{"id":1045,"date":"2019-03-25T09:36:56","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T13:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/?p=1045"},"modified":"2019-03-26T22:43:37","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T02:43:37","slug":"a-legacy-of-sweat-bricks-and-mortar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/issues\/spring-2019\/a-legacy-of-sweat-bricks-and-mortar\/","title":{"rendered":"A Legacy of Sweat, Bricks, and Mortar"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"Heathman
Heathman Hall, 1969<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

It was the famous summer of \u201969, and my junior year at Rhody was history. Now it was time to get my summer job lined up.<\/p>\n

I had worked as a construction laborer for the previous two summers in the Providence area, but in May, my fraternity brother, Dave Destefano, told me they needed help building some new dorms on campus that summer. Four friends were going to be living down the line and they had room for one more. How could I pass on this adventure?<\/p>\n

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\"Norm
Norm Scholer and his daughter, Katie.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

I was used to hard work, but I was assigned to assist the brick layers, lugging their bricks and stirring their mortar. Not easy duty but I got a terrific tan, became very strong, and was making more money than my father. The rooms of that dorm became like my day home. When I punched out at 5, the “down-the-line” party atmosphere of Narragansett kicked in. The summer of ’69 was a wonderful time for me. I don’t recall if I even knew what that dorm would be named, and I really wasn’t concerned.<\/p>\n

Thirty years later my daughter Katie was accepted at Rhody and was assigned a dorm room. I drove down and brought her some of her clothes. As I looked around the building, it started to look familiar. Turns out I had lugged nearly every brick that was used to construct that section of Heathman Hall!<\/p>\n

Some students leave a legacy of sports accomplishments or financial donations after college. My legacy was sweat, bricks, and mortar. That will have to do!<\/p>\n

Go Rhody!<\/p>\n

Norm Schoeler ’70<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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