Centenarians Elizabeth (Rodger) and J. Albert Newton Jr.

She remembers climbing the tower in Davis Hall to ring the bell after a Rhody football victory. He remembers that "almost no one had a car, and so when you were dropped off in September, you didn't get home until the holidays." But what Elizabeth (Rodger) and J. Albert Newton Jr. remember most is the beauty and intimate feel of the Kingston campus of Rhode Island State College (now URI) in the 1930s. Elizabeth, now 100 years old, and Albert 99 and three-quarters, have memories of their college days that are as fresh as any senior who graduated last spring from URI.

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[Dottyeyes]

This is wonderful! I'm a URI alumna, but whatever college you attended, these two people offer a great memory of what college was like in the 1930s. So wonderful how healthy, attractive, and smart Mr. and Mrs. Newton are. Thanks, whoever made this video! (Since Mrs. Newton wishes her knees were as good now as they were then, I wonder what she'd be doing now. Probably entering the Masters Olympics!)