Daily new activities, people, and experiences bombarded the lives of students. Phone bills cast gloom in mailboxes; cafeteria workers enlightened meal times; ghost stories haunted buildings; dorm rooms forced adjustments. Every day students faced something new. However, they adjusted well to the situations and "made the most out of life." Sometimes they looked for entertainment, or for food, or for activities or at the different changes, but however they spent the day, campus life continued. Therefore laughter, tears, even anger sometimes filled the dormitory halls as students lived a campus life. - Sharon Bowles George Oliver - photo by Bill Tripp. Having a good rapport with his students was George Oliver's, Associate Dean of Business, main characteristic. He made all of his students feel like individuals that he truly cared about. He got to know each student and their special interest, then treated them as a special person. Because of this attitude he has for his students, his classes were almost the first to close. Yet the one characteristic to remember about Oliver was that you cannot explain him - you have to experience him. 2 0 Glances at 0 Student Life Ghostly Gertie haunts Godden Hall (Editor's note: This story was first printed November 4, 1950, in The Bison. ) I am told, in hush-hush tones, a story that unfolded years ago in the creaky corners of Godden Hall that plunges my blood to its depths and speeds my pulse rate. The epic, told when Galloway College for Women was in full bloom, centers around a sweet dame named Gertrude. One late November evening, while most of the women were fast asleep, a tragedy struck with a terrifying blow. Gertrude came in from a small party with some friends in town, said goodnight to her date, and climbed the stairs to her room. The white, frilly evening gown she wore swished merrily as she tip-toed down the long corridor. Suddenly she halted - listened for a moment as though she heard a sound - changed her course, and began walking cautiously toward the now abandoned three story elevator shaft. Her long platinum blonde hair rolled across her white neck as she cocked her head to listen again . A blood-curdling scream rippled through the hall arousing the other girls from slumber, and chaos took command of the dorm. One young lady saw a huge, dark form hurdle by her and disappear down the flight of stairs. A hysterical house mother finally found wits enough to call the police and they found Gertrude at the bottom of the elevator shaft - dead! The blow had a devastating effect on the students. And even though she was dead , associates agreed that Gertrude still looked alive. They buried her in her white evening gown. People began to say things about the college; parents withdrew their daughters ; the school began to collapse and in the meantime police found nothing of the supposed killer. Finally the case was dropped under the caption "Accident." Several years later, just before Galloway closed down, a freshman awoke at midnight and stumbled down the hall for a drink. A full moon cut ribbons of light through the walkway. The freshman paused at the elevator shaft and peered through the doors. She stifled a scream and somehow managed to make it back to her room and wake up her roommate. Just before she dropped into a dead silence, she told her roomie, "I could see her in the moonlight, sitting there in a white evening gown, brushing her platinum-blonde hair!" Her buddy mustered enough nerve to go down the hall and look. The chick across the hall, brought out of slumberland by the commotion outside, found freshman number two standing speechless, wide-eyed against the opposite wall. "She - she - walked right through the wall to the first floor," the terrorized freshman gasped. So now the story goes that Gertrude still walks the halls of Galloway on full-moon nights , her frilly white gown rustling as she moves. It is told that she had said to her friends , " I love this place and never intend to leave it - never." But, what are Ghostly Gertie's plans concerning the immediate housing shortage that goes into effect when Godden Hall is wrecked? Will she move to the music building with the supplies or will she move to Patti Cobb? The theory is that she will move with the corner stone of the music building and will walk those halls. So if on a moonlit night you think you see a lady dressed in white, glance again and she's not there - don't worry, it's probably just Gertie making her rounds. - Chris Elliott
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