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The most obvious legacies from the past at Hockaday are the Memorial Rooms the Great Hall, the Memorial Dining Room, and a small library room antique-furnished shrines from the Greenville Avenue campus now encased in the ultra-modem Welch Road structure. The rooms were not used much by students when I was there. Teas were held in the Great Hall, and the student council was allowed lunch in the dining room once a week, but the rooms had an off-limits museum quality that discouraged curling up in a wing chair to finish reading Anna Karenina. And to me, who at 25 was not untouched by the iconoclasm of the ’60s and who knew so little of Hockaday’s tradition, they seemed an enormous waste of money and space. ....