Rollins Swimming Pool

I know i have written about this before but probably out of my whole three years of college here at ODU, i spent more than half of my time at the pool. I was part of the ODU swim team that reopened rollins hall pool to swim in and believe me, you could tell that it had not been used in decades. We heard all the stories about it though, that it was haunted, two people died from drowning in it, and the list goes on. Whats even more interesting too think about is that the pool i swim in, back in 1945 , the boys just came back from the war and decided to make a swim team, and they also swam in Rollins hall. There is so much history in this building and all this time i just looked at it as a really crappy pool. I mean do not get me wrong, i do not enjoy swimming in a pool built back in 1936 but it has become a part of me. What makes me even more sad is too know that no one at ODU even knows that this pool exists unless they are on the swim team or are on ROTC.

Some history facts that even shocked me was that Rollins Hall was built in 1936 containing the

pool, two gyms,a library,six classrooms,administrative offices,all costing $123,000 total ! Not

even did i just find out that , but also that there use to be a snack bar in the same building ! It

was called the bud and was built in 1945, was known for "the place to be". Now when you go too

rollins hall there is only the administrative offices and the lonely pool. Crazy hu ?