Colonel Simmons of the United States Army, who was here in the University from 1886 to 1888, appeared at the Old East Building Tuesday and asked to see the room he used to live in. Escorted to it by the matron, Mrs. Harvey Boney, who is in charge during Summer School, he found powder puffs on the bureau, high-heeled slippers peeping out from under the bed, the lace fringes of dainty garments visible through the crack of the closet door.
“Rather different from the room as I knew it,” said the Colonel thoughtfully. Then, looking around in rather dazed fashion, he asked: “Where’s the fireplace?” Of course there wasn’t any, since this crude method of heating has been supplanted by radiators.
He had his 13-year-old son with him. From the Old East Mrs. Boney took them on to the third floor of the New East to see the Phi Society hall. The first door they tried was locked, and they came back downstairs and climbed up at the other end of the building. Here they had better luck and got in. The Colonel circled the big room and looked at the portraits he used to know so well when he was a student. In the course of their hour together, he told Miss Boney many anecdotes of his college life.
From page 1 of the Chapel Hill Weekly, July 3, 1924
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