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MU students participate in a fierce game of basketball,
one of many intramural sports at MU. Photo by Stephen
Bybee
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Recreation
Recollection
@Mizzou readers share their intramural
sports memories…
When I started at Mizzou in the fall of
1994 (not that long ago) there was no place to play roller hockey
on campus. So my friends and I decided
to “liberate” a tennis court for use as a roller
hockey rink. We would climb the fence behind the Rec. Center
most weeknights and take down the tennis net so we could play
hockey. Every time we would return, the net would be back in
place, so we would have to take it down again to play.
After about a year of struggling with the
net, Mizzou eventually took the net away and even removed the
posts that held the net in place. About two years after that,
the school actually fenced that area in and designated it to
be a roller hockey rink, complete with goals! So the last two
years we were at Mizzou our group of friends played in the first
roller hockey intramural leagues — on the court that we
had liberated for roller hockey!
— Aaron Donnelli, BS
EE '94
When I was in school there was a very
unique man running the intramural program by the name of A.J.
Stankowski. I worked as a referee for “Stan,”
as we referred to him. My most memorable moments were when students
would come into Stan's office asking for the time and place of
the upcoming events in which they were participating. Stan, diminutive
in stature and seated behind his roll top desk, which he could
hardly see over, would look up and reply, "Can you read?
Then check the dang bulletin board!” The intramural participants
would always have a puzzled look on their faces as Stan sat there
in silence until they left. He would then turn to me and ask if
they were in college, and if so, why they couldn’t read.
Then the two of us would have a big laugh! He must have made that
comment at least a few hundred times a semester.
Stan was a grand man who cared for students
and student workers. My own son just by chance has the initials
A.J., and I often find myself reminded of San when I refer to
him. I cherish the memories of intramurals and the opportunities
provided to me by Stan. I worked three years as an official
for all sports during my years at Mizzou. Hope you enjoy this
memory!
— Ed Wuch, BS Ed ’62,
M Ed ‘63
A romance memory that we received after
@Mizzou’s February issue had already been published...
After a football game on Nov. 16, 1974,
I was persuaded by a friend to go to a fraternity party at the
Delta Sigma Phi house. The event consisted of a purple passion
party in their basement. A skinny guy with slightly long hair
came up to me and asked me to dance. He always jokes that he
picked me up, and I always say that we were properly introduced.
We had romantic walks at midnight in the rain, where he recounted
all the lore of the campus; late-night breakfasts at the "Minute
Inn"; dollar movies at Jessie Hall; pizza from Dominics;
and many nights of sneaking him into Jones Hall, not to mention
our time at the frat house. Three and half years later we were
married. That was 25 years ago this June. My spouse, and the
love of my life, is Steve Richardson, BS BA '77. We still celebrate
that November date to this day.
— Sally Alberty Richardson,
BSN '78
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