The residents of Hanselman III as pictured in the 1975 Purple Patcher.
It was Sept. 14, 1972, and Gayle Devlin Ciaramicoli ’76, one of the first women admitted to Holy Cross, was in tears. The intrepid 17-year-old had come a far distance, alone, flying from California to New York, where she picked up her car and drove to Worcester. It was the last leg of the journey that was the most frustrating.