Personal Reflections
Some personal reflections:
I was just thinking about the time I spent working at the Owens Dining Hall at Virginia Tech. I looked up some information and discovered that "the Hokie Grill" located there reopened in Aug. 1997 after being renovated. I'm sure that is the time I was there.
If you go to this link and look around the inside of the room, you can see the salad bar I and a few others installed that was built by the shop I worked at at the time. We actually did quite a lot of work in there that you can't see--all the countertops, all the cabinetry behind the counters and at the checkouts, butcher blocks in the kitchen, decorative trash can enclosures, trim mouldings, etc.
I liked working at that place because it's so attractive, so beautiful, and (ironically today) so peaceful. Also I happen to know that my grandmother's first cousin, who was a stone mason extraordinaire, was a foreman on the crew that built some of the many stone exteriors of the buildings on that campus.
Obviously my connection to the campus is not as strong as that of many others, but I can't help thinking about that stuff anyway. I guess I'm still just trying to digest the enormity of this horrifying incident, and I can't imagine the emotions that must be going on within those who have lost loved ones in this tragedy.
I was just thinking about the time I spent working at the Owens Dining Hall at Virginia Tech. I looked up some information and discovered that "the Hokie Grill" located there reopened in Aug. 1997 after being renovated. I'm sure that is the time I was there.
If you go to this link and look around the inside of the room, you can see the salad bar I and a few others installed that was built by the shop I worked at at the time. We actually did quite a lot of work in there that you can't see--all the countertops, all the cabinetry behind the counters and at the checkouts, butcher blocks in the kitchen, decorative trash can enclosures, trim mouldings, etc.
I liked working at that place because it's so attractive, so beautiful, and (ironically today) so peaceful. Also I happen to know that my grandmother's first cousin, who was a stone mason extraordinaire, was a foreman on the crew that built some of the many stone exteriors of the buildings on that campus.
Obviously my connection to the campus is not as strong as that of many others, but I can't help thinking about that stuff anyway. I guess I'm still just trying to digest the enormity of this horrifying incident, and I can't imagine the emotions that must be going on within those who have lost loved ones in this tragedy.
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