Each year toward the end of the spring semester, the members of Smurthwaite hold a banquet to celebrate our accomplishments throughout the year. Awards are given for having the most Smurthwaite spirit, perfect desk duty attendance, perfect house meting attendance, a GPA over 3.5, and other academic and house-related accomplishments.
This year, the event was combined with our 60th anniversary celebration, which was originally planned for the spring of 2020. To celebrate the history of our house, our Alumnae Chair, Codie Boyd, reached out to the house’s first members from 1960. They responded with statements about what they remembered most about living in the house.
For the house’s first members, their Smurthwaite experience was especially memorable because while waiting for the house to be built, they lived in West Stadium. They have all kinds of stories from that experience, including planting geraniums in the urinals of the unused men’s restrooms.
As we move quickly toward finals week, this event was a great way to close out a long and tiring, yet rewarding, semester. Thank you to Codie for organizing this event and to our kitchen manager, Evie, for preparing a great meal!