Stacks of films gathered from Reynolds Coliseum's basement this summer.
(Photograph by Amanda Karst, NC State Student Media)
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Reynolds Coliseum during a game in the 1950s. (Photograph courtesy of Special Collections, NCSU Libraries)
Who needs Midnight Madness when you’ve got the Red Rally? Come out to Reynolds Coliseum Friday night to help the Wolfpack men and women kick off the 2009-10 basketball season.
Doors open at 6 p.m. The NC State volleyball team takes on Wake Forest at 7 p.m., and basketball starts at 9 p.m. There will be short scrimmages by both teams, a dunk contest, a 3-point contest that will include a fan, giveaways and more. NC State Athletics also will collect donations to benefit the NTAF South Atlantic Spinal Cord Injury Fund in honor of former men’s basketball player Brian Keeter ’03. NC State Web Communications published a story on Keeter this week on ncsu.edu.
And don’t forget, you MUST wear red to get in. Go Pack!
If you know any high school students who are interested in NC State, encourage them to come out to NC State’s annual Open House on Saturday, Oct. 17. Information sessions and events go from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. It’s a great opportunity for students to see campus and to learn about what the university has to offer.
There will be multiple admissions information sessions, walking and bus tours of campus, and information sessions for NC State colleges. Dozens of campus units will have information booths at Carmichael Gymnasium and Talley Student Center. And stick around to watch the NC State volleyball team take on Duke at Reynolds Coliseum at 6 p.m.
Visit the Open House Web site to check out the program, see photos of campus, get directions, register and learn more.
(Photograph courtesy of NC State News Services)
Angel Flight members Sandy Rhyne '78 and Rosina Coburn '66 from NC State greet comedian Bob Hope at Raleigh-Durham Airport before his performance at Reynolds Coliseum on April 1, 1966. (Photograph courtesy of Special Collections, NCSU Libraries)
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In the Summer 2009 issue of NC State magazine, we asked readers to tell us their memories of living on a student budget. We received nearly 175 responses and printed many in the Autumn 2009 issue. Below is a submission from (Ret.) Col. Ralph Brake ’40.
Ralph Brake '40, from the 1940 Agromeck.
Not only did he send us his story (below), he loaned us the ledger in which he recorded his income and expenses for his junior year (1938-39). We’ve reproduced images of pages from it at the end of the post.
How much did college cost? I estimated my freshman year expenses at $400. Expenses went up approximately $100 per year for my sophomore, junior, and senior years. For my junior year, September 1938 to May 1939, I kept a written ledger of my income and expenses.
I had to work to stay in college. I had no bank account. I was fortunate to have three older sisters who provided financial support during my four years at NC State. My father and mother died before I enrolled.
Beginning with the second term in January 1937, I worked daily in the dairy, milking cows by hand starting at 3:30 a.m. The building for milking cows in 1937 was located near the site of Reynolds Coliseum. I occasionally dropped off to sleep at 8 a.m. classes. At the end of my freshman year my roommate, Bruce Hildebrand ’40, informed me that I had a choice: I either get a new job or get a new roommate for my sophomore year. I got a new job in the botany department doing typing, filing, etc. A bonus was working for Prof. Murray Buell occasionally as a babysitter.
Brake's ledger, where he recorded his expenses for the 1938-39 school year.
[After] my first year at NC State, I was given summer employment working for the U.S. Forest Service doing a timber survey of Pisgah National Forest between Asheville and Blowing Rock. This job helped pay for part of my sophomore year expenses.
In September 1938, I was accepted for the Advanced ROTC program, which provided some additional income. I also was offered a job in the ROTC Military Department for my junior and senior years, which helped pay my expenses. During a six-week ROTC camp at Ft. McClellan I was given extra duty as the company clerk in addition to the required training, but no extra pay.
Another source of income was from selling pecans. My father had planted about 5 acres of Stuart Pecans on his farm. I sold and delivered about 100 pounds of these to faculty members and students each fall.
Editor’s note: Click on the images for a closer look. There are more after the jump.
Frank Thompson Gym (now Thompson Theatre) in 1948, with an under-construction Reynolds Coliseum in the background. (Photo courtesy of Special Collections, NCSU Libraries)
The ribbon cutting for the newly renovated Thompson Theatre is at 10:30 today, and there will be tours from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Check out all the details on the renovation on Arts NC State’s Thompson Theatre campaign page.
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The first game in Reynolds Coliseum, Dec. 2, 1949. The Wolfpack won 67-47 over Washington and Lee University. (Photograph courtesy of Special Collections, NCSU Libraries)
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The Coliseum Deck was built in 1949 to help with the parking for Reynolds Coliseum. A 2003 addition increased the number of parking spaces to almost 2,300. This photo was taken in the late-1970s. (Photograph courtesy of Special Collections, NCSU Libraries)
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NC State fans camp out for basketball tickets on the sidewalk near Reynolds Coliseum in the 1980s. (Photograph courtesy of Special Collections)
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The newest find from the Reynolds basement is a framed poster of Mt. McKinley signed by the coaches who won the first nine Great Alaska Shootout basketball tournaments. Tim Peeler ’87, who’s going through the building’s basement this summer, found the treasure covered in dust behind a set of shelves. The signatures are from Norm Sloan ’51, Dean Smith, Joe B. Hall, Denny Crum, Tom Davis, Gene Bartow, Bobby Paschal and Jim Valvano. The poster had been made for the 10th anniversary of the Great Alaska Shootout.
Tuesday, while rifling through and re-filing several boxes of papers from Valvano’s desk, I came across a letter from former Alaska-Anchorage athletics director Ron Petro, requesting that Valvano join the other seven coaches who had won the event in personally autographing a commemorative poster.
“I believe it will have tremendous appeal to spectators and basketball enthusiasts,” Petro wrote.
Attached to it was a copy of Valvano’s response.
“A great idea! Enclosed you will find my signed permission form. If some of the other coaches won’t sign their name, let’s forge it. Let’s face it – we are still Italian.”
I do miss Valvano’s unmatched sense of humor.
(Photograph courtesy of NC State Athletics)
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