Nancy M. Stowe, C'61

About ten o'clock one evening in 1960 I stepped out of the old Carnegie Library after an evening of study, to head back to Colman Hall. I was enchanted with the sight: a gentle snow had begun to fall, and it was one of those lovely, quiet winter evenings. The real enchantment lay, however, in the sense of timelessness I experienced. I had a very vivid sense that I was sharing this moment with my parents forty years earlier. Despite changes to other parts of the campus, everything I could see from the steps of the library was just as it had been then: Main Hall, the observatory, the old gym-all seen through a filmy curtain of lightly falling snow. That moment has become for me a symbol of the connection I feel to Lawrence, one that transcends any one moment, that precedes, and will extend beyond, my own personal existence.

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