named after the family of William Vanderbilt's mother, Maria Louisa Kissam Vanderbilt.
Former Chancellor Gordon Gee wanted to create a freshman residence hall community similar to some of the Ivy League campuses, so the old system of throwing us all together in dorms regardless of academic interest has been replaced, with this concluding school year the last of the old regime.
When Kissam Quad was built in 1957, the housing was supposed to be temporary, but that collection of single rooms, scalding showers, and terrazzo floors has inspired more than fifty freshman classes.
You could not knock the single rooms with strong AC, telephones, and good visual access to the exterior, but living next to a stairwell was a real pain, because those doors slamming could wake up the dead. The only carpeting was in the hallway, but that just encouraged us to start up bull sessions at night, where we could all lounge on the floor in comfort.
Think about how many people from across the country met each other in those dorms the first few days of orientation, where one learned that Huntsville, Alabama was a cosmopolitan NASA city, while Huntsville, Texas was the site of the main Texas Penitentiary and death house.
A New Jersey native on our floor convinced a Cuban guy who had grown up in Orlando that grits grew on trees, and an Arkansan surprised the guys from Wisconsin, Jersey, and Pennsylvania with his ability to absorb marijuana into his system at all hours. You could not go to the water fountain next to his room without breathing the hemp of Asia Minor. This guy had a boisterous three word greeting for everyone which I can't repeat here, but he added flavor to us.
On our floor as on all floors, many people encountered religious, national, social and racial integration either for the first time or at a different level than before. Even though we had our spats about politics, religiion, and who found who difficult, most of us got along well enough to still want to see each other every five years, and let's hope we can get as many of us back as possible, from Kissam Quad, Branscomb Quad, and the Nashvillians in town.
Think how many volumes of Faulkner novels, poetry anthologies, calculus textbooks, and modern languages have been consumed by the quad's 30,000 residents over the past five decades.
Think how many R.A.'s were driven to the edge of sanity by their charges, such as the first year law student who had us in '74-'75.
Think how many Kissam Quad guys realized their freshman year why Southern women were never conquered the way their men were during 1865.
Consider the collective gastronomic catastrophes incurred by the Quad's students, who had the "opportunity" to intake Taco Tico, Tex Ritters's Crawlin' Critters, Bojangles, I-Hop, Pizza Inn, Ciraco's, Ireland's, Pizza Hut, Wendy's and heaven knows what else from the Sputnik Launch in October 1957 through the present.
Of course, the Quad's location made for quick visits to the Bluegrass Inn, Station Inn, Friday's, Wind and the Willows, and the above establishments which served alcholic beverages, enabling many a student to arrive D.O.A. ("drunk on arrival") with minimial interference from distance, expense (nickel Beer Night at Speakeasy Arcade meant a guy could sail to the wind effectively for fifty cents or less), but with the echo of quality bluegrass and country music ringing in his ears.
Because the Tennessee Historical Commission has placed signs along West End Avenue near the quad honoring former Governor Austin Peay's residence near the Vanderbilt Plaza Hotel, and Commodore Vanderbilt's founding of the University across the way, we hereby request our classmates to suggest other historical signs which can be placed around Kissam Quad, once the old homestead is demolished. These signs can honor individuals, events or places of great interest.
Rumor has it that a statue of Joe Aneskievich A&S '78 will be sculpted where Mims lounge was located, because Joe seemed to be a permanent occupant of that area where women first resided in that long ago school year of 1974-75. Someone will have to memorialize the rivalry which characterized the men who lived in Reinke and Currey Halls.
No doubt, the person who picked Mims to be the spot for gender integration had a sense of humor, because Professor Edwin Mims was a New South business establishment type who was jealous of the Fugitives and Agrarians and their intellectual distinction, and he would have seen a women's dorm on the men's freshman Quad as a catastrophe.
The blog welcomes all comments, criticisms, and perhaps even a few libels from the Class of '78. Feel free to sign on, comment, complain and wax poetical.
Speaking of the latter, someone has got to submit verse for the game Vandy's swingman (and probable SEC Player of the Year) Shan Foster had against Mississippi State last night. He hit nine straight three pointers in the second half, most with his team down a few points, and won the game with a three pointer with 2.7 seconds left in overtime and the Dores down two points to a team capable of making the Final Four.
Of course, I learned all this through online radio, because no one bothered to televise the classic game, the last of the season at storied Memorial Gym. On to Atlanta for the SEC tourney for the 25-5 Dores, after a visit to Tuscaloosa, and your blogger is planning to be there, perhaps cribbing someone's laptop for dispatches, but mainly to beat the northern cold. Take care.
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