“We are proud to be the members of the Garvey Family…………”
Strung up high above our heads was a banner I would never forget, the white flowing sheet that read ‘Welcome to Garvey Hall’. Finally entering the door to the unknowns of Garvey Hall, I was greeted by smiling faces that had certainly won me over for the rest of the day. And it was not until that same night that I begun to wonder if I had made the right choice.
We hung our heads down low and dragged our right feet because we were told that we had no rights. Sleep was a concept and so each day and night we chanted songs and faced many challenges, respect was mandatory so we saluted our seniors and as sisterhood was imperative we carried each other when someone was down.
We walked alongside our new found Falcon brothers, first knowing them by their feet rather than their faces. Each night we met, we chanted the words, ‘GARVEY FLAMES!’, and then, ‘BLOCK F FALONS!’
It was not long before some of us started to feel anew and rather than whispering the name of our hall, shouted it feeling proud in ourselves. And then the time came when we all graduated from the ‘fhhh’ in ‘FLAMES’ to Garvey ladies and from ‘wanna be’ Falcons to Falcon men.
Now our heads are held even higher as we have come to appreciate and love dorm life and embrace each day by igniting our path to excellence as we believe we are fully fortified for future frontiers.
La-Shawn Richards
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