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[Chet Ramey]

On 3/3/23 4:26 PM, John Cowan wrote:
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> On Fri, Mar 3, 2023 at 2:25 PM Chet Ramey <chet.ramey at case.edu 
> <mailto:chet.ramey at case.edu>> wrote:
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>     A former CWRU president (very soon after the merger) used to tell freshmen
>     the same thing during his annual address to the incoming class.
> 
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> 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 at case.edu    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/