Marshall Memories…  
by Golda Steorts Langston, Class of 1944

I moved into the new Laidley Hall in the fall of 1937, a bright-eyed young girl of 17 who was eager to learn. I worked in the dorm office to help pay for my room and board. The girls were friendly and I liked my roommate very much.

The members of Pi Kappa Sigma sorority asked me to join them and it was a great group of girls. I excelled in my studies and loved school.

The spring of 1938 brought the great Ohio River flood. Students were allowed to go home for the week but three of us in Laidley Hall (Mary Lou Taylor, Ann Tully and myself) decided to stay in the dorm. We really didn’t have a way to get home. A few boys stayed in Hodges Hall and together we had fun wading ankle deep in and out of the dorm. Some books, records, etc., in the basement of the library received damage but the dining hall remained open.

The college corner and student hangout across the corner from the main entrance was flooded, along with many homes on Third Avenue.

Bill Banks pretended to save Ann Tulley in the boat just outside the dining room, but we had too much dry ground showing in the picture to make it look real. We had fun and all students returned to school four days later.

Golda Langston still roots for the Thundering Herd from Spartanburg, S.C.