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Before there was a <strong>Lehman</strong> campus, there were aspiring students.<br />
In May 1929, nine young women, accompanied by their two pet dogs, set out to explore the still-unbuilt acres of land across from the<br />
Jerome Park Reservoir that they hoped would become their college just two years from then. They called themselves “the Pioneers of ‘31.”<br />
As they roamed, they imagined the buildings that one day would rise there, and put their daydreams into a scrapbook that has been<br />
preserved in <strong>Lehman</strong>’s Leonard Lief Library.<br />
1.<br />
The Campus Lake (otherwise Jerome Park Reservoir)<br />
Standing on the wall of the<br />
old reservoir, we watch<br />
the men at work,<br />
4.<br />
Under the Old<br />
Apple Tree<br />
We pause to meditate<br />
on the future of<br />
Hunter. Some of the<br />
sophomore songs<br />
from the Hunter Sing,<br />
the strains of “Fame,”<br />
and “Long May She<br />
Live, Our <strong>College</strong><br />
Fair” float upon the<br />
campus air.<br />
6.<br />
On the Rocks<br />
At last, the adventurers must return to<br />
civilization. Traversing the ridge, they<br />
encounter a region of blasted rock.<br />
We see the towers<br />
of Hunter rising<br />
where now all is rough<br />
and barren. We see the<br />
lovely green lawns and<br />
trees and winding paths ..<br />
7.<br />
... and endless streams of radiant girls.<br />
The realization of a dream! And so, the<br />
Pioneers of ’31 bid you Good-Bye ....<br />
8.<br />
... and leave the campus with<br />
one last look westward over<br />
the rugged excavation toward<br />
that vision of the future, the<br />
new Hunter <strong>College</strong>.<br />
<strong>Lehman</strong> Today/<strong>Spring</strong> <strong>2011</strong> 21