WHEN I WAS 19

 

Suitemate Nancy, roommate Diane, suitemate Judy or it might have been Jane 1963

At 19 and 20 years old I was a student at James Madison U. in Harrisonburg, VA. At that time it was a woman's college of education. Now it is a coed public university. I selected to attend there as my best friend from high school, Nancy, was a student there.  We were suitemates that year -- which means we had rooms adjoining through a shared bathroom. 

We had family style meals in the dining building. Apparently that October we had a table decoration contest which our table won.  Then my friend Nancy, and another friend, Connie Bell decided to go trick or treating.  I was all for it as I did not spend money buying snacks in the campus "tea room." We dressed as college students with our plaid Madras pleated skirts and weejun loafers. As I recall some Nuns invited us in for gingerbread and hot cider.  I couldn't find any reference to that in the letter I wrote home that year.  Here is an excerpt.

Trick or treating 1963

What were you like when you were 19?

I Corinthians 13:11  When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways.