Day 132, "Every picture(s) has a story"
It was Saturday, March 6, 1966. The storm had abated and what was left was how to get out and about. Pretty much any adult at the time can, today, tell you a story of what they did during the days of the storm.
for me
I was a freshman at NDSU and on Sunday, February 27th, I was going from Reed Hall to the dining room to the library. Finals were lurking the coming week. I had an ROTC final which I knew would be a breeze. The English would be a paper for sure so that was difficult to study for. The math and science were the ones that had me worried. I had squeaked by the first quarter but I was confident that this time things would be better. My math was on Thursday and science on Friday. I had hoped they would be early in the week as I had plans to visit Mom and Dad after finals.
Monday and Tuesday were uneventful as it was study and more study. Then Tuesday night the word came out that a BIG snow storm was coming and word was out that finals may have to be canceled. I woke up Wednesday morning and looked north out of our dorm window. I loudly told Larry, "That car on the street is almost covered!" When I walked to the dining room, which was a short ways, I could hardly stand against the wind. ALL day the storm raged and the more snow that came the wilder the dorm became. By Wednesday morning the news was out, NO final tests and the professors would be grading on weekly class work. The activity in the dorm was WILD. It ranged from Steve who begin selling some of his clothes for beer money to Dave who went room to room inviting guys to allow Jesus into their heart! Freshmen boys--I think Steve got more business than Dave! I decided that there was NO need to study so I would get some work study hours of work in at Churchhill hall. By this time, Thursday, the snow had almost stopped and the wind was down a bit. As I walked to work I actually walked over several parked cars as the snow had covered them up to the roof. I had hopes of improving my grades with my final tests but of course that did not happen. When grades came out the following week I was happy. I had improved from quarter 1 BUT "for sure" there was no honor roll in sight! A side note is I did pay Steve $5 for a sweater! Not sure how much beer he could buy with that!
Yesterday I had the first of my 3 tennis league matches for the week. It was the 70+ league. Charlie and I played together for the third time and yes, for the third time came out the winners. First set was 6-3 and then in the second set we fell behind 2-4 but came on to win 7-5. The winning shot was a lop by Charlie over their heads. As we greeted each other after the match one of them said he thought he could get to the lob but he just ran out of gas. It was hot and humid. Our court 3 also won but court 1 lost. Still, as a team, we won the match.
Today it is my team at home against the league leaders. I am playing court 2 with Rich who has memory issues. I have not played with him this season in league so it should be interesting. Maybe we can win 1 OR 2 as a team. I think my court 1 has a chance to win and court 3?? We will see. We were concerned about rain but it looks like a sunny day and we play at 10:30 when the temp is supposed to be 76--ideal.
Enough for today. I am on my last cup of FP and then I will wander over to the courts to talk to the Pro. I need to know if I have to clean the lines or if he will have someone else to that before our match. There will be play right up until match time.
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