Heather Corbett Etchevers ’92

I loved my varied classwork but the “in-between” times were where I learned most about and from the College itself. Chilly check-ins to Galen’s Financial Aid office or to attend an afternoon tea in a little-known (to me) dorm. Flirting over Internet Relay Chat to the excitement over e-mail getting to Colorado via TELNET. Not-warm-enough gloves & trying not to slip on the way to Chamber Music Society rehearsals with Isabelle Plaster in Jewett. The glacial topography from McAfee to the swimming pool. Spring mornings during breaks headed to Clapp with lances of sprouting daffodils prefacing later rhododendritic splendor in the Hollow. Summer internships washing glass pipettes and passing cells in Bev Blazar’s immunology lab or developing electron micrographs of lobster olfactory bulbs in the darkroom with Barb Beltz. Leaving and returning to campus, to country, iterations that mark time and the spot of home I shed there.