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Forty-one years of service in the Division of Student Affairs at a major metropolitan university will certainly create a unique perspective. As such, few folks know the modern history of UofL quite like Dale Ramsay. The director of Intramural and Recreational Sports recently announced his retirement and will hang up his whistle on Nov. 1. He takes with him a treasure chest of memories, most of which he still remembers with vivid detail, and leaves behind a legacy rarely duplicated by today's job-hop-happy workforce. The beginnings of that legacy could be considered a bit serendipitous. Ramsay grew up in a small town in New Hampshire over 900 miles away, and attended Keene State College, which had about 2,000 students at the time. He received his physical education degree and thought he was going to teach PE and coach basketball for a living after graduation. "Then my senior year, one of my professors called me and said there was an opportunity in Louisville working in the int