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4 The College of New Jersey Magazine TALK UP TIME WARP Special thanks to artist Mari Kanstad Johnsen for drawing me and my fellow Travers gang at the Crystal Diner (Up Front, Fall 2019). So cool. All of us are now between 47 and 50 years old but this has quickly taken us back in time like it was yesterday. DAWN MARTINO CURTIS '93 HI FIVES Thanks for a nice job with the magazine. I retired in 2000, and at my age, it is great to see the news of students and courses. I love it and I miss it. ANN MELBY SHENKLE, professor of special education emerita I always love reading about TCNJ and its students. Thanks for all you do! JILLIAN MORANVAN BIERVLIET '15 I have been reading TCNJ Magazine since the 1970s. The Fall 2019 edition was, by far, the most interesting and readable. Kudos to those responsible. I look forward to the next issue. LINDA S. FINKLE, professor of education, retired 1 FALL 2019 UP F R O N T FACING PAGE: MARI KANSTAD JOHNSEN. THIS PAGE: KATHRYN RATHKE How did you burn the midnight oil at TCNJ? Alumni share their most memorable late-night stories — from being pulled from bed by blaring fire alarms to cramming for a final project to just hanging with roommates. French-fried nights "Travers-Wolfe had SEVENTEEN late-night, false fire alarms in one semester (thanks, drunk alarm pullers!). We'd flow outside into the freezing cold and wait for all rooms to be checked, which could take more than an hour. We soon learned to grab money and car keys and, in pajamas and bed-head, we'd drive to the Crystal Diner* where we'd huddle together in a booth and share one order of gravy fries and ask for waters 'all around.' The tab for about eight people was probably $4." —DAWN MARTINO CURTIS '93 This is what they had to say … WANT TO PLAY ALONG? Check out the back cover to see the question for the next issue, then send your story to magazine@tcnj.edu. "Four of us living on the third floor of New Res would play Rummy 500 until the wee hours of the morning. We never needed a reason to pick up a deck of cards." —HEATHER FEHN '94 "My only true all-nighter was in the AIMM art studio the night before my last-ever college class. A crew of us who started TCNJ together spent the night finishing our final paintings. We watched movies, ordered pizza, and had the absolute best time." —COLLEEN FORD '11 "My housemates and I spent nights bowling at Slocums with $25 of our music selections on the jukebox. We'd come home and watch Remember the Titans almost religiously. " —JAKE NESTERUK '17 *The diner became the Route 1 Diner in 2014. OUR STUDENTS ARE STARS Let me commend the features on several students: Amaly ElMenshawy, Michelle Parkhurst, and Taylor Nolan (Fall 2019). You really make these young people come alive. DANIEL CROFTS, professor of history emeritus Who was your favorite BEST. PROF. EVER. Teaching duo Amaly ElMenshawy and Michelle Parkhurst I'm totally flattered. Amaly and Michelle were a dynamic duo, and their senses of humor and passion towards teaching are what I fell in love with ("Getting schooled," Fall 2019). Thanks for letting me know about my women. I'm so proud of them! JUDITH WINOGRON '74, adjunct professor of education ARE YOU SURE ABOUT THAT VERB? I was pleased when my stepson informed us that he would attend The College of New Jersey, but after reading "The remains of 500 Colonial citizens have been temporarily rehomed on campus thanks to a pair of snap- to-it professors" ("Close to the Bone," Fall 2019), I am concerned that the young man you return to us in four years will be much dumber than the boy we brought there in August. JOSEPH STEINBOCK Editor's note: Duly noted, Joseph Steinbock. "Rehome" is often used for finding a new home for pets that have lost one, but it is also used in discussions about the adoption of children. It is the latter usage we intended.

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