From jimmosk@fi.edu Thu Oct 26 18:32:33 2000 Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 17:26:09 -0400 From: Jim Moskowitz To: chit-chat@swil.org Subject: [CHAT] the Tale of Sir Eric >Uh, wait. So George Hurliman was an actual person being actually >memorialized? I feel sort of bad for not realizing that... or maybe I've >been explained to and just forgot, that happens a *lot*. Would someone >tell me the story? > >-Amy synopsis: The Storage room was once called George. It got expanded to the George C. Hurliman Memorial Library is named after Eric Hurliman. Nobody remembers where the C. came from. George C. Scott, maybe. Eric Hurliman matriculated as class of '89, and proceeded to be an every-other-semester student: Swat kept strongly suggesting that he take a semester off and spend it improving his study abilities, and Eric kept doing that and coming back without enough improvement. He was a tall, athletic, shaggy-red-haired, smiling, energetic, sort-of-overwhelming person. He created the Pt-hunt's Jabberwock (and a cardboard-and-string costume for it), and his burbling (loud tarzanlike warbling) and galumphing (pretty much what it sounds like) were an awesome sight. He also drew wonderfully, and spelled horribly. When he finally decided that he would be leaving Swat and not coming back, SWIL decided to rename its storage space after him. Previously, that storage space had been just called George, because SWIL was so happy to have it. As in the Warner Bros. "and I will pet him and hug him and squeeze him and call him George." It was decided that George needed a last name, and that said last name could commemorate the unforgettable Eric. Nobody remembers where the C. came from.