The Green Lights
De La Roche Hall is the oldest academic building still standing at St. Bonaventure, and is known to current Bonnies as the building in which they have to take their required math courses. Once the entrance to the campus, De La Roche has stood tall and proud on campus since being rebuilt from the ashes of Lynch Hall, which was burnt to the ground in 1933. The building was plagued with fires, and the three levels above ground have been rebuilt since the initial structure was constructed.
It is said that one of the fires on campus not only claimed the third story of De La Roche, but also the life of a student who was working on a paper late one night. Today, on a few nights every semester, one of the rooms on the 3rd floor is illuminated after the building has been closed down for the evening. So the story goes, these lights are turned on by the departed soul of the diligent student trying to finish the paper that burned in a fire long ago.
Late one summer evening, as a student was sharing this story with a group of incoming freshmen, the lights turned on unexpectedly, as if the student wanted to let them know that he could hear them sharing his story, even from the other side.
It is said that one of the fires on campus not only claimed the third story of De La Roche, but also the life of a student who was working on a paper late one night. Today, on a few nights every semester, one of the rooms on the 3rd floor is illuminated after the building has been closed down for the evening. So the story goes, these lights are turned on by the departed soul of the diligent student trying to finish the paper that burned in a fire long ago.
Late one summer evening, as a student was sharing this story with a group of incoming freshmen, the lights turned on unexpectedly, as if the student wanted to let them know that he could hear them sharing his story, even from the other side.