One winter, I think it might be the winter of 1958, Manhattan got a large snow storm. About 20 of the West Stadium dorm residents decided to build a toboggan slide in the stadium. We built it from the top of the stadium, down the steps, over the wall and out onto the football field. We started on a Friday and put the final touches on it late Saturday. We then made our own sled from two-by-fours and four-by-10s. On the first run with a regular sled, I went over the wall and the sled stuck in a snow bank and I kept going by myself. Later, with our homemade sled, I and a co-ed (Charlene Murphy Piper ’61, a Gamma Phi Beta) went from the top of the stadium all the way across to the East Stadium wall. The slide only lasted about five days because students and town people were coming to use it, so the school made us break it down. 
John Marcoline ’60
Minonk, Illinois

I was selected to be a charter member of the Smurthwaite Scholarship Leadership House beginning in the school year of 1960-61. When the fall term began, our new house was still under construction, so all of us girls needed a place to live until our new house was completed. A new athletic dormitory had recently been completed, so the athletes who had lived in West Stadium were moved into their new dormitory. The Smurthwaite girls moved into large rooms with very high ceilings and very long steel framed bunk beds, as some of the former athlete occupants were very tall fellows. During the spring semester, we were informed that our house was finished, so we all moved to the current Smurthwaite Scholarship Leadership House. Our time spent living in West Stadium is a memory for all of the girls that are charter members of our house at Kansas State University. 
Janie Wullschleger Curtis ’63
Marco Island, Florida

My sophomore year, 1962-63, was spent living in the “West Stadium” girls dorm. Oh my, we had to eat breakfast at the K-State Student Union, and lunch and dinner at the “boys’ dorm” (Goodnow) as it was known then. An unintended bonus was weight loss due to having to walk a mile to and from there for meals. Of course, that wasn’t always enjoyable during inclement weather, but often guys would drive us back to our rooms. Co-ed was not popular back in those days and those of us who lived in West Stadium felt like we were a pretty select group.
Carole Purdum Gruetze ’64, ’77
Topeka, Kansas

My first memory of Memorial Stadium was when I enrolled as a freshman in the fall of 1964. At that time, all freshmen were required to live in a dorm. Since West Stadium Hall was the cheapest housing on campus, I stayed there. The clothes closet was located across the hall from your rooms, so a lot of the guys got dressed in the hallways. If you lived on the second floor, you had to go to the first floor to shower and use the restroom. The good news was that the rooms were large and there were only two residents to a room. Because the hall was reasonably priced, a lot of foreign students lived there and we had great diversity of opinions and friendships.I know Nick the ghost is generally associated with the “Purple Mask Theatre” on the east side of the stadium but we were all sure he visited us on the west, regularly. One of the fringe benefits of living in West Stadium Hall was that it has doors that entered into the tunnel of the football stadium and after the first quarter of the game we could walk in and watch the games free.
David Denning ’68
Manhattan, Kansas