Sewanee Stories

Lisa Howick, 1981 Sewanee, TN My son Lee was injured while hiking the Appalachian Trail. He was in rural Vermont, and we knew no one within six hours distance. So ...
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I'll never forget the winter of 1946 there was a good snow covering the campus so several of us got hold of a small sled and were sliding down the ...
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Brim Nancy, 1986 Atlanta, Georgia The Sewanee Women's Soccer Team was a big part of my life at Sewanee. We played in the spring, sharing the same coach as the ...
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A SEWANEE TURNING POINT MY SEWANEE EXPERIENCE By: Alan Babin Class of ‘50 There is no doubt in my mind that an experience at Sewanee was the turning point of ...
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From Stephen G. Alexander, teenage resident and A '58 Cincinnati, OH One summer (in '58 I believe) I worked for Abbo, Abbott Cotton Martin, a professor of English and unofficial ...
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Zachary Goodyear, 2001 Nashville, TN When I was a senior at Sewanee, my father passed away a month before graduation and I wrote this piece as my final paper while ...
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kate wood, 2010 huntsville , alabama Andrew Cotten and I have been in the same class since kindergarten. Our fathers were also in the same first grade class in the ...
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Whit Taylor, 1978 Shoenaich, Germany On behalf of my Husband, Whit Taylor, Class of 1978: This is probably not a traditional Sewanee story. Rather it is a story about the ...
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In the classes of 1951 & 1952, there were no ROTC courses to prepare graduates for the Korean war, so many of us went to Navy OCS at Newport, RI. ...
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I believe I took Dr. Lorenz's astronomy lab in the spring of 1987. He was showing slides this particular evening from a trip to Georgia to witness a total solar ...
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