The Victoria College, 1925-2000: A Tradition of Excellence

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…Donnell Cole’s clothes were mysteriously
padlocked in a gym locker, along with the key to
open it. Cole had placed his street clothes in the
locker before donning his workout attire. He
went to the restroom, and when he returned, the
locker door was closed and secured with his
lock. Michael Hummel offered to drive Cole
home if the nude instructor would buy the gas.
Since Cole did not at the moment have any ready
cash, Hummel went about his business, leaving
the bare instructor “stuck in the locker room for
two hours.” Eventually, Harry Wagner arrived
and found Cole naked and offered assistance.
Wagner located bolt cutters and cut off the lock,
allowing Cole to roam the campus again.
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…Richard Walker had a student enrolled in
his geography class who thought it was a geology
course. The student was not doing well on the
tests, and he kept referring to Walker as “Mr.
Wagner.” A slip of the tongue, Walker thought.
At mid-term, the geography instructor asked the
class to bring their textbooks to the next meeting
because he wanted to go over some maps and
other items in it. The students dutifully did so,
and at the conclusion of the session, the particular
student in question came up to Walker and
said that the pictures in his book were not the
same as the ones being described. Walker asked
to see the book. When the student showed it to
him, the instructor discovered that it was a geology
textbook. Walker told the student that it was
the wrong book to which the reply was, “Isn’t
this Mr. Wagner’s geology class?” The student
had thought all along he was in a geology class,
and obviously did not know the difference
between the words “geology” and “geography.”
He had been reading the assigned pages from the
wrong textbook for the entire semester.
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…Nancy Bandy’s workroom was so cold that
it felt as if she were in a meat locker. Because of
difficulties in maintaining adequate climate control
in the Academic Building room 205, William
“Doc” Steele reinstalled the thermostat in the
adjoining workroom. However, he placed it in
close proximity to the kiln. Whenever the oven
was in use, it produced heat that rose to about
2200 degrees. Consequently, the room temperature
plummeted.
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Richard Walker seems to be looking
for a razor.
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