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September 07, 2005
Memories from Barbara Reid
Remember the old Rarig with those beat up multi-colored vinyl cubes? They really made the pit a pit! And the matching red, yellow and blue block lettering outside the theaters? One o’clock classes in the blue arena – so soothing you had to fight to keep people from napping after lunch. I never knew Scott Hall, so took Rarig for granted. We always used the fact that we had four great spaces as recruiting information for prospective students. They were and are impressive. In spring it always felt so good to get classes out of the greyness of the building and outdoors whenever we could. Remember Bob Moulton’s May Days? Faculty offices across the street in Middlebrook – those 5th floor spaces now occupied by faculty and T.A.s were off limits for the department for a long time. Gino has done her best to protect our Rarig, with her annual “care and feeding” speech, and her countless e-mails if we got too careless. Lance warmed the building up a lot when he started hanging banners to give a new sense of liveliness to the space, put down carpet, and took away the vinyl sleeping pods. Ah, Rarig, forever ugly, forever imposing, much grey concrete, much life inside that concrete, many memories.
— Barbara Reid
Posted by utheatre at September 7, 2005 10:06 PM | Faculty Memories