Saturday, October 14, 2023
While reading the latest issue of Carleton College's Voice (Fall 2023), I saw the notice of April's passing. Tears flow now as the memories of the time I shared with her & all the freshman in Nourse Hall (the only Woman's dorm on campus) flooded my mind. I was a senior and it was the only dorm I could get a single room on campus. April lived across the hall & we became fast friends along with a few others. I was barely 5 ft tall & she of course towered over me. I was given the nickname "Munchkin". I mentored the freshman on the art of surviving your first year with humor and taught a number of the freshman women a lot of great practical jokes April never forgave me for "buttering" her bed one Friday night. I had "borrowed" about 100 pats of butter from the dining hall. I broke into her room by easily "carding the lock on the door". Buttered the sheets, remade the bed & left. Unfortunately I went up to the cities that weekend & so didn't get to hear the blood curdling screams coming from her room. She and Joanna Piepgrass who was also very tall, were kind enough to tower over me in my senior picture with the caption "Short people have no reason to live". My belated condolences to her husband Roland & family.
Sincerely, Carrie Adicoff Carleton Class of 1978.
