Writing Prompt #13: Write a story about living in a dorm room on campus.
Due Date: March 23, 2026
Details: Write a story about your experience living in a room in a dormitory on campus, probably for the first time in your life;
Or write about the difficulties or advantages of living away from home;
Or write a story about one of your residential advisers;
Or write a story about one of your roommates.
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Background:
Practically from inception, the NC School of Science and Math was envisioned as a public residential school, housing students from across the state. Although the cost of providing housing was probably researched and debated by the Governor's Task Force, (and the NC legislature,) the core idea of providing room and board for students was preserved.
The property was purchased with both dormitories and classrooms (and laboratories) in mind. The historic Watts Hospital property had previously housed nursing school students for decades in the Wyche building. There were also existing rooms in the newer Hill House building. And there were rooms that were created in the main building that had once served as a maternity ward.
In 1980-81, Wyche House and the third floor of the Main building were used for boy's dormitories, and Hill House was used for the girl's dormitory.
In 1981-82, two floors on Wyche House and a portion of the Valinda Beall pavilion housed the women. Two floors on Hill House (1st & 2nd) and two floors in the newly, christened Bryan building (2nd & 3rd) formerly called the "1953 building", housed men.
Kathleen "Kathy" Benzaquin was hired to be the first director of the Department of Residential Life in 1980, and her staff included eight young residential advisors, whose jobs were to live on the students halls, provide guidance, and assist in planning non-academic student activities.
Warren Basket - Housing Coordinator - Warrenton, NC
Andy Minnis - Publications - Hillsborough, NC
Branson Brown
Zack Smith
Crystal Hunter - Student Activities - Raleigh, NC
Nancy Bodenhorn
?Karen Lutz
November 1981 Dialogues Article:
NINE NEW RESIDENT ADVISORS JOIN THE STAFF
Nine new Resident Advisors, five women and four men, have been added to Kathy Benzaquin's staff this year. They join three members of last year's staff who have returned as RAs— Warren Basket, Chrystal Hunter, and Andy Minnis—and one member of the original staff, Branson Brown, who is returning as Physical Activities and Wellness Coordinator and Athletic Coordinator. RA Tom Boddie and the Work Service Program are featured in this issue. Below are brief backgrounds on all new RAs.
Steven Branson, Hill House, from Asheville
B.S., Recreation Resources, North Carolina State University, Raleigh; graduate work, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Wake Forest; Master of Recreation Resources, North Carolina State University.
Jane Collins, Wyche House, from Springfield, Virginia
B. S., Library Science, Radford College, Radford, Virginia; M.Ed., Guidance and Counseling, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Stephen Alan Dovenitz, Hill House, who lists his home as "Air Force Bases"
B.A., History, State University of New York at Albany; M.S., Recreation Administration, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Mary Holahan, Wyche House, from Darby, Pennsylvania
B.A., Psychology, and M.Ed., Counseling, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her husband is Bill.
Deb Hynninen, Beall Pavilion, from Atlanta, Georgia
B.S., Biology and Chemistry, Berry College; working on an M.S. degree in administration supervising and counseling, North Carolina State University, Raleigh.
Dorothy Lee Ingram, Wyche House, from Greensboro
B.A., Student Personnel Services and Psychology, Bennett College, Greensboro.
Chris Loftis, Bryan Center, from Gastonia
B.S., Zoology/Science Education; Duke University, Durham; fulltime Graduate Student at Southeastern Theological Seminary, Wake Forest.
Stacie Smith, Beall Pavilion, from Grand Forks, North Dakota
B.A., Music/Psychology, and B.S.Ed., Secondary Education, both degrees magna cum laude, University of North Dakota.
Tom Boddie. Hill House, from Thomasville
B. A., Social Science, Western Carolina University. Graduate Courses, Guidance, North Carolina A&T, American University in Washington, D.C. Job Responsibility: Work Service. Mr. Boddie has worked as a Liaison Teacher for two years, has directed the Extended Day School in High Point and has been a Group Representative for State Mutual of America in Washington, D.C. He also spent 18 months at the Pentagon as an aide to the Chief of Staff of the Army, where among his duties was protecting the President. Mr. Boddie will also serve as Speech and Debate coordinator at NCSSM.
[Dialogues Vol. 2, No 3, November 1981; Dialogues; NCSSM Digital Collection]
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