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Feel free to peruse some alums' recollections of life at Random. These are provided completely unedited as the alums submitted them. At some point, a more organized history will be created based on these.
Recollections of Alums:
- Founding and Naming of Random by Dan Fingerman '69
- More on Founding of Random by Rick Huber '70
- A melange of information, including bits on honorary residents, UMOC, and the IM hockey team by Mark Rapacioli '87
- Beginnings of mixed-gender floors and the reasons for the existence of the hall phones by John Elsbree '88
- A bit of R&R by Dennis Atherton '71
- Card playing, original spirit of the dorm, dorm naming, marriages, the "Odd 6" and much more by Ron Michener '71
- Ducks and optimism by James Michener (Ron's brother)
- They got Nixon by Ron Michener '71
- Bits of pure trivia by Ron Michener '71
- Vietnam by Ron Michener '71
- The history of the Clam by Larry Rosen '84
Below are some official reports of the dorm's early history, compiled from a few issues of The Tech, circa 1968.