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3 WINTER 2021 T C N J M A G A Z I N E VOLUME 25 NO. 2 John P. Donohue David W. Muha Publishers Kara Pothier MAT '08 Editor Kelly Andrews Art director David Pavlak Assistant editor Nina Navazio Editorial intern Kevin Coyne Pete Croatto Alexandra Marvar Jen A. Miller Renée Olson Contributors Bill Cardoni Mike Morgan Peter Murphy Photographers Peter Arkle Fabio Consoli Tim Enthoven Illustrators TCNJ Magazine is published three times per year (fall, winter, and spring) by The College of New Jersey, Division of College Advancement, PO Box 7718, Ewing, NJ 08628-0718. The opinions expressed in these pages are those of the contributing writers and not necessarily those of The College of New Jersey. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to: Office of Alumni Engagement The College of New Jersey PO Box 7718 Ewing, NJ 08628-0718 tcnjmagazine.com Comments from our readers are important to us. Send an email to magazine@tcnj.edu, or write to: Editor, TCNJ Magazine, Office of Communications, PO Box 7718, Ewing, NJ 08628-0718. All comments are subject to editing for clarity and length and must include the name and address of the writer, as well as a phone number for confirmation. MEMORIES THAT STUCK I enjoyed "Looking Back/Mementos" (Fall 2020). One of my scariest memo- ries was signing up for classes in the fall of 1965. We were presented with a huge board listing the available courses. As we filled out our course list, classes were closing. That's how I wound up with 8 a.m., 6 p.m., and Saturday classes as a freshman. I got better at it! LINDA SCHIROS DEANE '69 I have a suggestion for a future Looking Back feature: Pranks played during Greek pledge season are so memorable and would be a very fruitful topic. Keep up the good work, your magazine is so well done! BETTY SCHMITT BUSCH '67 Editor's note: Great idea, Betty! To you and all our alumni readers, please share your pledge pranks and we'll publish them in a future issue. Congrats to Jeanne Pfaff Cappello '66, our Fall 2020 quiz winner. TCNJ MAGAZINE QUIZ Try this open-book quiz — all the answers are in this issue. Though that doesn't mean we won't work you a bit. 1. The athletics department turned TCNJ's basketball court into a warehouse for PPE supplies. ❏ T or ❏ F 2. Dan Bowen says that vaccine skepticism is not new to American politics. ❏ T or ❏ F 3. The Swahili word for sorry is pole. ❏ T or ❏ F I was a writer and columnist for The Signal from 1973–75. I've kept a stack of issues from those years. Notice the men- ingitis outbreak headline. It required large-scale immunization on campus. You might say that for those who were TSC students in this time frame, the upcoming COVID-19 immunizations "ain't our first rodeo." PAUL ASLAKSEN '77 Send your answers to magazine@tcnj.edu by March 31, 2021. Achieve a perfect score and you'll be entered in a drawing to win a TCNJ Magazine "I think of TCNJ periodically" T-shirt.

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