When I entered East Carolina College as a Freshman during the fall quarter,1958, the "old" Austin Building was the major classroom building. It was there that I took most of my classes, including, Orientation, Composition I, Art Appreciation, Art and Basic Design, Figure Drawing, Painting, Drawing, and Voice and Diction. Already in decline, the Austin Building was the subject of many rumors declaring it unsafe for students and faculty; and already there was "talk" regarding a new Austin Building to replace it, although many of the Old Guard wanted the original building with its sundry, nostalgic accouterments preserved, salvaged, and refurbished to its original splendor. Outwardly, the Austin Building boasted its magnificence, but inwardly there were seen many structural disorders that could potentially cause harm to students and faculty; even some of the floors were bulging in places and nearing collapse in others. Uneven as many of the major halls were, some students jokingly commented about becoming seasick while traversing from class to class. Still, there was a beauty of the interior that few buildings since have shown to emulate; and newer exteriors could never be duplicated to show the magnificence of the "old" Austin; indeed, the cupola was the crowning glory of the old building, and it is surely a shame that it was not retained during the demolition of the wonderful old building. On many a study-hall break, I would play the concert grand piano that was situated on the stage of the Austin Auditorium, which also housed the large, Masters' Pipe Organ (someone may need to correct me here—but I believe the old organ was a Masters). Nostalgic as I am, and as a sentimental old man of 75, I am a proud alumnus of East Carolina University, and I have many fond memories of my studies in the "old" Austin Building along with many friends I made there, and the professors who taught me there. I hold them and the building in fond and treasured memory. A native of Ayden, North Carolina, where I was reared, I lived in the area until 1980, when I moved to San Antonio, Texas to accept the position of Managing Editor for the Christian Jew Foundation, which was founded in 1948. I was the third person to hold that position; and I still work part-time in the Editorial Department of that publishing house. With a concentration in Language Arts/English and a "sideline" interest of music: performance in organ, piano, and voice; for many years I taught adult classes in Creative Writing and Piano Performance/Music Theory in the Continuing Education Division at Pitt County Community College, Greenville, NC; and for several years, I served as Staff Artist and later as Editor of Literature at The Free Will Baptist Press Foundation, Ayden; and during that time, I also served as organist at Reedy Branch FWB Church, Winterville, NC. In San Antonio, I have served as Choir Master at Good Shepherd Presbyterian Church (near Lackland AF Base), and presently serve as Worship Organist at Bellaire Baptist Church, San Antonio. My classes in the "old" Austin Building aided me in all my professional and avocational endeavors, and I shall never forget the treasured memories of that era, when everything real and imagined flowed in a much more tranquil manner, nurturing and edifying even today in fond reflection.