Snow Day? Terps Dig It

After a 1983 blizzard dumped 21 inches on campus and canceled classes, students stepped up to shovel the area across from Cambridge Hall. Do you know any of these Terps, like the one tackling the frosty task in shorts or the man with a “Magnum P.I.” mustache looking on? And why were they clearing the campus lot themselves? Share your memories with us at terpfeedback@umd.edu, and check out the responses in the next issue alongside another snapshot of UMD history.

Both Caryl Hall ’97, whose roommate played field hockey, and Brian Layman ’97, a former Terp wrestler, recognized goalie Erin Flanagan pulling along teammates Jen Pratt ’97, Lynsey McVicker ’98 and Emily Ward ’00 in the 1998 picture featured in the Fall 2025 issue.

“This photo brought back so many memories of the fun we all had in College Park!” Hall wrote. The responses kept rolling in: Jay Samuels ’02 spotted himself at the bottom right of the human pyramid from 1988, shown in the Spring 2025 issue.