4 Mar
2023
4 Mar
'23
6:23 a.m.
On 3/3/23 4:26 PM, John Cowan wrote:
On Fri, Mar 3, 2023 at 2:25 PM Chet Ramey <chet.ramey(a)case.edu
<mailto:chet.ramey@case.edu>> wrote:
A former CWRU president (very soon after the merger) used to tell freshmen
the same thing during his annual address to the incoming class.
I remember being told that when I arrived at Case in 1976; sure enough,
within a year I was the one who had departed.
That's Louis Toepfer. Also famous for the other line he was fond of:
"Learning is suffering."
Two other things I remember from that speech were that
Michelson was a
Casie and Morley was a Reservie,
Quite true. That distinction was more important back then, closer to the
merger. There were still "Casies" and "Reservies" when I went, but
the
subsequent administrations have done a lot of work to unify the campus.
and that (as the campus was completely
covered with mud at the time), we were never to trust
100-year flood
estimates in the United States, as there was not enough evidence to go on,
and that in fact that was the third 100-year flood in Cleveland in the last
16 years.
Doan Creek (buried and yet) still floods from time to time, most recently a
few years ago. It flooded the basement and parking garage of the building
where I work.
--
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet(a)case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/