Professor Webb taught in the second floor room at the back on the north side and was also a senior fellow for the Wayland Collegium in the final years when its offices were still on the first floor. He remembers that the Wayland offices were on either side of the front door when you entered from the Green. To the left was the Senior Fellow's office and to the right was the secretary's office. George Morgan created the Wayland Collegium in 1980 and was the first senior fellow. His guess is that Wayland moved into RI Hall once Geology personnel left in 1982.

When Professor Webb was senior fellow in 2003-05, the senior fellow office was moved upstairs and was little used. The secretary for Wayland still was in the front office across the hall on the first floor. He would guess that she worked maybe 1/2 or 1/4 time for Wayland by then.

One of Professor Webb's impressions about RI Hall was that "the upstairs teaching room was out of the 1800s and there we were teaching in it up to 1982. It can tell you how much Brown values teaching by the rooms that have available for teaching."

As he remembers it, part of the reason geology got two floors of a new building was because some of the high-pressure rock deformation apparatus in the basement. Had any of these machines blown up, then not only would RI Hall been damaged but possibly University Hall would have suffered some damage. Their modern equipment for research needed housing in a building built to accomodate it.

Memories from the Department of Geological Sciences

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