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Richard B. '86

UMBC's dormitories had numbers instead of names until 1978, when resident students chose Maryland Waterways as the best pool of names for residence halls. Read more about it at UMBC Magazine: http://magazine.umbc.edu/umbc-magazine-fall-2015/histories-and-mysteries/dorms/

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