Updates From Alumni and Friends

Send us your news!

history@uwrf.edu

E-mail your memories!

hist-phil.memories@uwrf.edu

Consider sharing your fond memories of:

  • Phi Alpha Theta

  • History Club

  • History/Philosophy faculty or courses

We would be most grateful!


Oct. 30, 2009

From David Peterson (Class of 1980)

I went on the [History Club's Haunted UWRF] tour last night and I thought the students did an excellent job. What a great idea!  Wish I had thought of it when I was president of the History Club (1979-1980)…but we were busy waging the Save South Hall battle along with Ed and Ursula.

Please pass my thanks along to the students who organized and ran the tours. If they ever want to hear my own South Hall Ghost stories I’d be glad to share them. The place is definitely haunted.

PS:  . . . the ghost(s) my friends and I experienced were not malevolent. There were a lot of footsteps involved.


July 8, 2009

From Ron Briel (Class of 1972)

Greetings Fellow UW-RF Alumni,

Earlier this summer I took a walk down “memory lane” when I visited UW-RF campus with my family.  This was my first visit to River Falls since I graduated with a Master of Arts Degree in 1972.  As we slowly ambled across campus I played the role of tour guide, attempting to convey how things were when I lived there.  As we proceeded, all kinds of memories from those times entered my mind, from long gone daily routines to specific events to particular persons who shared those times.  “This was my early morning route to Rodli Commons to get breakfast,” I explained as I pointed in an easterly direction from in front of the residence hall where I lived for most of the time I was there.  “This is South Hall where I had most of my classes and where most of my professors had their offices,” I said with a bit of a lump in my throat.  I explained that there are no classes or offices in South Hall anymore, and that it is now preserved as part of the history of the university.  As we walked by there I thought about George, Terry, Steve, Noble, and of course, Ed.  I longed to walk through the front door and say hello, but that door is now closed to such communication forever.  Time and tide wait for no one.  I waited too long!  I thank Susan Voelker for this opportunity to share a few words with you about my visit to this very special place we all love so much.