After learning my third niece will be attending UNT in the fall, I reminisced about attending from 1964 through 1967. I have many fond memories of North Texas.

I lived in Chilton Hall my entire three years. At that time sororities were housed in seven of the nine ramps that made up Chilton Hall. I lived in one of the non-Greek ramps (Ramp 7). Each was only accessible through the front door, which opened onto a stoop onto the courtyard.

Men, even fathers, were not allowed into a ramp except at the beginning of a semester when they could help a girl move in.

The ramps had the look of a New York Brownstone. The doors were locked at 10:50 p.m. on weekdays and 1 a.m. on Friday and Saturday nights. You could only stay out until 1 a.m. with special permission. The courtyard was the scene for fraternities' pinning ceremonies. It was sort of magical and movielike!

I attended a tour of the campus in 2002 with a niece who would be attending that fall. We toured Chilton, which is now an office building. The courtyard had been entirely filled in and incorporated into the building with no resemblance to the original dormitory.

I asked the tour guide if this had originally been a dorm and she answered it had been many years before. When my niece volunteered that I had lived there while attending UNT, the guide seemed absolutely stunned that I was still ambulatory!

We all had a great laugh.

Connie Fielding Britz ('67)
Okemos, Mich.