Elizabeth Sheridan Rammer, '84

Main Hall Green always evokes the same feeling-the feeling of being home. As I walk down one of the intersecting sidewalks, I admire the overhead canopy. My eyes take in the beauty and the wisdom the old elm trees hold. They have watched over me, my classmates, and so many others during the past 150 years. As the branches and leaves murmur with a gentle breeze, a half-remembered tune stirs in my heart. My thoughts turn to wonderful memories of my four years at Lawrence, and I begin to hum. A smile spreads across my face as it occurs to me that I am humming the tune we sang once a year at our class dinners. How fitting it is that I can only remember the refrain: "And the elms on the campus murmured softly, Lawrence is our dear old home."

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