From the Archives: Wooster in Winter

New this year, we have added a #TBT to our Facebook page (that’s Throwback Thursday in case you didn’t know - we didn’t have that when most of you went here!). Recently, we shared photos of a snowy campus and asked for your memories to be shared. For those of you who don’t follow us, or read the comments, and in honor of what could be a snowy winter ahead, we are sharing some of the memories that were shared with us.

John Cheeseman '57:

During a bruisingly brisk blizzard in the winter of ‘55, my first year at Wooster. While living in the Farmhouse as a boarder, I remember the “agony” and downright pressure of heating the three-minute bell for breakfast begin its toll – and then trudging mightily through knee-high snow and fighting bitter winds all the way up the hill, from Farmhouse to Coburn BY 7:00am – (and, when the bell stopped ringing, and you were late, Coach Warner would write you a ‘bad slip’ – and I, all-the-while, full-well knowing that getting more than one bad slip would most likely prevent me from joining friends to ride by cab into town on a Friday night to have a piece of pizza – which was a big, “enjoyable” deal way back in those days! (especially if you were a boarding student from a small farm town in distant Illinois) — Cheese ‘57

Jay Young '64:

Andi, Jay and Dee Young long ago - the bees live there now 

Christopher Kirsten:

Winter '43 my dad and two brothers!

Heidi (Dunfer) Harkopf '83: 

My favorite memory is attending the candlelight evening service on Christmas Eve. There were real candles in the chapel windows and a feast afterward in the dining hall put on by George.

Steve Kessler '78: 

Students would use the plastic trays, from the kitchen/dining room, to slide in the snow.

• Julia Lee '83 replied: you beat me to it
• Karen Mohammed '84 replied: behind West dorm!