Remember When

Our freshmen year we saw the Vanderbilt and Peaody College for teacher merge July 1, 1979, Ted Kennedy speak at Imapct, the students coming together to save Old Science Hall, KA's "Old Soouth " days bring ctroversy to campus, the building of the new Vanderbilt Hospital, Blair school of Music, a new outdoor track, and Dudley field renovations; concerts by the Allman Brothers, carla Bonhoff, Ray Charles, Dixie Dregss, and the Nashville Jazz Machine. Our sophomore year we saw the merger with Blair School, Owen ground breaking, basketball suspensions, $50K of long distance charged to VU by students with the new northern Telecom phone system; football players moved from Carmichael East to the Holiday Inn when the air conditioning went out, visits by President Carter, Eudora Welty, Hugh Kenner, Wendall Berry, Vincent Price, George Bush, and Eugene McCarthy, the reelection of Reagan, Time Magazine devoting its "Americana"section to Vanderbilt, the Agrarians, and the symposium, the Homecoming PIg Chase on Alumni Lawn, concerts by Dizzy Gillespie, Elvis Costello, Eddie Money, and the Nashville Symphony, a $10 million renovation of Dudley Field, and a move into the new hosptial in a single weekend. Our Junior year saw McTyeire become an International House for American and International students, the revelation that Vandy students paid 25% to 33% more than wholesale for textbooks, Professor Elizabeth Langland's last year due to denied tenure and the ensuing lawsuit charging VU with sexual discrimination, many undergrads tuned into General Hospital,Sandra Day O'Connor becoming the first woman on the U.S. Supreme Court, the first black alumni reunion with 100 returning alums, the retirement of Chancellor Heard and appointment of Chancellor Wyatt, a letter bomb in the Computer Science department, undergrads wearing Izod, Tretorns, and Ralph Lauren, visits by Ralph Nader and Gary Hart, and concerts by Emmy Lou Harris and U2. Our Senior Year saw beautification projects at Kirland, Old Science, and Old Central, women on the second floor of McGill Dorm, VANDERBILT FOOTBALL BEATING TENNESSEE AND A WINNING FOOTBALL SEASON, the opening of the Arts Dorm and Confederate Hall, Concerts by the Talking Heads, Return to Forever, and REM, camping out at Alumni Hall to sign up for campus interviews, and speakers Coretta Scott King, John Cappalletti, F. Lee Bailey, and Charlton Heston. (Thanks to the alumni office for going through the yearbook and getting this list together!)