It was a frightening time but it also was a time of great student intrigue
and the kind of who-dun-it syndrome set in.
Being where Pullen Hall was and where the school of design was-
and the fact we never left the school of design until 3:00 or 4:00 in the morning
-when that fire broke out, which was give or take about midnight,
I mean we could see the blaze, and of course we all moved-I say we all; maybe there were, I don't know, twenty-five of us or whatever
-but we all moved over, and I mean it was just absolutely incredible,
and of course it was a wood frame building.
I've never seen a fire like that since then,
I mean just an incredible fire, and then of course these fires would start showing up in other places.
At that time at the university you could almost go in any academic building any time of the day.
I mean there just wasn't the security that you have on campus today,
They did not catch-. The academic year finished up and they had not caught the culprit.
It was well into the summer before they caught the individual who did it,
I wouldn't sit here and tell you we all went around in great fear,
but it was frightening in a sense of a disturbing way, that this would be going on at campus.
It's certainly not the frightening kind of sense of what we live with in today's world,
though I'm not saying we go around every day thinking about it, of a terrorist kind of thing,
and as I say all the who-dun-it stuff probably played out more than anything that dealt with fright or fear.